The explosive effect of the black powder disappointed Qing Xuzi, and the gunpowder of more than a dozen holes in a row was ignited, and the expected collapse of the city wall did not appear, but only felt the holes, as for the cracks that appeared on the rammed earth walls of Luoyang City, it was like a mouth cracked, smiling sarcastically. Bayi?Chinese ??? (a)

"Real person, the gunpowder we filled into the hole this time is more than three times as before, why is there only such a small movement?"

Facing the incomprehension of his subordinates, Qingxuzi smiled bitterly:

"It's not that the city wall of Luoyang is too big, and the road above the city can almost pass eight carriages side by side, how can it be compared to those small counties and towns?"

"In this case, dig the hole several times wider and fill it with more gunpowder......

Qingxuzi waved his hand.

"You don't have to do this more, continue to dig according to today's scale, and continue to detonate early tomorrow morning, and there will always be some effect if you have more times!"

He went to check the scene after the explosion himself, and the sand and gravel filled in the cave entrance were washed out one by one, and several places that were shallow from the surface were blown to pieces, like the land that had been turned over before ploughing.

"These holes are shallow, dig deep tonight, don't dig the bombed parts, start from somewhere else......"

He carefully inspected it and explained to his subordinates, which can be regarded as a summary of failure.

The Shenwu army has always looked down on the firearms battalion, although firearms have shown their might in previous wars, but in the eyes of those generals, this is still a strange thing, at most it is the icing on the cake, and the real tough battle requires elite soldiers to be the main force. In addition, even the soldiers assigned to the firearms battalion were all left crooked melons and cracked dates picked by other battalions, and what was the result? Did he still keep the Chinese army camp with these crooked melons and cracked dates?

Therefore, Qing Xuzi always held his breath in his heart, he just wanted the firearms battalion to do something earth-shattering to change the world's prejudice against this kind of strange and ingenious thing.

He didn't believe that if he could use gunpowder to blow up the city wall of Xin'an, could he not blow up the city wall of Luoyang? Although Luoyang City was wide and high enough, it was not strong enough. According to past experience, smashing a boulder often requires a sledgehammer to blow it many times, so can it also follow this principle? If it does not collapse, it will not collapse twice, if it does not work twice, it will be three times, four times, five times, six times, seven times, eight times, and nine times.

It was getting late, and a gust of wind was blowing, and it was already faintly glowing with the coolness of autumn. Qing Xuzi sneezed violently and said to himself:

"I don't know which bastard underestimated the poor road behind his back!"

In the Chinese military tent, at the routine military summary meeting, Qin Yan smiled unscrupulously:

"Qingxuzi's old Taoist always said that firearms are powerful, even invincible, indestructible, what is happening now? The Luoyang city wall does not move at all, only a few more cracks!"

The group listened very interestingly, and they all laughed back and forth. To tell the truth, the soldiers in the army all felt that Qing Xuzi was the person who was a tricky plaything next to Dr. Qin, and only Doctor Qin would believe in this tricky oil slide man.

"A few days ago, the Chinese army fought a battle, and the Taoist priest was quite heroic, but those crooked melons and cracked dates in the firearms battalion can't be compared with our soldiers after all......"

Suddenly, the curtain of the military tent was raised, and Yang Xingben walked in, and the originally enthusiastic discussion suddenly became shorter. This person's status in the Shenwu Army is second only to Qin Jin, and his temperament has always been gloomy, and no one wants to touch this person's moldy head. Although this person had violated military orders and was punished by Dr. Qin, after several battles, he was not reinstated as an official? It shows that Dr. Qin believes in this person and cannot do without this person!

Even Qin Yan, who has always been the most unruly, didn't dare to laugh in front of Yang Xingben.

"Why don't you say it? What you said, Yang heard it, the firearms battalion bombed several times today without any effect, you should be sad, why do you still have the heart to laugh?"

One of the generals was quite bold and asked:

"The firearms battalion is not good, why should we be sad?"

Yang Xingben asked with a cold face:

"If the firearms battalion successfully blows up the city wall, the slope of Luoyang City will be just around the corner, but now I don't know how many soldiers' lives will be used to fill it, and you can still laugh!"

These words hit everyone's hearts word by word, and they couldn't help but bow their heads, which was a subtle accusation that they didn't have the heart to love soldiers.

"Doctor Qin is here!"

With a high singing, Qin Jin hurriedly entered the account and apologized first.

"I'm entangled in military affairs, it's too late! Let's get down to business!"

Only then did everyone restrain all kinds of ridicule of the firearms battalion and sit upright.

After Qin Jin sat down, he said:

"Today, there is a river of blood flowing in the Luoyang Tongqu, and there are tens of thousands of corpses flowing out, you know, right?"

Yang Xingben, who had been cold-faced, answered first:

"The infighting in Luoyang is excellent news for us, and the Shenwu Army can sacrifice less. I just don't know how messy they are!"

Qin Jin said again:

"Also, you all feel the ground movements that the firearms battalion has made one after another today, right?"

Speaking of the firearms battalion, Qin Yan couldn't help but burst out laughing first.

"Qingxuzi's oil slide man always said how powerful the gunpowder explosion was, and what happened now......?

Hearing this, Qin Jin was noncommittal, and only glanced at everyone.

"How? You all see it that way?"

Everyone echoed Qin Yan's statement.

"It didn't work much, so much gunpowder was wasted, I don't know how many thunderbolts could be made......"

Some people are sarcastic, while others are based on facts.

"You are all wrong, the ground movement created by the firearms battalion has a great effect, before sunset, someone in the city shot down the secretary with arrows, Qin Yan, you come to read it out in public!"

Qin Jin pointed to a piece of parchment on the desk and asked Qin Yan, who had the most exaggerated smile, to read it.

"This, this...... Didn't the doctor deliberately make a fool of himself?"

Qin Yan scratched his head in embarrassment, he couldn't read a few words from a house slave, although Qin Jin had vigorously urged them to be literate, but they always fished for three days and dried their nets for two days, and in the end they only recognized a few names and place names, and the slightly more complicated military books had to be read by military officials with the help of military officials.

"Read!"

Qin Jin's voice was neither salty nor light, but Qin Yan's head was sweating, and the invisible pressure made him feel so grateful that he couldn't laugh anymore.

Holding the parchment in both hands, he stammered a few words, which caused the audience to laugh.

Qin Yan was extremely embarrassed, his face turned red, and he really couldn't hold on.

"San Lang, you come to read!"

Yang Zhen, who was sitting behind Yang Xing himself, immediately got up, took the parchment from Qin Yan's hand, and only glanced at it a few times, and the contents on it surprised him.

"There is a rebellion in Luoyang City, and Ji Wu, the master of Hanjiacang, invites himself to surrender!"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked!

"What, Hanjiacang?"

Rao is Yang Xing was so shocked that he owed his body.

The three words of Han Jiacang stirred everyone's nerves, everyone knew that Han Jiacang had accumulated nearly half of the world's grain, when Luoyang City fell, Feng Changqing did not have Gao Xianzhi's ruthless decision, so he couldn't make a determination to burn it all.

"Hanjiacang has changed, Luoyang is equivalent to opening half of the door, this kind of good news is true, it really came too suddenly!"

Holding the parchment, Yang Zhen couldn't help but sigh.

Qin Jin said slowly:

"There is a statement in the submission that the rebellions in the city are stacked up, and they are all inexplicably moving, what do you think?"

Only then did everyone understand that Qin Jin was still speaking for the firearms battalion.

However, if the content of the submission is true, no matter what the reason is, the good news comes too suddenly.

"Looking at it this way, Luoyang is just around the corner, congratulations to the doctor, congratulations to the doctor!"

I don't know when, Qingxuzi has already entered the account, and when he heard the news, he bowed down and congratulated.

There has never been such a habit of flattery in the Shenwu army, and Qing Xuzi's incompatible style has caused everyone to look sideways.

Knowing that the rebellions in Luoyang City were stacked, all because of the movement of the earth, Qing Xuzi was still not happy in his heart. After all, the reputation of the firearms battalion is still not justified, and it is still a strange thing in the eyes of the soldiers.

"Knowing the civil strife in Luoyang, does the doctor think that it is time for a decisive battle?"

Yang Xingben's abrupt words brought the topic back.

Qin Jin nodded and shook his head again.

"It's not the best time yet, is there any news between Yanshi and Heyang?"

He has been waiting for news from Heyang and Yanshi, as long as these two places go smoothly and return to Tang anyway, it is equivalent to completely cutting off the connection between Luoyang and other places, and Luoyang, which has become a turtle in an urn, will have no room to turn over.

……

"Move the capital, move the capital, what about An Shouzhong, let him come to see me!"

After a fierce battle in the middle of the night, An Shouzhong finally overcame many difficulties and repelled the rebellious Ji Wu, but he also stopped at the Hanjia Gate in Hanjiacang City. Although Hanjia Gate is opened in Luoyang City, its scale is comparable to the outer outline of the city gate, and there is no good way to take it for a while.

Compared with Hanjiacang City, An Shouzhong is more concerned about An Qingxu, the son of Dayan, if An Qingxu falls into the hands of others, it will really be a big deal.

As soon as he arrived outside the door, An Shouzhong listened to the loud shouts inside to move the capital.

"Your Majesty wants to move the capital, Luoyang is the center of the world, you can't give it up easily!"

An Qingxu was angry, jumped to his feet and cursed:

"The incompetent rats are mistaken, look, look, Heyang and Yanshi have defected to the Tang Dynasty, and if they don't move the capital, are they waiting for people to close their doors and beat the dogs?"

"What's the Yanshi, Heyang rebelled?"

An Shouzhong frowned, he had already had the intention to replace the commander of the Ma Bujun in these two key places, and he only thought about completely stabilizing Luoyang before making a move, who wanted to be a step slower.

"Your Majesty doesn't have to worry, there are still my Dayan soldiers and horses in the land of Qilu and Huaixi, so it can be attacked from both sides, and it will not be difficult to recapture these two places!"

"It's not difficult, you don't want to be scared anymore, look at the black smoke miasma in Luoyang City that you tossed, how can you still have the face to persuade me to rest assured?"

An Qingxu sharpened his voice and questioned in a loud voice, not leaving the slightest affection for An Shouzhong.

The scene was extremely embarrassing, and another military official sent a military report, and there were rebels near Dongshi......