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Chapter ○5 [Thousands of people defending the city, a dying battle] Part 2
Suddenly there was a burst of gunfire in the woods, and night birds were flying around. It took a full cup of tea before the gunfire stopped.
Qu Hongda held his breath and looked at the woods. He saw dozens of people rushing out of the woods. They were people from Wu Xing and Long Qingyun. His soldiers entered the woods, but not one of them came out.
At this time, the shield soldiers and archers who were preparing to attack the city were a little panicked, but they were still moving forward.
But at this moment, there was a sudden loud "boom" among Qu Hongda's soldiers and horses, and then sparks flew everywhere, and it turned out to be a gunpowder tube.
Mu Linfeng said happily: "It turns out that Wu Xing and the second brother still have gunpowder tubes in their hands!"
Mu Linfeng stood up and looked at Wu Xing, Long Qingyun and others. Under the moonlit night, he vaguely saw Wu Xing and others throwing things similar to packages into Qu Hongda's camp, and then "Boom, boom, boom"
..." There were dozens of loud noises, and the gunpowder tube seemed to be extremely powerful. It was obvious that the area it hit was only a small area, but for some reason, most of the people and horses around them fell to the ground. In an instant, Qu Hongda's people and horses were killed and injured.
At least there were three to four thousand people.
Mu Linfeng guessed that this gunpowder bomb must have been improved by Wu Xing, but he didn't know what method he used to make the gunpowder tube so powerful.
Qu Hongda's main camp was in chaos. The shield soldiers and archers attacking the city in the front were in a dilemma. The rear was in chaos, and his backup was not guaranteed. How could he go forward without fear? Qu Hongda immediately shouted: "
Let’s round up these bastards with all our strength!” After saying that, he sent out a cavalry team of more than a thousand people, and each of them rushed towards Wu Xing and others with great power. It was obvious that Qu Hongda wanted to use speed to gain time, and saw that the cavalry was about to charge.
In the past, Wu Xing, Long Qingyun and others immediately started shooting at the cavalry horses. When it comes to shooting people, because the target is small late at night, there are many people who shoot blank guns, but the horses have such a big target, and they are a little bit good at playing with fire.
The muskets all hit, and all the cavalrymen rushing in front fell off their horses. Those who fell in front and survived were trampled to death by the cavalry horses behind them. Wu Xing and others immediately threw a few more gunpowder packets over.
, there were several bombs, and the cavalry had been blown to pieces.
Mu Linfeng suddenly thought of the gunpowder bag during World War II. Could it be that Wu Xing ordered the gunpowder used in the gunpowder to make the gunpowder bag? After all, Mu Linfeng will also be an arms dealer in the future. He still knows a little about simple gunpowder.
He immediately called Chen Dahan and said, "Do you know who makes firecrackers in Jinling?"
Chen Dahan asked in surprise: "Could it be that Mr. Mu wants to make gunpowder tubes?"
Mu Linfeng thought to himself: "You are not stupid!" He said to Chen Dahan: "Yes, you go and ask a dozen masters to come, and ask them to bring not only some big firecrackers, but also tools and gunpowder, and then you go to the blacksmith shop.
Buy some pieces of iron...and bring two blacksmiths with you and ask them to bring their tools..."
Mu Linfeng said: "There is no need for you to follow my instructions immediately!"
Chen Dahan nodded, and immediately called two brothers over, saying: "Go to the Wangji Fireworks Point in the city and invite all their firecracker masters, and ask them to bring as many firecracker tools and materials as they have.
, if you don’t want to come, I’ll have to fight with you too!” He said and led the two of them towards the city.
Mu Linfeng looked outside the city again. It was already in chaos. The troops behind Qu Hongda were overturned by Wu Xing and Long Qingyun, who were less than a hundred men tall. They were in a state of panic. I believe that not only Long Qingyun but also Qu Hongda could understand this moment
The meaning of guerrilla warfare has come to an end. Although the shield soldiers and archers attacking the city in front are moving slowly at this moment, they are gradually approaching the city gate. However, the Qinglong Society and Liangshan brothers on the city wall have begun to be restless and keep shooting at the bottom of the city.
Shooting and cursing at the same time, although it has no effect, it may be their only way to relieve stress.
But at this time, Mu Linfeng saw that the enemy soldiers suddenly stopped, and his heart trembled, and then he shouted: "Everyone, be careful, the enemy archers have entered the shooting range..." Before he could finish his words, he only heard "whoosh"
, Whoosh, whoosh..." As soon as the sound started, the arrows from the sky rushed toward the city tower like wasps. Mu Linfeng was startled, and quickly dodged, rolled on the spot, hid at the foot of the city wall, and shouted
"Everyone, please hide..." Before he could finish his words, he heard a few brothers groan and fall from the tower. The other brothers immediately bent down and hid in the corner. Mu Linfeng cursed secretly:
"Why, is this battle over so soon?"
At this time, Brother Qinglong and Liangshan couldn't raise their heads at all, let alone look at the situation under the city wall. Suddenly, they heard a bang at the city gate. Mu Linfeng felt bad, and immediately shouted to the brothers guarding the city gate: "Start attacking the city gate."
It's over! Brothers, be sure to hold on!"
But at this time, Chen Dahan and his two brothers who went out to find the firecracker masters had also returned. However, arrows were everywhere in the west of the city. Several firecracker masters were shot to death immediately, and the others were so scared that they ran away immediately.
, Fortunately, Chen Dahan and the other two brothers put knives on their necks and rushed to the city wall, so they were safer.
Chen Dahan shouted to the tower: "Mr. Mu, I have already invited the people you want, and I have also found the scraps of iron you want."
Mu Linfeng was overjoyed when he heard this. He rushed down the tower and said to the firecracker masters: "Make me firecrackers immediately. Make them as big as you can. The gunpowder must not be adulterated. I tell you that this is for killing people, not for a festival."
!" Then he asked people to transport the firecrackers brought by the firecracker master to the city tower, and said: "Immediately light these firecrackers and throw them down the city tower. If you can't kill them, you will have to hurt them!" All the brothers immediately got together and divided the firecrackers.
They lit the firecrackers one after another and headed towards the bottom of the city. Suddenly there was the sound of "bang, bang..." and the screams of the officers and soldiers. Mu Linfeng asked the brothers to keep throwing the firecrackers until they were all gone. Then he went down to the tower again and saw those people.
The firecracker master's hands were trembling, and he was obviously frightened by this scene. He quickly said to the firecracker master: "Today you are the benefactors of our Qinglong Society. Afterwards, each of you will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver. But if the city is destroyed, I guess you will have to pay for it."
He has become a rebel like us. If you want to survive and get the reward, you should do it quickly..."
Chen Dahan said to Mu Linfeng: "Then what are these two blacksmiths doing with the scraps of iron?"
Mu Linfeng immediately said to the two blacksmiths: "Immediately smash these pieces of iron for me. The more broken the better, after smashing them, give them to the firecracker masters and let them mix them with gunpowder and pack them into gunpowder."
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Chen Dahan wondered: "What are you doing by adding scraps of iron to the firecrackers?"
Mu Linfeng smiled and patted Chen Dahan on the shoulder and said: "When the firecracker explodes, these iron pieces are also destructive weapons."
Chen Dahan immediately understood what Mu Linfeng meant.
Under the watchful eyes of Mu Linfeng and Chen Dahan, the firecracker master worked hard. The two used wooden sticks to twist the paper, wrap the paper into a barrel, and then tamp it with wooden sticks to block the tail.
The other two people mixed the gunpowder and scraps of iron together, then spread them evenly into an iron-shaped container and packed them.
Then two people pour the mixed gunpowder into the paper tube, then two people add the fuse to the paper tube filled with gunpowder, and then seal the top, and the firecracker is completed.
But at Mu Linfeng's request, this firecracker was several times larger than the regular firecrackers. A firecracker master murmured: "This can definitely be used to cut mountains and rocks..."
Mu Linfeng smiled and said: "What I want is the power to split mountains and rocks!"
The city gate is still roaring, and the brothers inside the city gate are holding up the city gate. Remember that Jinling is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the city gate is made of a mixture of copper and iron metal. If it is replaced by a wooden city gate from other cities, I am afraid that
It has long been broken.
Half an hour later, the brothers on the tower had already used up all the firecrackers they had brought.
At this time, the firecracker master had made more than twenty "firecrackers". Mu Linfeng quickly took them to the tower and gave them to the brothers, asking them to light them and throw them downstairs. As soon as he threw them out, he heard a loud "boom".
There was a loud sound, and then the screams of the officers and soldiers came, and these screams made the brothers on the tower even more excited. Then they lit the remaining dozen or twenty "firecrackers" and threw them off the tower, and then "Boom, boom, boom"
"Boom..." There was a loud noise that shook the city tower as if it was shaking. Immediately, Mu Linfeng saw that the archers of the officers and soldiers seemed to have stopped attacking. He quickly went up to the tower and looked downstairs. He saw a bloody mess of flesh and blood and a mass of dead and wounded downstairs.
Some were crying for their fathers and mothers, some were complaining about heaven and earth. Before Mu Linfeng could give the order, the brothers had already picked up fire cannons and started shooting at the half-dead officers and soldiers below the tower. Everyone screamed out excitedly, as if they were playing a massacre game.
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Mu Linfeng couldn't help but feel a little sad when he saw the horror downstairs, but this era is the era of the jungle, so he sighed helplessly and looked at Qu Hongda's group of people in the distance, who were already in chaos. Qu Hongda looked again
The four to five thousand shield soldiers and archers who were expected to attack the city have been completely wiped out. He was even more anxious and shouted quickly: "Retreat!" He turned his horse's head and ran towards the western suburbs. Mu Linfeng let out a long sigh.
After taking a breath, I finally let go of my hanging heart.
At this time, Wu Xing and Long Qingyun led fifty or sixty people out of the woods and ran towards the city gate. Mu Linfeng immediately ordered people to open the city gate and let Wu Xing and Long Qingyun in. Long Qingyun
With his face covered with dust, he immediately laughed out loud when he saw Mu Linfeng: "I finally know what guerrilla warfare is! Haha!"
Mu Linfeng laughed and then asked: "Why are there only fifty or sixty brothers left? Where are the injured brothers?"
When Mu Linfeng said this, Long Qingyun's originally excited face immediately darkened. Mu Linfeng hurriedly asked Wu Xingdao: "What's wrong?"
Wu Xing sighed: "These brothers have all died!"
Mu Linfeng's heart trembled, and he sighed: "How could this happen?"
Wu Xingdao: "After all, there are only a hundred of us. At first, we could barely sustain ourselves by taking advantage of the firecrackers in the other courtyard. Later, Qu Hongda used a large army to surround the other courtyard and attack from all sides. We were short of manpower and unable to resist at all. This
At that time, I used the leftover gunpowder my brothers used to make several gunpowder bags. Unfortunately, there was no fire twist. When I threw the fire twist made of cloth, it was blown out by the wind. Many injured brothers volunteered.
You have to go out with your gun bag and die together with Qu Hongda's officers and soldiers. This is how most of the injured brothers died..."
Mu Linfeng didn't want the battle in the western suburbs to be so tragic, and couldn't help but sigh. Long Qingyun followed Wu Xing's words and said: "Fortunately, those brothers did not die in vain and bought us time, and that happened to be the time to pass."
The news came that Jinling was occupied by our Qinglong Society, so we escaped... Sigh..."
Mu Linfeng patted Long Qingyun on the shoulder and said: "Second brother, it's better to express your condolences and accept the change!" As soon as he finished speaking, someone from the tower shouted: "The officers and soldiers are here again!"
Mu Linfeng quickly asked Brother Zhong to block the door and let Chen Dahan continue to supervise the firecracker master in making "firecrackers". Then he, Wu Xing and Long Qingyun went up to the tower and looked into the distance, only to see Qu Hongda's men stopped.
About two miles outside the city, Mu Linfeng knew that Qu Hongda would not give up, but he did not expect to come back so quickly. At this time, Qu Hongda had suffered no less than seven or eight thousand casualties in the battle just now. At this moment, Qu Hongda no longer acted rashly, but just stood guard.
Outside the city.
Long Qingyun scolded: "What is this turtle's grandson planning?"
Mu Linfeng thought: "Yeah, what is he going to do? If it were me, what would I do?" Then he thought: "If it were me, knowing that the West City Gate is so tough, I would never attack easily again, and
Go..." Then he shouted: "No, Qu Hongda must be planning to attack one of the other three gates!"
Wu Xing nodded and said: "If I were Qu Hongda, I would do the same thing. No matter if he knows that we are short of manpower, he will try to attack from four doors at the same time. There will definitely be a weak line of defense."
Long Qingyun said: "What should we do? We have limited manpower, and the other three gates are not covered by gunmen. It will be very easy for Qu Hongda to capture them."
Mu Linfeng said: "Then I can only pray that Qu Hongda can't think of this, but this is simply impossible. After all, he is also a commander-in-chief!"
Long Qingyun said: "What the hell, we just have to wait until dawn. Even if we don't have a blunderbuss and a knife to chop him, we still have to hold him back!"
Mu Linfeng looked at his watch and saw that it was already two forty-five in the middle of the night. It was late autumn and it would be at least six o'clock before dawn, which meant that he would still have to watch for three hours. Mu Linfeng quickly left the city behind and told Chen
Dahan said: "How many firecracker masters are there if this is established?"
Chen Dahan said: "There are probably four or five more!"
Mu Linfeng said: "Take more people immediately and invite them all out. According to the method here, let them go to the other three city gates respectively. The prepared firecrackers will be given to the brothers guarding the city tower!"
After Chen Dahan accepted the order, he immediately left with five or six brothers. Mu Linfeng looked at the backs of Chen Dahan and others and sighed: "I hope this can last three hours!"
At this time Wu Xingdao: "Brother Mu, Qu Hongda has begun to divide his troops!"
When Mu Linfeng heard the words, he immediately ran up to the tower and wanted to take a look from a distance. He saw Qu Hongda dividing the troops into four groups, with all types of troops evenly distributed. Four groups and three groups went in other directions, while one group stayed behind.
Mu Linfeng thought to himself: "I hope the fire cannons from the other three gates can temporarily intimidate them so that they don't dare to attack the city easily!"
Qu Hongda's three teams gradually disappeared into the night, while the remaining team remained motionless, just stationed outside the city.