choke element

Chapter 408 of

Rocket?

What is this thing for?Could it be that kerosene and firewood were piled up in the coffin, and Ding Haijun was going to set fire to the city.

That's impossible, how could the rammed earth city walls burn?

Or, is that a large iron cannon?
Yidu Mansion is an important town in Shandong. In the early years when the military was not yet relaxed, there were indeed several iron cannons in the arsenal. Zhang Lin saw it with his own eyes.

It is said that the thing is tied with an iron pot to hold the medicine. You only need to light it with fire, and the cannon will ignite. The sound is like thunder, which can be heard hundreds of miles away. It is transparent, so it has another name, called "Shocking Thunder".

However, that thing was produced by the Zhongdu Military Weapons Supervision, the price is frighteningly expensive, and one is used less than one, so after it was sent to Yidu Mansion, it was suppressed in the arsenal, and no one really regarded it as a commonly used weapon. .

When Taihe attacked the Song Dynasty, because the Song people used paper and cloth paper as fireballs to burn and destroy the enemy, the Shandong Commander Division at that time sent people to open the arsenal, intending to take these things out to fight the enemy.It turned out that the storage was not good, and it had been rusted out of shape.

It would be interesting if the coffin in front of me was an iron cannon.I don't know how powerful it is...

Just as Zhang Lin thought of this, the rocket was already directly on top of the coffin.Seeing something like a rope being ignited, sparks shot out.

In the next instant, there was a deafening explosion.The city wall shook violently, Zhang Lin couldn't stand, and fell to the ground, only to feel that the world was spinning in front of him.That was not an illusion, the ground was really shaking, as if it was about to shatter into countless small pieces and collapse into the abyss!
Zhang Lin yelled loudly, using his hands and feet to maintain his balance, fell down several times, and stood up several times.

On one occasion he fell down beside the captured cronies.Then it was even more horrifying to find that someone's mouth, nose and ears were oozing blood.

A huge sense of fear suddenly seized Zhang Lin's heart, making him continue to shout subconsciously.Beside him, those soldiers under the command of Heshi Lie Yawu Tower, Liu Qingfu and others were also shouting wildly.But no matter how hard they shouted, they couldn't hear their own voices.

After the terrifying roar just now, there was only a sharp whistling in Zhang Lin's ears. This whistling covered everything and brought severe pain, as if someone was piercing his eardrum with a sharp knife. Dive into the head.

Zhang Lin was lying on the ground and groping around. He originally wanted to find a knife to separate the ropes binding his subordinates, but when he was groping, he suddenly became impatient, so he directly grabbed a person with both hands and led him towards the ramp to the city. pull.

At this time, gravel and clods suddenly fell from the sky like dense raindrops.Several fist-sized bricks fell on Zhang Lin's head, knocking him to the ground immediately.

He touched it with his backhand, and his hand was covered with blood. His heart almost stopped beating for a moment, as if his head was shattered and he was about to die here.

When I was in despair, the earth and rocks falling from the sky became thinner, and what continued to fall were replaced by many broken limbs, torsos, and even broken internal organs, and incomplete people!

Mixed between these things is blood, like a waterfall being blown away by the wind, and the blood is floating all over the sky.

It turned out that it wasn't my blood, it was the blood of the people who were on that section of the city wall when it exploded.

When the huge thunder exploded, there were at least three to five hundred defenders on that section of the city wall, including more than 200 elite soldiers from the Hebei Jin Army. Most of these people were probably turned into pieces of meat. Even if it was not shattered by luck, it would be buried by the collapsed city wall and crushed into a pulp!
Zhang Lin suddenly understood.The strong sense of gratitude made him laugh like weeping.

He still couldn't hear the sound, but the smoke in the air, the pungent smell of burning gunpowder, and the strong bloody smell immediately choked him, causing him to cough heart-piercingly.

Zhang Lin knelt on the ground and gasped for a while, then continued to pull on his subordinates.

When going down the ramp, he noticed the thick and long iron hammer that Heshi Lieyawta once held in his hand.At this moment, the hammer was sent flying a hundred paces away, and fell to the bottom of the city wall, with the head of the hammer deeply pierced into the ground.

So, where is Heshilie Yawuta himself?

Zhang Lin looked around with bloodshot eyes.

Of course not.

This position is on the inner side of the city wall, and the impact received is much smaller than that on the tower, but all the defenders gathered here were stunned, standing or sitting, letting the mud and dust continue to pour on the ground. Their heads and bodies turned them into clay figurines.

While Zhang Lin was trying his best to help his companions, Guo Ning was trying his best to appease the frightened neighing horse, combing the horse's mane and whispering in the horse's ear.

War horses are very sensitive animals, even if they have retreated more than 200 steps, this roar is still too terrifying for war horses.

Beside Guo Ning, many knights were equally busy.Some people really couldn't control the horses under their crotches, so they had to let the horses kick and jump all the way, ran far outside the army formation, and passed through the infantry ranks.

On weekdays, the pawns would inevitably laugh a few words.

But at this time, the pawns were also dumbfounded and stunned.Some people couldn't even hold the torch in their hands. As a result, the torch fell to the ground and burned their own calves.

"Too much gunpowder was used!" Guo Ning said loudly, "I don't think it was so loud in the last experiment in the dirt mountain! Zhang Shengzhi must be careful, how can he be so nonsense! Look, he almost killed Zhao. I was definitely injured by the blast!"

Over the years, the use of gunpowder weapons in the military has increased.When Guo Ning was in Zhongdu that day, he suffered from the iron cannon.So since he arrived in Laizhou, he also arranged for special personnel under the Ordnance Department to promote this aspect.

The earth mountain he was talking about was a remote barren mountain forty miles southeast of Laizhou. Because the mountain ridges surrounded the city like a city, the Ordnance Department used it as a testing ground for gunpowder weapons.There are several high-level officials from Qixia, Dengzhou, who have studied Waidan, and Zhang Shengzhi, as a senior official of the Ordnance Department, is in charge there.

However, things like gunpowder weapons are difficult to manufacture, store and transport.During the research process, there were several accidental explosions, killing people and causing injuries.

Up to now, the Ordnance Department has not been able to produce the hand-held throwing weapons that Guo Ning needs, but has accumulated a lot of gunpowder of various qualities.

In the past few months, the mine supervisor and the ordnance department joined hands to use these gunpowder in large quantities at one time to dig mines.Later, the Ordnance Department kept some more explosive ones, carefully packed them in huge wooden boxes, and planned to use them for attacking the city in the future.

For this attack, Guo Ning took two of them and used one in Yidu.

Xu Wei patted the ashes on her body, and replied loudly: "Jie Shuai, we didn't use much gunpowder! The reason why it exploded like this is because part of it used the new formula tried out by Daoist Yuyangzi...the power is so powerful A little bit!"

"Damn... Is this a little bit more powerful? A little bit?"

Guo Ning couldn't help cursing.After scolding, he turned his head and told Ni Yi: "We still have a thunderbolt, we must be careful in transportation and storage, so that nothing goes wrong. You send someone to watch it!"

"As ordered."

Guo Ning turned to Xu Yu again: "Give a great contribution to the Armament Division. In addition, after returning, remember to give the Quanzhen Sect additional offerings, and give Yuyangzi some thank-you gifts in my own name."

"Yes."

The crowd continued to stare at the scene of the explosion.

Just in front of the Dinghai army formation, even in the night, the dust raised was terrifying, like a yellow dragon with teeth and claws rolling and flying.

A few brave Dinghai scouts stood against the dust and moved forward holding their torches high.

They passed Zhao Jue, who was still in a daze holding a longbow, and walked all the way to the vicinity of the city.

There were no defenders shooting arrows in the city to stop them.But the flames were everywhere, and under the dust, a whole section of the city wall had completely collapsed and collapsed, forming a gap with high sides and low middle.The gap is in the middle, and it is about ten steps wide. Although there are broken bricks and broken walls, you can run on foot and ride like walking on flat ground!
it's time.

Guo Ning raised his whip and pointed: "Beat the drum, march!"

The sound of drums rumbled, and dozens of military flags and general flags representing various ministries waved at the same time, like a tide like a sea, like a burning flame.According to the previous arrangement, the soldiers started to move forward with shouts of killing, like waves rising and falling in a sea of ​​fire.

At this time, Wang Shixian had already returned to the west gate of Yidu. Hearing the order, he also urged the army and horses forward to attack the city as a response.

He is an old soldier, and when he looked at the situation at the top of the city from a long distance, he knew that the defenders were frightened by the loud noise, and they were all in panic.

Wang Shixian laughed.

The momentum of the two armies ebbed and flowed, and the battle was won.After half an hour at most, Ding Haijun will definitely take Yidu and control the core town of Shandong East Road.

He suddenly thought about the military newspaper he received during the day.The military newspaper said that Li Ting had led his troops into Mizhou.But I don't know what's going on with Li Ting at this moment?
The soldiers and horses of the West Route are as powerful as a broken bamboo. If the progress of the South Route Army is slow, Li Erlang will be ashamed when we talk about it in the future.

(End of this chapter)