It is said that when the church thunderbolt ejected countless flying stones and constantly smashed the city wall of Anping. The soldiers stationed in Anping City had already withdrawn to the city under the reminder of Wangzi. Except for a few flying stones flying into the city and causing a small number of casualties, the overall damage was not large.

In addition, Anping, as one of the most fortified cities of the Han Dynasty, had unusually strong walls, and it was impossible to smash them with a thunderbolt.

As a result, Luan Yi had no choice but to send a large army to forcibly attack the city.

The flag was waved, and the 30,000 vanguard army carried ladders, rushing cars, ditch filling vehicles and other things, and rushed to the city madly under the cover of thunderbolt cars.

The early stage of the siege went exceptionally well, and the 30,000 church guards rushed to the moat with ease without any form of counterattack. The soil from the ditch filling truck was dumped into the moat, and it took half a day to fill the ditch.

However, the ensuing battle to the city became more difficult. When they arrived in the city, the guards of the Church lost the cover of the thunderbolt in order to prevent the boulder from falling on their own people.

At the prompting of Wangzi, the Hebei soldiers rushed to the head of the city and engaged in a desperate battle with the church guards who used the cloud ladder to enter the city.

The most brutal white-knuckle battle in the era of cold weapons was staged in Anping City, and the enemy and us fought brutally for every inch of land on the city's head.

Comparatively speaking, the guards of the Church are well-armoured and sharp, and they have the advantage in weapons. The Anping guards are located in the high city and occupy a favorable location. The two sides were half-pounded and eighty-taels, and the battle situation was extremely difficult.

The tragic siege lasted for eight days, and the strong walls of Anping were also smashed by thunderbolts, and they were scarred. The walls were littered with blood and corpses, both by guards and by church guards.

In these eight days, 9,000 church guards died on the city of Anping, and the Anping guards under the trial also suffered heavy casualties, with more than 10,000 casualties.

Holding a thick list of dead and wounded, looking at the tall city wall in the distance, Luan Yi was furious, but helpless.

In his nearly twenty years of military career, he had never encountered such a difficult city to attack. "It's not a way to fight like this!"

He specially summoned his subordinates Xu Shu, Xun Yu, Xun You and others to ask about countermeasures.

Xun Yu suggested besieging but not attacking, and when the soldiers in Anping City ran out of food, they would naturally surrender.

Luan Yi also agreed with this suggestion, but Su You, who had surrendered, said that the military rations prepared in Anping City were enough to support more than a year, and for such a long time, the food consumed by the church army was enough to be described as astronomical. The trial is reliable, but he can't be relied on.

Therefore, this method works in theory, but it cannot be used in practice.

Xu Shu supplemented it on the basis of Xun Yu's suggestion, and proposed to send a special combat team to infiltrate the city, unite with the Aegis in the city, and burn the grain that was allocated.

Xu Shu's suggestion, Luan Yi thought it was feasible. However, after inspecting the city defense of Anping at night, it was found that the city wall was guarded by impermeability, and a large number of torches were thrown under the city at night to illuminate. The special forces were not given a chance to enter the city at all.

Xun You said at the right time, "Since you can't climb the city at night, why don't you dig a tunnel and sneak into the city." ”

Luan Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, in the past in the first battle of Guandu, the judge had suggested that Yuan Shao dig a tunnel to infiltrate the army of the Guandu Church, and this time it was the time for "the way of others to govern their bodies". Immediately arranged for manpower to dig the tunnel day and night.

But he didn't expect that the "authentic" method was the rest of the trial, and the trial could not be wary?

It's just that the way of judging and preventing authenticity is not as advanced as that of the church, and there are soldiers specially equipped with listening pillows. Instead, a large water tank was buried at the base of the wall in the city every twenty steps, with the mouth of the large tank facing upwards, and soldiers guarded the side of the tank day and night, listening to the movement in the tank. As soon as he heard the change, he learned that it was the soldiers and horses of the church outside the city who were digging tunnels.

After hearing the information, the judge dug a three-zhang deep ravine in the west gate where the excavation sound came from, and intercepted the tunnel from it. They also scattered flammable materials in the ditch, and waited for the church special operators in the tunnels to show their heads and burn them.

Fortunately, the special combat personnel led by Wang Yue himself have rich experience and have conducted more than 100 actual combat drills on various combat situations over the past few years. This kind of tunnel infiltration battle in front of you is also among them.

In addition, Luan Yi equipped the special combat team with a small Sinan, a simple compass, to help them not deviate from the direction when digging underground.

Therefore, when they found that they should have dug more than 300 steps to the east to surface the ground, but only dug 200 steps away before they heard the sound of breaking the ground, Wang Yue, who was in charge of the team, immediately noticed that something was wrong. Without saying a word, he led the team and retreated.

It was his decisive decision that saved the lives of 200 special combat personnel and allowed the ambush under the inquisition to be extinguished.

The method of digging tunnels failed, and Luan Yi lost his mind for a while. Just as he was frowning and thinking hard about the strategy of breaking the city, there was great news from the Luokou Workshop in Jinan - the gunpowder improved by a group of Fangshi led by Yu Ji finally met Luan Yi's requirements.

Coming from the 21st century, Luan Yi is well aware of the great utility of gunpowder in warfare. But in his previous life, he didn't have an in-depth understanding of thermal weapons such as gunpowder, so he couldn't make them at all.

Therefore, we can only ask for others. Since the end of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Luan Yi has been trying his best to find a way to make black powder. He knew that gunpowder in history was originally an elixir refined by local monks to help princes and dignitaries achieve their desire for immortality, so he did not hesitate to spend a huge amount of money to gather all the local priests under his command and gather together to find a gunpowder formula that was comparable to the power of black powder in later generations.

Not to mention, one of the recruits really knew something about gunpowder. This person's surname is a single name, and he was originally a well-known Taoist priest in Yangzhou. In the process of preaching, he often used gunpowder to pretend to cast spells, and deceived many good men and women. After offending Sun Ce, if it weren't for the s.h.i.e.l.d. to save him in advance, he would have almost lost his life.

Yu Ji thanked Luan Yi for his life, so he dedicated the gunpowder formula in his brain to Luan Yi.

Luan Yi originally thought that the church army could be equipped with simple thermal weapons from now on, but after trying the formula, he found that the gunpowder Yu Ji said was too primitive, and it could only emit dazzling light after ignition - it was okay to pretend to be a ghost, but it was not explosive and lethal.

He then invited Yu Ji to be the head of the gunpowder section of the research and development department of the church's Luokou workshop, specializing in improving the gunpowder formula, and striving to create gunpowder that could blow up hollow iron balls in the shortest possible time.

"Explode the iron ball?" For such a request, Yu Ji was incredulous. But in the face of Luan Yi's high returns, driven by profit, he couldn't help but do what Luan Yi asked.

This one is eight years old.

In the third year of Shengyuan, the gunpowder he improved could finally explode a small bamboo tube. It has become a more advanced microphone than the "signal cannon", that is, the most primitive firecracker.

In the fourth year of the Holy Yuan, the new gunpowder formula could fly into the sky after igniting, and glow dazzlingly in the sky with a roaring sound.

This discovery was greatly appreciated by Luan Yi, and in the following time, it was equipped as a signal flare for the Holy Cult army.

In the summer of the fifth year of Shengyuan, the 593rd version of the gunpowder formula exploded a wooden board more than two inches thick. And blow up the hollow iron ball that Luan Yi said.

At the beginning of the Spring Festival this year, Yu Ji finally completed Luan Yi's set goal and blew the iron ball that had been piled up in his heart for eight years into pieces.

It is said that Yu Ji did not expect the power of the new gunpowder to be so powerful that the fragments of the iron ball exploded during the test and immediately wiped his thighs into a bloody blur.

It's ridiculous that this old man neither wails nor howls, but looks up to the sky and laughs wildly, "I see, I see! Sulfur, saltpeter, charcoal...... Hahaha......"

The completion of gunpowder can be said to have solved Luan Yi's urgent need, and with it in hand, the peaceful and strong city in front of him is no longer a threat to him. Immediately after getting it, he sent people around to collect the raw materials he needed, and according to the formula of "seventy percent sulfur, two percent saltpeter, and one percent charcoal", he made more than 500 catties of gunpowder.

Immediately, the soldiers transported all the gunpowder into the tunnel dug by the special combat team that day and buried it directly under the western city wall of Anping.

In the early morning of the next day, Luan Yi personally put on a point and led all the advisers and generals under his tent to wait quietly outside the West City for that tragic and spectacular moment.

Church Lu Zhi, Xun Yu, Xun Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhang He and others did not know the existence of gunpowder, and wondered why Luan Yi mobilized the army early in the morning. It's just that Luan Yi doesn't say it, and they don't take the initiative to ask. Only Zhang Fei was straightforward and asked directly, "Sect Master, why did you call all of us here so early?" ”

Luan Yi smiled at him, "The third brother will find out later." With that, he turned around and nodded to Wang Yue. The latter will deliberately carry the torch and take the order.

Zhang Fei was puzzled, "What is Lao Wang doing with a torch in broad daylight?" As soon as the question came out, I saw that Wang Yue turned around and came back. He said to Luan Yi, "Sect Master, the fuse has been lit. ”

"Good!" Luan Yi nodded and instructed everyone behind him, "Cover your ears quickly!" ”

One should be civil and military, and follow Luan Yi to plug his ears. Some were like Zhang Fei who was stunned and didn't know what was going on, and looked at Luan Yi stupidly. "What are you doing with your ears covered?"

After half a pillar of incense, he knew the reason why Luan Yi covered his ears.

I only heard an earth-shaking roar from Anping City at the end of the earth, and the sound was as loud as the Nine Heavens Xuan Thunder descended on the world, and even the earth trembled, and almost stumbled. The heavens and the earth changed color, and dust rose in all directions. The birds gliding through the sky let out a terrible scream in fright, and the crazy Shandong wings fled into the distance. The beasts and insects in the mountains and forests also said that some kind of flood beast came, hiding in the nest and shivering.

With such a huge sound, Luan Yi, who was plugging his ears, was also shocked, and finally eased up from the tinnitus, and listened to Zhang Fei's voice beside him, "My mother-in-law!" ”