In fact, according to Pang Qingshan's original strategic intentions, this batch of "battlefield killers" improved by the Tianji Workshop was just a big gift specially prepared for the towering city wall and solid defense of Yanjing City. But if they can't even pass the Northwest Army, how can they go straight to the Yellow Dragon?

Tonight's battle is the second battle between the Northwest Army and the Relief Army, which has changed from a night attack to an orthodox siege. And the strategic gap between the two generals is also exposed in this battle!

Pang Qingshan, who was born in a famous family, thought about how to reverse the defeat of the entire Nankang Dynasty, play a beautiful Jedi counterattack, and put it to death and come back to life! Therefore, today's battle is not only a key battle for Nankang to relieve the shame of the army and correct his name, but also a God-given opportunity for him Pang Qingshan himself, to be famous in Huayu and leave a name in history!

And this Xingzhou City, which will surely turn into scorched earth, is the first chess piece that Pang Qingshan fell!

And Wang Baichuan, who was born as a pawn, thought about how to achieve a big victory, and even annihilate the Relief Army, so as to erase the death penalty of rebellion with Zhou Changfeng for himself and the brothers of the Northwest Army. As for the longer-term issues, he could neither see nor hold such a big plan in his heart.

After the Northwest Army surrendered to the imperial court, Cai Ning, the eldest son of Prime Minister Cai Cheng, said to the Northwest Army "Guilty Envoys": Your Majesty believes that you should be subordinate to power in wartime, and will not parachute a general to collect and reorganize the Northwest Army. After the war is over and the world returns to peace, the imperial court will make another choice.

As the saying goes, the snake has no head and does not go, and after Chen Ziling was killed by Pang Qingshan, the Northwest Army elected a "temporary general" Wang Baichuan. And he can get to the position, that is, he relies on the "good popularity" that has been painstakingly operated for many years.

Although Wang Baichuan can only be regarded as a middle-aged person, his mind has always been on "drilling camps", and he naturally has his own views on the internal and external situation: although the Northwest Army is a rebel army, it is difficult to gain the trust of any king. But after this battle, the Northern Yan Imperial Court after the victory must be overstretched.

And those strong neighbors and old enemies of Northern Yan: Mobei and Western Xinjiang, are all typical nomads. There are not so many bottles and cans at home, and the recovery is naturally very fast.

So at least before their old men, before they die; The Northern Yan Imperial Court can't settle accounts after the autumn! On the other hand, if there is no such self-confidence, the Northwest Army will not dare to be the "three-surname slave"!

In all fairness, the temporary general Wang Baichuan is indeed a little slippery, but this is just a kind of survival wisdom of low-level soldiers, and it is not worthy of criticism and contempt. From his personal point of view, these tens of thousands of old brothers of the Northwest Army are not only a talisman, but also a golden step for him to step onto the stage!

The world is peaceful, and His Majesty will inevitably use the Northwest Army to garrison the border; At all times, if he wants to show his gentleness and benevolence, he must crown himself a righteous Northwest general!

Eight generations from the genealogy upwards, the ancestral tomb of his old Wang family also had a nine-grade official body!

So looking at it the other way, if these 80,000 horses and Pang Qingshan's worry-relieving army fight to defeat both...... In public and private, the soldiers of the entire Northwest Department will not be able to get any benefits!

Therefore, after coming to the city of Xingzhou, Wang Baichuan ordered the brothers to quickly clear the wall and make a posture of fighting a long battle. In fact, this is the gesture he made for the Chiwu secret detective; From the heart, as long as he can not do it, he is a hundred unwilling to do it!

But who knows that the situation on the battlefield has changed abruptly, and the enemy general is young and vigorous, and does not know the art of war; was provoked by the stinking scolding of the iron toad, and led the whole army out of the city to die! In this way, the Northwest Army captured Xingzhou at a very small cost; And with the materials left by the Nankang people, celebrate this rare victory!

However, the more than 200 people attached to the battlefield and the newly built Northwest Army camp were left to Pang Qingshan......

To be fair, the craftsmanship of this camp is very ordinary, and there is no grain and grass reserve to speak of, which is almost equivalent to an empty camp; However, the wood and stone collected by the Northwest Army have been forgotten in the camp......

Although these things are not valuable, they fall into the hands of the worry-relieving army with many siege equipment, which is no less than "divine soldiers descending from the sky"! As for the 200 "corpse collection team" who thought about bitterness first and then sweetness, they were not poisoned by the Worry Relief Army; Pang Qingshan just removed all the weapons and armor and organized the people into the auxiliary team, which was responsible for transporting stones and wood......

The war after breaking away from the layout of Shen Gui has changed back to its proper appearance. Under Pang Qingshan's step-by-step battalion, the Northwest Army entered Wengzhong. The new siege equipment produced by the Tianji Workshop has finally found a place to use and has played a huge role: the fire projectiles like "flying fire meteors", the stone bullets the size of a grinding plate, constantly cross the deep trenches, jump over the towering city walls, and fall into the small city of Xingzhou.

I don't know whether to say that his king Baichuan's life should not be extinguished, or that there are gods and spirits in the dark; The first round of stone projectiles fell into the city, destroying countless houses and businesses, and killing thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city; But this Wang Baichuan, who was naked, holding the wine jar in his arms, lying on the long street, was only slightly injured!

The last stone projectile of the three salvos roared and landed on the bluestone slab in the city with a loud "bang". The broken bluestone at the edge of the crater and countless fragments were crushed by the force; Some of them were scattered and fell on Wang Baichuan's head eight feet away......

Wang Baichuan, who had just been woken up by the loud noise, was hit on the head by this heavy blow and immediately broke free from his drunkenness! He couldn't care about the dizziness of his mind and the sharp pain of his wounds, nor the wetness of his head and face, which obscured his vision; He struggled to his feet, propped himself on his elbows, fell to his knees, and vomited frantically......

After spitting out all the wine and food residues in his abdomen, Wang Baichuan, who was suffering from a hangover, finally felt a little more sane. He gasped for breath and raised his hand to wipe away his itchy forehead, only to touch the stickiness of his hand except for a piece of drooping flesh.

Wang Baichuan took a look at it by the firelight, and only saw a scarlet eye!

"...... You can hang a lottery when you drink wine......"

Wang Baichuan, who was spinning in the sky, held on to the half of the pillar beside him and barely stood up. He shook his head and looked fixedly: he saw that the surrounding houses and businesses had either "suddenly" turned into a pile of ruins, or had burned into a sea of fire; And the streets and alleys, the corners, and countless panicked ordinary people fled from every corner; Everyone carried large and small burdens on their backs, and ran in the direction of the city gate without a head......

"Second uncle! Second uncle! …… Tough donkey? Hiva? …… Where the are you dead...... ...... vomit"

Wang Baichuan held a broken wooden stick he had picked up, endured the dizziness in his mind, and searched aimlessly while shouting the names of the old brothers......

"Okawa...... Okawa! ”

He shouted and shouted, and all he could hear was a familiar voice from the ruins; Wang Baichuan was overjoyed when he inquired, and hurriedly ran over with a rolling belt! He didn't care about the flesh of his palms, the blood that was scraped by the broken thorns, he just gritted his teeth and struggled to open a collapsed door......

Soon, he dug up "half" a gray-haired man from the ruins; Wang Baichuan let out a sigh of relief, raised his arm and rubbed the blood rolling down his forehead:

"Second uncle, what's going on?"

"I ...... cough cough cough cough ...... I still want to ask you......"

"Forget it, I'll get you out first, let's go find Xiwa......"

As he spoke, Wang Baichuan reached out and pulled the second uncle's right arm, which was not injured; But the second uncle waved hard, opened his blood-covered arm, and pointed to the left......

"Don't pull it, it hurts! It seems like...... Something is holding you down......"

Wang Baichuan nodded, and then took out half of the burning window frame and inserted it into the gap in the ruins as a torch; Immediately, he shook his body, turned his head and spit out three mouthfuls of sticky and sweet saliva, and then patted his chaotic head vigorously, and pulled out a smile that was more ugly than crying to the second uncle:

"Little thing, I'll move it away for you!"

After finishing speaking, Wang Baichuan turned into a groundhog, struggling to shake the broken bricks and tiles that pressed on the second uncle's body. But digging and digging, he only felt that his fingers, which were already bloody and blurry, touched a trace of softness! took the torch and took a closer look, only to see the left half of the second uncle's body, and it was really a lion stone carving, pressed to death......

Wang Baichuan observed carefully for a while and saw that half of the second uncle's body had been smashed into a puddle of flesh by the stone carving; There is no need to think about it at all, with his injury, no one can save him if he runs alone! However, he still had that indifferent look on his face, wiped away his tears by wiping the blood, and raised his head to comfort the second uncle......

But his smile quickly stiffened in the air......

The second uncle's face turned pale, and his right hand stretched forward, as if he wanted to say something; And his pupils, which had lost their brilliance, also looked up at the high and deep sky blankly......

Affected by hangovers and concussions, Wang Baichuan's brain has always been spinning so far. He was a little sad and paid more attention, but he was always focused on resisting vomiting and maintaining physical balance......

In such a time of war, it is also a luxury to experience the changes in one's own emotions......

Suddenly, the second uncle's already dilated pupils crossed a conspicuous bright color! Wang Baichuan's afterglow was disturbed, and he naturally looked up...... I saw a "Flying Fire Meteor" falling again in mid-air, and the blazing flames illuminated half of Xingzhou City!

"Brother Chuan, be careful!"

Just when Wang Baichuan was stunned when he looked at the night sky, a warning with a child's voice came from behind him; In the next moment, Wang Baichuan was thrown to the ground by a little fat man, and then the other party grabbed his armpit and helped him run in the direction of the West City Gate......

In the next moment, countless stone bullets and fireballs flew all over the sky, looking as terrifying as if the river was flowing backwards and the sky was falling! Wang Baichuan and this group of surviving soldiers of the Northwest Army only symbolically leaned against the edge of the city wall, stupidly watching the stone bullets and fireballs fall into the city one after another, gradually razing Xingzhou City to the ground......

"Brother Chuan, you wait here for a while, I'll go and see the situation outside the city......"