Some Jin soldiers dropped ground bags, but they did not lose their lives. The original intention of setting up this ground bag was not to kill people, nor did it have such power.
The depth of the ground cover is usually about two meters, and it cannot kill anyone at all. Its purpose is simply to delay the enemy's advance.
The few soldiers who fell into the trap quickly discovered this fact. They climbed up hard, using their hands and feet while not forgetting to observe the movements around them.
There is no way, Qin Bing is too vicious.
Fortunately, the trap was not deep and the walls of the trap were very smooth. Although they accidentally fell, they were not injured.
A soldier climbed up hard and did not dare to lean out of the trap. He only turned his round head in a circle, and a halberd was thrust towards his eyes!
I go!
It's terrible!
Right in front of the land parcel, at the lower end of the city wall, a square hole suddenly appeared.
About half the size of a green brick, it was obviously used in conjunction with the ground bag. The halberd was thrust out of the hole.
Now you can know that the purpose of this land bag is to make the enemy fall into a trap, and then make it easier for the defenders to make a sneak attack.
There are dozens of such land parcels all over Nanyang City Tower, large and small.
Many of the Jin soldiers who followed Wang Mi and others to Nanyang City fell into the trap and were ambushed by the Qin soldiers.
"Brothers, be careful to avoid ground traps!"
"Follow me!"
Seeing his brothers being attacked one after another by the enemy, Wang Mi was anxious and hurriedly called for them to follow his pace.
Fortunately, this ground trap also has great limitations.
Once someone steps on it, it will be immediately exposed and difficult to recycle.
The target of the ground bag is large. As long as the cover is lost, ordinary soldiers can easily avoid it without much difficulty.
"Jinnu, General Liu, hurry up, let's put the gunpowder bag in place!"
The situation was so urgent that he couldn't care much. Wang Mi had only one goal in front of him, which was to blow up the Nanyang City wall!
"Zhiyuan, are these gunpowder packets really useful?"
"Can it really blow through the city wall?" Although Liu Yu complied with the instructions, the doubts in his heart still lingered.
He is an honest man, and when faced with major battles, he will never give up.
Gunpowder is indeed powerful, but Nanyang City Wall is equally powerful.
Because the Nanyang City Wall is actually covered with blue bricks!
The degree of solidity increases exponentially.
Based on the level of construction technology in the late Jin Dynasty, city walls in this era were generally made of earthen walls. Although it could be reinforced layer by layer and various ancillary facilities built to enhance the defense capabilities of the tower itself, in front of the city wall wrapped with bluestone bricks, These are all rubbish.
The so-called bluestone brick wrapping does not mean that the entire main structure of the Nanyang Tower is made of bricks. The real situation is that the interior is still made of earthen walls, but a layer of bluestone bricks is wrapped on both sides of the earthen wall.
Even so, the cost of building a city is still rising sharply. It is no wonder that the construction method of bluestone bricks wrapped with earthen walls has obviously appeared as early as the late Han Dynasty, but until the end of the Jin Dynasty, when wars were frequent, it was still used.
Not too much.
The cost was too high, and there was really no other way. Especially after the chaos of the late Han Dynasty, there had never been a strong and unified court that spanned more than a hundred years in the land of Central China. Long-term disputes and wars caused the central court to local governments to
There cannot be a unified plan for urban construction.
Each city, including large counties like Nanyang, built and expanded in its own way.
Whoever is rich and generous can increase defense measures infinitely, but those cities that are relatively poor, or have been repeatedly ravaged by wars and are constantly being fought for, are not so lucky.
First of all, such a city faces more dangers, and secondly, because of constant battles, military expenditures are often stretched thin.
For example, in the cities controlled by the Jin Dynasty, it was almost a dream to expect the imperial court to provide military pay, money and food.
For Sima Yao, it was already a meritorious deed that he could raise all the temporary war expenses.
In a word, the Jin Dynasty was poor!
The pattern of weak trunk and strong branches is doomed. In the Jin Dynasty, the royal family declined while the aristocratic family became strong.
The Xie family had to pay a lot of money to support the Beifu soldiers, not to mention the Jingzhou soldiers. The Huan family of Qiao County took care of it all.
Since your Sima family doesn't contribute any money, then I'm sorry, but you really can't command these armies.
Since even ordinary military expenditures cannot be guaranteed, don't expect the Sima family to distribute money to major military towns to help the defenders renovate the city defense construction.
Therefore, until now, Nanyang City can be regarded as the first city that Wang Mi saw after arriving in the late Jin Dynasty that combined bluestone bricks and earthen walls.
"Zhiyuan, I'm not being alarmist. Even a heavy crossbow can't penetrate such a strong city wall. How can gunpowder be so powerful?" Wang Mi put the gunpowder bag neatly with his hands and feet without stopping for a moment. Liu Yu hesitated.
After a while, he finally raised a question.
In his opinion, this gunpowder bag was their last trump card. If it still couldn't cause serious harm to Di Qin, they would have no choice but to withdraw their troops and flee back to Xinye City in despair.
However, the current situation is obviously not conducive to the Jin army.
Once they show their weakness, Di Qin will definitely not spare them. At that time, the offensive and defensive sides will change positions. At that time, it will not be the Qin soldiers running in front, but the Jin troops chasing behind.
Everything will be reversed. Maybe the Qin soldiers will take advantage of the good situation to pursue them all the way to Xinye and recapture the city they just lost.
Whether the battle of Nanyang can be won or not can be said to be a matter that affects the whole body. It must not be ignored.
Once they fail here, they will bring disaster to the Jingzhou soldiers in Xinye City. Don't forget that Xinye City has insufficient troops.
It is difficult to defend the new field. Let them face the powerful Nanyang team. Needless to say, they will definitely be unable to withstand it.
Nanyang's strategic mistakes must not bring disaster to Xinye City. The situation before him really made Liu Yu worried.
However, why is Xiao Wang not in a hurry?
"Jinnu, do you not believe in the power of gunpowder?"
At a critical moment, someone is still in the mood to joke.
"It's not distrust, it's just that seeing is believing. Nanyang City is not a good place for us to conduct experiments."
"If the bomb cannot penetrate the city wall, we will be passive."
Tsk tsk...
What the slave said is really not very good.
"Even if we blow through the city wall, we may not be able to seize the initiative." Wang Mi put the paper fuse in place and took out the fire starter.
Liu Yu was horrified when he heard this: "Isn't it useless to blow up the city wall?"
This... what should I do?
All the soldiers, not only Liu Yu, but also the soldiers who were resisting tenaciously behind them were counting on this gunpowder bag!
If this doesn't work, then the soldiers of the Jin army will really be in trouble every day, and the earth and the earth will not respond.
"Send slave, don't be in a hurry."
"Today, as long as we can make a breakthrough under Nanyang City, it will be good. As for what will happen after we blow through the city wall, it is not something we need to consider now."
Wang Mi laughed and blew the fire starter. He was very happy when he saw the tiny flames recovering little by little.
"Guys, I want to start a fire!"
"Escape quickly!"
hide!
Of course you have to hide!
Before Wang Mi finished speaking, the general and soldiers all ran away.
It was not that they obeyed his advice, but that everyone was already very familiar with the terrifying power of the gunpowder, and everyone slipped away before the fire source came close.
"Zhiyuan, you are the one who is in danger!"
"Get away quickly!"
Once gunpowder explodes, it is quite sudden. Now everyone is familiar with how it causes harm to people.
The closer people are, the more vulnerable they are to harm, and no one can afford that kind of harm, so what are you waiting for if you don't run away?
If there is one person who is closest to the gunpowder bag now, of course there is only one person.
That is the one with the highest official position on the battlefield now.
Wang Mi, Wang Shilang!
Everyone else was worried about Shilang Wang, and their little hearts were beating wildly, but they saw that Shilang Wang himself was calm and calm now, like a real warrior.
Unparalleled courage.
"Don't be afraid, I'm already prepared."
Prepare?
What could it be?
You can’t tell even if you look left or right!
Thanks to the extremely strong combat effectiveness of the Jin troops at the rear, this gave Wang Shilang the confidence to show off here.
Of course there is preparation.
Wang Shilang cherishes his life as much as gold, how can he let himself get hurt easily?
It's just his careful preparation that these authentic Jin people still can't see.
The improvised gunpowder bag was very crude. In modern times, it would be too embarrassing to use it.
It is just a semi-finished product made of thick cloth and filled with some waste paper and wrapped in layers. In other words, this kind of thing is not even a semi-finished product.
Because, at the end of the Jin Dynasty, Wang Mi was surprised to find that cotton, a fabric that could be seen everywhere in modern times, could not find its prototype at this time.
You know, if you want to make a rudimentary explosive package, flammable and heavy cotton cloth is indispensable. However, the silk fabrics and coarse fabrics that are popular today are too light and thin, and it is impossible to bundle the explosive package in a regular manner.
Make into square shape.
The coarse cloth clothes of this era were all made of kapok and linen, not the cotton commonly used in modern times at all.
And cotton made of that kind of material would not come across the ocean from India until at least the Tang Dynasty.
Wang Mi looked at the row of gunpowder packets stacked under the Nanyang city wall and sighed deeply.
He is crooked and has no serious appearance, which really embarrasses him, Xiao Wang.
There is no other way, just make do with it.
Although the explosive package was crudely made, the necessary precautions were not lacking at all.
In order to prevent damage from sudden gunpowder, the fuse is made very long, especially long.
It spreads out flat, and that distance is enough for an adult to run away and escape to safety even if it is ignited.
Even though he was fully prepared, it took a long time to finally light the gunpowder bag.
It's all because of the terrible environment outside Nanyang City.
Originally, everything was going very smoothly. Although there were some traps and obstacles under Nanyang City, none of these obstacles posed a threat to the use of gunpowder bags.
However, the trench appeared!
The most disgusting thing is that there is still water in the trench!
As we all know, fire is most afraid of water!
Gunpowder will never explode even if it's dipped in water.
Before Liu Yu and others considered Wang Mi's personal safety, perhaps they did not notice this issue at all.
That is, can a gunpowder bag really explode?
If it can't be lit, let alone blowing through the city wall, it may not even make a sound.
So, Wang Mi picked and picked, and finally selected a few places that he thought were absolutely safe, and then safely placed the gunpowder bags.
In addition to placing the gunpowder bag, the placement of the fuse is also very knowledgeable.
The fuses were all made of straw paper and should not be wetted. Wang Mi walked to one end of the fuse and finally lit it gently.
Run!
Sparks burst out, scaring someone to flee in a hurry. However, when he joined the large army, he realized that everything was just a false alarm.
On this side, Wang Mi kept running and ran swiftly. On the other side, the brothers gritted their teeth and held their breaths.
It will explode!
It will definitely explode!
They waited, waited, and saw the tragic scene of the rock-solid Nanyang City Wall collapsing before their eyes.
They are ready. Once the city wall collapses, they will swarm forward and give the shameless Qin army a head-on attack!
Sizzle...
呲呲呲……
One point after another, the fuse continued to burn in the same direction. The brothers waited and waited, hoping and hoping, but the gunpowder packet never exploded.
"Zhiyuan, you must have made the lead too long." Liu Chun drooped his eyelids and said regretfully.
Wang Mi scratched the back of his head, feeling helpless.
"It seems to be a little longer."
"Everyone, please be patient."
In order to effectively avoid puddles, Wang Mi made a lead wire that was winding and traveled in an "S" shape on the dirt ground.
People's patience is limited, especially for weapons like gunpowder, which are easy to use and can see the results in a short time. They lack the patience to wait.
After Wang Mi's repeated comfort, Liu Chun and the others reluctantly gave him a favor and waited quietly without saying anything more.
However, if it cannot explode, what should we do?
Others are nervous, but Wang Mi is a thousand times, ten thousand times more nervous than them!
Boom!
Rumble!
"Exploded!"
"It really exploded!"
"Success!"
"Brothers, rush with me!"
Loud noises were made, one after another, and the familiar smoke with a pungent smell also rose up. Wang Mi jumped up and jumped up.
In the smoke, the advancing Jin army could not see clearly whether the extremely strong Nanyang city wall had collapsed or not. The people in the city were the ones who reacted faster than them.
…………
"what happened?"
"what happened?"
"Is the earth shaking?"
Yang Ding, who had been standing on the tower watching the battle and never left, was completely uneasy.
Not to mention, a row of more than a dozen gunpowder packets exploded at the same time, making a noise that was somewhat similar to an earthquake.
"No...that's not good, General!"
"The Jin army opened a hole in the north gate wall!"
"What did you say?"
"A hole was opened in the city wall?" Yang Ding's shock was simply difficult to describe in words. It was so terrifying!
He was both shocked and confused.
I always felt that this was impossible to happen. That was a city wall that he had carefully built and maintained with great effort over the years.
The enemy's heavy crossbows can't do anything to it. How could it be knocked open when the Jin army came?