Great time travel

Chapter 128, "The Righteous Man" Enters the City
When another winter dawn fell on the city of Hangzhou, the ancient city walls around Wulin Gate were already completely devastated—under the urging of Captain Heimu, who was the incarnation of the Devil Army Cao, the security forces who were scolded by him for being severely nervous, They fired wantonly at any sign of trouble on the city wall all night, consumed three bases of ammunition in just one night, and scrapped twelve flash cap guns that were not crafted enough.

In addition, Captain Heimu, who still couldn't let go of his hatred, used the "unconscionable cannon" to successfully carry out long-distance directional blasting on the tower of Wulinmen, and the shock wave swept by Hurricane even hid a lot of people in the tower. Or the unlucky guy on the inside of the city wall who avoided the gunshots shattered his internal organs alive...

Facing the frenzied revenge of the Kun bandits, the defenders on the city wall of Wulin Gate naturally suffered the most casualties.In just one night, two groups of "amateur gunners" who were greedy for rewards from the government and tried to destroy the enemy with wooden cannons collapsed on the city wall. No one survived to receive the reward, and no one even dared to collect their bodies.Then the third wave of Ding Zhuang who operated the wooden cannons couldn't get together, only the polished commander Gao Xuan, a talented scholar who was in a hurry, faced a dozen wooden cannons that had just been built and had not had time to lift them up the city wall. Cannons, and a whole lot of stinking dung shells to worry about.

At the same time, the streets and alleys in the city of Hangzhou were full of mourning—although the power of these Hale rockets was limited, they were far inferior to the bombings of later generations, and the effect of arson was also relatively poor, similar to that of solidified bombs. It's completely two concepts... But I can't stand this thing and fight endlessly!
From the first half of the night yesterday until the bright sun this morning, the "shower of meteors and fire" from outside the city has never stopped!
——At first it was a thunderous downpour, which made the citizens of Hangzhou cry and howl; then it was a continuous drizzle, which made people anxious... Until now, the rockets outside the city are still maintaining every quarter of an hour The frequency of two to three bombs fell on the heads of Hangzhou citizens from time to time.And it wasn't just the Wulin Gate that suffered disaster, but sporadic rockets shot in at several city gates along the West Lake!

The howling sound piercing the sky made the soldiers and civilians in the city not only sleepless for a night, but also unable to catch up on sleep during the day.Because whenever the whistling sounds in the sky, no matter how tired men, women and children in the city of Hangzhou are, they have to brave the cold wind and walk out of the house, while standing in the snow, silently express their gratitude to the gods and Buddhas in the sky and Immortals from all walks of life prayed, while stretching their necks to stare at the hateful thing that pierced the sky, holding their breath to see who would get it... That expression is really more focused than watching dice when gathering a crowd to gamble!

——It’s really impossible not to focus!This is the real "people sit at home, disaster comes from heaven" ah!

Although the power of this simple version of the Hale rocket is limited, it is indeed not easy to catch fire in the Hangzhou neighborhood that has just snowed for seven days.Even if someone is unlucky and really burns, as long as the sufferer can find and extinguish it in time, there is still a high chance that his house can be saved.But if you are careless and don't take it seriously, then you will definitely have to sacrifice all your belongings to the Vulcan Zhu Rong...

In fact, although these Hale rockets made a lot of noise, they actually caused very limited losses to the soldiers and civilians of Hangzhou. In total, less than twenty people were killed in the urban area, but this was an irreversible blow to the citizens' will to resist - no matter how powerful the Hale rocket was, it was not a firecracker after all, but could really blow people up Die, burned the house down.Seeing Hale rockets whizzing past one after another, the hearts of the people in the city were beating wildly, as if walking back and forth before the gate of hell... so nervous After a whole night, many Hangzhou citizens were going crazy.

However, although the whole city was shrouded in a tense atmosphere, few people died after all.Therefore, when the rate of rocket launches slowed down and became one after another, the underground casinos in Hangzhou also kept pace with the times at an astonishing speed, and grandly launched the "Rocket Guessing" project-you can bet on the next You can also bet on which alley a rocket falls into, and you can also bet that after launching how many more rockets, those thieves will stop...Anyway, those idlers in the market don't mind spending more than a dozen pennies on a bet, and they don't feel bad if they lose. , If you win, you can win back a few taels of silver...

Therefore, the people of Hangzhou chatted about gossip, guessed the game, and spread gossip, which invisibly diluted the horror of war and death. The third day of this offensive and defensive battle...

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On the other hand, after another difficult sleepless night, the magistrate Liu Mengqian was already in a state of desperation.His magistrate's yamen was bombarded by concentrated fire from the thieves' rockets. Although the accuracy of these rockets was poor, under the high-density bombardment of hundreds of rockets, the yamen was successfully burned to a white ground—for For the allied forces with satellite aerial photography technology, the location of any building in Hangzhou is no secret.

Fortunately, this magistrate Liu still has a relatively secret private house in Hangzhou City, which is used to keep the outer room.Regrettably, the red-card famous prostitute who was redeemed from a brothel in Hangzhou failed to enjoy a few days of blessings with the prefect, and unfortunately died of illness three months ago, so the private house was vacant, and now it just happens to be Let Zhifu Liu move there to work, so that he won't end up homeless and can only borrow the miserable end of living in someone else's mansion.

However, Liu Zhifu, whose spirit was greatly stimulated, was extremely shocked and terrified, but also had a hint of joy in his heart—the surprise was that the gangster's revenge was so fierce and cruel; It can be seen that yesterday's wooden cannon bombardment must have gained something.

If those wooden cannons could kill a leader of the bandit chieftain, then the bandit's retreat might be just around the corner!
No, no, he must have killed the leader of a certain bandit chief, otherwise why would the bandits outside the city go crazy and shoot rockets into the city like crazy?

It can be seen from this that the current fire and rain are nothing but the gangsters whose leader was killed, venting their grievances in a panic.When the breath is exhausted, these thieves should disperse and flee. If they chase after them from the inside of the city, they may still get something...

Well, it must be like this, that's right, the Kun thief must be about to break up and run away soon!You can't go wrong with this!

Just as the magistrate Liu Mengqian was squinting his eyes and cheering himself up with such thoughts, another piece of good news came from the north of the city:

Although the thieves on the West Lake side fired rockets into the sky, they did not block the other directions of Hangzhou City.So on the morning when the rockets were flying, a group of "righteous men" broke into Hangzhou from the Grand Canal in a small boat, and brought news of the Nanjing imperial court who stayed in their capital!

Prefect Liu was overjoyed by this good news, and immediately held a banquet in the most luxurious brothel in Hangzhou to welcome the martyrs...