Nanming Engineer

Chapter 351 The Wall Falls Down and the City Breaks Down

The explosive package was dusty, like a bunch of bundled quilts, and when it was flying in the air, the burning fuse was very conspicuous with sparks.

"What is this?" Meng Qiaofang frowned and asked, "It doesn't seem to be an iron bullet."

No one could answer him because no one recognized him.

The medicine bag drew an arc in the air, and fell to the ground with a "snap" exhausted, just falling outside a foot away from the city wall.

More than a hundred medicine packs piled up one after another, and the goddess scattered them over like flowers. The Qing soldiers on the city wall were stunned. In their eyes, these soft-looking things were as strange as bean paste buns.

The explosive packs were bombarded under the city wall of more than ten feet to the left of the west gate. After landing, they were far and near. The one shot far away actually hit the bricks of the city wall and bounced off.

The Qing soldiers on the city thought at first that what was being fired were iron bullets, and they all bowed down and hid under the parapet in great nervousness. They did not even dare to show their heads for fear of being hit, and they held on to something fixed with their hands. After all, The shock caused by the iron bullet hitting the city wall is also terrible.

Meng Qiaofang, Hahamu and the others stretched their necks at the West Gate Tower, trying their best to look over here. In their impression, the huge roar and strong impact feeling did not come after the iron bullet hit the wall. Instead, they saw that the explosives were light. Some fell under the city wall and scattered all over the place.

"What do you mean? The Ming Army..." Meng Qiaofang asked again. The behavior of the Ming Army under the city today was so abnormal. He had never seen it before. Even though he was from the Ming Army, he couldn't understand it. But he just said this. The head was interrupted.

A puff of black smoke rose from the base of the city wall on the left, and almost at the same time, a "boom" sounded in everyone's ears, deafening and resounding through the sky.

This explosion was so violent that the faces of the people in the city were so shocked that their feet trembled violently as if an earthquake had occurred. The entire city wall was shaking, and the wooden beams in the city tower had accumulated dust over the years. When it fell, the plaque with the word "Ximen" was so shaken that it fell off and landed on the back of Haha's wooden heels. Thanks to his quick reaction, he escaped.

Like the sky falling apart, loud bangs sounded one after another, and more than a hundred explosive packs of yellow explosives weighing a thousand catties lifted the ground of the entire city of Xi'an. The explosion at the west gate could be heard by everyone at the east gate. The plumes of black smoke rising into the sky were like clouds covering the sky and the earth, blocking out the sunlight and enclosing the entire area of ​​nearly one mile around the west gate.

Stones flew randomly and rammed earth splashed. Although they were far away, Meng Qiaofang, Hahamu and others were knocked to the ground immediately. The thunderous sound swept all the flagpoles and tiles on the city. In time, human flesh and blood shot out in all directions.

The soldiers dragged Meng Qiaofang who had been hit by the tiles falling from the tower to the ground in the sound of the explosion, and hurriedly ran down the road to the city. Hahamu and the others took the lead and rushed to In the front, the group of people ran not far away. The majestic tower of Ximen collapsed amidst the sound of the explosion. Remnants of bricks, tiles and beams were piled up on the ground, and the two red cannons placed on the top of the city were buried in the ground. down.

The crowd ran into the city in a panic, and stood on the street, far away from the city wall, before they dared to catch their breath.At this time, the explosion that almost turned the sky over finally stopped. The towering city walls became dilapidated amidst the smog. Pieces of green bricks kept falling from the walls, revealing the yellow rammed earth inside. Cracks and spider webs as thick as an adult's arm were densely covered on the wall, as if the city would collapse at any time.

Meng Qiaofang was carried down in a hurry. At this time, she struggled to get up. The white scarf in her arms fell somewhere, so she wiped the blood on her face with her hands. The tile fell on the There was a big cut on the bridge of his nose.

"Quick, quick, quick, call for people, call for people, use thick wood. If the city collapses later, erect wooden fences and wooden walls to block the gap!" Meng Qiaofang had calmed down a little at this time. Hissing loudly, he shouted orders to the people around him. He understood that if the city was broken, everything would be over.

Zhao Liangdong and others did not agree to him, but looked steadily to the left, as stunned as a wooden man.

"Are you deaf?! I tell you to hurry up..." Meng Qiaofang was furious, pushed aside the person standing in front of her, came to the front with vicious curses, looked to the left, and stopped talking immediately.

The open mouth turned into an egg shape and could no longer be closed.

On the far left, there should have been a huge wall that was connected to the west gate and was four feet high. The wall was made of glutinous rice mixed with loess. After hundreds of years, not a single wall brick has fallen off. It was still the Qing army's attack on Dashun, and the city wall that had never been defeated was gone!
Meng Qiaofang seemed to be in a dream. He quickly rubbed his eyes, blinked, and looked carefully, but there was still nothing!The walls are gone!

He felt chills all over his body, he had no strength at all, and his whole body suddenly went limp, and he was about to sit on the ground.

Zhao Liangdong, with quick eyes and quick hands, held him up and said solemnly: "Sir, the wall has collapsed!"

Meng Qiaofang didn't seem to hear it, she looked around in a daze, and then saw Hahamu with a white face.

He grabbed Hahamu's hand and hissed, "Master Ha, where is the wall? Why is the city wall gone?"

Hahamu turned his rounded eyes to Meng Qiaofang, with a trace of fear on his face full of disbelief. He broke away from Meng Qiaofang's hand, waved his huge palm, and slapped Meng Qiaofang in the face.

Zhao Liangdong and the others were stunned. The two were furious, and they didn't dare to intervene.

Meng Qiaofang was slapped to the side of her head, a tooth flew out of her mouth, and half of her face was swollen.

"Master Meng, wake up!" Hahamu gritted his teeth and said, "Hurry up and find someone, that section of the city wall is only about ten feet wide, as long as it is blocked in time, it can still block the Ming army. I will take the Eight Banners up first, and you quickly bring People collect wood and stones and follow me, I will fight in front, and you will repair in the back."

He pulled Meng Qiaofang up by the collar with his hands, and said solemnly, "Once the city is destroyed, neither you nor I will be able to save the whole body. If you want to survive, please cheer me up. Otherwise, see you on the road to Huangquan!"

After saying that, he threw Meng Qiaofang away, stood up, and with a "clang" sound, the long knife at his waist was in his hand. With a wave of his hand, he led the two thousand Eighth Banner soldiers behind him who were posted on the street toward the smoke-filled Run to the broken wall.

Meng Qiaofang sat on the ground in a daze for a moment, staring blankly at Hahamu's leaving back in a daze, until Zhao Liangdong couldn't wait any longer and approached him to help him, Meng Qiaofang suddenly jumped up, shouting hysterically: "Go find the wood, Find a stone, everyone looks for it, transfer half of the people from the south gate and the north gate, and block the gap for me, go quickly!!!”

There was chaos inside the city, and people shouted and neighed, but compared with the noise outside the city, it was nothing.

Hahamu led the people, and went straight to the gap in the collapsed city wall like sparks, and the closer he stood, the more frightening he felt.

At the place where the explosion took place, the thick city walls were gone. In the middle of the broken city walls on both sides, a huge opening more than ten feet wide was torn open. There was no living person in sight, and there were corpses and bricks everywhere. The ground collapsed, forming a slope. People inside and outside the city could climb up and down along this slope. The solid barriers in the past became smooth roads. In the gaps between the bricks and the soil, the bodies of the Qing soldiers who were crushed to death were faintly visible. visible.

Across this slope, Hahamu could clearly hear the roar of killing outside the city. The sound was not much smaller than the explosion just now. He didn't know how many people were running towards here.

Hahamu turned his head and looked at the two thousand banner soldiers behind him. These were his own banner soldiers. They had followed him from Liaodong to the northwest. They had brilliant records and were unparalleled in their bravery. They were something he was proud of. With these soldiers, He is fearless.

At this moment, the blood was slowly coming to his head, Hahamu felt that his whole body was full of strength, he tore off the purple robe on his body, only wearing a chain mail, holding a long knife, roared in his mouth, and wanted to follow the gravel Climb up the slope.

As soon as I took a step forward, I saw a group of people emerging from the smoke on the top of the slope.

Wang Yongqiang was the first to appear on the slope, holding an iron spear.

(End of this chapter)