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This sudden loud noise also interrupted Pang Yue's thoughts, and his body trembled suddenly and almost fell to the ground under his surprise, but he finally stabilized, but he found that his ears were buzzing, and there was a faint feeling of churning in his chest and abdomen. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Pang Yue, who came back to his senses, looked at the soldiers around him, although everyone had already squatted down and covered their ears according to his instructions, but by the impact of such an unprecedented loud noise, almost everyone's face was inevitably a little shocked, many soldiers were rubbing their chests, digging out their ears, and even some people were still opening their mouths and had not recovered for a while.

"All battalion officers, thousands of generals, generals, etc., pay close attention to the whole team, if there is a delay, severe punishment will not be granted!" Pang Yue gave an order to the generals around him, and rushed to the top of the hill first. Wei Yuan hurriedly followed with a group of personal soldiers.

All kinds of loud commands echoed in mid-air in an instant, and the officers and men of Huguang Town, who had already formed a knee-jerk reaction during the training, quickly got up and adjusted their formation.

With the leading and exemplary role of the soldiers of Huguang Town, the righteous officers and soldiers of Chen Zizhuang's department gradually recovered from the shock caused by the loud noise and began to get up and form a team.

Rushing to the top of the slope, Pang Yue fixed his eyes on the direction of the city wall, and saw that the section of the city wall on the opposite side of the mound was already billowing with smoke and dust, and the dust that had not fallen in the air for half a day and the gunpowder smoke that had not dispersed for a long time were mixed together, and it was completely shrouded near the blasting point, and it was impossible to see what was happening in the distance. Pang Yue raised the telescope again and tried his best to look. But what I saw was a cloud of billowing smoke and dust, and a little panicked figure on the head of the Great East Gate.

Not long after, Zhang Yunli and Chen He also took three steps and two steps to the top of the hill, although they could not see the direction of the city wall clearly. But they were already beaming. If nothing else, just by virtue of the loud noise just now, they had the bottom in their hearts.

"Great handsome! Bombing the city in this way is really extraordinary! I'm afraid that section of the city wall has not been reported! Chen He said with a smile. If he can really succeed this time, the first credit should be the Huashan battalion, and as a battalion officer, he has no reason to be unhappy.

Chen He clearly remembers that at the military meeting the night before. Pang Yue summed up the lessons of the previous black powder blasting failures and put forward corresponding improvement measures. Although there were some new words in Pang Yue's words that were difficult to understand, Chen He memorized the specific method of operation: the gunpowder was packed in a sealed container such as a coffin. And do a good job of external sealing and moisture-proof measures.

Therefore, after the officers and soldiers of the Huashan battalion dug the tunnel near the root of the city wall, they did not empty the soil under the foundation of the wall, support it with wooden piles and timber, and finally burn the wooden piles to collapse the city wall, as Tong Yangjia and Hao Shangjiu expected. Instead, the end of the tunnel was extended a few steps to the left and right. He dug three holes in the earthen wall under the foundation of the wall, and then stuffed three coffins filled with gunpowder vertically into the holes, pulled out the fuse, and sealed the holes. Finally, the personnel were gradually withdrawn, and the walls were built while withdrawing out, and after the last wall was built near the entrance of the cave, the gunpowder of the three coffins was already in a tight confined space. Later, the fuse was lit. There was that loud bang just now.

Although he didn't know why Pang Yue's proposed method could make such a big move, Chen He still admired it. What I just said was completely sincere.

But at present, Pang Yue didn't have time to pay attention to Chen He's compliment, put down the binoculars, turned his head to look at the assembly of the soldiers at the bottom of the slope, and instructed Zhang Yunli: "According to the original plan, the Flying Tiger Battalion will immediately attack, and if possible, you can choose to dismount and fight on foot and enter the city through the gap in the city wall." Trap the camp and keep up! ”

"Yes!"

……

Near the Great North Gate of the city

Tong Yangjia felt a headache in a daze, and vaguely heard someone calling urgently: "My lord, my lord......"

Although he was not yet fully awake, Tong Yangjia still felt a hint of danger from this rapid call, so after a slight struggle, he endured the headache and tried to open his eyes. Unexpectedly, the first thing that catches your eye is the smoky sky. Only then did he realize that he was lying on the ground.

"What the hell is going on?" Tong Yangjia sat up with the help of his own soldiers, and asked with the help of his discomfort. He remembered that not long ago, shortly after the Ming army had mysteriously retreated, the officer in charge of supervising the digging of the canal had come to the city to report that the canal was nearing completion and to ask for the general direction of the irrigation. So, he told Hao Shangjiu to stay on guard and personally went down to the city to inspect it. Who knows, as soon as he walked to the base of the city wall, there was an unheard-of earth-shattering noise dozens of steps behind him, and then he fainted in front of his eyes.

"My lord, it's not good!" Tong Yangjia's standard camp general said anxiously, "The puppet Ming army... The puppet Ming army blew up the city wall with gunpowder! ”

"Nonsense! How could gunpowder blow up such a strong wall? Tong Yangjia scolded almost without thinking, and his voice caused a slight headache to aggravate a little, and he couldn't help but gasp.

"It's true, my lord! The gap is not far away! Hurry up and get an idea! The standard camp general was so anxious that his tone changed.

After confirming the news, Tong Yangjia was like being poured on his heart by a basin of cold water, his body shook, and he almost fell to the ground again, and then grabbed his general's arm and shouted: "Help me up quickly, take me over to see!" ”

"My lord, what about the wound on your head?"

"Scratch a little skin, this injury can't die! Hurry up! ”

"Yes!"

With the support of the pro-soldiers, Tong Yangjia passed through the layers of dust and mist and came to the gap that the pro-general pointed to.

By this time, the dust and smoke had dissipated a lot, and the visibility was much greater, but it was still not as clear as it was at the beginning. Tong Yangjia covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, swept the dust fluttering in front of him, squinted his eyes and tried to look at the surrounding situation, and after a little look, he was stunned.

I saw that the ground around me was full of scattered rubble bricks and Qing soldiers lying horizontally and vertically. These soldiers were originally specially arranged by Tong Yangjia behind the city wall to prevent the Ming army from entering the city through the tunnel, but now there is almost no one standing, or lying motionless on the ground, or rolling around in pain on the ground, the weapons are thrown aside at will, and the clothes and armor on their bodies have been shrouded in sand and soil, and the original color cannot be seen clearly.

Tong Yangjia took a few more steps in the direction of the city wall, and found that near the root of the city wall, the situation was even more miserable, and bloody severed limbs could be seen everywhere between the scattered earth and rocks. But this was not the most terrifying, and when Tong Yangjia held back his nausea and raised his head to look ahead, he was completely stunned. Through the misty dust and mist, he found that the section of the city wall where he and Hao Shangjiu stood just now, that is, the section of the city wall pointed to by the Ming army's tunnel, had appeared several zhang wide opening, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, the rammed earth in the broken walls at both ends was clearly visible, and the earth and stones that had been blown up and fallen were piled at the bottom of the gap, leaving only less than one person high.

"Hurry up and organize people to plug the gap!" Tong Yangjia quickly reacted, and yelled again, "What about General Hao? Prepare him to meet the enemy! ”

The general of the Biaoying said with a sad face: "Just now, none of General Hao and his personal soldiers escaped, they were all blown up into the sky, and even the corpses were buried in the pile of rubble, and they didn't have time to dig them out. Just now, the adults didn't wake up for a while, and the soldiers couldn't find the backbone, and they were already in a mess. ”

Hearing this news, and hearing the panicked exclamations of his own officers and soldiers around him, Tong Yangjia's eyes were dark, and he was almost about to faint again, relying on the support of his own soldiers to stabilize it, and when he spoke again, his tone had become trembling, and he had completely lost the momentum just now: "Hurry... Bring the banner of the Governor... No, help the Governor to the head of the city, and the Governor will personally command the enemy! Go and inform the defenders of Xiaobeimen to come to help, Guangzhou must not fall into the hands of Ming Dog! ”

As soon as the general of the standard camp agreed, a more panicked shout came from the city: "Oh no, the Ming army has killed!" ”

Sure enough, as the exclamations became more and more intense, the sound of iron hooves rolling from outside the city through the gap in the city wall entered the city. Tong Yangjia and the soldiers around him even felt the trembling of the ground under their feet.

……

More than 1,000 cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion led by Shi Youliang quickly rushed to the front of the city wall, and at this time, the Qing army, which had lost its unified command at the head of the city, still failed to organize effective resistance and was still in a panic. At the gap, some Qing soldiers and people who came to fill it with dirt bags saw the arrival of the Ming army, and they were so frightened that they threw down the dirt bags and ran away.

"Hahaha..."When he saw the situation in front of him clearly, Shi Youliang laughed: "His grandmother's, such a big man!" Dog Tartar is waiting to be slaughtered! Wang Cheng, Wang Zhangtang? ”

"In!" The chief Wang Zhangtang and another chief Wang Cheng with a rough face replied.

"According to the original plan, the two of you will each lead your own soldiers to enter through this gap, don't attack rashly first, just hold this gap and don't let the Tartars fill it. When the trapped camp arrives, you will immediately go and open the Great North Gate and receive the rest of the soldiers in the camp into the city!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Cheng and Wang Zhangtang agreed with a bang, dismounted with more than 300 officers and soldiers under their men, and easily entered the city from near the gap. After these 300 Ming officers and soldiers who were ready to attack entered the city, they quickly dispersed the rest of the Qing soldiers who were filling the gap.

At this time, Tong Yangjia had resisted the urge to vomit blood, went to the city to stabilize the morale of the army, organized his own officers and soldiers to resist, and sent a thousand generals to lead seven or eight hundred soldiers to support the gap.

The Qing army led his troops to the vicinity of the gap, but found that the Ming army had entered the city, and couldn't help but be surprised. However, seeing that the Ming army only seemed to be half of its own and had no tendency to attack, the Qing army was a little more emboldened, and immediately led his soldiers to attack the gap, trying to drive the Ming army out of the city when it was not firmly established. (To be continued.) )