One Piece of Song Dynasty

After the two entered Qu Duan's handsome tent, Han Shizhong sighed: "I was blocked in Feihu for four days. If I could have broken through Feihu earlier, I wouldn't have let Jin Wushu escape so easily."

Qu Duan glanced at Han Shizhong and said: "Han Shuai can do it. Siege battles have never been so easy to win. Han Shuai can break through the flying fox in four days. It's great. I want to ask how many people Han Shuai has under his command now."

Han Shizhong replied: "Originally there were people when we came out, but we lost people in Feihu. The prince added another people, and now it is still people."

Qu Duan nodded and said: "Well, our two armies now total to people. However, the Yanmen Pass attack area is not wide and cannot accommodate many people at one time. Our number is a bit large."

Upon hearing this, Han Shizhong directly handed Li Xin's letter to Qu Duan and said: "This is the letter from the prince. We can't spend too long at Yanmen Pass now. We must break through Yanmen Pass as soon as possible, otherwise it will be over when Xia's reinforcements arrive, and we don't know. Where did Yue Fei lead his army?"

After reading the letter, Qu Duan frowned and said, "I didn't expect that the Kingdom of Jin would actually ask for help from the Kingdom of Xia. What do you think we should do, Han Shuai?"

Han Shizhong said: "Let's take a look at the defense situation of Yanmen Pass tomorrow. If we can't break through tomorrow, I will take people back to Lingqiu and go north from Lingqiu to Hunyuan."

Qu Duan looked at Han Shizhong with strange eyes and said: "It seems that Han Shuai has a way to break through Yanmen Pass."

Han Shizhong smiled and said: "Shuai Qu, stop it. We can't talk about this method yet. We'll talk about it after we see Yanmen Pass tomorrow."

Qu Duan snorted coldly: "Huh, okay."

Early the next morning, Jin Wushu led an army of to Datong, while Qu Duan and Han Shizhong came to Yanmen Pass after breakfast.

Han Shizhong observed it with a telescope and said: "This Yanmen Pass is really steep. This pass city looks much stronger than Feihu City. It is quite difficult to break this pass. Forcibly breaking it is almost like filling your life."

Qu Duan put down the telescope and said, "Now can Han Shuai tell you how to break through the barrier?"

Han Shizhong said: "Use gunpowder to explode. This method was used for the first time when I attacked Feihu. At that time, I prepared three thousand kilograms of gunpowder to blow up a section of the wall near the city gate. The Yanmenguan wall looks better than Feihu." The city is much stronger, so the amount of gunpowder needs to be increased. How much gunpowder does Qu Shuai have in his hand now?"

Qu Duan shook his head and said: "I don't know the exact number. I used part of it to make artillery shells when I attacked Taiyuan some time ago. Only the quartermaster knows how many are left now. I will call the quartermaster right away."

The quartermaster quickly ran over after receiving the order and asked Qu Duan: "How much gunpowder do we have in stock now?"

The quartermaster replied: "Commander Qu, there are still kilograms of gunpowder in stock."

Han Shizhong nodded and said: "Well, that's enough. Brother Qu, let's try to get pounds first."

Qu Duan took a breath and said: "Ten thousand jins, Brother Han, it takes so much"

Han Shizhong replied matter-of-factly: "Well, Yanmen Pass is stronger than Feihu City, but we don't know how strong it is, so we try to set the standard higher. In this way, although more gunpowder may be wasted, it is still better than It’s better to test it a few more times. If you try it a few more times, maybe the Jin army will be on guard. It’s better to defeat the enemy with one move.”

Qu Duan nodded and said: "Okay, go prepare the gunpowder. As for how to use it, leave it to Brother Han's people. After all, my men have no experience in using gunpowder on a large scale."

Han Shizhong spread his hands and said, "No problem, someone's subordinates are good at this, just leave it to someone."

After that, Han Shizhong called Jiang Feng over: "Jiang Feng, take the people down to prepare. Qu Shuai will send someone to deliver kilograms of gunpowder in a while. This afternoon, your goal is to blow up Yanmen Pass."

When Jiang Feng heard that kilograms of gunpowder was going to be used to blow up Yanmen Pass, he immediately became interested. After blowing up the Flying Fox before, he had always wanted to continue blowing up bigger targets, but he never encountered any serious problems. Today's attack on Yanmen Pass can be regarded as a breakthrough. After fulfilling his dream of explosives and agreeing to Han Shizhong, Jiang Feng took his people down to prepare.

At this time, Yue Fei has led his army to capture Huai'an and is on his way to Baideng. It is expected that Yue Fei will launch an attack on Baideng on the th.

At noon, after lunch, Jiang Feng and his people began to pack kilograms of gunpowder into barrels, and then modified the battering ram. They fixed the gunpowder barrels on the battering ram, and each gunpowder barrel was One hundred kilograms, a battering ram can lay down twenty gunpowder barrels, which means that it takes five battering rams to put down all one hundred gunpowder barrels.

The Song Army did not launch an siege operation throughout the morning, which surprised Hu Zhan, who was guarding Yanmen Pass, but soon he no longer had the time to care about these things, because the Song Army officially launched an attack on Yanmen Pass in the afternoon.

However, all siege operations were launched to cover Jiang Feng and the others. It was impossible for five siege rams to operate together. Jiang Feng planned to operate two siege rams at a time.

Jiang Feng led his team holding shields and followed the first group of siege rams. Li Shifu and Yue Yun led the cavalry under the city to return arrows to suppress the Jin army defenders on the city. In the distance, there were thunder chariots throwing stones to suppress the defenders on Guancheng. Below the city There are also a small number of infantry carrying ladders to attack Yanmen Pass to distract the defenders.

After Jiang Feng led his team to the gate of Yanmen Pass, he started digging a hole in front of the gate with shovels. This time Jiang Feng planned to blow up the gate instead of the city wall, because he found that the city wall of Yanmen Pass was much thicker than the Feihu City Wall, and he could not guarantee that it would be the same. Thousands of kilograms of gunpowder will definitely blow down the Yanmenguan city wall.

After Jiang Feng led the team to dig the hole, they began to bury the explosive barrels, and asked people to signal for the second group of battering rams to come forward. The entire Yanmen Pass gate was not big. Even after digging the hole, he wanted to put a hundred bombs in the hole. Gunpowder barrels were also impossible, so Jiang Feng could only stack Arhats, fixed the bottom gunpowder barrels, and stacked them one by one. As a result, after all the one hundred gunpowder barrels were discharged, the entire Yanmen Gate was almost completely blocked. The powder keg took over.

After placing the gunpowder barrel, Jiang Feng led his team to retreat with shields and fuses. This time, due to the huge amount of gunpowder, Jiang Feng set up two fuses to ensure safety. After retreating to meters and lighting the fuses, Jiang Feng and others The man ran back crazily with his shield in hand. This time it was ten thousand kilograms of gunpowder, not the three thousand kilograms of the flying fox.

After seeing Jiang Feng and others begin to retreat from the telescope, Han Shizhong said: "Commander Qu, please withdraw your troops quickly and withdraw all the soldiers who are attacking the city. Jiang Feng and others have begun to retreat."

Qu Duan was stunned for a moment: "Why should we withdraw our troops?"

Han Shizhong said: "Quickly order the soldiers to withdraw. Jiang Feng and the others are about to light the fuse. You have never seen an explosion of kilograms of gunpowder."

Qu Duan rolled his eyes at Han Shizhong and said, "You haven't seen him before."

Han Shizhong said anxiously: "But I have seen the explosion of three thousand kilograms. I was blinded at that time. In short, we should withdraw our troops quickly."

Qu Duan nodded and said: "Okay, I understand."