Qiu Wenruo waved his hand and ordered:

"Ignition!"

As soon as the words fell, green smoke rose from all the dirt slopes in the northern section of the western wall, and the sound of "snorting" drove the flames all the way down to the place where the gunpowder was finally buried.

The flames burrowed into the earth along the pre-dug tracks, and there was a sound from time to time when they first entered the ground, and smoke broke through the soil and came out of the ground.

But after a while, the place where the gunpowder was planted was completely silent, and it looked as if it had been extinguished.

The defenders at the head of the city originally lay behind the female wall after lighting the gunpowder, and at this time they estimated that they should have lit it but couldn't hear the movement, and they were a little panicked.

Gao Yanzong couldn't hold it back, stretched out his head to look out, and asked:

"Filial piety, why didn't you ......"

As soon as he finished speaking, the others could no longer hear his voice, and Gao Yanzong could only see Qiu Wenruo waving his hand and talking with a long mouth under the female wall where he was on the side, but he couldn't hear anything at all,

The sound from the city wall came to everyone's ears along the soles of their feet, it was a loud sound that could make their bones shake together, whether it was the howl of the soldiers on both sides during the hand-to-hand battle at the head of the city before, or the explosion after pushing the powder keg down the city wall and igniting it before, it could not be compared with the current sound, and the people on the city wall could no longer tell whether what they were hearing now was a sound or an earthquake.

The whole wall seemed to be shaking, and the people on the wall felt that they would fall to their deaths in the next moment.

Gao Yanzong poked his head out, the people were not all on the city wall, and the people were almost thrown down when the vibration came, he clung to the bricks at the head of the wall, and used his arms to allow himself to continue to stay in the city.

At the same time as the sound came from under his feet, Gao Yanzong saw that the ground where the gunpowder was buried seemed to sink down first, but it was only for a moment, and then the entire soil slope swelled rapidly.

At this time, the deafening explosion squeezed Gao Yanzong from the outside in, and the sound from the air and the sound from the soles of his feet wrestled with his ears and brain, almost flattening Gao Yanzong's skull.

The wave of air that followed the loud bang knocked Gao Yanzong to the ground, and his helmet had been blown into the air, and he didn't know where it landed.

Then the earth shoveled out by the violent explosion was filled with the city, and the smoke rose, and the debris and debris fell from the sky, covering the soldiers.

Gao Yanzong was lying on the ground with his mouth wide open, trying to breathe again a few times, his face was bruised by the air waves, and his nose was bleeding, so he could only lie on the ground and gasp.

Although he was almost killed, Gao Yanzong was still very happy, lying on the spot and laughing heartlessly.

Qiu Wenruo probably wiped the dust off his eyes, rushed to Gao Yanzong's side and said:

"Gao County Order, you asked me to probe later, I almost died just now."

Gao Yanzong endured the pain on his face and laughed, and said:

"Almost dying is also almost, aren't I okay?"

Qiu Wenruo laughed and scolded when he heard this:

"You call it okay too? Laughing is like crying, still applauded? ”

At this time, the defenders and people on the northern city wall were already cheering, and Gao Yanzong hurriedly asked:

"Was it a success? Help me up and show me. ”

Qiu Wenruo hurriedly stretched out his hand to pull Gao Yanzong, and the defenders next to him also rushed over when they heard Gao Yanzong's shout, and everyone pulled Gao Yanzong up from the ground, and several people helped him to the edge of the city.

Although there are still some wreckage at the foot of the city wall, it is impossible to re-enter the city, and the thieves can only find another way to attack the city again.

Seeing that there was no dirt slope outside the city wall here, Gao Yanzong also regained his spirit, pushed away the sergeant who helped him, Gao Yanzong laughed and said:

"Good! Good! Well fried!

Mr. Wen Ruo's arrangement is really good, now there is no need to worry about the thieves coming to the city again. “

said a slap on Qiu Wenruo's back,

Qiu Wenruo was busy cleaning up the dust on his head, and he didn't guard against this, Gao Yanzong slapped Qiu Wenruo directly against the female wall.

Gao Yanzong then asked:

"The movement was so loud just now, I thought the city wall was going to collapse on all sides.

How did Mr. Wen Ruo calculate the amount of gunpowder? “

Qiu Wenruo was slapped by Gao Yanzong's cough, and replied with a sigh of relief:

"When I was in the Ministry of Engineering, I read about the use of gunpowder in construction, and it is not difficult to calculate the amount of explosive earth used in proportion.

Even so, I've never actually operated it before, and I don't know if your gunpowder formula here is the same as the one in the capital, but I can only use it if the military situation is urgent.

In fact, I was scared into a cold sweat by that motivation just now. “

Gao Yanzong smiled after hearing this:

"Mr. Wen Ruo is really real, and he has to tell the truth after the work is done."

Qiu Wenruo smiled:

"People don't know what they can do without faith, and the way of self-cultivation must first be sincere."

Gao Yanzong smiled and slapped Qiu Wenruo again, but this time the force was much lighter.

Then Gao Yanzong commanded:

"You can take a break here, leave people to clean the city wall and defend against thieves, and the rest will go to the south city wall with me!"

Qiu Wenruo says:

"The amount of gunpowder has been tried just now, Xiangcheng and the city wall are built in a boxy way, there is not much difference on all sides, and the soil slope built up by the thieves will not be much different, and the soil slope under the other city walls can also be blown up like this.

Gao Xian Ling, please also spare your manpower to divide the people who participated in the planting of gunpowder this time to the other three city walls, and let these people lead the people to dig pits on the dirt slope to bury gunpowder, and quickly blow up all the methods used by the thieves to attack the city. “

Gao Yanzong nodded after hearing this, but soon had doubts again, and he asked:

"But now the cavalry of the Marquis has not gone around to the other sides, and at this time, the loss of burying gunpowder from under the city wall will be great."

After hearing this, Qiu Wenruo replied:

"The thieves are attacking from all sides, but the guards are only a team of cavalry out of the city, according to the current degree of thieves attacking the city, if you wait for the guards to rush the thieves one by one, you may not be able to break through the city wall first.

Moreover, the Weihou cavalry is only 3,000, and the thieves are more than 300,000, and it is impossible for the Weihou to completely defeat the thieves, and he and his cavalry will not have enough strength to break through all four city walls.

It's good that Wei Hou can wash out more thieves, but we can't just wait for Wei Hou to be outside, there is a dead place outside the city. “

When Gao Yanzong heard these words, he suddenly realized, nodded vigorously, and said to Qiu Wenruo:

"Sir, you don't need to say it again, Yanzong understands!"

Then Gao Yanzong immediately arranged for his subordinates to divide into several teams to escort the people who had just gone down the slope to plant gunpowder, and also ordered to move the gunpowder stored in the city out and carry it to all the city walls on all sides.

When the gunpowder exploded under the buried soil slope just now, Lan Ziyi led the team outside the city to charge back on the original road outside the city.

The pikemen of the thieves were coming from behind, and the clearing that had been ploughed by the iron horsemen was filled by a steady stream of thieves from behind.

These later thieves no longer rushed up the dirt slope, and besides, the dirt slope had just been blown up by a powder keg, and the thieves were afraid that the defenders would continue to pour gunpowder under the city and did not dare to get too close to the city walls.

The thieves who followed began to form a formation on Lan Ziyi's path, intending to intercept Lan Ziyi's attacking iron cavalry.

For Lan Ziyi in the charge, the resistance caused by the thieves is not too big, but it is difficult to say if the thieves are allowed to continue to stand in the way.

Fortunately, at this time, the gunpowder in the soil ignited, and the gunpowder of half of the city wall exploded in an instant, and the debris of the earth that poured out was like the heavy mountain peaks by the sea being pulled up from the ground by Hercules sent by the heavenly court, and thrown into the sea one after another.

After experiencing the unexpected explosion just now, Lan Ziyi and his subordinates were already prepared, they were not frightened by the loud sound of the explosion, and their war horses were not as frightened as they were just now.

But the thieves who rushed forward did not have the quality of Lan Ziyi and them, the huge sound made them not possess their souls, and the flying sand and gravel made them retreat.

The soldiers of the Jihu Battalion saw the thieves stunned in place, knowing that this was a rare opportunity, the soldiers in the front row stabbed the thieves down with a flat end of the horse, and the soldiers in the back row waved their sabers to follow, killing the fish that slipped through the net.

Those thieves who originally wanted to form a formation had already suffered because they couldn't attack the city for a long time, and their morale fell to the bottom after being hit by the explosion, and now they couldn't support it anymore by Lan Ziyi, and finally dropped their weapons and fled backwards.

They did not retreat in the direction they came, and in fact they could not withdraw their own formation even when the iron hooves of the Tiger Battalion were behind them.

If they were able to withdraw to the place where they came, they would be reorganized, and the formation of the thieves would not be too burdensome, because at this time on the south side of the western wall, the thieves had already organized pikemen to prepare for the onslaught of the Jihu battalion.

But now the front of the thieves collapsed, and the deserters were all driven by the Jihu battalion to retreat to the south side, and the thieves on the south side of the city, who were also frightened by the explosion just now, were covered with ashes in front of their eyes, and they were so frightened that they were so frightened that they retreated to their own side.

The thief spearman who was ready to put out the gun array was originally going to deal with Lan Ziyi and their cavalry, but at this time, he was rushed by his own people.

Although the pikemen shouted to stop their men from charging, who could not understand the situation when there were iron hooves approaching behind them? Those who stood still had all been hacked to death,

The retreating thieves cried out and rushed towards their own people, although they also wanted to stop before the spear could be snatched up, but the unstoppable thrust from the back row forced them to move forward, and these thieves watched as their bodies were pushed into the body of the spear, even though the blood was still flowing, and the remaining thieves who tried to stop fell and were trampled under the feet of the next generation.

At this time, the thieves were completely out of troops, and they did not listen to orders, they were a group of beasts driven by hungry wolves, and they did not even understand the reason for their own running.

The thieves who ran behind were swallowed by the sabers of the Jihu battalion that flashed with cold light, and the thieves who rushed ahead were pierced by their own spears, and their shields blocked the way.

Finally, those thieves who fled desperately filled the bloodthirsty spear body, stepped on the big shield blocking the road, and the thieves who were originally going to defend also joined the retreating thieves, and the thieves on the south side began to collapse, and the thieves who attacked the city were also affected, so it seems that the Jihu battalion of only 3,000 people can rush the thieves to pieces.

Tao Zhutu followed Lan Ziyi from behind and said:

"I just wanted to say that I made a mistake just now, I didn't charge to the north and south at the same time, and now I have to run into the gunline of the thieves.

Now it seems that I am overly worried, according to this way of fighting, these hundreds of thousands of thieves and gangsters will have to be wiped out by us here today. “

Lan Ziyi stepped on his horse and looked into the depths of the thief formation, and he said:

"Not necessarily."

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