Having made up his mind, Jiang Yan Hai immediately got to work. Better early than late. He joined forces with the engineering corps and entered the interior of the Great Wall. After finding the most suitable points, he used the data-analysis scanning program to map out the entire structure, then began installing the shaped-charge explosives.
Meanwhile, the engineering units behind them had also arrived. However, to Jiang Yan Hai's surprise, they did not first blast open the section facing the Taotie. Instead, they targeted the stretch of wall through which Jiang Yan Hai and the others had entered.
That section of wall was very narrow because it was not part of the main defensive line, and its interior contained no mechanisms or anything of the sort.
So, they blew open the area where the city gate stood.
In less than an hour, all the explosives had been set. They were blowing open the gate because tanks could pass through it, but the heavy machinery required by the engineering units could not get in.
So they might as well do it properly.
With a massive BOOM, the section of the Great Wall containing the gatehouse collapsed with a crash. The pre-calculated explosive yield blew down a stretch roughly fifteen meters wide.
Once the wall had been demolished, large excavators—the kind normally used only in mines—drove in behind it.
Their enormous buckets immediately got to work. In less than an hour, the fifteen-meter-wide collapsed section had been cleared.
Clearing a road was simple. The excavators carried away the excess stones, while bulldozers shoved the remaining debris aside. They would clear the route first and deal with the rest later.
While the road there was being cleared, another tremendous BOOM shook the area. On the front-facing section of the Great Wall that defended