Becoming stronger from cutting Hu and Cao Cao

Chapter 384 Burning Chan Mausoleum.

Zhou Yu couldn't figure out what the Qin army was trying to do when they built a high earth mountain outside the city.

After thinking about it, Zhou Yu didn't come up with a reason.In the end, Zhou Yu could only order to leave him alone.

Zhou Yu thought, anyway, I have the strong city of Chanling City.No matter what tricks you play, in short, I can't solve it anyway, and I want to see what you can do.

All in all, if you want to break the city, you always have to send troops to attack. Zhou Yu is now responding to all changes without changing, and is waiting for the Qin army to come to attack the city.

The Qin army outside the city began to pile up earth hills along the walls of Chanling City according to Jia Xu's arrangement.The Soochow army in the city seemed to be afraid of being tricked, so they didn't even harass. The two armies fell into a strange calm.

This weird atmosphere is like the calm before a storm. The people in the city don't know that what awaits them is not a storm, but a rain of meteors and fire that is a hundred times more terrifying than a storm.

The Qin army was busy outside Chanling City for two full days, and small hillsides rose from the ground outside Chanling City.

In the evening, the Qin army, which had not moved for a few days, moved rarely. Under Chen Qingzhi's order, the Qin army sent out a full 10,000+ army, and set up a pocket formation like a fishing net outside Chanling City.

"Boom, boom!"

"Boom! Rumble!"

"Boom! Rumble!"

After the sky was completely dark, only the sound of roaring outside Chanling City was heard, as if thousands of troops and horses were passing through the border.

This sound was the sound of the Qin army transporting artillery. These artillery pieces of the Qin army were all cannons unloaded from the ship.These cannons are all made of pure copper, and the weight of a cannon is as heavy as a thousand catties.

Usually, if these guns are mounted on giants such as three-rail gunboats and chasing boats, they will naturally show nothing.However, it is very inconvenient to transport it to use it on the ground now.

You know, there are no mechanized transport vehicles such as tractors in this era.These cannons are transported by horse-drawn people.

According to the observers, there are no asphalt roads or cement roads in this era.The best way to go is the official road of rammed loess.However, there is no official road in front of Chanling County.

In order to transport these artillery from the shore to the forward position, the soldiers of the Qin Army were exhausted.

And in order to prevent the artillery from being seen by Soochow soldiers in the city, with precautions, the Qin army could only transport these artillery at night.The road was not easy to walk in the first place, and it was dark at night, so it was difficult to see clearly. The transportation of these hundred artillery pieces lasted from just dark to midnight.

Outside Chanling City, on the earth hill built by the Qin army, a hundred or so artillery pieces were neatly arranged in a row.

Beside these artillery pieces, there are shells one after another.These shells are not conventional solid and blooming shells, but incendiary shells.

In the battle of the water army, the fire attack is the first.These incendiary bombs were originally invented by Huang Yueying, a great inventor, to deal with the ships of the Soochow Navy.However, the manufacture of these incendiary bombs is very complicated. Now that they have just been mass-produced, the water war is over.

Originally, these incendiary bombs were basically useless, but Jia Xu thought of this poisonous trick temporarily, and just used these things.

In addition to conventional gunpowder and sulfur in incendiary bombs.Also packed a lot of tung oil and catkins.Catkins are very light, and once they catch fire, they fly around and quickly spread the fire.

At this time, on the earth hill outside Chanling City, the Qin Army's artillery and ammunition were ready, and they were waiting to smash all these incendiary bombs into Chanling City.

On the dirt hill, Jia Xu stroked his beard and said to Chen Qingzhi: "Commander, give me an order, you will bear this eternal infamy for the rest of your life.

"Ha ha!"

"You, Jia Xu, came up with this plan. If people in this world want to scold you, they must scold you, Jia Xu, before scolding me, Chen Qingzhi." Chen Qingzhi laughed loudly.

After laughing, Chen Qingzhi returned to normal, and shouted to the messenger beside him: "Command, calibrate the gun position."

"Squeak! Squeak!"

Chen Qingzhi gave an order, and there was a sound of gears being pulled from above the earth mountain, and the Qin army's artillery was aiming its muzzle at the city.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, all the artillery is aimed at the city!" The messenger replied.

Chen Qingzhi straightened his expression and ordered: "Fire freely, throw all the shells into Chanling City for me."

"fire!"

The artillery commander of the Qin Army shouted loudly, waving the command flag heavily in his hand.

Outside Chanling City, on the dirt hill, Qin Army's hundreds of cannons let out bursts of roaring sounds, and countless shells were condescendingly smashed into Chanling City.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The artillery of the Qin army, the ones that shot into Chanling City were all incendiary bombs. After these incendiary bombs were shot into the city, they immediately set the city in flames.

Because these incendiary bombs were mixed with a lot of catkins, the fire spread quickly, and most of the city's buildings were made of wood.It was almost less than a stick of incense, and half of the city had already been spread by fire.

"Fight the fire! Quickly put out the fire!"

"Fire! Fire!"

The city was on fire, and these soldiers in the city naturally had to find a way to put out the fire, but the water source in the city was limited.Nowadays, almost every well is surrounded by soldiers fetching water.

At this time, the veterans Cheng Puzheng and Zhou Tai were patrolling the city wall. Zhou Yu went back to the government office to rest early today because of excessive practice these days.

"report"

"Report to the deputy governor, the south of the city is on fire!"

The orderly had just knelt down when "Putong" knelt down again.

"The north of the city is on fire."

"The east of the city is on fire."

"The west of the city is on fire."

Cheng Puxin said, why do you still report, I have seen it on the city wall now, do you still need you to report, now there are fires everywhere.

Cheng Pu counted the heads of the messengers, there were five in total.The south of the city, the north of the city, the east of the city, and the west of the city, logically speaking, there should be four people, right, but there is one more person here.

Cheng Pu pointed to the last messenger who hadn't come to speak, and shouted, "What do you want to say?"

The messenger cupped his hands and said, "Vice Governor, the government office is on fire."

"What, the government office is on fire."

"It's broken, the governor is still in the government office." Zhou Tai was shocked when he heard this.

The main task Sun Ce entrusted to Zhou Tai was to protect Zhou Yu. Now that the mansion is on fire, Zhou Yu is still in the mansion, how can Zhou Tai not be surprised.

"Old General Cheng, keep an eye on the city wall to prevent the Qin army from taking the opportunity to attack."

"I'm going to save the governor!" Zhou Tai said hastily.

"Go, go, go."

"Don't protect yourself, Chief Governor." Cheng Pu said to Zhou Tai.

(End of this chapter)