The blasting time was chosen during the day, not at night, but it was arranged to prevent the sound of the explosion from causing the camp to roar.
The so-called "camp roar" refers to the camp chaos, the army in the 17th century is not comparable to later generations, the camp rules in the barracks are strict, not to mention shouting loudly, even if there is nothing to spread rumors, there is a danger to life.
Moreover, the military camp is an authentic place of slaughter, regardless of the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are so-called "17 prohibitions and 54 beheadings" camp rules, and those who serve as soldiers are worried about life, and the mental depression over the years can be imagined.
In addition, the military hierarchy of this era was too strict, officers wantonly bullied soldiers, veterans ganged up to oppress new recruits, and soldiers formed gangs and factions to fight openly and secretly, and contradictions accumulated year after year, all relying on military discipline and bullets.
Before the war, everyone was uncertain about their lives and deaths, and they didn't know when they would return to the West, and at this time, the spirit of the soldiers was on the verge of collapse.
It could be that just a soldier's nightmare scream could cause the entire battalion to go crazy en masse.
The soldiers with knives in their hands launched a frenzy, and naturally they were slashing and venting their anger.
Usually there is revenge, there is revenge, those officers who oppress the soldiers on weekdays are basically the first target of the soldiers, and at that time, except for a few lucky ones, most of the officers are afraid that they will have to die under the knives of these crazy soldiers.
The Taiping Battalion is not the army of later generations, neither the system nor the quality of soldiers can be compared with the army of later generations, and it has only been an army for more than ten days, and there are nearly 10,000 old and weak women and children in the rear camp, these people have a very low understanding of the sound of explosions, if the blasting is carried out in the middle of the night, the loud noise is undoubtedly the fuse that caused the camp to roar.
Just imagine, when you are sleeping soundly, suddenly a loud noise comes, how should people react, even if it is not a camp roar, I am afraid that the whole city will be in chaos.
Not afraid of 10,000, just in case, under the reminder of Song Xianggong, Zhou Shixiang chose the time of the blasting in the daytime, and notified the battalion army in advance through the elders of each battalion that the explosion of medicine would be carried out in Dongcheng.
The various departments of the front battalion were also informed, and most of the soldiers did not understand the meaning of blasting, so some of them had effectively explained to them what the sound of artillery was, and under their explanation, the roar of blasting was basically the same as the sound of cannon firing.
Zhou Shixiang didn't explain the difference between the sound of artillery and the sound of explosions, all he wanted was for the soldiers, the old and weak, the women and children to be mentally prepared not to be frightened.
This kind of thing, once born and twice cooked, listen to the first echo, and the next time it rings again, it is not uncommon, and it will not surprise people.
It was Tie Yi and the general banner of the two engineer battalions who buried the medicine, and the three of them were the most proud apprentices that Zhou Shixiang had taught in the past two days, so after Zhou Shixiang decided to do a small-scale formal blasting, the three of them took the initiative to ask Ying to take on the task of burying the medicine and ordering the rope.
Zhou Shixiang naturally would not refuse this request, he couldn't help but the more proficient these people were, the better.
Before the explosion, in addition to Zhao Sihai, who supervised the public treasury, all the general flags of the former camp were called to Dongcheng, and Chen Mo, who led the prisoners to the dead, was also called to watch.
Liao Ruixiang took a few people to carry a table, moved a few chairs to invite the "adults" to take a seat, and then under Zhou Shixiang's gaze, he raised the small triangular red flag in his hand and waved it towards the city wall.
After the red flag waved, everyone's breathing immediately became nervous, and those who had seen the sound of the cannon subconsciously covered their ears, and those who had not seen it did not care, staring at the city wall with their mouths open and curious.
In order to achieve the best blasting effect and magnify the visual effect to the maximum, Zhou Shixiang deliberately asked Tie Yi and others to bury the jar of medicine under the already broken and loose section of the city wall, and let people sprinkle a lot of white lime under that section of the city wall before, so that the visual sense after the explosion is definitely greater than the perception caused by the identity of the medicine.
After about a few tens of seconds, there was a muffled sound from under the city wall, not as sharp as the sound of cannons, and the ground moved sharply, but the tremor was not very large.
Those who covered their ears listened with some disappointment, and secretly said that this explosion was nothing more than that, not as good as the Tartar cannon.
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw a sudden puff of dust rise from under the city wall, and there were yellow, white, bricks and dirt in front of him, and in a moment, that section of the city wall was gray, which was about two breaths, and then the whole section of the city wall fell, and then a hole about one person high was revealed.
Ge Zheng clapped his hands and shouted excitedly: "It's done" "Collapsed, collapsed, really collapsed" Song Xianggong still didn't quite believe what he saw in front of him, he didn't quite believe it when Zhou Shixiang told him that medicine could blow up the city wall, but now what he saw with his own eyes is true, although it was only a small section of the already loose city wall, and the gap exposed was only more than one person high, but thinking that this was just the power of a pot of medicine, the horror in his heart could naturally be imagined.
When he was in the army of thieves, he had witnessed the siege of the city many times, and the siege of the city was all attacked by a sea of people, taking the lives of the people's cannon fodder to fill in the moat and fill under the city wall, but the result was that most of them could not capture the city wall.
As a result, when the army besieged the city, it was mostly surrounded but not fought, and the defenders were mainly trapped and starved to death, and there were more strategies such as mining and flooding the earth, but it seemed that this bombing the wall with medicine was never seen.
If the army had this technique back then, I am afraid that it would have been able to enter Beijing two years earlier.
"This immortal technique, immortal technique" Song Xianggong muttered to himself, his eyes flashing: A jar of medicine can have such power, how can ten, hundred, and thousand cans be blown up in front of Luoding, can Zhaoqing, Guangzhou, and Nanjing be blown up in the future The flags were shouting, the camp elders were whispering, and everyone's faces were excited and surprised, and the smoke and dust produced after the blasting were too visually strong for them not to be shocked.
The party Zhou Shixiang was not angry, and only waved his hand to order someone to inspect the blasting point to see if there were any signs of loosening of the city bricks under the city wall.
After a while, Tie Yi brought someone to report in person, saying that although the city bricks were not too loose, the foundation below had been loosened, and as long as people dug inward, it would not take half a day to dig the city wall.
After hearing this, Zhou Shi personally went to the explosion site to inspect it, and during the inspection process, he kept dictating to Liao Ruixiang for the training and actual combat of the engineer battalion.
"Brother Zhou, Lord Qianhu, with this medicine, can we go to Deqing?"
Ge Yi used to call Zhou Shixiang Brother Zhou, but as soon as he shouted, his brother Ge Zheng pulled him, and when the words came to his mouth, he became "Lord Qianhu", looking at his impatient appearance, it was obvious that he wanted to go with Song Xianggong, pointing to use this blasting method to blow up the city wall of Deqing, and then enter the city to make a fortune. oshow7 t1706231537: