marquis of jingan

Chapter 1078 Two Reckless Sons

Flower bombs are naturally cannonballs in the barrel, but if they are thrown into the crowd with empty hands, it is not impossible to use them as earth bombs.

But I have to say that this thing is too heavy.

The weight of a blooming shell is generally several kilograms or even heavier. A shell of this specification...

It cannot be thrown very far, so under normal circumstances, this thing cannot be used as a throwing object.

But what is the purpose of a thing, the key is to see, in what occasion, how to use it.

For example, in the battle for the city tower, this thing is very useful. There are Qi troops under the city tower. If you throw it out casually, the effect will be good.

Su Ding's eyes lit up, and he said hastily: "Mr. Shen's method is good. The Qi people are so dense. If the shells are thrown out and exploded, the effect must be excellent!"

He thought for a while and then said: "However, the gunners in the Chinese artillery battalion are very valuable, and there are not many gunners who can cut the lead. Why don't we let them go to the battlefield like this, so as not to hurt them and cause too much loss."

Shen Yi shook his head: "No one has used this thing before except them. It is not easy to grasp how long the lead wire is. If the lead wire is short, there is no way to throw it out. If it blows up on our side, there will be trouble. If the lead wire is long Already…”

Shen Yi glanced at Su Ding, and continued: "People from Qi will probably throw it back."

"So, it's better to let these gunners go up."

"And don't let them fight directly with the Qi people. They are all soldiers of the Huai'an Army. There is no distinction between high and low. If they should be allowed to go, they have to go."

Hearing this, Su Ding didn't hesitate any more, he cupped his fists at Shen Yi, and said, "The end general will deploy himself."

Shen Yi nodded, and said, "It's best to break down the south gate of Yanzhou tonight, and it's best to occupy a part of the south of Yanzhou."

Su Ding clasped his fists in response, then turned around and strode away.

It didn't take long for Zhong Ming to receive the order. At this moment, he was still on the tower. After hearing Su Ding's order, without saying a word, he jumped down from the tower, jumped on the ladder, and then lightly Jumping is just four or five steps of stairs. After a few jumps, I jumped off the tower and kept my feet on the ground.

He walked across the battlefield and strode towards Su Ding. After seeing Su Ding, he cupped his fists and said, "General Su!"

Su Ding looked at Zhong Ming, who was full of blood and sweat. He couldn't help but admire what a good man he was. He patted Zhong Ming on the shoulder and pointed to the thirty or so Huai'an Army soldiers wearing suspenders. He said in a deep voice: "Cover them up to the tower, and the battle will be much easier immediately."

Zhong Ming turned his head, glanced at these people, and without asking why, he said in a low voice, "Follow me!"

Su Ding was a little speechless, looked at his back, and said: "Be careful of your own safety!"

Su Ding turned his head, clasped his fists, then strode towards the city wall and shouted: "Battlefield! Three rounds of artillery cover!"

After he stopped drinking, someone immediately rushed to the artillery battalion of the Chinese Army to convey his instructions.

Now the artillery battalion is under the overall command of Su Ding, so naturally he will not disagree. Soon, the sound of artillery cannons rang out.

Zhong Ming took a deep breath, waited for the first round of artillery fire to end, and shouted: "Xuanjia Guard, shield!"

A dozen Xuanjia guards immediately held shields and attacked towards the tower.

Zhong Ming turned his head and shouted to the thirty or so gunners, "Follow me and climb the tower together!"

He glanced at the rucksacks on the backs of these gunners, without thinking, and shouted: "Come on, take their rucksacks!"

In the Xuanjiawei, dozens of men immediately stepped forward and took the backpacks from these gunners. These gunners were also from the Huai'an Army, and they were a little embarrassed. Someone shouted: "This general, we are also from Huai'an!" Soldiers, we can move!"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

With a straight face, Zhong Ming shouted, "If you climb Yanzhou City, you will die if you are not careful. Have you climbed it before?"

He patted his chest and said loudly: "I've been up here a dozen times!"

"My brothers have all been there at least four or five times!"

"Follow us!"

He still took the lead, grabbing both sides of the ladder repeatedly with both hands, and climbed up the city wall as nimbly as an ape.

At this time, the third round of artillery fire from the artillery camp had just ended. The Qi people on the city wall had no way to control them. In addition, there were Huai'an Army soldiers supporting them on the city wall. Zhong Ming climbed up the city wall smoothly. He held a knife Taking advantage of the situation, he chopped down a Qi man.

But after all, there were too many Qi people on the city wall, and Zhong Ming had just set his feet on the ground, and before he had time to look at the six roads, he was slashed in the back shoulder by a Qi person from the left rear!

He was wearing armor, and it would be difficult to injure him if he hit his back. But this knife hit the gap in his armor. Fortunately, the force was not strong, and it only penetrated half an inch of his flesh.

Zhong Ming became fierce under the pain, shouted angrily, turned around and slashed the arm of that man with a huge force, the man's arm flew out directly, lying on the ground rolling and crying.

Zhong Ming turned around and shouted: "Hurry up!"

Under his cover, most of the more than 30 gunners climbed onto the tower, but only three or four were hit by falling rocks and rolled down.

And those flower bombs were also transported to the tower by Xuanjiawei.

Zhong Ming made a decisive decision and said loudly: "Form a shield formation and protect them!"

After saying this, Zhong Ming himself did not stay in the shield formation. Instead, he held a knife in both hands and broke into the enemy formation.

After all the gunners got their flower bombs, they didn't dare to neglect. After quickly estimating the distance, they all took out small scissors from their waists, trimmed the length of the lead wires, lit the lead wires, and strenuously moved towards the densely packed crowd on the tower. place to throw away.

Under the cover of the shield formation, they were not injured by swords and arrows for the time being, and they were close enough to the Qi people. A flowering bomb was thrown into the Qi people, and it exploded immediately without giving the Qi people any time to react.

Accompanied by the wailing of Qi people, the shield formation walked forward more than ten steps, and came to the other side of the city wall. Looking at the Qi people who were rushing up the corridor, the middle-aged man who led the gunners shouted loudly: "Throw it up the corridor!"

Thirty people, each of whom carried about seven or eight flower bombs, after hearing this command, they quickly trimmed the fuses again and threw them towards the corridor together!

With this throw, Xuanjia Wei cleared an open space abruptly!

On the city tower, the pressure on the soldiers of the Huai'an army dropped sharply!Then the ladder was erected, and more soldiers of the Huai'an army rushed up the tower!

This scene was seen by Shen Yi, who was watching the battle from a distance. He slowly put down the telescope in his hand, looked back at Su Ding who had returned behind him, and said, "It seems that this thing is indeed useful."

Su Ding also nodded.

"After thinking about it, the general seems to be useful in this kind of occasion. If it is a field battle, it is basically useless."

Shen Yi smiled, and said, "It should also be used when defending the city, and the effect will not be worse than falling stones and golden juice."

"I will tell Senior Brother Zhao later to ask him to summon more blacksmiths and produce as many of these things as possible."

Speaking of this, Master Shen looked at the battlefield and said with emotion: "This Zhong Ming is indeed fierce."

"When Xue Wei sees him, it's probably too late to meet him."

Hearing this, Su Ding smiled, and said: "General Xue is as ingenious as he is clumsy, but he is much better than him."

"What a coincidence, don't praise him, he still has a lot to learn and grow up."

After laughing and cursing, Shen Yi looked to the east, and his face became serious.

"Will Xue Wei be able to stand alone in the future..."

"It depends on whether he can fight this battle."

………………

At night, Sishui County.

Surabaya is also a county very close to Yanzhou, but it has already been plowed by Su Ding once, and now there are no defenders in the city, and even the county magistrate has run away.

After Xue Weibing arrived in Sishui County, he did not enter the city, but camped outside the city of Sishui County.

After setting up camp, General Xue hung up a map in his tent, staring at the map of Shandong by candlelight in a daze.

Until midnight, Xue Wei, who was hungry, asked someone to get a piece of beef. While eating the beef, he still stared at the map.

"General Xue."

The small principal who reported from outside the account said, "Siwu Luo, the secretary of the newspaper, has come and said he wants to see you."

Xue Wei was refreshed, stood up immediately, and said loudly: "Come in, please!"

He even couldn't wait, walked out of the tent himself, and welcomed Luo Yong in. After pulling Luo Yong to sit down, he smiled and said, "Brother Luo came in person, do you have any important information?"

"The Yizhou Qi people have already moved, and they are following General Xue."

Luo Yong took out Shen Yi's warrant from his sleeve, and handed it in front of Xue Wei: "General Xue, please look, this is Si Zheng's own warrant."

Xue Wei quickly took the warrant, read it once, carefully folded it, and put it in his sleeve. Then he looked at Luo Yong and asked, "Brother Luo, I want to be able to confirm the location of the Yizhou Qi Army all the time."

"But it's not easy for me to send scouts out to alarm them, so I can only report to the labor mansion."

Luo Yong thought for a while and replied: "This should be no problem. There are too many of them, and they can't hide their movements. It may be difficult to grasp the exact position, but the error is at most ten miles."

Xue Wei touched his chin and thought for a while.

"Almost enough."

He stood up and said loudly, "Someone call Wan Zhong!"

After the vanguard army became an army, Xue Wei not only brought the subordinates he brought, but also asked Wan Zhong to be his deputy.

Soon, Wan Zhong trotted all the way over. Seeing an outsider, he clasped his fists at Xue Wei and bowed his head: "General Xue!"

Xue Wei looked at him and said slowly: "Tomorrow morning, you will lead the army to continue westward to Yanzhou."

"I took five thousand soldiers, broke them into pieces, pretended to be refugees, and stayed in Surabaya."

He patted Wan Zhong on the shoulder and smiled heartily.

"Duke Shen used this trick when he was in Shuhe, Xuzhou Prefecture."

"Wait for the Yizhou enemy to enter Surabaya."

Xue Wei grinned and said: "I'm entangled with them, brother, you lead the army, kill him back to the carbine!"

Wan Zhong was taken aback for a moment, and quickly said: "General Xue, it's still the last general to block the attack, you should lead the main force."

"Whatever you say, I am the commander-in-chief, and what I say is what I say!"

Xue Mangzi shouted loudly.

"Let a Qi person go to Yanzhou, you and my brother, don't mess around in the Huai'an army in the future!"