Chapter 82 Dark Warehouse

In fact, after three days of fierce battle, Xiao Tianjian did not just want to consume these surrendered soldiers. The three-day fierce battle of these surrendered soldiers was actually just a feoff. The real attack opened the lockdown. Xiao Tianjian did not expect these guys to make great achievements at all, but used them to cover the real purpose of the Xing Tianjun.

In these three days, the engineering camp of the Xing Tianjun, under the cover of the surrendered soldiers, used various tools, first filled a lot of sections of the river on the moat where there was no water, and pushed some cave carts to the foot of the city wall. A large number of engineers hid under the cave carts and began to chisel the wall. First, they hollowed out the foot of the wall, and then peeled off the city bricks and opened He began to dig the heel of the city wall, took out a lot of holes under the city wall, and dug into the city in turn.

To deal with such a strong city, under the condition that there are relatively sufficient defenders and resistance in the city, it is not easy to attack the city wall by ordinary siege methods, and Xiao Tianjian also knows the weakness of his soldiers. They are stronger than the field, stronger in strict military discipline, and can cooperate with each other, but they are personal. The technical ability is limited, and the attacking fire soldiers can only provide firepower to suppress under the city. The casualties of climbing the city will certainly be quite large. It's a pity for him to kill some surrendered soldiers, but a large number of losses to the regular criminal soldiers on his hand are not the result he wants.

Some people proposed to concentrate all kinds of artillery, bombard a section of the city wall, and bombard the city wall into the city. However, after understanding the structure and thickness of the wall of Kaifeng City, Xiao Tianjian finally did not adopt this suggestion, because the wall of Kaifeng City is really too strong. The wall a few feet thick should be used with their fires at present. It is basically unimaginable to bombard it. Even if it is bombarded with large-caliber cannons from later generations, I'm afraid it will not collapse in half a day. If you do that, I don't know how many cannons will be scrapped, and the city wall of Kaifeng can only be bombarded until the year of the monkey, so the bombardment can only deal with some cities with which are not very strong. Obviously, it is not suitable to deal with Kaifeng.

So he adopted the suggestion of the commander of the engineering battalion to drill the gopher, dug holes in Kaifeng City on all sides, and finally chose the method of blasting one place, blowing up a section of the wall, and then attacking the city.

This is also the reason why he sent his soldiers to attack Kaifeng for three days. In the past three days, under their cover, the progress of the engineering battalion has been relatively smooth. Several caves have been dug in the east and west of the city, and are gradually digging deeper.

It was not until this time that the defenders in the city could hardly threaten the engineers working under the city that Xiao Tianjian let go of the disabled officers and soldiers.

After the surrender troops were withdrawn, the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo took over them and began to continue to attack the city. However, by this time, the whole siege was already an obvious war, and the defenders on the wall had also begun to feel something wrong at this time. Some people lay in the wall and listened, found the movement of the Xing Tian Army, and learned about the Xing Tian Army. A lot of caves have been dug under the city wall. Obviously, they are going to dig holes to attack the city.

So Gao Mingheng immediately ordered to demolish the private houses near the city wall and clean up a large area of open space. In these open spaces in the city, people were sent to dig a deep trench. In his opinion, if Xing Tianjun dug a hole into the city, the cave would definitely be dug into these deep trenches and fell into their hands. It is also a good way to deal with digging tunnels and attacking the city.

However, Xiao Tianjian never thought of digging out the tunnel to enter the city. His fundamental purpose was just to dig a hole in the wall, carry out fixed-point blasting, and blow up a section of the wall.

But this kind of thing is easy to say and difficult to do. The interior of the ancient city wall is all made of three-in-soil mixed with glutinous rice juice. After years of thorough drying, its hardness is very high, and it can even catch up with the hardness of the concrete of later generations. The pick is rounded and it is even a small piece, sometimes only It is very difficult to dig into a white dot. If Xing Tianjun hadn't drilled gophers, who had dig masters from miners from all over the world, ordinary people would have guessed that they could not nibble on this kind of wall at all.

In addition, Xiao Tianjian usually gives a command to drill gophers, which is to find a group of masters and think about how to dig the wall. After all, in addition to opening a bridge for the army in front of the battle, another major job is to play a role in the siege battle.

Since Xiao Tianjian established the engineering battalion, the role of the engineering battalion has become more and more important. In the successive siege battles, basically various engineering battalions have appeared. In addition to building siege equipment, they also want to come up with a better siege method. In this way, they have also accumulated a lot of experience. For this reason, many people in the engineering camp have come up with a lot of ways to let the craftsmen create a lot of tools for them with fine steel, so that now the various special tools in the engineering battalion are very complete, and naturally there are tools specially used to deal with the city walls.

Therefore, although the ram soil in the wall is very strong, it still can't stop them in front of prepared people. A large number of engineers took turns to get to the foot of the city wall and keep digging in shifts. However, the progress is also quite fast. Within three days, they dug several deep holes on both sides of the east and west walls. .

Xiao Tianjian commanded the siege of the city in the north of the city every day. Every day, he asked about the excavation of the gopher. On the afternoon of the third day of April, the gopher found Xiao Tianjian and reported: "I'm the general!" Three large holes have been dug in the east and west wall. Now the inside of these big holes has been dug, and a big hole has been formed inside, which can be dried!"

Xiao Tianjian was overjoyed after hearing this, and after careful inquiry, he said, "It's so good! If you capture Kaifeng City, your engineering battalion will do the most, but you have to remember that we only have this opportunity. If we blow it up, we must blow up the city wall and never miss a big event!"

Xiao Tianjian's caution is not unreasonable. In history, Li Zicheng also used the method of digging tunnels to blow up the city wall with gunpowder when Kaifeng City in the three surrounding areas. However, due to the inaccurate calculation, he failed to blow up the city wall when blasting, nor did he blow through the wall, but because the opening of the explosion opened outside the city. On the contrary, many rebels waiting outside the city became victims of the explosion. A large number of Rebel soldiers were killed and injured on the spot. In the end, they could only withdraw their troops and retreat.

So Xiao Tianjian is worried that this bombing of the city will eventually happen, so he repeatedly told him to be careful, so that he will succeed and not fail.

The gopher nodded and said, "Marshal, don't worry!" After the calculation, the wall can be dug through a few feet. If you put in a thousand catties of gunpowder and block the outside, you can blow up the wall. Even if it is the worst, you can blow up a big hole under the city, and the soldiers will attack the city. Please believe in the judgment of the last general! The last general dares to protect people's heads!"

Xiao Tianjian was relieved. He patted the gopher's shoulder twice and smiled and said, "I'm relieved that you can have such self-confidence. As for your head as a guarantee, I don't think it's necessary. Your head is still more useful on your shoulder!" Do it! Tomorrow I'm going to the city to meet Gao Mingheng and the king of Zhou in the city!"

(Chapter 7 is here, and the update task is completed today. Is the speed of the update good? Everyone must be happy, but I'm having a hard time! Ha ha! Lying in front of the computer, there is no time in the toilet! However, the number of words in these two chapters is slightly less. After all, it's too tiring! I can't catch up! Please be more tolerant!)