When the meal was served, he forced a smile and ate with the concubine. After eating, Shao Kai tactfully asked the concubine to pack up her things and go back to her parents' house for the time being.

"Official—" The wife asked hesitantly, "Why did you let the concubine go back to her mother's house, is this city unfortunate?" You just lied to me? ”

"What nonsense?" Shao Kai deliberately lowered his face and said: "These days, my husband has to be busy guarding the city, and I can't take care of my family, for fear that my subordinates will not take good care of me, so I let you go back to your mother's house to live first." ”

The concubine sighed softly, stroked her stomach and said quietly: "Last night, it was a drum again, and it was shouting again, and it kept ringing, and the concubine was so worried that she didn't sleep all night." Official, this city can be defended, but if it can't be defended, you must cherish yourself, and you must take care of the body of the concubine and the flesh and blood in the belly. ”

Shao Kai coaxed his wife to send him back to her parents' house. Then he sat alone in the room, thinking about it, and felt that the city defense should be fine, but there was nothing wrong with just in case.

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For the next two days, the Red Turban Army repeated the same action, and even Zhao Tian felt annoyed. But he didn't dare to take it lightly, and still had to seriously inspect and supervise.

There are many fire drums in night battles, and many flags in day battles, so that the ears and eyes of the enemy are confused, so that they do not know what to prepare for me, and they will win.

Although the tunnel had been dug in the middle of the night on the third day and the gunpowder had been filled, Meng Jiucheng thought about it again and again and still did not take a night battle with many variables. There are many soldiers, and there are many generals, so let's fight in a dignified and upright way, and win steadily!

In order to make a fool of the situation, Meng Jiucheng also personally went down to the trench, drilled into the tunnel, and inspected the work of blasting and attacking the city. It wasn't until he felt that there was no problem that he returned to the camp and slept well.

Early the next morning, the Red Turban Army had a full meal and after a short rest, all the men and horses began to move according to the battle plan, the feint attack force set up a posture in the east of the city, and the main attack force lined up in the west of the city.

The defenders also noticed that the actions of the Red Turban Army were different from the past, and Zhao Tiancheng and other generals realized that the enemy was about to attack the city, so they all dressed up neatly and commanded the defense in their respective city defenses.

The four flags of "Meng", "Wang", "Han" and "Qiao" were raised in the formation of the Red Turban Army in the east and west of the city, which meant that the generals were already in place and ready to attack the city.

"The red scarf of the heavens, the Tartars will perish."

"Mighty, mighty!"

"God bless our army, invincible."

"Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng!"

The officers and men of the Red Turban Army shouted, banged their weapons, and let out a tsunami-like shout.

Zhao Tiancheng stood on the city wall, his face suddenly became solemn, and his fists were subconsciously clenched tightly.

From the appearance of the army to the formation, there is a clear difference between this and the thieves. With the shouting, Zhao Tian felt that the other party's momentum was getting bigger and bigger, and the shouting was getting stronger and stronger.

Meng Jiucheng's expression was solemn and majestic, looking at the red flag waved by the engineer team in the distance, he nodded lightly, made a gesture, and the soldiers beside him immediately waved his order.

The cries gradually fell silent, the Red Turban Army stood still in the face of the city, the defenders of the city were in full array, and the atmosphere of slaughter became more and more solemn.

Time was passing minute by minute, and Han Shouzhong, who was in charge of the main attack, seemed to be a little impatient, and turned his head sideways to ask.

"General......" As soon as Han Shouzhong opened his mouth, he felt the ground under his feet suddenly shake, followed by a deafening explosion, cutting off the words that he hadn't had time to spit out.

Han Shouzhong turned his head to look at the city, and there was no city wall in sight, only smoke in the sky and a pillar of smoke and dust rising in the air.

The Red Turban Soldiers who were waiting in line didn't see what was going on, and some of them had a particularly good eyesight and felt as if they had seen the western city wall burst open from the inside out, and the masonry and dust inside rose into the air, as if a monster was about to emerge from the belly of the city wall.

At the same time as there was a loud bang, the monster flew up from the surface of the earth into the air, and the smoke and dust it brought up covered the section of the city wall so tightly that nothing could be seen.

All the Red Turbans looked up at the column of smoke that kept going upward. After a while, a rain of rubble fell near the blasting point, and a large amount of dirt and dust fell from the air back to the ground, drifting far away, even falling on the heads of the Red Turban soldiers in the distance.

The city wall was blown open with a large gap more than two feet wide, filled with smoke and dust, mixed with the choking smoke and dust of black powder and the wails of the wounded, and broken bricks and rubble were scattered all over the ground, and the scene was a mess.

"Beat the drums, attack!" Meng Jiucheng raised his spear and pointed it forward.

The order was given, the war drums were beating, and the stunned Red Turban soldiers woke up.

"Attack, attack!" Han Shouzhong suppressed the horror in his heart and shouted.

"Rush, kill!" Led by officers, the Red Turban Army launched an offensive.

Ladders and planks set up the trench as a passageway, and some soldiers advanced along the trench and climbed up the two-metre-high trench around the city.

"Our army wins." Wang Zhongfeng put down the binoculars and sighed and marveled.

The smoke and dust were gradually dissipating, and he could already see the red flags on both sides of the collapsed wall, and the Red Turban soldiers were pouring into the city from the breach. The enemy had clearly been blinded by this mutation, and the hastily organized resistance was not strong.

Meng Jiucheng let out a long breath, although he had secretly conducted the test before, it was the first time to use it in actual combat, and it was normal to feel shocked.

For the blasting of the city wall, the most effective way at present is to dig tunnels and fill gunpowder. Before the invention of new explosives, Meng Jiucheng lacked confidence in external blasting, and it was okay to blow up the city gate, but the effect on the thick city wall was obviously limited.

The tunnel was dug to the base of the city wall, a square hole was dug out, a box of gunpowder was filled, and a fuse was drawn out with a bamboo pole, the tunnel was closed, and the fire was detonated.

It is decent, there is no innovation, and there is no need for ingenuity, which is more than enough to deal with most of the current city walls.

Of course, Meng Jiucheng also knew that no one had studied physics except himself, and he didn't understand the principle of gunpowder explosion or how to increase the power of the explosion. And he didn't have time to popularize scientific knowledge, so he could only indoctrinate it temporarily. In this way, his subordinates know what it is, but they do not know why it is.

Without an education system in basic disciplines and without the popularization of scientific principles, we can only maintain it in this way. Moreover, in order to form a complete range of systematic education, it is best to start from the baby, which is not a work that can be completed in a few years or more than ten years.

Controlling the horse, Meng Jiucheng came to the sapper team and praised: "Yes, you guys did a good job." It's almost a habit of his, and for an emerging team, encouragement is more motivating.

The faces of Wang Xie and several sappers were full of joy, and they also had the first awakening after the shock, obviously underestimating the power of the blast.

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