This lonely small city on the south bank of the Yangtze River is surrounded by a division of Chu troops on the east and west sides, and outside the water gate in the north, there are big-winged warships eyeing the tiger, the north wind is howling, and the banner of the Chu army outside the city is hunting. The encirclement is not fatal, what is really fatal is one after another hit on the city wall of the city, each hit is a loud 'bang', only five or six meters thick rammed earth wall can not withstand such a heavy blow, the rammed earth inside and outside the wall burst out, mud splashed in all directions.

Because the Chu army did not attack the city, it had bombarded the watchtowers and towers in the four corners of the city before, so except for a few Qinzi flags fluttering in the wind, there were no Qin soldiers to see at all, and the entire city was extremely silent except for a few children's cries.

"Tell the king, the Qin army no longer dares to go to the city." There are many nobles in Dongcheng, and after the dissolution of the royal guard, the noble division is responsible for the safety of the royal city. The commander of the Dongcheng Division is a general of environmental sanitation, and when he saw Xiong Jing coming to watch the battle by boat, he immediately stepped forward to report.

"Tell the king, the minister heard that the order of Shaxian County is dead." Xicheng is all common people, and the commander of the common people's division is an old Yingdu honorable scholar, called the prison ride. He was only a commander of the Chu army before, and he was able to become a division commander, mainly because of the results of the military academy and the recommendation of the honorable scholars of Yingdu.

"Oh? How do you know? "The death of Shaxian County is a piece of news.

"Some of the ministers are fluent in Qin, and a few days before the siege of the city, the weapon that broke the city threw stones into the city, and occasionally heard someone shouting the county order." Prison ride the fine way. "However, the matter could not be ascertained, so it ......"

Apparently he knew about it, but he didn't care about it. "The minister thought that the county commander had nothing to do with the siege, and now the Shaxian city wall has been cracked, and the city can be broken in a few days."

"The Great King...... "Even if the ancestor is a nobleman, he now lives in Xicheng, just a commoner, and he is here, and he is not good at saying some things.

"Say." Xiong Jing looked at him, this old soldier of the Chu army was not good-looking, and the scars on his cheeks and neck were enough to prove that he had experienced a lot of wars, and Xiong Jing had some good feelings about him.

"The county order is the head of a county, and the minister thinks that he can send people to recruit the Qin people...... "Prison Ride."

It was obviously not the first time that the prison rider had proposed to surrender, and Yang Yu said disdainfully: "If the Qin army can surrender, why will Chengyang Xi County not eat fish for three years?" Great King, the Qin army thought that our army would also deceive it, so it did not surrender; How to settle it? The minister thought that the Qin people could not be trusted. ”

"King, the army fights, and it costs a lot of money every day, if you can surrender, it will be of great benefit to me." The prison rider insisted.

"The king's ......" Xiong Jing stopped the cultivator, and he asked the prisoner, "Don't you hear that Qin's law is strict, and those who surrender to the enemy sit together, and the families of Qin's soldiers and soldiers are all in Xianyang South County, can they really surrender?" ”

"Please give it a try." Prison Ride. "If it doesn't work, it's not too late for the army to pull out."

"Yes. Give it a try. Xiong Jing stopped the keeper who was still going to stop him, and the prisoner who had been ordered hurriedly walked off the war boat.

"Why did the king ......? Even if the Qin people surrendered, they could not be trusted. "For the Qin people, every general gritted his teeth with hatred. Yangyu's reluctance to surrender was due to the Qin army's stubborn refusal to surrender, and the reason why he was unwilling to accept the surrender of the Qin people.

"When did you say that the Qin people were credible?" Xiong Jing asked rhetorically.

"What does the king mean?" Yang Yu didn't understand, and Deng Sui and Gong Yiji, who came with Xiong Jing, didn't understand either.

"No, I just want to see if the Qin army will surrender." Xiong Jing stared at Shaxian City, which was a few hundred steps away, he didn't come to recruit and surrender, but to test the artillery, and there was no better test than the actual battle.

"The King?" Gong Yu Ji didn't understand Xiong Jing's plan, and the twelve-pounder cannon that had been transported to Shaxian didn't know whether to unload or not.

"You have to give the Qin people a chance." Xiong Jing's eyes were full of murderous energy, and the opportunity in his words was not a chance to surrender, but a chance to live—the use of artillery must be kept secret, so the Qin people in Shaxian City were either killed or all moved away.

"The king has a life, stop shooting. The king has a life, stop shooting. "The prison rode to the trebuchet position himself to give the order, and in order to persuade him to surrender, he wanted to create a peaceful environment.

"The king has a life, stop shooting." When the artilleryman saw the feather in his hand, he immediately ordered the fire to stop, and the hammer blow after hammer finally stopped.

"Where is the county lieutenant of Shaxian? Where is the county lieutenant of Shaxian? With a few retinues, he rode his horse to the north gate for a hundred steps, and his voice followed the north wind into the silent Shaxian City, which was extremely clear.

The trebuchet was hammering Shaxian East City, and soon after the shooting stopped, the soldiers in the city noticed that something was wrong. Not long after the prison rider shouted under the city, a man in full armor was escorted by the soldiers. This person first came up to see if there were trebuchets and crossbows near the city, and only after seeing them did he say, "Who are you?" What's the matter with you? ”

"Contemptible jail. Our army has been besieging the city for ten months, and now Nanjun has no longer saved Shaxian, why don't the county lieutenants surrender the city? In this way, the lives of the people in the city were saved, and the wealth of the people was not lost. Five years ago, Prince Cheng descended to Zhao, and King Zhao sealed him in Rao......"

The prison rider mentioned Cheng Chan, who had descended to Zhao five years ago, and he didn't want the people in the city tower to drink. "Big fallacy! Five years ago, Prince Cheng Chan died of illness, how to demote Zhao? This lieutenant is Qin Chen, how can he descend to Chu? The generals in the city have their families in the Qin State, and they have to hear that they have descended to Chu, and their families are all dead, how can they descend to your Chu State? Pass my military order, shoot! ”

The range of the arm crossbow is only sixty or seventy paces, and the prison ride is a hundred paces away. Giving the order to shoot is nothing more than a refusal to persuade to surrender. The prison rider watched the wave of windward crossbow arrows fall fifty paces away, and when he saw the crossbow brought by the Qin soldiers at the head of the city, he had to fight his horse and return.

"The minister is incompetent, please punish the king." The prison rider who rushed back got on the boat and pleaded guilty to Xiong Jing.

"What is your sin? The families of the Qin army are all in the Qin State, the generals' families are all in Xianyang, and there are supervisors in the army, how can they surrender? "Xiong Jing didn't think that the Qin people would surrender, he just made a routine procedure before killing." Spread the king's order, cover your ears after a quarter of an hour, and no alarm, no peeping, no private discussion of any abnormal noise, violators, no forgiveness! ”

The order was very strange, at first I heard that I had to cover my ears, and the soldiers of Chu still wanted to laugh, but the latter sentence made people feel furious. Most of the previous violators of the Chu army were beheaded, and the law enforcement was very flexible, and the scale was grasped by the commander. The new military system is different in that the new military system has set up military officers in the army, and military discipline has been compiled into a book, and even a song, which is sung by clergymen. Now suddenly there is a killing, and everyone is uneasy.

The crowd did not dare to look forward, but sat in the north wind, when the twelve twelve-pounder guns on the two boats were dragged ashore one by one, and these guns had a front wagon, and covered with a tent, and looked like a very small and long carriage from the outside. All the artillery was towed by four horses, and it was dragged along the hard road that dragged the trebuchet to the north gate where the prisoner had just been persuaded to surrender.

Xiong Jing smiled on his face and watched as the twelve guns were dragged ashore, watching the gunners skillfully deploy the guns and set up a barbed wire fence in front of the muzzles.

Artillery is lighter than trebuchets and can be towed ashore directly, and the road requirements are much lower than trebuchets. The most important thing is that the deployment speed is very short, it usually takes less than a minute to fully deploy the concurrent gun, and the time to build the barbed wire fence is much longer.

The wind blew northward, and the generals on the deck of the warship followed Xiongjing's gaze to the artillerymen who were hammering the huge iron pillars, and they could not hear any sound, let alone know what the small carriages lined up side by side were for. They are like this, the Qin soldiers in the city looked at the Chu army artillery building barbed wire outside the city gate and were also curious, Shaxian has been surrounded by the Chu State, is it necessary to surround another layer of huge wire fence?

"King Qiqi, all the cannons are ready." Sora personally rushed over to report that this was the first actual combat of artillery, and his excitement was irrepressible.

"After transferring the four pawns to the artillery array, if the Qin army rushes out of the north gate, be sure to protect the artillery array." Everything is ready, Xiong Jing is still a little worried.

"Respectfully." The secrecy of the artillery has been done very well, and although the keeper does not understand why he needs to be protected by four soldiers, he still receives the order.

"Fight slowly." Xiong Jing also wanted to get off the boat, but he moved his steps, and finally held back.

"Yui." Kong saluted Xiong Jing and hurried back to the position.

"Target: North City Gate; Distance: two hundred and sixty; One round of solid ammunition, "the air force who returned to the position personally commanded the launch." Whether it is an artillery soldier or an artilleryman, they are all technical arms with a clear eye, and every time he recites a sentence, the gun commander of each cannon reads a sentence along with it.

After hundreds of test firings, the artillery already had a rough and inaccurate firing table, which was already able to guide actual combat. When Kong finished shouting 'one shot of the base gun', he actually looked back at Xiong Jing on the deck of the war boat a hundred meters away, he seemed to see Xiong Jing nodding slowly to himself, and when he turned his head, his expression sank, and he shouted: "Let it go——! ”

"Put!" The commander of the base gun shouted, and as soon as the gunner pulled the fire rope, the already taut iron spring rebounded quickly, and the spark from the flint ignited the ignition powder, and it was less than half breathless, "Boom——! The one-ton iron cannon body suddenly shook, smoke and flames flared up, and the 5.44-kilogram shell burst out and hit the north gate of Shaxian City.

There was a 'bang', and at the same time as the thud, the mud-smeared wooden gate, though supported by countless beams of sand, was still carved out of a large hole by the iron cannonball.

The roar of the thunder, in this era of incomparably fearing the gods, especially the Chu people who were extremely awe-inspiring of the gods, heard the sound of the cannons and suddenly burst into panic, and some soldiers who were not strong-willed actually abandoned their spears and ran.

Seeing those running soldiers, Xiong Jing sighed helplessly. He looked at the waiting concubine, "Bring them back, don't kill them." ”

"Yui." The cavalry under the command of Fu Jing watched the artillery dragged ashore from the boat, and watched the air come over to ask Xiong Jing for his life, and his heart was calmer than that of a soldier who knew nothing. Hearing the king's order, Concubine Jing personally led people to chase after those dead soldiers.

"Command the whole army: Taiyi bless my Chu country, so let Thor help me attack the city, and I must not panic, criticize, or spread the word." Xiong Jing had to make up a reason that the soldiers could understand, and let the soldiers pass it on.

"Minister... Respectfully obeyed. "The officers were sweating profusely. There was a loud bang of smoke and thunder, and then a big hole was punched out of the city gate, saying that it was not afraid that it was fake. Fortunately, the Taiyi God helped himself instead of Qin Jun, and when he thought of this, the military officials suddenly burst into joy.