Wanli 1592

Chapter 45
Later, most of the people who have experienced all this can't use exact words to describe even what they witnessed, because they don't know what words to use to describe and express what they saw and what happened after The scene they saw was so terrifying and amazing that they couldn't accept it, completely subverting their world view, so that at the beginning, everyone was dumbfounded, and there was a period of vacuum on the battlefield.

The scene that Mei Guozhen mentioned in his letter to Emperor Wanli later used only eight words, but it perfectly reproduced that terrible scene - overturning the giant city, like peeling off a piece of paper.

In most people's unclear and real memories, their first feeling was a slight tremor. They felt that the earth was shaking, like an earthquake. The Ming army was a little flustered, and the rebels on the top of the city were even a little flustered. The earthquake was very important to the rebels. What it means, they know very well.

Then there was a faint roar, getting louder, louder, and louder. As the frequency of the vibration continued to increase, the sound became louder and louder. The entire ground was shaking, and the entire field of vision was shaking. According to traditional thinking, they even thought that there were earth dragons rolling their bodies underground, and even earth dragons would break out of the ground!

What came out of the ground was not an earth dragon, but a large amount of gas and a more intense roar.

"boom--------"

At that time, only such a sound and a long roar were left in the ears of many people. Even though they were plugged with cotton, the too loud sound still frightened them, for fear that something that would destroy the world would happen. Above his head, the white smoke spewed up from the ground, and the whole ground seemed to protrude from the bottom of the city wall, and that piece burst directly.

This astonishing force hit a section of the west city wall about 20 meters in length, and the whole section of the city wall jumped like a wave, as if the plane figure suddenly became three-dimensional. Surprised, countless bricks and stones flew into the sky, but the main body of the city wall still fell to the ground after being broken, and the white smoke covered everything. Of course, due to the strong air flow, the smoke came and went quickly.

At the same time, countless bricks and stones fell from the sky to the ground like raindrops. Their speed and momentum were unprecedented among countless people. All three layers of shields were pierced. Some iron shields were pierced, and even two layers of iron shields were pierced through one layer, and the remaining iron shield was smashed with a deep hole.

The hand of the soldier holding the shield was broken, and a few unlucky soldiers were directly hit by the masonry. Some died on the spot, and some were physically disabled. Although the number was small, there were some.

The ground is still shaking, and the gravel is still falling. From time to time, screams will be heard in the Ming army formation. Although they are fully prepared, everyone still underestimates the power of gunpowder to break the city. What Xiao Ruxun will never forget is that a piece of The brick the size of a fist hit directly at his feet, embedded deeply in the ground, and made a deep hole. Xiao Ruxun imagined countless times, what would happen to him if the stone was a little bit off the angle? ?

When Xiao Ruxun saw the big hole more than ten meters wide, his heart was beating violently. He knew it, he knew it right away, he succeeded, and he tied his future with the future of the whole world. After this blow, following this devastating blow, everything began to become clear.

At that time, there was a period of vacuum, during which neither the rebels nor the Ming army moved.

Wei Xuezeng in the camp struggled to get up, and staggered to the outside of the tent. Seeing the doomsday scene, he burst into tears.

Xiao Ruxun was the first to come to his senses, he knew that Mei Guozhen woke up with a trembling after him, but the first one who yelled the slogan of rushing to kill was not Xiao Ruxun, but the one who looked like a madman like a war madman Mei Guozhen.

Xiao Ruxun still remembered that at that time, Mei Guozhen's eyes were red, like a bloodthirsty demon, all the gentleness and culture were thrown aside, and Mei Guozhen in armor was a general, not a literati.

Under the leadership of Mei Guozhen, the elite of the three thousand Ming army forgot about anxiety and fear, and their desire for merit suppressed everything. They roared and rushed into the gap.

Ma Gui, Xiao Ruhui, Li Wei, Dong Yikui, Zhao Wu, Niu Bingzhong, and Li Ben, they all seemed to have lost their minds, roaring like crazy demons and rushed into the city with their troops and horses. Ten thousand soldiers and horses rushed into the gap with roaring battle horns, and began to frantically hunt down the rebels.

The rebels were doomed to fail from that moment on. Most of the rebels who had been deprived of energy by the gunpowder didn't even dare to resist, lying on the ground waiting for their heads to be chopped off by the vicious Ming army.

The Ningxia Rebellion subsided.

The Battle of Ningxia, which officially broke out on February 20 in Wanli, ended in the afternoon of April 22, Wanli [-], a total of two months and four days. Compared with the original historical process, it was more than six months shorter and greatly reduced. In addition to the manpower and material resources consumed by the Ming army in the original historical process, the money spent in the entire counter-insurgency process was only one-third of the original historical process.

The main credit belongs to Xiao Ruxun, who presented the strategy of blasting the city wall with gunpowder and personally presided over it from the beginning to the end. He is a well-deserved number one hero, recognized by everyone as the number one hero without any objection.

In the memorial written by Ye Mengxiong, he clearly asked for credit for Xiao Ruxun, and mentioned that if Xiao Ruxun hadn't offered the "strategy of breaking the city with gunpowder", he would have offered the strategy of "storing water to irrigate the city", which would have taken longer and resulted in greater losses. , there are more variables, therefore, Xiao Ruxun's contribution "deserves to be heard by the heavens".

Of course, Xiao Ruxun’s contribution is more than that. After the first wave of troops, he led the second wave of troops into the city. After leading the troops into the city, he headed towards the city gate and killed the main force of the rebels who suffered heavy losses. At this time, due to the approaching After passing the blasting point, the death of a large number of rebels gathered in Nancheng was very tragic. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. Moreover, many people died of bleeding from seven orifices-the explosion was too loud, and they were shocked to death. .

Xiao Bai didn't die, but he was almost there. When Xiao Ruxun led his team to capture the dilapidated city gate, a dilapidated figure appeared in front of the army, laughing wildly, with disheveled hair, like a madman.

At that time, someone immediately pointed out that this was the rebel commander. The leader of the rebellion this time, Xiao Ruxun, without saying a word, picked up the blunderbuss and shot and killed the obviously delirious rebel commander. Died with a broken heart, Xiao Ruxun shot three times at his corpse, and finally cut off his head with his own hands.

Chengen was hacked to death by Ma Gui. He didn't die in the explosion, but his left leg was completely crushed by a brick. When Ma Gui, who was killed like a blood man, found him, he was still howling. , Ma Gui cut eighteen knives in a row, and finally cut off his head.

Qiao Chengchong was shot to death randomly, and the credit was divided equally among ten people.

Tu Wenxiu was killed by Niu Bingzhong. He could have been captured alive. He was not affected by the explosion, and his army was the most complete. The guy knocked over Niu Bingzhong and wanted to run, but Niu Bingzhong stabbed him deeply in the neck with a swing of his hand, and died on the spot.

Zhou Guozhu is the saddest one. He was hacked to death by Mei Guozhen. A man of military origin was actually killed with a sword by a literati whose blood-stained scribe robe was red-eyed. Then he had his head. ...

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