The "Women's Army" surrounded Wugong County and then began to attack the city. The city walls of Wugong County are high and thick. They are a peasant army. They do not have complex siege equipment and can only rely on ladders to climb the walls to attack the city.
The officers and soldiers had already been prepared. In addition to shooting arrows from a high position and rolling logs and stones, they also heated the oil on the city, poured the hot oil down, and then poured dung. This trick is very vicious: even if only a small area is burned by hot oil, it will become infected if it is stained with feces...
The "Women's Army" attacked for three days. Although they suffered heavy casualties, they still did not attack the city.
At dusk on the third day, Li Zhiyun followed his third sister to the military tent where the wounded were treated, accompanied by Ma Sanbao, Yinggu, Scarface and others.
There were two to three hundred wounded people in the tent, but there were only five or six doctors. Li Zhiyun was walking among the rebel brothers who were screaming in pain. One brother stretched out his burned arm and begged the doctor who passed by: "Sir, please treat me, I'm in pain!"
The doctor leaned over and inspected the wound, sighed and shook his head. The third sister walked over, called the doctor aside, and asked a few questions.
At this time, there was a body covered with white sheets and was carried out by two people.
After visiting the wounded, on the way back, the third sister frowned, and the others also looked solemn. Scarface couldn't help but said: "I don't understand. Some brothers only got a little burn. Why can't they be cured? Is it because the doctor's medical skills are not good?"
"The wound was infected by bacteria and there were no antibiotics." Li Zhiyun said, "So the doctor cannot be blamed."
"What is... bacterial infection?"
"Bacteria are microorganisms that are invisible to the eyes." Li Zhiyun explained, "They exist in filth, and there are a large number of bacteria in feces. Once bacterial infection occurs, the wound will ulcerate over a large area, leading to sepsis and organ failure. Death from exhaustion!"
Although Scarface didn't understand much, he understood the last sentence. He stopped and stared at the other party in surprise: "You mean... all those brothers will die?!"
Li Zhiyun nodded and said: "Unless someone has a very strong immune system and defeats the bacteria, but such people are very rare!"
The third sister remained silent all the way. In fact, she had already asked the doctor. However, the doctor was not talking about wound infection, but poisonous fire.
Li Zhiyun took a few steps to catch up with the third sister and said, "Sister, we can't attack the city anymore. It's not worth it if so many brothers died!"
The third sister stopped and stared at him and said, "You mean, we won't attack the county seat anymore?" Li Zhiyun shook his head and said, "It's not that we won't fight, but we will change the way of fighting."
"What kind of strategy should I change?"
"Dig a tunnel..."
Before Li Zhiyun could finish speaking, Scarface rushed over and said, "You mean using tunnels to attack the city? No, the officers and soldiers in the city are not fools. When they heard about tunnel digging, they would guard it. Once the tunnel is dug, one person can go up. Catching one is like catching a turtle! No! No!" Scarface's head shook like a rattle.
"Who said we have to dig into the city? Just dig under the city wall!"
"What's the use?!" Scarface's eyes were bigger than a bell.
Li Zhiyun smiled and said, "I have my own way!" He turned to the third sister and said, "Sister, do as I say!"
The third sister thought for a moment: since the bugle incident, she has gained confidence in this younger brother. So, she turned to Ma Sanbao and said: "Manager Ma, quickly arrange for the manpower to dig a tunnel two hundred feet away. It must be dug under the city wall before midnight tomorrow!"
Ma Sanbao handed over his hand and said he obeyed the order, then turned around and made arrangements.
Yes, Li Zhiyun wanted to use explosives to blow open the city wall.
As early as when he was at the Wei Family Annex, Li Zhiyun wanted to make explosives. He traveled to this world, where wars were fought everywhere, and explosives were too important for war.
He wanted to make a nitroglycerin explosive, which was much more powerful than black powder. This kind of explosive requires four raw materials: castor oil, charcoal, saltpeter powder, and sulfur powder.
In Huxian County, he was wandering around on the surface, but in fact he was looking for raw materials for making explosives.
Charcoal is the best. Charcoal was used for bronze tripods in the Shang Dynasty. The wisdom of the ancients!
You can also refine saltpeter yourself: boil the "old wall soil" in a large iron pot, then filter out the impurities in the solution, and then boil the liquid to dryness, and the crystals obtained are saltpeter. In addition, saltpeter can be extracted from the excrement of humans and animals. These methods are recorded in the book "Tiangong Kaiwu".
He found castor oil in an oil mill on the outskirts of town.
The most difficult thing to deal with is sulfur. He asked many people, and finally found an old stonemason who described the characteristics of sulfur to him. The old stonemason thought for a while and said, "You are talking about stone flow yellow, right? This thing can be found in the mountains."
Li Zhiyun didn't know if the yellow stone he was talking about was sulfur. He asked the old stonemason to take him to have a look. After going there, it turned out to be sulfur.
Later he learned that there was a book called "Fan Zi Ji Ran" written by Fan Li during the Warring States Period, in which he talked about "stones flowing like rocks".
After finding all the raw materials for making explosives, he paid the third sister a sum of money. Although the third sister didn't know why he wanted so much money, she still gave it to him.
He used the money to hire several craftsmen, prepare explosive raw materials, and then began to test and adjust the raw material ratio according to the explosion effect. They have tested it many times, and although it has not yet reached the explosive power envisioned by Li Zhiyun, they estimate that after a few more tests, it should be almost there.
There are many peasants in the "Women's Army". Although they are not very good at fighting, they are definitely good at work. At midnight the next day, the tunnel was dug.
Li Zhiyun was not in a hurry to deliver explosives to the tunnel. He wanted to show the third sister the power of explosives first.
Under his leadership, the third sister led a group of people to an open space. There was a large rock there, with a hole drilled out, explosives installed, and a fuse plugged in. A craftsman stood next to it holding a torch.
Li Zhiyun asked everyone to step back fifty feet, squat down, and then waved to the craftsmen.
The craftsman lit the fuse with a torch and ran away. With a loud "bang", the big stone disappeared.
Everyone was shocked. Scarface smacked his lips and said: "Such a big rock was blown up. It's really more powerful than the God of Thunder!..."
Li Zhiyun asked craftsmen to make explosive packets from the explosives, and transported fifty explosive packets, weighing dozens of kilograms, into the tunnel.
A craftsman lights the fire in the tunnel. On the ground, the third sister has summoned the "Women's Army" and is waiting in formation two hundred feet away from the city wall.
After the craftsman ran out of the tunnel, he nodded to Li Zhiyun. Li Zhiyun counted silently in his heart: "10, 9, 8, 7..." When he read: "...1. Detonation", there was a loud noise and everyone was stunned.
Perhaps because the amount of explosives was too large, a gap dozens of feet long was opened in the city wall. The officers and soldiers on the top of the city were already covered in blood and flesh. The officers and soldiers on the wall next to them didn't know what happened, and they were all stunned.
On the "Women's Army" side, the brothers were also confused. Only Li Zhiyun was the most excited. He jumped up and shouted at the trumpeter: "Blow the trumpet! Blow the charge trumpet quickly!..."
At his repeated urging, ten trumpeters blew the charge horn. The rebel brothers heard the charge and instinctively rushed forward. They rushed into the city through the gap in the city wall and occupied Wugong County.
In front of the county government office, Hei Tantou was tied up and led to the third sister. The third sister's eyes widened with anger and she said sternly: "Last time, I insulted my commander by speaking obscene words before the battle. Pull him out and chop him!"
Li Zhiyun pulled the third sister aside and whispered: "This guy is quite brave in fighting. I will ask him if he surrenders as he wishes, he will become a fierce general in the future!"
When the third sister said nothing, he walked up to Heitantou and asked, "Are you willing to surrender to the rebel army?" Heitantou said quickly: "Your army is sent by God, and the official army cannot resist it! I am willing to surrender! I am willing to surrender! "
Li Zhiyun ordered someone to untie him. Hei Tantou walked over, knelt down in front of the third sister, and said: "Last time, I made rude remarks and deserved death! Please forgive me, Madam! I am willing to follow Madam and make mistakes, so as to do the hard work of dogs and horses!"
The third sister's face softened slightly, she turned to Ma Sanbao and said, "Manager Ma, arrange a position as a general for him."
Ma Sanbao quickly handed over his hands, said he obeyed, and led Hei Tantou away...
