With Wang Huan's order, a personal soldier standing beside Le Ma urged the horse to take a few steps forward, waved a huge red flag in his hand again and again, accompanied by the flag, from the solemn array of the Kuizhou army, more than 20 horsemen rushed out in a row, facing the thick infantry queue of the Qing army, galloping away.

"Oh? It's out, it's out! Li Maozu craned his neck and tried his best to look into the distance, carefully observing every move on the battlefield, the movements of the Kuizhou army naturally could not hide from his eyes, when the hooves of the cavalry that rushed out, he found out, but he was not surprised, but a little smug: "Hehe, as the old man expected, seeing that my Qing army is neat, I can't hold my breath, right?" Hmph, I only want to use the charge now, it's too late! ”

He is very confident, there is no worry about the cavalry of the infantry to be scattered by the cavalry, cover because, when the infantry is arranged in a dense formation, the cavalry unless they want to commit suicide, otherwise they can not get a little cheap by rushing directly against the rows of spears, and the distance between the Qing army and the Kuizhou army is already very close, less than two hundred steps, so the speed of the cavalry can not get up, and it is impossible to give full play to the impact advantage of the horsesNothing.

So Li Maozu snorted in his nostrils, disapproving, but immediately, his eyes narrowed again, and he said to himself in a hesitant voice: "No, how did you come out of more than 20 people?" Why didn't the rest move? ”

The Kuizhou Army Brigade was still lined up in a horizontal line, quietly guarding the base of the city wall, and they watched the more than 20 comrades who rushed out every move, with a nervous expression.

"My lord, isn't it time to stuff cotton?" Li Dingguo stretched out his hand from the inner lining of the armor and felt out a few balls of cotton, spread them in his hands and asked.

Wang Huan has been staring at the more than 20 horsemen he called the igniter, extremely serious, engrossed, and did not respond to Li Dingguo's question, Li Dingguo was helpless, raised his voice and asked a second time, Wang Huan heard.

"Don't worry, it's not too late to wait for them to light the fire." Wang Huan said with his mouth, but his hand grabbed the cotton in Li Dingguo's hand, rubbed it in the palm of his hand, and kneaded it into two small lumps.

Li Dingguo didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly divided the remaining cotton into two parts, kneaded it into two balls, and pinched it in his hand for later use.

For a while, all the Kuizhou soldiers in the queue took out cotton from their pockets and did the same movements as Wang Huan and Li Dingguo, neatly and consistently, very strange.

At the same time, more than 20 people who rushed out, with expressions of generosity to death, rode their horses until they ran out a hundred paces away before jumping off the horse.

They worked in pairs, divided into several groups, squatted on the ground, felt out the flint and fire sickle, and looked at the approaching Qing army sneakily, and the thieves didn't know what they were doing?

Li Maozu is completely confused, what is the Ming army doing? Is it funny?

A thousand horsemen stood like foot soldiers under the walls, immobile on their horses, as if they were riding not horses, but stones.

Then more than 20 people ran out of it inexplicably, ran between the two armies, dismounted and squatted on the ground as if they were stool, looking up and bowing their heads for a while, not knowing what they were doing.

The actions of these Baijia Ming soldiers are no longer in the common sense of Li Maozu or any Qing army general, and they are strange everywhere, but they are incomprehensible.

No one noticed that the place where the igniters dismounted happened to be the place where many round holes were dug in the ground, and the position of each group of Kuizhou troops in groups of two was the location of a round hole.

No one noticed that they squatted on the ground, took out two fuses from the round hole, and carefully sorted them out to avoid tangling and tangling into a ball and affecting combustion.

The Qing army, which is forming a phalanx and steadily advancing, is also a little inexplicable, and the people who are in the forefront can certainly see what the Kuizhou army is doing, but they also don't understand why they are doing this, what can they do if they squat on the ground?

"Installing a tripwire? No, my men are all foot soldiers, and tripping horses are useless against foot soldiers; Put tribulus terrestris? No, that thing is for restraining cavalry, and shouldn't it be scattered everywhere one by one? How can there be squatting on the ground one by one, is the Ming army in a panic? Or, in the installation of the Earthquake Thunder? It's even more impossible, the earth-shattering thunder is as big as a watermelon, and the Ming army came empty-handed. In Li Maozu's mind, one possibility after another kept passing by, like twinkling stars, flashing one after another, extinguishing one after another, all of them were denied.

racked his brains, and couldn't figure out what the Ming army sent people out for, Li Maozu simply didn't care, anyway, there were only about 20 people, even if all of them were Zhang Fei's reincarnation, his own 5,000 Chinese army could cut them into meat sauce.

The deputy general who followed the advance of the Chinese army also thought the same way, he was a rough man, not as capable as Li Maozu to come up with so many possibilities in the blink of an eye, in the simple mind of the martial artist, there was only one thing: no matter what tricks the Ming army played, so many people themselves, kill the past five and fight one, and they can win with their fists.

Therefore, he walked firmly, majestic, and enthusiastic, holding his head high, following behind the shield wall in front, and constantly inspiring the morale of the Chinese soldiers with the roar from the dantian.

With the chorus of "ho, ho, ho", the Qing army continued to shorten the distance with the Kuizhou army, and in a short period of time, it approached a distance of 150 steps.

The igniters took a hundred steps forward, and the distance between them and the Qing army was less than fifty paces, and the Qing army could shoot them as long as they opened their bows and arrows.

"It's time, drumming!" Wang Huan's eyes widened suddenly, and his right hand waved decisively towards the sky, and on the city tower behind him, several cowhide drums were immediately beaten by several shirtless burly men with wooden sticks as thick as children's arms.

As soon as the drums sounded, the igniters immediately used the fire heads that had been lit just now to quickly ignite the fuses exposed on the mud floor, and the igniters worked in pairs, one person lit one, and after the ignition, they jumped on their horses as quickly as if they were burning their buttocks, and galloped towards the city wall as if they were not dying.

While running, they freed their hands, took out cotton, kneaded it into two pieces like Wang Huan, and stuffed it into their ears.

"Stuff cotton!" Wang Huan shouted, took the lead in stuffing the cotton in his hand into his ears, and opened his mouth wide at the same time, as if he was preparing something.

Nearly 1,000 Kuizhou soldiers raised their hands in unison, stuffed the cotton that had been prepared into their ears at the same time, and opened their mouths wide, as if they were shouting silently, which made people laugh more than once.

Behind the ignition man, the end of those winding fuses happened to enter the round holes in the ground, some of which were shallow and could be faintly seen, and the holes were placed wrapped in cloth and bundled packages.

"Escaped?" In the Qing army, the deputy general and the second monk were puzzled: "Since you want to escape, why did you come out just now?" ”

Although the deputy general is a rough man, his eyesight is good, although his brain is like paste, his eyes are very poisonous, and he swept his gaze, and immediately found a fuse that was sparking dozens of steps away on the ground like a fire dragon.

"Huh? What is that? The adjutant general was slightly stunned, and immediately reacted, after all, he had mixed in the Ming army, and he had a basic understanding of firearms, and immediately shouted loudly: "Stop!" Stop! The Ming army buried gunpowder in the ground! ”

The team of 5,000 men, ordered to forbid, like an arm and a finger, stopped at the same time in a short time, and stopped in place.

The deputy general with the troops broke out in a cold sweat, constantly glad that he was fortunate to have discovered it early and did not enter the range of the fuse, otherwise, I don't know how much gunpowder was buried in the ground, and if it exploded, it would have to peel off its skin if it didn't die.

Li Maozu in the back, naturally heard the shouts of the deputy general, and was also surprised, he never thought that the Ming army actually used the trick of burying gunpowder in the field, this combat method is unheard of in the field, the limitations are too great, it will inevitably be discovered when igniting, it is easier to crack, just like now, wait in place to wait for the explosion to pass, and continue to move forward, it is extremely useless.

"Stupidity! There is no one in the vertical eye! Li Maozu was angry and funny, and felt that his IQ had been insulted, who was the chief general of the Ming army? Be sure to catch it and see how his brain grows.

On the battlefield, there was a short period of silence, and the Qing army and the Kuizhou army were quietly waiting in place, waiting for the moment that they were looking forward to and expected.

The wind blew, rolling up a piece of dust, and between the two armies, those flickering sparks became more and more obvious, like flower buds exploding under the scorching sun, beating, burning, and straight into the round holes.

Wang Huan unconsciously stretched out his hands and blocked his ears that were already stuffed with cotton with two fingers.

Li Maozu's face was happy, he touched a long beard on his chin, squinted his eyes and began to look at the Xinhua city wall, thinking about how to attack the city if the Ming army fled into the city.

In the Qing army, the deputy general holding a long knife in his hand and observing left and right to see if there was a way to go around from both sides.

In the military formations on both wings, Yu Shizhong and Ma Jiaolin sat firmly on their horses, constantly scolding their subordinates to cheer up and strictly prevent the Ming cavalry from breaking through from the two wings.

"Boom!" As everyone expected, a huge explosion unsurprisingly exploded.

From a round hole dug in the ground fifty paces away from the Qing army's central army, accompanied by a puff of green smoke and a loud noise, a cloud of black and gray things, with a fuse that was still sparking, flew out, flew into the air, and rushed straight to the Qing army fifty paces away.

Wang Huan's eyes lit up, and he looked at the explosives bag in the air with great anticipation, as if he was admiring a rather proud work of art.

Li Maozu and his subordinates were dumbfounded, looking at the cloth bag falling from the sky, dazed.

Blowing up a roll from the ground?

"Boom, boom!"

The sound of explosions continued, and more than a dozen "paved rolls" were blown out of the ground, far or near, and flew towards the Qing army's formation.

"Smack!" The first roll landed on the ground, and it flew not far away, and the place where it landed happened to be only a few steps in front of the first row of the Qing army.

After the cover roll hit the ground, it rolled on the ground and then stopped, only the fuse that kept burning was still "squeaking" and shortening.

The soldiers looked at it in horror, and then looked up at the other rolls that were still flying in the air, and they were stunned because of ignorance.

The last spark of the fuse, under the gaze of everyone, disappeared into the medicine bag.

In the next second, the explosive package of more than 30 catties was suddenly detonated by the extinguishing bomb.

A deafening loud bang shook the heavens and the earth.

The earth shakes, the mountains shake, and the ashes disappear!

Like a hurricane blowing, or like an earthquake, the huge explosion effect will be wrapped outside the explosives package with a layer of iron nails, gravel and other things in all directions, like bullets in all directions, standing in the first two rows of the Qing army, although holding shields, wearing two layers of armor, also by the iron nails and gravel through all protection, directly penetrating the human body, or embedded in the bones, or left in the flesh and blood.

The two rows of men didn't even snort before they fell to the ground.

Then a huge shock wave followed, centered on the explosion point, spreading around, countless people were shocked to fly, spun in a circle in the air, and then fell to the ground, spitting blood, all internal organs were shattered, and no one could survive by the explosion.

Only the first explosive package blew up a full four or five rows of people in the Qing army, and the complete phalanx was blown away by a gap, in which the flesh and blood were blurred, and there were countless corpses.

The rest of the people were also shaken to the ground, deaf in both ears, and unable to speak.

Even the Kuizhou army, which was a hundred steps away, although they had already plugged their ears with cotton and done enough protection, still felt that their ears were like being beaten with a drum, and their eardrums hurt.

One can imagine what the Qing army felt like at the center of the explosion.

In the rear of the Qing army, Li Maozu opened his mouth wide, puffed out his eyes, stared at the other dozen or so explosive bags that were spinning and falling in the air, stretched out his hand and pointed at a distance, and was speechless.

Someone next to him shouted out for him: "Earthquake thunder!" Ming military's earth-shattering thunder! ”

(End of chapter)