Chapter 355: The Wall Falls, the City Breaks
The explosives bag was dusty, like a bundle of quilts, and when it flew in the air, the fuse of the burning fuse was very conspicuous.
"What is this?" Meng Qiaofang frowned and asked, "It doesn't seem to be an iron bullet." ”
No one could answer him, because no one recognized.
The medicine bag arced in the air, and with a "snap" fell to the ground with all its strength, and landed exactly outside more than a foot away from the city wall.
More than 100 medicine bags came one after another, and the goddess scattered them like flowers, and the Qing soldiers on the city wall were stunned, in their eyes, these things that looked soft were as strange as bean paste buns.
The explosives bag was bombarded under the city wall of more than ten zhang on the left side of the west gate, and after landing, there were far and near, some were more than ten zhang away from the city wall, and they just threw over the moat, and some happened to fall under the root of the city wall, and one or two shot far away, and they actually smashed on the bricks of the city wall and rebounded down.
At first, the Qing soldiers in the city thought that it was an iron bullet, so they bent down one after another, and hid under the female wall nervously, not even daring to show their heads, for fear of being hit, and their hands tightly grasped a fixed object, after all, the shock caused by the iron bullet hitting the city wall was also very terrible.
Meng Qiaofang, Ha Ha Mu and the others stretched their necks at the West Gate Tower, trying their best to look over here, and they had the impression that the huge roar and strong sense of impact after the iron bullet hit the wall did not come, but saw those explosive bags falling lightly under the city wall and scattered all over the ground.
"What do you mean? The Ming army ...... "Meng Qiaofang asked again, the behavior of the Ming army under the city today is too abnormal, I have never seen it before, Rao is he is from the Ming army and he can't understand it, but as soon as he said this, he was interrupted.
A puff of black smoke rose from under the base of the city wall on the left, and almost at the same time, a "boom" explosion sounded in everyone's ears, deafening, and resounded in the sky.
This explosion was so violent, the people in the city were shocked to the faceless, as if there was an earthquake under their feet, violently trembling, the whole city wall was shaking, the wooden beams in the city tower over the years accumulated dust "brushing" down, the plaque with the word "West Gate" written on it, was shocked to fall, smashed behind the heel of Haha, thanks to his quick reaction, only to dodge.
As if the sky was falling apart, one after another loud noises sounded one after another, more than 100 explosives bags weighing thousands of pounds of yellow explosives lifted the ground of the entire Xi'an City, the explosion at the west gate at the east gate people can hear, the black smoke rushing into the sky like a cloud covering the sky and the earth, obscuring the daylight, the entire West Gate radius of nearly a mile is encircled in it.
Although the distance was far, Meng Qiaofang, Hahamu and others were still shocked to the ground at the first time, and the thunderous sound swept all the flagpole tiles on the city's head, and the human flesh and blood burst out in all directions.
In the sound of the explosion, the soldiers dragged Meng Qiaofang, who fell to the ground, and ran down the road to the city in a hurry, while Hahamu and others took the lead in rushing to the front, and the group ran not far away, and the towering city tower at the west gate collapsed in the explosion, and the broken bricks and beams were piled up, and the two red-clothed cannons placed at the head of the city were buried underneath.
The crowd ran into the city in a hurry, and stood in the street, far away from the city wall, before they dared to catch their breath. At this time, the explosion that almost turned the sky upside down finally stopped, and in the smoke, the towering city wall became dilapidated, and pieces of green bricks fell from the wall, revealing the yellow rammed earth inside, and cracks and spider webs the thickness of an adult's arm were densely covered on the wall, as if the city would collapse at any time.
Meng Qiaofang was carried down by someone, and at this time he struggled to get up, and the white towel in his arms didn't know where it fell, so he wiped a handful of blood on his face with his hand, and the tile fell right on the bridge of his nose, smashing out a big hole.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry, go and call people, go and transfer people, use more rough wood, and if the city collapses, set up a wooden fence, erect a wooden city, and definitely block the gap!" Meng Qiaofang had calmed down a little at this time, he screamed loudly, and shouted orders to the people around him, he understood that when the city was broken, everything would be over.
Zhao Liangdong and the others didn't agree to him, but just looked fixedly to the left, like a wooden man.
"Are you deaf?! I told you to hurry up and ......" Meng Qiaofang was angry, picked up the person standing in front of him, came to the front with a vicious scolding, looked to the left, and suddenly stopped.
The open mouth turned into an egg shape and could no longer be closed.
In the distance on the left, there should be a huge wall that is connected with the West Gate as a whole, up to four zhang, the wall is rammed with glutinous rice mixed with loess, and has not fallen a wall brick after a hundred years, whether it is Li Zicheng breaking Xi'an, or the Qing army attacking Dashun, the city wall that has not been broken down, is gone!
Meng Qiaofang was as if he was in a dream, he quickly rubbed his eyes, blinked, and looked carefully, still no! The walls are gone!
He only felt cold all over his body, he had no strength at all, and the whole person suddenly collapsed, and he was about to sit on the ground.
Zhao Liangdong's eyes were quick, he grabbed him, and said abruptly: "My lord, the wall has collapsed!" ”
Meng Qiaofang didn't seem to hear it, looked around blankly, and then saw Hahamu with a white face.
He grabbed Ha Ha Mu's hand and hissed, "Ha Da, where is the wall?" Why are the walls gone? ”
Ha Ha Mu turned his round eyes to Meng Qiaofang, and his face full of incredulity actually revealed a trace of fear, he broke free of Meng Qiaofang's hand, waved his giant palm, and slapped Meng Qiaofang's face.
Zhao Liangdong and the others were stunned, these two people were furious, they didn't dare to interfere.
Meng Qiaofang was slapped to the side, a tooth flew out of her mouth, and half of her face was swollen.
"Lord Meng, be sober!" Hahamu gritted his teeth and said: "Hurry up and find someone, that section of the city wall is only ten zhang wide, as long as it is blocked in time, it can still block the Ming army, I will take the Eight Banners Army up first, you quickly lead people to collect wood and stones and follow me, I will fight in front, and you will repair in the back." ”
He grabbed Meng Qiaofang by the collar and lifted it up, and said: "Once this city is broken, you and I can't save the whole corpse, if you want to live, give me the spirit, otherwise, see you on Huangquan Road!" ”
After that, he threw Meng Qiaofang away, turned over and stood up, with a long knife at his waist in his hand, he made a move and led the two thousand Eight Banner soldiers who were deployed on the street behind him, and ran towards the broken wall filled with gunsmoke.
Meng Qiaofang sat on the ground and was stunned for a moment, looking blankly at the back of Hahamu's departure, until Zhao Liangdong couldn't wait anymore and approached him to help him, Meng Qiaofang jumped up violently and shouted hysterically: "Go find wood, find a stone, everyone go to find it, transfer half of the people from the south gate and the north gate over, plug the gap for me, go quickly!! ”
There was chaos in the city, and people shouted and neighed, but compared to the sound outside the city, it was nothing more than the sound.
Hahamu led the people and went straight to the gap in the collapsed city wall as fast as a spark, and stood closer, feeling even more thrilling.
I saw the place where the explosion occurred, the thick city wall was gone, the middle of the broken city wall on both sides was torn open a huge opening more than ten zhang wide, and there was no living person to find anywhere as far as the eye could see, and the remnants of the bricks and earth collapsed all over the corpse, forming a slope, and the inside and outside of the city could climb up and down this slope, and the solid barrier in the past became a smooth road, and in the cracks of the bricks and soil, the corpses of the Qing soldiers who were crushed to death inside were faintly visible.
Across this slope, Hahamu could clearly hear the sound of shouting and killing outside the city like rolling waves, this sound was not much smaller than the explosion just now, I don't know how many people are running towards here.
Hahamu turned his head and looked at the two thousand banner soldiers behind him, these are all his own banner soldiers, who have followed him to the northwest from Liaodong, with brilliant achievements and unparalleled bravery, he is proud of his capital, with these soldiers, he is fearless.
At this moment, the hot blood slowly came up, Ha Ha Mu only felt that his whole body was full of strength, he tore off the purple robe he was wearing, only wearing a piece of chain mail, holding a long knife, and roaring in his mouth, he wanted to climb up the gravel slope.
As soon as I took a step, I saw a group of people on the top of the slope emerging from the smoke.
Wang Yongqiang, armed with an iron spear, was the first to appear on the slope.
(End of chapter)