Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 75: Blasting

The blasting time was chosen during the day, not at night. The reason for this arrangement was to prevent the sound of explosions from causing the camp to roar.

The so-called “battalion roar” refers to the chaos of the camp. The army in the 17th century was not as good as the later generations. The camps were strictly ordered, not to mention shouting loudly, and even making rumors for nothing was life-threatening. Moreover, the barracks is an authentic place to kill. Regardless of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there is a so-called ‘seventeen prohibitions and fifty-four cuts” camp rules. Soldiers live in fear, and the mental depression after years and months can be imagined.

In addition, the military hierarchy in this era is too strict. Officers wantonly oppress soldiers, veterans gang up to oppress new recruits, and gangs and factions among soldiers fight openly and secretly. Conflicts accumulate year after year, and all rely on military discipline to suppress. Before the war, everyone’s life and death were uncertain, and he didn’t know when he would return to the west. At this time, the spirit of the soldiers was on the verge of collapse. It may be that just one soldier’s nightmare screams can drive the entire battalion into a collective madness. The soldier with the knife in his hand became mad, and naturally he slashed and vented his anger. Those who have grievances on weekdays avenge their grievances, and those who have revenge have revenge. Those officers who oppressed the soldiers on weekdays are basically the first targets for the soldiers to vent. At that time, except for a few lucky ones, most officers are afraid to die in these madness. The soldier’s knife fell.

The Taiping Camp is not an army of later generations. Neither the system nor the quality of its soldiers can compare with later generations of troops. Moreover, it has only been formed for more than ten days. There are nearly ten thousand old and weak women and children in the latter camp. If the blasting was carried out in the middle of the night, the loud noise would undoubtedly be the fuse that caused the camp roar.

Just imagine, when you are sleeping soundly, suddenly there is a loud noise, how should people react? Even if it wasn’t for Ying Xiao, I’m afraid the whole city would be in chaos.

Not afraid of 10,000, but just in case, with Song Xianggong’s reminder, Zhou Shixiang chose the time of the blasting in the daytime, and informed the campers in advance that the army would carry out the explosion of the medicine in Dongcheng. All the troops of the former battalion were also notified. Most of the soldiers did not understand the meaning of blasting. Some of the soldiers who had served in the Ming and Qing troops explained to them what the sound of cannon was. The sound of the cannon firing is basically the same.

Zhou Shixiang wouldn’t explain the difference between the sound of cannons and explosions. All he wanted was a mental preparation for the soldiers and the old and the weak, so that they wouldn’t be frightened. This kind of thing is familiar once and twice, and when you hear the reverberation, the next time it rings again, it is not uncommon, let alone shocking people.

It was Tie Yi and the flags of the two engineer battalions who buried the medicine. The three of them were the most proud apprentices Zhou Shixiang had taught in the past two days. Therefore, after Zhou Shixiang decided to do a small-scale formal blasting, the three of them took the initiative to ask Ying. Undertake the task of burying medicine and spotting. Naturally, Zhou Shixiang would not refuse this request. He wished that the more proficient these people were in blasting, the better.

Before the detonation, in addition to Zhao Sihai, who supervises the public treasury, all the flags of the former camp were called to Dongcheng, and Chen Mo, who led the prisoners to the dead, was also watched by the Tathagata.

Liao Ruixiang brought a few people to a table, moved a few chairs and asked the “adults” to take their seats, and then under Zhou Shixiang’s gaze, he raised the small red flag in his hand and waved it towards the city wall.

After the red flag was waved, everyone’s breathing became tense immediately. Those who had seen the sound of the cannon subconsciously covered their ears, while those who had not seen it ignored it and stared at the city wall with their mouths open.

In order to maximize the blasting effect and maximize the visual effect, Zhou Shixiang specially asked Tie Yi and others to bury the pot of medicine under the broken and loose section of the city wall, and had people sprinkle it under that section of the city wall. A lot of white lime, so the visual sense after the explosion is definitely bigger than that caused by the identity of the medicine.

About tens of seconds later, there was a muffled sound under the city wall, not as sharp as the sound of cannons, and the ground moved abruptly, but the shock was not very big. Those who covered their ears were a little disappointed, secretly saying that this explosion was nothing more than that, and it was not as good as that Tartar’s cannon.

Just thinking about it, I saw a cloud of dust suddenly rise from the bottom of the city wall. What I saw was yellow, white, bricks and mud. After a while, that section of the city wall was covered in gray, which was probably just the effort of two breaths. I saw that section of the city wall fell as a whole, and then a hole about the height of a person was exposed.

Ge Zheng gave a high five and shouted excitedly, “It’s done!”

“It collapsed, it collapsed, it really collapsed?!”

Song Xianggong still didn’t quite believe what he saw in front of him. When Zhou Shixiang told him that medicine could blow down the city wall, he didn’t quite believe it. Now what he saw with his own eyes was true. The gap in the city wall is only as high as one person, but thinking that this is only the power of a pot of medicine, one can imagine the horror in his heart. When he was in the thief army, he had witnessed the siege of the army many times, and the siege was all attacked by a sea of people~www.readwn.com~ He took the lives of the people’s cannon fodder to fill in the moat and under the city wall, but there were many results. It is impossible to attack the city wall. As a result, when the army was besieging the city, they often surrounded the city without fighting. They mainly trapped the defenders to death and starved to death. They also took measures such as building soil and flooding. If the army had this technique back then, I am afraid that they would have been able to enter Beijing two years earlier.

“This magic of the gods, the magic of the gods…”

Song Xianggong muttered to himself, his eyes flashing: One can of medicine can have such power, what about ten cans, a hundred cans, and a thousand cans? Luo Ding was bombed in front of me, can we bomb Zhaoqing, Guangzhou, and Nanjing in the future?

The general flags were shouting, and the battalion veterans were whispering. Everyone’s faces were excited and surprised. The smoke and dust produced after the blasting was too visually appealing, and they couldn’t help but be shocked.

The party, Zhou Shixiang, was not showing his anger and anger, and only waved and ordered someone to inspect the blasting site 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 foundations below had been loosened.

After hearing about it, Zhou Shixiang personally went to the explosion point to inspect. During the inspection, he kept dictating and asking Liao Ruixiang to record it for the training of the engineer battalion.

“Brother Zhou… Lord Qianhu, with this medicine, can we go fight Deqing?”

Ge Yi used to call Zhou Shixiang Brother Zhou, but as soon as he shouted, his brother Ge Zheng pulled him, and when he said it, he became “Lord Thousand Households”. Seeing his impatient look, it was obvious that he was with Duke Xiang of Song. Thinking of one piece, he pointed to using this blasting method to blow up the city wall of Deqing, and then entered the city to make a fortune.