Chapter 183: Decay (II)

"You want to blow up the city?" Without waiting for Wang Kerou to draw the picture clearly, Mao Gui and Fu Youde had already guessed Zhu Bayi's intentions and interrupted in unison.

Without waiting for Zhu Eighty-one to explain, the two of them then relied on their respective combat experience to oppose loudly, "A one-zhang thick earthen city wall may not be able to collapse even if it is blown up more than a dozen times." And every time they dug the city and set gunpowder, the brothers had to stand on the rolling logs and stones of the defenders. On the whole, the casualties are not much lower than those attached to the ants! ”

"Mr. Mao is very right! When the last general followed my head Zhao to attack Suiyang, he blew up more than 20 times in a row and failed to blow up the city wall. In the end, it was the brothers who climbed the ladder to settle the battle! There is also this kind of loess rammed earth wall, which looks like the wall is strong without a brick surface, but it can be particularly bombed! ”

"Soldier God. Even if you can blow up the city wall in the end, it will probably take three or four days to add up! Seeing that Fu Youde was in line with his own thoughts, Mao Gui, the head of Mengcheng, continued to remind loudly, "And if the morale of the defenders is as bad as this Wang brother said, it is estimated that the ants will attack the city faster." At best, more bereavement will be given to the families of the fallen brothers! ”

"The last general is not talented, and he is willing to lead his brothers to take this city. Ask the Grand Governor to send someone to suppress the bed crossbows and archers on the city with artillery! Fu Youde thought about it and added loudly.

All in all, he and Mao Gui, with their respective practical experience, decided that the method of blowing up the city wall with gunpowder was unreliable. Looking at the past battles of the Red Turban Army, except for the fact that when Sesame Li attacked Suzhou, he used gunpowder to blow up the city wall. The rest, including Zhu Bayi, have no precedent for successful blasting.

Of course, Zhu Eighty-one knew that Mao Gui and Fu Youde were both more experienced in breaking cities than himself, however, if it was about the level of playing with gunpowder, the human race six hundred years later would definitely be able to throw off the ancestors of six hundred years ago by hundreds of streets. So, just out of politeness, he listened carefully to what the two said for a while, then smiled and waved his hand gently, "The two brothers have a point, but the two of them don't know, since the last time they let the brothers risk their lives to drill the stinky ditch, Zhu has been thinking hard about how to deal with the same situation next time." And for this purpose, a whole set of guys has been built to deal with all kinds of city walls. Don't be in a hurry, let the brothers set up camp and eat the war meal. Before this evening, Zhu definitely let the two of you see with your own eyes how this Baoying City was demolished by our Huai'an Army. ”

"Really? You actually made a magic weapon specifically for blowing up the city wall! What is it? If it's convenient, quickly take it out and let my brother take a look! Mao Gui didn't pay attention to the difference between the words "fried" and "demolished", he was stunned, but his objections were decisively suffocated back into his stomach.

He can suspect Zhu Eighty-one for other things, but the only thing is to make a weapon, in his eyes, Zhu Eighty-one is definitely the top master in the world. And it is definitely so high that it is unparalleled and unattainable by ordinary people.

Although Fu Youde was skeptical of Zhu Eighty-one's words, he also knew that all the magic weapons in the Red Turban Army now were all from the hands of the chief Zhu in front of him. So after hesitating for a moment, he also smiled, arched his hand and said: "It turns out that Manager Zhu has long been confident, and he is too worried about the general, please don't blame the chief manager!" ”

"When you two say this, you will see the outside!" Zhu Bayi smiled mysteriously and shook his head slightly, "The two of you are also thinking about us all." But Zhu was unwilling, and every time he encountered Jiancheng in the future, he asked the brothers to use the corpses to pile up. That's why he ordered people to build several sets of siege weapons. If the two wanted to take a closer look, they would set up camp later, and after running out of food, they gathered their elite soldiers and lined up three hundred paces away from the gate of the eastern city. After Zhu explodes Baoying City, the rest of the things will be handed over to the two of you to take care of! ”

"Okay, as you said, your Huai'an army is responsible for bombing the city, and Brother Fu and I are responsible for going in to clean up the remnants of the enemy!"

"May only Mr. Zhu be in charge of the horse!"

Mao Gui and Fu Youde immediately arched their hands and agreed loudly.

Neither of them knew what magic weapon Zhu Bayyi had prepared, so their hearts were itching. After leading their brothers to set up camp, they hastily dealt with a bite of war food, and immediately gathered the elite and lined up at the agreed position on the east side of Baoying City.

Zhu Bayiyi understood everyone's thoughts, so he didn't delay too much. After eating the war meal, he also pulled his own team out as quickly as possible.

Thirty or forty thousand people lined up in the east of the city, and Sheng Zhao, the county commander of Baoying City, even if he was a fool, guessed that the Red Turban Army was ready to attack. Hurriedly beat the big drum and mobilized all the forces under his command that could be gathered to the vicinity of the east gate. The city wall was busy with chickens and dogs, tossing for a while, but there was no charge outside. Stunned, he poked half of his head out of the enemy tower and looked down in surprise.

I saw that the three teams of Zhu, Mao, and Fu were located about 300 steps south from the east gate, facing the city wall section between the two horse faces, and placed three square large arrays. There are still more than 20 steps between each other, and the boundaries are clear. At the very front of the central phalanx, a command platform was erected in a degree visible to the naked eye. There was a black-faced man with a big waist and a round waist standing on the platform, holding a flag in his hand and shaking it back and forth.

"What is Butcher Zhu doing? Singing? Baoying County Ling Sheng Zhao frowned, confused.

At this moment, the central phalanx suddenly separated, and there were about 2,000 horses, pushing carts and holding various strange-shaped weapons, slowly approaching the city wall of Baoying City.

"They, they're pushing cannons! God, they are ready to blast the walls open with cannons! "A veteran ruffian who escaped from the Huai'an battlefield squatted on the battlements near the enemy tower, hugged his head, and exclaimed loudly.

"Cannon?" Sheng Zhao was slightly stunned when he heard this, and looked at it carefully. Sure enough, in the ranks of the Red Turban Army, which was slowly moving forward, there were nearly 100 strange-looking chicken carts. The wheels of each car were the size of a three-foot grinding disc and covered with a thick piece of linen. Pushed by more than a dozen strong men wearing step armor, he walked forward with a "boom".

Guarding directly in front of the gun carriage were hundreds of sword and shield soldiers, with a huge shield in their hands that was more than five feet high, and there seemed to be two small wheels underneath, striding forward with their hands.

Guarding the left of the gun carriage were hundreds of men in half-length iron armor. Working in pairs, with a long pipe on their shoulders and a few long wooden sticks in their hands, they looked extremely strange.

"Flame Hammer, they brought the Fire Bolt up again!" On the platform of the enemy building, the exclamations were louder and louder. In the morning battle, the defenders did not suffer less from this kind of fire. It is extremely bulky and fires at a frequency similar to that of a bed crossbow. But the power is intimate. The projectile is the size of a walnut, and no armor can defend against it. As long as you take it, there is a large transparent hole from the front chest to the back.

"Hey——, Zhu butcher is really willing to pay his blood! Even the fire guns have been made in hundreds! Standing beside Sheng Zhao was Zhao Xiao, the chief bookkeeper who was well-informed, pouting his teeth and whispering**.

"Firebolt? What is the difference between this thing and the big gun in our hands? Sheng Zhao was slightly stunned when he heard this, turned his head, and asked this person in a panic in his heart.

"This, the firebolt? That is, it is a fire gun that is a little bigger than a small fire gun. Zhao Xiao, the chief bookkeeper, drew a cross on his chest and responded with care.

This is simply nonsense. Of course, the big fire gun is bigger than the small fire gun, and anyone who is not blind can see it. The question is, how did Zhu Butcher make the fire gun so big and so long, and he was not afraid of exploding when he used it? If only the officers and soldiers could build hundreds of them and put them on the city wall. Do you need to worry about the attack of the red turban thief? Directly bombarded from top to bottom with a firecracker, more than a dozen rounds of bombardment down, see how many lives the Red Turban Army can fill in?

However, when it comes to the specific manufacturing method, consulting with this Zhao master book is definitely equivalent to asking the question and being blind. This one is best at drawing crosses, shouting God bless, and then living a lot of life in the clouds. I don't have any real ability. Thinking of the other party's plain appearance, the county commander Sheng Zhao sighed helplessly, raised his head, and turned his gaze to the outside of the city again.

As soon as his gaze fell on the team guarding the other side of the gun carriage, he could no longer take his eyes off. What kind of seven-door weapon is that, how is it thicker than a fire gun? And long and short, everyone has a different hand in their hands? The most puzzling thing is that the two rows of people at the very front of the line are also carrying seven or eight huge boards. At first glance, it is made of pure iron, and the swarthy color glows with the cold light of metal in the sun.

"Hey, Master Zhao, don't draw a cross. Do you know what those iron pipes are? The Mongolian centurion Haas, who was specially responsible for protecting Sheng Zhao, was also confused, walked up to Zhao Xiao, the chief bookkeeper, pushed him hard, and asked with round eyes.

"It should be, it should be a secret, a secret weapon!" Zhao Xiao, the main bookkeeper, drew the cross while running his tongue with his mouth. "It's thicker than a big fire gun, it's a big fire gun! You also know that the Zhu butcher is a demon. What, what strange things could be made? ”

"I asked you what it was, but I didn't ask about Zhu Butcher! Do you really know it? The Mongolian centurion Haas glared at him and scolded sharply.

"Yes, it's pipes and iron plates!" Zhao Xiao, the main bookkeeper, was so frightened that his legs were weak, and he hurriedly added loudly. "Pipes and iron plates, pipes and iron plates together, you can, you can build a house. I know, they, they want, they want to get close to the arrows. Build an arrow tower with iron pipes and iron plates, and you are not afraid of fire! ”

also said that he was in a hurry, and he was really reliable. Those red turban sergeants carried and carried by bamboo poles, planks and ropes, wouldn't they be the materials for building the arrow tower? Thinking of this section, the county commander Sheng Zhao didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately tore his throat and ordered loudly, "Bed crossbow, bed crossbow ready." Aim at the iron pipes on the left flank of the enemy, give me, shoot me! ”

"Bed crossbow, my lord ordered the bed crossbow to shoot. Aimed at the left flank of the enemy army, shoot! The herald opened his throat and quickly spread the order throughout the eastern wall.

"Yes!" The defenders on the faces of the two horses said yes, raised their mallets, and slammed them on the firing mechanism of the bed crossbow. "Whew!" More than a dozen crossbow arrows one and a half feet long rushed towards the left flank of the Red Turban Army with the sound of the wind, as fast as lightning.

However, this thing is not lightning after all. The wooden crossbow was soon affected by both wind and gravity, and trembled and deviated from its established track, or plunged headlong into the earth, or floated up and disappeared. Only two or three approached the target, but they were blocked by the Huai'an saber and shield soldiers who walked at the forefront of the team with their shields raised.

"Tick ——!" Liu Ziyun, the deputy commander of the First Army who was walking in the ranks, immediately blew the iron whistle hanging on his chest and stopped the entire team. Immediately after, his loud voice sounded in the ranks, "According to the original plan, the artillery will be deployed on the spot in battalion units. ”

"The artillery is deployed on the spot in battalion units."

"The artillery is deployed on the spot in battalion units."

The pro-soldier who was in charge of the herald held a tin horn and repeated the order loudly over and over again. When the three artillery battalion commanders who had been eager to try it heard this, they immediately commanded their brothers to tear off their gun jackets, push the gun carriages, and divide the entire ninety four-pound guns into three rows ten paces apart, aiming at the two horse faces on the east side of the Baoying City Gate and the above city wall between the two horse faces.

"Whew-" The crossbow continued to whizz towards the position, most of which fell into the air. A small number were blocked by the sword and shield hand with a raised shield. Only occasionally one or two can land at the feet of everyone, splashing strings of dark yellow smoke.

Trained artillerymen, turning a blind eye to the close crossbows, methodically fixed the guns, loaded gunpowder, and pressed the projectiles under the command of each gun commander. The whole set of actions is like flowing water.

"Hmm!" Liu Ziyun followed Zhu Eighty-one's appearance and nodded with satisfaction. Then he took the whistle into his mouth again, blew it hard, spit it out again, and shouted loudly, "Shoot!" A group of 10 guns, round-robin! Within half a pillar of incense, clean up the two horse faces and the ballista on the city wall for me! ”

"Boom!" Huang Lao Er commanded a four-pound cannon and was the first to shoot the first projectile. It was high, and the solid projectile whistled through the sky above the horse's face on the left, which frightened the defenders above and smashed the mallet on the ballista that had just opened and had not had time to get on the crossbow arrows, and directly released the empty cannon.

"The muzzle of the cannon is half an inch lower!" Huang Lao Er quickly jumped to the second artillery gun in the front row and shouted loudly.

"Yes!" The gunners agreed, and with their concerted efforts, they raised the tail of the cannon with sacks filled with earth and recompacted it. After a few breaths, the second projectile flew out of the cannon, swept a distance of 200 paces, and smashed two feet below the battlement on the left side of the horse's face, smashing the city wall into a large crater and causing the earth to fall.

"It's low, and the muzzle of the cannon is raised by a little finger! You put it down, I'll come! Huang Lao Er took a deep breath, ran quickly to the third gun, and adjusted the angle himself. The two eyes are as bright as candles in the night.

With the full cooperation of the brothers, the third gun was quickly adjusted. With a roar, he spewed out a huge iron projectile, pulling an arc in mid-air, and smashing into the center of the horse's face, splashing a terrible mist of blood.

"Ah——!h The Mengyuan soldiers, who were lucky not to be affected, hugged their heads and retreated towards the city walls on both sides of the horse's face. But he was cut back directly by the centurions on the city wall with knives, "Don't panic, shoot me, shoot me with a ballista!" They couldn't have fired every shot so accurately. We don't want to keep missing. Shoot me, shoot me! Whoever dares to run, Lao Tzu will kill him first! ”

Under the threat of death, the officers and men turned around and fled back to their horses, hurriedly turning their sleigh to swing their oars, reopening their crossbow arms and reloading their crossbow arrows. "Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh——!" Several giant crossbows fell into the artillery position, splashing two balls of blood.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The artillerymen, who had already figured out the approximate angle of fire, immediately responded with indiscriminate bombardment. Dozens of hot iron projectiles screeched down on the horse's face and the city wall in front of the horse's face, smashing up large clouds of blood mist and smoke.

"Artillery, shoot the guns! A group of 10 guns, round-robin! Liu Ziyun excitedly waved the order flag and ran back and forth around the artillery position. Half a pillar of incense time, the two horse faces must be cleaned. There are outsiders watching from behind, we can't embarrass the governor! ”

Outsiders naturally refer to Mao Gui and Fu Youde, as well as the soldiers under their command. Although they came to help in the battle with good intentions, there was still an undercurrent of competition with the guest army up and down the Huai'an army. Especially the soldiers at the lowest level, in the past few days, from the degree of marching to the neatness of the camp, and then from the armor on their bodies, the weapons in their hands, to the spirit when they walk, I don't know how many times they have been compared in private, and each time the result after all, it makes everyone's chest stand higher.

This time, it's the same. Driven by pride, the artillerymen operated the artillery exceptionally smoothly. Whenever I heard the shouts of my company commander, the ten guns spewed out anger at the same time. Immediately after, ten hot projectiles landed on the opposite side of the horse's face, smashing the defenders to the point of howling wolves.

The defending side obviously did not have any experience in dealing with artillery, and was blown up several times. Then, several times, under the organization of a thousand households, he ran back to the face of the horse again, trying to fight back with a bed crossbow and a strong crossbow. However, at the distance of 200 paces, due to the dual influence of the air flow and the operator's level, the bed crossbow and the strong crossbow do not have any target. However, the iron projectiles fired by the Huai'an army relied on their numerical superiority, and a few projectiles in each salvo could happen to fall in the target area, smashing the bed crossbow that dared to be exposed, as well as the defending sergeants who operated the bed crossbow, to pieces.

Soon, a complete ballista could no longer be found on the horse's face on the left, and it was no longer possible to create any harassment for the attackers. Liu Ziyunxun commanded the artillery to adjust the direction, aimed at the horse's face on the right side, and bombarded indiscriminately again.

There is still no suspense about the victory. There is a precedent for the corpses on the left horse's face, and the defenders on the right horse's face are all terrified. After barely parrying two or three rounds, he abandoned the expensive ballista and ran to the nearby city wall.

"Adjust the muzzle of the cannon, aim it at the city wall, and give me ten rounds of hanging shots!" Liu Ziyun nodded with satisfaction, turned to look at Huang Laoer, and ordered loudly.

"Yes!" Huang Lao Er agreed, pouted his ass and rushed to the nearest artillery again. Adjust the firing angle and muzzle pointing to make the walls your next target.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" Several four-pound cannons that he had arranged for calibration were the first to fire, and the projectiles either fell outside the city or inside the city, but none of them smashed on the top of the six-foot-wide city wall.

"Hoo ——!" At the top of the city wall, the densely packed defenders breathed a sigh of relief and gently patted their chests with their hands. However, before they could finish exhaling this breath, the heavens and the earth suddenly darkened, followed by more than a dozen hot projectiles smashing and smashing towards them, smashing inside and outside the city wall facing the cannon port, blowing up puffs of dark yellow smoke and dust.

"Boom!" Immediately after, ten more iron projectiles. Or smash on the surface of the earthen wall, and the dust will splatter. Or it happened to land on top of the city wall and smashed the unprepared defenders to pieces. Or fall into the city, smash into the houses near the city walls, and open huge skylights on the roofs.

"Mother——! One of the defenders, who had unfortunately lost half of his body to the shell, crawled desperately on the city wall with a long trail of blood.

"Brother——! Several soldiers from Yanding were crying loudly around a corpse that could no longer be seen.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" More shells smashed inside and outside the walls, sending billowing yellow smoke. Although most of the projectiles from each round did not reach the crowd at the top of the city walls, the tragic situation of the wounded and dead made the defenders tremble. Taking advantage of the centurion who supervised the battle, the thousand-suckers did not pay attention and ran away.

"Stop, there is a team of warlords on the road, and you will die if you run!" The centurions and millurions, who oversaw the war, had to kill to maintain military discipline. However, the effect of killing was limited after all, and between staying and being shelled and fleeing and being stabbed, the Mengyuan soldiers were obviously more willing to choose the latter. Soon, there were not many people left on the city wall, which was attacked by concentrated artillery fire. And the soldiers who did not flee all stuck their bodies behind the battlements. Hands over ears, shivering. No matter how much the officer supervised, he refused to raise his head.

"Boom!" A cannonball hit the gunpowder box at the head of the city, causing a violent explosion. A huge gray-white mushroom cloud rose into the sky, soaring above the sky.

However, after the mushroom cloud was blown away by the wind, the city wall near the explosion site was only blackened. Sensei said that there was a large collapse, and there was not even a decent gap left.

"I've said a long time ago that it's hard to use gunpowder against the walls!" Mao Gui shook his head regretfully, sighed and said to Fu Youde beside him.

"Yes, Mr. Zhu is in charge of this side, and the gunners in charge of Zhu are much more clever than our side!" Fu Youde cares about another hot spot. He plucked his ears, which had been dulled by the sound of cannons, with his fingers, and replied that the donkey's lips were not the horse's mouth.

"I mean, blowing up the city with gunpowder is going to be half the effort!" Mao Gui was so angry that he couldn't cry or laugh, put his mouth to his ear, and repeated loudly.

"What, you say gunpowder!" Fu Youde's eyes were fixed on the city, and he replied incoherently, "The gunpowder is the same for all families. On the defender's side of the city wall, maybe the recipe will be worse. But on our side of the Red Turban Army, everyone must be the same! ”

"Forget it, I won't tell you!" Mao Gui was so angry that he had no choice but to instigate his mount to walk away and continue to observe the rest of the Huai'an army's movements. But Huo Ran appeared, just when his attention was attracted by the martyrdom at the head of the city, Lian Lao Hei had already commanded the spear-carrying battalion to walk a hundred steps away from the city wall. The triangular iron frame was methodically opened, and one hundred and fifty expensive and stupid-looking large guns were propped up.

"Whoosh!" On the city wall, there were defenders who shot several feathered arrows from the shooting holes through the battlements of the wall. Most of them were blown crooked by the wind and flew away without knowing where to go. Only one or two sporadically shot into the position of the gun-carrying battalion, and smashed a few strings of sparks on the plate armor on the chests of everyone.

"Grandma's, you dare to fight back! Golgo, aim for me, hit hard! Even Lao Hei's heart was immediately lit with rage. Raise the tin horn and command loudly.

"Phew!" The thirty guns in the front row immediately spewed out white smoke in unison. One or two halve-heavy projectiles were smashed into the battlements of the city wall.

The sparks splashed, and the battlements of the city wall with blue bricks pasted on the surface were actually smashed out of countless small gaps by the projectiles that carried the gun. The brick chips that flew from all over the place landed on the faces of the soldiers behind the battlements, quickly tearing countless blood marks.

"Ahh Several Mengyuan soldiers could no longer bear the fear of not being able to do anything but be beaten, so they stood up and fled.

Bloodlight immediately flew up from the city walls with the sound of gunfire, and the projectiles fired from the big guns found them from behind, piercing their bodies.

"Ah——!h The wounded, who were on the verge of death, tried desperately to plug the large hole in his chest with his hands, but could not stop the plasma from gushing outward. In the blink of an eye, he fell headlong because of excessive blood loss.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" Another volley of solid cannonballs smashed into the city, and in conjunction with the raised guns, the defenders were scurrying. Soon, facing the position of raising guns and artillery more than three feet wide on the city wall, there was no longer anyone standing. Including the generals who supervised the battle, they all held their heads and fled to other parts of the city wall and near the enemy tower, lest their father and mother give birth to their legs too short.

"It turns out that the gun can be used as a bed crossbow, and it is much lighter than a bed crossbow!" Outside the city wall, Fu Youde, who had already walked forward more than a hundred steps unconsciously, looked fascinated, turned his head, and said to the air around him.

After finishing speaking, he realized that Mao Gui had disappeared. Quickly twisted his head from the horse's back and looked around. I saw that beside Liu Ziyun, the deputy commander of the new First Army in Huai'an, Mao Gui, the governor of Mengcheng, raised his scabbard in his hand and knocked and beat against a huge iron chariot, dancing excitedly. The iron pipes and plates that were previously held in the hands of the soldiers became the bracket and roof of the chariot, which were held together by special iron clips and were as stable as a rock.

"The demolition truck is ready. Ask the Metropolitan Governor for instructions, can you go and demolish the city immediately? Liu Ziyun, the deputy commander of the First Army, turned his head and shouted at the heralds beside him.

"The demolition truck is ready. Request for the demolition of the eastern wall of Baoying Castle! The herald immediately followed the habit he had developed during his daily training, and used flags and horns to spread Liu Ziyun's request far away to the command platform behind.

"Inform Liu Ziyun that the demolition has begun!" On the command platform, Zhu Bayi, who had been waiting for a long time, rubbed his hands a few times, gritted his teeth, and ordered his original evil taste out.

"Demolition begins!"

"Demolition begins!" Orders passed through flags and horns and quickly reached the front line of battle. Liu Ziyun's eyes lit up, he puffed up his chest, and proudly waved the earthy yellow order flag, "The governor has an order, and the demolition has officially begun!" Sword and shield soldier cover! The third battalion of the Guards Regiment advanced the siege vehicles to the foot of the city walls and dug gunpowder pools in groups! ”

"Yes!" Hundreds of men agreed in unison, bent down, pushed seven iron frame cars with a cold luster all over their bodies, and "boomed" forward. Everywhere they passed, they left several deep ruts.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" The defenders apparently spotted the behemoths as well, and shot their bed crossbows from the nearest sections of the city wall. Most of them missed the target, and only one or two were lucky enough to hit, blocked by the steel plates on the roof, and "dang" splashed a string of sparks and flew away.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! The artillery battalion immediately turned its guns and fired retaliatory fire at the position of the bed crossbow. The bulky ballista quickly broke down into piles of parts. The surrounding defenders held their heads and fled in all directions.

"Don't run, give it to me" A famous Meng Yuan general raised his sword to supervise the battle, and as soon as he showed up, he was aimed at several big guns at the same time. One of the projectiles hit him right in the nose, knocking half of his head off his body and jumping into the air, red and white everywhere.

Seeing this scene, the defenders, who were already demoralized, were even more reluctant to show their heads. One by one, they shrank their heads behind the battlements, pouted their buttocks, and recited all kinds of compiled prayers in their mouths, "Avalokiteshvara, Buddha Nyolai, Muhammad, God, God of Light, bless, bless, bless the believers through this hurdle." Believers will definitely donate ten taels of sesame oil to you, and they will never discount it, and they will never dare to fool you with stinky lard again! ”

In the past, the immortals were obviously not very interested in sesame oil, and did not use any spells to stop the Huai'an army's iron chariot from continuing to approach the city wall. In the blink of an eye, seven iron chariots were clinging to the city wall. The leaders of the team whistled, and everyone quickly dismantled the wheels, turned the iron chariot into an iron pavilion, and sat firmly at the base of the city wall.

"Dig!" Xu Hongsan, the commander of the guards, shouted, picked up a huge drill bit from the carriage, and struggled against the city wall.

"Digging!" Excavation! The company commanders and leaders of the team responded loudly, hid in the carriage, and put a drill with a pole more than seven feet long, the thickness of an arm, and a crank at the end on the nearest city wall. The other guards battalion officers were in groups of ten under the command of the gang commanders, and they turned the crank in unison. "Sneer, snort, snort" The sound of the earthen wall being drilled came one after another, and soon, the drill pipe entered the city wall more than half a foot deep. The dark yellow dirt gurgled down the tail of the drill pipe like flowing water.

"They're digging the city!" Although the officers and soldiers of Meng Yuan on the section of the city wall could not see what Xu Hongsan and the others were doing in the iron car, they instinctively felt that something was wrong. A guy dressed as a soldier jumped up, shouted first, and then took the lead in rushing towards the section of the city wall above the iron cart.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Several shells flew in front of him and behind him, sending smoke and dust billowing from him. The nimble and lucky centurion was unscathed, and rushed to his destination in two steps in three steps, and with a sharp swing of his steel sword, he cut the nail slap rope hanging from the head of the city into two pieces.

"Whew!" Weighing more than 300 catties, the nail with iron thorns on the surface was slapped under the action of gravity and quickly smashed down. In the blink of an eye, there was a close encounter with the iron car.

"Boom~" The iron car was smashed with a huge roar, which shocked Xu Hongsan's body and made his ears ring. However, the downward force of the nail racket was scattered by the horizontal and oblique support arms on the iron car, and the body could not be helpless at all.

"Keep drilling, leave them alone!" Xu Hongsanxun, the head of the guard, raised his head and ordered the brothers who were so frightened that their faces turned pale.

"Yes!" The Huai'an soldiers, who had not changed the carriage board above their heads, agreed in unison, continued to turn the rocker, and continued to push the drill bit into the city wall.

"Come on, throw me a log!" The brave soldiers shouted on the city walls, beckoning their men to join him in their desperate efforts. Only this time, his good luck finally ran out. Before his soldiers approached with their shields, two spear projectiles weighing one or two halves had already hit him in the chest, knocking him straight into the air, falling from the inside of the city wall like a broken sack.

"Hula-la-" The soldiers who had already followed the centurion to rush up this section of the city wall turned and retreated in confusion. Panic like a flock of frightened hares. The gunmen of the Huai'an army aimed at them from behind, and with extreme slowness, they knocked the slowest runners into the air, and fell from the city screaming.

"Rush, rush up and throw stones at me! Shoot the bell! Another Mongolian officer dressed in clothes ran out of the enemy building and chopped down the two soldiers who escaped the fastest one by one. Rush, who doesn't rush, Lao Tzu cut him first! ”

"Rush, rush, adults are looking at us!" The soldiers were forced to have no choice but to turn around and rush to the city wall directly opposite the iron cart again. At the risk of being killed by shells and bullets, the Rolling Wood Thunder Stone was thrown one after another.

"Boom!" Someone lit the gun, shot a fist-sized projectile from the city, and struck the roof of the iron carriage, carving a deep pit.

The iron carriage staggered, but it never fell apart. Most of the rolling wood and stones were blocked out of the carriage, and a safe sky was held up for the Huai'an Army brothers inside.

"Pay attention to the depth of inspection, up to Mark 1!" Xu Hongsan, the commander of the guards, wiped a handful of sweat, opened his throat and shouted. Then grab the crank with your own hands and reverse the previous direction. The thick drill pipe slowly withdrew from the wall, leaving a small round hole four feet deep and more than five inches in diameter. The brothers around them immediately picked up a long, slender powder bag prepared in advance from the iron cart, compared it with the hole, and quickly stuffed it into it, leaving only a long velvet twist outside.

"Next one!" Xu Hongsan nodded thoughtfully, aimed the giant diamond at a position half a step away from the first hole, the height was almost level, and started a new round of drilling work. "Sneer, snort, snort," the sound of the drill bit breaking the ground slowly sounded again, and the brothers hid under the iron cart, their faces full of excitement and sweat.

"Shoot it! Guns and guns! A staff member dressed as a civilian rushed out of the enemy building and commanded more than 100 defenders to fight back to the death.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "More guns and bamboo bolts spewed out projectiles and smashed them on the top and sides of the iron carriage, smashing the iron carriage to the ground.

Several Huai'an Army brothers, who were hiding under the carriage and were slightly far away, were unfortunately shot and fell softly. The other brothers in the vicinity quickly pushed his body away, stepped forward, and continued to turn the grip on his behalf.

The drill bit rotated high, and one after another, holes with a diameter of about five inches and a depth of four feet appeared on the surface of the city wall, as neat as rows of soldiers waiting for a review.

More rolling wood thunderstones smashed down and smashed on the top of the iron cart with a deafening roar. More guns and bamboo bolts fired projectiles at the iron cart from the side, sending out strings of terrible blood light. However, the sound of drilling never stopped, "snorting, snorting, snorting", like a beast grinding its teeth in the middle of the night.

"Phew!" Even the old black organization carried the spearmen, and a salvo came. The defenders who dared to expose their bodies to the battlements, along with the staff who were not afraid of death, flew upside down, and blood and minced flesh splattered like rain.

There was an instant gap in the city wall, however, soon, the fourth wave of Mengyuan soldiers rushed up the nearby road again, one after another, their pale faces full of despair.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Huang Lao Er organized artillery and bombarded the city wall directly above the iron car and the top of the nearby city wall. Blow up one gun after another into scrap copper and rotten iron. Smash the defenders into a meat sauce in droves.

More defenders, however, continued to rush to the city under the pressure of the county commander Sheng Zhao.

As if he guessed that the city wall was about to be destroyed, the county commander Sheng Zhao gathered all the forces under his command, wave after wave, forgetting life and death, and smashed the rolling wood, thunder stones, and even the corpses of his own companions as weapons towards the iron car. Soon, the roof of the iron car was full of all kinds of heavy objects, and new heavy objects were constantly falling from mid-air, like hail, endlessly.

"Smack!" A corpse rolled off the top edge of the iron cart, splattering a cloud of blood and quickly coating Xu Hongsan's combat boots with a layer of crimson.

"Keep drilling, don't get distracted! This iron car Xu has tried before, and it can carry the heavy blow of a thousand catties of water hammer! Xu Hongsan kicked away the stump that fell beside him, tore his throat, and continued to greet loudly.

"Keep drilling, don't get distracted. The iron car was built by our Zhu Dudu himself. With it, no one can help us! The company commanders and leaders in the carriage also wiped their sweat and cheered up their brothers loudly.

On the side of the utensils, Zhu Dudu's three words are the best signboard. The brothers, who had been a little frightened by the noise above their heads, were stunned, and immediately refreshed. Zhu Dudu made it with his own hands, how could a few broken stones in the city be smashed to pieces? He is the mortal body of Maitreya Buddha, and the thing made by Maitreya Buddha himself, that is, an artifact, how can ordinary people break it.

"Snort, snort, snort" "snort, sneer, snort" The sound of the drill pipe breaking the ground continued to echo under the city walls, sounding like a grand piece of music. Accompanied by the sound of music, one after another deep holes about three inches in diameter appeared on the city wall. Between the two horses' faces, two feet long and four feet wide, and three feet above the ground, the area was densely packed with boreholes, and from a distance it looked like a huge beehive.

More than 200 long cloth bags containing about five catties of black powder were stuffed into the boreholes one after another. The twists made of black powder wrapped in silk were pulled out of the holes, and every ten of them were rolled into one piece, and they were pulled out a foot away, and then they were tied together again and rolled into a huge twist the thickness of an arm, which extended farther under the protection of the shield hand.

New holes are constantly being drilled, and new twists are pulled out and tied together with the original twists. New gunpowder packs were constantly transported by shield bearers from the main formation to the city wall in carts, and handed over to Xu Hongsan and others to be stuffed into new holes, making the hive denser and more terrifying.

Finally, the last hole was punched, stuffed into the powder bag, and the twist was pulled out. Xu Hongsan raised his hand to wipe the sweat and blood on his face, and shouted loudly, "The shield hand comes over to cover." Hearing the sound of cannons, everyone retreats together! ”

"Shieldman, shieldbearer come and cover!" Immediately, someone raised the tin horn and sent a contact signal to the rear.

The shield-bearers of the brigade pushed the half-man-high iron-clad shield and rushed forward in formation. Xu Hongsan and the others, who had been working under the iron car for more than half an hour, protected them and slowly retreated away from the city wall.

There were more than fifty brothers, but they remained there forever. Previously, everyone was busy turning the crank of the drill bit, and they didn't notice their own casualties. At this moment, it turned out that the iron car was not omnipotent, and it did not block attacks from all directions for everyone. It's just that everyone didn't have time to be distracted at that time.

"Retreat, retreat, the governor said, all must be withdrawn from the three zhang!" Xu Hongsan raised the iron horn in time and roared, waking everyone up from shock and sadness. Then he himself suddenly stopped, and under the protection of the three huge shields, he took out the fire fold from his waist and quickly ignited it.

"Retreat, retreat!" He waved the fire fold, shouted, and urged the people to continue away from the walls, away from himself. It was only when he was sure that all the brothers had retreated from a safe distance that he slammed his waist and pressed the fire breaker hard against the twist. Ran pulled the nearest shield-bearer and ran.

"Sneer-sneer-sneer——!" No one cared how Xu Hongsan and the three shield bearers fled in panic. Everyone, including the artillerymen, stopped firing and set their eyes on the burning twist.

"Sneer-sneer-sneer——!" The thick twist of medicine billowed white smoke and quickly approached the hive on the city wall, closer, closer. Suddenly, hundreds of fiery snakes scattered into each deep hole in the city wall.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" A series of dull explosions rang out at the base of the city walls. It's not the earth-shattering that everyone expected, but it's a little dull. It's like a muffled thunder before a storm, rolling back and forth against the ground.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" In a series of muffled thunders, the city wall between the two horse faces on the east side of Baoying City trembled, trembled, trembled, and trembled incessantly. Finally, he shuddered violently, and collapsed to the ground with a slowness visible to the naked eye, straight up and down, like mud softened by rain. (Note 1)

Note 1: Multi-point continuous blasting is usually used for stone mining and demolition of old buildings, and the blasting point and dosage need to be carefully calculated. The text is a novelist's words, simplifying the steps and exaggerating the effect. Please do not imitate the reader, otherwise, please bear the consequences!

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