The speed of the collapse of the defense on the periphery of Xianyang was not only unexpectedly by the Qin people who were trapped in the lonely city, but even the attacking Han army was greatly unexpected, so that after occupying the outer defense line, the pause actually stopped temporarily, because the Han army was not ready to attack Xianyang for the end.

But three days later, the cannon roared again, and this time, it was the tall and precipitous city wall of Xianyang that was directly attacked. As the capital of a country, the tall and steep city walls of Xianyang City are naturally worthy of its name, and after the advent of reinforced concrete, Xianyang City has been strengthened again. And this has become the only thought of the people in the city.

In the main hall of the Black Ice Terrace, Lu Chao was sitting on the throne in full costume, and under the steps, all the officials in Xianyang were told today that they must go up to face the king.

In the Black Ice Platform, rows of Eagle soldiers stood with their swords, adding a bit of murderous aura to the already solemn Black Ice Platform Hall. Everyone didn't dare to take a breath, looking at their noses and noses, and looking at their hearts, since last year, when the Qin State and the Chu State formed an alliance to attack the Han Dynasty, Lu Chao's temper has become moody, killing people, it is commonplace, and it will not be because of how long you have a family history, how high a prominent position you have, if you don't agree with each other, if you don't like your heart, you will be waiting for a big knife.

The heavy door of the Black Ice Terrace Hall was closed, the light in the room suddenly dimmed, huge cow candles were lit, and the faint cannons reflected the changing faces of everyone.

Although the gate was thick, it could not stop the rumbling of cannons in the distance, and the landing point of the artillery seemed to be getting closer and closer. Along with the huge roar of artillery, there were countless strange chirps. And this strange sound even swept over the sky above the Black Ice Platform Hall from time to time. The howling that tore through the air made everyone tremble.

This is the latest weapon of the Han army, in Hangu Pass, in one fell swoop, Qian Zhongyi's 20,000 elite defenders were destroyed, with more and more information about the defeat of Hangu Pass, it also made the people in Xianyang City more and more afraid. It was the scythe of death. It is the harvester of life, and it is simply unstoppable.

Since yesterday, this strange chirping sound has not stopped, the only difference from Hangu Pass is that after the shell exploded, it was not that kind of ghost fire that fell, but the unveiling stickers flying all over the sky.

The content of the exposé is self-evident, and it is naturally persuasive. Those who called on the people of Xianyang to rise up to overthrow the tyranny and lured the soldiers in the city to open the city and surrender. The Eagle soldiers led by Gou Yi broke their legs and wanted to collect all these exposed stickers, but no matter how fast they ran, they were not as fast as the outside ones. Destruction is indestructible, finally. Gou Yi also gave up this meaningless move.

"Let's talk about it, what now?" Above the royal steps, Lu Chao's cold voice sounded, as if coming from the Nine Hells, and all the courtiers bowed their heads silently, now. They really can't do anything, no, there should be another one, but unfortunately, no one dares to say it.

Outside the city. The artillery of the Han army is pulling out the firepower points on the city one by one, compared to the kind of suicidal rotten artillery that kills people on the outer defense line, the quality of the artillery in the city is much better, although the firing speed is slow, but it has been firing under the city, but as soon as he exposes his firepower point, he will immediately attract fierce artillery fire, and the covering fire will destroy the forts on the city little by little, and finally remove this firepower point.

This is the last battle, and no commander will care about the loss of ammunition.

Groups of infantry took advantage of the gap between the artillery fire on the city, passed through the fire blockade, and advanced straight to a place not far from the city wall, and busily began to set up their infantry guns.

A small cannon is densely lined up, with an order, one by one cannonballs jump out of the chamber, different from other artillery, this infantry cannon in the air is a high parabola, accurately one by one on the city wall, continuous explosions and the shining of fire, accompanied by the screams of the soldiers in the city, constitute the main theme of the entire battlefield.

The Han firepower covered all the areas near and medium, and the heavy artillery fire continued for a whole morning, and the artillery shells cost hundreds of thousands, and the return fire on the city finally became weaker and weaker, and finally fell completely silent.

With the sound of the loud military horn, the foot soldiers who had been holding back for a long time finally began to attack, countless siege vehicles, siege plank roads, ramming mallets, rushing cars, cloud ladders, pushed by the Han army, raised their heads, and rushed towards the Xianyang city wall in the roar of the mountains. The range of the artillery began to extend at this moment, and the small cannons under the city became more and more violent, so that the Qin soldiers hiding in the caves in the city could not lean out at all.

In the midst of the shaking of the ground and the mountains, a series of ladders set up the city wall, a siege vehicle approached up, and the anchor hooks in front of the siege trestle hooked the wall battlements to death, countless Han troops climbed up along these siege equipment, like ants, almost the same height as the city wall, on the top of the city, countless divine crossbows fired crossbow arrows like flying locusts, suppressing the Qin army at the head of the city, almost as soon as the Qin army emerged, it would be shot like a hedgehog and fell. Occasionally, there is a breakthrough arrow rain rushing to the front, facing the tall building, the fastened anchor hook, there is no way, can only desperately wave the knife in his hand, desperately chopping the anchor hook that is the thickness of the child's arm, and the sunny fly shakes the pillar and generally wants to push these huge guys away from the city wall.

Inside the Black Ice Terrace, there was still a deathly silence, no one spoke, and no one dared to speak.

With a bang, the closed door was slammed open by a wall, and a bloodied general rushed in. One stumbled, threw himself on the cold black ground, tried his best to get up but couldn't do anything, and saw the blood flowing out of the general's body, and in the hall, there was a bang, and he was directly frightened to death on the ground.

"Your Majesty, the West City Gate has been breached, the defenders of the West City have retreated to the inner city, the Han army is expanding the offensive area, and the outer city cannot be defended." The loyal general lay on the ground, but still stretched out his bloody hand high, "Your Majesty, let's go, let's go, the artillery fire of the Han army is too fierce for us to resist." ”

With a snap, the raised hand hung down, and the general, who had tried his best to say this, stared at the big eyes and died in a pool of blood all over the ground.

"Your Majesty." The white-haired Shoufu Liu Zhilong trembled and stood up slightly, kneeling down in front of the steps: "Your Majesty, please make a decision as soon as possible." ”

"Decision, what decision?" Lu Chao leaned forward, with a smile on his face: "Liu Qing, what decision do you want me to make?" ”

Liu Zhilong raised his head: "Your Majesty, the general trend has gone, and the manpower is irretrievable, for the sake of Xianyang, for the sake of the people, please ask Your Majesty to surrender to the Han people!" The Han Emperor is lofty, and there has never been a precedent for killing people, and he asked the Han Emperor to surrender, although he lost the country, he was able to protect the temple! ”

"Jiangshan, Zongmiao?" Lu Chao laughed loudly: "The winner is the king, the loser is the villain, since you lose, you will lose more completely?" Surrender? Hahaha, yes, surrender, of course you can surrender, after surrendering, you just change masters, you can still live a nourishing life and live happily, but I don't think so. I can surrender to anyone, but I will never surrender to lofty. ”

Liu Zhilong looked at Lu Chao in amazement: "Your Majesty, you and the Emperor of the Han Dynasty are friends of the general horn, and they have a long-standing relationship, please surrender to him, with the style of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, you will not treat Your Majesty badly, even if Your Majesty does not think about yourself, you have to think about the Queen Mother, think about the Prince!" ”

"Please Your Majesty plan for the temple and ask the Han Emperor to surrender!" In the main hall, hundreds of courtiers all knelt down, in fact, everyone didn't have this thought in their hearts, but they didn't dare to say it, now Liu Zhilong opened this head, everyone just got off the donkey, and persuaded the emperor together, there are many people with great strength, and they are not afraid that the emperor will not obey.

With an uproar, Lu Chao overturned the imperial case in front of him and stood up suddenly, his face full of anger, "Gao Yuan'er, insidious and cunning, I, Lu Chao, would rather be crushed than surrender to him, and you don't have to think about it." ”

Looking at the courtiers kneeling at the bottom of the stairs, he suddenly laughed coldly: "And you, you can't think about it." He raised his hand and made a gesture to the full hall of guards.

With a choking sound, the steel knife was unsheathed, and an eagle officer stepped forward, grabbed a young official kneeling in front of him like a chick, wiped the person's neck with a knife, and threw it on the ground with a clatter.

The official who fell to the ground had already lost his breath, but his body was still convulsing in a pool of blood, and the other people around this person were stunned until another official was slashed off by a sergeant, and the hall exploded.

"The emperor is going to kill us, run!" One jumped to his feet, turned and fled towards the gate. A steel knife whistled with a cold wind, pierced through his chest, and stabbed him flat into the air, and fell heavily to the ground.

The screams in the hall are endless, and almost all of the people gathered in the hall today are civil officials, in front of these eagle soldiers, where there is the slightest ability to parry, and there are occasional generals, they can rarely resist, and they will be killed in a blink of an eye.

Liu Zhilong looked at this bloody scene, his lips trembled, "You, you're crazy, are you crazy?" ”

Gou Yi sneered and walked up to Liu Zhilong: "Shoufu, didn't you say that you would be loyal to Your Majesty and serve Your Majesty forever?" Your Majesty is under the Nine Springs, but he still left you the position of the first assistant, please go on the road with peace of mind. ”

A knife was stabbed, Liu Zhilong stared blankly at the steel knife that sank into his chest and abdomen, and fell down with a miserable laugh.

More than 100 officials were slaughtered in an instant, looking at the corpses in the hall and the pools of blood on the ground, Lu Chao laughed wildly: "No one wants to live." Gouyi, go do your thing! ”

Gou Yi knelt down and kowtowed to Lu Chao a few times: "Your Majesty take care, the next minister will still serve Your Majesty." ”

He stood up and said loudly, "Let's go." (To be continued.) )