(Chapter 2, 20,000 words)

Early in the morning, Xu Zhihe was having breakfast when he suddenly heard a strange roar. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info At first, he didn't care, thinking that it was just Tang Jun's catapult wielding power, and continued to pick up vegetables as if nothing happened. After listening to it for a while, Xu Zhihe suddenly frowned, and involuntarily put down the dishes and chopsticks, "This voice is not right!" ”

ordered someone to remove the food, Xu Zhihe put on his armor, and went to the city to see what was going on. Before he went out, a military academy hurriedly ran over and reported to him in a panic, "Prime Minister, the big thing is not good, Prime Minister, go to the city to have a look!" ”

"What's going on?" Xu Zhihe's face was slightly gloomy, and he asked while going out. The Jinling defensive battle has lasted for half a year, and these military schools have been bloody for a long time, and they have long been very strong, and it must not be an ordinary thing to make the military schools so panicked.

"As soon as it dawns today, there are dozens of catapults in the Northern Thieves Formation - these catapults are different from the previous catapults, and they are not launching boulders, but iron balls that can be exploded, and they explode as soon as they fall to the city, and countless pieces of iron are shot out, and they are more powerful than arrows when they encounter armor piercing armor and hurting people, and our army has suffered heavy casualties......" The military academy followed Xu Zhihe's side, wiping sweat and saying anxiously.

Xu Zhihe's heart chuckled, he suddenly remembered a certain past, and immediately felt bad.

When Xu Zhihe walked up to the city, Lin Renzhao came quickly and stopped him head-on, "Prime Minister don't go to the city!" ”

As soon as Lin Renzhao's words fell, a huge fireball suddenly flew from the sky, and the fireball slid through a long arc, directly burning through the curtain used at the head of the city to block the catapult from throwing boulders, and quickly amplified in Xu Zhihe's eyes. Song Qiqiu and the others, who accompanied Xu Zhihe, were all stunned, their footsteps froze in place and forgot to move, and their pupils were full of horror.

The huge fireball swept over Xu Zhihe's head, a hot wind came to his face, and the whistling sound was extremely poignant, Xu Zhihe hurriedly turned around to look, and when he saw the scene behind him, he quickly understood why the military academy was that panicked face.

I saw that the terrible fireball fell into the city, and smashed into the wide street with the momentum of thunder, and with a bang, it brought up a huge cloud of smoke and dust, and when it approached, it was a thunderous loud noise, which shook the people on the left and right to stand unsteadily, and fell on their backs, and a red glowing fire in the smoke and dust took off, and more smoke and dust burst out again, and then the sand and stones flew sideways, crackling and chaotic sounds, and within a radius of several zhang, there was chaos, and it was invisible.

There were people on the street, sergeants and young men mixed in, there were five or six people in the place where the fireball landed, as early as when the fireball burst, the scarecrow flew out weakly, the limbs of the people close to it were broken, the flesh and blood were exploded, and several large pools fell down, staining the street red, and the blood mist around the people who were a little farther away burst out, and they fell to the ground unconscious, and the blood stains of the big beach flowed out from under their bodies and kept spreading outward.

The man farther afield, lightly wounded, fell to the ground, his eyes wide in horror, staring incredulously at the severed remains of his companion. As the smoke cleared, their eyes finally landed on the large pit in the middle of the field, which was emitting black smoke and still burning objects.

The big pit, which was six or seven feet deep and more than ten feet in diameter, appeared on the street out of thin air, with a hideous face to the point of horror, and deeply shocked everyone who saw him.

Xu Zhihe and the others on the road were full of shocked looks, as if they saw ghosts appear in broad daylight, they couldn't believe it. It's not like they've never seen catapults throw boulders at the head of the city, and they can also smash deep pits in the streets, but where can they be so powerful?

At this time, the mournful roar was endless, Xu Zhihe and the others looked up at the sky above the city, and saw dozens of huge fireballs flying in the air, one after another, constantly flying towards the city! The huge curtain stretched out on the city, which could have effectively defended the projection vehicle, was now lit up everywhere after the fireball kept passing through, and soon it was unrecognizable and fell down weakly.

Words can't describe Xu Zhihe's mood at the moment, he hurriedly climbed up to the top of the city and looked left and right.

At this glance, one of his hearts suddenly sank to the bottom.

More fireballs fell on the city and the city walls, and they smashed the women's walls, and stones and iron flew in all directions in the flash of fire, hitting the bodies of the Wu soldiers one by one, knocking them to the ground, leaving them in pools of blood and wailing.

The soldiers of the Wu army at the head of the city kept running, some of them lost their blades and ran away, but they could not get themselves out of hell, and more people curled up behind the female wall, but they could not stop the fireball from exploding on the road, and they were still knocked down by the flying gravel and iron.

Shouting, screaming, wailing, crying...... All kinds of sounds are endless, but the bigger one is the explosion of fireballs, and clouds of smoke and fire keep rising, making the city completely a place of blood and fire!

"Prime Minister, the city is dangerous, please leave quickly!" Lin Renzhao anxiously persuaded Xu Zhihe.

As soon as his voice fell, suddenly a loud roar that had never been heard before sounded not far away. Everyone hurriedly turned their heads to look, and saw that a corner tower finally could not withstand the bombardment of fireballs, and collapsed in the light of fire and smoke. Countless earth, stones, and horizontal trees, carrying the soldiers on the corner tower, fell from the air, and the scene was extremely shocking.

"Prime Minister, let's go!" There was a buzz in Lin Renzhao's ears, and he was about to reach out to help Xu Zhihe.

"Get out of here!" Shake off Lin Renzhao, run to the female wall, and hold the wall to look out of the city.

In the Tang army's formation, dozens of huge "catapults" were constantly throwing fireballs. Behind each catapult, there was a group of Tang Army soldiers who transported the iron ball wrapped in oilcloth from the wooden box to the catapult support, and then lit it, and when the iron ball rose into the air, it immediately turned into a fireball.

- This involves the meticulous work of calculating the explosives in the iron ball detonated by the lead, which is not something that Xu Zhihe can see.

"Lin Renzhao! Send the elite horsemen out of the city and be sure to cut down the catapults of the northern thieves! Seeing that the catapults in the Tang army's array kept exerting their might, and the city wall was seriously damaged, the key was that the Tang army's goals were obviously very concentrated, so they bombarded the city gate, a certain section of the city wall, and the corner tower.

Lin Renzhao also knew that if the Tang army's catapult was not destroyed, Jinling City would be in danger, and the situation was serious.

Li Congjing, Mo Li, Xia Luqi and others stood on the watchtower, watching the artillery bombardment of Jinling City. The number of artillery is limited, and it is not enough to carry out covering bombardment, and the collapse of the corner tower is for the siege of the city, in addition to this, it is to concentrate on the collapse of the city gate and a certain section of the city wall.

——The army attacked Jinling for half a year, and the catapults had already bombarded the Jinling city wall beyond recognition, many of which were seriously damaged, and it was not too difficult to collapse a section of the city wall by concentrating artillery at this time: after all, a cannon fireball could penetrate six or seven feet into the ground.

"The thieves and horses are out of the city!" Someone pointed to the city gate.

When he saw the other party's banner clearly and knew that it was Lin Renzhao who personally led the horse army to kill, Li Congjing was not surprised. Artillery is an anti-heaven artifact, otherwise it is impossible for the Southern Song Dynasty general Lu Wenhuan, who has defended Xiangyang for six years, to surrender when he sees it, and if the Wu army wants to defend the city, it must come to destroy the artillery of the army.

But Lin Renzhao wanted to get close to the artillery array, but it was a fool's dream.

The army concentrated strong bows and crossbows, and arranged them in key areas, the most important of which was in front of the city gates.

As soon as the horse army led by Lin Renzhao left the city gate and ran across the moat, they were given a head start by the Tang army's strong crossbow array. A burst of crossbow arrows flew out, and the horses of the Wu army fell one after another, the soldiers fell off their horses, and the horses were also killed by arrows, never to get up again. The horse army in the front suffered heavy losses, and the horse army in the rear could not rush normally, and it suddenly became a mess.

However, Lin Renzhao also had the ability, he immediately led the center to turn his head, galloped against the city wall, and went straight to the artillery array. The Tang army's strong crossbow array is some distance from the city wall, otherwise it will be exposed to the firepower of the Wu army at the head of the city, so Lin Renzhao's walk, although it is inevitable to suffer casualties, can also lead the main force to successfully get out of the threat of the strong crossbow array.

It's just that there is no strong crossbow array, and the Tang army still has elite cavalry.

I saw Shi Yanchao leading the Tang Dynasty elite cavalry to face the mask, and he fought with Lin Renzhao's subordinates in one place.

On the sophistication of the horse army, where the Wu army was the opponent of the Tang army, it was blocked at the moment. No matter how hard they tried to kill, they could never break through the blockade of the Tang army's elite cavalry, but they still had the momentum of being suppressed.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Lin Renzhao led the rear horse army to break away again, and still went straight to the artillery. By this time, they were not far from the artillery array.

However, Li Congjing had already arranged, in front of the artillery array, there were archers, and before the archers, there were spearmen.

Lin Renzhao was not afraid of hardships and dangers, regardless of casualties, and led his troops to rush straight into the spear formation. The two were in close hand-to-hand combat, Lin Renzhao was in a hurry to break the formation, he didn't care about himself, and he was obviously injured in many places soon, but he still led his troops to move forward, and he was about to break into the formation.

At this time, a group of elite cavalry came in a roundabout way, directly cut off Lin Renzhao's horse army, and divided and surrounded his troops, but it was the three thousand gentlemen led by Lin Ying and Lin Xiong's brothers.

Now don't talk about getting close to the artillery, Lin Renzhao's thousands of horse troops out of the city are surrounded by sections, and they are all difficult to protect. And countless elite soldiers of the Tang army, under the command of the Wanglou Lingqi, began to run and run, surrounding Lin Renzhao and his horse legion.

Lin Renzhao's troops, who were besieged, were in a hurry, and they didn't even have the opportunity to bend their bows and arrows and shoot artillerymen.

"Pass the order, don't let Lin Renzhao return to the city!" Looking downstairs, Li Congjing calmly ordered.

"The prince has an order, don't let Lin Renzhao escape!" From time to time, military orders were conveyed to the ministries.

"The prince has an order, don't let Lin Renzhao escape!" After a short time, the battlefield was full of shouts and cheers, and the soldiers were in high spirits, and they fought endlessly for this military order.

The army has been attacking the city for half a year, most of them are attached to the city wall, and the Wu army rarely goes out of the city, which makes the soldiers of the army very bored.

Outside Jinling City, 200,000 royal divisions surrounded Lin Renzhao's thousands of soldiers and horses, which was as easy as a hand.

Xu Zhihe and others at the head of the city, seeing that Lin Renzhao was surrounded, were all in a hurry, and Xu Zhihe even sent brave generals out of the city to respond.

However, the Tang army is full of strength, fierce generals are like clouds, and elite soldiers are like rain, and now there is Li Congjing's military order, who dares to let the Wu army succeed? The Wu army, which was out of the city to meet them, was quickly intercepted by the Tang army, and there was no chance to get close to Lin Renzhao at all.

Not only that, after the Tang army intercepted the Wu army that was out of the city, and under the dispatch of Li Congjing, they surrounded this Wu army, and they didn't even plan to let them go back!

Seeing that the Wu army troops who went out of the city were like sheep entering the tiger's mouth and boats sailing on the big lake, they were submerged by the tide of Tang soldiers, and the Wu army on the city was all shocked, and Xu Zhihe and others no longer dared to send the rest of the troops out of the city.

"I can't imagine that Li Congjing's ability to transfer troops and dispatch generals has reached such a point!" Some people sighed with grief and powerlessness.

Lin Renzhao's headquarters, which was divided and surrounded by the Tang Army, became less and less soldiers and horses, and the battle formation, which was originally quite thick, gradually became thin and was about to be eaten away.

But Rao is like this, Lin Renzhao still led his own soldiers to kill the artillery array. Perhaps from the moment he led his troops out of the city, Lin Renzhao didn't plan to return to the city alive, he just wanted to destroy the artillery of the Tang army and solve the biggest threat to Jinling's city defense.

In the end, he really succeeded and destroyed an artillery.

But that's about it. After destroying an artillery, Lin Renzhao was soon surrounded by the gentlemen, and the twenty or thirty soldiers in his department were cut down by the gentlemen one after another, and then only Lin Renzhao and a few others were still fighting.

Li Congjing was on the watchtower, and saw Lin Renzhao's tenacious fight in the sea of iron armor from a distance, and he couldn't help but sigh: "This person is really brave, and Wang Yanzhang was nothing more than this in the past." ”

Although there is a meaning of cherishing talents in his words, Li Congjing knows that there is no possibility of surrendering Lin Renzhao, and the other party has been taught by Xu Zhihe since he was a child, like a brother and a father, he will definitely not turn his back on Xu Zhihe.

So, this young famous general, who followed Xu Zhihe to Youzhou in his early years, and then made a name for himself in Chu and made extraordinary military achievements, and when Xu Zhihe was in the most difficult situation, he led 20,000 soldiers and horses back to Jinling to stabilize the overall situation.

At the head of Jinling City, Xu Zhihe watched Lin Renzhao being surrounded and fighting hard in the battle array, but there were fewer and fewer parts, and gradually there were only a few people left, and his heart ached. Until the last wave was also swallowed, from time to time the Tang army left the destroyed artillery, and there was no longer Lin Renzhao wielding a prancing horse, he couldn't help but feel sad and spurted out a mouthful of blood.

"Prime Minister!"

"Prime Minister!"

"Prime Minister!"

Everyone was shocked and hurriedly gathered around to help.

Xu Zhihe wiped the blood from his mouth, his face turned pale, and he waved his hand and said reluctantly: "It's okay, it's okay......"

At this moment, a loud roar came, followed by a panicked shout from the soldiers of the Wu army: "The city gate is broken!" ”

Everyone hurriedly leaned over the wall to look, and saw that the Tang army had poured into the city gate and killed in the urn city.

"Defend the Urn City!" Xu Zhihe shouted, quite sad.

The artillery first collapsed the city gate, which was expected by Li Congjing, and the power of the artillery should have been so. The reason why it took so long was mainly because it took too long to adjust the distance, and the range of the artillery was not so stable, as long as there was a slight deviation, the fireball would not hit the city gate.

"Look, the prince is about to collapse!" I don't know how long it took, when the Tang army had not yet broken through the urn city, Xia Luqi suddenly pointed to the city wall and said to Li Congjing.

Li Congjing looked intently, and saw that the city wall on the other side, under the constant bombardment of the fireball, the opening that was concave into the inside was getting bigger and bigger, and the top place, there was no horse road, and you could directly see the Jinling City, but it was still relatively high.

"Herald Gao Congzhou, lead the troops to prepare to enter the city!"

Under the incessant bombardment of artillery, billowing smoke and fire, the walls collapsed one by one, until a huge gap was revealed that allowed soldiers to climb directly into the city.

And at this moment, there was an earth-shattering cheer in the urn city, it turned out that the Tang army finally blew up the correct gate after finding the wrong door twice!

Li Congjing, who was dressed in bright light armor, was in high spirits, pulled out the horizontal knife at his waist, raised the knife and led it forward, and shouted to the 200,000 army: "Stop the artillery bombardment, and the whole army will take the city!" ”

"The prince has an order, the whole army will seize the city!"

"The prince has an order, the whole army will seize the city!"

"The prince has an order, the whole army will seize the city!"

The ironclad sea composed of 200,000 troops sent out a shouting and killing sound that shook the earth and the mountains, and flocked to Jinling City, where the door was wide open!

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