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Chapter 254 Directional Blasting
The night was still pitch black, because it was still a rainy day, with light rain falling, and the moisture accumulated for several days had not released light in such a short time.

In the middle of the night, at the southeast corner of Haizhou City, there was a flash of fire.

Then, at the east wall and the west wall, there were figures shaking at the same time, and even a figure descended under the city wall, but there was no shadow to be seen on the pitch-black city wall, let alone the captive soldiers.

The southern city wall, ten feet east of Quyang Gate, is facing the channel built by the captive soldiers to fill the river, and it is also a key point for the captive soldiers to attack the city. Under the city wall, there are a large number of shield vehicles abandoned by the captive soldiers. Suddenly more than a dozen vehicles were abandoned. The two-day shield car creaked and moved, and went straight to the moat passage.

The person pushing the cart remained silent, quickly, calmly and decisively, until the shield cart was pushed to the center of the passage, a few feet ahead was the opposite bank of the river, and a few feet back was the other side.

More than a dozen shield vehicles lined up to block the narrow passage.

At this time, someone finally heard someone say: "Hurry up, hurry up!"

The person who spoke was just sticking to the back of the shield car, looking carefully at the other side of the river, always on guard against the appearance of captive soldiers. There were more than a dozen people with him. If you look carefully, there are sparks in their hands. Dodge, that's the matchlock, the matchlock on the blunderbuss, this is a group of bludgeoners.

Behind them, there are more than 30 busy figures, desperately digging out the sandbag in the middle of the passage.

This is not an easy job. After many days of captive soldiers trampling on it, and the infiltration of river water, these sandbags are very tight.

After more than 30 people worked hard to dig up the first sandbag, it seemed a little easier, just like removing a brick on the wall will destroy the integrity, and moving other bricks will easily block it.

Soon bags of sandbags were lifted out, and the opponent supported the shield car behind the shield car, turning it into a sandwich wall.

Soon, ten sandbags were dug out of the passage four to five feet wide, revealing ten cavities, and these people did not try to dig out all the sandbags, but dug directly downwards, digging the cavities deeper Many sandbags were soaked and swollen, and they could not be pulled out at all. They used shovels, chisels, shovels, and even hands to dig out the mud mixed with water.

The hole was soon over two feet deep.

"Quick!"

At this time, the leading bird gunman shouted in a low voice, and he saw a group of black shadows appearing not far away.

But it was too late, the group of black shadows actually moved towards them, very fast, and accompanied by a sound, it was a group of cavalry.

The captives appeared.

Immediately, the captive soldiers shouted and shouted, and then they heard the sound of beeping. The captive soldiers shot arrows, and the arrows only hit the shield chariot.

There is no reason not to fight back after being attacked. After a while of fighting, these bird gunners are the ones who are least afraid of captive soldiers, because in the contest with captive soldier archers, they can always have an advantage. By the time 30 people were injured, more than a thousand captives had been wiped out.

So the officer at the head of the blunderbuss cursed secretly and issued an order. More than a dozen bludgeoners suddenly raised their heads at the same time, put the blunderbuss on the shield car, and then fired a row of guns. Although it was night, the captives were cavalry , The man is tall and the horse is big, the target is big. A row of bird guns hit the past, and soon heard a few cries of pain. I don't know if anyone was killed, but some captive soldiers must have been injured.

This kind of result made the captive soldiers flustered instantly, and even retreated a lot.

This bought time for the soldiers who dug the hole, and they soon dug to about three feet, and then they finally stopped digging.

Put in the shape of a large wooden barrel next to it, and then pull out a thread to unfold it.

"All right!"

At this time, the man who dug the hole said.

At this time, the bird gunner said: "You go first! I feel that those are patrols of captive soldiers. They must go back and call for people. Soon there will be captive soldiers to attack."

The man who dug the hole shouted and cursed: "Damn, hurry up, don't delay!"

After finishing speaking, he said to himself: "Let's go!"

Seeing this group of people walk to the river bank, they lit a thread with a torch.

The bird gunner was a little aggrieved, but he could only leave, but suddenly he heard the sound of horseshoes coming from the opposite side, and the large army of captive soldiers came.

Soon, he was able to vaguely distinguish the shaking black shadow, and judged that the distance was about forty or fifty steps away. The gunman shouted and opened fire again!
Crack, clap, a row of gunshots.

Crack, clap, another row of gunshots.

After firing four rows of guns in a row, the soldiers' horses stopped charging long ago, but they felt that the black shadow was still shaking and getting closer. Obviously, the soldiers did not give up, but dismounted and rushed over on foot.

But the gunmen of the bird gunners had finished firing. They each prepared five bird guns when they came out, all of which were loaded and carried on their backs. To start fire again, they only needed to change the matchlock again, so they could guarantee to shoot five guns in a short time. gun.

The purpose was to block the captive soldiers, so as to buy time for the companions who dug the hole behind. Unexpectedly, it was almost useless. The captive soldiers did not rush up to protect the passage at the first time, but went back to call for support.

As a result, just as he was about to leave, he encountered a large army of captive soldiers. The bird gunner didn't want to waste the loaded bird guns, so he shot out the other four bird guns at once.

At this time, I saw that the group of guys who dug the pit had already run to the base of the city wall, and more than half of the matchlock they ignited had already burned more than half. Run wildly towards the city wall.

When they got to the edge of the city wall, the hanging baskets were already waiting for them below. For this mission, fifty hanging baskets were installed on the city.

The gunners jumped onto the hanging basket one by one and shouted. The rope of the hanging basket was quickly tightened, and then it was lifted up with a sway.

The gunners' eyes were only on the passage, and they could vaguely see where the captive soldiers had arrived and were moving the shield cart away. They also saw that the matchlock on the shield cart's side was almost burning in front of the shield cart.

On the city wall, those guys who were digging pits just now were also watching. They saw the fire rope burn to the shield car, and then disappeared, but they were not worried at all, because they knew that the fire rope burned into the hole.

That means it's about to explode.

Sure enough, in less than twenty breaths, I suddenly saw the fire bursting, then heard the deafening explosion, and then felt the Haizhou City under my feet beating.

And that channel, the channel filled with sandbags, the damned sandbags in the channel, suddenly flew up, flying up and down several feet.

As all soldiers involved knew, they succeeded, the passage was destroyed!
They heard the general tell them that this is called directional blasting, which can blow down a hill in one fell swoop!
This power is really big enough!
Everyone thought so.

"What is this?"

Suddenly a soldier yelled. He felt a sticky thing fall on his helmet. He lit it with a torch and pulled it out. It was bloody and disgusting. It turned out to be a piece of rotten meat.

The soldier immediately understood that this should be the captive soldiers who were dismantling the shield car. They didn't know that they were on top of a large pile of gunpowder, and they were blown up. Haizhou City is coming up.

"Hey, what!"

"Damn, who lost his hand!"

"Who throws shoes!"

"Whose helmet is this!"

"Knife, who hit me with a knife!"

A soldier just threw away the disgusting piece of meat in his hand, and then heard a group of people complaining, only to see that all kinds of things were falling from the sky at this time, including sand, rotten cloth, and stumps of hands and feet, There were even armor fragments, helmets and swords and other objects, but they all fell from the sky high, but they didn't have much lethality. They didn't hurt a few people, but only caused waves of curses!

The soldier was shocked immediately, and couldn't help but look towards the passage, thinking in his heart that the barbarian soldiers were torn to pieces!

Right next to each other, suddenly he heard another explosion at a distance. The sound came from the east. The soldiers knew that the passage to the east had also exploded, and the captive soldiers would not be able to attack everyone again.

At this time in the city, Yang Chao was relieved after hearing the second explosion, knowing that his subordinates had succeeded.

This time he sent 100 people to carry out the blasting mission. He had tried it once before, and it was very laborious to use people to dig the passage. However, Yang Chao was a student of architecture in the past, and he knew the technique of directional blasting to destroy buildings quickly.

So the last time I went to a fireworks shop to ask them to prepare gunpowder, and then went to the blacksmith shop to help them make things, the purpose is to blast the passage.

It's just that Yang Chao didn't know the power of black powder, and it would be too troublesome to calculate it experimentally, so he planned to be on the safe side and packed all the more than 2000 catties of gunpowder he could find into twenty large barrels cast by blacksmiths.

These large barrels are made of cast iron, and there is only a small opening the size of a longan on the top, and the matchlock can be put in.

This kind of match is not the slow-burning kind used on bird guns, but the kind of fast-burning fuse used by fireworks and firecrackers. In order to prevent moisture, more than ten pieces are twisted together, and the outside is wrapped with a thick layer. The oiled paper is afraid of being wet by water.

The effect of a thousand catties of gunpowder exploding at the same time was astonishing. Not only did it explode the passage, but it also killed an unknown number of captive soldiers. This was an unexpected gain.

Two explosions meant that the east and south passages were destroyed.

The moat of the city wall of Haizhou is far away, so crossing the river is not like placing a suspension bridge directly from the city gate like some cities, but building a wooden bridge on the river, but before the captive soldiers besieged the city, all the wooden bridges on the river were covered. demolished.

Therefore, the bombing of the passage means that the captive soldiers lost the opportunity to directly approach the city wall of Haizhou.

From now on, as long as he guards and prevents the captive soldiers from filling up the river easily again, then Yang Chao will completely grasp the initiative. Whether to take the initiative to attack or continue to hold on depends on his plan. Instead, the captive soldiers can only wait for Yang Chao's actions. .

But Yang Chao didn't plan to counterattack yet, the most urgent thing now was to deal with his own internal affairs, he had to comfort the soldiers first.

(End of this chapter)