Chapter 307 The Power of Gunpowder
"Boom--" A dull explosion sounded at the foot of Fushi's city. In fact, the sound was not violent at all, but this was definitely the biggest sound created by humans in this era, and it was enough to make everyone on the battlefield change their colors.
With this dull explosion, under the city wall made of rammed earth, a thick smoke rose into the sky. Accompanied by the thick smoke, a black and red flame rolled and twisted into the sky, just like a demon beast in hell, twisting its teeth and claws, making all those who looked up could not help but lose their souls.
And the tall and strong rammed earth wall suddenly bulged up in the eyes of everyone, with the loud noise and thick smoke and flames, and then slowly disintegrated, splashed, and finally collapsed.
The thick smoke and fire fell, the rammed earth bricks and stones of the shattered city walls fell, and the entire battlefield became as quiet as death. Everyone was frightened by the power of the sky thunder, and they all became clay sculptures of pottery figurines.
"The thunder of the Tang Dynasty is so powerful that the soldiers, kill them-"
No one shouted at the right time, and Zhao Xing could only shout at the top of his lungs.
The first Zhao Wuji who reacted was suddenly awakened and yelled at his subordinates: "Your divine power, heavenly thunder helps you, brothers, help you to destroy it, kill you."
More than 20,000 soldiers also woke up from the shock. Looking at the solid city wall that had collapsed more than ten feet wide, they were no longer excited, but crazy, and shouted together: "Your God's power, heavenly thunder helps each other, kill them--" Then, with a crazy mentality, and like a tide returning to the shore, rushed towards Fushi and towards the gap.
Bai Qi, who was standing at the top of the city, suddenly saw the enemy fading away like a tide. He was not complacent about repelling the enemy? Instead, his heart became even more gripped.
And he suddenly heard the enemy's formation "Your Majesty casts thunder? All the soldiers of the army retreat to avoid." He also wanted to hide for a while? But there was no way out of the city wall? So he stood firmly at the top of the city and stood firm at Mount Tai.
"Zhao Xing? A charlatan, right? I want to take a look? What kind of trick do you have? It can break my impure Fushi City in a blink of an eye."
Fushi City can indeed be called solid in this world, because the city walls of this era were all built of rammed earth, but since the emergence of bricks and tiles in Dai County? In order to strengthen the defense capabilities of this city? The Qin people deliberately spent countless money to burn blue bricks and use glutinous rice as adhesives. In addition to the rammed earth of this city wall, a layer of blue bricks was reinforced.
Bai Qi was full of confidence in the city under his feet.
Just as he was waiting for something unaware of the danger? Bai Qi felt the city wall under his feet tremble suddenly? Then a bright light flashed suddenly at the place where the enemy placed the wooden box. Its brightness was like lightning, which made people feel dazzling. Then a dull loud noise? It could always sound like a giant thunder? A burst of smoke and fire rose into the sky. Then the wall suddenly arched upwards? Countless gravel soil soared into the sky from that wall, and rammed earth bricks poured down.
It looked again that the complete city wall, along with the soldiers above, suddenly collapsed, and the entire city wall was blown out by the sky thunder, and two slopes were paved inside and outside.
Quiet, as quiet as death, Bai Qi only saw his soldiers, just like seeing a devil, Mu Daidai didn't move, and many soldiers had pale faces, with strands of blood on their faces and twisted expressions, throwing away everything in their hands, with their mouths wide open but making no sound, and fleeing to both sides in crowds. Groups of soldiers were pushed and squeezed to the city.
But more soldiers knelt directly on the ruins, staring at the bricks and stones falling like heavy rain, and kowtowed desperately there.
Time seemed to have passed eternity, and a shocking voice suddenly poured into Bai Qi's ears, crying and screaming, and the crazy rushing sounds of enemies outside the city made him deafening.
The crackling sound of mud on his helmet made his groggy head suddenly wake up.
He heard his subordinate generals shouting wildly: "It's Tianlei. The immortal Tang Jun summoned Tianlei. We were defeated, we were defeated." Then the Qin army, who had always been famous for his fearlessness, stumbled and fled from the city with infinite fear.
"There are no gods in this world. A gentleman does not set up ghosts and gods indiscriminately. This is not a thunder at all." Bai Qi, who has received profound education, stood there numbly and muttered to himself.
The more highly educated a person, the more suspicious the theory of ghosts and gods, the more deeply educated a person, he can only keep his prayers away from ghosts and gods, but he will definitely not believe them devoutly.
"That's not thunder, that's what Zhao Xing made. Soldiers should not escape and guard the city." Bai Qi shouted at his soldiers at the top of his lungs.
But 99% of people in this era are uneducated and foolish people. The more ignorant people are, the more they believe in the existence of ghosts and gods, especially when they see with their own eyes, things they have never seen before, things that are unreasonable, they are more willing to believe that this is the power of ghosts and gods.
Especially the monarch of the Tang Kingdom, he had long been known as a god, and what he shouted in advance that he wanted to use the declaration of heavenly thunder to make these soldiers believe that heavenly thunder broke Fushi City.
The gods were irresistible and powerless. No matter how the young captain who was in a mess but had a firm expression shouted for excuses, it could not change the beliefs of the soldiers.
Just as Bai Qi shouted at the top of his lungs, a soldier with a numb expression muttered: "The enemy has the help of the gods, we are finished, we are finished." Then he pushed away the general who should not dare to look up and ran to the city. Because of a trance, he rushed out of the horse path and fell to the city like a wood, without even screaming.
The soldiers near the explosion site also escaped. There were strands of blood flowing in the corners of their eyes, nostrils, and mouths. Coupled with their pale faces, they were like little ghosts in hell. The steps were faint and shaking, and those who were unstable fell to the ground and were trampled to death by their robes.
Bai Qi stood here for a moment, looked at the enemy like a tide, stomped his feet, and called up the personal guards beside him: "Let's go." He rushed directly to the city, then jumped onto his own chariot, regardless of whether Yurong got on the chariot, grabbed the reins of the horse and shook it, and shouted: "Fighting--" and started running directly.
Instead of going to the military camp to greet the remaining soldiers, he rushed directly to the south gate. Along the way, he greeted his cavalry soldiers, and regardless of the densely fleeing his soldiers in front of him, he bumped over, leaving behind wounded people along the way.
He rushed to the south gate and shouted at the officer guarding the city gate: "When our cavalry rushed out, close the city gate immediately and do not let anyone escape." Then he drove out.
The five thousand cavalrymen were not involved in defending the city, but they also heard the huge explosion on the city wall, and then they saw the general driving over alone. Everyone followed the order and rushed out of the city gate.
Before the cavalry captain came forward to ask, Bai Qi grabbed the horse, turned the carriage, and shouted to the cavalry captain who was confused: "Cha blockade and Fushi, no matter who goes out of the city, you will be killed without mercy."
The cavalry captain was shocked: "Are our soldiers also killed?"
Chapter completed!