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Chapter 337 Explosion (Part [-])

Since the third watch last night, the Ming army began to rest. In the early morning, the artillery fire of the Tartars was the signal for the Ming army to move. The Ming army who hid in the tunnel and the city wall immediately began to move. Those in the tunnel were evacuated, and the city wall The Ming army inside began to enter the tunnel.

Due to the sufficient preparation and careful deployment in advance, except for the 3 Ming troops who withdrew before midnight to guard the cannons, food, grass, horses and other combat equipment in the dense forest of the Western Mountains, there are now only more than [-] people in the Ming camp.

Several tunnels were evacuated at the same time, and more than 3 Ming troops were retreating in an orderly and tense manner.

In this way, the sky above the Ming camp was full of artillery fire, and several tunnels below the Ming camp were safe and sound. When the Ming army stopped shelling, nearly [-] Ming troops, including food, grass and supplies, had all been transferred to the dense forest of the Western Mountain several miles away.

That is to say, the Qing army bombarded an empty camp of the Ming army with artillery fire from the north and the south. Army's half corpse.

At this time, Zhu Yousong was admiring the power of the Qing army's artillery fire in the dense forest. It was only a few miles away, and he could hear it clearly. Every sound of the artillery made Zhu Yousong very excited, as if it was not the Qing army's bombardment at this time The Ming camp, but the artillery fire of the Ming army bombarded the Qing camp.

At this time, there were several beauties who were as excited as Zhu Yousong, such as heroines He Xuanjiao, Ma Jinhua, Liu Chunhong, etc., as well as other courtiers accompanying Zhu Yousong, such as An Lin, the admiral of the imperial horse supervisor, and An Lin, the eunuch of Dongchang. Li Quan, the commander of Qianhu and Jinyiwei, Liu Zhaoji, the commander of the imperial battalion, Zheng Hongkui, the governor of the Chinese army, the governor of the five armies, Zheng Damu and Ma Wannian, the Wu Jinshi, and the titans Zu Keyong and Ma Bao, etc.

Now Ma Wannian's injury is recovering rapidly after more than ten days of careful treatment by the imperial physician. He only lost one eye, and everything else is intact without any sequelae.

Don't look at only one eye, Ma Wannian is still heroic, and volunteered to invite Ying. In this battle, he will invite to fight and kill the Tartars. He also encourages himself with Xiahou Dun, a fierce general in the Three Kingdoms period. Back then, Xiahou Dun drew his eyes, and the ancients were still like this , a mere eye is nothing.

Zhu Yousong rejected him and asked him to heal his wounds, and told him, "Just these few Tartars, there is no need for Xiao Aiqing to do it herself. I said that after ten days, the head of Duoduo will be taken as Xiao Ai." Qing revenge, don't go anywhere, just stay here with me, and see how Doduo lost his head." Ma Wannian had no choice but to give up.

At this time, the general Ma Bao said worriedly: "Your Majesty, the artillery strength of the Tartars should not be underestimated. Duoduo has twenty heavy artillery pieces, all of which are all red barbarian cannons. They were pulled from the Tongguan battlefield. So many shells hit In the Ming camp, will the explosion be triggered in advance to defeat His Majesty's plan?"

Ma Bao had just come over from the Qing camp, and he knew the situation of the Tartars like the palm of his hand, after saying this, all the generals also showed melancholy.

Zhu Yousong smiled lightly, "Xiao Aiqing is worrying too much, I have already considered this matter, why should all the shells and explosives be buried underground instead of being placed on the ground, covered with firewood, it is from this aspect In this way, although the artillery fire of the Qing army is fierce, it is the city wall that I built for him. As for the piles of firewood and inflammable objects, they are used to ignite the artillery fire of the Tartars, saving us from having to light the fire ourselves. These explosives and shells will only go off when the fire in the camp burns to the sky and burns the ground for a certain period of time.”

After hearing this, all the generals clapped their hands and praised, and the three beauties even cast envious glances. When they admired Zhu Yousong's thoughtfulness, they really couldn't figure out when His Majesty had more and more useful things in his mind. up.

Zhu Yousong and the officials listened to the sound of the Qing army's cannons, and they were very pleased, but this was definitely not the whole story.

But Zhu Yousong will not let these tens of thousands of horses wait here. He has already arranged that after the sound of the Qing army's artillery stops, Ma Bao will lead 5000 troops as the main general, and Li Zhushi, the commander of the artillery battalion, will be the deputy general. With 1000 people from the headquarters, this team of 6000 people set off immediately, and was ordered to attack Duduo's artillery camp.

Then several groups of Ming troops also started to move. Zheng Hongkui took 2 elite soldiers to take Luoyang; ; Liu Zhaoji and Zu Keyong took the remaining [-] people back to the camp to mop up the remaining Tartars.

Everything is in order, and now Zhu Yousong, Ma Wannian, and the eunuch An Lin of the Yumajian are waiting for the news in the imperial tent. They are looking towards the imperial tent of the camp from a high place in the forest, waiting for the sound The earth-shattering sound, for this sound, Zhu Yousong has planned for so many days, and he did not hesitate to pretend to be cowardly. The blood and sweat of tens of thousands of soldiers is really hard-won.

Because of this, it is even more exciting.Zhu Yousong was more excited, which was the uncontrollable excitement on the eve of the completion of the work.

"Boom—"

Hard work pays off.The explosion sounded as expected, and Zhu Yousong felt the ground under his feet tremble a few times, even stronger than the "May [-]" Wenchuan Earthquake. In the distance, smoke billowed in the direction of Mingying and flames shot into the sky.

"The sound finally rang!" If Zhu Yousong hadn't cared about his status as emperor, or if Ma Wannian, An Lin and other courtiers were not present, he would have jumped up a few times in excitement, and shouted a few times with his mouth , so cool!

Zhu Yousong and others were happy, but the tens of thousands of Qing troops were out of luck.

After the four kings of the Qing court and the traitor Sun Zhixie realized that they had been fooled, they quickly ordered to retreat, but within a few meters of running, the sound of heaven falling and earth cracking rang out. Everyone said that the red cannon was powerful, but this sound was louder than the red cannon. The barbarian cannons are a thousand times stronger.

Zhu Yousong’s original imperial tent was blasted into a big pit as deep as one person. The pit was hundreds of meters in diameter. Prince Yu Duoduo, Prince Ying Azige, Prince Zhishun Shang Kexi, and King Huaishun Geng Zhongming were not spared. The four kings flew into the sky with their horses on the spot, and many Tartars who followed them were blown to pieces on the spot, and those who were a little further away were overturned by the huge explosion wave. Needless to say, those who are dead will not be able to climb up if they are not dead.

This big explosion killed the four kings of the Qing court, and there were as many as hundreds of miscellaneous Eight Banners disciples buried with them, including the generals of the Qing court.

After the loud noise, the fire in the Ming camp became more fierce. The flames soared into the sky, and the shells buried in the ground began to show their power. This mainly refers to the bombs with gunpowder inside, also called blooming shells. The continuous explosions triggered the gunpowder in the shells.

"Boom, chatter, boom..." Although this thing is not as powerful when shot from the barrel, it is definitely more lively than the scene of large-scale fireworks. In the rumbling explosion, some Qing soldiers were smashed to pieces, and some could only Crying father and mother can't move the place.

The explosives and shells at that time were incomparably powerful than they are now. After all, few Qing soldiers were directly killed by the explosion. However, the chaos caused by the explosion, trampled on each other, and many people were killed and injured. In addition, the increasingly violent fire burned With one pass, the entire Ming camp became a crematorium for burying the Qing army.

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