At the beginning of the civil castle, the Ming God of War was a little panicked

Chapter 494
Chapter 488: Not getting out
Li Zhen seemed to feel that something was wrong, so she said: "We have more than 8000 people, and all of them fly in with Kongming lanterns, so we need more than 8000 Kongming lanterns."

"Hey, it can't be counted like that!"

Ha Ming waved his hand and said, "Since Kongming lanterns can be raised and lowered, that is to say, they can be used repeatedly, we can enter the city in batches!"

"That's even worse. The city is full of rebels. If we take the initiative to disperse our forces, wouldn't it be equivalent to death?"

Ha Ming thought about it, and it seemed to make sense.

If they were transported in batches, the first batch would have been beaten to death before the second batch entered the city.

Seeing that everyone was arguing endlessly, Zhu Qizhen suddenly said: "Who said that Kongming lanterns will be used to carry people into the city?"

"what?"

Ha Ming was stunned suddenly, and asked: "Your Majesty, didn't you just ask..."

The others were also a little confused, and looked at Zhu Qizhen one after another.

"I did ask, but I didn't say that Kongming lanterns were used to carry people into the city!"

"That is……"

"I mean, since it is difficult to make bombs with precision wires, why not just make some crude black powder bombs, and let people sit in Kongming lanterns and throw them from a high altitude?"

After everyone listened, their eyes lit up one after another, wonderful!

I throw it on your head in the air, there is no need for mechanism control at all, just do it manually.

Even if the bombs are inferior, as long as the quantity is sufficient, the lethality cannot be underestimated.

Belin asked again: "It's easy to make black powder, but bombs need iron sheets, and there are not many stocks in Xishan."

The role of gunpowder is to explode at high temperature and kill with broken shrapnel.

If there is no iron sheet, find some paper to wrap it, then it is not a bomb, but a firecracker!

You can't prepare so much just to show the rebels a feast of fireworks, right?

Zhu Qizhen thought for a moment and said, "Use a bamboo tube!"

"Bamboo tube?"

Belin was stunned again, isn't this a pure firecracker?
"Correct!"

Zhu Qizhen nodded and continued: "Fill gunpowder in the bamboo tube, and mix it with sharp objects such as stones, glass, iron nails, etc., it can still hurt people!"

Belin thought about it, and it seemed to work.

I don't know how the emperor's brain grows, but such a method can be thought of.

It's really insidious... Oh, you can't slander the emperor!
Zhu Qizhen immediately ordered 1000 people from Beihaiwei to cooperate with Bei Lin and others to make bamboo tube bombs.

Li Zhen led [-] battalions to the south of the city to see if there were any reinforcements from the other side.

If there is, there will be a decree in the middle, requiring all soldiers and horses to work hard for the king, and those who do not obey will be killed without mercy, and there is no need to report.

The [-] Battalion are all cavalry, with strong mobile combat capabilities and equipped with the latest rifles. There is no need to challenge opponents in field encounters, because the others are younger brothers.

There are even many guards that were taught by Sanqianying.

Li Zhen led people to the south of the city, but did not see the reinforcements, but saw a train driving from north to south with black smoke.

This road from Beijing to Nanjing is a huge project built by the imperial court, and it carries an astonishing amount of traffic every year.

Suddenly, an idea popped into his mind.

If the other party has reinforcements, they must take the railway, which is the fastest.

"Tear down the railroad!"

"Grandpa, a car is coming..."

Li Zhen stared, and said angrily: "What nonsense, do it!"

"Yes!"

Soon, a dozen ropes were tied to the rails, and the other end was looped around the rider on horseback.

"drive!"

"drive!"

"drive!"

More than a dozen horses ran wildly at the same time, but they were pulled by the rope and couldn't move an inch.

The knight on the horse kept twitching his whip vigorously, making a crackling sound, and the horse began to neigh, and ran forward with all its strength.

Boom!

All the rivets on the rails collapsed, and a large section of the rails was torn apart abruptly.

Here is a plain with a wide field of vision. The driver on the train had already seen that something was wrong ahead and immediately braked.

Fortunately, the speed of the train in this era was not fast, the driver slowed down and braked in time, and the train stopped a dozen steps ahead of the broken track without any risk.

The Three Thousand Battalion immediately surrounded them, while Li Zhen came to the front of the car and slammed on the door.

"get off!"

The captain walked down with the driver and other staff tremblingly. He has never seen a train hijacked in his lifetime!
"I am the conductor of this train..."

Li Zhen ignored him, got off the horse, and led others into the carriage.

The sudden idea of ​​robbing the train today is because this road is also a road for transporting troops. If the other party has reinforcements, they must take the railway.

Destroying this section of railway can at least delay the opponent for two or three days.

Looking at all kinds of people in the carriage, they don't look like rebels, they should be ordinary people who don't know about the coup.

However, he was still worried, so he said: "Everyone, report your names, family members, and addresses, and don't hide them."

Then he said to his subordinates: "There are five people in each carriage, count them as soon as possible."

"Yes!"

An hour later, everyone's information was registered, and Li Zhen picked it up to check one by one.

When he turned to Wang's page, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "Arrest this person!"

When Wang went out, he brought ten house slaves with him, but these people had already been too busy to take care of themselves, let alone protect their lord.

"My lord, the three members of Wang's family, ten servants, and two maidservants have all been brought here."

Li Zhen glanced at Wang and said, "Are you Yang Dan's wife?"

Wang sneered and said, "Since you know who my husband is, why don't you let me go!"

Li Zhen smiled faintly, pointed at the two children, and said, "Are these two children the sons of Yang Dan?"

"Of course!"

Mrs. Wang didn't know what kind of official this person was, but only knew that the Chinese official of the imperial court overwhelmed the military officer and said, "If you dare to hurt Xiuwen or Xiuwu, believe it or not, my husband will demote you immediately!"

Li Zhen said: "Your husband can't control me."

"Impossible, my husband is the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and will soon be promoted to the Minister of Dali Temple. No matter how high an official you are, as long as my husband joins you, you know what will happen?"

"how?"

"Guaranteed to demote you to three ranks!"

Li Zhen couldn't help laughing out loud, and said, "Take it away!"

"Yes!"

Seeing this, Mrs. Wang hurriedly shouted: "What are you going to do? My husband is Dali Temple and Shaoqing..."

Li Zhen didn't plan to talk to her at all, mainly because of the two little kids.

Yang Xiuwen was 15 years old, and Yang Xiuwu was 12 years old. Both of them looked arrogant and kept beating and scolding the officials present, as if they were used to domineering in the capital.

Until someone tied the two of his brothers with rice dumplings, it finally stopped.

Li Zhen led the people back to the north of the city and went straight to the big tent in Zhu Qi Town.

"Your Majesty, I caught a few people in the south of the city!"

Zhu Qizhen asked, "Who?"

"Back to the emperor, it was Yang Dan's two sons and his wife who brought a dozen servants with them, and found a large number of common bank notes in their luggage."

(End of this chapter)