Chapter 139 Shelling "Come here, pour wine for the strong men."
Under the admiring eyes of everyone, Zhu Ba11 nodded and ordered in a low voice.
Xu Hongsan led the soldiers to lift a huge iron pot, scoop up the wine inside with a spoon, pour it into a bowl, and then hold it with both hands to the brothers who were about to go on the expedition.
The wine has been warmed and contains shredded ginger, dogwood and other ingredients.
What is warmer is the human heart.
Holding the steaming rice wine in his hand, even those who cherish their lives the most feel overwhelmed by the mist of wine.
With his eyes, he supervised the soldiers pouring wine for all the warriors.
Zhu Bayi also took a bowl himself, raised his hands between his eyebrows, and whispered: "Zhu can't speak.
I just know that you will go here." , it is impossible for them all to come back alive.
But if you are not allowed to go, the brothers will have to climb the three-foot-high city wall with rolling rocks and rocks.
I don’t know how many people will lose their lives.
Therefore, Zhu can only save thousands of brothers.
Our lives are in your hands, please do it first as a courtesy."
After saying that, he raised his head and poured the bowl of hot wine directly from his throat.
"Qian" Wu Liangmou led everyone to pick up the wine bowl and drink heavily.
Tears welled up in everyone's eyes.
They are not afraid of death, they are just afraid of dying silently and meaninglessly.
But at this moment, Zhu Bayi personally told them what they were carrying on their shoulders.
The aged rice wine was a bit strong, and Zhu Bayi was left gasping for breath from the heat.
After taking a breath, he ordered someone to pour a second bowl for everyone.
He also raised another bowl and whispered: "This night attack on Huai'an is led by Wu Youtu.
Chen Zhishan, Li Qi and Zhu Qiang are leading the army."
One hundred sailors will assist.
Zhu will personally lead the other brothers later and wait at the north gate.
We will meet you when you lower the suspension bridge."
"It's done, see you there."
Wu Liangmou, Liu Kui, Chen De, Zhu Qiang, and Li Qi, who had just surrendered during the day, raised their wine bowls and drank the second bowl of rice wine with everyone.
Then he silently placed the empty bowl at his feet, straightened his back, gave Zhu Bayi a fist-cup salute, and walked silently outside the military camp.
Zhu Bayi led his soldiers to fight back with fists, and only silently lowered his arms until the entire team disappeared into the darkness.
Turn around and join the others.
More than 500 soldiers, 100 musketeers and more than 270 grenadiers, under the leadership of Liu Ziyun, have quietly organized themselves into teams on the school field in the camp.
Seeing Zhu Bayi's arrival, they all immediately raised their weapons and saluted.
Zhu Bayi nodded to everyone and quickly walked to the front of the entire team.
Then he took the big shield and the butcher knife from the hands of the soldiers, pointed the tip of the knife toward the door, and ordered in a very low voice, "Let's go to the north gate."
"Go" "Go" "Go, follow the governor" Under the low-pitched coordination of the commanders and centurions, the entire team began to move forward silently, like a giant dragon lurking in the clouds, without making any sound. .
"The artillery team sets off."
Huang Laoer also issued an order in a low voice, directing the gunners to push up the artillery cart and slowly walk towards the Donghe River two miles away.
The ground underfoot was a little soft, and the wheels of the artillery cart pressed against it, making two deep ruts.
It didn't take long for the axle, which was covered with bronze, to get hot and make a constant squeaking and rubbing sound.
Like a poisonous snake, it is desperately devouring everyone's heart.
Huang Laoer was bitten by the scraping sound like a poisonous snake spitting messages, and his face turned pale and his face was covered in cold sweat.
He turned around, walked to the nearest artillery cart, and kicked the wheel hard.
"Poof!"
The wooden wheel shook, and the viper's voice increased in volume instead of falling.
He sighed helplessly, took off the cloak that represented his identity on his shoulders, twisted it into a rope, and put it on the front of the gun truck.
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He bent down, put the other end of the cloak on his shoulders, and pulled forward hard.
"Creak, creak, creak" The front of the car was pulled up slightly, and the wheels turned slowly.
The friction sound suddenly decreased a lot, and was swept away by the sound of running water in the distance.
In an instant, it was mixed in and could no longer be distinguished.
Seeing this, several other gunners took off their cloaks one after another, followed Huang Laoer's example, twisted their cloaks into ropes and tied them to the front of the car, and bent down to pull the car.
The five hundred auxiliary soldiers who were responsible for guarding the artillery cart also rushed up and helped push the cart with all their hands and feet.
The six artillery carriages instantly became extremely light, gliding across the ground like small boats, and slowly drove towards the river beach outside the east gate of Huai'an City.
The two-mile journey was halfway over in the blink of an eye.
The outline of Huai'an City is getting clearer and clearer.
Under the illumination of hundreds of lamps and torches, the dark gray city wall looks particularly majestic.
Walking in the dark, every time Huang Laoer looked up, he could see the plaque hanging high on the watchtower, and the two big characters with flying phoenixes on it, like two eyes of the city, looking down at the wilderness outside.
A few strings of cold stars kept flashing under the plaque, which was the firelight reflected by the defenders' weapons.
In order to prevent the same mistake as the fall of Xuzhou last year, they showed extreme sensitivity.
At the slightest sign of disturbance, rows of feathered arrows were shot down outside the east gate.
As a result, countless small animals that only appeared at night in the darkness suffered the disaster of pond fish, and were shot like hedgehogs.
They fell one by one in the open space between the city gate and the river bank, letting out desperate screams from their mouths.
"I have suspected soldiers here."
Huang Laoer repeated his mission in his mind, loosened the rope on his shoulders, and parked the artillery truck in the open space three hundred steps away from the city gate.
Several other artillery carts slowly pushed over and lined up beside him.
They were about ten steps apart from each other, like wild beasts waiting eagerly.
"Captain, can Wu Xiucai and the others do it?"
Feng Wu, the commander of the No. 1 gun, stepped forward, not asking when the gun would be fired, but worried about Wu Liangmou and others.
Scholars are worth a lot of money, and it takes two generations for an ordinary family to save enough money for one child to go to school.
But among the warriors who went to dig into the sewer, more than half were scholars.
It makes everyone feel distressed when they think about it.
"It will definitely work."
Huang Laoer glared at him fiercely and encouraged himself.
"They must be good at it.
They are all talented at reading and are smarter than us."
They must do it.
At this moment, another voice sounded in his heart.
Wu Xiucai himself said that he should not give people too much time to tease.
The more time he is given, the more salt dealers he draws into his accomplices.
Those salt sellers, why don’t they pickle their whole family and hang them on branches to dry?
"Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack," a string of frogs screamed on the river beach.
In the dead of night, they are the noisiest existence.
Huang Laoer was frightened by the sound of frogs.
He turned around and ordered in a very low voice, "Load the powder and smoke bombs.
Try to aim at the watchtower and smoke out those sons of bitches."
"No. 3 bomb, No. 3 bomb, the kind with a red cross on it."
Several gunners used the cover of frogs to quickly spread the order.
The chargers opened the wooden box neatly, cut the paper bag filled with gunpowder with a knife, and carefully poured the gunpowder into the muzzle using the starlight above their heads.
Then he rummaged through another wooden box and found a blooming bullet with a red cross on the surface.
He checked the igniting powder twister, slowly put it into the muzzle, and used a wooden stick along with the gunpowder to slowly Press down, compact.
"Croak, croak, croak, croak, croak," the frogs were making louder noises all around, making people's hearts jump out of their throats.
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Huang Laoer held his breath and raised his ears to distinguish the frog sounds carefully.
He heard the rushing sound of water flowing against each other, and he heard the rising morning breeze.
He heard small animals such as wild rats and otters scurrying along the river bank, but he couldn't hear any movement from the north.
Wu Xiucai disappeared, as if he had never appeared in this world before.
He disappeared completely.
Chen De also disappeared.
It is not known whether he died from the blind shooting of the defenders or was washed directly into the Yellow River by the current.
Zhu Bayi also disappeared, along with the hundreds of soldiers, musketeers and grenadiers.
Only Huang Laoer and his bronze cannon were still there, waiting anxiously in the humid and hot night.
There was a moment when Huang Laoer wanted to jump up and run away.
He is a child of a blacksmith, and his family has good craftsmanship.
There is no need to take this risk and gain fame immediately.
That's all nonsense from scholars.
There are dozens of families in Xuzhou's Luoma Alley.
Whose children have ever had their heads cut off and dreamed?
The location of their ancestors' tombs is not so correct.
However, the bronze medal on his shoulders pressed him tightly, leaving him with no courage to move.
Those are the shoulder pads that only a centurion is qualified to wear.
Although he only has six cannons and more than forty men under his command, he is still a centurion.
If the Left Army continues to expand in the future, he will be the first commander of thousands of artillery, commander of ten thousand artillery, and even commander-in-chief of artillery.
He thought that one day, there would be thousands of bronze cannons under his command.
As soon as he raised his hand, the sky fell apart and all the courage immediately returned to his body.
Who said that the ancestors’ graves were not buried and they were following Governor Zhu?
It was impossible.
Before Governor Zhu woke up, had everyone seen grenades?
Bronze cannons?
Matchlock guns?
Since you had never seen them, who said that the son of a blacksmith could not be a millionaire?
husband "Quack, quack, quack," a low call of wild ducks came from the grass behind, interrupting the croaking of frogs.
It is the kind of mallard duck that is commonly seen on the river beach.
The male duck is the most noisy when courting.
It was midsummer now, the mother duck had already laid eggs, and the ducklings had already been burrowing in the reeds.
Huang Laoer jumped up excitedly, grabbed the flag and waved it up and down.
"Cannon No. 1, fire" "Chi" The gunner at the No. 1 gun position used a fire stick to ignite the cannon twist, and watched without blinking as the sparks rushed into the gun bore.
"Boom" the red light flashed, and the cantaloupe-sized shells roared into the enemy tower, exploded, and billowed thick smoke.
"Cannon No. 2, fire!"
Huang Laoer jumped to his feet and shouted like crazy.
"Others, get moving, we are suspicious soldiers, and suspicious soldiers must act like suspicious soldiers."
"Dong dong dong" "Dang Dang Dang" "Kill, kill" the auxiliary soldiers escorting the artillery team beat the gongs and drums, and ran to the river beach one by one.
Majestic and murderous.
Amid the shouts of killing, ancient Huai'an slowly began to tremble and tremble until it woke up from its sleep
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