As Li Hanqiong expected, at this moment, the scouts outside the military tent had already entered the barracks and immediately reported every move of the Tang army detected three miles away.

Li An entered the military tent and saw Li Hanqiong looking at him with a tense face under the dusk lamppost, he immediately stood up straight and said: "Commander Li, tonight, General Mo and others have detected that there is a Tang Army cavalry in the distance that is approaching our army's camp, and it seems that the person who came is not good."

"Oh, Li Xiong actually sent cavalry to attack our army's position?" Li Hanqiong didn't panic much, and suddenly he asked calmly, "Ang Li, how many people are there on the other side?" ”

"Commander Qiqi Li, the other party can't have a hundred horses, but looking at this battle, it seems that the weapon in his hand is very powerful, and the last general dares to guess that it may be gunpowder such as thunderbolts."

Li Hanqiong is not surprised by this thing, Tang Jun already has this thing in his hands, but the amount of use is not high, and it is only used in tough battles, but now he uses thunderbolts and other things, which really does not make Li Hanqiong deeply worried.

"Li An, that's a weapon developed by the Tang State Weapons Supervisor, this is not new, but now there is a lonely city in Lishui, according to the Malay report, isn't the warehouse where Lishui stores this thing already given to people?" Li Hanqiong suddenly remembered something, and he asked Li Andao.

"I don't know this general, maybe our spy didn't succeed." After Ang Lee came back, he stayed by Li Hanqiong's side.

Li Hanqiong's temperament is not impatient, and there is no trace of grief after listening to Li An's words, his eyes are still very firm, but now the cavalry of the Tang Army is approaching, and solving the current matter is the top priority, and then he said in a firm tone: "Okay, now it is the first place to meet the enemy, but there is no cavalry here in our army, presumably they have calculated it, if it is against the enemy army in the east of the city, it is expected that my Great Song Iron Cavalry will be the first to defeat them." ”

Li An is also a thoughtful person, and at this moment he was worried: "What Commander Li said is extremely true, most of the Great Song army I am stationed in the north of the city are naval troops, and the rest are foot soldiers, I don't know how Commander Li plans to meet the enemy?" ”

Li Hanqiong frowned, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly stretched his eyebrows, and said calmly: "Now that I want to invite the army in the east of the city, it must be far away that water can't quench the thirst of the near, so it is better for our army to hold on to itself and solve this matter by ourselves." Li An, you go and order the generals in the army to prepare for battle, since the other party refuses to let us go, we will not let them succeed, and the other party is not very numerous, what they have to rely on is just the sharp weapon in their hands, and our army has a large number of people, you go and order the soldiers to move the remaining cannons in the cabin off the ship. ”

"Yes." After Li An received the order, he immediately ordered his soldiers to busy carrying the artillery on the ship.

In the distance, the Tang Army's iron cavalry was coming in a regular pace.

Not far from the Song army's tent, under the premeditated planning, the Tang cavalry was divided into two groups and dispersed in two directions, in the east and west, this is also the so-called encirclement strategy, in this case, although the encirclement can not be an effective means, but the Tang army can rely on their advantageous gunpowder to cause damage to the Song army.

After Li Hanqiong's order, the bows, crossbowmen, and gunners of the Song army all gathered around the military tent to prevent the enemy from entering a safe range.

The Tang army coming from the opposite side had already moved this thing out of their hands, but when they saw that all the Song soldiers were waiting for their arrival in the Song army camp, these Tang army iron horsemen were a little confused.

"How did Song Jun find out about us?" Although they came rushing and the horseshoe was all wrapped with soft strips of cloth, they were still discovered by the Song army scouts.

The soldiers on the Tang Army's iron cavalry complained: "Straight lady thief, how can you be born now?" ”

The rest of the people opened their throats and scolded: "Damn, I fought hard with Song Jun." ”

The Tang army did the same, and under the orders of several cavalry soldiers, they now have weapons in their hands, and plan to rush into the Song army's camp tent, and use the power of gunpowder to die with the enemy.

When the Song army saw that the Tang army was coming to send them to death, under the orders of Dutou and Duyuhou, the gunners who filled the artillery immediately ignited the fuse on the copper pipe.

Instant gunpowder egg. Son, in a parabola, flew forward.

After a loud bang, some of the Tang cavalry close to the location where the artillery ammunition flew were already shattered, the ground was sunk into a huge crater, and the surrounding air emitted a thick smell of blood and gunpowder, which made people sick. The Tang Army Iron Cavalry in the rear was also terrified when they saw all this, and the pores of their bodies exuded a chill.

They knew the power of this thing, but they didn't throw the rocket in their hands, and they were immediately blown up by the Song army.

The sound of breaking the sky followed, and the ground was already on fire, and the surrounding mountains, rocks and trees were also cut off in an instant, leaving only a charred black body surface.

The soldiers and the horses had lost their minds, fear and trembling were happening anytime and anywhere, and those soldiers were dragged around by the horses, leaving a lot of long strips of blood on the ground.

The Tang Army's sneak attack on the Iron Cavalry in the dark night finally failed, and Li Hanqiong's sailors also lost hundreds of soldiers.

At this moment, the battlefield was a mess, full of severed arms and stumps of men and horses, densely covered with some dense black pits, and a strong smell of blood mixed with sulfur.

The soldiers of the Song army were already cleaning the battlefield, they were cleaning up the dead bodies, and with the help of the military doctors, they carried all the wounded soldiers into the camp tents for treatment.

Overhead, the starry sky of the night was still bright, and the sparkling meteor showers were also drawn from the night sky, and everything around the ground was not dissipated by the warm wind blowing for a while, and everything tonight was finally over.

Soon after, the sky has been bright, the Tang army on the gate of the north of the city Li Xiong has not slept all night, he sometimes looks at everything in the north of the city, and sometimes looks forward to tonight the Tang army iron cavalry can cause some damage to Li Hanqiong's department, a few days and nights in a row, the nerves have been tense, but the morning light in the distance has been bright, the mountains are becoming clearer and clearer under the morning light, with the scout who rushed up to the city tower will tell him everything about the Tang army iron horse.

"What?" The sneak attack plan finally failed, and Li Xiong's bloodshot eyes glared fiercely at the Tang Army scout, who lowered his head and trembled and didn't dare to say anything more.

At this moment, the scout's face felt a hot liquid attack, and when he looked up, he saw Li Xiong's chest rise and fall, and a mouthful of blood sprayed directly on his body.

"All of them." The scout saw Li Xiong vomiting blood and falling backwards, he hurriedly went to help, "Come on, save Dutong-"

The military doctor and several generals accompanying him had already heard the news, and then Li Xiong was carried down from the city tower by the soldiers.

Now the war in Lishui is tight, Li Xiong and other Tang army generals are struggling to hold a lonely city, and the Tang water army of Shijiu Lake is defeated, and many water troops on the Qinhuai River have been damaged, plus the Song State and Wu Yue State coalition army stormed Lishui, last night's sneak attack failed Li Xiong defended the city day and night, not a drop of water entered, day and night fatigue made him depressed and sick, at this moment Li Xiong was lying on the sickbed, his face was like gold paper, his eyes were closed, and his breath was like a gossamer.

On the morning of this day, there was silence all around, and the Song army did not launch a campaign, and the Tang army was a little relaxed on its side.

After noon, the sun was extremely violent, and the air was very hot, and there was not even a trace of wind. Coupled with a burst of sunshine, people feel that their bodies are quickly dehydrated, and their sweat is constantly steaming with heat, and the soldiers defending the city are a little drowsy, and their spirits are also devastated by the scorching sun.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound in the distance, which woke up the Tang soldiers on the city gate, it was the sound of the enemy army, and it was getting closer and closer to the city gate.

It's the hottest time.

The enemy troops in the east and south of the city fiercely attacked the city wall, and some siege equipment kept an eye on the enemy army at the head of the city at all times, harvesting the lives of the enemy soldiers and destroying the tall city wall with perfect means.

The stones from afar continue to fall from the sky, shoot down the bricks of the city, hit and kill the lives of many Tang army defenders, after a short time, the army of Ding Deyu of the Song army, Wu Yuejun Qian Yu slowly moved forward, and the stone throwing machine and other things also continued to push forward to the position, at this moment on the siege equipment, the stones and other things are like a thousand heavy objects, the closer the distance, the greater the loss on the city tower.

Li Xiong is still asleep, if Zhao Dezhao is there, it can be seen at a glance that Li Xiong has had a stroke, and even if he wakes up, he will become cerebral palsy, and there is a steady stream of Tang soldiers and Lishui people on the city tower who are pushed up to the city tower and defend Lishui.

Li Xiong's previous order was to defend to the death, for the Tang army, I am afraid that only by defending can the Song army be dragged down now, because their downstream area has been occupied by the armies of the Song, Han and Wu Yue Kingdoms, and at this moment Lishui has become a lonely city, so they have to fight against the water.

The combined forces of Song and Wu and Yue continued to advance, and at this moment they were closer to the city gate, and the crossbowmen on the city gate were also ready, and in the distance of the city gate, the soldiers in front of the Song army had raised huge shields to block, although it was a feint today, but they had to make a fierce attack on Lishui.

Two hundred steps is the effective distance of bows and crossbows, such a distance is already very close, the shield hand has been guarding the army behind the army slowly retreated backwards, and now the regular retreat did not make the Tang army officers and soldiers alert, they thought that it was because the weather was too hot, the enemy soldiers were attacked by the heat wave, and they were the same as their own soldiers, and at the moment the Lishui city was still strong and indestructible

The coalition forces had retreated backwards, out of the effective range of the attack, but they did not retreat into the camp, but each person had a bamboo tube of water in his hand, slowly drinking it in place, quietly waiting for the opportunity.

After half an hour, there was no movement on the ground around Lishui.

Probably Shen Shi, a breeze suddenly blew in the sky, although it was a little hot, but it was still very exciting, above the four city gates, the Tang soldiers saw that there was no movement around them at all, so they thought that they had withstood the enemy's siege today, and their tense hearts were slightly relaxed, so they thought that they were half a step closer to victory.

At their feet, dozens of corpses fell sparsely on the ground, and under the scorching sun, some flies also began to fall on the corpses, like a group of demons dancing wildly, and a faint smell of corpses in the air also drifted away with the wind.

In the distance was the camp tent of the Song army, and after the Song soldiers drank some water, the weapons in their hands were always clenched in their hands, and now they were waiting in place, just waiting for the last battle of the reaction before dusk. In the camp tent, the soldiers carried the coffins into the tunnels one by one, and then were transported to the tunnels near the city towers.

Wu Yongzi and Ding Deyu and others looked at some of the coffins densely piled up in the corridor, and then patted the smooth surface of these coffins, the coffins did not make a loud knocking sound, only on the surface there will be a dull sound of knocking, at this moment Wu Yongzi smiled: "There are several roads now, all of which are located under Lishui City, after igniting the things inside, no matter how strong the city wall is, it will not be able to resist the detonation of gunpowder, and then the Song army will be waiting in place." ”

Ding Deyu also said: "I hope to capture Lishui before tonight." ”

"That's nature."

After about an hour, all the preparations were ready, and only a few long enough thick hemp ropes impregnated with fire oil were left under the ground, also as a precaution, and also because they were afraid that the ropes would not be ignited if there was no air in the secret passage.

Obviously, they were right, and the time to light the rope was about the end of the Shen hour, and according to the speed of the burning rope, it was about a quarter of an hour.

When it was almost the moment of the unitary hour, Wu Yongzi estimated that there was about to move at the city wall, so he asked Ding Deyu, the capital supervisor of the Song army, to order the two armies to walk slowly.

As expected, at this moment, with a loud noise in the distance, Wu Yongzi and the others had clearly seen through the clairvoyant mirror that the ground was suddenly blown up, and there was a tremor on the ground, and the dust on the ground also filled the entire air for a short time, and then there were bricks and stones rolling down, the city wall slowly collapsing, and the sand and dust that were kicked up.

Huge thunder is generally transmitted, the ground, the city wall and other things are swaying in an instant, like an earthquake, the building collapsed in a short period of time, so that many Tang soldiers guarding the city tower died in terror, those corpses were all buried by the collapsed city wall, and the people in Lishui City, the Tang soldiers were also frightened, they never expected that the dull roar that came in an instant, destroyed a section of the east city gate that stretched for three or four miles, and after the continuous sound, the disaster continued, The waves above the moat trembled rapidly, then sank rapidly and disappeared into the water.

Fortunately, it was only near this section of the city wall, and there were no casualties among innocent people.

Lishui has no danger to defend, the collapsed city wall has caused the Tang army to lose a lot of soldiers, if such a large gap is to be defended, it must also mobilize most of the troops to defend in a short time.

On this side, the Tang army was helpless, and the mobilization of the army also required the mobilization of the superiors, and the current loud noise did not wake up Li Xiong.

The Tang army in the east of the city has become a pot of porridge, followed by the tiger and wolf armies of the Song State and the Wu Yue Kingdom.

The explosion has disappeared, according to Wu Yongzi's estimation that the gunpowder in the tunnel has not been fully ignited, and some of it has been poured into most of the moat and lost its effectiveness, but for this, Wu Yongzi also hopes that after Lishui is captured, those hidden dangers under the water will be eliminated, and the top priority is to march quickly, at this moment Ding Deyu also asked Song Shida and other military posts to inform Li Hanqiong and Yang Xin's army of the remaining two city gates.

The armies of the Song and Wu Yue Kingdoms had quickly crossed through the ruined walls.

Seeing that the Tang army had more than several times the number of soldiers, they fought alone and surrendered most of them, while the rest retreated to the remaining three city gates.

The rest of the north and south gates were also fiercely attacked by the Song army in an instant, and the Song army and Wu Yue army in the east of the city also led their troops from the gap and immediately seized all the streets and alleys and fortresses in the city, eliminating a resisting army.

Zhao Kuangyin's preferential policies such as surrendering without killing the enemy, appeasing the people, and removing labor and miscellaneous labor taxes were also spread in Lishui City, and for the people, such policies were better than those of the Tang Dynasty, and they were also loved by the people and scholars for a short time.

In this world, only the sun, moon and stars are immutable, they still run as usual, and at three o'clock, the sunset finally quietly sets the horizon, and the colorful fiery clouds in the distance also bloom with dazzling brilliance in an instant, shrouding the sky over the entire Lishui City, and sprinkling a ray of brilliance from under the ruined city walls.

As Lishui fell into the arms of the Song and Wu Yue armies, most of the defense line defending Jinling collapsed...... After the Song army entered Lishui, in addition to pacifying the people and resisting the uncompliant enemy soldiers, they also had to fight the Tang army in the lower reaches of the Qinhuai River in a final war.

By night, most of the remnants of the city had already surrendered to the Song army, while the remaining 3,000 Tang troops led the unconscious Tang army commander Li Xiong to the deep mountains and old forests of Maoshan Mountain.

After the Song army occupied Lishui, they left a part of the Song army to garrison here, and appointed local meritorious and virtuous scholars to temporarily serve as officials in Lishui, and then appointed them after the official assessment of the imperial court.

However, because the Lishui city wall was collapsed, the new officials of Lishui had to send some soldiers and people to repair the city wall, and the officials who held important tasks in the Song army were also taking on the responsibility of supervision, making reasonable use of the people's power to prevent the abuse of the people's power, causing the people of the Tang State to dislike the Song State.

Early the next morning, after the three Song armies in Lishui received the battle report from the front, Yang Xin's army, Li Hanqiong's army, and the combined forces of Ding Deyu and Qian Yu went down the Qinhuai River.

In late May, news of the capture of Lishui reached Jinling, and the entire (Southern) Tang Dynasty was gloomy, and the ministers of the Privy Council were helpless.

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