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They dared to face tigers and leopards bare-handed.

But now, even with knives and guns, he doesn't want to face Liang's army.

Zhang Qing saw the Jin soldiers retreat.

This allowed the soldiers at the pass to take turns resting.

Only one soldier was wounded at the pass today.

Zhang Qing threw down a cannon.

He was cut by shrapnel from the exploding armor.

I just finished lunch.

Then another warning sound came from the city walls.

Zhang Qing rode his horse to the pass.

Seeing the Jin soldiers marching in formation again, he cursed.

"These sons of bitches, they dare to come here to die?"

I just finished cursing.

Then I saw laborers pushing a wooden cart covered with cowhide forward.

The captain in charge of the gunners ran over and asked,

"Should we fire?"

Zhang Qing thought for a moment.

"Wait a minute, let's see what they're up to."

Chapter 1607 Releasing Arrows

A wooden cart only a few feet wide is not easy to aim at with a stone cannon.

Using artillery would be too wasteful.

Although the imperial court urgently dispatched many cannons...

But it's definitely not enough to fight laborers.

Zhang Qing saw that the wooden cart had been pushed into the archers' firing range and shouted,

"Fire arrows."

Gave an order,

Countless arrows flew up from the city walls like locusts.

They rushed straight down to the pass.

However, the laborers immediately shrank into the wooden carts.

The arrows clattered and tinkled as they landed on the oxhide cart.

Many arrows were stuck in the wooden cart.

The wooden cart was nailed together like a hedgehog.

But the wooden carts continued to move forward, propelled by the laborers who had crawled inside.

Zhang Qing saw that the wooden carts had entered the attack range of the Fire Thunder Hand.

They weren't stingy anymore.

Firearms and mines were much more plentiful than artillery.

"Fire and lightning attack."

A row of fire bombs were thrown down.

Most of the wooden carts that were at the front were either blown to pieces or overturned.

Wuzhu, who was overseeing the battle from behind, saw that the wooden carts had advanced into the attack range of the fire and thunder troop.

Only then did the bugle call sound.

The laborers huddled inside the wooden cart also heard a loud rumbling sound ahead.

Many people were so frightened that they soiled themselves.

But the Jurchens' swords were still raised behind them.

They could only grit their teeth and move forward.

They also wanted to surrender to the Liang Dynasty.

But before leaving camp

The Jurchens said,

One person ran away.

They found out; the whole family was killed.

If it cannot be determined who escaped...

They killed all the families of this group of people.

For the sake of the lives of my family,

They could only listen to the Jurchens.

Watching the mud being thrown out from behind the closed wooden cart.

Zhang Qing also knew what the Jurchens were planning.

The Jurchens chose a location where their fire and thunder attacks were ineffective.

An arrow could hit it.

However, it cannot harm the people underneath the wooden cart.

"Let's attack with stone cannons."

Aim for the wooden cart, which is three or four feet in size.

It's still quite difficult for the gunners.

Many stone cannons were fired into the ground.

It only splashed up a few puffs of snowflakes.

However, some wooden carts were still hit.

A five-pound stone cannon was thrown down.

The wooden cart immediately fell apart.

The laborers inside were also smashed, suffering broken bones and fractures.

A wooden cart was just damaged.

Another wooden cart was then added.

The Jin soldiers lined up in a single file outside the range of the arquebusiers.

They divided the excavation into five points and started digging forward.

Threatened by the whistling stone cannons overhead

The laborers, hiding inside the wooden cart, dug very quickly.

They quickly dug an opening large enough for a person to hide in.

They hid in the hole one by one and continued digging down.

The stone cannon could smash the wooden cart on top.

However, it is very difficult to hit the people inside the cave.

Zhang Qing saw that the stone cannon was no longer effective.

He then ordered the gunners to cease fire.

A captain said, "I am willing to lead men out of the pass to dig trenches and block them."

The most common method for excavating tunnels is...

This undoubtedly means digging a trench under the city wall.

Once the enemy dug into the trenches, they were exposed.

Then the defending troops will have many ways to attack the people digging the tunnels.

Zhang Qing laughed and said, "Digging trenches is too much work."

"The Ministry of War has a new method for breaking tunnels,"

"Just send a team out to dig a few holes,"

"About two feet from the opening."

Yue Fei asked curiously, "What method?"

Zhang Qing laughed and said, "It's said that the cannons were thrown to the ground,"

"It can kill people underground with its shockwave."

"A message just came from the Ministry of War,"

"Consider this my message."

Wanyan Zongwang saw the Liang army leaving the city through his binoculars from behind the lines.

I originally thought the Liang soldiers would dig a trench.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be just like digging a tunnel, where they found a few points and started digging.

Telescopes have long been available for sale in mirror shops.

The Jin Kingdom also bought back a considerable amount at a high price.

For use by generals leading troops.

Wanyan Zongfu asked with equal suspicion, "What are the Han people planning to do?"

Wouldn't it be faster to dig trenches by spreading them out?

Wanyan Zongwang shook his head in confusion.

"I don't understand. Did the Han people invent some new method to crack the tunnels?"

"Just wait, we should know soon."

The soldiers of Daliang first burned the ground with hot oil before digging down.

The soldiers were rotated in and out.

Even so, it still took an hour.

They had only dug out five holes, each over ten feet deep.

The laborers of the Jin Kingdom wanted to widen the cave entrance.

The digging is slower.

The sun gradually set in the west.

The evening breeze kept blowing.

Bringing moisture from the eastern ocean,

Frost began to form on the armor of many soldiers on the city wall.

Zhang Qing had already ordered the soldiers in Guanzhong to begin rotating shifts.

Only one thousand people were allowed to remain after the gates were closed.

The Jin army couldn't hold out any longer either.

The troops withdrew and returned to camp.