Chapter 117: Projectile (Ask for Recommendation, Ask for Collection)

"All of them!"

Wang Yuan, who was shirtless and stripped naked, looked at the brothers in the camp and squeezed out a smile.

"Are the brethren afraid?"

No one answered, and the soldiers, who had been stripped naked, did not answer his question, but only looked at each other. At this time, their bodies were covered with a layer of mud, which not only protected them from mosquito bites, but more importantly, allowed them to mix with the land, so that they could get as close as possible to the camp of the Qing army.

Not only were they covered in mud, but so were their faces, their heads, and even their grenade bags and spears.

"Actually, what's so scary about that?"

Wang Yuan, who looked smiling, saw that no one was silent, so he continued.

"Brothers, remember, as long as we are close to the position of ten zhang, when the time comes, just throw as many grenades as you can into the Qing army camp, brothers, a few grenades per person! Four, four grenades! Our 3,000 brothers, with a flick of our hands, that are more than 10,000 grenades, more than 10,000 grenades, obediently, what can we blow up the Qing army inside? ”

Because he was afraid that the voice would come out, Wang Yuan's voice was not loud, but as soon as he said this, those soldiers who were still silent and relatively silent all seemed to have reacted, and they all became excited.

But that's not the reason, these are more than 10,000 grenades, if they are all thrown into the camp, they will not be blown to ashes!

"It's so that you can't recognize him!"

In the laughter of everyone, Wang Yuan pointed to the direction of the Qing army camp a mile away and smiled.

"Not only is it bombed, his mother can't recognize him, we are going to blow them to ashes today, what is the camp wall? Is it a wall? What the hell is the prison cell of the Qing captives, when we are down, we just throw grenades, a few grenades are thrown over, and then rush in, it is not like killing chickens, I think at the beginning, when I was in Changzhou, ......"

When the officials were mobilizing there, Zhang Shijie and the others had already pushed the cannon into the woods, and looked at the Qing army camp seventy zhang away, he didn't even look at it, so he grinned.

"This is the credit of sending it to the door, brothers, look at it, look at how this Zhang Ye bombarded it with one shot......"

As he yelled like this, he picked his lips contemptuously at the other side.

"What the hell, purify the evil sect and crooked ways......"

When Zhang Shijie said this, next to a tomb not far away, Zhu Mingzhong personally led a few personal soldiers who were busy there.

Relying on the cover of the tomb, Zhu Mingzhong did not need to worry that he would be discovered by the Qing army, and the two personal soldiers followed him, waving a shovel from time to time under his command, digging a dirt pit, and after the soil pit was dug, he looked at the general with curiosity in his eyes.

Zhu Mingzhong, who was wearing a strong suit, tugged his front hem into his belt, half-knelt on the ground, and began to measure the angle of the inclined pit.

"It's almost 40 degrees!"

Looking at the amount of hammer hanging on the simple semi-circular wooden board, he roughly estimated the angle, and then he put a wooden box containing five catties of gunpowder into the pit, for the sake of moisture, this wooden box was not only filled with seams but also soaked in tung oil, and there was a layer of moisture-proof oil paper on the inner layer, and then the bamboo pipe was put on the fuse, and the fuse was connected to a clay pot in the rear earthen pit, after connecting the clay pot. He began to bury the soil, after covering the wooden box with a thick layer of soil, and then put another wooden box containing ten catties of gunpowder tied tightly with linen cloth and wire on the tamped covered soil, and then tied the two fuses together, and then went back to the clay pot by the soil pit, and after the semi-fuse index was placed at the bottom of the pot, he carefully wiped the clay lid on the clay pot with a damp cloth, and then said to the soldiers around him.

"Coals!"

A piece of burning charcoal was then carefully placed on the pottery cover, and a lid was placed on the pottery cover, and after covering the clay pot with some soil, Zhu Mingzhong led his soldiers to retreat to the forest. After waiting for a while, Wang Daniu ran back.

"The total number of soldiers, a total of seventy-six, not bad, all set up, the nearest ones are about fifty zhang, and the far ones are only eighty zhang at most, and each one is connected to the fire cup......"

The so-called fire pot is very simple, it is a multi-layer clay pot, which is equipped with a powder pool below the clay pot, and the top of the powder pool is the charcoal on the pottery cover, as long as the rope is pulled, when the pottery cover is loose, the charcoal falls into the powder pool, which can ignite the fuse and then detonate the mine. Now Zhu Mingzhong has used this primitive "pull fuse" on another "mine" - in the world three hundred years later, this is called explosive ejection, which does not require any equipment, only two explosive packs, and with the help of gunpowder or explosives explosion, the explosive packets are pushed two hundred meters away.

This is because there is no way to force it out. Although it is a little dirty, the effect is very good, and more importantly, there is no more suitable object than the camp of the Qing army - because the camp is full of Qing troops, and there are no civilians, so there will naturally be no worries about using it, just bomb it as much as possible.

"How many pieces of charcoal have been placed?"

Because the reliability of this kind of fuse is completely guaranteed by charcoal fire, so the charcoal is the key to it, in order to ensure reliability, Zhu Mingzhong naturally ordered them to put an extra piece of coal.

"According to the orders of the chief soldier, there are two pieces in each, at least half an hour!"

"It won't take that long!"

Glancing ahead, Zhu Mingzhong asked again,

"Are the brethren in place?"

The time of the launch is when the brothers who receive the enemy are in place, as long as they are close to the camp of the Qing army, they can set fire to the mines.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, a signal came from the front, and Yu Xiaobao and others, who were leading more than 2,000 soldiers, were already in place.

Without the slightest hesitation, Zhu Mingzhong immediately commanded.

"Ignition!"

His voice was not loud, and the movements of the soldiers pulling the fire were also very light, but just a slight pull, a flame suddenly appeared in the ground more than ten zhang away in front of him, which was the smoke of the powder pool when it was lit, and then a trace of smoke came out.

The fuse was lit.

Zhu Mingzhong's eyes were fixed on the smoke and flames rising from the field.

“…… 15、16……”

When he counted silently in his heart, he didn't even dare to blink his eyes, and at this time he had a small handful of sweat in his heart, although he had already tried it, but it was the first time that it was actually used.

What is written in the book, what is written in the book, the key is ......

Suddenly, right here, I only heard a loud noise like thunder on the ground dozens of zhang away, and then another loud noise, and then Zhu Mingzhong, who was startled, saw that the ground in front of him was suddenly exploded, and in a cloud of white smoke and black soil, a gray cloth bag dragged the white smoke of the fuse and flew towards the Qing army camp in the distance......

In the quiet night, the violent explosions that sounded one after another only shocked everyone, and even a few soldiers were even frightened and sat on the ground, after all, the explosion came too suddenly. Although he was also taken aback, Zhu Mingzhong's eyes were staring at the white streak in the air.

The white smoke trail thrown in a parabolic line, seemingly slow, flew through the air, dragging a trail of white medicine smoke, and after counting for about ten seconds, it fell into the camp.

"One, two, three......"

Didn't blow up?