At this time, the horse's cry sounded, and a sentry came with news from the Taifu Mansion. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He came to Cheng Xin, turned over and dismounted, and said: "Lord Hui, our army began to storm Taifu's mansion at regular intervals last night, but Taifu has raised a large number of martial arts masters in the mansion, and our army's attack has encountered strong resistance. ”

"The martial arts masters in Taifu's mansion are not only good at fighting, but also equipped with sophisticated arrows and crossbows and hidden weapons, and our army suffered heavy losses in the beginning of the battle."

Later, General Zhang adjusted his tactics to turn the column attack into a detachment siege, and gradually gained the advantage. But I didn't expect that Taifu actually hid a tiger car in the house. ”

Cheng Xinxin's expression was quite relaxed, but when he heard the sentry talk about the tiger car, he couldn't help but shake his body slightly.

The tiger chariot is a kind of four-wheeled chariot used by the Qi State when defending the city, two horses lead the way, this kind of chariot is wrapped in thick leather armor from the chariot to the horse, anti-knife and arrow-proof, forward, backward and turning are very fast, if Taifu hides in the tiger chariot, I am afraid it will be difficult to hurt him in the slightest.

So, Cheng Xin asked, "Did you let Taifu escape?" ”

"Nope." The sentry replied: "Taifu was sitting in the tiger car and wanted to escape by a bloody road, but he was so anxious that he used a fierce fire oil tank to deal with our army, but instead set fire to the inner hall of the mansion, trapped himself, and was captured by our army." ”

The fierce fire oil tank is fueled by fierce fire oil, with cooked copper as the cabinet, there are 4 feet under it, there are 4 reels on it, the reel is large and the tail is thin, the tail is open a small hole, as big as millet grains, the head is a round mouth, the diameter is half an inch, the cabinet is open next to a hole, the reel is the mouth, the mouth has a cover, and it is the oil injection place.

The pump is placed horizontally on the pipe, which is connected with the oil tank, and is filled with about 3 catties of oil each time. The front part of the pump is equipped with a "fire tower", which contains the ignition powder.

When firing, use a red-hot cone to ignite the ignition powder in the fire building, so that a high temperature zone is formed in the fire building, and at the same time, through conduction, the fuel injection channel in front of the preheating cylinder forms a preheating area, and then pull the pump hard, compress the air to the oil tank, so that when the fierce fire oil is sprayed out through the fire building, it ignites when it is hot, and a flame is sprayed from the nozzle of the fire building, which is shaped like a fire dragon, which is used to burn the enemy and burn the war equipment.

This weapon can be said to be the most advanced offensive and defensive weapon of the Great Qi Kingdom, but it has a fatal drawback, that is, it cannot be used in a small space.

If the space is small at that time and the distance between the enemy and the enemy is too close, it is easy to cause accidental injuries when using a fierce fire oil tank.

Cheng Ke confidently thought that Taifu was used to being pampered in Luoyang, and he had not been on the battlefield for decades and lacked actual combat experience.

I thought that with the tiger car and the fierce fire oil tank, the most powerful weapon today, I could sit back and relax and retreat, but I didn't expect to lift a stone and shoot myself in the foot.

Now that the rebel leaders Taifu and Wang Chongbei have been captured, Luoyang City can be said to be temporarily safe, and Cheng Xin can evacuate from Jinguangmen.

At present, he is most worried about Cheng Yanghao, until now he has not received any news of the counterinsurgency battle in Yudai Mountain, the evil luck is unknown, he must immediately go up to the city tower to observe the situation.

Hurrying all the way, Cheng Xin rushed to Fanglin Gate, and as soon as he climbed the city tower, he couldn't wait to look in the direction of Anhua Valley.

At this time, it is noon, the weather is fine, the sky is cloudless, the wild green outside the city is in the sky, the blue sky is hanging down, it seems to be connected with Luoshui, under the sparkling waves, the sky is particularly clear and clean.

A gray-white official road, winding from a distance, planted poplars on both sides of the official road, the leaves have been golden, dancing lightly in the wind.

There was silence on the official road, not to mention the sentinels running on horseback, and not even a single common man driving the ox cart was seen.

The excessive silence outside the city made Cheng Xin suddenly nervous, and he looked in the direction of Anhua Valley, which was supposed to be a battlefield for fire attack, but there was no trace of smoke at this time.

At this time, the lieutenant general guarding the city stepped forward and said: "The smoke in Anhua Valley this morning seems to have burned since last night, but in the middle of the corner, the smoke began to disperse, and it has disappeared at this time. ”

Although it seemed to be going as planned and there were no extraneous branches, Cheng Xinxin's brows did not expand because of this.

He leaned on the city wall with his hands apart and said in the direction of Anhua Valley, "Since there has been no definite news, why don't you send a sentry to investigate?" ”

When the adjutant general heard that the adults were displeased, he hurriedly saluted: "Your Excellency, ten teams of sentinels have been sent out from last night to this morning, but none of them have returned. ”

"Because our army has a maximum of twelve hours for reconnaissance, it is not yet possible to determine that these sentries have encountered an emergency, so no extraordinary measures have been taken."

Cheng Xin knew that what the adjutant general said was reasonable and well-founded, and there was nothing wrong with acting in full accordance with the art of war, even if he was very concerned about his son at this time, it was not appropriate to show it too obviously, so he frowned tightly and stopped talking.

Here, galloping over from the direction of the imperial city, a soldier from the Kaiyuan battalion ran up to the city tower, saw Cheng Cheng and said: "After careful investigation, the concubine has been found." ”

"Last night in the Qiao Palace, the restrained concubine was tortured by the rebels with an ice chair, and this morning she is unconscious. Later, our army attacked the vicinity of Qiao Palace, alarming the rebels in the palace, and they went out to fight our army. ”

"The palace people in the palace took the opportunity to save the concubine to the Zeng Lan Palace where Xie Ronghua lived, fortunately, the Zeng Lan Palace was located in a remote area, few people came, and the rebels did not find this place, so the life of the concubine was saved. After Xie Ronghua's treatment, Concubine Lu Guifei had already woken up at this time. ”

Originally, he thought that the concubine was more auspicious, and Cheng Xin was still thinking about how the emperor would explain when he came back, but he didn't expect the ending of the imperial city rescue operation to be so successful, you can imagine how happy the emperor should be when he learned about it.

With joy in his heart, he couldn't hide the smug look between his eyebrows, and he said to the visitor with a kind face: "Have you ever been a queen in this matter?" ”

The soldiers of the Kaiyuan battalion said: "I have already returned, and after the queen mother learned about it, she sent the imperial doctor to Zeng Lan Palace." ”

Cheng Xin nodded after hearing this, and waved his hand at the man: "You go back and pass on my password, the Kaiyuan Battalion will take five hundred people as a team, strictly guard the Hanguang Gate, Chongxuanmen, Suzaku Gate, Anli Gate and Changle Gate, and the rest of the people will patrol around the outer imperial city day and night, especially in the evening, to strengthen vigilance to prevent the rebels in the city from waiting for an opportunity to counterattack!" ”

"In addition, the palace has been investigated, so I will inform all the soldiers of the Kaiyuan Battalion to retreat to the outer imperial city to garrison, no matter what reason, they must not step into the inner imperial city again, and those who violate the order will be killed!"

Cheng Xin had just arranged the security in the imperial city, and another sentry ran up from under the city. The sentry held in his hand a soft leather strap, which was long and narrow, and which was supposed to be used for bondage.

"My lord, just now a black eagle flew into the house, and the eagle keeper took this off the black eagle's feet, please take a look." The sentry presented the soft leather strap to Cheng Xin.