Chapter 176: The Triumph of the Victor
Snowy night thunder?
When the deafening explosion sound came out of the fog, when the orange-red bright spots, dragging a little white smoke through the air, crossed the orange-red parabola, the loyal officers and soldiers in the camp were all stunned by this sudden "thunder", they looked at the sky dumbfounded, looking at the light that almost enveloped the whole heaven and earth, the dense orange-red bright spots like raindrops, just like this, suddenly drilled out of the fog and attacked them.
Tens of thousands!
Countless!
The speed of the 20-pound gunpowder box thrown with ten catties of gunpowder is not fast, and the distance of 100 zhang is almost a second or two, but even so, it is enough to make anyone stunned, whether it is the loyal army or the Tang army, they are stunned by this "spectacular scene" that has never been seen before.
These hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder are enough to raze the heavens and the earth to the ground!
Looking at the orange-red color in the air as dense as raindrops, Shi Mingli couldn't help but think like this. He even secretly rejoiced, fortunately, Huguang has produced nitrate since ancient times, Huguang may not have the saline-alkali land on both sides of the Yellow River to sweep nitrate, but there are tens of thousands of nitrate holes in the mountains, among those nitrate holes, even the smallest nitrate holes, can produce dozens of loads or more than hundreds of loads of high-quality white nitrate every year, and tens of thousands of loads of high-grade white nitrate boiled out of the nitrate holes every year, which is enough for the Tang army to squander like this.
After such a bombardment, how many people can still live in the loyal army?
Such a thought crossed the minds of almost every charging Tang army, and they even quickened their pace, trying to rush over at the moment of the explosion, and then stabbed their bayonets into their chests when the Ming troops in the camp were dizzy.
As long as the camp is laid, the reward is fifty taels of silver!
Fifty taels of silver!
This huge amount of money is enough to make every Tang soldier crazy, of course, the reason why Li Ziyuan will make such a bloody capital is because he knows that this money is not worth mentioning after winning this battle, after defeating the loyal army, the world will change his surname to Li!
Compared with the excitement of the Tang Army, almost every loyal officer and soldier in the camp was pale and looked dead when they saw the orange-red points of light that filled the sky dragging the parabola attacking.
They are also no strangers to gunpowder ejections, but now they rarely use this kind of weapon with extremely poor accuracy and many restrictions, and they prefer to use more flexible mortars than projectile gunpowder packets, but now, in the face of these tens of thousands of projectile packets, they all feel a heartfelt panic.
The soldiers who were asleep were awakened, and some of them had already rushed out of the tent with a little quicker movements, and saw the countless gunpowder packs about to fall.
We're done......
Wang Yushu, who was hiding behind the wall, had such a thought in his heart.
In the next moment, thousands of gunpowder packets fell into the camp under the gaze of the people, but it was only a respite, and a series of violent explosions exploded in the camp of the loyal army.
When the gunpowder pack exploded, it was as if there were countless huge cannons roaring, echoing a cheerful roar between heaven and earth, the sound was continuous, and the violent explosion sound shocked people's eyes, and the smoke rising in the camp had the meaning of devouring heaven and earth, swallowing the entire camp.
For the Tang army who was charging outside the camp, they were also stunned by what they saw, they saw countless flashes of light burst out of the camp in the darkness, and the flash flashed behind the camp wall, and with each light, they could feel what kind of disaster the loyal army inside the camp would fall into.
The sound of explosions came and went, and there was no intention of stopping at all, and occasionally some gunpowder bags that fell outside exploded under the walls, trenches, etc., and the gunpowder bags that fell into the branches and deer barns exploded at the moment of explosion, which directly helped them open up the way to attack and blew up those branches and deer barrens.
Although the number of gunpowder packets that fell outside the camp was not large, at most a few hundred, but for the attacking Tang army, the passage formed by the gunpowder packs that fell between the deer barricades after the explosion was the best passage in their eyes, almost an instinct, they all stared at the nearest passage to themselves, and then ran towards it.
Even some of the gunpowder packets fell directly on the side of the ramparts, easily collapsing the not thick ramparts, and from the collapsed ramparts, people saw the fortress that had been completely covered in gunsmoke.
The fortress was no longer a fortress, but a hell, a hell shrouded in smoke and death, and thousands of twenty-pound gunpowder packets fell on people's heads, and even the iron men would be blown to pieces, and the few who had escaped by chance would probably be blown unconscious.
Although they were far away, looking at the fortress of the Loyal and Righteous Army, which had been shrouded in gunsmoke, Shi Mingli shouted loudly.
"Brothers, rush forward and kill them all before they can react!"
Even before Shi Mingli shouted loudly, the soldiers around him all howled excitedly, and rushed towards the fortress at a faster pace.
"Kill!"
With a roar of thunder, they got closer and closer to the fortress, and thousands of people rushed towards the blasted passage between the branches and deer, and they did not even wait for the "gun carriages" to blow the wall, but swarmed straight up - the earthen wall was also blown open with many collapsed openings, although not large, but still opened the way for the attack.
And what made them even more excited was that the deadly rain of bullets during the day was all gone at this time, as if everyone had been killed.
Maybe all of them died!
Not only ordinary soldiers thought so, but even Sun Quanguo, who had been fighting with Li Chuang since he was a teenager, after issuing the order to charge, such a thought also appeared in his heart, the gallop of thousands of troops and horses was like thunder, and in this thunder, he did not feel any danger.
No danger!
There is no blockade, the only goal is ahead, what is ahead of him?
It is the Chinese army camp of the Loyal and Righteous Army, although it is located in the center, but the situation there is not much better than other places, and it can even be said that there are a few points of tragedy - in the smoke of gunpowder, the flames are rising in the camp, and the flames can even burst out more than ten zhang high, under the reflection of the flames, behind the blown up wall, some figures can be vaguely seen, those messy figures, did not make Sun Quanguo feel any danger, but made him feel a little at ease, because those messy figures, On the contrary, it proved that the surprise attack was effective, and those loyal soldiers were already dizzy by the bombing.
Now, for them, they only need to wield their sabers, and then rush in, and slash and kill the living in the Chinese army at will, Sun Guoquan even had an idea at this time.
If the Huai King was still alive, he would not kill him, he would try his best to capture the Huai King, after all, he was a loyal minister, a loyal minister like that, and he could not die in the chaos.
can be King Huai's bravery, how could he let others capture him alive?
Thinking of this, Sun Guoquan even suffered a little bit of gains and losses, on the one hand, he longed to get the military merit of capturing the king of Huai, which was enough for him to be a marquis and a prince in the future, and enough for his descendants to enjoy the glory and wealth. On the other hand, he was unwilling to be stained with the blood of King Huai, after all, he was a loyal minister, and he always felt uncomfortable when he killed such a loyal minister.
If people don't do it, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed!
Secretly reading this sentence in his heart, Sun Guoquan raised the saber in his hand again, and then shouted loudly.
"Kill ......"
In the darkness, the gallop of thousands of horsemen was like thunder, like rolling mines, and the sound of horses' hooves echoed in the air, and in the gallop of ten thousand horses, the earth was torn apart, and at this moment, no one could doubt that they would win!
We won!
This thought came to mind in the hearts of countless Tang Jun, who looked at the camp that was getting closer and closer, and looked at the flames burning in the camp, they only had one thought in their hearts.
The Loyal Army is over!
Indeed, the reason why they have such an idea is very simple, tens of thousands of gunpowder bags, hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder, fell in the camp, not to mention people, it is a great Arhat Immortal, I am afraid it will not be able to hold such an explosion.
Battles without any suspense!
Standing on the city wall, beside the city gate tower, Li Ziyuan looked at the camp of the loyal army from the telescope, and at the same time this thought came out of his heart, he breathed a sigh of relief, although in the fog, he couldn't see what the camp of the loyal army looked like now, but he could still vaguely see the countless lights produced by the explosion, he just sighed, and finally shook his head helplessly.
Even if he wasn't on the front line, he could imagine what was going on there—perhaps, it had been blown up to pieces, even a little more tragic than what happened to Liang Huafeng at the beginning.
Thinking of Liang Huafeng, Li Ziyuan naturally thought of the appearance when he and Zhu Mingzhong fought side by side in Liang Huafeng's camp, thinking of this, his heart couldn't help but feel hot, and then he shook his head and sighed.
"Why ......"
Why not?
Staring at the misty battlefield in the distance, Li Ziyuan couldn't help but sigh.
"In fact, the person I admire the most in this life is Chengren, who is brave and brave, and can be called "the first brave general in the world", but it is a pity that ......"
"It's a pity that there are only ...... The courage of the horseman. ”
All right!
At this time, in front of the winner, people will naturally do everything possible to welcome him, as for the loser, they don't care what he has done, or how good he is, no matter what, can not hide the reality of his failure.
"The courage of the horseman?"
Sneering, Li Ziyuan's eyebrows looked a little displeased, even as an opponent, he has always been in awe of Zhu Mingzhong, he never thought that he could win so neatly and so smoothly...... Everything was far beyond his imagination.
"The courage of the Huai Domain, how can it be the courage of the horseman?"
With such a sneer, Li Ziyuan sighed.
"Both Shengyu and He Shengliang? After tomorrow, after the sunny day, the body of King Huai was collected, and he was injured half a point in a hurry, after all, King Huai is the merit of my Han people, and the merit is in my Han people. Wait to turn back and bury it with a princely ceremony! ”
After such a long sigh, Li Ziyuan's expression showed a pity in his expression, and the people around him were all talking about the king's righteousness when he said this.
That is, in the praise of everyone, Li Ziyuan pretended to say again.
"As for the heirs of the Huai Domain, he can also inherit the Huai Domain."
Everyone knows that this is just the "benevolence" of the victor, this is just to attract people's hearts, but just to enable the Huai Fan to "conform to the mandate of heaven" and hand over the orphans and widows, after all, the Huai Fan now holds the power of the Huai and Fujian factions, if the Huai Fan resists, it is still unknown who will win and who will lose in the end, not to mention, there is now the southwest has also lowered the Huai Domain, but those people in the southwest are a group of wall grass who see the wind and rudder, and there is no need to be afraid at all.
"The king, the minister thinks that if the Huai Fan knows that after his defeat, he will inevitably lead the young lord to flee overseas......"
Zhu Yingsheng, who was standing on the side, suddenly interjected.
"King, the Huai Domain has Taiwan, Nantianmen and Pingnan overseas, if it escapes overseas, I am afraid that it will be troubled by my Datang!"
Zhu Yingsheng, who didn't expect to win so neatly, immediately made a suggestion after a moment of consternation.
"In the opinion of the ministers, the king may allow him to be a high-ranking official and his sailor, so that he can prevent him from escaping overseas, and he can protect the overseas land in the future......"
Among the ministers of the Tang Dynasty, only Zhu Yingsheng had read the "Illustrated Overseas Provinces" published by Huai Fan, which described the situation of the overseas colonies in detail, listed the vastness of the areas seized by the loyal and righteous army, and of course, it would also tell the world that the Westerners were also seizing colonies, and their overseas colonies were dozens or hundreds of times larger than their own territory, and even more than the Ming Dynasty. He is also telling the world a truth - if the Ming Dynasty misses overseas expansion, it will undoubtedly miss the future. He even told the world in the book that if the Ming Dynasty had been able to have overseas colonies and immigrate the displaced people overseas, perhaps there would not have been the later Li Chuang's capture of Beijing, and naturally there would have been no later Manchu Qing entry and massacre after entering the customs.
Zhu Yingsheng was still a little skeptical about this at first, but later as he learned about his overseas colonies, he quickly accepted this idea, and the reason why he now mentions this issue is to ensure that overseas is not lost.
"Do you really think that the overseas land is for colonization?"
Sneering, Li Ziyuan looked towards the misty battlefield, and then sneered.
"Outsiders don't know, but Lone knows that he Zhu Mingzhong is trying to go overseas that day, but it is a kind of partial peace, if his heirs can escape overseas, Lone will naturally not chase to the ends of the earth, and his partial peace overseas, how can he bear me? Overseas Barbarian Lands...... I don't want to take it! ”