Early the next morning.

"This is the one who first ascended to Yokoyama Fort?"

Yang Xin looked at Ma Jinzhong who was carrying over with interest.

Originally, the historical King of Hanyang in the Southern Ming Dynasty was about to lose his human form at this time.

His grenade, which was purely fateful, landed at the mouth of the powder magazine on the heavy fort like a miraculous one, and then bounced up and rolled straight down the steps.

Not far away, a regimental training soldier witnessed this scene, and was so frightened that he turned around and jumped off the fort, and then broke his leg on the top of the first floor, and escaped because he fell into a traffic trench, and then was captured by the Dangkou army who attacked Hengshan Fort, and explained the cause of the explosion. But it is impossible for manpower to throw grenades so high and far, so it can only be musket grenades, and at that time, only Ma Jinzhong was the first to board Hengshan Fort and use this, and it can be basically determined that this explosion killed more than 100 regiments and more than a dozen Dangkou troops, so that he did the explosion that destroyed the fighting spirit of the defenders.

However, he was also seriously injured by the explosion.

It's already a miracle that an explosion of this magnitude didn't shatter bones.

He was twenty meters away from the explosion point, but fortunately he was at a low place, and after being knocked away by the blast wave, he fell into the collapsed soft soil under the fortress, and was just pulled out.

"I have to give him credit for this!"

Yang Xin said.

Of course, Ma Jinzhong still doesn't know anything.

In fact, whether he survives or not is still up to fate.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Xin waved his hand, and the stretcher team carried away this guy who was about to become rotten meat, Yang Dudu stood on Hengshan and looked at Wuxi City in the distance, and on the bank of the Liangxi River in front, the Changsheng army that was originally stationed on the east side of Hengshan Mountain could no longer be seen, after Hengshan Fort was conquered last night, all the regimental training was hurriedly withdrawn to Wuxi City, and they did not dare to stay here and fight with the Dangkou army.

They know they can't win either.

Now they can rely on the Wuxi City Wall and Huishan Fort.

However, if they stick to them, they still have a great advantage, because whether it is Huishan Fort or Wuxi City Wall, they are all surrounded by water networks, the former is surrounded by water on three sides, but it is also in a place surrounded by water on all sides, and Wuxi City is not even surrounded by a ring water network, so dig tunnels or trenches, don't think about it. The only means left is to bombard and then attack, but shelling will definitely not work, that will cause a large number of civilian casualties, and it is also not advisable to storm strongly, because the two places are also crossfire within reach of each other.

I have to say that the defense system of Wuxi is enough to give those generals a headache when it comes to Europe, and the water network and fortress constitute a tight defense.

But......

Fortresses are easy to attack from within.

"Uncle, this is too risky, isn't it?"

Yang Huan said.

A hot air balloon beside him had just been assembled, already puffed up to float in the air in the rope drag, and even the gondola was off the ground, but this one was different from the one given to the Apocalypse, there was an extra wooden propeller on top of it, but it had no power, just a set of gears connected to the handle......

It's human.

Actually, it's useless.

Only on a breezy day like today's can it have a little effect.

"For the sake of the people of Wuxi, the risk is worth it."

Yang Xin said.

After saying that, he went straight into the hot air balloon.

At this time, the soldiers who were cleaning up the battlefield around them, and the prisoners who didn't even have time to escape, all looked at this strange thing in shock, this was the first appearance of this hot air balloon.

Yang Huan immediately commanded the soldiers to untie the ropes, and then the hot air balloon carried Yang Xin slowly into the air, because today was almost a windless day, the hot air balloon continued to rise in an almost vertical attitude, and the surroundings were immediately amazed, but it was just an exclamation, after all, everyone could see that this was a super-large Kong Ming lantern.

Yang Xin then shook the handle.

Although he didn't shake it fast, the big wooden propeller still rotated quickly after the gear shift, and this little power could already make the hot air balloon move slowly, and the direction adjustment was just as simple, just move the gearbox. It wasn't fixed in the first place, it was inserted directly into a wooden base inside the hanging basket, and Yang Xin had to hold it with one hand and turn the handle with the other to keep it in a stable direction.

The hot air balloon continued to rise in the course of its advance, and the speed of its rise was much faster than that of its advance, reaching an altitude of more than 300 meters when it flew away from the sky over Yokoyama.

Of course, this is estimated.

But it's about the same, because the Ermao Peak next to it is three hundred above sea level.

Yang Xin immediately stopped rising, this is just a small turn off, his stove is similar to a huge Mobil kerosene lamp, by adjusting the wick to obtain different sizes of flames, but the largest is not too big, so for the time being, the hot air balloon can only carry two or three people at low altitude.

But he doesn't need to be too tall, so a few hundred meters is just right.

The hot air balloon maintained its altitude in this way, driven slowly forward by his human propeller, and after flying for about ten minutes, it had entered the defense area of the regimental training, and the cavalry patrolling below all looked up, and then ran and followed in surprise, and the defenders on the city wall of Wuxi in the distance, and even the people in the city who were about to be unable to hold it back, also saw this huge Kong Ming lantern in the sky......

"This is the overhead crane?"

Shen Tingyang held the telescope and said in astonishment.

"Ma, the Kong Ming lantern is the Kong Ming lantern, and a large Kong Ming lantern actually blew into a sky car!"

He went on to say.

Well, after a long period of rumors spread, this thing has become a celestial carriage made by the Marquis of Hejian for the emperor in this area, and His Majesty the Emperor often rides in the sky, which makes those gentry a little uneasy, and really thinks that this pair of faint monarchs and traitors can even make such a mysterious thing, you must know that the news of these two making heavenly thunder has spread among the people.

"But this traitor does have wonderful ideas, we have put the Kong Ming lantern for a lifetime, why haven't we thought about making it a great Mahayana to heaven? It seems to be silk, and inside it is nothing more than a large oil lamp and a basket made of bamboo. ”

He Gang said.

At the same time, there was a commotion behind them.

Shen Tingyang pulled out the grab without hesitation, and then turned around and pulled the trigger at the sky.

"What do you want to do? Rebellion? ”

He yelled.

In the alleys of the city, the people who gathered in small boats stopped clamoring and watched him and those vigilant regiments with hostile eyes.

"Don't think that Yang Xin is here, you will be able to turn the sky upside down, there are still 10,000 troops in this city, the traitor has not yet come in, I tell you, whoever dares to take the opportunity to make chaos will be killed, I want to see whether your head is hard or cannonballs, from this moment on, martial law in the city, everyone is not allowed to go out when they go home, and those who go out will be punished as bandits, and they will be killed!"

He shouted.

But those ordinary people obviously ignored him.

What can the 10,000 army do, the Hengshan Fort has been opened, the Xishan Fort is finished, and the field battle does not dare to fight with the Dangkou army, 10,000 troops? There are 100,000 young men in this city, and as soon as the Dangkou army attacks the city, they will start, who is afraid of whom at that time!

"Folks, we are all villagers in the township, that Yang thief is a disaster to the country and the people, don't follow him to mess around, go back and wait honestly, let you go home for your own good, otherwise it is easy to be injured by mistake when fighting, our Wuxi is a place of sage etiquette and education, you all understand the morality of the gang, not those people, don't be deceived by those things without a king and a father!"

Hua Yunyi, who was beside him, shouted weakly.

There was a boo below, and all the people looked at him with disdain.

Even Shen Tingyang despised him, what kind of morality is it at this time, even taking out a box of silver and issuing an ingot per person is more effective than a sage.

Then Shen Tingyang waved his hand, and the group exercises next to him immediately pulled the trigger, and the dense gunshots rang out, and the flames sprayed into the sky, but the people below did not disperse, but raised their heads and looked at the sky together, Shen Tingyang immediately raised his head in the same way, and then saw the hot air balloon slowly enter the field of vision, and a faintly visible face on the hot air balloon poked its head out, followed by another horn barrel......

"Ahem!"

A cough rang out.

"Divide the fields, divide the fields, and get ready to divide the fields."

Then came the familiar voice.

The people below were excited, and some even began to salute.

Without hesitation, Shen Tingyang snatched a short gun and pulled the trigger on that face.

"Shoot him again, kill him and reward him with a thousand taels of gold!"

He yelled.

Obviously he knew he wouldn't hit it, too.

Beside him, a Dutchman wearing the uniform of the Victorious Army, shouted a few times in German, and the six ghosts who had been watching the hot air balloon there immediately raised the guns in their hands and began to aim at Yang Xin in the sky, which was a short-barreled revolver, in fact, the total length was close to four feet, the barrel was a forged octagon, more than two and a half feet long, but the caliber was obviously smaller than that of the turtledove and even the bird, and it had a crosshair and a door.

This is their rifled gun.

Six mercenaries, who were actually German Protestant hunters, held their rifles in this way, and carefully aimed at a thousand taels of gold.

That's a huge fortune.

It's as large as a lord's entire possessions.

"Shoot him!"

"Kill him, I'll give you a hundred taels of gold!"

"I'll add a hundred taels!"

……

The Wuxi gentry who had suffered from Yang Xin's scourge waved their fists and shouted with the same hatred.

Yang Xin was lying on the side of the hanging basket with a horn and looked at them with a smile.

At the same time, the six rifers also pulled the trigger, and six bullets flew out in a whistling manner, but unfortunately they couldn't even reach one-third of the height, and the effective aiming range of this thing was one hundred meters, but the shooting height of the sky was probably less than one hundred meters, and it was impossible for him to reach a height of three hundred meters. In fact, there are no weapons that can reach him at this time, and the turtledove is useless, and the high fire height of the heavy artillery should be barely reachable, but unfortunately no cannon can hit so high.

"Are you done? Then it's my turn now. ”

Yang Xin said with a smile.

With that, he pulled out a grenade from his pocket......

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