Two days later, a notice was posted outside the palace.

Zhao Jinyuan ranked first in the scientific examination, and he was the champion of the literature!

There are nineteen other people, all of whom are talents, Wang Xu assigned jobs according to the abilities of all of them, some were sent to the county to be county commanders, as experience, and some stayed in the imperial capital and served as other civilian officials, such as clerks in the military aircraft department, etc.

As for Zhao Jinyuan, the champion of the text, Wang Xu originally wanted to be a big official, but Zhao Jinyuan only wanted to be a small county order, so Wang Xu asked him to serve as the county commander of Minglan County, and at the same time supervised Languan.

The geographical location there is extremely important, it is an important checkpoint to block the enemy in the west, and if the enemy comes stupidly from there one day, the land of Nalan Pass will become a military stronghold.

As for Zhao Jinyuan's sister, she was forcibly left in the palace by Ye Minyan, not to mention, the two are very close to each other, and they laugh all day long, and Wang Xu is just casual about this.

"Sister, then you can stay in the palace and don't get into trouble."

"Got it, brother."

.........

The matter of the scientific expedition is finally over, and the political affairs of the imperial capital are back to normal operation.

...........

In the blink of an eye, we entered the second year, the third year of A.D.

On this day, news came from the harem that Zhang Xue, Wen Mengliang and Zhaoyang were pregnant again, which was really a great joy for the imperial court, however, Wang Xu was very speechless, don't get pregnant if you want to get pregnant, at least one by one.

It's either not conceived or together, as if it was discussed in advance, which is really strange.

At the beginning of this year, a lot of big things happened, first of all, Sun Yu, who was in the Guxi Wangcheng, got married, he married a very beautiful girl, the girl used to be a beggar on the street, but later was brought to the house by Sun Yu, at the beginning it was just a maid, but as time passed, the two had a relationship. Finally form a pair.

In this regard, Wang Xu was very happy and sent someone to Guxi County to send heavy gifts to congratulate!

Except for Sun Yu. There are also many young generals who have objects, such as Qiancang, Zheng Li and others, with their identities, it is really easy for him to find a woman, and he can persist until now to get married. Wang Xu felt very uneasy.

What makes Wang Xu speechless is that Zhang Meng doesn't seem to be interested in women and has never cared about this matter, which makes Wang Xu very worried, and Zhang Xue is also worried about it, hoping that Zhang Meng will get married as soon as possible.

"Husband, what do you think of Ye Minyan?"

"What do you mean?"

Yonghe Palace, Zhang Xue looked at Wang Xu and asked.

"Let him be a pair with Ye Minyan, do you think this thing is reliable?"

Wang Xu pursed his mouth, Ye Minyan was innocent and cute. And it's very beautiful, to say that the identity is also unusually noble, with Zhang Meng is more than rubbing, but what do people do? This kind of thing has to be done voluntarily.

"You have time to ask Yan'er, but I don't think there's much hope, Zhang Meng's appearance... It's too much. ”

Wang Xu smiled bitterly.

"Mm-hmm, I'll try to get them in touch." Zhang Xuedao.

.........

Xipingguan.

At the beginning of the year, Ye Minzhong went south again, and this time it was still 550,000 troops with great momentum. Let the Xiping guards be frightened, but seeing those red-coated cannons on the city wall, everyone was full of confidence and felt extremely enveloped by the battle that was about to begin. I'm looking forward to it too.

On the city wall, Liao Yun personally led the army to guard the city pass, and all the cannons were ready, directly aiming at the snowy army under the city.

"Lord Wang, give the order, the brothers have already prepared."

"Good. Listen to my orders, the trebuchet moved forward and bombarded me at a distance of six hundred meters from the city wall, knowing that Xipingguan would be razed to the ground! ”

With an order, countless soldiers behind Ye Minzhong pushed hundreds of trebuchets out, all of them were unusually tall, in terms of size, much larger than the perspective machines in the Central Plains, as for the range, it is unknown.

As soon as the enemy's trebuchet was launched, Liao Yun, Lei Yan and others were shocked, the people of the Snow Region had built so many trebuchets in this year's time, and it was really not easy to punch extraordinarily large ones.

"Reload the shells."

"Reloaded."

"Launch!"

With the flag drawn, hundreds of cannonballs launched a fierce attack on the Xipingguan city wall at a distance of 600 meters, and the momentum was so great that people shuddered.

Six hundred meters away!

With such a large force, no catapult machine can do it, and the red-clothed cannon on the city wall of Xipingguan can't do it, and the farthest range in Xipingguan is the three-bow bed crossbow, but the attack power of that thing can't be compared with the secret weapon at all.

Boom Boom Boom !!

The sound of the explosion burst out, and from this moment on, this sound did not stop, and it rang for two hours, until two hours later, a gap was blown up in the wall of Xipingguan, and the city wall collapsed, and then look at those red-coated cannons, all of them were smashed.

Xiping Pass is in danger!

"General, withdraw quickly, Xiping Pass can't be saved."

The enemy's attack was so fierce that I was not prepared at all beforehand, and I couldn't find anyone to fight with the enemy with bayonets.

Lei Yan sighed helplessly, he really wanted to rush to fight to the death, if he still had 100,000 iron horses in his hand, he would definitely do that, but unfortunately, he only had more than 10,000 horses in his hands, even if he rushed out, there was only a dead end.

Liao Yun was also stunned, and this was the most ferocious attack he had encountered.

In these two hours, he continued to send soldiers to the city wall to reinforce, but all died under the enemy's fierce artillery fire, Quan Jing repeatedly admonished, saying that he wanted to temporarily avoid its edge, but Liao Yun did not dare to do that, once the soldiers on the city withdrew, the enemy attacked and killed, and the city was lost.

And now, even worse, the city has been blown up, the door of the Xipingguan city wall is wide open, and he has lost tens of thousands of troops in his hands and paid a heavy price.

"Kill!"

Ye Minzhong shouted suddenly, and all the 20,000 elite siege troops under his command began to charge, they did not have medium-sized siege weapons, not even siege towers, it was the simplest ladder.

Ye Minzhong's idea was very simple, that is, when the enemy was dizzy from the bombing, he would take the city by surprise, and if the siege tower was dispatched, the speed of the march would be too slow.

The shouts of killing under the city shook the sky, and Ye Minzhong's troops quickly approached the city wall, and above the city wall, only Liao Yun led a few thousand wounded soldiers and guards, and they were all panicked, and almost all the weapons in their hands were blown up.

For example, the three-bow bed crossbow, the strong crossbow, and the red-coated cannon are almost all lost!

Goudan was already a young man at the moment, seventeen or eighteen years old, still looking like a general, he rushed to the city wall and withdrew Liao Yun with him.

"Listen to my orders, retreat, and retreat to Hexi Wangcheng!"

With an order, all the soldiers quickly retreated, discarding all the supplies, artillery, etc., and only more than 80,000 of the 100,000 troops died, all of them retreated towards the royal city of Hexi like a gust of wind.

And as soon as Liao Yun's troops left, Ye Minzhong ordered to capture Xiping Pass! (To be continued.) )