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Chapter 139: Shelling

"Come on, pour wine for the heroes!" In the admiring gaze of everyone, Zhu Bayi nodded and ordered in a low voice.

Xu Hongsan led his soldiers to lift a huge iron pot, scooped up the wine with a spoon, poured it into the bowl, and then held it to the brothers who were about to go on the expedition one by one.

The wine is warmed, and there are also shredded ginger, dogwood and other things in it. What warms people's hearts is even warmer. Holding the steaming rice wine in his hand, even the people who cherish their lives the most are all smoked by the wine mist.

supervised the soldiers with his eyes and poured wine for all the warriors, Zhu Eighty-one himself also held a bowl, raised his hands between his eyebrows, and said in a low voice: "Zhu can't speak, I only know that if you wait for this, it is impossible for all of them to come back alive." But if you don't wait, the brothers will have to climb the three-foot high city wall in the face of rolling wood and thunder stones, and I don't know how many people will lose their lives. Therefore, Zhu could only hand over the lives of thousands of brothers to you. Please! Zhu did it first for respect! ”

With that, he raised his head and poured a bowl of hot wine down his throat.

"!" Wu Liangmou led everyone to pick up the wine bowl and drink it in a big gulp. In everyone's eyes, a layer of tears welled up.

They are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of dying silently and meaninglessly. And at this moment, Zhu Eighty-one personally told them what they were carrying on their shoulders.

The aged rice wine was a little strong, and Zhu Bayi was burned and gasped. After breathing, he ordered someone to pour a second bowl for everyone, and he also raised another bowl, and said in a low voice: "This night attack on Huai'an, led by Wu Youtu." Chen Zhishan, Li Qi and Zhu Qiang led a hundred sailors to assist. Zhu will personally lead the other brothers to wait at the north gate later, waiting for you to put down the suspension bridge! Done! We'll see you soon! ”

"It's done, see you or leave!" Wu Liangmou, Liu Kui, Chen De, Zhu Qiang, and Li Qi and others, who had just surrendered during the day, raised their wine bowls together and drank the second bowl of rice wine with everyone. Then silently put the empty bowl at his feet, straightened his waist, gave Zhu Eighty a fist salute, and silently walked outside the barracks.

Zhu Eighty-one led his soldiers to fight back with fists, and only when the whole team disappeared into the darkness did he silently put his arms down. Turn around and go to join the others.

More than 500 soldiers, 100 musketeers, and more than 270 grenadiers have quietly formed a formation on the school field in the camp under the leadership of Liu Ziyun. Seeing Zhu Eighty-one coming, he immediately raised his weapons in unison to salute.

Zhu Eighty-one nodded to everyone and walked quickly to the forefront of the entire team. Then he took the big shield and the pig-killing knife from the hands of his own soldiers, pointed the tip of the knife to the door, and ordered in a very low voice, "Go out, go to the north gate!" ”

"Out!" "Out!" Out, keep up with the Governor! Under the whispered coordination of the Centurion and the Centurion, the whole team began to move forward silently, like a dragon sneaking in the clouds, without a sound.

"Artillery team out!" Huang Lao Er also gave a low order, commanding the gunners to push up the gun carriage and slowly walk towards the East River two miles away.

The ground was a little soft under his feet, and the wheels of the gun carriage pressed against it, making two deep ruts. It didn't take long for the bronze axles to start burning and creaking and rubbing. Like a poisonous snake, desperately devouring everyone's hearts.

Huang Lao Er was rubbed like a letter by a poisonous snake, and his face turned pale with cold sweat. He turned and walked over to the nearest gun carriage and kicked the wheels hard. "Poof!" The wooden wheels swayed, and the viper's voice increased instead of decreasing. He sighed helplessly, untied the cloak from his shoulder, twisted it into a rope, put it on the front of the gun carriage, bent down, put his shoulder on the other end of the cloak, and pulled forward hard.

"Squeak!" The front of the car was pulled up slightly, and the wheels slowly turned. The friction sound instantly decreased a lot, and it was swept up by the sound of running water in the distance, and in the blink of an eye, it was mixed in the middle, and it was no longer possible to distinguish it.

Seeing this, several other artillery commanders also took off their cloaks one after another, twisted their cloaks into ropes and tied them to the front of the car like Huang Lao Er, and bowed down to pull the car.

The 500 auxiliaries who were responsible for guarding the artillery cart also rushed up quickly, helping to push the cart with all hands and feet. The six gun wagons instantly became extremely light, sliding across the ground like small boats, and slowly headed towards the river beach outside the east gate of Huai'an City.

The distance of two miles is half of it in the blink of an eye. The outline of Huai'an City is becoming clearer and clearer. Illuminated by hundreds of torches, the dark gray walls stand out. Walking in the dark, every time Huang Lao Er looked up, he could see the plaque hanging high on the enemy tower, as well as the two big characters on it, like the two eyes of the city, condescending, looking down on the wilderness outside.

There were a few strings of cold stars flickering under the plaques, which were the firelight reflected in the weapons of the defenders. In order to prevent a repeat of the mistake of last year's fall of Xuzhou, they were extremely sensitive. At the slightest hint of wind and grass, rows of feathered arrows were shot down towards the east gate. So much so that in the darkness, I don't know how many small animals that will come out at night, suffered from the pond fish, were shot like hedgehogs, and fell one by one in the open space between the city gate and the river bank, with desperate screams coming out of their mouths.

"I'm a suspicious soldier on my side!" Huang Lao Er repeated his task again in his heart, loosened the rope on his shoulder, and parked the gun carriage in the open space three hundred steps away from the city gate.

Several other gun carriages slowly pushed over and lined up around him. They were about ten steps away from each other, like a beast waiting for them.

"Captain, Wu Xiucai and them, can they do it?" Feng Wu, the commander of the No. 1 gun, stepped forward, not to ask when the cannon would be fired, but to worry about Wu Liangmou and the others. Scholars are expensive, and ordinary families can save money for two generations to provide for a child to study. And among the warriors who went to dig the gutter, more than half of them were scholars. It makes everyone feel distressed when they think about it.

"Definitely!" Huang Lao Er glared at him fiercely, cheering himself up. "They must be able to do it, they are all talents who read, and they are smarter than us."

'They have to do it!' At this moment, in his heart, there was another voice. Wu Xiucai himself said that he couldn't give people too much time. The more time he was given, the more salt dealers he pulled into his accomplices. Why don't those salt sellers pickle their families and hang them on branches to dry? ’

"Quack-quack-" A string of frogs shouted on the river beach. In the dead night, they are the noisiest of existence. Huang Lao Er was startled by the sound of frogs, turned his head, and ordered in a very low voice, "Charge, load the cartridge." Try to aim at the enemy building and smoke those bitches to death! ”

"No. 3, No. 3, the kind with a red cross painted on it!" Several artillery commanders took advantage of the sound of frogs to cover and quickly spread the order. The chargers neatly opened the wooden box, cut the paper bag full of gunpowder with a knife, and carefully poured the gunpowder into the muzzle of the cannon by the light of the stars overhead. Then he rummaged through another wooden box, found a flowering bullet with a red cross painted on the surface, examined the flare twist, slowly put it into the muzzle, and slowly pressed and compacted it with a wooden stick and gunpowder.

"Quack-quack-quack-quack-" The frogs were louder in all directions, making people's hearts beat out of their throats. Huang Lao Er held his breath and pricked up his ears to carefully distinguish between the frogs.

He heard the rushing of water, and he heard the morning breeze rising slowly. He heard small beasts such as wild mice and otters along the riverbank, but he could not hear the slightest movement from the north.

Wu Xiucai disappeared, as if he had never appeared in this world, and disappeared cleanly. Chen De also disappeared, not knowing whether he died from the blind fire of the defenders or was washed directly into the Yellow River by the current. Zhu Eighty-one also disappeared, along with the hundreds of soldiers, musketeers, and grenadiers. Only he Huang Lao Er and his bronze cannon were still there, anxiously waiting in the wet and hot night.

There was a moment when Huang Lao Er almost wanted to jump up and escape. He is a blacksmith's child, and his family has a good craft, so there is no need to take this risk and immediately take any fame. That's all nonsense from readers, dozens of families in Luoma Lane, Xuzhou, whose children have ever been more than head-catching? Bah? Dreaming, the position of the ancestral grave is not so correct!

However, the bronze medal on his shoulder pressed him hard, so that he didn't have the courage to move. It was a shoulder guard that only centurions were qualified to bring, and although he only had six cannons and more than forty men under his command, he was also a centurion. If the Left Army continued to expand in the future, he would be the first artillery commander, artillery commander, and even artillery governor.

I thought that one day, there would be thousands of bronze cannons under my own command. When he raised his hand, the sky shattered, and all his courage immediately returned to his body. Who said that the graves of the ancestors were not buried? With Zhu Dudu, what is impossible? Before Zhu Dudu woke up, had everyone seen a grenade? Have you ever seen a bronze cannon? Have you ever seen an arquebus?! Since you haven't seen it before, who said that a blacksmith's son can't be a captain?!

"Quack!" A low call of wild ducks, coming from the grass behind them, interrupted the croaking of the frogs. It is the kind of mallard duck that is common on the river beach, and the male duck is the noisiest when courting. At this moment, it is the height of summer, the mother duck has already laid eggs, and the ducklings have long been burrowing in the reeds.

Huang Lao Er jumped up with a spirit, grabbed the order flag and waved it up and down. "Gun No. 1, fire!"

"Whew!" The commander of the first gun position lit the cannon twist with a fire fold, and watched without blinking as the sparks flew towards the barrel. "Boom!" The red light flickered, and the cannonballs the size of the melon whistled and fell into the enemy building, exploding, and billowing smoke came out.

"Gun No. 2, shoot-!" Huang Lao Er jumped to his feet and shouted like crazy. "Others, move for me, we are suspicious soldiers, and suspicious soldiers have to look like suspicious soldiers!"

"Knock knock!" "Dangdang!" "Kill, kill!" The auxiliaries escorting the artillery team beat gongs and drums, and one by one they ran to the river beach. Majestic and murderous.

In the shouting of killing, Gu Huai'an slowly began to tremble, tremble, until he woke up from his sleep.