Chapter 14 Bomb the City
More than ten days were not enough for the defenders to dig out the required trenches around the entire city. In the area without trenches, only the firewood screen on the frozen moat protected the city wall. The Qin army rushed into the river to chop the firewood. Due to the angle, the cannons on the city wall were inconvenient to bombard the firewood. The real defense was just the grenades thrown down by the defenders on the wall.
The power of grenadiers is too small, and most of them are bombed several times. Fortunately, Shouying is a production site for grenadiers. The grenadiers dropped by the defenders are generally dense in raindrops. Amid the continuous explosions, despite the protection of the giant armor, the Qin army was still bombed and the chopping force was blocked.
"Fire!" The artillery that the Qin army pushed near was lined up inside and outside. The witchcraft led Zhong to see that the Qin soldiers under the city were blocked and immediately ordered the artillery to be fired.
The Qin army's artillery was all captured. The artillery soldiers were desperate craftsmen who were blown up in the explosion chamber. Before Zhong Gan gave the order, they had aimed at the defenders on the city wall. At this time, with a command, "Boom, Boom, Boom...", dozens of artillery cannons shook violently, and the shells flying out either hit the city wall, hit the female wall, or passed by the wall, and there was a piece of mud chip on the city wall.
"Long live!" It has been pressed and beaten by the Chu army's artillery. This was the first time that the Qin army fought under the cover of its own artillery. The soldiers in the river burst into cheers. They raised their shields to avoid grenades and stood up and continued to chop the Chaifan. The people were so powerful that these Chaifans buried deep in the ground were quickly cut off by the Qin soldiers. The long-awaited soldiers rushed down the fat water and filled the obstacles. Two rushing cars were pushed by people and rushed to the embankment, and hit the thick city wall with a "bang".
"The Qin people are chiseling the city! The Qin people are chiseling the city..." As the first sound of chiseling the wall was magnified by the urn on the city wall, the listener shouted in panic. Ba Hu and others changed their expressions. Of course, he had seen the power of gunpowder bombing the city. There was no city wall that could not be blown up in front of gunpowder.
"Quickly report to the Grand Sima, the Qin people dig the city!" Ba Hu quickly calmed down and first reported the Qin people's actions to the Grand Sima Mansion.
The Qin army besieged all over the four sides, with rumbling cannons all over the four sides. The Qin people's military newspapers were not one but three, the north, south, and east of the city were all in the city. Naoji heard that the military newspaper's originally tense face was tense even tighter, but Li Qi laughed. No matter how urgent the situation was, at least the behavior of the Qin army did not break out of the War Department's expectations.
Don't give me no expression on my face. Military newspapers from the city came one by one. While he raised his heart, he still did not forget to observe the reactions of everyone present. Li Qi's smile surprised him, but he was only surprised for a moment. He could not understand Qin.
"This is the spear of your son and the shield of your son." Yu Jing was waving in the wind at the top of Zijin Mountain. Liu Chi couldn't help laughing as he looked at the Qin army who were digging the city at the foot of the mountain and the artillery that covered the Qin army's digging the city. The best thing the Qin army is to learn the enemy's methods and then fight back against the enemy. This was the case against Wei before, and now it is the case against Chu.
However, he was too happy too early. As soon as he finished speaking, the defenders in the city risked their lives to throw heavy grenades at the two rushers under the city. The two rushers were blown up several times, and dense turbulence followed one after another. "Hu——" The city immediately turned into a sea of fire, and violent flames passed over the top of the city. More than a dozen Qin soldiers who were digging the city under the city screamed in the sea of fire and finally fell down.
"It's so..." Wang Jian murmured. He had blown up Linzi's city walls before, but the Qi people were not Chu people, so there was no such cracking method. "What should I do?" he shouted loudly.
"The witchcraft should be used to smash the female walls on the top of the city to make the Jing people unable to access it." The Qin army, who used artillery for the first time, was not skilled and the cover was not in place. If it were the Chu army, the female walls above the chiseled city would have collapsed long ago, so that the Qin soldiers on the city could not gain a foothold.
"Good. Tell General Bai..." Wang Jian was about to order. Tu Sui's cannons fired, and the shells hit the above the city hall. All the female walls collapsed. The defenders who had not retreated were either broken or directly knocked down the city hall. With the sound of cannons, two other rushing vehicles on the north bank of Feishui were pushed across the river and hit the previous city hall. The city hall began again.
There was no female wall covering the city, and the defenders could no longer throw grenades calmly. If the grenades were thrown out from the city, it would be difficult to land on the rushing car close to the city wall. When the defenders finally thought of a way to clear the city and try to roll the grenades down the outer wall, the Qin soldiers who were chiseling the wall had already been deeply chiseled in. Even if the rushing car was blown over, the people inside were not damaged.
The turtle oil was also ineffective at this time. The mouth of the city was several feet higher than the ground. The turtle oil could only burn on the ground and could not burn into the hole. Before the Qin soldiers in the cave were smoked by fireworks, the turtle oil on the ground had flowed into the lower-lying Feishui River.
In this case, it was only a matter of time before the city was broken. After noon, except for the artillery guards in Kuanqian, the sword and shield warriors behind Kuanqian, and the three thousand Ba people warriors guarding the north city all retreated from the city wall and retreated to the inside of the trench inside the city wall, preparing for a tragic street battle with the Qin army. The defenders in the east and south of the city also retreated from the city wall and guarded the inside of the trench in the city to prepare for street battle.
Outside the city, taking advantage of the last moment, the Qin general who led his army to attack the city was summoned the military academy, Quhou, the 2500 Lords, and the 500 Lords to conduct the last military discussion. The sun was dizzy at the noon of the first lunar month. Bai Lin looked at the late Langzhong Ba people chief slightly dissatisfied, but the soldiers who were digging the wall were about to explode the city, and he had to rely on the Ba people to fight in the streets. His Adam's apple moved and secretly suppressed his dissatisfaction.
"If this battle is won, our army will attack Jiangdong in a few months. If it attacks Jiangdong, the soldiers will return home at the end of this year." Bai Lin seemed to be talking to everyone present, but in fact he was talking to the people of Langzhong. Only Langzhong Ba people did not care about military merits and titles. Everyone from top to bottom hoped that they could return to Shu as soon as possible. After Fan Mei's translation, the chief of the Ba people looked at Bai Lin and waited for his words below.
"If this battle cannot be won and the city cannot be pulled down, the Jing people set up defenses in Jiangdong. The war must be postponed to the next year and the next year, and the soldiers will find it difficult to return home." Bai Lin looked at the chiefs. He knew the Qin soldiers very well. The Qin soldiers who listed the spear formation on the flat ground were better than the Ba people; the chaotic terrain was opposite. The Ba people were like fish in water, and Qin soldiers holding spears were everywhere. "Therefore, after the explosion of the city, the soldiers should enter the city quickly. The Jing people may ignite the dry firewood and oil in the trenches in the city, but then rushed through this fire wall, and our army would definitely win in the attack..."
Hurry! It was Bai Lin's only request for his subordinates. At this time, the chief lieutenant Su Fu's lips squirmed, including the shogunate Wu Goubei and others, they were worried that the defenders would bury witch medicine in the city. After all, siege was the battlefield for the defenders to choose the battlefield. Seeing Bai Lin's instructions, he had to swallow the words he said again - the shogunate had such concerns, but the countermeasures discussed by the shogunate counselors were still to enter the city quickly. The witch medicine was blown up once and there was no second time. As long as he rushed over and won, he would belong to the Qin army.
Xiaoqian passed by. When the time of the sanitation was about to end, the city was burned to the end. Qin soldiers who had landed the gunpowder lit up the flag. Seeing the flag of the defenders, thousands of Ba people and a lieutenant from Huanglong hurried into the battlefield. The defenders on Quelou waved their flags one after another, indicating that the defenders in the city might be about to explode the city.
The Qin army's movements were obviously faster than the defenders' reactions. The flag bearer on the Que Tower waved the red flag to warn. Suddenly the earth shook, and a large section of the city wall suddenly soared into the sky in the smoke and dust. The Ba people behind the city wall looked at this scene and couldn't believe it. The Naoji and Li Qi and others were also opening their mouths in surprise. The Qin army finally broke the city.
"Attack--!" Before the rammed earth was gone, the five hundred commanders of the Qin army, and the hundred generals loudly ordered the soldiers in front of them. The soldiers who were too close to the explosion were still a little panicked at this time, but when they saw the gaps that were blown out on the city wall, they came to their senses and waved their chief spears and shouted: "Kill! Kill!"
The Qin army rushed to the gap, and thousands of Ba people in front of them had poured into the city in a swarm of swarms. The blasted city wall was about one mile away from the trench in the city. The Ba people in cloth armor ran silently, but their feet were running towards the trench. However, what is strange is that the defenders standing on the earth wall behind the trench did not ignite the dry firewood or kerosene in the trench. Their only obstacle was the chariots that were tramping on the snow.
The enemy rushed towards him, and more and more, and soon swallowed up all the open space between the city walls and the trenches. When the Ba people in cloth armor jumped into the trenches and began to climb the earth wall, the guards called for artillery. The sound of artillery was sparse, and the artillery attacks not only did not stop the Qin army from rushing forward, but more and more Qin soldiers rushed into the trenches and set up long ladders.
"There are many people in Qin! Qu Sima..." Looking at the Qin people who were like tides in front of the trenches, even the brave people would have a numb head. Ba Hu shouted at his Sima Qu Sui.
Yesterday, he was invited to the Grand Sima Mansion for questioning because he fired an unauthorized artillery. Qu Lue was a little confused at that time. Afterwards, I don’t suspect that I am the Qin Marquis. He felt as uncomfortable as if he had swallowed a mouse. He did not sleep all night, and today the Qin army attacked Beicheng fiercely, Qu Lue felt even more guilty. He didn’t hear Bahu’s shouting, but when some Qin soldiers rushed to the earth wall and were driven down, Bahu had to wake him up who was stunned.
"Why?Why?!" Ba Hu pointed at the Qin people under the wall and shouted at him.
"Ah?" Seeing that there were Qin people in front of the trench, Qu Lu quickly broke free from Bahu's pull. He rushed into the wall and pointed at the city and shouted: "Blast--!"
"Blast!" The workers inside the wall were waiting for the order, and immediately waved the flag when he heard this.
‘Boom boom boom boom-’, the defenders did not bury gunpowder underground, but placed the gunpowder on the chariot at the Qin army's location. As soon as they got angry, the chariots outside the wall exploded one by one. The chariots were not pure gunpowder, but also carefully prepared shotguns and stone flakes. In the explosion, the shotguns and stone flakes flew across the field, harvesting the lives of Qin soldiers.
The continuous explosions, and the bravest Ba people rushed forward and rushed towards the broken wall. The two places in the east and south of the city happened to explode the city at this time. The feeling of the earth shaking mountains aggravated the shock of the Qin soldiers. Bai Lin's short-soldiers arranged in the gap could not help but panic, and were actually blocked by the defeated soldiers and fled to the north bank of Feishui.
Chapter completed!