Chapter 164: The First Explosion in History (Part I)

In Xiangyang City, the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion.

It was raining heavily, the sky was dark, and even during the day, lamps and candles were lit in some important places in the mansion.

In the conference hall, a lamp and candle were lit, and Sun Chang was sitting on the upper seat at the moment, holding a scroll in his hand and reading.

The shouting and killing sounds that came from time to time outside did not make him feel panicked.

The defense of Xiangyang City is famous all over the world.

The 100-meter-wide moat, drawn from living water, is still not condensed in winter, and can be used to sail inside, which can block the enemy from approaching the city.

The walls are high and heavy, and the stone is made of a unique material, which is extremely strong, and the stone is coated with sticky, and between the cracks, there is no place for steel needles to penetrate.

Such a city wall, even with a thunderbolt and twenty in unison, still has little effect.

In Xiangyang City, the weapons are complete, the food reserves are sufficient, and there is a mobile water source, and the three-month siege of the army has not brought any inconvenience to Xiangyang City at all.

With such a strong defense, it is no wonder that Sun Chang is so calm.

This siege and defense battle has been fought for three months.

It is already May now, in early summer, the morale of Jiuwei will drop, and the supply of grain and grass for 50,000 people is really costly, and it is estimated that the Shu army will no longer be able to break through before the autumn comes, and Sun Chang's mood is even very good.

"After three months of siege, Wang Hongyi really did not give up, and he has not withdrawn his troops until now. Hmph, I was worried that the thunderbolt would break my city, yes, this thunderbolt is really powerful, but we also repair it from time to time, of course, it can be blasted away in the first half of the year, but there is this time?"

"Seeing that Jing Nan and Wu Yue are about to settle down, the Shu army is also working in vain!" Sun Chang's eyes narrowed slightly at this moment, and his tone was cold: "Hmph, don't withdraw when you see that the situation is not good, otherwise the old man will really have to subdue the Wu State." ”

Only when Wang Hongyi can't fight for a long time and fights with Wu and Jingnan can he take advantage of the fire to rob and take advantage of this line of life.

Now, Sun Chang feels that the tens of thousands of troops that can hold Wang Hongyi are preparing for the destruction of the Shu army in the future, and in Sun Chang's view, this day is obviously not far away.

"Is the Shu army outside still attacking the city?" Sun Chang said, glancing at the general who had just come in.

"Back to the lord, the Shu army just retreated, and only fired a few rounds of stone bullets, and then retreated. The general bowed slightly and said to Sun Chang.

"Very good, if this continues, even in three months, it will be impossible to break through the city's defenses, let them work in vain, as long as they don't get close to the city, don't pay attention to them. ”

Sun Chang smiled slightly, very satisfied with the situation, and a feeling that Chengzhu was in control of Xiōng spontaneously.

"Also, check the inside of the city, continue to organize the repair of the city wall, and don't be careless because of this!"

The general bowed in response, and was about to go out and order the sergeants under his tent to step up the investigation, when suddenly he heard a noise outside the hall.

"What's going on?" Sun Chang frowned slightly and stood up. "What's the commotion out there?"

"Report!" At this moment, a personal soldier rushed in from outside.

When he arrived in the hall, this personal soldier immediately turned over and bowed down: "Lord Qi, I just received the news that the Shu army outside the city suddenly approached the moat again, and suddenly launched thirty thunderbolt cars to bombard the city together, and the general Wei who defended the city asked people to send a letter to you, please make a decision as soon as possible." ”

"What?" Hearing the soldier's report, Sun Chang's face changed suddenly.

"Thirty more thunderbolts?" Unconsciously, Sun Chang clenched his fists, and his heart sank.

This thunderbolt car is extremely difficult to manufacture, the process takes a month, and in order to keep it secret, it has to be manufactured in Shuzhong, these bulky goods are transported from Shuzhong through checkpoints and dangerous roads, and it is very difficult, except for the first large-scale growth, only now another batch has been added.

It took three months.

"Do you see clearly? Is it really thirty thunderbolts?"

"Dashuai, it's true, we've counted them all. The soldier said quickly.

"How could there be so many thunderbolts all of a sudden?" Subconsciously, Sun Chang's heart tightened.

Although Wang Hongyi used thunderbolts to attack the city, the power of twenty thunderbolts could not cause huge damage to the city wall, and Sun Chang still had this confidence, but now that thirty thunderbolts appeared, Sun Chang was shocked.

Even if these thunderbolts can't destroy the city walls for a while, what about a month, two months?

After learning the news, Sun Chang's originally leisurely and complacent expression gradually disappeared, and was replaced by a dignified look.

"The order went down, and another battalion of men and horses was added to the tower, and at the same time more men were sent to speed up the manufacture of wooden arrows and push stones to the tower. ”

"The people have doubled their collection and are ready to intensify the repair of the city walls. After Sun Chang finished speaking, he asked people to take their coats, and after getting dressed neatly, he stood up and walked out.

A sergeant had already brought a war horse for Sun Chang, and Sun Changfei got on the horse and led a group of personal soldiers to the city tower.

Rumble!

Boom! Boom!

Before the city tower was near, a loud bombardment was heard, which sounded outside the city.

Sun Chang had a calm face, and under the protection of his own soldiers, he quickly walked up to the city tower.

Just in time for the Shu army in the distance, another round of stone projectiles was fired, and more than a dozen boulders flew up like rockets.

Boom! Boom!

Falling in an area one after another, although Sun Chang was standing a little far away, he also felt his feet tremble slightly.

"Lord, it's too dangerous here, how can you come here in person?" As soon as the general guarding the city saw Sun Chang go up to the city tower, his face immediately changed greatly, and he said in surprise.

Sun Chang stared at the Shu army camp in the distance with a solemn face, and asked, "During this time, they have been attacking the city with stone bullets?"

"Yes, my lord. "The guard is back.

"Wang Hongyi didn't think that with these thunderbolts, he could capture Xiangyang in one fell swoop?" Sun Changshen whispered strangely, even if there were thirty more planes, but because of the wide moat, the long-range attack was two hundred meters, and when he reached the city wall, he had exhausted a lot of strength, and he couldn't take it for a while.

The guard general frowned, looked at the Shu army in the distance, and began to prepare for the next round of attacks, and said: "Lord, the Shu army has used thirty thunderbolts this time, and it seems that they are new, because the old thunderbolts cannot be used continuously. ”

As a result, after three months of bombing, now Xiangyang is very clear about the rules inside.

"If there are fifty vehicles tomorrow, such an intensive attack, although the city wall is strong, but after a long time, it may not be blasted out of the gap, if the Shu army continues to besiege the city and does not retreat...... "The defender did not say, but the meaning of the words, Sun Chang has already understood.

"As long as it lasts another month, the Shu army will have to retreat and leave. Otherwise, that's a good thing. Thinking of the news from Wu Jun, Sun Chang said with a sneer.

Rumble!

A new round of bombardment began, and Sun Chang looked at it for a while, then turned to leave.

Sun Chang was a little jealous of the Shu army's thunderbolts, but he knew that it was impossible to break through the city wall and enter Xiangyang in a short period of time just by relying on these thunderbolts.

May is approaching summer, and the weather in early summer is warm and pleasant.

The warm breeze blows through, making people feel comfortable physically and mentally, and without the smell of blood that permeates the air and is entangled with the wind, it is really a good day.

Outside Xiangyang City, in the camp of the Shu army, Wang Hongyi, who was riding a horse in the army, looked at the scene in the distance without blinking.

It's strong, it's really strong, the defense of this city is really strong to the point of indignation!

However, the more this is the case, the more Wang Hongyi wants to capture such a city, and how much effect will such a city play in his own hands?

Thinking of this, Wang Hongyi's eyes narrowed.

"My lord, the thirty new thunderbolts have gone into battle together, but the city wall is still undamaged, I didn't believe it would be like this before, but now I see it with my own eyes, it's really amazing. Zhang Youzhi's voice sounded on the side.

He was also wearing thin armor, changing the appearance of a Japanese scribe, riding an apricot red war horse, watching the battle in the distance by Wang Hongyi's side.

Wang Hongyi listened to his words and was silent for a moment: "This is just a plan, it is best to break through the defense of the city wall by thunderbolt alone, but no, in order to attract the attention of the defenders, it may not be a good way to blow up the city wall with Taolei." ”

"What the lord said is extremely true, but the explosive power of Tao Lei does not seem to be large. "After the experiment, if it is an earthen wall, it can be exploded when buried, but Xiangyang City, once cast a few in the past, and the explosion on the city wall is just some marks, and it can't be shaken at all.

"It would be nice to fry yào, but unfortunately not. "Even if Wang Hongyi followed the instructions and was able to create a granular black fire, he still couldn't blow up the wall.

However, this time, it was 500 taurets, which added up to 1,000 kilograms!

If the quality is not comparable, just use the quantity, and a thousand kilograms do not believe that it cannot be exploded!

"You can use it all. Wang Hongyi did not hide it from Zhang Youzhi.

"Use it all, of course, the power is huge, but the fuse is ignited and detonated, here is hundreds of meters away from the city wall, and there is a moat 100 meters wide that can be used for boats, how can we give full play to the true power of Tao Lei?" Zhang Youzhi asked: "And the general arrow rain is not afraid, if there is a rocket on it, and the result explodes in advance, what about it?"

This is the Achilles' heel.

"I'm afraid Zhang Qing has an idea about this, right?" Wang Hongyi didn't answer, but asked rhetorically, and the two eyes collided in mid-air, and at the same time, they laughed.

"Sun Chang knows our army's battle strategy, I'm afraid I'm going to vomit blood, right?" Zhang Youzhi stroked the newly grown short beard on his chin, and said with a smile: "Although the fire plan must be guarded against, I am afraid that there is not much fire oil now." ”

After three months of fighting, of course, there is not much oil in Xiangyang City.

Of course, the most important thing is that Xiangyang City doesn't know about the existence of Tao Lei at all, and the two-month trial shè will not make people pay more attention to it, and it will be used as an oil fireball, so it will not be deliberately blocked with fire oil, which will reduce the possibility of exploding halfway to a very low level.

Even if it is mainly catapults, there are trebuchets in the castle, and in order to fill the moat with sand, there is naturally a constant loss within the range of the castle.

Although there is paper armor, and the strength is exhausted after 100 meters, there are not many soldiers who are damaged, but it has a great impact on morale.

Some Shu soldiers have begun to show signs of rage, in Wang Hongyi's view, this is actually caused by the pressure of war and long-term fatigue, the end of this battle, regardless of victory or defeat, will have to recuperate for a period of time.

Wang Hongyi appeased and said: "Sun Chang has some skills, but it's a pity, after the city is broken, Lone can only be killed." ”

At this moment, a guard rode up to them, and as soon as the guard saw Wang Hongyi, he immediately turned over and dismounted, bowed down and said, "Lord, the newly arrived batch of sand and soil has been transported to the front of the battle. ”

"Good. When Wang Hongyi heard this, a trace of satisfaction appeared on his face.

"According to the original plan, to continue to spread sand into the river, three roads must be paved!"

"No!"

With Wang Hongyi's order, there was immediately a Shu army, and a large amount of sand and mud wrapped in cloth went to the moat!

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Crying and shouting for a monthly pass!