Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 369

"What's going on? What was that sound just now? It doesn't sound like thunder, and there is no thunder outside. What kind of sound is it?" Chen Dehai, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town, sat up suddenly from the bed, looking at outside the window.

The inn where Wang Qi was staying was neither far nor close to the General Military Mansion, and the sound of the grenade explosion had just reached here.

The rain outside the window was getting heavier and heavier, and the rainwater was continuously flowing along the eaves to the ground.

"My lord, what's the matter?" A beautiful girl lying next to Chen Dehai opened her eyes tiredly, and looked at Chen Dehai.

Chen Dehai said: "Go to bed first, I'll go out and see what happened."

Chen Dehai threw off the quilt, jumped off the bed, put the clothes on his body, and walked out.

"Come on!"

Chen Dehai stood at the door of the room, shouted, and then walked to the hall.

Chen Dehai sat in the hall, looking at the servants in the hall.

"Did you hear any sound just now?" Chen Dehai looked at the servant in the hall and frowned.

The servants looked at each other and said blankly: "My lord, we did hear something, but isn't it thunder?"

"Thunder? Is this the sound of thunder?" Chen Dehai frowned, and shouted at his servant: "Go out and check to see what happened."

"But my lord, it's raining heavily outside now." A servant pointed outside, with a troubled expression on his face.

Chen Dehai patted the table, and said a little annoyed: "If you are told to go, go, where did all this nonsense come from?"

"Yes, my lord." The servants looked at the angry Chen Dehai, so they had no choice but to walk outside.

"Boom!"

At this moment, the dull sound of horseshoes sounded and spread into the hall.

Chen Dehai's eyes froze, his face changed slightly, "Where did the sound of horseshoes come from in the middle of the night? It's not right, it's not normal."

As soon as the words fell, Chen Dehai vaguely heard someone shouting irony such as doing justice for the sky.

"Hurry up and get my armor, and at the same time ask all the servants in the mansion to dress me neatly, and go out with me to check." Chen Dehai shouted, hastily shouted.

After a few breaths, Chen Dehai led his servants and rushed out in the heavy rain.

"Who?" As soon as Chen Dehai rushed out, he vaguely saw dozens of big men on horseback coming from a distance.

Chen Dehai looked at them and shouted loudly.

Wang Qi looked at the crowd who suddenly appeared at the gate of the General Military Mansion, directly put his hand into his bosom, took out a grenade, pulled the fuze and threw it out.

"Stop them!" Chen Dehai didn't see the grenade thrown by Wang Qi, he pointed at Wang Qi who was rushing over, and shouted loudly.

Black smoke rose from the tail of the grenade and fell into the rain.

Because of the dense night and the rain interfering with his sight, Wang Qi didn't throw the grenade at Chen Dehai, but just in front of the servants led by Chen Dehai.

After hearing Chen Dehai's order, the servant pulled out the saber from his waist, and prepared to rush towards Wang Qi and the others.

Before they could take a few steps, the grenade exploded.

The soldiers around the grenade were hit by fragments of the grenade and fell to the ground screaming.

"Adults are dangerous!"

Seeing this scene, a personal guard behind Chen Dehai hurriedly pulled Chen Dehai back.Hiding behind the gate.

"Haha, you have no guts!"

When Wang Qi passed the gate of the General Military Mansion, he threw out a few proclamations, and at the same time kept sarcastically shouting at Chen Dehai.

"Boom!"

The sound of horseshoes gradually faded away, and Chen Dehai rushed out again leading his servants.

"No, their direction seems to be the direction of the barracks. If they disturb the barracks and cause the barracks to roar, it will be a big deal."

Chen Dehai roared anxiously, then rushed into the general's mansion, and went straight to the stables in the general's mansion.

After a while, dozens of war horses chased towards the barracks.

Not long after, Wang Qi and others arrived around the barracks.

It was raining heavily tonight, and the soldiers on the night watch in the army did not watch the night in order to be comfortable.

The entire barracks was silent, with no lights at all.

"My lord, shall we rush in directly?" A follower pointed to the closed camp gate and looked at Wang Qi.

Wang Qi shook his head, "It's not good for us to rush in, but if we scream loudly, it's not good for us to be trapped."

"Throw grenades at me along the walls of the barracks."

With a loud roar, Wang Qi took out a rain-stained grenade, pulled the fuse, and threw it into the wall.

At this time, Wang Qi's entourage also hurriedly threw the grenade inside along the wall.

The wall of the barracks is not very high, that is, more than two feet high, and it is natural to throw a grenade in if you round your arms.

Every time Wang Qi and the others threw a grenade, they changed places around the wall of the barracks.

"Bang bang bang!"

There were constant explosions inside the wall. Although the sound of the rain was dense, it still couldn't cover the explosion of the grenade.

There was a barracks a few steps away from the wall, in which a dozen or so soldiers slept.

A grenade fell from the sky and landed on the roof of the barracks.

The violent explosion instantly blasted a hole in the roof.

The soldiers in the room were suddenly awakened.

"What's going on? What's going on? What's going on here?"

The soldiers in the barracks became tense for a moment. They jumped off the bed, wearing only thin coats, and looked at the hole in the roof in panic.

Just then, a grenade fell from the hole.

"Oh!"

With a loud noise, fragments of the grenade swept around, hitting several soldiers around.

"What's going on? What's going on here?"

"Enemy attack, this is enemy attack!"

The sound of grenade explosions sounded one after another, and the soldiers in the room hurriedly took out their weapons, and rushed out without even thinking about putting on their clothes.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

After the soldiers rushed out, they stood in the rain and shouted loudly.

The entire camp began to become chaotic, and the soldiers in the camp rushed out with weapons.

Some of the soldiers were still holding torches, but standing in the rain, the torches were quickly doused by the rain.

The night was so thick that the soldiers could not see their surroundings clearly.

A soldier accidentally touched another soldier, and the soldier who was touched was already tense. When he was touched by someone, he thought it was an enemy. With a loud cry, he waved his weapon and slashed at the man. .

Stimulated by the smell of blood and the sound of explosions, these soldiers completely panicked.

Camp screams inevitably occurred, Wang Qi listened to the shouts of killing coming from the camp, gave a ghostly smile, and then led his men away to the distance.

A moment later, when Chen Dehai came to the camp, hearing the shouts of killing in the camp, his face was ashen.

After Wang Qi left the camp, he ran directly to the city gate.

At this time, the gate of the city had already been closed, and the soldiers guarding the gate also became lazy in this rainy night, and there was not a single soldier at the gate.

When Wang Qi led the soldiers to the city gate, the sound of rumbling horseshoes woke up the guarding soldiers in the caves in the city wall.

They ran out of the cave and looked at the cavalry who suddenly appeared, panic flashing across their faces.

"How to do?"

"What else can we do? These are cavalry, let's squat obediently in the cave and don't come out."

After hearing the commander's order, the guarding soldiers of the Cangbing Cave hid quietly in the Cangbing Cave.

Wang Qi stopped in the cave of the city gate, and jumped off his horse.

"Grenade, blow the city gate open for me."

Wang Qi shouted loudly to the followers behind him.

The attendant hurriedly took out the grenade, jumped off the horse, and came to Wang Qi's side.

After Wang Qi took the grenade, he tied a dozen or so grenades together with hemp rope and placed them under the city gate. on the twine.

"retreat!"

Wang Qi held the hemp rope, roared, and led the horse to hide behind.

When he came to a safe distance, Wang Qi yanked the hemp rope in his hand.

After a few breaths, a loud noise came from the city gate, and the city gate began to tremble.

The city gates were blown down by these grenades.

Wang Qi stepped on his horse, waved the whip in his hand, and rushed out from the city gate with his followers.

When the sun gradually rose, the heavy rain stopped.

Looking at the messy camp, Chen Dehai gritted his teeth.

Last night's tsunami caused him to lose a large number of troops, how could this not make Chen Dehai angry?
"Where are those people coming from?" Chen Dehai looked at the servant behind him, and said angrily.

"My lord, it is obvious that this group of people must be sent by Zhao Wen's rebels."

"Hmph, Zhao Wen is simply a villain, to use such indecent means." Chen Dehai cursed with a gloomy face.

"Come here, give me an order to clean up the camp as soon as possible, and appease the family of the deceased by the way. Sooner or later, I will pay Zhao Wen the debt."

As the sun rose, the explosions of last night made the people panic, and they came out of the house to see what happened.

As soon as they walked out the door, they saw the paper on the ground.

They picked up the paper curiously.

After seeing the title on the paper, the people who could read hurriedly threw the paper on the ground, and at the same time advised other people not to pick up these things.

"Don't pick up these things. This is a call to action. Don't pick them up. If you don't want to die, don't pick them up."

……

"General, should we set off?" In the former army tent, Liu Tichun, the former military counselor, looked at Song Hu and asked.

At this time, Song Hu had already led the army into Shanxi.

Song Hu stood at the door of the big tent, looking at the rising sun, "Let the soldiers eat first. It rained all night last night, so we need to replenish our strength first."

The counselor nodded and passed the order on.

The military rations of the former army were the canned food produced by Zhao Wen. These canned food included canned beef, canned mutton and canned pork.

The eating methods of these cans are very simple. They can be eaten directly, or they can be eaten after being slightly heated.

Because there was a heavy rain last night, and it is now autumn, and the cold is gradually getting stronger, so these soldiers basically heat the canned food.

Numerous cauldrons were set up in the camp, and in each cauldron were cans with their lids opened.

Seven or eight soldiers squatted next to the cauldron, looking at the cauldron with excitement.

"Master Chief Soldier really didn't say anything to us people, but what he distributed to us was canned meat.

I remember when I was young, the wealthy locals in the village could only eat some meat during the Chinese New Year. How could they eat meat like we do. "A soldier in his twenties was squatting on the wet ground, looking at the cauldron in front of him, hissing loudly.

"Yes, yes, this is true. Our Lord Chief Soldier really didn't tell us that we have meat for every meal.

Back then, I was also a frontier soldier in Shaanxi. At that time, not to mention meat, I couldn't even eat buckwheat.My biggest dream at that time was to be able to eat a meal of white noodles, but who knows that now I can eat meat for every meal. "A man in his 30s also said excitedly.

"Brother, you used to be a frontier soldier in Shaanxi?"

"Yes, it's just that Shangguan has been in arrears with the army's salary, so I ran away. I originally wanted to become a bandit, but I came to Xuanzhen by mistake. I was a soldier and I didn't have any skills, so I joined the army. .”

There are many soldiers like this man in Xuanzhen's army.

A quarter of an hour later, the water vapor in the cauldron rose violently.

The soldiers surrounding the iron pot hastily untied the lid of the iron pot, and took out the steaming canned food wrapped in burlap.

They squatted on the ground, wrapped the hot pot with sackcloth, blew on the hot air, and ate carefully.

At this time, Song Hu was also holding a steaming can, sitting in the big tent and eating the beef inside.

"This can is really a good thing. My lord is really capable."

Song Hu wiped his mouth, put the finished can on the table, heaved a sigh of relief, and looked comfortable.

After eating and drinking enough, Song Hu stood up. He looked at the messenger beside him and shouted, "Send me the order. After fifteen minutes, the whole army will attack and target the Yanmen Campus."

Yanmen Temple, also known as Yanmen Pass, is located in the north of Daizhou, Shanxi Province, and is known as the first pass of the Nine Sailors.

Song Hu's front army was all cavalry, so their speed was much faster. In just a few days, they had passed through Datong Town and arrived in Shanxi.

At this time, Song Hu was at Dashikou, and the defenders in the Dashikou pass surrendered without any decent attack after Song Hu arrived.

After all, the number of defenders in Dashikou was too small. When he saw Song Hu's soldiers and horses, he had no intention of resisting at all.

"My lord, what should we do about the surrendered army that Dashikou is talking about?" Liu Tichun, the former military counselor, walked in and looked at Song Hu.

"What does Lord Wang mean?" Song Hu asked back.

Liu Tichun stroked the beard on his chin, and said, "I think we should take them right at the Dashikou, but we have to confiscate all their weapons. If we take them with us, it will definitely slow down our speed."

"Okay, it's up to you." Song Hu made a final decision.

(End of this chapter)