"Xiangguo, Li Jing is ready to cross the river!"

Not long after the army retreated, Ma Zhou received news from the soldiers who had been placed in the rear to observe them.

Ma Zhou's heart was shocked, a little annoyed, but helpless, he had missed the opportunity, and now it was too late to make up for it.

But fortunately, the people have already withdrawn into the city in advance, and as for the crops that have not yet been harvested, this is an unwarranted disaster, and there is nothing they can do.

I only learned the news two days ago, and I had already reminded Li Yuanji that afternoon that time was too tight, and Li Shimin caught them off guard this time.

"General Chen, you are an expert in army warfare, I will give you the task of city defense, can you ensure that the city is not lost?" Ma turned his head to look at Chen Min and asked in a heavy tone.

Chen Min is Li Yuanji's old department in Hebei, originally an official lieutenant, and was promoted to Zhonglang General after the establishment of the Qi State, this time he was responsible for leading two thousand soldiers of the Southern Army to assist Ma Zhou, and he also shouldered another secret task, but now it seems that that the secret task no longer needs to be completed, and Ma Zhou did not do anything unfavorable to the Qi State.

"People are in the city! People are dead, and the city is dead! Chen Min nodded firmly.

With the defense system in the north of the town, coupled with the equipment in their hands, even if the personnel do not have an advantage, they can drag on for a while, as long as they can wait for the king of Qi to return to the south, the danger in the north of the town can be solved.

"Good! From now on, the defense of the city will be handed over to General Chen, and I will personally stand on the head of the city and swear to live and die with the north of the town! Ma Zhou looked firm and handed over the military power, professional people do professional things, this is a sentence that Li Yuanji often says, he didn't care much about it before, but after experiencing this blow, Ma Zhou thoroughly realized the importance of this sentence.

If Chen Min had been given the defense power at the beginning, although he might have made a mistake, at least it would not have been like now, so that the original plan to defeat the enemy army crossing the Yellow River would have turned into retreating and defending the city, waiting for the enemy to attack.

"The grain in the north of my town is enough to eat until the autumn of the next year, the city walls are all poured with concrete, and there are countless firearms in the city, I want to see how Li Jing, who is good at trickery, will fight this battle!" After explaining the matter, Ma Zhou provoked Du Ruhui, who was tied up by five flowers.

"Hmph, you will get your wish, I just hope that when the city is broken, you can still be so arrogant!" Du Ruhui seemed to have accepted his fate, knowing that no matter what he said, Ma Zhou would not be able to let himself go.

"It's a pity that you can't see it, if the city is broken, this Xiangguo will kill you first."

……

"What's going on? How did the army come back? ”

"Who knows!"

"Could it be that they received the news that the Turks had been defeated before they even reached the battlefield, and then they returned?"

"Fart, look at the faces of those government soldiers, none of them look happy, as if they are going to face a big enemy."

"Shhh...... It seems so! ”

"It can't be the defeat of King Qi, right?"

A middle-aged man pretended to sigh deeply, attracting the attention of many people, and then shook his head again.

"What do you mean, man? What about shaking your hairy head? Someone immediately rebuked unpleasantly.

"You reckless men, even if the King of Qi is defeated, the defeated soldiers will come back from the north gate, and those soldiers will come back from the south gate, and the first thing after returning to the city is to climb the city wall, won't you think about it with your brains? They are the soldiers that the King of Qi left behind in the city before! The middle-aged man said with an old face.

"What do you mean?"

Some people think that what this man said makes sense, but they can't understand why this is happening, how do they feel like a war?

"Fengzhou in the south sent troops, but they did not go north to help the king of Qi, but to fight the king of Qi in the north and south with the Turks." The middle-aged man said calmly.

"What...... What the? ”

"All men shall return to their own area at once within a quarter of an hour, and they shall not be allowed to move around the city at will, and those who violate it will be punished as collaborators......" The people were surprised, and the roar of the guards also sounded in the city.

There are too many people in the city, and Ma Zhou doesn't dare to guarantee that there is no internal response from the Tang Army, so he can only adopt this one-size-fits-all stupid method and prohibit everyone from moving around, so that as long as they are caught walking around at will, there must be a problem.

Although some innocent people will be injured by mistake, compared with the city defense, this price can still be paid.

With the roar of the guards, in a short time, it spread to every corner of the city, and the four thousand guards were divided into two, two thousand people were responsible for security, patrolling, and arresting in the city, and two thousand people were responsible for entering the secret defense line, and when the enemy attacked the city, they used push rods to knock down the enemy's ladders.

And the 2,000 soldiers of the Southern Army sparsely climbed the city wall.

Zhenbei City, which has too few troops and needs 20,000 people to defend without dead ends, now has only 4,000 people on defense, and each person needs to defend an area of five people on average.

……

"Artillery, put ...... on Lao Tzu" Chen Min was sweating profusely and waved the war knife in his hand vigorously.

The armor on his body was already wet with sweat, and when the cold wind blew again, the whole person was instantly cold and piercing, as if he had fallen into the river water in winter.

But at the moment of the great enemy, he can't take care of these things.

The advantage of the new bomb truck is that it is lightweight, it can be pulled by a horse on land, and it can be disassembled directly when defending, and then pulled up the city wall by a crane placed on the city wall, and there is a preset position every 100 meters, with fixed boards on it, which can be adjusted according to the position of different bomb trucks.

At the beginning of the construction, all the possibilities had been conceived, and in less than half an hour, ten bomb trucks were installed, and the bomb bodies were continuously transported to the city wall through cranes.

The elastic cowhide band was wrapped around the huge winch, and at the sound of an order, the soldier in charge of controlling the winch suddenly let go, and the huge elastic force pulled the winch and flew upside down quickly, and the huge projectile body that was placed in the rear was violently bounced out by the elastic force of the cowhide band.

In the air, the overwhelming rain of arrows and the huge black projectile completely occupied the place, and the projectile body was emitting black smoke, pushed forward by the huge force, and then fell forward in a parabolic manner.

'Boom~~~! ’

The projectile did not explode immediately after hitting the ground, but waited until the gunpowder burned inside, and then a violent vibration erupted.

An orange flame instantly eroded everything around it, and with a huge explosion, even the earth was faintly trembling, howling in pain.

The body of the bullet was dispersed by the impact of the huge explosion, forming dozens of tiny shrapnel, and the shrapnel scattered away one by one, with the help of the power brought by the explosion, doing everything possible to find his final destination.

The body of a man, the earth of the earth, the body of a war horse, but whoever dares to stand in front of it, whatever it is, will become his enemy.

When the smoke dissipated, the Tang Army, which was still full of crowds before, appeared in a vacuum formation.

If you look closely, there are twenty or thirty soldiers lying on the ground, some of them are covering their wounds and wailing in pain, some are already dead, and some of them can't even leave a whole corpse.

"This ...... How is this possible? That's impossible! It's absolutely impossible! Du Ruhui on the city wall, a cross stake is his destination, the whole person is tied to it, and a pair of eyes are staring directly at the city.

When he saw the scene of the explosion of the first bullet, Rao is heart swelled sharply, and Du Ruhui, who didn't take everything in his eyes, couldn't help but be stunned, and immediately muttered to himself, unable to believe what was happening in front of him.

'......Boom'

'......Boom'

Two explosions in quick succession, first as loud as before, then slightly smaller explosions, came almost at the same time, but it was clear that they didn't come from the same place.

Du Ruhui saw the explosion of the bullet with his own eyes, and saw the scene of the grenade being detonated behind the back of a Tang soldier, when the smoke cleared, Du Ruhui stared wide-eyed to find the soldier, but unfortunately, he couldn't see anything, he couldn't find anything, and the soldier didn't seem to have been to this world.

"It can't be! How could you possibly have such a powerful firearm? No way! Only Datang is qualified to have this kind of firearm, fake, all fake! Hahaha......" seemed unacceptable, Du Ruhui roared wildly.

……

"Dudu, this ......" The deputy general was also a little stunned by the scene on the battlefield, the huge projectile body and huge power thrown by the Qi army were not comparable to this kind of gadget in their hands at all.

What's more, the Qi army has bomb trucks, although there are not many of them, but the throwing distance is very long, and now they are in an extremely embarrassing situation.

The Qi army can attack them, but they can't attack the Qi army.

The ultra-long-distance attack of the bomb thrower hit the morale of the Tang army in the first wave, and the bow and arrow that was supposed to appear in the first wave became the second wave, and the Qi army occupied a geographical advantage, and it was almost crazy to shoot the Tang army.

After getting closer......

They haven't gotten close yet, and the lieutenant doesn't know what will happen next?

It wasn't until this moment that he really understood that Li Jing's worries were not groundless, and Li Yuanji really had some big killer weapons hidden.

"Mingjin, collect the troops!" Li Jing shook his head secretly, his understanding of King Qi was really not wrong, even if there were not enough soldiers, he would never leave anyone else a chance.

The north city in front of me was the first time I had seen such a fortification, which reminded me of the city gate tower in Taipingfang, which was taller and heavier than that, and some small holes exposed on it were obviously dark rooms, where there was no need to even place any troops, even if you put ordinary people in it, you could easily push down the ladder, but it was impossible for you to hurt them at all.

And those three rows of giant thorns that spit out deeply, and he couldn't find any way to break the city.