"Boom!" A burst of roaring sounds, shocking the sky, the entire Xiangyang City sky is a burst of whistling, roaring, the people of Xiangyang City feel that the earth is trembling, each hiding in their homes dare not appear, and even sometimes, the walls are shaking, dust falling, these people do not dare to come out to clean, can only watch all this loudly.

The Tang army has been attacking outside the city for two days in succession, in two days, the city wall of Xiangyang City has been destroyed, the city wall of several zhang has been destroyed in half, under the city wall, iron balls and stones are mixed together, making people look numb, the tall and magnificent city tower has long been turned into ashes, where is the original appearance. All the buildings on the city walls were destroyed, and the huge city had no defenses at all, except for the moat.

"The enemy is probably ready to fill the moat and extend the range of the artillery again. Or fill the moat directly and enter the city through the gates. Taking advantage of the gap, Liu Qi led everyone up to the mottled city wall, looking at the moat below, with a hint of panic on his face.

Xiangyang City is surrounded by water on three sides, using the water of the Han River, and one side is a moat, but even the moat is wider and deeper than other cities, the moat of Xiangyang City is nearly 600 steps wide on average, the widest place is nearly 1,000 steps, and the narrowest place is as much as 300 steps, and it is also the place where the city gate is located.

"The Planter Dao may want to enter the city from the city gate." Shi Lei said with some concern. Although the city of Xiangyang is strong, the moat is relatively wide, but the moat under the city gate is the narrowest place, in the past the enemy wanted to attack Xiangyang from the city gate, it will definitely be counterattacked by the soldiers on the city wall, now half of the city wall has been destroyed, the soldiers on the city wall can not even stand, and it is even more impossible to block the enemy's invasion.

"It must be so." Liu Qi looked at the camp on the other side of the moat, and saw that hundreds of people were carrying dirt and pouring these mud bricks into the moat, although there was river water to wash away these mud bricks, but without archers to suppress it, sooner or later the moat of Xiangyang City would be filled. But this kind of thing, he has no way to deal with it.

"What shall we do?" Shi Lei was a little worried.

"Let the common people come and repair the city walls! Let's see if the other party dares to attack these people. Liu Qi clenched his fists, he didn't want to do it so early, but looking at the appearance of the planter on the other side, he knew that the planter wanted to seek stability, and he still had a little fear of the people in Xiangyang City, for fear that he would kill too many people, affect the reputation of the Tang army, and there would be a little disadvantage to the unification war. Since this is the case, then it is no wonder that he Liu Qi.

"Yes." After hearing this, Shi Lei's face suddenly changed, and he beckoned behind him, and saw countless soldiers swarming out, searching for people to come and rebuild the city wall.

"Let's go! Wait a minute, I'm afraid that the Seed Master Dao will shell Xiangyang again. Liu Qi looked at the other side with a clairvoyant mirror, and saw countless soldiers running on the other side, and immediately beckoned everyone to leave.

After a while, I heard a whistling sound, and a rain of stone bullets suddenly fell in the air, constantly destroying the city wall of Xiangyang, and occasionally there was a burst of gold and iron resonance, which was a flowering bullet made by Datang, and the iron bullet contained some iron beads, stones and other things, which were used to shoot the surrounding enemies. The attack power is small, but the damage generated is huge. Unfortunately, there were not many soldiers on the city walls, only some soldiers hid in the caves, watching the enemy on the opposite side.

And just when Liu Qi left, the seed master Dao on the other side of the moat led his generals to walk in the artillery camp, looking at more than 100 artillery pieces, and said with a smile: "In the past, if you wanted to capture the enemy's city wall, how difficult it was, but with this thing, even if the city wall is strong, it will turn into powder, but it can be, but it costs too much." ”

"Dashuai, it is rumored in Beijing that as soon as the artillery goes off, there will be ten thousand taels of gold, although there is no ten thousand taels of gold, but there is not much difference. In just a few days, the gunpowder was consumed enormously, and the iron bullets were also lost innumerable. This iron bullet is better, but it is still very difficult for the imperial court to get gunpowder. Chong Xun smiled bitterly.

"Then use less artillery, use the return artillery, Your Majesty has long known the situation in Xiangyang, not only the artillery was transported, but also the return artillery, that thing is also very powerful, a cannon down, dozens of catties of stones smashed out, and the soldiers within a radius of several zhang were stoned to death." The seed master said indifferently: "Now that the enemy is beaten by us, the city walls are almost destroyed, we take the opportunity to fill up this moat, and then set up a return cannon, I believe that Xiangyang City will be destroyed soon." ”

Everyone nodded, although this artillery is powerful, but the consumption is also very powerful, and it is not an unlimited attack, once the bronze barrel is overheated, it will produce all kinds of accidents, but its attack power is large, the range is far or the generals like it, when the artillery is really not used, the return cannon is the best choice, the attack power is strong, the range is outside the bow and arrow, which can reduce a lot of losses for the Tang army.

"Look, big man." At this time, a sentry in the distance looked panicked, trotted all the way, and he said loudly: "Great commander, the enemy is repairing the city wall. ”

The seed master Dao seemed to think of something, so he took a clairvoyant mirror, looked at the ground, and suddenly looked gloomy, and said: "Liu Qi is really hateful, he actually drove the people to repair the city wall. He thought about this point, but he thought that this matter was angry and resentful, and he didn't know if the city wall could be repaired successfully under the attack of artillery, but the people would definitely be killed and injured.

He believed that Liu Qi also thought of this, and thought that Liu Qi would think about it, but he didn't expect Liu Qi to dispatch the people so early, obviously to deter the Seed Master Dao, so that the Seed Master Dao would not dare to use artillery and return artillery on a large scale, unless the Seed Master Dao disregarded the reputation of the Tang Army.

"Dashuai, this damn Liu Qi doesn't want the lives of the people of Xiangyang to care about it at all, once we use the return cannon or artillery, these people will die on the city wall." The generals also used clairvoyance mirrors to observe the situation on the other side.

"Hmph, the ants are still stealing their lives, these people must know the situation on the battlefield, and they also took the risk of carrying stones at this time, which was obviously driven away by Liu Qi. Damn, damnable. After occupying Xiangyang, he must take Liu Qi's life. The planter's beard trembled, and the tiger's eyes flashed with anger. The war will kill people, and if you attack Xiangyang, there will be casualties among the people of Xiangyang, which is inevitable, but like the one in front of you, it is really difficult to start with the cultivation of teachers.