Chapter 822: Billowing Smoke
The first rays of golden sunlight were projected on the vast land, and the Yan soldiers wearing black horns were languishing listlessly, and a new day began, and the Tang army outside the city was still endlessly besieging them, neither attacking the city nor retreating. Bayi?? Chinese?? .
"When is this day going to be a head......
This behavior of the Tang army brought them unprecedented psychological pressure, coupled with the factional purge within the Yan army, from the general to the ordinary soldiers were extremely depressed, not only to be on guard against the surprise attacks of the Tang Dynasty's soldiers and horses, but also to be vigilant against the bloody purge that their own people might launch at any time.
"What do you mean by a head?"
The reprimanded soldier just wanted to fight back again, but when he looked up, a fireball appeared from outside the city and smashed straight towards him, he subconsciously shortened his body, and the poor other soldier became a burning man in an instant before he could react.
Screaming and rolling on the ground.
"Help, help......"
Seeing the screaming comrades struggling in pain, the soldiers who were lucky enough to escape were frightened stupid, and subconsciously shouted for help, and felt that their bodies were smashed hard, and then they became a burning man with the footsteps of their comrades, screaming and rolling all over the ground......
Almost at the same time as the sun rose, several city gates in the northwest of Luoyang City, such as Xuanhui Gate, Longguang Gate, and Deyou Gate, fell into a sea of fire and chaos at the same time.
Qin Jin came to Deyou Gate surrounded by a large number of relatives, and as the captain of the firearms battalion, Qing Xuzi sat here.
"Deyoumen is Hanjiacang City, your stone cannon must be measured, if you burn the stored grain accumulated for a hundred years, you are a sinner of history!"
Qing Xuozi sneered, and just wanted to answer, but was frightened back by Qin Jin's stern gaze.
"Burn a grain of grain, don't remember your notoriety in history, Qin Mou beheaded you first!"
Qin Jin knows this Qingxu son very well, if he doesn't say a few cruel words, he may toss out something.
"Remember the ...... of the poor road"
Qing Xuzi saw Qin Jin's solemn face, and said so fiercely, he also put away his previous cynicism for a while. But he was still reprimanded by Qin Jin.
"In the Great War Army, there are no Taoist priests, only military generals!"
"What the doctor said is extremely ......"
Qing Xuzi echoed again and again, but after all, he didn't say the word "last general" in his other mouth!
In fact, Qin Jin didn't care what the title was, the reason why he emphasized the title was to make Qing Xuzi realize that since he was in the army, there was no joke.
After this episode, Qing Xuzi's interest in asking Qin Jin for merit was completely gone, and he only introduced today's firearms battalion's attack plan for these city gates.
The whole Luoyang Imperial City is located in the northwest corner of Luoyang City, a radius of more than 20 miles, the scale is roughly equivalent to the size of the county town of Shangjun, the palace city is in the imperial city, covers an area of about seventy percent of the imperial city, the palace city is closest to the outer outline in the north of the Xuanhui Gate of the Lu Gate, from the Lu Gate through the narrow but dozens of steps of the next city is the Tao Guangyuan in the palace city.
Therefore, the firearms battalion placed a large number of stone cannons between the Lukan Gate and the Xuanhui Gate, because only here was Miyagi within effective firing range.
"Doctor, why don't you move to the Lu Gate and take a look at the traitor palace city on fire......"
Qing Xuzi suggested that Dao go there to watch the battle, and Qin Jin readily agreed.
The sky was completely bright, and the city walls in the northwest of Luoyang had become a sea of fire, although the screams could not be heard from a distance, and the specific situation could not be seen clearly, but it could be guessed with the toes that there was no difference between it and hell.
The fire here is not obvious, there is billowing black smoke everywhere, and the rising smoke has the posture of rushing straight into the sky.
"Qingxu Zhenren, why is there only smoke and no fire here?"
Some people expressed wonder about this, and Qingxuzi smiled mysteriously:
"This is a secret in the army, it is not appropriate to announce it, forgive me, forgive me!"
I saw him pretend to pause mysteriously, and then said quite proudly:
"It's no secret, the poor road appeared in the experiment a few months ago, smoke can disperse faster than fire, and the lethality is also greater, no matter how brave the traitor is under the use of fireworks, it is no different from those chickens and dogs!"
The general pursed his lips, feeling that what Qing Xuzi said had always been too exaggerated, if the firearms battalion was really so capable, what else would they want these soldiers to do?
It's just that because of the presence of Dr. Qin, it's just inconvenient for him to speak!
However, Lang will not say it, it does not mean that others can endure it. Qin Yan, who has always been quick to talk, rubbed his neck with the handle of the horsewhip on the horse, and the lice have been making a lot of noise recently, and after wearing the heavy armor, he can't scratch it, and he is miserable. He grinned, rubbed the end of the horsewhip against his back, and said disdainfully:
"Qingxu Zhenren is talking big again, you can tell me, since you hit the command of Doctor Qin, how many things have been promised from your mouth?"
This can poke at the key point of Qing Xuzi, he is indeed a person who is not strict in his mouth, and exaggerates if he is not careful, and at least six or seven percent of the things promised must be unfulfillable.
"Captain Qin laughed, poor, although Poor Dao is easy to talk big, but in such a matter related to the plan of the Shenwu Army, how dare Poor Dao talk nonsense?"
Qin Jin stopped their argument.
"Qing Xuzi is right, smoke and fire are extremely powerful weapons, and they are no less than a million armies when used properly! Have you all forgotten that day when the camp was burned down in the river?"
After Qin Jin's reminder, everyone suddenly remembered the shock of the fire that day.
As he spoke, Qin Jin looked up at the sky, although the sky was still gray-blue in the early morning, he could still see that there was not a single cloud overhead.
"God is beautiful, An Qingxu should be anxious!"
After the fire attack lasted for nearly an hour, the assault on Luoyang City was completely launched, and the towering cloud ladder was pushed forward slowly by hundreds of soldiers, followed by the black and oppressive foot soldiers, and the high-pitched shouts were soon pierced by the rumbling war drums.
Qin Jin immediately raised his eyes, watching these huge siege machines slowly move towards Luoyang City step by step under the umbrella of ant-like foot soldiers, this kind of scene as an attacking party, he witnessed it for the first time, and his heart was inevitably churning with excited blood.
When the first cloud ladder landed on the city wall of Luoyang, the Shenwu army burst into deafening cheers, even overshadowing the rumbling war drums, so that Qin Jin felt the urge to cover his ears. The ladder is a heavy wooden cart with four large wheels supporting the heavy body, and a long ladder several feet high is drawn diagonally forward from the body, once the ladder is on the city wall, it becomes a ramp large enough to accommodate two people side by side to go up the city.
Subsequently, two, three, four...... Except for a few failures, stopped on the way, most of the dozens of ladders have leaned on the city wall of Luoyang, and the foot soldiers behind the ladders are holding shields in their left arms and horizontal knives in their right hands, shouting and rushing up the ladders.
The Shenwu army flooded the city wall of Luoyang like a tide, and everything that could be burned on the city wall was almost burned, and the smoke of the fire gradually decreased, but the rebels in the city were obviously caught off guard by the sudden fire and smoke, and they reacted a little slowly in the face of the tide of the Shenwu army's attack.
Many of the Shenwu soldiers easily climbed the city wall without even encountering resistance and counterattack.
As more and more soldiers climbed the city wall, even the people around Qin Jin couldn't suppress their cheers, as long as there were enough soldiers on the city wall, they would have a greater certainty to control the city wall, as long as they controlled a section of the city wall, the Shenwu army could use it as a stronghold, extend to both sides, and then occupy the entire city wall.
In this regard, Qin Jin does not mean that he can succeed in one battle, if Luoyang City was recovered so easily, he would not have been beaten so badly by the rebels from Feng Changqing to Gao Xianzhi a few years ago.
In fact, although the Shenwu army climbed the city wall, although the road on the Luoyang city wall is more than ten steps wide, it is still much smaller than the wild land with great room for maneuver, and it can even be said that there is no room for maneuver.
On the city wall, the Shenwu army's housekeeping skills, queue battles are also difficult to work, and most of the soldiers who rushed to the city wall in a hurry were out of order, so they could only gather together indiscriminately and rush to kill.
"Doctor, the tower for watching the battle has been erected!"
Qin Jin almost couldn't wait to climb the tower several feet high, and an important entourage also climbed up.
Standing high and looking far away, on the tower, Qin Jin could clearly see the situation on the city wall of Luoyang.
"The Shenwu Army's offensive is blocked, why don't you use thunderbolts?"
Qin Yan said:
"I guess, it's because the soldiers don't want to use it, the iron bumps are too heavy, how can you attack the city with that thing?"
"Short-sighted, if you take it to the city at this time and throw out hundreds of thunderbolts, it will be possible to break the deadlock in an instant!
However, Qin Jin's order was still too late, and the rebels launched a large-scale counterattack, and the Shenwu army that climbed the city wall was either killed in battle, or rolled down the ladder in embarrassment.
"Not good, the traitor brought up the oil and wanted to burn the ladder!"
Qin Jin sneered:
"Burn it, burn it! I'm afraid that even they will burn it themselves! Give the order, withdraw the troops in a hundred steps!"
At the sound of an order, the order flag was waved, and the soldiers of the Shenwu Army, who forced them to the Luguan Gate, shouted the trumpet rhythmically and began to retreat slowly, and the rebels in the city cheered when they saw that they had repelled the Tang Army.
"Stone cannon ready, continue to shoot incendiary bombs!"
The cheers of the rebels had not yet landed, and swarms of fireballs smashed into the walls of Luoyang with a whistling sound that broke through the air.
Suddenly, the city was once again in flames, and the fire oil carried by the rebels on the city wall became the best accelerant, and many rebels who could not remove the city wall were instantly engulfed in flames.
This was not the end, Qin Jin ordered the firearms battalion to adjust the landing point and locate the target of the attack on the palace city behind the outer city wall.
Another round of fireballs flew out, and billowing black smoke rose again......