It was a matter of time before Hao Yaoqi appeared. As expected, Zhou Shixian had no time to pay too much attention, but put all his energy ahead.

He never believed in ghosts and gods very much, but at this moment, he kept praying in his heart, hoping that the second bridge was still there and had not been washed away by the flood, so that the convoy could cross the river safely.

He thought to himself, at this time, can Father Tang in the cart also exert some magic power?

The drivers driving the big car have already shown their full abilities to allow these ten big cars to run at close to the highest speed, and at the same time, they must control the amplitude of the bumps within a range that can be withstood to prevent the wheels from falling off, the axle breaking or overturning accidents.

Zhou Shixian controlled the horse and trotted on the side of Chongzhen's car, thinking that the emperor and the two princesses in the car must have never suffered such a hardship, but the two cars were silent, which means that they were gritting their teeth and enduring, and even the youngest girl Zhaoren did not shout.

He gritted his teeth and ran along the river for seven or eight miles, and finally saw a stone bridge in front of him across the two sides of the straits. Everyone couldn't help but cheer.

Zhou Shixian thought, thank God, the bridge is still there!

I looked at the big map in my mind and saw the small red dots representing the Shenji Camp and the Sanqian Camp. Sure enough, they were already arranged unevenly on both sides of the road above, and the black flags that rushed from the north were about to enter their ambush range.

The gunshots of the Lumi gun finally rang out, one after another, as if telling the convoy that people should hurry up, we are blocking the enemy's pace for you.

Zhou Shixian pricked up his ears and listened nervously to see if there was a second round of gunfire. If so, it means that the enemy has had a brief chaos and is blocked between the woods, giving them a chance to reload.

If not, it means they are being strangled by the rebels and can no longer block the rebels from the bridgehead.

After a brief silence, the second round of gunfire still rang out as expected! Accompanied by gunfire, the convoy finally arrived at the second bridge that had been long-awaited across the Ziya River.

The river surface of the Ziya River is not too wide, so my predecessors would choose to build a stone bridge here. But because it is not too wide, the river water here seems particularly turbulent, constantly eroding the bridge foundations on both sides, making the river bank here concave inwardly.

This is a single-arch stone bridge with no piers in the middle, and it is supported by the bridge feet of the rivers on both sides. It uses the gravity of the bridge itself to squeeze the stones tightly together.

The bridge deck is wide and the carts are more than enough to pass, so the convoy quickly passed through the second bridge in turn and stopped about ten feet away from the bridge.

Qi Shizi jumped off his horse and ran towards the tenth cart at the end of the convoy. He ran and shouted: "Siucai Luo, I'll take people to set up guns! You point at them to dig holes and cloth medicine!"

The one named Luo Xiucai by Qi Sizhu was the companion who rescued Qi Shizi when he was listening to the prince-in-law in the Ten Prince's Mansion a few days ago. If it weren't for him, Zhou Shixian would have almost regarded Qi Shizi as a spy and killed people.

Luo Xiucai's real name is Luo Xiu. He is not a scholar. He just looks gentle and kind, like a white-faced scholar. In fact, he is also a good player in making firearms. He is the chief officer of the Shenji Camp with Qi Shizi. He heard Qi Shizi's words and agreed, and brought people to the tenth cart. He simply took off the oil cloth tent of the cart, and the things piled up inside were clearly visible.

Two big trucks, one by one, were all firearm gunpowder trucks exclusive to Shenji Camp. Qi Shizi and his six subordinates brought out two large guns from the truck, connected with special lead ball gunpowder, and carried them to the bridge.

This large-scale gun, known as the "Pi Li Cannon", is operated by three people in groups. One person is responsible for loading medicine and ammunition, one person is carrying the muzzle in front, and one is aiming and firing at the back, specializing in shooting shots. It is extremely powerful at mid- and close range. It is the firearm that Qi Danzi is best at. What he is good at is how much gunpowder should be loaded and in what proportion should he put dozens of lead pills of different sizes to achieve the best killing effect.

He came to the bridge, glanced around, and then began to load the medicine and fill the bullets himself, put the first group of guns on the bridge head on the other side of the shore, and put the second group of guns in the center of the bridge.

On the other hand, except for those who were watching the war horses, almost all soldiers ran to the foot of the bridge, using all the tools they could use, or simply digging down the soil on the base of the bridge with both hands.

Although the equipment was not good, fortunately, the soil was wet and soft, so a big hole was dug up under the bridge foundation. Luo Xiu directed the soldiers of the Shenji Camp to block the oil cloth mats removed from the truck under the bottom, and then transported all the gunpowder stored on the tenth truck in packs, carefully piled them into a hill on the cloth, then pulled the tarpaulin and wrapped it, twisted the two fuses into a thread, inserted it into the medicine bag, and then extended it outside the cloth as a fuse for the detonation.

This "explosive pack" made of gunpowder is not powerful enough to directly blow up the foundation of the stone bridge, but as long as the soil on the river bank where the bridge foundation is located is exploded, the bridge foundation loses support and tilts to one side, the stone bridge will naturally collapse.

At this moment, on the road they came in the east, the sound of horse hooves as deep as a sudden rain came, as if countless war drums were ringing quickly, which made people's hearts tingle. Soon, a large group of black armored cavalry, like dark clouds, appeared in people's sight, and rushed towards the two bridges like a storm.

Hao Yaoqi's main force has arrived.

The soldiers who dug holes and loaded medicine climbed up one after another, wiped their hands covered with mud on their robes and armor at will, and each of them returned to their duties, holding their bows with guns and holding their breath. Luo Xiu gave the prince-consort a thumbs up to show that he was ready.

Just as it was done here, Zhou Shixian couldn't wait to order the gun to fire. Three soldiers from the Shenji Camp held their guns to the sky, and fired in turn at half a breath interval.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

The three gunshots were a signal to Wei Donglai and Hairigu who were fighting and blocking two miles away, indicating that the mission had been completed and it was now allowed to be withdrawn!

After a moment, I saw several cavalrymen rushing out from the back of the woods, and then a few more than a dozen, galloping toward Erdaoqiao, and you could see someone swaying immediately and fell under the horse and never got up again.

Then a large group of cavalrymen rushed over, and the cavalrymen who came over the ground like dark clouds on the east side were almost almost at the edge of the bridge, and they wanted to kill this small group of cavalrymen before climbing the bridge.

Zhou Shixian was stunned on the side of the bridge. It was like a big funnel opposite, and everyone was gathering at the mouth of the Erdao Bridge. The Erdao Bridge seemed to be the mouth of the funnel, and it depends on who could be sucked in first.

The line of bridge entrance becomes a line of life and death, separating yin and yang.

After that, you will escape from the heaven of birth.

However, he will be a human being again.
Chapter completed!