Bu Shitu looked at the densely packed soldiers from the four towns outside the city with fear.
"Why do I see these people are different from the past few days? They all look like they have been injected with chicken blood." He stared at these people with his old, bloodshot eyes wide open.
The whole spirit of these people looked different. I feel like I'm a different person. A few days ago I was writing about a ruffian lazily sunbathing.
Now everyone is so powerful that they want to jump into the city immediately and chop off a few heads. Sobud's eyes turned red with anger.
"These damned Ming people used the money from the auction of our cattle, sheep and livestock to repay these people's back wages. The reward of fifty taels for a head was also cashed in. Now, these people are waiting to beheaded. Make a fortune. Jinong, look at their silly expressions and wolf-like eyes. Once the fighting starts, they will be crazy." Bu Shitu became furious and yelled: "We will fight them, these devils , scoundrels, shameless people. Immortal Heaven will punish them. Arm all men and women who can draw a bow, and I will fight them to the last one." Hu Mingxiu has been promoted to the general banner because of his military exploits.
During this period, after Zhang Shize took over Shanxi Town, he replaced all the former rotten officers. These officers transferred from various places were all members of the British public. Although they could not be said to be honest, at least they followed the rules.
There is still a bottom line in doing things, and soon a large number of grassroots soldiers who have made meritorious service were promoted to serve as junior officers such as corps commanders, small flags, and general flags.
The soldiers not only received their due pay, but also gained a ladder to rise through their own efforts. There was an immediate burst of enthusiasm.
Zhang Shize was also surprised to find that it was not the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were weak, and the mud could not hold up the wall. Rather, the world is too unfair to them.
The effort and reward are disproportionate. Naturally no one works hard to do things. Now that they have a way to rise, naturally everyone will seize the opportunity spontaneously.
In today's siege, Hu Mingxiu's fifty-man general flag was used as the main force for climbing. They all wore brand new mandarin duck battle coats with a layer of chain mail underneath.
These chainmails were all captured by the Beijing camp, and Yang Fan looked down upon these junks. And shields, weapons, leather armor, etc. were given to the soldiers of the four towns.
They stood in front of the formation excitedly. In front are ten shields and behind are two ladders. During this period, there was no siege. On the one hand, they were building siege weapons and on the other hand, they were organizing an auction of loot.
They did not wait for the order to attack. Instead, he saw Uncle Dingyuan's servants carrying some dark tubular objects to the front of the formation.
Each of these men was carrying a pickaxe and a shovel. Hu Mingxiu knew what they were called engineers. When he was a soldier, he did the hard work of building roads and bridges, digging trenches for drainage, and building forts.
But I heard that their military pay is really high, it seems to be three times that of ordinary soldiers. Hu Mingxiu watched as they used Luoyang shovels to make small holes in the ground, then lowered the gunpowder pillars wrapped in oil paper and lit them.
boom! boom! boom! There was a violent explosion. The small holes were instantly expanded into pits by the explosion.
Hu Mingxiu and his men watched as some people used shovels to shovel out the floating soil from the pit, and then buried the iron buckets at an angle.
Expose the mouth of the barrel. After these soldiers buried the iron barrels, they backfilled the floating soil. Then water it and stamp it firmly with your feet.
Only then did Hu Mingxiu realize that the gunpowder was used to dig gun emplacements. The speed of blasting with gunpowder is so fast that a gun emplacement can be formed with just one blast.
If people were to dig this, it would take at least three cubic meters of earth, and it would take several people to dig for several hours. The battlefield is changing rapidly, and it is of great significance to be able to repair fortifications quickly.
Not only did he sigh with emotion, the efficiency of these people's work was unparalleled, ranking first in the Ming Dynasty. At a distance of 150 meters from the city wall, heartless cannons were deployed.
This distance is carefully prepared. Because the Mongols all use cavalry bows and rarely equip infantry with large bows.
The distance they threw was only one hundred and fifty meters. So, this location is safe. The range of the heartless cannon can reach more than 200 meters.
Exactly, I can hit you, but you can't hit me. He stayed all night and ran to the city. He shouted with a loudspeaker made of rolled iron: "Everyone in the city, listen, our army is about to attack the city. You must quickly put down your weapons and leave the city to surrender. Otherwise, once the attack is over, At the beginning, all the jade and stones were destroyed, and all the lives were in ruins. It’s too late to regret!” No one responded to him, and the only response to him was the arrows falling like raindrops.
There were also scoldings. Ye Buzuo fled back in embarrassment, and was shot with an arrow in his back. Fortunately, he wore a layer of fish scale armor and a layer of leather armor.
The arrow got stuck in the fish scales and could not penetrate deep into the flesh. Zhang Shize smiled and said: "You just like to do these things, I know it's useless, they still have the idea of the Desert Mongols coming over. How can they be willing to surrender." Yang Fan said: "I don't have any hope either. If there are dates, there will be no shots. Since they choose to be stubborn to the end, let the engineers fire. I hope their will is as tough as their mouths." Hu Mingxiu filled in when he saw the engineers starting.
He didn't know what those white Su Juans were wrapped in, but his intuition told him that this kind of weapon must be very powerful.
"Engineer battalion, fifteen gunpowder projectiles, ready, ignite!" Wang Ermazi, commander of the engineer battalion, gave the order.
The engineers lit the fuse with torches, turned around and fired back. They all jumped into a section of trench that had been blasted with gunpowder.
After jumping into the trench, they stood on their toes, covered their ears with their hands and opened their mouths. Squat on the ground. After all, the power of the gunpowder projectile was too great, and they had to prevent being injured by the shock.
boom! boom! boom! Fifteen heartless cannons spurted out flames one after another, and the ground shook violently.
The officers and soldiers of the four towns standing far behind were startled. Although, they have all experienced the scene of firing a general cannon and even a red cannon.
Although that one was also loud, it was not as scary as the one that spewed out raging flames. This thing has much more propellant than the red cannon.
As soon as the cannon was fired, the earth shook, and it felt like it was shaking under my feet, as if there was an earthquake. Visible to the naked eye, round objects wrapped in sacks flew out one after another.
Drawing a perfect parabola in the air. Then fell towards the city wall. Some of these round cakes landed in front of the city wall, and some flew into the city.
Three round cakes fell on the city wall. These round cakes weighed more than 20 kilograms. This weight immediately hit the city with swords and shields to prevent the Ming army from climbing the city and the dense crowd smashed out an open space.
The fuse was still burning after it hit the ground. These shells use a fuse-controlled time detonation method.
Before launching, just use scissors to cut the required length along the scale on the lead according to the range, wind strength, etc.
boom! boom! boom! A powerful explosion sounded. Fifteen steaming fireballs exploded. Each of these round cakes was packed with twenty-five kilograms of chemical fertilizer and explosives, equivalent to fifteen kilograms of tnt.
Under the huge power, the bright light rose up, almost blinding many people's eyes. Blood and flesh were scattered all over the city wall.
Limbs were even blown into the sky. The Dongsheng City Wall, which had been in disrepair for a long time, was trembling, whining, and bursting with countless cracks under the attack of violent explosions both inside and outside.
With a loud bang. Dust came overwhelmingly, and the city wall collapsed.
