"If you want to break down Yanzhou City in one fell swoop, it is not enough to dig a levee, you must first accumulate soil for a dam, and it is most suitable for the two river bends in the northeast and east of the city."

Wang Haoran said to the sand table and the summoned generals: "In these two places to dig embankments, the water will be from north to south, and Yanzhou City will be washed again, although we have strengthened the city defense during this time, but after all, the foundation will not be very strong, and the water will be soaked, only the weight of the city wall itself and the weight of the forts on the wall will be enough to crush it." And the trenches soaked in water also made our multi-layered defenses useless. ”

"Judging from the current observations, Gao Kou and Liu Kou are indeed accumulating soil for dams, and I estimated the progress of their project, and it will take about two days or so to accumulate water."

"I came up with a way to water for water." Wang Haoran took a deep breath, and then his eyes were blazing: "Before them, blow up the embankment first!" ”

"First of all, we don't have to worry about the people being damaged by the bombing of the embankment, before we had a strong wall and cleared the wilderness, and the people around Yanzhou have been moved, at most some property losses, the lord has materials, and the compensation is."

Speaking of this, the generals of the Tiger Guard all laughed softly, and everyone looked a little proud.

Xinxiang is rich and prosperous in the world, and Xinxiang itself has to be very careful, but when he came to the east of the mountain, he saw the people here who were almost in abject poverty, not only the disaster victims, but also the local farmers, and everyone naturally developed a sense of superiority.

This is a dangerous omen that Yu Guozhen has yet to discover: the prosperity and progress of the people under the Xinxiang system. He began to look at the people in the relatively backward areas with a slightly discriminatory eye.

"Secondly, we don't have to worry about not having enough strength, Li Qingshan and Li Mingshan brothers are outside, they gather people, two or three thousand is not a problem, and they still have enough explosives in their hands, as long as they choose the right place, there will be a bang." Wang Haoran said again.

"That's what Tuanzheng said." The crowd responded.

"There's nothing wrong with getting the message out. Although they surround us, but they can enclose the southeast and northwest, but they can't encircle the sky, our hot motor boat has not yet made a profit city, taking advantage of the heavy rain has passed, the weather is better, it is the time for the hot motor boat to attack! ”

Soon everyone was unanimous. Bombing and delivering messages by hot steamboats. It's getting late, and it's the calm after the summer rainstorm. The airboat floats into the air. It was soon detected by enemies outside the city.

"What kind of monster is this?" Seeing a hot steamboat flying in the air, Gao Jie was dumbfounded.

Liu Liangzuo was also dumbfounded, the two of them had never seen this thing, and they didn't know what this guy moving slowly in the sky was used by the tiger guard.

"It's a big Kong Ming lantern!" But this is the land of China, even if you haven't seen a hot airboat, Kong Mingdeng is still very familiar with it, after a while. Then a smart person guessed: "But there are people on it!" ”

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zhou. Is this really a Kong Ming lantern? ”

At this time, Gao Jie remembered that he was said to be very familiar with Xinxiang's industrial system and could also build a set of Zhou Zhong.

Zhou Zhong in Xinxiang has indeed seen hot airboats. Moreover, since the fifth grade of Xinxiang Elementary School, he has been exposed to some physical principles, and he has also read the principles of hot vapor expansion and lightening rise.

"This is a hot airboat, Yu Guozhen once used this to break through Xiyi's fortress, beware, bombs will be dropped on it!"

Zhou Zhong's warning was too late, and the hot airboat flew over a camp, and the soldiers of Liu Liangzuo's troops in the camp were gathering together to point at each other, and when they saw at least hundreds or thousands of enemy troops gathered below, the tiger guards on the hot airboat began to drop bombs.

A black thing fell from the sky, and the officers and soldiers gathered together to watch the excitement knew that it was not good, and immediately wanted to escape, but the speed of the people who were crowded together could not compare to the speed of throwing heavy objects in the air, and the black thing was still thrown into the crowd.

There was a loud bang, thick smoke, dust and mud and blood and water corpses flew together, the ground shook as if it was jumping, and the Ming army, who was closer, felt a tingling pain in his ears, and then he couldn't hear the sound!

"Damn, how could Yu Guozhen think of this!" Liu Liangzuo saw that it was his own troops who bombed, and he was angry and anxious. But because of the distance, he couldn't judge his own losses, just the screams and cries coming from there, and judging by the momentum of Fang Cai, the lethality of this blow was very amazing.

He couldn't see the scene, but Liu Liangzuo's subordinates, who were close, did. Originally, a big pit appeared on the ground where everyone gathered to watch the excitement, and colleagues within a radius of half an acre were killed and injured everywhere, at least two or three hundred stumps and broken bodies!

And this kind of death and injury is even worse than the death when being stabbed with a knife or even a musket, almost all of them are dead and there are no corpses!

This is an improved "aerial bomb", which is a bomb specifically designed for air strikes, unlike the previous bombing with palm mines!

It has a wide range of damage, and it is really a powerful weapon against dense crowds.

At this time, the carrying capacity of the floating airship was also slightly increased, and there were six bombs like this, and after one was dropped, because of the weight reduction, the airship began to rise, and the pilot who controlled the airship adjusted its position and began to prepare for the second bombing.

Wherever he flew, the Ming army scattered with a bang - even if they didn't see the tragic situation of the person who had just been bombed, everyone knew that the thing flying in the sky was a Lei Gong that could not be messed with!

As a result, a strange scene appeared, which side the hot steamboat flew to, and Liu Liangzuo's troops on which side immediately bombed the camp, screaming and running in all directions. But no matter how much they escaped, there were always many people in the camp here, so after a while, the hot airboat dropped two more bombs.

Although the two bombs were not as horrific as the first, they also caused dozens of casualties.

"Brother Liheng, how do you say to crack this thing?"

Liu Liangzuo gritted his teeth, seeing his subordinates panic like chickens overlooked by eagles, that feeling was uncomfortable.

He relied on the "Brother Liheng" who was a think tank, surnamed Yan, named Yingyuan, and the word Liheng. He was originally a small official in the Beijing Division, and later transferred to Jiangyin Dianshi, and after his term expired, he was appointed as the head of Yingde. Only because his mother was seriously ill, he could not go to his post, so he could only live in seclusion in Jiangyin. Liu Liangzuo had an old relationship with him, knowing that he was resourceful and extremely talented, and went to his door twice in person, and provoked him with the righteousness of the court, so he invited him out.

Yan Yingyuan looked up at the air, and after a while, he said, "Is there an eight-bull crossbow in the army?" Shoot it with an eight-ox crossbow. Since it is a Kong Ming lantern, as long as its skin is broken, it will no longer be able to float in the air. ”

Liu Liangzuo was overjoyed and was waiting for someone to prepare the crossbow, but Yan Yingyuan sighed again: "Fly very high, the crossbow can't reach it." ”

Sure enough, after dropping three bombs in a row. The steamboat began to take off, and it was nearly nine hundred feet above the ground. Such heights. Even if it's an eight-bull crossbow, you can't shoot it.

And the hot airboat is still looking for the target of the air attack, this time their target was changed to a fixed camp, Liu Liangzuo and the others are in the camp, naturally the highest and gorgeous, the tiger guard on the hot airboat saw it with a telescope, and then slowly leaned over to this side.

"Not good. Get out of here! ”

Yan Yingyuan reacted immediately and greeted loudly. Even if he doesn't say anything. The rest of the people could also see that the airboat was going to bomb them!

Fortunately, they are far apart. They had enough time to dodge, and by the time the balloon reached their skies, the tent was empty. After a bomb had fallen, burning the tent and devastation, the steamboat shook contentedly in the air and then slowly flew south.

"Send men after it, and it will not return to the city, but will go south, for a reason." Yan Yingyuan said.

The hot airboat is such a big target, and it is in the air, and the people who follow it will not be thrown off. After following for more than ten miles, they found that the steamboat was slowly descending.

Yan Yingyuan was very interested in this hot air boat, so he personally rode over with more than two hundred people, and when he saw the hot air boat descending, he immediately said happily: "Okay, after the Kong Ming lantern is in the air, if the fire is extinguished, it will fall." The same must be true of this thing, if this thing can be captured alive, the siege will be a little more certain. ”

Seeing that it was only two miles away from the hot steamboat, Yan Yingyuan ordered to speed up, but he didn't rush a hundred feet, he was shocked in his heart, and waved his hand again: "Slow, slow!" ”

"Mr. Yan, what's wrong?"

"No, someone answered, Huwei sent this hot steamboat out, not for bombing, but for another purpose!" He groaned and looked towards the airboat landing site.

"Mr. Yan, if you don't go, you're going to land!" Someone urged.

Yan Yingyuan ignored the other party's urging, he was a determined person, when he decided that it was right, unless he had a new idea, the persuasion of others would not easily change his decision.

It's getting dark, but because it's summer, the sun sets late, so the view is still very good. Yan Yingyuan looked at it for a while, and then applauded: "I'll just say, there must be an ambush!" ”

I saw that with the landing of the hot airboat, about 500 riders appeared under the landing site. These more than 500 people were all cavalry, and they could still feel the fierceness of their bodies from nearly two miles away. Liu Liangzuo's troops, who came with Yan Yingyuan, were cowardly before fighting, but they knew that Yu Guozhen's men were strong, and they had no chance of winning if they encountered the tiger guards in the same number.

It was Li Mingshan who came to pick up, and after their brothers went to Xinxiang for training, the martial arts road was still quite bumpy. Until now, the status of the two in the tiger guard is only Yingzheng and Team Zheng - the younger brother Li Mingshan is the Yingzheng, and the elder brother Li Qingshan is the team Zheng. However, the two of them had no complaints, so the slow promotion was not because they were discriminated against, but because of some of the habits and habits of the two of them, such as Li Qingshan, who had already been promoted to the deputy of the battalion, just because of good gambling, he was beaten down again.

And another reason for the slow promotion is that their brothers have not had their turn to fight in the past two or three years, and only now that they have a place to use again.

"When I see you circling around the enemy camp, I know something is wrong, is there anything wrong?"

The hot airboat did not land completely, but stopped in the air about fifty meters above the ground, Li Mingshan shouted loudly, and I don't know if the people above heard it. After a while, a cloth bag was thrown on it, and Li Mingshan picked it up and saw that there was a letter in the cloth bag.

"I see, I see." Li Mingshan put his left hand behind his waist, his right hand was held into a sword finger, and his right lunge made a gesture. This is the instructions of the ground personnel to the personnel on the hot airboat, indicating that they can take off, and the tiger guard on the hot airboat also made a gesture, and then added the boiler fueling, the hot airboat began to float again, turned and flew back towards Yanzhou City. (To be continued)