I was engaged in infrastructure construction in the Han Dynasty [Transmigration Book]

Li Xi directly ordered the gunpowder barrel to be placed on the catapult, and kept in mind Liu Tan's instructions, and fired it immediately once it was lit.

When the gunpowder barrel, which looked like a wine barrel, was put on the catapult, Li Xi didn't know what to do. He always thought that such a small wooden barrel could be of any use?

Not only him, but even the Wuhuan people standing on the city wall were laughing and chattering. They thought that the Han people would pour wine on the city wall and then ignite it to melt the ice on the city wall. Bring water over.

The current temperature is not high enough for the water to continue to freeze, but they can dilute each other's wine so that the other cannot burn.

To be on the safe side, they even asked many people to run to the city wall with buckets for emergency.

If the fire is really ignited, even if they cannot burn through the ice wall for a while, the speed of the ice wall's disintegration can be accelerated after all under the influence of temperature.

But now they can stick to the city and consume each other. They eat, drink and sleep well in the city, while those Han people can only watch anxiously outside, and they can even find ways to interfere with these Han people and make them lose their energy.

So we must first defend the city wall.

More and more soldiers climbed onto the city wall. Seeing that the five experimental gunpowder barrels had been tied up, Li Xi took a deep breath and begged the gods all over the sky, hoping that what he said was true .

After the people below reported that they were ready, he gritted his teeth and said, "Launch!"

The fuse of the gunpowder barrel was ignited, and the catapult quickly threw the gunpowder barrel out. Because these fuses were installed according to the distance calculated by the craftsmen who went out with the army, they had not yet exploded when they were thrown on the city wall.

And because the gunpowder barrel was strong enough and not broken, those Wuhuan people were curious about what it was, so they sent people to check it out. As soon as they approached, there was a loud noise, and everyone near the powder barrel was blown up. God.

Standing below, Li Xi watched the severed arms and stumps on the city wall falling in mid-air. There were gaps on the city wall where the gunpowder barrels fell, and he couldn't help but froze there for a moment.

Liu Tan once told him before that the gunpowder barrel was so powerful that it directly blew up the country of Qilan and even the port of the country of Cochin, but the problem was that he didn't expect the power of this thing to be so powerful.

Whether it is Qilan or Jiaozhi, in fact, they are not very good in terms of infrastructure. On the contrary, the ethnic groups in these cold regions are much better than them in terms of construction.

After all, it may not matter even if those places are under the sky and on the ground. Even if it is a big deal in winter, find a cave, or just get some bamboo and wood to build a shelter from the wind and rain. Their need for warmth is not particularly great.

It is different in the north of Yan Kingdom. Without a strong shelter from the wind, human beings cannot survive the winter here.

Li Xi was still thinking that as long as the gunpowder barrel can push back the archers on the city wall, with those archers around, it would not be easy for them to charge the city wall.

But now he found out that let alone archers, if there were more gunpowder barrels, he could blow up the opponent's city to the sky!

Just when Li Xi was shocked, some soldiers who came back to their senses had already started to vomit uncontrollably.

The power of the gunpowder barrel is indeed great, but the scene after the explosion is really a bit hard to look at directly. Such a tragic situation is not acceptable to ordinary people, especially many of the soldiers in this wave are recruits.

Li Xi was a bit better, the visual effect brought by the explosion was more powerful, but in terms of cruelty, he had seen even more cruel scenes.

He turned to the craftsman behind him and said, "Can you blast the city gate?"

The craftsman responded immediately: "Yes, Your Highness asked us to test it."

Li Xi said decisively: "The catapult continues to throw gunpowder barrels to force back their archers, you take people to blow up the city gate!"

If it was Liu Tan, he would definitely choose to let the craftsmen wear the best armor to blow up the city gate, or choose to throw it from a long distance. After all, it is too dangerous to send someone to blow up the city gate while throwing powder kegs on the city wall.

What if the distance is not calculated properly and the gunpowder barrel falls and blows up your own people?

It's just that in Li Xi's view, the life of a slave is not as important as that of a craftsman.

Thanks to Liu Tan's strictness, he had been trained to throw things that need to be judged, and the soldiers who threw the powder kegs were also transferred from the northern border country. killed.

However, Li Xi's precautions seemed a bit redundant. He was a little shocked after seeing the power of the gunpowder barrel, let alone the Wuhuan people who had never even heard of it.

All of a sudden, there was blood all over the city wall, and some people didn't know whether it was lucky or unlucky, because they were far away and were affected but they were not dead yet, and only had the strength to howl.

Wuhuan City, which had the upper hand just now, seemed to have turned into a hell on earth.

No one dared to go to the city wall again, and the powder keg prepared by Li Xi didn't even need to be thrown, because there were no archers to interfere from the beginning to the end.

After the city gate was blown open, Li Xi immediately sent heavy armored soldiers in to occupy favorable positions such as the city wall. At the same time, he sent crossbowmen to fight in the city. The best advantage was not the bow and arrow, but the short-distance king-killing crossbow.

He was well prepared, but things went so smoothly that he couldn't believe it.

After the heavy armored soldiers entered the city, they didn't even receive any resistance except to find that the people were staying behind closed doors.

The living people they saw after they climbed the city wall were either seriously injured and could not survive, or they were so frightened that they had no resistance at all.

Li Xi was not surprised after hearing the news.

He was already prepared in his heart, and he was taken aback. All the soldiers under him were stunned on the spot just now, and there are still a group of people who have not recovered, let alone the Wuhuan people who were caught off guard.

To be conservative, Li Xi still asked people to imprison the city lord's mansion and all the civilians and soldiers in the city first to prevent them from cheating.

This is a very cumbersome matter, and it usually takes three or four days to fully understand the situation in the city.

Only this time, it took about a day and a half to finish all these things.

Li Xi asked the lieutenant in surprise, "Is it really done?"

Lieutenant General Han Han said: "These Wuhuan people were frightened into fools, they were all very obedient, they didn't show any resistance."

Li Xi asked, "Is there a tunnel in the city?"

The deputy general said: "There are some in the City Lord's Mansion, but not many. The brothers have dragged out all the people inside."

Li Xi thought about it seriously and found that there was nothing left behind, so he went straight into the city.

After entering the city, he first went to the square where the Wuhuan people were imprisoned collectively, and saw those Wuhuan people sitting on the ground obediently, looking at them with brown eyes revealing infinite fear.

Li Xi took a look and found that these people seemed to have lost their spirits, let alone resisting, they didn't even dare to look at him more, so they went directly to the City Lord's Mansion.

Sitting on the throne of the City Lord's Mansion, Li Xi touched the binoculars that Liu Tan had given him after he applied for Liu Che.

Although this is only a city in Wuhuan, there are other cities in the middle of the royal city.

But he originally planned to take about half a month to lay down this city, but now... three days?

No, three days is counting the logistics time, and it took only one day to actually fight it. Half of the time was wasted because he didn't think of the gunpowder barrel in the first place.

Not to mention Li Xi, even the small officers under him found it inconceivable that none of them suffered any losses, only some soldiers were slightly injured, and none were seriously injured. Who would believe it if it was told.

But after the initial astonishment, what followed was the carnival.

Compared with the generals, the minds of the soldiers are much simpler-there is no way to go to the battlefield, and of course it is good to not die.

And everyone basically said their last words to their families before enlisting in the army. They had also heard that the wars under the King of the North had always had the fewest casualties.

When they came, they thought it was the King of the Northern Territory leading the team, but they didn't expect it to be Li Xi. They had already given up hope, but they found out that they really survived.

They didn't think there was any shock, they just made a clay figurine secretly to act as the king of the north to worship.

After recovering, Li Xi thought for a while: "The army has been organized for two days. You can drink tonight, but not too much. By the way, have you got the number of prisoners? Report it to me first, so I can write a good report."

This good news was to be sent to the King of the Northern Realm. As for how the King of the Northern Realm would send it, it was up to him.

Because the fight went smoothly, the big man's side is basically no different from taking over the city directly. There are not many things to be sorted out on his own side, so the report below is very fast.

Li Xi took a look at the battle report and was a little surprised: "What's going on? Didn't you have any conflicts with the other party? Why didn't the other party even have minor injuries? You won't kill everyone, right?"

Li Xi was very vigilant when he thought of this, but he knew how much Liu Tan hated Sha Jiang.

He was angry, but he never said anything like letting Li Xi massacre the city. The only thing he told him was to wipe out those big families of Wuhuan. It was always these leaders who he wanted to target and deal with, not Those ordinary people, he didn't really want Wuhuan to exterminate the clan.

The people below said with a wry smile: "How dare we, after the city gate was blown open, these Wuhuan people surrendered directly, the soldiers who went up to the city wall before were injured, but... they were all dealt with by their own people Yes, they were still killing their own people when we got there."

Even the well-informed Li Xi was stunned: "What?"