"Good." Yelu Jing smiled a hint of appreciation, "Ximen has ceased fighting today, and ordered the soldiers to strengthen their vigilance, and after the catapult arrives, they will attack again. ”

Jereus replied, "Yes." ”

After the sky was bright, the lost Baili Wuji and Chai Rong climbed the city wall of the West Gate again, it seems that the judgment of the two of them was wrong again, Yelu Jing did not launch a whole army attack because of the explosion in the city of Qianzhou, and even the West Gate did not even fight today, only Chen Yan of the North Gate was fighting against the attack of the Liao army, but there was no sign of a decisive battle.

Outside the city, after yesterday's tragic battle, the piled up corpses were still the same, and the Ming army did not clean them up, because they could not get out, and there were only two gates in the east and south of Qianzhou City; And the Liao army did not go to clean up, because they did not dare to approach the western city wall, for fear of being used as a target by musketeers. Fortunately, the weather in the north was already cold, and the corpses did not stink from the decomposition. Baili Wuji secretly thought, when the time should be built here, a huge mound should be built here, and the book "The Tomb of the 250,000 Warriors of the Ming Kingdom to Destroy Liao" was written, and the payment was "Baili Wuji".

"Didn't Yelu Jing guess that there was a firearms workshop in Qianzhou City?" Baili Wuji muttered to himself.

Chai Rong on the side heard this, and said loudly: "No, Yelu Jing can't guess, his civil ministers and generals are not fools, they must be able to think of it." Even if they can't imagine it, the big explosion in the early morning can also remind them to think of it. At present, the Liao army has quieted down, which is not very reasonable. ”

Baili Wuji heard Chai Rong say this, and also felt that something was wrong, and said: "If something is abnormal, it must be a demon, and the Liao army is so abnormal that it is going to arouse vigilance." ”

Chai Rong said hesitantly: "Brother, please take a look." Do you think the Liao army outside the West Gate is waiting for something? ”

Baili Wuji felt a pang in his heart and said, "Oh no, Yelu Jing must be waiting for the catapult." ”

Chai Rong immediately thought of it when he heard it. The thousands of catapults used by the Liao army to attack Yanyun in four ways have not been used, presumably because the transportation is too slow and has not kept up.

Chai Rong felt a chill in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "My brother's artillery is all arranged on the city wall. There is a way to prevent the catapult from being smashed. ”

Baili Wuji frowned tightly and said: "Artillery is not a problem, there are 1,800 artillery pieces on the city wall in the west and north, depending on the distance. The front and rear rows are one and a half feet apart. Even if the Liao army transferred all the catapults, none of them could really hit the city wall, and they really had to hit the artillery. It's not easy to think about. Thousands of artillery pieces, smashing 100 guns, has nothing to do with the overall situation, there is no need to worry. ”

When Chai Rong heard this, he sighed in his heart, as long as the artillery was okay.

But Baili Wuji continued: "But the boulders of thousands of catapults will inevitably make the roads in the city full of boulders, so that the city will be covered with boulders. The delivery of artillery ammunition became a problem, as soon as the ammunition could not keep up. Then the artillery became an ornament. ”

"How's that good?"

“……。” Baili Wuji can't think of a good way, "Even if you build a transport vehicle now, it won't help, and the boulders thrown by the catapult are beyond the resistance of ordinary house vehicles." ”

"If the ammunition is transported and hoarded on the city wall first, won't the transportation problem be solved?" Chai Rong asked.

Baili Wuji shook his head and explained: "Artillery ammunition is made of dry gunpowder, which can only be detonated by ignition, and can be detonated like this boulder bombardment. ”

"That means that all the artillery on the walls is now devoid of ammunition?" Chai Rong was shocked, the artillery that relied on the barrier actually had no ammunition, it was really a bit of a sweat.

Baili Wuji said with a smile: "Now on the city wall, the placement of five rounds of ammunition for each artillery is all when the city wall is built, there are pits, and the ammunition is placed in the pits, covered with iron plates, don't say that you can't hit it, even if you hit it, it won't cause an explosion, and even if it explodes, it won't detonate other ammunition." Under normal circumstances, five salvos from artillery are enough to crush a wave of enemy attacks, and this time is enough to replenish ammunition on the ramparts. ”

Hearing Baili Wuji's explanation, Chai Rong was relieved, and he said: "Then send some of the ammunition into the mezzanine of the city wall first, and then transport it to the city wall." ”

Baili Wuji said: "It can only be like this, but there is not enough space to accommodate musketeers in the mezzanine, and there is not much ammunition for it." ”

Chai Rong suddenly had an idea: "Brother just said that there are pits on the city wall, covered with iron plates, which can avoid the bombardment of stones?" ”

"It should be possible, as long as the stone is larger than the pit, it basically can't be smashed into the pit."

Chai Rong asked, "How far is the ammunition placement place from the city wall?" ”

Baili Wuji said: "It's not far, about three miles." ”

"How good." Chai Rong said excitedly, "Send soldiers to dig a pit on the ground in these three miles immediately, and then connect the pit into a tunnel, as long as the pit is narrow and deep, it can resist the bombardment of stones, does my brother think so?" ”

Baili Wuji was overjoyed when he heard this, and interjected eagerly: "One is not enough, you can dig two." One shoulder-wide and eight feet deep, covered with shelter, alternating planks of wood and iron, sufficient to supply the artillery of the walls on both sides, I will go and let six thousand guards serve as farmers. ”

Baili Wuji patted Chai Rong on the shoulder again and said, "The second brother is really my ovary." With that, he turned around and went down the city wall to arrange for the soldiers to dig a tunnel.

Chai Rong was left standing on the city wall in a daze, sighing for no reason.

During this day, the musketeers of the western city wall had been on guard against the movements of the Liao army, and Chen Yan was just flawless to confront Yelutira, and both sides were injured. Although Yelutirat controlled the rhythm and initiative of the attack, he could not get one step closer to the city gate.

It was not until late in the evening that two tunnels were dug from the ammunition depot to the west and north walls.

The tunnel is one foot higher than the person, slightly wider than the shoulder width of the person, covered with iron and wooden boards, so that there is basically no need to worry about the stone will hit the transporter, one is the probability of hitting the tunnel, the other is that even if it hits, if the diameter of the stone is wider than the tunnel, it is impossible to smash down, if the diameter is smaller than the tunnel, then the iron and wood can also block it, so that the transport personnel in the tunnel can clean up. The main thing is that there is no longer any need to worry about the road to transport ammunition blocked by bombarded stones.

In the past two days on Chen Yanzheng's side, the casualties of the Ming army have been close to 20%, as many as 10,000 people. In other words, this attrition rate, if it continues like this, seven days later, it will not be able to form 20,000 people to confront the Liao army.

Chen Yanzheng stated his concerns to Baili Wuji, but Baili Wuji comforted him with a smile: "It doesn't take seven days, or tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, or even tonight, it will be over in one qiē." You have to believe that the emperor of Liao must be more anxious than you, because the weather is getting colder, and his army needs to return to the tent for the winter. (To be continued......)