In the morning light, the snow-capped mountains in the distance stand in the distance like a holy saint, and the faint mist surrounds the mountainside, which is like a beautiful skirt. The bare mountains, despite their desolation, appear so beautiful and calm in this morning light.

But beauty is often meant to be destroyed. Tranquility is also used to be broken.

Such a calm and serene morning. If suddenly there is an earthquake, a tsunami, a landslide, and an avalanche, the scene must be terrifying.

There was silence between heaven and earth, and nothing seemed to be able to break it. Everything has been so calm in the last few days that nothing seems to be able to break the silence.

Suddenly, there was an excited shout from a valley.

"All guns in place......

Amid the shouts of the artillery commanders, the fighters rushed to the gun positions, deafening shouts and nervous footsteps echoing in the air. It took these soldiers ten days to install these cannons in place, which is very rare, but looking at its short and thick appearance and thick barrel, people can tell that it is a siege artillery.

In fact, this is a kind of coastal defense mortar, but now it is often used to siege cities, especially for attacking fortresses, after all, in many cases, the infantry is helpless in the face of rock-solid fortresses and trenches, so large-caliber coastal defense mortar artillery has become the best choice for attacking fortresses, its angle of fire is large, and the ballistic arc is large. Shells have a strong penetrating power and have always been a good weapon for attacking fortresses, and it has also proven its worth in Star Gorge.

And at this time, once again, these behemoths are here again to prove their worth. When these siege artillery with a caliber of more than 8 inches pointed their guns into the sky, on the Qing army's defense line several miles away, those Qing troops hiding in the trenches were still enjoying the early morning.

Little did they know that danger was already on them. The shadow of death is about to loom over the land.

"Open your eyes, take a sip of tea first, this day, it's a comfortable ......"

Holding a teacup in his hand, Zhao Zhen said, blowing the tea leaves on the side of the cup, his expression looked a little proud, and even a little suspicious of deliberately showing off. Tea is a luxury in the Qing Dynasty, because tea needs to be transported from the Ming Kingdom, those profiteers sell tea to the Qing Kingdom, the price has to be at least several times, in the Qing Dynasty, not everyone can afford to drink tea, but it is certain that everyone likes to drink tea. However, not everyone can afford to drink tea, even cheap tea bricks. It is also a luxury for many.

The reason why Zhao Zhen is so proud is because he has two or two hairy tips, so he is so showy. He deliberately showed it off, apparently so that everyone would know that he was drinking hairy tips. This is a very expensive type of tea.

Although he speaks fluent Chinese, his appearance is very different from that of the Han people, his mother is Hezhou Semu, but his father is the banner man of the Han military banner, of course, there is no Han military flag now, everyone is a banner person. But as everyone knows, this is only scratching the surface. In fact, among the flag people, there is still a clear distinction between their origin and identity.

"You kid, just show off, look at your Dexing ......"

The other Qing soldiers in the trenches, all the young people of eighteen or nineteen, were almost similar in appearance to him, and there were always some traces of lustful people between their eyebrows.

After all, their mothers are often lustful. They are half-breeds. There will always be traces of my mother in my appearance. This is the biggest difference between them and their parents.

"Hey, it's not me Dexing, I'll tell you, this tea, you still have to have this kind of tea, as for the tea bricks or something, it's all ......"

Before Zhao Zhen finished speaking, suddenly there was a strange oppressive sound. Some of them even looked up at the sky, as if trying to figure out what the sound in the sky was.

"Whoosh......"

The dull whistling sound coming from the top of the head had a force that tore through the heavens and the earth, and the black dots continued to squeeze the air, and then made a regrettable sound. It sounded like a train passing through the air. Dull and shocking, one can't help but be a little scared.

What is this sound?

Zhao Zhen, who was holding the teacup, forgot to drink tea, and just looked up at the sky blankly, at least for a moment, he felt that he saw the black dots falling in the air.

The black dots were like locomotives, squeezing the air and making a dull whistling sound. The whistling sound was deafening, dull and terrifying.

The roar was getting closer and louder, and suddenly, a scream rang out in the trenches.

"Shelling!"

Zhao Zhen, who was originally showing the tea, completely forgot about everything else at this time, threw the teacup directly to the ground, and then lay down in the trench. He pressed his body to the ground as much as he could, dodging the cannonballs falling overhead.

Although he didn't have much combat experience, his father told him more than once. How to deal with the shelling of the Ming army, that is, to stick your body to the ground as much as possible, and then all that is left to God, pray for God's blessing in your heart.

In the next moment, the earth shook. It's like a ground dragon turning over. The earth trembled and shook there.

A series of explosions reached Zhao Zhen's ears, the sound was a little dull, and at the same time as the explosion, it would cause a more violent explosion, and for a while the earth seemed to shake, and the violent explosion instantly swallowed the trench, and even caused a wave of shaking of the mountains.

In the next moment, Zhao Zhen lost consciousness, and he didn't even figure out what was going on, and disappeared into a cloud of smoke along with the smoke.

In the explosion, huge pillars of smoke rose from the trenches of the Qing army, which were powder kegs that were detonated by shells, and those powder kegs buried deep under the trenches were detonated under the bombardment of siege shells, although not all, but for the Qing troops in the trenches, the explosion was a disaster. A devastating disaster.

The explosion that occurred under the trench directly turned the trench into a slaughterhouse, and thousands of defenders, even before they had time to dodge, were covered by the soil raised by the explosion, and the most miserable thing was that those Qing troops above the powder keg were directly blown to pieces, and before they died, the impact of the explosion directly blasted their leg bones into the abdominal cavity, and in the instantaneous pain, their bodies were torn to pieces. And many more are often torn to shreds in the explosion.

In an instant, the originally peaceful trenches turned into hell, and those Qing soldiers who were so heavy also lost their lives in the explosion. We didn't even see the appearance of the Ming army, and we didn't even feel the damage caused by the Ming army's shells, so we were buried deep under our feet with explosives. Torn to shreds.

Despite the fact that the shelling of the Ming army achieved the desired result. But their shelling did not stop. And they are still going on.

"Reload!"

After the first round of shells was fired, the shouts of the artillery commanders sounded from the positions of the siege artillery battalion directly under the city. The position was busy, heavy shells were rolled along the rails by the ammunition hand to the bottom of the lifting hanger, hundreds of pounds of shells were clamped to death by the tongs, and the ammunition hand who operated the lifting sling quickly pulled the steel chain sling. With the clatter of locks, the heavy shells were lifted up and then hoisted onto the loading trolley.

Almost at the moment when the shell was put on the pulley, the burly and sturdy loader used the bullet lever to push the shell into the barrel, and then a medicine bag was also loaded into the barrel, compared with the front-loading gun, the loading of this rear-loading rifled mortar seems to be cumbersome, but in fact the efficiency is much higher than the front-loading gun.

After the reload was completed, the short and thick barrel was once again shaken up, pointing straight at the sky shrouded in gunsmoke.

"Put!"

With an order, a deafening roar suddenly sounded on the position of the siege artillery battalion, and the roar was extremely loud, accompanied by huge flames spewing out from the muzzles, and the strong backseat even made the earth tremble.

After the heavy siege grenades were fired, they made a whistling sound in the air, like a train moving through the air, forming an impermeable roar, which was completely different from the whistling sound of ordinary artillery shells, and more like throwing locomotives directly into the sky.

These "locomotives" that were thrown into the air with a slam slam seemed to be driving on the railroad tracks, and as soon as they flew into the air, they flew towards the target without hesitation, and they whistled in the air, making a burst of whistles. Once again, with their own characteristic roar, they fell near the trenches of the Qing army, and fell into the trenches.

At the moment when the dull whistling sound disappeared, the violent explosion swallowed the position of the Qing army, and the explosion raised a cloud of smoke like the breath of death and swelled sharply, while expanding, suddenly, there were violent explosions in the smoke cloud, which slammed the smoke cloud into the sky, and in the rapidly expanding smoke cloud, the torn body remains and earth and stones were thrown into the air, and the former trench became a tomb.

The appearance of the Xingqian Type 180 Jin siege cannon immediately amazed the world, even three years after its appearance, it is still the most advanced artillery in the world, the steel cannon body forged with a steam hammer is strong and durable, although its range is only 10 miles, but still exceeds the range of most artillery.

When the steel destructive bomb it fired fell at a large angle, it could go deep into the fortress before exploding, and it was with this secret weapon that the Ming army easily conquered the Xingxingxia fortress that the Manchu Qing had painstakingly operated for nearly ten years. And this time, it was used to bombard the trenches of the Qing army, and while destroying the trenches of the Qing army, it detonated the gunpowder buried by the Qing army under the trenches. The 180-pound steel sabotage bomb was almost devastating in the field, and when it exploded, the enemy soldiers within a radius of more than ten zhang died without even a wound on their bodies, and their internal organs were shattered by the violent shock wave, and they lost their lives without even struggling.

But now, even more lethal is the gunpowder detonated under the trenches, in order to avoid possible misfire, so those powder kegs are connected by bamboo powder cartridges, and as long as one powder keg explodes, it will detonate strings of powder kegs.

Three days ago, the Qing army relied on those powder kegs to inflict heavy losses on the Ming army that had just captured the trenches, and now, retribution fell on them - after a powder keg was detonated, other powder kegs in the trenches were also detonated, like firecrackers, undulating explosions, instantly swallowing the entire trench in a violent explosion, and it was not only the trenches that were swallowed, but also the Qing troops in the trenches.

Even if they lay on the ground to avoid the shelling, they could not dodge the explosion under their bodies, and even because they were lying on the ground, the dust that they had not had time to react to at the moment of the explosion was thrown into the sky and torn into ashes in the air.

It's over!

There was no need for the Ming infantry to attack, of course, from the telescope, he saw a huge cloud of smoke rising from the trenches of the Qing army, listening to the continuous explosions, Zhang Xiaowu's lips raised, and he said to the herald behind him.

"Inform the artillery, shell the next line of defense of the Qing army, this time, we will set all the trenches of the Qing army on fire!"

Light the trenches!

It was gunpowder buried in the trenches by the Qing army!

I'm afraid that even the Qing army guarding there never thought that the trap they had prepared for the Ming army would trap them in it at this time and easily take their lives. Perhaps they didn't expect that gunpowder, which was buried several feet deep in the ground, could be detonated so easily.

When the siege artillery fire of the Ming army extended backwards, the shells had not even fallen into the trenches, and those who were shaking the ground and the mountains were shaking, and when they saw the friendly positions shrouded in gunsmoke, the instinct of survival made the Qing troops in the rear choose to flee. They were desperate to escape from the trenches. Now, the trench is no longer a life-saving trench, but the mouth of the Grim Reaper, and if a single shell falls into the trench, it will turn the trench into a slaughterhouse, tearing them all to pieces. No one wants to be on a powder magazine. They were like crazy, and they didn't even care about the shells that fell around. They fled from the trenches and towards the rear.

But even so, there were still some people who were torn to shreds by the falling shells before they could escape. Occasionally, a heavy shell would burrow into the trench and detonate the gunpowder. The violent explosion safely engulfed the nearby Qing troops.

The once elaborate trap has now become a talisman for the Qing army, and the cannonballs with a dull whistling sound, like a heavenly fire falling from the sky, fell into the trenches of the Qing army, igniting the gunpowder under the trenches, so that the Qing troops in it were reduced to fragments and ashes in the flames.

These Ming troops, who were still laughing at them before, and the Qing troops who enjoyed the tranquility there, are now like they are in the midst of a storm. Struggle in this storm of flames......