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After running to the city wall in a hurry, Zhang Tietou asked Zhao Wuqi uneasily: "We have stayed too long, will the Jurchen beat us again?"

Zhao Wuqi nodded: "It's better to be careful, but I think the protection army will probably take action today. If they really start to attack the city, we will run away. If we wait for a while and we are sure that everything is fine, we can go up again."

After thinking for a long time, Zhao Wuqi still felt that it was too close to the city wall and was unsafe, so he took Zhang Tietou and ran a certain distance into the city. He did not stop until he could no longer escape. He was planning to find an abandoned residence. Squatting inside to check the situation.

Suddenly, a loud bang was heard behind him.

Before this, although gunpowder had been invented and used in military operations, no one had ever produced so much gunpowder for the Protectorate Army and used it so intensively.

Using gunpowder to blow up a city wall was something no one thought of.

After calculations by the escort army, the explosion of such a large amount of explosives, even black powder, was enough to blow up the city wall.

But the actual effect was even better than Lu Zhishen had expected.

Zhao Wuqi and Zhang Tietou were stunned, and they felt the ground shake violently. They were so close to the city wall that they even flew up from the ground, and then fell back to the ground, their buttocks bruised.

Then the two of them saw that the land directly under the city wall suddenly sank, and sand and stones poured desperately into the pit. After a while, a large hole appeared under the wall.

The two of them looked up and saw that the solid city wall, which was made of stone and could not even be blown down by cannonballs, seemed to be made of mud, swaying forward and back after the foundation was unstable.

The wall collapsed very slowly, but its momentum could not be stopped at all.

I saw the continuous city walls, as if they were dough kneaded by human hands, slowly sinking into the pit.

The place where Zhao Wuqi and Zhang Tietou were guarding just now collapsed directly to the bottom. The Jurchen officer who had just yelled at them could not utter a sound and was probably buried in the rubble.

And because the city wall was built too strong, after one section collapsed, the wall next to it actually pulled down as well.

The city walls that were more than ten feet away around that section of city wall all lost their support, as if an inflated balloon was slowly deflating, and a section of the city wall slowly collapsed.

The defenders on the city wall, whether they were Jurchens or Han people, all fell down with the city wall. The group of people standing at the core of the explosion were the most unlucky. They were killed immediately when the explosion occurred, while the rest of the people fell with the city wall. One after another, they fell into the ruins. The rocks above kept falling down, and they probably had no chance of surviving.

These people had never seen such a big explosion scene before. Zhao Wuqi and Zhang Tietou were both stunned when they saw it, their ears were buzzing, and they could not recover their hearing because of the loud explosion just now.

It wasn't until the smoke and dust caused by the collapse of the city wall pushed towards them, covering the sky and the sun, that they quickly covered their mouths and noses to avoid it.

And the defenders in the city behind them were all stunned, watching blankly as the solid city wall they had given them hope for turned into a pile of ruins in front of them.

The attack of the Protective Army followed immediately after the explosion.

The first one to rush towards the ruins was the grenadier battalion of the protection army, throwing bundles of grenades at the city wall without saying a word.

The surviving defenders didn't even have a chance to surrender, and were blown to pieces.

After there was no longer a threat at the entrance to the breakout, the engineers rushed to the ruins of the city wall carrying the engineering equipment they had prepared.They threw pieces of solid boards nailed with big tree trunks and wooden boards on the ruins. The boards were firmly connected with metal hooks and nails. After a while, a simple road was paved into Luan City.

Stepping on this road, the grenadiers protecting the protection army rushed into the city.

Seeing that the bullet -throwing group with a hammer and holding a giant shield suddenly entered the city wall, a group of female real people went to death under the command of the general. Zhao Wuqi and Zhang Tietou quickly hid aside. He also tried his best to take off his soldier's clothes.

The Jurchens could not imagine that the protective army would break the city in this way.

The place where the city wall was blown up was originally a place where the Jurchen troops selected by the protection army were weakly defended. The hundreds of Jurchens who rushed forward were eliminated by the Grenadier Regiment in a blink of an eye, and the subsequent artillery regiment came in. , and by this time Zhao Wuqi and Zhang Tietou were already kneeling on the roadside and raising their hands in surrender.

The subsequent battle against Luan City progressed very quickly.

Because of the assistance of the local rebels, the protective army had already analyzed the general situation of the city houses in Luan City when they entered the city. Although they did not know where the Jurchens and the defenders' barracks would be placed, they could ambush them. Based on those few points, Lu Zhishen's staff had already planned out the route for fighting the urban war. After entering the city, they only needed to choose a suitable plan based on the actual situation.

While the escort troops broke into the city, Lu Zhishen sent preachers and various political cadres to the city.

Propaganda teachers immediately entered every block that was cleared. With the cooperation of a cadre group composed of local rebels, they quickly won the support of the people of Zhending Prefecture.

The local people have been suffering from the Jurchen for a long time, and even took out food from the granary that they had tried hard to hide and sent it to the protecting army.

Of course, the Protecting Army did not need food from the people in the city. Lu Zhishen had already stocked up a large amount of food and grass through the Hutuo River before the war. After controlling half of the city, he found that the people in the city were already generally hungry, so the Protecting Army immediately Food from outside the city was transferred to the city to open a porridge farm to supply.

Follow-up troops were quickly mobilized into the city.

The Jurchens were completely in a state of confusion after the city wall was blown down. They were not ready to resist the protection army before they arrived. Some of the scattered defenses were even lower than the best that the protection army had expected. Condition.

The grenadiers cleared the way, and then a large group of musketeers rushed forward. They were invincible in fighting in small towns.

Several of the Jurchens' fortresses were taken down almost instantly, and the grenadiers did not attack the few places where they were still standing stubbornly. They just waited for the road to be opened, and the follow-up artillerymen pushed up the bronze gun carts.

After a few rounds of explosive shells, the powerful Jurchen warriors will go to the west, and then the musketeers and grenadiers will go in to clean up the mess.

Even the military medical team brought by Lu Zhishen was of little use. The number of casualties in the battle into the city was very small, and not many were injured.

However, due to the long-term food shortage in Luan City, many people suffered from malnutrition.

For the common people who already had bloated bodies, if they just gave them porridge to eat, they might be starved to death at that time, so Lu Zhishen ordered the military doctor to open a field clinic next to the porridge farm to provide free medical treatment for the sick people in Luan City.

After discovering that the protection army was indeed a benevolent and righteous army, the people in the city who had been slaughtered for a long time finally swarmed out and rushed to the porridge in search of food.

At noon of the same day, the escort army invaded the Luancheng government office and captured alive Zhou Da and several Khitan officers who wanted to escape. As for the Jurchens in the city, because they resisted too fiercely, almost all of them were killed during the battle into the city. , a small number of surrenderers were also thrown into prisoner camps to await subsequent processing.

(End of this chapter)