Underneath the trench, a hand-cranked blower at the entrance of the tunnel continuously sends fresh air into the depths of the tunnel. Several auxiliaries in the depths of the tunnel were busy making final preparations. Arriving in the crypt under the Yunxiao city wall, the Ming army successively carried into two thick wooden boxes, on which a fuse was exposed. On the wall of the tunnel, a bamboo pipe is fixed, and a thick fuse protrudes from the bamboo pipe and hangs down to the top of the place where the wooden box is placed.

"Pick up the fuse." A personal soldier directs the auxiliaries to do the work.

After the fuse sticking out of the bamboo pipe and the fuse on the wooden box were connected, the auxiliaries began to seal the crypt.

In order to increase the power of the blast, two powder chests were placed inside each crypt, and three brick walls were built outside to seal it completely.

At the beginning of the bamboo pipe, the end of the fuse is followed by a fire rope about one foot long, this fire rope is a special fire rope, first the elm bark and straw are ground into powder, mixed with water to form a paste, and then the hemp rope is soaked, glued and taken out. After the hemp rope is dry, it becomes a special fire rope, in fact, this is a large, soft incense, burning is more stable than the fire rope, not easy to extinguish, and the time is easy to control.

The camp of the Ming army, the lights were brilliant, and Wang Xinyu and Chen Python walked to the point of generals.

Flags were displayed in the camp, the bonfire was brightly illuminated, and all the generals and soldiers gathered in front of the general platform. Wang Xinyu's eyes flashed with confidence in the firelight, he looked around with a smile, looked at these warriors who could fight well, cleared his throat, and launched a pre-war mobilization: "You are all soldiers who have lived by the sea for a long time, there are more fish and shrimp than rice, and you eat stinky fish and rotten shrimp as rice every day. ”

"Hahaha!" There was laughter from the audience.

"But!" Wang Xinyu changed the topic, "We eat fish and shrimp every day, and we don't have night blindness!" And the Tartars in the opposite city, they are forbidden every day, and they don't eat better than us! After dark, they smear in front of their eyes! Let's take the opportunity to kill them and kill them without leaving a single piece of armor behind! ”

"Kill the Tartars! Kill the Tartars! There was a roar from the crowd.

Wang Xinyu turned his head and glanced at Chen Python, signaling that it was his turn to speak, after all, Chen Python was the commander of the Lu Division.

Chen Python's face was red, his eyes revealed a murderous aura, he looked around at the soldiers in the audience, opened his voice and shouted: "The Tartar Cloud City is about to be broken!" You are all good soldiers! Wait until the walls explode, and we'll fight into the city! Leave the religion and let go of a Tartar! Everyone, follow me to kill the enemy! Now, Ben will start arranging! ”

"Lin Hui!"

"The last general!"

"You lead the soldiers of your headquarters, bring a hundred bronze mountain soldiers and horses, and wait outside the moat that has been filled in in the southwest! When you hear a loud bang and the walls fall, immediately attack the city! ”

"Whoa!"

……

"Huang Ping!"

"The last general!"

"You lead the soldiers of your headquarters, bring two hundred Tongshan soldiers and horses, and then bring two hundred auxiliary soldiers, carry the flying river car, and arrive outside the northwest moat! Hearing a loud noise, the city wall collapsed, immediately set up a river cart and crossed the river into the city! ”

"Whoa!"

……

"Wu Haodong!"

"The last general!"

"You lead the armor and sailors, follow Huang Ping, the soldiers enter the city, and the armor and sailors immediately enter the city! Occupy the rooftops, fire arrows, and throw a national bottle to attack the enemy! ”

"Whoa!"

……

In the end, Chen Python arranged for Wang Xinyu: "Wang Yu! ”

"In!"

"You lead eighty personal soldiers and wait outside the Southwest Xiegong Gate! That's the only way for the Tartars to escape! When you see the Tartars out of the city, immediately ride your horse and chase after them! ”

"Whoa!" Wang Xinyu arched his hand to Chen Python.

Everything was arranged, and the army set aside the camp and marched in line in the direction of the Yunxiao City Wall.

The officers and soldiers of the sailor division led by Wu Haodong followed behind the ironclad soldiers, and the officers and men of his sailor division were each wearing wooden armor, which was a kind of light armor, with silk cloth on the inside and wooden planks the size of tofu hanging on the outside. This kind of wooden armor is more durable than paper armor, can resist bows and arrows, encounters knives and guns, and also has a certain protective ability, and the wooden armor is lightweight, after the sailor falls into the water, the wooden armor will not only not sink into the water with people like iron armor and cotton armor, but will provide buoyancy. Although the protective performance is not as good as the iron armor, it is an important equipment for the sailors.

Hearing the sound of drums outside the city, the Qing army in the city was woken up, opened their sleepy and hazy eyes, and walked up to the city with strong spirits.

"The pirates are going to attack the city overnight! Everyone's cheer up! Don't be crawled up in the dark! Yang Sheng shouted and ordered the Qing troops to go to the city to defend.

At the head of the city, the Qing soldiers lit torches and hung lanterns.

A handful of wood was added to the dark fire under the large iron pot, and it immediately burned, and the foul-smelling gold juice in the pot boiled.

Seeing that the Qing soldiers were standing at the head of the city, Chen Python asked his own soldiers to use fire to signal the mound behind him.

At the entrance of the tunnel, the auxiliary officer shouted into the tunnel: "Ignition!" ”

The auxiliaries in the three tunnels lit the fire ropes at the same time, and then quickly escaped from the tunnels.

After about a stick of incense, the first loud bang sounded under the Yunxiao city wall, and the gunpowder sealed in the crypt exploded violently, and the air wave rushed up to the heights, and suddenly a section of the city wall that was seven or eight feet long was blown into slag and rubble, and flew into the sky one after another. The Qing soldiers standing at the head of the city did not expect a sudden change to occur, and the Qing soldiers on the explosion point were either crushed to pieces on the spot, or were lifted into the air, and fell down to death and were injured; Although the Qing soldiers around the explosion site were not directly killed, they were shocked, most of them were stunned, and some were stoned to death by falling stones from the sky.

"Kill!" The Ming army outside the blast mouth shouted, through the filled moat, to kill towards the gap that had been blown up.

The Ming army climbed through the gap that had been blown open and climbed up to the top of the city on both sides.

At this time, the Qing troops on both sides of the city suffered heavy casualties, and the Qing soldiers who were far away from the explosion location were already frightened, watching the Ming army with shields and long knives coming, and they had not yet reacted. Those soldiers of the Qing army only had time to pick up their swords to resist before they were hacked to death by the Ming army. And those auxiliaries and temporarily recruited people surrendered on their knees.

There was another explosion, and the second gap in the city wall was blown open, and the Ming army killed it.

Not long after, the third explosion sounded, and the Ming army rushed into the third gap and quickly attacked the city wall.

"The city is broken! The city is broken! Adults, hurry up and lead people to break through! A pro-soldier knelt in front of Yang Sheng with a sad face.

"Slap" Yang Sheng shook his hand and slapped his own soldiers: "The thieves just broke through the three openings, and the city was broken?" Pass my order and take someone to plug the mouth! ”

At this time, Zhou Lianggong jumped out: "This official personally led a thousand people to plug the gap in the southwest!" I won't let a single pirate enter the city! ”

Zhou Lianggong is also a stubborn hardcore traitor, and in the confrontation with the Zheng family, this person personally led troops to repel the Zheng family army many times. Today in Cloud City, he was the first to jump out to boost morale.

Groups of Qing troops quickly rushed to the three blown open gaps, the soldiers pushed knife carts in front of the defense, and the auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang in the back rushed to the front under the protection of the soldiers, holding sandbags and bricks, ready to block the blown up gap.

The Ming army did not rush to attack the neighborhood, and the armored soldiers continued to rush to the city on both sides, killing the recalcitrant Qing troops on the city walls one by one. And those sailors who are agile and good at climbing, when the soldiers have cleaned up a piece of the Qing army at the head of the city, they immediately hang down with ropes, enter the city, and then use rope grappling hooks to climb to the roof.

Just when the Qing army thought that it was blocking the attack of the Ming army, three explosions sounded on the city wall in a row.

At this time, the attention of the Qing army was focused on the three openings that had just been blown up, and the three openings were blown up again, and the defenses around the city walls in those places were weak, there were not many Qing soldiers stationed, and there were not many Qing troops behind them who could block the road.

The war drums rumbled, and the Ming army auxiliaries pushed the Feijiang cart, quickly pushed it to the moat, and put the Feijiang cart on the river surface.

"Kill!" Hordes of Ming troops shouted and rushed across the moat and fought their way into the gap.

These Ming troops entered the city and lit fires everywhere. When the Qing army, which was not many people in front of them, saw the Ming army, they turned around and ran.

On the roofs on both sides, the officers and soldiers of the sailors who climbed to the roof fired arrows in unison, killing many Qing soldiers.

"Kill!" On the three gaps that were blown up before, the Ming army also shouted and killed the Qing army blocking the road.

The officers and men of the sailors who climbed onto the roofs on both sides threw the smoking bottles of the national surname into the crowd of Qing troops.

The sound of a violent explosion resounded in the crowd of Qing soldiers, and clusters of flames burst out, and the Qing soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

Arrows rained down on the rooftops, and the dazed Qing soldiers turned into hedgehogs one by one.

The Qing soldiers behind the knife cart were attacked coldly and turned their heads, some counterattacked with bows and arrows to the roof, and others tried to climb onto the roof.

"The city is broken!" Minzhuang, who was carrying sandbags and bricks, cried, dropped what he was holding, turned and ran.

The frontal attack of the Ming army rushed up, at this time the Qing soldiers behind the knife cart were dealing with the random arrows from the roof, before they had time to turn their heads, the Ming soldiers had already killed the front, cut down the Qing soldiers, pushed the knife cart down on the side of the road, and the Ming army behind the group rushed into the block.

Zhou Lianggong was organizing the Qing army and the people to block the gap in the southwest, and suddenly the smoking bottles of the national surname flew down from the roofs on both sides, and the feather arrows also followed.

The Qing army auxiliaries and Minzhuang had no armor on their bodies, and they were blown up by the national surname bottle, and were shot by random arrows, and they were killed and injured in an instant.

"Don't mess with yourself! Climb on the roof! Kill the thieves above! Zhou Lianggong shouted.

A few agile Qing soldiers have climbed onto the roof, but the officers and soldiers of the sailor division on the roof, who have been adrift at sea for many years, can stand firm on the rickety ship and climb the towering mast, and many of the officers and men of the sailor division used to be pirates, and often fought in gangs, and it is needless to say that they are brave in their personal martial arts. The Qing soldiers who went up to the roof were quickly cut down by the sailor with a waist knife and axe.

On the front, the Ming army shouted and killed.

Zhou Lianggong pulled out his sword, hacked to death several Qing soldiers who retreated, and shouted: "Death to those who retreat!" ”

The Qing soldiers were forced to turn their heads, and more than 20 Qing soldiers pushed knife carts and rushed towards the Ming army.

The knife cart collided with the Ming saber and shield hand in front of him, and immediately knocked over seven or eight people, and the heavy knife cart ran over the fallen Ming army.

The Ming saber and shield hands spread out to both sides, and the pikemen behind took the line and used their spears to resist the knife cart. Then there were sword and shield men who climbed over the knife cart and jumped down to cut down the Qing soldiers behind.

"Kill!" The Ming army flocked to Zhou Lianggong's auxiliaries and Minzhuang.

"Kill the thief with me!" Zhou Lianggong shouted, waved his sword, and was the first to counter-kill the attacking Ming army.

Seeing that a civil official was so brave, the auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang in the back suddenly had high morale and rushed towards the Ming army with Zhou Lianggong. These auxiliaries and people are strong, and they actually stubbornly blocked the Ming army soldiers who were far better equipped than them and had much stronger combat effectiveness! A large number of auxiliaries and Minzhuang fell, and the auxiliaries and Minzhuang in the back rushed up as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, cooperating with the soldiers in front of them to beat the Ming army that entered the city step by step.

"It's the Tartar official!" Wu Haodong stretched out his bow and arrows, and with the help of firelight, aimed at Zhou Lianggong, who was wearing an official uniform.

"Whoosh" an iron arrow pierced into Zhou Lianggong's heart, this traitor who had brutally suppressed the anti-Qing uprising, killed the anti-Qing monks, mutilated the anti-Qing heroines, and stubbornly resisted the king of Yanping, was shot by an arrow in this way and died in the chaos.

"Lord Zhou is dead!" Someone shouted.

The Qing soldiers and the people, who were still in high morale just now, were like deflated balls, and quickly collapsed.

The Qing army collapsed, and the Ming army entered the neighborhood. The Qing soldiers and Minzhuang, who had no time to escape, knelt on the ground one after another and surrendered to the Ming army.