Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 354: Unstoppable

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In the mysterious and deep Yangtze River Valley Road, a large number of people on the north bank are like a long black-lacquered torrent, but now they have stopped and blocked the road; the fortification of the Shu Army in front is a flood control embankment, blocked aisle. The noisy sound rippled back and forth between the jagged mountains on both sides of the strait, like the roar of a mountain torrent.

Sergeant Zhou in front of the fort was digging a trench, and he was so busy, like a rescue scene. Soldiers in the winding trenches, not holding weapons, but hoes and shovel, desperately plowing the soil.

In this place, the underground is not stone but soil, so the Shu army can dig a deep trench in front of the fort, and Zhou army can naturally dig it too. The difference from the work scene is that the rocks on the head are flying around, and the rocks thrown by the stone cannons "bang" on the ground. Occasionally, a stone fell into the dirt ditch, causing Sergeant Zhou to scream.

So people couldn't help but look up at the sky while digging the soil.

The ground outside the trench was full of stones, and the stone cannons of the Shu army did not stop for a moment. Arrows fly from time to time, but most of them can't shoot the people in the ditch. The Shu Army’s passive defensive sandbag tactics could only use long-range attempts to attack the Zhou Army to dig trenches, but the army did not come out and was blocked behind the deep trench fortress by its own fortifications.

In the rear camp, Guo Shao was sitting in front of a rough wooden table, looking around. The wooden case is so rough that it has only one board and a few stones. With paper, pen and ink on the boards, he now looks like a construction engineer, not a general.

"The ditch was dug up to the fort. You two personally went up to supervise it, continue digging as I said, and report the situation in detail. Be sure to look carefully. An error is equivalent to ineffective combat!" Guo Shao said to the next person A minister was talking.

The general asked carefully: "Will the gunpowder blow up ourselves?"

"No!" Guo Shao said affirmatively, "This is directional blasting, don't worry."

Guo Shao has never done the job of blasting, but he has seen it before and can understand and figure out the law: gunpowder will leak energy in the most vulnerable direction of the seal, otherwise the unsealed gunpowder will not explode, but it will Expansion of thermal energy sprayed from the gap? There are also artillery guns, because the wall cannot be blasted, and the energy will be directed from the muzzle. In my life, the balloon that was inflated, I took a needle to poke a small hole, and the place where it burst and tear is also the location of the puncture.

Ren Guo Shao has learned a lot of knowledge and is not quite clear about the principles of this profession, but life and knowledge have already told him the law.

Guo Shao pointed to the drawing on the drawing and explained it to the Ministry. This person had previously fought in battles and had done "acupoint attacks", and he was good at digging tunnels and building siege fortifications. Therefore, Guo Shao felt that he should be a little more reliable and at least have experience in supervising civil work. Guo Shao himself wouldn't go up and "put guns and arrows" on his head. The rocks and arrows flew on his head, so close to the fortress. Wouldn't he be wronged if he was smashed to death by bad luck? He felt that if he did not die, he would not die.

...The former army didn't dig the tunnel directly. It was too much trouble. It was much faster for a group of people to dig a trench in the open and approach the fortress.

Everyone dug another trench before the trench fortifications of the Shu army. The sandbags were shipped in front. The distance between them was less than twenty steps. The two sides could see what the other side looked like. Rao was so close, and the Shu Army had nothing to do with them for a while. The heavy weapons of this era are the stone thrower and the ballista. The stone thrower throws stones from the head. The accuracy and frequency are limited. Of course, the most limited is the lethality. Occasionally, the stone hits, and at most one person is killed or injured. The gun fired flat, unable to hit the people hiding in the ditch.

Then General Zhou Jun, who is proficient in acupoint attack, is asking people to dig a hole. This hole is much simpler than digging a tunnel. It is like digging a well and digging a hole from the back diagonally. After the hole was dug down, it was dug up diagonally, and the tunnel was like a flat "V" shape.

The hole is not deep, so it was dug in less than half a day.

"Get here! Quick!" The military commander turned his head and urged. A stone suddenly "banged" on the dirt ditch next to him, which surprised him, and his neck shrank down.

I saw some people in the trench hunched over with baskets carrying stones and stones, and some people behind them were carrying coffins. Of course, the coffin contained gunpowder instead of corpses. The stuff that Zhou Jun had prepared long ago was originally intended to blow up the city when Jiancheng couldn't be captured; fortunately, the whole country had prepared for the battle of Shu. Time, the amount of gunpowder is sufficient.

It's noon now, and some soldiers are sitting in the dirt ditch and eating wheat cakes with water. Suddenly, when the military commander looked back, a soldier's head was hit by a stone cannon, and his helmet could not stop the stone. The soldier fell into the ditch with a **** head without even screaming. A wisp of blood flowed out of the helmet to soak the mud. He still had a piece of wheat cake in his mouth. The general looked at the cake in his mouth and cursed uncomfortably: "Fuck!"

People were dead everywhere, and the military commander didn't bother to get into the hole himself. The other exit of the cave is facing the Shu Army fortress, and the opening is on the deep ditch wall that the Shu Army dug by itself, leaving a thin layer of soil.

There is still a candle in the hole, but the light coming in through a small hole in the hole is brighter than the candle. The military commander leaned in front of the hole and looked out for a while, took the candle from the soldier's hand, and carefully looked at the surrounding pit wall. The left and right sides and the bottom have been rammed with wooden beams, and wooden beams have been erected on the top... Ramming soil is the most familiar and exquisite work for people at this time, because at this time, most of the repairs of city walls and residential buildings are done with soil ramming. ; Brick walls are rather rare.

"Stones and rocks are mixed and the soil is sealed in the front first, and there is no need to make it too solid." The military commander ordered.

The soldiers with baskets in the back came up to get busy. Not long after, the general ordered the coffin with gunpowder to be put inside, a total of eight coffins. (Why is it eight? Guo Shao himself doesn't know why. Anyway, it's too much. You don't need to worry about the cost too much.) The lead wire is wrapped in tarp with gunpowder, and the front section is wrapped in a thin bamboo tube.

When Lei finished the coffin, the military commander ordered the soldiers to ram the earth and rammed the coffin firmly with earth. The tunnel at the back continues to be rammed and filled with soil all the way to the back.

The Shu Army seems to be busy too, maybe they think Zhou Jun is digging tunnels to attack, they obviously haven't figured out the situation. It is impossible for the acupoint attack to make any progress without ten days and a half months, and the Shu army has time to temporarily defend underground.

...A lonely light boat with the flag of the Zhou Dynasty is on the river, and the oars on both sides of the boat are like centipedes, slowly sailing upstream. "Pump..." Some stones fell into the river from mid-air, and the ship quickly turned and ran down the river. A loud noise came from behind the Shu Army fortress, as if mocking the embarrassing look of the ship peeping at the Shu Army.

The flags on the ships kept shaking from side to side.

On the shore, a military commander was holding his fist and said: "De Ling!" Then he drew his sword from his waist, raised it high, and shouted: "Offensive!"

The war drum "dongdongdong" rang, the flags on the flanks were flattened, and the infantry in formation slowly approached forward. Not long after, the stones on his head flew up, and there was a scream from the army. After dozens of steps, the bow and crossbow in the two-story fortress also shot out arrows. Sergeant Zhou holding an iron-skin wooden shield, the team is a bit messy.

The wooden ladders in front fell down one after another, "Kill..." shouts roared in the mountains, and the army rushed forward with swords and shields. I saw the flag waving on the wooden arrow tower behind the fortress of the Shu army, and the defenders should have come out of the Tibetan army cave to prepare for battle.

The generals of the Zhou army scrambled to climb up the wooden ladder, the stones and the arrows on their heads like rain.

The arrows in the fort flew horizontally, and there was even a giant arrow with a large ballistic arm; the archers were shooting arrows on the wooden fence behind the Shu army higher than the fort.

"Hush hush..." The boat on the river rowed up again. There were no stone cannons to hit it this time. The stone artillery of the Shu army were all hitting the men and horses attacking the fortress. The flag on the ship changed directions and waved back and forth.

At this time, Zhou Jinming was in the rear of the army, and the soldiers who had just rushed turned around and ran away, and the crowd would generally go towards the low tide.

There was a "clang" sound, and the Zhou army yelled. The rebel soldiers who had just returned fell to the ground one after another under the shout of the military commander. The scene was very strange. The soldiers in the back stared at the front with rounded eyes, as if they were expecting something. Many people held their breath, and the noise here was unexpectedly very weird_ suddenly reduced.

At this moment, there was a loud bang, and the green hills on both sides of the Yangtze River seemed to shake. People clearly felt a tremor on the ground, as if there was an earthquake. In an instant, firelight and thick smoke burst out in front together, and a large number of stones and soil exploded like a volcanic eruption. "Papa......" The rocks hit the earthen fort and rock wall with a terrifying sound. They seem to destroy everything ahead, unstoppable.

A thousand kilograms of gunpowder lifted the deep soil surface, and everything leaned forward and flew out much faster than the arrow. If the stones were not blocked, they would have to fly a mile or two. . The rush of gunpowder immediately enveloped all the places in front of him and saw nothing.

"Boom boom boom..." Like a continuous muffled thunder, the explosion sound still echoed in the mountains on both sides of the strait for a long time. Countless people have been shocked.

After a while, far behind the Shu army, the upper layer of the arrow tower was not filled with smoke for the time being, "whispering...crushing..." The arrow tower slowly fell backward amidst the sound of wood rubbing.

The Zhou army generals behind were already shocked, standing there one by one, the debris that was blown up did not spread to the east, as if they had eyes, they only soared into the sky to the west. The camp of the Shu army was completely enveloped in dense smoke. No one knew what it was like now. He only heard the screams of hissing lungs coming from afar.

"What are you waiting for?" A military commander shouted from behind.

"Boom boom boom..." A man stood in front of the big drum, shaking his arms, slowly and quickly thunderously blasted the head of the drum. The woofer horn sounded, and the army recovered and shouted loudly.

The soldiers on standby at the forward are not the same at this time, all of them have wet towels around their shoulders, like sweat towels for work.