The explosion lasted for a whole moment, and from the sea, the two enemy towers were like two huge chimneys, billowing smoke straight into the sky, and in mid-air by a strong sea breeze, it turned into wisps of black smoke and quickly dissipated.

The soldiers in the enemy building could no longer stay in the building under the smoke and fire, and desperately pried open the piles of stones blocking the door, broke out of the door, and scrambled to escape. Due to the narrow exit and the relentless fireworks, a serious stampede occurred among the soldiers scrambling for the exit. Many Yuan soldiers did not die in the sea of fire, did not die in smoke, did not die under the guns of the Dragon Bird Army, but were trampled to death by their comrades. This escape path is a real road of flesh and blood.

If you run out, will you be considered to have escaped? How naïve! Outside, two hundred gunmen and musketeers were waiting for them. They were greeted by bullets that shattered bones and spears that pierced their chests and abdomen. Seeing that the road was impassable, some soldiers jumped directly from the building without caring about the danger. It is a three-story building with a height of three floors, and the mud below is mixed with rocks. If you are lucky enough to jump accurately, you sprain your foot or bruise your knee; If you are unlucky, you will have to fight hard with a stone, and you will end up with broken hands and feet, and you will open your eyes and wait for death.

Long Wenxiang in Qiongguan City didn't know whether he was frightened by the amazing explosion and fire, or saw that the cannon was destroyed and couldn't save it, so he never sent troops to rescue. Half an hour later, more than 1,000 Yuan soldiers in the north and south enemy towers, only more than 300 people finally escaped, and the remaining 700 Yuan soldiers and four five-tip cannons were all destroyed, and the two major nails that hindered the Dragon Bird Army from attacking the city were removed.

At this point, the day had just passed.

One day out of the city, the morale of the whole army of the Dragon Bird Army was high.

It was only at this time that Zhao Lie officially issued the landing order: Jiang Fenglie led the Baiyi Battalion, the Zhongshun Battalion, and the Recruit Battalion to land. Occupy the north and south enemy towers, control Baishakou Beach, repair the cliffs, and make the cliffs smooth, so that it is convenient for the army to charge.

The reason why only one general was sent to land instead of the whole army was that the terrain of Baishakou was complex and slightly narrow, which was not suitable for a large army to camp, and it was not conducive to the development of an army formation. This is also the reason why although Ali Hague had several times the number of troops, he couldn't help Zhao and Luo.

In the evening, on the sea and on the beach, the fires are lit with the starry sky and the sea. The waves are gusting and the mood rises and falls, giving people a sense of tranquility that blends into heaven and earth. At this moment, whether it was the Dragon Bird Army Barracks or Qiongguan City, it was so quiet.

It was the silence before the Great War.

On the dragon's first ship, a round cannonball wrapped in layers of thick paper was placed on the desk. Jiang Fenglie, Ouyang Guanhou, Zhang Ba, Su Jingzhan, Shen Pingbo, Wan Zhong, Chang Tai and other generals surrounded and watched, with a rare face.

In fact, in Zhao Lie's eyes, this is not a shell, to put it bluntly, it is a bag of explosives.

The power and importance of explosives, Zhao Lie couldn't be clearer. From the gas cylinder he used to save Wen Tianxiang, to the later use of a bundle of thunder cannons to blow up a pirate ship, to the explosives package used to blow up the lost Hague transport ship during the battle of the Wan'an Army, cutting off its back road and so on. Every explosion directly changes the tide of battle, and this kind of power is definitely a tactical weapon.

Whether it is thunder artillery or explosives, they are all stocks of military industrial bases, and after the battle of Wan'an Army, they were all consumed. Since then, Zhao Lie has to independently develop and manufacture new explosives that are suitable for the scientific and technological level of this era.

Although Zhao Lie's military industrial base produced a large number of guns and bullets, the propellant and explosives were not the same thing, and the various proportions were obviously different. The recipe for the explosives was in the booklet left by the Black Gun Gang, otherwise how could the thunder cannon be made? But it's one thing to have a formula, it's another thing to be able to understand and "catch the medicine according to the prescription".

Before Zhao Lie went south to rescue Xingchao, he had ordered gunpowder to be studied by craftsmen, and no matter what, it must be manufactured.

In this era of the Great Song Dynasty, there was also explosives, that is, the earth-shattering thunder. Although this thing is relatively primitive, one hundred catties, the explosive power is limited, and it all relies on the internal tribulus terrestris, broken porcelain pieces, iron sand, poisonous smoke, spicy and other stimuli to hurt the enemy, and it can only be used to defend the city, but there are also rudiments of explosives. On this basis, gunpowder craftsmen can study real explosives in order to have rules and contexts to follow.

When Zhao Hunt returned to Wan'an Army half a year later, the craftsmen who made gunpowder also had results in their research, which were these paper lumps: as big as a leather ball, with a total weight of twelve catties, round, fused detonation, and eight catties of charge, containing iron tribulus terrestris, broken porcelain pieces, iron sand and other substances. The explosion range is one zhang and two, and the killing range is three zhang. The craftsmen called it the "Little Earthquake Thunder".

It is not surprising that the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty were able to make this kind of explosive bomb, because even if there is no formula, in another hundred years, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty can make it. Guided by the perfect recipe hundreds of years later, it is not surprising that it was made more than 100 years in advance.

Zhao Lie watched the test at the secret shooting range of the Iron House, and the power was indeed not small, and it was not under the thunder cannon. In the explosion range, the iron armor defense is not good; In the killing range, even leather armor can't stop it. It's a pity that it's heavier and can't be carried around like the original thunder cannon, so it can only be used to defend the city. It is difficult to make it lighter, because this is already the result of the painstaking efforts of the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty, and even paid the price of their lives for it.

In half a year, three gunpowder craftsmen accidentally detonated and died during manufacturing and testing, and two were disabled. Gunpowder, in all eras, is an extremely dangerous item.

Zhao Liezhi sighed for a long time when he heard this, and ordered mercy on several injured and disabled craftsmen, and asked not to relax research and strengthen safety management.

This time, I went north and brought a few boxes of small earthquake thunders, which I originally planned to keep for defending the city after recovering Qiongguan. But after discovering the situation of the enemy building, Zhao Lie realized, since dozens of catties of stone bullets can be used for attack, why can't a dozen catties of small earth-shaking thunder? So I decided to try the actual combat effect of this small earth-shattering thunder.

However, after asking the craftsmen and comparing the advantages and disadvantages of each cannon, Zhao Lie decided to use the single-tip cannon and re-converted the small earth-shaking thunder into eight catties. Considering that the goal of this battle was not to kill the enemy, but to destroy the five-tip cannon, the shell was made of paper soaked in fierce fire oil, so that under the explosion, the flying shells increased the burning effect.

Sure enough, as soon as Xiao Zhentian Thunder entered the battlefield, it showed amazing results, clearing the peripheral obstacles for the Dragon Sparrow Army with the power of burning the plain. Joan Guancheng, exposed under the muzzle of the Dragon Sparrow Army.

"Good stuff, good stuff!" Zhang Ba grinned, "Dashuai, let's use this heavenly thunder to kill Yuangou and blow up Qiongguan City!" ”

The eyes of the generals are all shining, if it can really be like what Zhang Ba said, the soldiers of Qiongguan City can capture it without blood, and it will not be easy to attack the cities of the Central Plains in the future?

Just when the generals' hearts were in full bloom, Zhao Lie's cold words were like a basin of water: "I think too much, although the power of this little earth-shaking thunder is good, the throwing distance is a short board." At least five cannons can be thrown to have actual combat effects. And to erect multiple five-tip cannons to siege the city, this amount of work is too large, and the terrain outside the city cannot be placed at all and is vulnerable to attack...... This time we were caught off guard by the enemy, and the next time we do this, it will not have such an effect. ”

The generals thought that this was really the case, if a safe artillery position could be built outside the city, Ali Hague would have done so a long time ago. Although the stone bullets are not as good as the heavenly thunder, they can break through the defenses of Qiongguan City in a few days.

Chang Tai sighed: "Then you can only attack hard." ”

Zhao Lie touched his chin, his eyes flashed: "I want to attack, but not necessarily hard." ”

Ouyang Guanhou's eyes lit up on the side, and he seemed to have realized: "That's right, count it, they should also make a move." ”