The thunderous sound coming from Luoyang City made the two sides who were fighting suddenly stagnate, and the soldiers of the two armies subconsciously turned their heads to look at the city, and at a glance, they were all shocked. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

I saw that the heaven-sent treasure that was still faintly visible just now was no longer visible at this time, and a thick smoke rose into the sky.

"Like a mushroom......" one soldier muttered to himself.

Missing the treasure? Sergeant Zheng's heart sank, God won't bless me Da Zheng?

Wang Shichong struggled to control the mount under his crotch, and only then did he take the time to look towards the city, and his eyes were torn apart when he looked at it. I just felt that the winter sun was so dazzling, my mind was dizzy, and my chest was uncomfortable. The war horse that had just been separated from the seat was in a commotion at this time, and with a kick, he suddenly fell off the horse.

"Father!" Wang Xuan, the king of Han beside him, exclaimed.

"Your Majesty!" The soldiers around him shouted together.

Everyone jumped off their horses to check, and as soon as they helped Wang Shichong up, they saw him spurt out a mouthful of blood.

"Father, how are you?" Wang Xuan hugged Wang Shichong with a panicked face.

"God don't bless me Da Zheng!" Wang Shichong's face was miserable, "Order...... Immediately withdraw the troops and tighten the city defenses in case ......" Before he finished speaking, he tilted his head and fainted.

"Father!"

"Your Majesty!"

The soldiers of Zheng Jun looked at the sky above Luoyang with thick smoke, and heard the sound of gold from behind, and immediately understood something, and the soldiers who reacted quickly had already dropped their weapons and began to flee backwards.

Although the soldiers of the Tang army did not know what happened in Luoyang, they saw the enemy's lost soul one by one, how could they miss the opportunity, and shouted loudly to kill the enemy.

The defeat was like a mountain, and the Zheng army, which had the upper hand a moment ago, turned around at this time, and ran towards the city one by one in a state of confusion while disarming.

Li Shimin sat on the horse and watched all this, and his mind was a little bent for a while. He has fought countless battles in the past few years, but he has never seen such a strange scene, the enemy who had just gained the upper hand lost his armor in a moment, and the form of the battlefield was turned upside down in an instant.

"Drumming!" The old handsome Qu Tutong was the first to react. The drummers of the Tang Army beat the drums desperately, driving the soldiers of the Tang Army to keep moving forward to cover the kill.

Luoyang Beiya was already surrounded by a dense sea of people at this time. As soon as he heard the explosion, Song Laosan led people to surround the Beiya.

The officers and soldiers outside the yamen had not yet recovered from the huge shock, and stared blankly at the sea of people in front of them.

"Put down the ......" Before Song Laosan finished speaking, he saw that all the officials outside the yamen threw away their weapons and squatted on the ground.

On the roof of the study building, Wang Mai is popularizing science to everyone: "Do you remember that hydrogen combustion experiment? Hydrogen is highly flammable, and it reacts with oxygen in the air in an instant, and the energy in the bottle is released in a concentrated manner, which is why there is an explosion. In the same way, black powder is also a very explosive thing, saltpeter can decompose a large amount of oxygen, and will react violently with other flammable materials, which is the cause of the big bang. ”

Everyone nodded as if they didn't understand, the sound of the palace just now was louder than thunder, which really frightened many people, and even these old Confucians, who had always worshiped ghosts and gods, shook their beliefs for a while, thinking that there were gods coming into the world.

"And how did you control the timing of the explosion?" Kong Yingda asked.

"This one is simpler," Wang said, "with white phosphorus." Red phosphorus will volatilize white phosphorus when heated to a certain heat, white phosphorus is very flammable, and it can spontaneously combust at room temperature in summer, and the ghost fire is caused by the spontaneous combustion of white phosphorus.

I store the collected white phosphorus in water and put it in the bell tower, and when the time comes, the bell hammer will knock over the bowl containing the white phosphorus. The water on the surface of the white phosphorus will speed up the internal reaction, quickly complete spontaneous combustion, and then detonate the black powder in the bell tower. ”

Although everyone couldn't quite understand the chemistry in this, they were relieved to confirm that it was not the ghost or god.

"You're imprisoning us here just waiting for this moment?" Xu Wenyuan asked. Since the people entered the study building on the first day, they found that they were grounded, and after asking, they learned that these people were ordered by Wang Mai.

"I have offended you in the past few days, and it is really a big deal, and there is no room for error." Wang Mai was afraid that these people would have an accident, and he didn't want to inform them of the news of the upcoming incident in advance, so he had to make this decision.

"How sure are you?" Kong Yingda asked. He has never had a good impression of Wang Shichong, and his commitment to Luoyang is also a helpless move. He sees the tragic situation in Luoyang these days and is anxious, but after all, he is just a Confucian student, and he is really powerless.

Now that he learned that Wang Mai was going to start an incident in the city, he was very much in agreement, but he really didn't know whether he could succeed.

"For us, the odds of success are 10 percent, because we don't have room to fail." Wang Mai's expression was unusually resolute, and he pointed to Luoyang City downstairs, "There are hundreds of thousands of people here who have long been disgusted with Zheng Guo's rule, and they are now struggling on the edge of life and death, all thanks to Wang Shichong." I want to let Wang Shichong know today that the people are not cattle, sheep and livestock that can be slaughtered at will, and no one can stop these honest people from attacking ruthlessly......"

As soon as the words fell, Liu Da ran to the roof out of breath: "Beiya has been taken down......"

"How many casualties?" Wang Mai turned around and asked.

"There were no casualties."

"What?" Wang Mai asked again in disbelief. The scope of activities of the people of Beishi has been limited to Lifang, although today Wang Shichong led the troops to the battle, and the troops in the city were relatively empty, but after the Beicheng was not controlled, the Beiya had already increased the number of troops stationed, and it was no longer the original situation of more than 100 poor people.

"There were no casualties." Liu Da told him about the capture of Beiya.

The other party surrendered so easily? Wang Mai was a little dazed. For this first battle, everyone took great pains to discuss the attack on Beiya, and held countless military meetings to discuss the attack on Beiya, so as to ensure that the plan could be carried out smoothly. Now that he learned that he had prepared an impenetrable plan and had not been given a chance to use it at all, he suddenly felt like a heavy punch hit the air, and he panicked.

"What next?" Liu Da swallowed a mouthful of saliva, he didn't expect that the hundreds of soldiers guarding the Beiya would defect so easily, which greatly surprised everyone's expectations.

Wang Mai calmed down, Bei Ya won without a fight, this is the best, to speed up the plan in advance, it seems that he still far underestimated the impact of this explosion, and now he must take advantage of this to maximize the results of the victory.

"Pass the order, immediately carry out the third step plan, and march into Nanshi." Wang Mai said to Liu Da, "Serious military orders, don't disturb the people, the focus is on the big granaries of those profiteers, understand?" ”

"Yes!"

Outside Luoyang City, Wang Xuanyan sat in a carriage with his father in his arms, kept urging the groom, and it didn't take long for him to come to the city gate. At this time, the city gate was already crowded with cavalry who had arrived first, and when they saw the emperor's chariots and horses coming, they all got out of the way.

Wang Xuanyan breathed a sigh of relief and gave an order to the soldiers guarding the city gate: "Close the city gate, quickly!" ”

The gate was hurriedly closed, and the infantry soldiers who arrived later fell into despair when they saw the closed city gate, and looked at the Tang army chasing behind them, and knelt on the ground one by one and raised their hands in surrender.

"Attack!" Wang Shiyun in the city tower gave an order.

"But ......," the herald hesitated as he looked at a large group of Zheng soldiers running towards the city gate outside the city wall.

"Are you disobeying military orders?" King Qi Wang Shiyun pulled out the sword in his hand and pointed it at him.

"Yes!" The herald gritted his teeth and nodded, and ran out of the tower.

"Attack!"

On the city wall, the eight-bow crossbow was full of strings, and began to fire the first salvo at the soldiers of the two armies approaching the city, and the spearhead carried a huge arrow through the crowd, until it shot through several people before they plunged to the ground, and after this launch, the city was suddenly emptied.

The Zheng soldiers who came later scolded when they saw this scene, and the Zheng soldiers killed in this round of attacks far exceeded the Tang soldiers. As soon as he was halfway scolded, he suddenly saw a stone flying up from the city wall, and he immediately panicked and fled one by one.

This is a flying stone cannon defending the city, which can throw a fifty-pound stone two hundred paces away, and although the range is not as good as that of an eight-bow crossbow, its lethality is far above that of an eight-bow crossbow.

This round of indiscriminate attacks on the city wall suddenly stopped the Tang soldiers who were trying to take the opportunity to attack the city, and when they heard the sound of gold behind them, they had to escort the captured Zheng soldiers back to the camp temporarily.

In the battle, the Tang army broke the Zheng army, annihilated 8,000 enemies, and captured more than 10,000 Zheng soldiers. The Tang army itself also suffered heavy losses, with nearly 10,000 casualties, but it greatly advanced the time to complete the siege of Luoyang, and all the strongholds around Luoyang have been uprooted by the Tang army and become a real lonely city.

Tiger Prison Pass, the crown prince Wang Xuanying, who led the troops to escort the grain and grass, was bidding farewell to his cousin King Jing Wang Xingben: "The war in Luoyang is tight, the Tiger Prison Pass is the east gate of Luoyang, and there is no room for mistakes. ”

Wang Xingben nodded heavily: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, please rest assured, we should do our best to defend the Tiger Prison Pass to the death." ”

As the two of them said goodbye, they suddenly saw a fast horse galloping towards the pass, and the knight on the horse was disheveled, and he must have been running for a long time. The horseman jumped off his horse and almost lost his footing, when the horse beside him screamed and fell to the ground, and died of his strength.

"What happened?" The two hurriedly led the cavalry to the pass and inquired.

"Luoyang...... Defeated......" The cavalry knelt on the ground and wept bitterly.

"Defeated?" The two of them were shocked, "How could you lose?" ”

"The Tang army invited the immortals, and the sky rained thunder and slashed onto the bell tower in the palace......" The knight looked at the dagger on his chest in disbelief, "Why did His Highness ......" Before he finished speaking, he fell to the ground.

"Why are you like this?" Wang Xuanying was shocked.

"This is a meticulous work by the Tang Army, in a vain attempt to disturb the hearts of our army, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does not need to panic." Wang Xingben said with the bloody dagger still on the ground.