Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 295

"Take it easy, don't overturn it! It's easy to explode!"

More than a dozen soldiers brought six square iron boxes and buried them neatly in the gap below the city.

When the last iron box was moved out, the roof of the shield car was burned through, and a stream of hot oil crashed down with flames, less than four feet away from the box of nitrocellulose!

Startled, Qian Yan rubbed his chest vigorously, dipped a steel shovel into a ball of burning kerosene, and then grabbed a large amount of lead wires from the iron box and pointed them at the flames.

When the sparks splashed out, he immediately took out his whistle and blew a few times, and he and his men got into a shield car with a smaller flame nearby, turned around and rushed towards the south side.

The infantry of the sixth town also heard the warning, fired a final salvo, and led the team to retreat slowly.

Seeing that the situation was not right, some soldiers of the Qing army who had experienced bombing the city rushed to report to Cao Cunxing, the commander-in-chief of Jiangning, "General Cao, this is how the city of Hangzhou was destroyed, and Ming Yao buried gunpowder underneath!"

At this time, there was no firecrackers suppressing the city, the general soldier Cao Cunxing looked down the city, and saw several blazing shield chariots blocking the place that was bombed last time, Ming Yao had retreated two hundred paces away.

He frowned, there was nothing he could do, so he simply waved his hand and said: "Don't worry about it, Jiangning City is strong, even if he blows it up a few more times, it will never be destroyed. You guys continue to stick to it, and don't let Ming Yao come to the city in the chaos !"

Old Chen Tou secretly pulled a few robes, "Brothers, my right eye keeps twitching, there must be something wrong."

Several people looked at each other, followed him and quietly slipped towards the north side of the city ladder.

When they had just walked a hundred steps, they suddenly heard an earth-shattering loud noise behind them. Looking back, they saw a giant hand made of flames protruding from the underworld, and suddenly lifted the city wall that was pressing on it.

The entire southern side of Yingtian Mansion shook violently like leaves floating in the wind and waves. A large number of city bricks and stones were immediately thrown into the night sky more than ten feet high, and then smashed down again. The furthest one collapsed for a mile open.

After a while, everything returned to calm.

In the sky full of smoke and dust, the number one city wall in the world seemed to have been gnawed by a giant beast in mythology, leaving a charred black gap more than three feet wide!

When the dust settled, Qian Yan, who had run two miles away, turned his head to watch, and immediately slapped his own soldiers happily, and laughed loudly: "It's not in vain that I risked my life to come here! See? The city wall exploded!"

His soldiers also cheered excitedly, "Da Ming wins! Yingtian City is broken!"

"This cotton is powerful enough, the battlements were blasted into the sky just now!"

"That's right, it made my ears go deaf..."

"It's so big that it collapsed, enough for three horses to go in side by side! See how the Qing army is still shrunk inside."

Not far from them, Zhu Kezang, who was in command at the front line, was also staring at the location where the explosives were buried. When he saw the dark gap in the middle of the city wall under the moonlight, he felt relieved suddenly.

You must know that the nature of nitrocellulose is very unstable, so although its power is amazing, later generations seldom directly use nitrocellulose that has not been stabilized as military explosives.

The action tonight was also extremely risky. Just now, if a shell from the Qing army hit an iron barrel transporting explosives, no, even if it only fell within three feet, the huge vibration might detonate the nitrocellulose.

Fortunately, everything was safe and sound, Qian Yan succeeded!
Zhu Kezang immediately turned his head and said to the herald, "Header, start the general attack!"

Immediately, low-pitched horns sounded in all directions.

First, nearly a hundred cannons that had been hiding in the night focused their firepower on the gap that was blown up just now, in order to suppress the Qing soldiers who might go to deploy their defenses.

Then the [-] Guards infantry formed a column of [-] rows, shouting loudly, "Kill—" and rushed towards the breach in the south of the city.

Cao Cunxing, who was in charge of the Qing army's defense in the south of the city, was wiped out in the violent explosion just now.

The soldiers of the Qing army at the top of the city were even more frightened by the terrifying momentum of the nitrocellulose and backed away. In addition, more than ten rounds of artillery shells hit them immediately, and no one dared to step forward to defend at this time.

Almost without any resistance, the forward troops of the Guards successfully controlled the breach on the south side of the city, and then climbed up the city wall from the inner side of the city to build a line of defense.

Immediately after them, the guards carried the Daming Dragon Banner and the Sun Moon Banner, and nearly [-] troops rushed into Yingtian City.

However, the main attacking force of the Guards, who had been waiting for the fierce street battle with the Qing army, was a little taken aback.

Because they aimed their muskets and cannons for a long time, but they couldn't find a target to hit.

When the Qing soldiers in the south of the city saw the Ming army rushing into the city, they all shouted "The city is broken" and "Ming monsters have come in", and fled to other gates.

The soldiers of the Qing army elsewhere heard a loud noise from the east, and saw the "broken soldiers" coming from the brigade, and they were convinced that Yingtian City could not be defended, so they threw away their weapons and ran together.

As a result, the fleeing team grew bigger and bigger, sweeping the entire city within an hour.

Jiangnan admiral Yang Jie in the west of the city led his confidants and generals to personally draw their swords into battle, beheading three or four hundred deserters in a row, and only then could the situation be stabilized.

He summoned an officer who ran from the south of the city and asked, "How is the situation in the east of the city? Where is your general Cao?"

"Admiral, Admiral, the east of the city was blown down by tens of feet, tens of thousands of bright monsters swarmed in, and General Cao was killed..." the officer stammered.

Jiangnan Admiral Yang Jie felt a buzzing in his head, and he almost couldn't hold his ground. He is also an old man, one year older than Yu Chenglong.

Yang Jie turned his head to look at the [-] to [-] soldiers who had managed to gather beside him, all of them looked terrified, and immediately came to a judgment in his heart-going to the south of the city for reinforcements must be death!

Yang Jie hesitated for a moment, then pointed to a general and said, "You lead 800 people and continue to stand firm."

He waved to the rest, "The others follow me to join Governor Yu!"

……

Tonight, Yu Chenglong picked up the soldiers twice to report the military situation. The first time was tens of thousands of bright monsters besieging the city from all sides. Not long after, he heard a loud noise, and then someone came to report that the south of the city had been broken and exploded, and the bright monsters swarmed And enter.

At the beginning, he was still extremely calm. There were still 8 troops in the city. Even if the city was breached, as long as the troops gathered to defend it, it should not be difficult to hold it.

But then dozens of cavalry came to cover him and retreat to the west of the city.

Yu Chenglong was shocked immediately, and Yang Jie, who pulled him over, shouted and asked: "Why did the army retreat to the west instead of going to the south of the city to defend against the enemy?"

Yang Jie said anxiously: "My lord, the Ming Yao is coming so fiercely that it can't be stopped at all!"

"General Cao has already died before the battle, and we have also lost our troops. There are only [-] remnants left. If we don't retreat, we may die..."

Yang Jie did not dare to say that Cao Cunxing was killed, but most of the main force of the Qing army collapsed on its own.

Before he finished speaking, some of his confidantes strode into the room and said in a panic: "Master Governor, Ming Yao has passed Yuhuatai, please make a quick decision, Your Excellency!"

Yu Chenglong just stayed there, without saying a word for a long time.After a while, the sound of gunfire was heard in the distance. The staff member stomped his feet, turned around and went out, shouting loudly: "Shut the door, go up the wall! Hold on to the chief envoy's yamen!"

(End of this chapter)