open sea

Chapter 157
Guanghaiwei has a new and strange thing. First, the Acropolis was captured by a group of Japanese pirates, and then the Japanese pirates went out of the city for several battles and repelled the banner troops rushing to help.

The people in the surrounding area were still waiting to see the two banner troops stationed under the city to fight against the bandits. They heard that the banner troops rode horses and scattered around to find out where there were mines and who had coffins. They forced hundreds of miners to take several large coffins that night return.

Of course, gunpowder is also indispensable. Several thousand catties of gunpowder were brought to the new clubhouse recently, and the spare gunpowder on board Fuchuan was also put to use. Tens of thousands of catties were collected, but Mr. Chen still felt that it was not enough, so he boiled wax all night to paint and paint. Painting, no one knows what he is painting.

Bai Yuanjie and Zhang Yongshou led the troops to feint for a while in the evening, and retreated without engaging in battle. They brought back a long rope tied with a knot. The knot was the distance from the camp to the ditch, and from the ditch to the root of the city wall.

Banner army logging and miners started working overnight.

At first, the mountain master was frightened to death when he was forcibly recruited, thinking that the Banner Army was letting them fight the Japanese pirates, crying and grabbing the ground one by one in the camp. Later, he heard that it was just digging a big hole, and started working in a daze.

"What's the meaning of this picture?" Bai Yuanjie brought Zhang Yongshou closer, biting his lips, and looked at Chen Mu's picture carefully. Unable to see why, Bai Yuanjie pointed and asked, "This, is the city wall?"

Bai Ye said that this style of simple strokes is not easy to accept.

Chen Mu was thinking about the principle of lifting the coffin and tearing down the city. If he dug a big hole under the city wall and bombed it, would he be able to blow down the solid city wall several feet high?
Why does he feel so unreliable?

So his plan is not so simple. The miners dig tunnels to the trenches to avoid being discovered by Japanese pirates walking on the road. Next, the distance from the trenches to the bottom of the city wall is only a dozen steps, and the miners dig three separate dirt roads until they are deeper under the city wall. Dig out several adjacent large cavities, leave earth walls between the cavities, and set up wooden pillars to bear the load.

At that time, the big hole outside will be sealed and only the lead wires will be left. Once the coffin blows up the load-bearing earth wall and the wooden pillars are fully opened, the city wall will collapse, and the huge vibration will naturally shake the wall bricks apart.

The amount of work is huge, and it will take a few days to finish.

Xinning sent rice grains the next day, and there was no need for Chen Mubai and Yuanjie to send someone to urge them.

People, you are smart!
"Come from Xiangshan, the people of Xiangshan don't give rice, right? But when you come to Xinning to fight, the people of Xinning must have prepared rice and grain." Zhang Yongshou's eyes were narrowed, and he smiled and threw a peanut into his mouth, mocking Said: "When I was fighting, I thought of being a soldier. I used us as bandits to guard against them, for fear of robbing them."

Chen Mu didn't know what to say, so he smiled and said nothing, chewing in his heart, but felt that the words had some taste.

Isn't this the reason why a poor family thinks of a good wife and a country is in trouble and thinks of a good general.

Bai Yuanjie, on the other hand, didn't speak, but just drank the porridge a little faster, lifted the wooden bowl and drank the rest of the porridge, then put down the bowl and chopsticks, glanced at Zhang Yongshou, and urged: "The military households eat food and go to battle. Killing the enemy, the common people should not owe us anything, don't keep talking nonsense."

"Have you finished eating? Go to patrol the camp after eating, and feint again later."

Zhang Yongshou pursed his mouth, hummed twice, put down the bowl and hung up the knife, and went out, "Got it."

After Zhang Yongshou left, Bai Yuanjie asked Chen Mu worriedly: "Can the coffin be useful?"

On the shore outside the siege camp, the sound of ship cannons sounded again, and several small cannons on the position also roared. Amidst the sound of horns, drums and cannons, the flag army roared and rushed towards the city gate.

Under the cover of the artillery, the Japanese pirates in the city ran away with their heads in their arms, and the flag army rushed to the door. They hurriedly removed the masonry and wooden pillars blocking the door. Then Zhang Yongshou gave an order, and the flag army dispersed.

On the upper floor of the city gate, the Japanese pirates rolled and smashed down the stones.

Another feint failed.

Chen Mu got into the hole at night and saw that the miners did it very smoothly. Under the ground, not only braces and beams were set up on both sides of the hole to prevent landslides, but even the bottom was laid in a row with bamboo horizontally. A little slope was also dug out to make it easier for the coffin to slide in.

There were countless barbed logs in the ditch below the city, but the miners unloaded a passage on the first night, throwing the barbs on it to hide people's eyes and ears, and dug a big hole from the bottom to connect with the city. Duan Filling was only a drop in the bucket, so he could only transport it to the camp with great effort.

Chen Mu plans to form one-tenth of the engineering troops in the army in the future. These people are not very useful in encounters, but once it comes to attacking, besieging or even defending, the engineering troops are too important.

Everything is experience. Although Chen Mu did not plan to attack the city several times, he tried his best to transform his creativity and memory into real talents and experience through practice.

He carefully outlined the key points of the tunnel excavation in Qibang City, and in the notes he took with him, there was even his outline of the future development trend of the bird gun.

It is absolutely prudent for Chen Mu to completely replace cold weapons with firearms. It is conceivable that firearms and cold weapons have been in parallel for a long time. advantages in.

But it does not mean that this trend cannot be developed. The captured Spanish heavy muskets and past grenades provided Chen Mu with ideas.

After this battle, he will have a good talk with Guan Yuangu about these issues.

"Brother, I'm done digging!"

Shao Tingda broke into Chen Mu's tent at night, and it was his turn to oversee the work tonight. There was only the last bit of work left. After digging, he hurried over to call Chen Mu. He thought Chen Mu had fallen asleep, but unexpectedly, he took a charcoal pencil and ticked off the book. Sketch.

The bannermen of the Xiangshan Qianhu Office didn't understand why their Qianhu didn't like to use large pens, but always carried a few charcoal pencils used by craftsmen on their bodies, and tied them very carefully with thin cloth strips.

Shao Tingda had some guesses about the reason. He had seen the big stone erected by the shipyard on the shore of Xiangshan, and the engraved handwriting on it was really ugly.

Closing the notebook and putting it in a leather wooden backpack that was placed on the ground in the same shape as most flag officers, Chen Mu got up with a happy face, "Dig it out? Wait for a few days, let's go, let's go and have a look."

The large coffin filled with gunpowder was shoved into the tunnel, pushed back and forward, and pushed into the big hole under the city. The heavy coffin was pressed on the bamboo sticks, causing the whole tunnel to resound with weird creaking echoes.

The flag officer gave the order to die, and he was not allowed to shout chant if he tried his best. All the flag soldiers blushed and gritted their teeth and pushed forward, and everyone near the trench had their hearts raised in their throats.

But it was pitch black outside, the Japanese pirates on the city had gone to sleep, and no one noticed all the movements below the city... so what if they found out?

Once the tunnel is dug, the matter will be settled, and no one can stop the fate of Guanghai Weicheng being bombed.

In the middle of several underground potholes, the Banner Army raised the coffin and covered it with a fire rope, and the fire rope was covered with bamboo strips and stretched out for a long distance.The tunnel was slowly sealed off, and a large number of flag soldiers crawled out of the tunnel along the fire rope.

Chen Mu put the torch up, and with the sound of chi chi and smoke, the nitrated matchstick burned slowly and extended into the cave.

In the dark night, the eyes of people looking at the Acropolis reflect the light of torches.

　Chi Chi!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)