When he first saw the Ming army outside the city, the guards of Yunyang felt dizzy. Not only did the opponent complete the acupuncture at an unimaginable speed, but it was also an unprecedented acupuncture mode. The city wall did not collapse downwards, but was hit into the sky. If it was the previous acupuncture, not mentioning the great failure rate. Even if it was successful, no matter how severe the city wall collapsed, it would not leave the defenders without any available terrain.

But now, the Yunyang Guardian standing on the flat ground can see without any obstacles that the Ming army, which is also on the flat ground in the distance, has completely lost its combat effectiveness. If the Ming army launches an attack immediately, it can rush into the city from this gap without any resistance, and the Guardian is almost instantly knocked down by this huge fear.

Although the elite troops in Huguang have been transferred south to Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi, these Qing generals who were deployed on the front line and kept in contact with the Ming army were not mediocre. Whether it was Yunyang, Gucheng, Jiangling, or Xiangyang, they all had many years of combat experience and knew the ways of attacking and defense in various cities. When the Qing army in Huguang drew elite troops south, these experienced generals were the backbone of the Ming army in Kuidong, ensuring that the Sichuan, Hubei and Ming army could not advance and allow the Qing army of Yunnan and Guizhou to fight with peace of mind.

"Come here!" After the initial panic passed, the guard of Yunyang immediately realized that the situation was not irreversible. Although he didn't know why, the Ming army did not launch an attack at the first moment, which was undoubtedly a big mistake. At that time, smoke and dust were rolling. If the Ming army rushed into the city, the Qing army might not be able to see clearly. When the guard of Yunyang and the prefect ran to the scene, they might be caught by the Ming army on the spot. The guard of Yunyang was immediately shocked and sweated in a cold manner when he thought of this, he shouted: "Clog the gap and don't let the thieves rush in."

The Yunyang guards quickly pointed at the battlefield and shouted to the guards beside them: "Change half of the archers and guard both ends of the gap."

Archers are often deployed near the city gate. If attacked, the city gate is usually the most dangerous place, because once the city gate is obtained, the attacking party can enter the city without any obstacles. But now the most dangerous thing in Yunyang City is this gap. The passage here is almost as wide as the city gate, but there is not even a single door.

While anxiously waiting for the archers to arrive, the guards kept silently praying that the Ming army would not launch an offensive immediately. The guards' prayers were indeed fulfilled. Until he transferred a large group of Qing soldiers from other areas and the gaps were occupied by dense archers, the Ming army still showed no sign of attack.

"I'm so lucky, it's really a blessing from the Bodhisattva." The guard general wiped away the dense beads of sweat from his forehead. He found that the Ming army had not filled the trench outside the gap, which added a considerable advantage to the defender.

General Shouqing had carefully checked the situation at the gap. If the city wall collapsed in the past, the city wall could be repaired quickly and urgently. However, this time the Ming army destroyed this section of the city wall so powerfully that it seemed that it could only repel the Ming army's offensive first, and after the Ming army retreated, it would completely renovate this section of the city wall.

Almost as the Qing generals saw the Ming army through the smoke and dust, the Ming army also saw the gap on the city wall.

Seeing such a big hole in the explosion, Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun were stunned.

Today, this gap is better than all the acupoint attacks they have seen before, and it can be called perfect. However, the Ming army was not ready for an attack. At present, most of the soldiers were still scattered in their respective posts or camps and did not gather together. Before the blasting, Liu Tichun did not think that the chance of success was great, so he did not make any preparations. As for taking the opportunity to capture the Yunyang city, he had never considered it at all.

If the Ming army used the smoke during the blasting to launch an attack, then Yunyang City might have been lost now. The Qing army defenders did not understand why the Ming army did not act like this. He did not know that before the smoke dissipated, the Ming army did not know what had happened to the city wall. It was after the smoke dissipated, Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi reacted from the shock, and the first thing they thought of was defense rather than attack.

If the Qing army had to make a big move, it could only come out of a few city gates. Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi's deployment was also based on this premise. But now the sudden gap can allow the army to enter and exit quickly. Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi were not prepared for this. If the Qing army in Yunyang suddenly surged out of this gap, it would be very likely to catch the Ming army off guard.

While the defense was being organized vigorously in Yunyang City, the Ming army outside the city also hurriedly adjusted its deployment and strengthened the monitoring of this sudden gap.

After the busyness, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun and Deng Ming had a heated discussion on this acupoint attack. Deng Ming could not teach them the principles of chemistry and physics immediately, so he had to use metaphors such as blowing air and smashing water tanks to try to make them understand why he succeeded and Liu Zongmin failed.

Not only were the three of them involved in the discussion, but also Deng Ming's guards, Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi's large number of guards and staff. This discussion basically became Deng Ming's one-man show. Everyone kept Deng Ming's narrative in mind, and everyone quickly reached an agreement, which was to use the tunnels that were being excavated to conduct several blasting tests.

Liu Tichun was overjoyed and became obsessed with this tactic. He remembered the name Deng Ming gave it, and said the word "blasting" countless times. Liu Tichun suggested that all the gunpowder brought this time be used for experiments. If he could master the blasting skills, it would be simple when he attacked the city in the future. As long as the city wall was blown up, would it be difficult to seize the city?

Yuan Zongdi had long believed that Deng Ming seemed to have a special power towards fire, so he was not as excited as Liu Tichun. Yuan Zongdi vaguely suspected that a field would form around the third prince, in which anything related to fire would become very powerful. Liu Tichun selected a group of confidant officers to learn blasting from the third prince. Yuan Zongdi also sent a few, but he secretly made up his mind that when the third prince was away in the future, he would do a few blasting tests alone to see if this trick was still effective.

Under Liu Tichun's urging, another tunnel was dug to the corner of Yunyang City. Now the Ming army did not consider digging the tunnel very wide, and kept digging forward as long as it could ensure ventilation. Soon, another coffin was filled with gunpowder and sent in. Deng Ming was about to go to the tunnel again to command the tunnel, but Liu Tichun said that Deng Ming would not need to go down in person. Several soldiers had seen Deng Ming's technique, and this time the soldiers would do the finishing work.

These soldiers made the fuses according to the cat and gave them to Deng Ming for acceptance. Then they began to build walls in the tunnel. This tunnel was much narrower than the last time, so the hole was blocked quickly. The Ming army in the tunnel sealed the tunnel tightly. Deng Ming proposed that there were some places that needed to be improved, but Liu Tichun believed that the most important thing now was not improvement, but mastering this technology first, and all the arrangements were strived to be no different from the previous one.

When the Ming army was preparing for the second blast, the Qing army did not notice it. All their attention was focused on the first gap. After the city wall was bombed, the Yunyang prefect hurriedly mobilized the people in the city and collected a large number of wood to build a fence behind the gap. When the gap first appeared, the people in the city were panicked. Many soldiers thought that the city was about to break out and were already thinking about the retreat. The people hid at home and refused to come out. Seeing that the slow Ming army did not rush into the city, the prefect and the guards celebrated each other, and the soldiers' fighting spirit gradually recovered. As long as the Ming army gave them some time, they could completely set up the fence. When the Ming army attacked the gap again, there were archers waiting for the front, and the Qing infantry defending the fence would also encounter resistance from the Qing army infantry defending the fence.

Once the fence is completed and after this day, the prefect will organize the people to make large wooden cages, install stones in the cages, and temporarily fill the gaps so that the Ming army will not let the Ming army come in easily. At present, the Qing court has also carefully selected civil servants on the front line of Huguang. What they value is not only how well the article is written, but also a certain practical experience.

The two civil and military officials in Yunyang were busy after a break, one supervising the battle and the other supervising the worker. Sooner or later, the Ming army would attack from this weak link, and they would not care about what happened in other areas for the time being - until another thunder burst out from behind.

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"No, not bad!" Seeing another piece of city wall that had been blown up, Liu Tichun's face was full of satisfaction. This kind of hole attack method has a relatively small workload, fast progress, and obvious effect: "There is no need to dig a lot and deep, as long as a coffin can be stuffed under the foundation of the wall."

Liu Tichun turned around without any intention and asked the guards about the excavation progress of the other mounds. He planned to blast it again so that his subordinates who had just learned this technique would review it. He planned to try the improvement measures that Deng Ming mentioned and reduce the charge amount appropriately.

However, the other tunnels are still far from the wall foundation. The tunnels used for the first two blasts started construction at the same time, so the progress is not much different.

"At the fastest, it will be tomorrow, or even the day after tomorrow." Liu Tichun carefully asked about the progress of several authentic tunnels, estimated the time in his mind, and turned to Deng Ming and said. Liu Tichun planned to transfer all the teachers who taught in various authentic tunnels together, and the excavation speed will naturally accelerate.

"Can this explosion be carried out at night?" Yuan Zongdi asked.

When Liu Tichun heard this, his heart tightened and felt that Yuan Zongdi had asked the point. According to his thoughts, it should be that the yang energy is heavy during the day and the yin energy is heavy at night, so it is really impossible to generalize.

"Of course." Deng Ming smiled and said, "Can't you fire the fire at night?"

"At least it's not accurate." Liu Tichun laughed after saying that: "But our blast has already made a hole and stuffed the coffin under the city wall. There is nothing wrong with it."

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After discovering the second gap, the guard general's heart, which had just relaxed a little, suddenly became tense again: "It turns out that the thief wants to send both sides together!"

There is no need to defend the city wall at the moment, because two large open gaps are placed there, and the Ming army will definitely not climb the city wall if they are full. However, the city gates must not be guarded. The guard general ordered only the lowest defensive force under the four city gates, and the remaining soldiers were divided into two teams, and the defense was arranged behind the two gaps at the same time.

The Ming army soon found that the entire city wall was empty, so Liu Tichun made a quick decision and stopped digging tunnels. He directly sent troops across the trench and began to dig corners. He just built a shed on his head to prevent stones from falling from above. This kind of excavation is much simpler than the tunnel, and does not require a lot of people, and does not need to consider complex tunnel ventilation, soil and stone transportation, etc. The Ming army formed several groups in one breath, distributed under the Yunyang city wall and started digging holes at the same time.

After the second gap appeared, the defenders were shaken again. After the desperate persuasion of the guard general and the prefect, they finally calmed down the hearts of the people again. The prefect did not bother to further strengthen the fence behind the first gap, so he began to build fortifications behind the new city wall gap, and was busy until late at night. He had not rested for ten hours, and there was still work to supervise the construction of wooden cages waiting for him. Since the gaps became two, the amount of wooden cages needed to double.

The prefect promised the migrant workers who built wooden fences that after the fences were repaired, they would each have a full meal and meat soup before starting to build wooden cages.

The prefect never expected that before the migrant workers received this full meal, the Ming army carried out the third blast. The fourth happened in the second half of the night, and the fifth happened in the early morning of the next day.

The prefect's eyes were covered with bloodshots, and the carpenters and the people who were collected had long dispersed, and there was no way to shout them out from behind the closed doors. Even the runners of the government office fled home with the people. Many of the auxiliary soldiers who assisted in defending the city were locals, and their reactions were the same as those of the runners. Some of the auxiliary soldiers who were found outside the city hid at the homes of friends they knew, or escaped from the city through the chaos.

The Qing army now needs to defend four city gates and five gaps. After the auxiliary soldiers fled in large numbers, the Qing army seemed even more weak. Originally, of the more than 1,000 war soldiers in Yunyang City were assigned to four city gates, and each city gate had more than 500 auxiliary soldiers to assist in the defense. But now after continuous drawing, there are only about 40 war soldiers at each city gate. These soldiers have no confidence in defending the city gate. Due to the lack of auxiliary soldiers, their combat efficiency will be greatly affected. If the remaining auxiliary soldiers run away, the war soldiers need to go to the city to transport wood and stones to the city walls themselves, and they have to look for food themselves.

In fact, the Ming army's blasting operations exceeded three times, and several failed, so the Qing army did not notice it. During these operations, the Ming army tried many new methods and reduced the amount of gunpowder. Only a little bit of gunpowder brought by Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi was left. If Liu Tichun didn't use them completely, he would not stop blasting.

As for Yunyang City, the city walls were blown up in scattered areas and were full of gaps. In Liu Tichun's eyes, they were already in the bag, so they were not in a hurry to attack. Now that He Jin is not under the city, he led his troops to the suburbs to collect supplies. Liu Tichun believed that street fighting would occur in the siege. Without He Jin, the Ming army's advantage was not great enough. He planned to wait until He Jin returned to Yunyang before launching an attack. At present, it would be enough to continue to blast the city wall.

Although there is not enough gunpowder left, how to dig efficiently also requires practice. On the battlefield, it is necessary to quickly dig holes for blasting. Liu Tichun asked some officers to lead a team to find different locations of the city wall for experiments to summarize the experience and lessons.

There were only forty-one warriors and more than twenty auxiliary soldiers left on the south gate of Yunyang. When they saw a team of Ming soldiers carrying hoes and walking to a large distance from the city gate to dig the foundation, they opened the city gate without much thought and came out to surrender to the Ming army. The Ming army accepted their surrender, controlled the city gate and issued a report to Liu Tichun. After Liu Tichun sent soldiers to take over the city gate, the original Ming army walked out of the city to continue poaching.

After learning that the South Gate was lost, the prefect of Yunyang walked into the yamen alone and hanged himself. When the news of the prefect's death reached the general's ears, he knew that the situation was destined and the fall of Yunyang City was a foregone conclusion.

For a general of Wu Sangui's level, the Qing court may not hold him accountable, but for the small new general of the Yunyang garrison, losing the city or the magistrate, it means asking for the execution and raiding the house. Only by dying in Yunyang in battle may he still seek a glimmer of life for the family.

The army scattered at various city gates and gaps had lost control, so the generals of Yunyang had to assemble all the servants, personal soldiers and the desperate confidant officers, and took this army that could barely be controlled, rode all the war horses they could find, and fought out from Yunyang City, preparing for the final death battle.

The generals conducted serious investigations before his last blow and selected the target at the position of the Ming army's general flag. If a miracle happens and the general of the Ming army can be killed, the situation in Yunyang may be reversed, or they can escape with the head of the Ming army's general and atone for their sins.

This Qing army was immediately discovered by the Ming army as soon as it left the city. Soon Liu Tichun, Deng Ming and others were alerted. Liu Tichun was discussing his experiences with the blasters with great enthusiasm, and asked Deng Ming a few questions from time to time.

"Add more than fifty cavalry and about one hundred infantry, under the banner of the generals, came to the place here?" At present, the Ming army's general flag was not far from the city wall. Liu Tichun sneered when he heard the news: "Is he going to fight to the death?"

"Sir, let Bei Zhi go and inquire." Zhao Tianba said. His interest in blasting is not as great as Liu Tichun. His favorite thing is to fight in battle formations. Deng Ming has been circling around the Yunyang city wall all day these days, and Zhao Tianba, as a personal guard, had to follow.

"Okay." Deng Ming nodded and agreed to Zhao Tianba to investigate the enemy situation.

Zhao Tianba flew on his horse and left with several Deng Ming's guards. Although many of Deng Ming's guards were from the Sichuan Army, most of them followed Zhao Tianba during the Battle of Wanxian. Others had heard of this man's bravery and were convinced by Zhao Tianba.

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The Qing army general saw that the Ming army in the distance seemed to have begun to adjust its formation. The troops on the other side of the flag were countless times that of his small Qing army. In the eyes of the general general, only one sudden attack might lead to a little advantage. Just as he was about to lead the army to kill the flag, Yu Guang suddenly saw several Ming cavalry pounced towards him.

The general looked closely and found that there were six Ming cavalry in total. Except for the Ming army leading the army, the remaining five Ming army had exquisite silk cloaks, and the cloak was shining coldly under the cloak, all covered with iron armor. The Ming army leading the army was wearing ordinary armor and an old cloth cloak.

"I am Zhao Tianba, a thousand households of the Jinyiwei!"

The Ming army in the head shouted, and rode his gun and rushed towards the Qing army. General Gan also shouted loudly, and walked forward. The spear in his hand spear spear spear speared like a poisonous snake, stabbing the knight in his head like lightning, thinking that he could kill him in one go. But when the other party swung his spear, the two spear tips hit him. General Gan felt that the power coming from the gun rod was incredible. He pushed his gun away and flew away. Before he could react, the bright spear had approached, just between his eyes...

After Zhao Tianba left, Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun adjusted their formation and prepared to fight. They believed that this might be the enemy's last desperate attack. Although there were not many people, they could not be taken lightly.

I had just said a few short orders, and before the messenger could convey them to the troops, I heard thunderous cheers coming from afar.

"What's wrong?" Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun turned their heads in confusion. However, influenced by the city walls and the surrounding troops, they had a poor vision and could not see clearly for a while. Of course, it would not be a bad thing, because the cheers were made by the Ming army in front.

Amid the cheers that were higher and higher, Zhao Tianba carried a bloody head and led the other five guards back to pick up his post. Zhao Tianba jumped down from his horse, strode to Deng Ming, and threw the head of the Yunyang Governor General at Deng Ming's feet. His face was calm and his tone was calm: "There are 155 infantry and cavalry coming to the enemy, and the low-ranking level killed twenty-one enemies, and the rest surrendered."

"I'm working hard." Deng Ming smiled. The war in Yunyang seemed to have been declared over.

The prefect committed suicide, the general died in battle, and all the remaining Qing soldiers surrendered to the Ming army. Originally, Yuan Zongdi wanted to send someone to urge He Jin to bring troops back to the city to prepare for street battles, but now there is no need for this. Liu Tichun immediately sent someone to take over the arsenal of Yunyang. After finding that the gunpowder was intact, he was extremely happy and the gunpowder he brought had exhausted, but once Yunyang surrendered, he had everything. The gunpowder stored here was more than what the Ming army brought.

Liu Tichun planned to experiment with blasting the city wall directly. Liu Zongmin's failure still made him feel uneasy. Now, with Deng Ming's inspiration, he planned to try to seal and blast the wall. Seeing that the situation was not good, Yuan Zongdi hurriedly divided the gunpowder into three parts. Liu Tichun continued to study the problem of blasting the city wall, but he could not embezzle the two parts that belonged to him and He Jin.

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That afternoon, He Jin returned to Yunyang happily. He felt that the trip had gained a lot. It seemed that the work of the Qing army in Yunyang was not thorough enough.

After seeing Yunyang City, He Jin's smile turned into surprise. There were ruins in front of him. On the top of the city were the red flag of the Ming army, not the green flag of the Qing army.

"What did they do to Yunyang? I have only been away for two days, right? It's only two days." He Jin shouted to the guard beside him-

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