The whole city of Hanzhong was filled with despair and frustration, the cry of the wounded soldiers, like the virus of an infectious disease, weighed down everyone's heart, at about three o'clock in the afternoon, the returning army buried the pot to cook, or rested, and was continuing to strength, preparing for a new attack, in the telescope, the face of every returning soldier was filled with a resolute and cold smile,

The extremely strong national cohesion made the war behavior of the Hui army, with religious fanaticism, have rare offensive energy.

On the city wall, the soldiers of the Taiping Army rested while scouting, especially those veterans, although they did not have hope for victory, they also knew to follow the rules, rest their physical strength, and prepare to fight again.

"You guys, you can't mess with anyone, you have to mess with them." Qiu Yuancai complained about Luo Yang,

Luo Yang sneered: "Whoever provokes, whoever provokes them, what if they are provoked, any army that cannot submit to the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom is the enemy of our army, and it must be swept away, to tell you, our Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom is the most difficult to provoke." ”

Qiu Yuan looked at Luo Yang and was angry: "Okay, okay, now it's back the cowhide, you take it to Lao Tzu and take these people away." ”

Luo Yang pondered: "It is inevitable to drive away, the question is, you have to give me some time." ”

"Go, dream." Qiu Yuancai simply ignored Luo Yang,

"It seems that only the use of artillery to bombard the generals of the returning army, or the dense crowd, has a shocking effect." Luo Yang suggested,

"Cannon."

"The Flying Thunder Cannon we've tried."

"Go, are there any more shells?" Qiu Yuancai sneered: "By the way, this king will carry the flying thunder cannon barrel you sent us for a while, smash it, and smash the Hui army away." ”

"Don't worry, everything is up to me, and this king will definitely win the battle for you." Luo Yang smiled,

"Win the war, it's up to you, the goods who will shrink their necks in the back as soon as they fight, hehe, okay, listen to you, as long as you can beat the guys outside the city away, my brother will listen to you for everything." Qiu Yuancai sneered and smiled bitterly,

"It's really fake." Luo Yang asked,

"Really, as long as you can drive these guys away, you will be the life-saving benefactor of our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom brothers and the people of the whole city, I, Qiu Yuancai, will speak and count, and raise the flag to do it with you." With a sigh, Qiu Yuan looked at the chain of camps of the Hui army under the city, turned over his horse, and went to inspect the city defense.

Luo Yang found a certain officer of the Taiping Army, and a certain officer found the Qiu family's sister, and several people rushed to the gunpowder magazine in the city, fortunately, there is still a lot of this gunpowder, that is, on the city wall, because the gunpowder used in the battle of iron cannons is quite a lot, Luo Yang immediately led his own soldiers to make explosives bags,

Cowhide, cotton cloth, iron sand, sharp porcelain shards, dozens of pounds of gunpowder, bandaging and bundling, cloth firing rope, everyone is very busy,

"What can this do?" The accompanying Qiu family's sister, a certain officer, soldiers, etc., were puzzled,

"You'll find out in a moment." Before Luo Yang could speak, his own soldiers forked up,

After a while, Luo Yang and the others walked up to the city with more than a dozen explosive bags, and got the flying thunder cannon to the city tower, and then conducted a strict reconnaissance and lookout of the formation of the Hui army under the city.

Ren Wu Bai Yanlong and other generals, although they are dressed like ordinary Hui soldiers, but where they are, there is a general's military flag, which exposes the target.

More than a hundred explosive bags were piled up on the city wall, considering the danger of being detonated, Luo Yang ordered, mainly stacked in the city tower, only a few outside, once the battle was needed, let the soldiers rush to transport,

Qiu Yuan went to the north gate of the city to inspect, and at the west gate of the city, there was a sister of the Qiu family and a military marshal in charge, both of them were very nervous and curious, especially the Taiping soldiers on the city wall, who inexplicably watched such a big round iron cylinder being brought up, and talked about it.

There are not many people who can be lucky enough to see the power of this kind of cannon in the Huai Wang's Mansion, and there are not many, not much, and that military commander is one of them: "Okay, brothers, we won, there is a cannon that Lord Rui got for us, and we have a life to live this time." ”

It's a pity that Qu Gao and the widow, all the soldiers and the people pity him with idiot eyes,

Under the city, the generals of the Hui army were also discussing, the supreme commander Ren Wu looked at the city of Hanzhong anxiously, his eyes were almost spewing fire, his subordinates were so heroic, and they had such a numerical advantage, but they couldn't take this castle, which made his already accumulated anger even more impossible to vent, "The long-haired thief is really hateful, hateful." ”

"Brother Ren, we have to take it down quickly, the thieves are attacking Weinan, the news is not good, let's withdraw the troops from Xi'an, come to take revenge, we must not be deadlocked, we have to hurry up and return to Xi'an after the matter is over." Bai Yanlong suggested: "Otherwise, let's besiege the city with 10,000 people, and Brother Ren will lead our brothers to hurry back to Xi'an, or take a detour from the south and sneak attack the flank of the Qing thief army." ”

Bai Yanhu said: "Since you are here, take the city first, these Han children, dare to kill our brothers, bah, if he kills one, we will kill him ten, a hundred, this evil breath is not out, and we can't withdraw the troops if we die." ”

The other commanders of the Hui army were in their own troops, besieging the city of Hanzhong,

"Ah, look, our cannon is here." Bai Yanhu suddenly pointed to the northwest in surprise and said,

The arrival of the five iron cast cannons greatly boosted the morale of the Hui army, and after the meal was over, the physical strength was rested, and Ren Wu immediately ordered the troops to attack the city: "Brothers, this time the siege of the city must not rest again, and you must rush into it with all your might." ”

While he was talking, suddenly, the Taiping army in the city sniped down with foreign guns, killing three Hui soldiers on the spot and wounding a general of the Hui army.

This is a serious provocation, and with the victory in his hands, how can he endure such humiliation from the enemy, and wave the general's flag: "Siege the city." ”

Under the leadership of Bai Yanlong and Bai Yanhu's brothers, the Hui army was divided into two teams to storm the west gate of Hanzhong City, Bai Yanlong was in front and Bai Yanhu was behind, preparing to attack the city in turn, not giving the Taiping army in the city a chance to breathe.

Luo Yang took over the artillery on the west gate of the city, because the combat power was weak, even the younger sister of the Qiu family didn't think it was very important, and handed over the command.

Luo Yang ordered his soldiers to attack the Hui army with foreign guns, deliberately provoking them.

The carpet of the crowd that came like a tide of the Hui army became the focus of Luoyang's artillery, eight iron-cast cannons, all filled with gunpowder shells, and two foreign cannons, also waiting for them, especially the strange flying thunder cannon, a large explosive package was installed, and enough gunpowder and arquebuses were laid out.

The Taiping army in the city, according to Luo Yang's orders, continued to counterattack the forward troops of the Hui army, and as soon as these people rushed to the city, dozens of people were killed.

The Hui army was naturally furious and charged more violently, and the artillery of the Hui army, which had just been transported, also moved forward, preparing to attack.

Of course, Luo Yang did not forget, and asked his soldiers to wrap a lot of gunpowder into smaller balls, which were filled with sharp hard objects, and all of them left fire ropes.

Thirty Luo Yang's personal soldiers, because of the first two battles, have suffered casualties of two each, and now, there are only twenty-six people, plus Luo Yang, twenty-seven people,

Five were the operating team of the flying thunder cannon, and twenty-two were bomb throwers,

Luo Yang even instructed that the inside of the city gate hole was blocked for a section and set up as a dead enclosure, in fact, there is such an arrangement in the general city, which is an emergency measure to prevent the city gate from breaking through.

Luo Yang himself manipulated the flying thunder cannon, looking for the target of the enemy's general's banner.