Chapter Thirty-Six: The Prince Who Punched the Hole

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou sent a hot air balloon to bomb the city. The Eastern Wu Army was looking up at the gods in the sky with his head tilted and his mouth wide open, when he suddenly saw countless small black balls falling. The people of Eastern Wu didn't know what it was, and they didn't know how to dodge, until the rumbling sound sounded, and the flesh and blood flew on the city, they woke up and hid everywhere.

The officers of the Eastern Wu Army hurriedly drove the soldiers to the top of the city at the risk of death to replenish the vacant imperial space, otherwise, if the Shu army took advantage of this gap to launch an attack on the city, then they would not be able to eat and go around.

Fortunately, the Shu army did not take the opportunity to attack, and even so, the people of Eastern Wu did not dare to take it lightly and did not dare to leave people at the head of the city. This caused a phenomenon of moths fighting fires, and the people of Dongwu were constantly killed, but they had to keep running over and be killed.

The hot air balloons of the Shu army bombed the four city gates. There was a bombing, and the Eastern Wu army suffered countless casualties and corpses. An hour later, the hot air balloons of the Shu army finally ended the bombing and returned to their own formation. The people of Dongwu finally put an end to this nightmare temporarily, although the time was not long, but for them, this hour was like a long time.

It's not that Liu Hou doesn't want to continue bombing, but the hot air balloon has only that long range. After all, there is no efficient fuel like liquefied gas, and the use of coal as fuel is very large and takes up a lot of space. In addition, there are many places reserved for bombs on the balloon, so it is impossible to carry too much fuel. Now that the fuel and bombs have run out, they have no choice but to return.

Also returning home were the two hot air balloons that were responsible for reconnaissance. They had already completed the reconnaissance mission smoothly and came back to report the reconnaissance to Liu Hou.

The situation of the city gate was the same as Guo Youzhi guessed, and it was sealed with earth and stone by Buqi's order. Not to mention that the current small-caliber artillery of the Shu army can't be bombarded, even if the ship-borne gun, which is the largest caliber in the Shu army, is moved, it will not play any role.

The scouting hot air balloon didn't bring back all the bad news, the biggest good news was that they found a section of the wall that was very thin, estimated to be only one or two steps wide.

In this era when horse-drawn carriages could run on the city walls, the thickness of one or two steps was indeed very thin. It is estimated that the county magistrate or the official responsible for building the city wall made a tofu slag project in his own pocket.

Liu Hou came to Guo Youzhi to discuss countermeasures, and after Guo Youzhi learned in detail about the news brought back by the scouts, he said: "His Royal Highness the Prince, you will build yì and blow up this weak city wall, so that my army can drive straight in." ”

"It's good to blow up the wall, but if you want to blow up the wall, you have to dig a big hole under the wall, and then bury the explosives in the hole to detonate it. As a result, the soldiers responsible for digging this large hole must have suffered heavy casualties.

The current soldiers of our army are the elite of the elite, and I really don't want to consume them in vain. Liu Houdao.

The musketeer Liu Hou is certainly reluctant to be consumed, even the rattan armor army is now a big killer weapon in Liu Hou's hands, these are all elite soldiers selected from hundreds of thousands of captives, Liu Hou is reluctant to let them lose.

And if you dig a hole under the city wall, the Eastern Wu soldiers on the city wall will inevitably throw down the sandalwood rolling stones, and there will really be no enough people to die at that time.

"Hehe, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, have you forgotten that we still have 20,000 captives?" Guo Youzhi stroked his beard confidently.

Liu Hou knew that he was referring to the 20,000 Eastern Wu prisoners who had been captured during the last field battle with Buqi.

"Didn't the 20,000 captives send them to the Peach Blossom Mine to open a mine?" Liu Hou asked puzzledly, because they had been like this all the way, every time they defeated a tribe, they would all be left behind, regardless of men, women, and children, and all migrated to the peach blossom mining area.

"The Peach Blossom Mine is far away from the mountains and roads here, and it is not easy to escort 20,000 people to the past, and in addition, I heard that the Peach Blossom Mine is now saturated. There are too many people over there now, and there are no more people to work in mining.

The Mineral Research Institute is organizing forces to prospect for minerals in the hope of finding new deposits that will allow for the placement of surplus manpower. ”

"Is the peach blossom mine saturated?" Liu Hounan is authentic.

"If you can't arrange for them to mine for a while, you can also consider arranging for them to build roads." Liu Houdao.

These captives were young and middle-aged, and they were more than capable of the high-intensity work of building roads. The advantage of working with captives is that they don't have to be paid, as long as they are supplied with enough food, and it is definitely a profitable business. It is no wonder that so many people love the slave business, and there is no essential difference between these captives and slaves.

"Yes, they can go and build roads, but the war is not over yet, and they have more use." Guo Youzhi.

"Just let them dig holes?" Liu Hou asked.

"Yes, let them dig holes first, they are the best candidates for this dangerous work as prisoners. In this way, our army will not have to lose a single soldier to blow up the city walls. When they take the city, they will still be of great use. ”

"What's the use, please come quickly, Mr. Guo."

"We can charge some of them into the baggage team, and replace 20,000 horses from the baggage team, and these 20,000 horses can be used like this......" Guo Youzhi explained his strategy to Liu Hou in Liu Hou's ear.

Liu Hou nodded frequently when he heard this. The Cangwu County City in front of them has not yet been breached, and the two of them are already planning the rest of the matter, it seems that they don't pay attention to this Cangwu County City at all, as if it has already been a dish in their pot.

Night finally fell, and the Dongwu army in Cangwu County finally breathed a sigh of relief, the things that fell from the sky of the Shu army during the day were too terrifying, just like the legendary thunder punishment.

Could it be that the Shu army really has the help of immortals? How else could there be something that could fly into the sky? How can there be anything like a thunderbolt? If the Shu army really has the help of immortals, then how can this battle be fought?

Even later, it has spread in the army of Eastern Wu, saying that the prince of Shu is the true son of heaven, who has been gifted since he was a child, and he is very intelligent, and he will definitely dominate the world in the future and clean up the Han dynasty from scratch.

And the officers didn't dare to sleep, so they drove the soldiers up the city wall, lit a lot of torches, and threw them outside the city, so as to find the Shu army who wanted to steal the city in time.

At the second watch, on the weak section of the city wall, the soldiers of Eastern Wu found that the terrifying behemoth of the day was floating in the sky again, and they were immediately frightened and trembling, and some of them were so timid that they were even scared to pee their pants.

There are also some people who are more agile in their minds, and turn around and go down the stairs of the city wall, intending to slip away as soon as they see a bad opportunity, but as soon as they approach the stairs, they are cut off by the military judge, and the rest of the people who have the same idea quickly leave the range of the stairs.

The infantry commander was very severe, and even a bit of a harsh punishment. He knew that he couldn't retreat at this time, let alone be soft-hearted. At this time, the soldiers could only be forced to go to the city wall to defend it with strict military laws.

That is, he, if he had been replaced by someone who was a little softer, the soldier would have collapsed by this time.

Soon, the thunderbolts from the sky came as scheduled, and the thunderbolts exploded before they fell to the ground and shattered, taking away stumps and human lives. This section of the city wall was in chaos.

The screams of the soldiers, the shouts of the officers, the cries for help, the sound of the blades slashing the deserters into the flesh and the explosions mingled to form a symphony of horror.

Hearing the report of his subordinates, the Shu army sent out the monsters in the sky to rain down thunder to bombard the city wall, and Buqi, who had been frowning in the palace, immediately put on his battle armor, and came to the vicinity of the city wall surrounded by his own soldiers to observe the situation from a distance. He knew what was going on, and he didn't dare to get too close, for fear of being blown up.

Bu Qi looked at the bombed city wall in the distance, frowned and thought for a long time, and suddenly, showed a shocked expression. He said a few words to the soldiers around him, and several of them rushed away.

Not long after, these soldiers came back to report that the other sections of the city wall, including the four city gates, were not bombed by the Shu army. In other words, only the wall was bombed in front of me.

After knowing the news, Bu Qi knew that his guess had been confirmed, his face turned pale, his hands were clenched tightly, and if he looked closely, he could also see that his clenched fists were still trembling slightly.

His guess was general, he knew that the Shu army would attack from this section of the city wall tonight, of course, he didn't know what specific way the Shu army would attack, but with his years of war experience, he felt that this section of the city wall was facing a huge crisis.

This is completely an intuition, a sixth sense developed by leading troops to fight for a long time, which is completely unreasonable, but it is this inexplicable intuition that has repeatedly saved his life on the battlefield and even helped him turn defeat into victory.

"Send men up that part of the wall at once, and throw more torches down to see what is outside the city." Buqi immediately issued the order.

"Someone, take my arrows, and transfer two battalions of men and horses over here." He always felt that something was going to happen here, so he immediately decided to send two battalions of men over just in case.

These two battalions have 4,000 people, and the first battalion of the Han system has 2,000 people, which is completely different from the Hong army establishment in Liu Hou's postmodernist style.

Soon, the news from the city walls came back. Buqi's own soldiers dispatched 10 people, mixed with the imperial guards, rushed up the city wall, personally reconnoitred the situation outside the city, and finally only 2 people returned.

They suddenly found that there were several strange cars with spires outside the city, they were parked on the edge of the city wall, not moving, and there was no Shu army moving nearby, but one of the soldiers felt that some dirt was faintly thrown out of these strange cars, but because the light was too dark, he was not sure if it was not.

Bu Qi thought for a while, and he didn't think of what these strange cars were, and of course, he didn't think of what the intentions of the Shu army were. Could it be that the Shu army wants to dig down the city wall? It's basically impossible. Do you want to dig tunnels into the city?

It seems unlikely, if they were to dig a tunnel, they should start digging from a distance, and quietly. What's all this fanfare? Once the enemy knows that he is digging a tunnel, and he is on guard, the surprise effect of the tunnel will be completely lost.

So what does the Shu army want to do? Whatever they want to do, they have to be stopped. Whatever the enemy wants to do, we need to destroy.

As a result, Bu Qi issued another order to attack these strange cars using a qiē method and be sure to destroy them.

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