Nanming Engineer

Chapter 289

Following Wang Huan's order, a soldier standing next to him reined in his horse and took a few steps forward. He waved a huge red flag in his hand, and with the flag, he ran out of the Kuizhou Army's solemn array. More than [-] riders galloped away against the thick infantry formation of the Qing army.

"Oh? It's out, it's out!" Li Maozu raised his neck and tried his best to look into the distance, carefully observing every move on the battlefield. Naturally, the actions of the Kuizhou Army could not be hidden from his eyes. When the hooves of the running cavalry moved, he discovered But it was not unexpected, and instead he said with a somewhat complacent expression: "Haha, as I expected, seeing the neat appearance of our Qing army, are you losing your temper? Humph, it's too late to use the charge formation now! "

He is very confident, and he has no intention of worrying that the cavalry will disperse the infantry formation. It is because, when the infantry is arranged in a dense formation, unless the cavalry wants to commit suicide, they will directly rush up to the row of spears to beg. It is less than a little cheaper, and the distance between the Qing army and the Kuizhou army is already very close, less than two hundred steps. At such a distance, the speed of the cavalry cannot be increased, and the advantage of the impact of the horse cannot be fully utilized. With no combat experience, he was childish and incompetent everywhere, and was useless except to take advantage of Liannu.

So Li Maozu snorted in his nostrils, disapproving, but immediately, his eyes narrowed again, and he said to himself suspiciously: "No, why did only twenty or so people come out? Why didn't the rest stay still?"

The troops of the Kuizhou Army Brigade still lined up in a horizontal line, quietly guarding the base of the city wall. They watched the every move of the twenty or so comrades who rushed out, with nervous expressions on their faces.

"My lord, shouldn't it be time to stuff the cotton?" Li Dingguo reached out from the inner lining of the armor and took out a few balls of cotton, spreading them in his hands and asked.

Wang Huan has been staring at the more than twenty riders whom he called the igniter, very serious and concentrated, and he didn't respond to Li Dingguo's question. Li Dingguo had no choice but to raise his voice and asked a second time before Wang Huan heard it.

"No hurry, it won't be too late after they light the fire." Wang Huan said, but he grabbed the cotton in Li Dingguo's hand and rubbed it in the palm of his hand, kneading it into two small lumps.

Li Dingguo didn't dare to be negligent, so he quickly divided the remaining cotton into two parts, kneaded it into two balls, and held it in his hands for later use.

All of a sudden, all the Kuizhou troops in the queue took out cotton from their pockets, doing the same movements as Wang Huan and Li Dingguo, neat and consistent, very weird.

At the same time, more than [-] people who ran out showed generous expressions on their faces, and rode their horses until they ran a hundred steps away before jumping off their horses.

The two of them divided into several groups, squatted on the ground, took out flint and fire scythe, and looked furtively at the approaching Qing army, wondering what they were doing?
Li Maozu is completely confused, what is the Ming army doing?funny?
A thousand cavalry stood under the city wall like infantry, not moving at all on their horses, as if they were riding stones instead of horses.

Then more than 20 people ran out of it inexplicably, ran between the two armies, dismounted and squatted on the ground as if defecating, raising their heads and lowering their heads for a while, not knowing what they were doing.

The actions of these Baijia Ming army are no longer in the common sense of Li Maozu or any general of the Qing army. They are full of weirdness, but they are still puzzling.

No one noticed that the place where the firemen got off their horses happened to be the place where many round holes were dug out in the ground. The Kuizhou army in groups of two, each squatting position was the position of a round hole.

No one noticed that they squatted on the ground, took out two fuses from the round hole, and carefully arranged them to avoid tangling and tangling, which would affect the combustion.

The central army of the Qing army, which was forming a square formation and advancing steadily, was also a little baffled. Those who walked in the front could certainly see what the Kuizhou army was doing, but they also didn't understand why they were doing this. What could they do by squatting on the ground?
"Install a horse rope? No, my people are all infantry, and horse ropes are useless against infantry; put barbed wire? That's not right, that thing is for restraining cavalry, and shouldn't it be scattered everywhere? Squatting on the ground one by one, the Ming army is in a hurry? Or, installing the Thunderbolt? It’s even more impossible, the Thunderbolt is as big as a watermelon, and the Ming army came empty-handed.” In Li Maozu’s mind, One possibility after another keeps passing by, like twinkling stars, flashing one after another, extinguishing one after another, and denying them all.

Racking his brains, he couldn't figure out why the Ming army sent people out. Li Maozu simply ignored it. Anyway, there were only a dozen or so people. Even if they were all Zhang Fei's reincarnation, his 5000 soldiers in the Chinese army could chop them into mincemeat.

The lieutenant general who followed the Chinese army also thought the same way. He is a vulgar man, not as capable as Li Maozu. He can think of so many possibilities in the blink of an eye. In the simple mind of the warrior, there is only one thing to look for: no matter what tricks the Ming army plays, you With so many people, five of them can be killed and one can be beaten with fists.

So he walked resolutely, majestic, passionate, held his head high, followed behind the front shield wall, and used the roar from his dantian to continuously inspire the morale of the soldiers of the Chinese army.

Accompanied by the unison chant of "Ho, Ho, Ho", the Qing army kept shortening the distance with the Kuizhou army, and within a short period of time, it was close to a distance of 150 steps.

The lighters took a hundred steps forward, and the distance between them and the Qing army was less than fifty steps. The Qing army could shoot them as long as they drew their bows and set their arrows.

"It's time, beat the drums!" Wang Huan's squinted eyes widened suddenly, and he waved his right hand decisively towards the sky. On the tower behind him, several big cowhide drums were immediately covered by several burly men with bare upper body. The wooden stick was struck, and the drum sound of "dong dong dong" was like Xia Lei rolling, and the sound shook hundreds of miles.

As soon as the drum sounded, the fire starters immediately used the fire that had been lit just now, and quickly ignited the exposed fuses on the mud floor. The fire hands were in groups of two, and each person lit one. After lighting, they Like burning his butt, he quickly jumped on the horse and ran towards the city wall desperately.

While running, they freed up their hands, took out the cotton, crumpled it into two balls like Wang Huan, and stuffed them into their ears.

"Stuff cotton!" Wang Huan yelled, and took the lead in stuffing the cotton in his hands into his ears, while opening his mouth wide, as if preparing for something.

Nearly a thousand Kuizhou troops raised their hands in unison, stuffed the cotton that had been prepared into their ears at the same time, and opened their mouths wide, as if they were shouting silently, which made people laugh.

And behind the desperate igniter, the ends of those winding fuses just entered into round holes on the ground. Some holes were dug shallower, and you could faintly see that there were wrapped and tied pieces of cloth wrapped in cloth in the holes. pack.

"Escaped?" In the ranks of the Qing army, the lieutenant monk Zhang Er was puzzled: "Since you want to escape, why did you come out just now?"

Although the lieutenant general is a rough man, his eyesight is good. Although his brain is muddy, his eyes are very poisonous. When he glanced over, he immediately found that there was a "puff puff" on the ground like a fire dragon about ten steps away. A sparking fuse.

"Huh? What's that?" The deputy general was startled for a moment, and immediately realized that he had been in the Ming army after all and had a basic understanding of firearms. He immediately shouted: "Stop! Stop! The Ming army is buried in the ground. Gunpowder!"

The team of 5000 people stopped at the same time in a short period of time and stopped at the same place.

The lieutenant-general leading the troops was sweating coldly, constantly rejoicing that it was discovered early and did not enter the range of the fuse, otherwise, how much gunpowder had been buried in the ground, and the skin would peel off even if it exploded.

Li Maozu, who was behind him, naturally heard the deputy general's shouts and was equally astonished. He never expected that the Ming army would actually use the technique of planting gunpowder in field battles. This method of combat was unheard of in field battles and had too many limitations. It must be discovered when it is ignited, and it is easier to crack it. Just wait for the explosion to pass as it is now, and then move on, which is extremely useless.

"Zhuzi is stupid! Zhuzi has no eyes!" Li Maozu was angry and funny, feeling that his IQ had been insulted. Who was the leader of the Ming army?You must catch him and see how his brain grows.

On the battlefield, there was a brief moment of silence. The Qing army and the Kuizhou army were all waiting quietly in place, waiting for the arrival of the moment they expected and expected.

The wind blew past, rolling up a cloud of dust, and the flickering sparks between the two armies became more and more obvious, like flower buds exploding one by one under the scorching sun, jumping and burning, straight into the round holes one after another.

Wang Huan stretched out his hands unconsciously, and used two fingers to plug his ears that were already stuffed with cotton.

Li Maozu looked happy, touched the long beard on his chin, squinted his eyes and began to look at the city wall of Xinhua, thinking about how to attack the city if the Ming army fled into the city.

In the middle army of the Qing army, the lieutenant-general who led the troops held a long knife in his hand and looked around to see if there was a way to go around from both sides.

In the army formation on the two wings, Yu Shizhong and Ma Jiaolin sat firmly on their horses and kept sternly urging their subordinates to cheer up to prevent the Ming cavalry from breaking out from the two wings.

"Boom!" As everyone expected, a huge explosion exploded without any surprise.

From a round hole dug in the ground fifty steps away from the Qing army's central army, accompanied by a puff of green smoke and a loud noise, a cloud of black and dusty things, with a sparking The fuse flew out, jumped into the air, and rushed straight at the Qing army fifty paces away.

Wang Huan's eyes lit up, looking at the explosive package in the air with great anticipation, as if admiring a rather proud work of art.

Li Maozu and his subordinates were stunned, staring at the cloth bag falling from the sky with dumbfounded eyes, not knowing why.

Exploded a bedroll from the ground?

"Boom boom boom!"

Explosions continued, and more than a dozen "bedding rolls" were blown out from the ground, flying towards the Qing army formation from far or near.

"Crack!" The first bedroll fell to the ground. It didn't fly very far, and it landed just a few steps away from the first row of the Qing army.

After the bedroll fell to the ground, it rolled on the ground and stopped moving. Only the burning fuse was still shortening "squeaky".

The Qing soldiers looked at it in horror, and then looked up at the other bedrolls that were still flying in the air. Because of their ignorance, they were in a daze.

The last spark of the fuse disappeared into the medicine bag under the gaze of everyone.

In the next second, an explosive package weighing more than [-] kilograms was suddenly detonated by the captive bomb.

A deafening loud noise shocked the world.

The earth shakes, the ashes fly into smoke!
Like a gust of hurricane blowing, or like an earthquake, the huge explosion effect splattered a layer of iron nails, gravel and other things wrapped outside the explosive package, and shot them in all directions like bullets. Although the people in the first two rows were holding shields and wearing two layers of armor, they were also pierced by iron nails and broken stones, directly penetrating the human body, or embedded in the bones, or left in the flesh and blood.

The two rows of people fell to the ground without even humming.

Then a huge shock wave came one after another, centered on the explosion point, and spread around. Countless people were thrown into the air, circling in the air, and then fell to the ground, spitting blood, and their internal organs were all shattered. Whoever is affected by the explosion, no one will survive.

With just the first explosive package, four or five rows of people from the central army of the Qing army were blown away. The complete phalanx was blown to a gap, and the gap was bloody and bloody, with countless corpses.

The rest of the people were also knocked down by the shock, deaf in both ears and unable to speak.

Even the Kuizhou army who was a hundred paces away, although they had put cotton in their ears for protection, still felt as if someone was beating their ears with a drum, and their eardrums hurt.

One can imagine what it was like for the Qing army in the center of the explosion.

In the rear formation of the Qing army, Li Maozu opened his mouth wide and bulged his eyes, staring at the other dozen or so explosive packages that were spinning and falling in the air, stretched out his hand, and was determined to be speechless.

Someone next to him shouted out for him: "Sky Thunder! The Sky Thunder used by the Ming Army!"

(End of this chapter)