The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 448 Breaking the Ice
After seeing Zhong Yao's crystal palace-like ice city, Dongfang Sheng was a little disappointed. It seemed that Zhong Yao was no weaker than Cao Cao in the casting of the ice city.

This ice city is not only blocked by three thick ice walls outside, but also blocked by hideous horned deer outside the ice wall, not to mention there is a rather magnificent ice city inside the ice wall. Go, there is actually Wengcheng in Bingcheng.

This Zhong Yao seemed to want to fight a protracted war with Dongfang Sheng. It seemed that he had also received supplies of food, grass, soldiers and horses, and he had the confidence to confront Dongfang Sheng.

Dongfang Sheng looked at it carefully from a distance, and then sighed, "This battle is going to be difficult."

Badao on the side also echoed worriedly: "I didn't expect Zhong Yao to make such a plan. Presumably he must know about our situation."

On the way back, Dongfang Sheng had been thinking of a way to break through the ice city, but a gleam flashed in his eyes when he was approaching the camp.

"Hmph, no matter how strong you make the city wall, I will blow it up!" Dongfang Sheng said with a smile on his lips.

Ma Jun has made new progress in the development of black powder. He not only increased the power of all gunpowder in this period several times, but also developed explosives that can be used in war according to Dongfang Sheng's tips.

However, because it is very cumbersome to make this kind of explosives, the quantity Ma Jun provided to Dongfang Sheng was not much.

Dongfang Sheng had always wanted to save these things for the attack on Xudu Cao Pi's royal city, but now it seems that he can only use them earlier.

Moreover, Ma Jun said that this batch was used up, and if he wanted to use it again, he would have to wait at least a year and a half.

After thinking of all the ways and confirming that there was no better way, Dongfang Sheng decided to use the batch of explosives.

However, in order to achieve the best effect of explosives, explosives must be buried under ice walls and ice cities.

To hide his whereabouts in the snow, Dongfang Sheng has already thought of a safe way, that is to wear a pure white cloak with a cloak to cover the whole person, and then lie on the snow and crawl forward little by little.

And once it starts, it has to keep going, so Dongfang Sheng needs to make some preparations in advance.

Because crawling forward a little bit in the snow requires not only perseverance, but also physical strength.

But ordinary food could not meet the requirements on the way, so Dongfang Sheng began to ask the people below to make beef jerky together.

At this time, the troops have always made dried meat as military rations, and Dongfang Sheng is no exception. Because when marching and fighting, in fact, it is best to carry food and grass that can supplement physical strength and transport a lot of calories. Dried meat is a good possession. above features.

Of course, it would be impossible for every soldier to grab a piece of jerky and crawl forward. This would affect the movement of the soldiers, and it would be more laborious to bite the jerky.

In this regard, Dongfang Sheng ordered the gang leader to chop the jerky until it was cut into thumb-sized particles, and then wrapped them in oil paper one by one and put them in leather bags. This was the dry food for this operation.

The dry food problem is solved, and the rest is water.

Dongfang Sheng asked the people below to rush to make and sew clean small leather bags. These leather bags were used to hold water, and the joints were sealed with wax to prevent water leakage. The straw is used as a straw, and there is a rope on the small leather bag, which can be hung directly around the neck, so that soldiers only need to bow their heads and take a sip if they are thirsty when they are moving forward.

After doing all this, Dongfang Sheng still had a problem to solve, because if he had to crawl over on his stomach, the soldier's body would have to come into contact with the snow, so if the clothes on the soldier's body were not waterproof and insulated, they might suffer from frostbite directly. At that time, don't talk about blasting the ice wall, it's fine if you don't freeze to death halfway.

To this end, Dongfang Sheng specially had people sew one-sided reverse clothing. First, the surface was waterproofed with fur, and the inside was lined with cotton for heat insulation.

After preparing everything, Dongfang Sheng personally took this elite team selected from the soldiers to blow up Zhong Yao's ice city.

This decision was made by Dongfang Sheng when he came up with this method.

No matter what other people tried to persuade them, it was useless. In the end, Badao would go with Dongfang Sheng, and the remaining generals of the guard camp would stick to the camp.

After arriving at the predetermined location, Dongfang Sheng took the lead on the ground and began to crawl forward. The soldiers behind him followed Dongfang Sheng silently, their eyes full of excitement.

Dongfang Sheng is now the Ninth Five-Year Master, but he still fights in the snow with them. This kind of spirit makes the soldiers under Dongfang Sheng's command full of passion and pride, and everyone holds back their energy To get the job done.

Although Zhong Yao cast the ice city and ice wall, he still built two arrow towers on the ice wall for defense and early warning.

Zhong Yao didn't send cavalry out to patrol because there were horned deer blocking the perimeter.

This also gave Dongfang Sheng and the others a chance. Dongfang Sheng crawled on the ground at a constant speed.

Because the face is on the ground, the snow on the ground will splash when you get up, and you have to stop and wipe off the snow on your face after climbing for a while, otherwise your whole face will freeze.

In order not to be discovered by Wei Jun, Dongfang Sheng had to pause occasionally to observe the surrounding situation.

In this way, Dongfang Sheng and the others climbed for a whole day and night before arriving under Zhong Yao's ice wall. Dongfang Sheng climbed under the ice wall in one go in the middle of the night when the Wei army was most relaxed.

But for now, Dongfang Sheng still has a difficulty to overcome: if he crosses the ice wall and enters the ice city to plant explosives, the best effect is only if they are buried together and then detonated at the same time after an agreement is made.

Once the explosives here exploded, it gave a signal to the guards who were still in the camp, and they would immediately send troops to attack the Wei army's camp.

The explosives in this ice wall are easy to bury, but it is difficult to get into the ice wall. There is no point of stress on the smooth ice wall, and it is impossible to climb up without auxiliary tools.

And even if there are auxiliary tools, you must not be discovered by the defenders, otherwise everything will be useless.

Dongfang Sheng poked his head under the ice wall to see that two Wei soldiers on the wall were patrolling ahead.

After weighing the pros and cons, Dongfang Sheng decided to deal with the two defenders directly, and then he climbed up the ice wall and rushed in to plant explosives. Moreover, Dongfang Sheng gave a death order. After the cup of tea, the explosives were ignited directly to blow up the ice wall.

Because the distance was a bit far, Dongfang Sheng didn't intend to use darts, but took out a silver-white slender iron rod. Upon closer inspection, the iron rod turned out to be hollow.

Dongfang Sheng reached out and took out two thin needles from his waist and stuffed them directly into the two notches inside the iron rod.

(End of this chapter)