"Ah sneeze......" Li Er, who was outside Luoyang City, sneezed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Your Highness, it's cold outside the tent, so you better go in." Zuo Yu Hou Hou Junji said.

Li Er looked at the sky above Luoyang: "What is that?" ”

Hou Junji shook his head: "I don't even know His Highness, how can I know." ”

"Let's go!" Li Er turned around and entered the military tent, looking at the battle map on the table, "Dou Dejian is also here, Luoyang City is really lively." ”

As soon as the words fell, Liu Hongji, Qu Tutong and other Tang army generals entered the tent.

"Dou Jiande led an army of 100,000 to rescue Luoyang." Li Er's words made the camp tent explode.

When the Tang army first began to attack Zheng State, Dou Jiande wrote a "mediation letter" asking the Tang army to withdraw from Zheng State and return the Zheng State land. Dou Jiande didn't move after writing this letter, he didn't expect that so much time had passed, Luoyang City was already in a precarious situation, and Xia Jun actually came at this time.

"Your Highness," Liu Hongji said, "Our army has been storming Luoyang day and night for many days, and the soldiers are tired, so it is better to return to the court for the time being, and try again in the future." ”

Li Er sat on the handsome seat and bowed his head without saying a word, what Liu Hongji said made sense, the Tang army had been fighting abroad for half a year, Luoyang had been fighting for a long time, and the soldiers did have complaints. But now that Luoyang is at your fingertips, it's a pity to give up like this.

At this time, the generals in the camp spoke one after another, and most of them agreed with the withdrawal.

When Li Shimin was in a dilemma, he suddenly saw a general standing up beside Li Shiji, and looked at it, it was Guo Xiaoke, the prince of Yangzhai County. Guo Xiaoke was also a general of the Wagang Army before, and later voted for Tang with Xu Shiji and was named the Duke of Yangzhai County.

Guo Xiaoke hugged Li Er's fist: "Wang Shichong is based on the eastern capital, the treasury is full, and his soldiers and generals are all Jiang and Huai elites, today's trouble is because of the lack of grain and grass, so we are besieged, and Luoyang is bound to be conquered by our army sooner or later." Dou Jiande's personally commanded army came to help, and he was also the elite unit of the Xia army. If this time the opportunity is lost, the two Kou join forces and use the grain and grass of Hebei to rescue Luoyang, this is the beginning of the war, and the day when the Yanqi will rest is far away, when will the world be unified?

Now our army should be divided into a part to defend Luoyang, deep ditch and high base, if Wang Shichong sent troops, to avoid fighting with him, His Royal Highness can be handsome and sharp, first according to Cheng Gao, strong soldiers, waiting for the arrival of the enemy, our army to wait for Lao Ding to defeat the enemy. Once Dou Jiande is broken, Wang Shichong will also be defeated, and within a month, the Central Plains will be pacified. ”

Guo Xiaoke's words were really well-founded and loud, and for a while, the other opposing voices in the tent disappeared, and all the generals looked at Li Shimin, waiting for his decision.

"Our army is coming in a big way, and it should be done once and for all. The eastern states have been looking forward to the wind and service, but Luoyang is a lonely city, which cannot be long, and the work is in the future, so why abandon it! Li Er categorically stated his attitude.

At that time, he and the generals agreed on a battle plan to encircle the point and send troops to take the military prison first.

After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, because it was necessary to avoid the name of Li Hu, the ancestor of the old Li family, "one of the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty", it was renamed Wugao Pass.

Tiger Prison Pass is connected with Songyue in the south, borders the Yellow River in the north, the mountains are staggered, it becomes a natural danger, there is a husband when the pass is not open, it is the eastern gateway of Luoyang and an important pass, it has always been a place where soldiers must fight.

Now the Tiger Prison Pass is still in the hands of Zheng Jun, because he has always been afraid of the danger of the Tiger Prison, Tang Jun did not choose to attack. But now it's different, the Xia army is coming, if you can control the tiger prison in your hands, then at least you are invincible.

Although Wang Xingben had already killed the cavalry who had passed the news of the siege of Luoyang in time, there was no impermeable wall in the world, and the Zheng army that ran to the Tiger Prison Pass one after another still spread the news to the ears of the guards. In order to prevent accidents, Wang Xingben stepped up his patrols in the customs and strictly forbade everyone to talk about the matter.

Dai Zhou was sent by Wang Shichong to make Wang Xingben's long history, and at this time he was ordered to inspect the military camp at night, when he suddenly heard a voice from the camp tent next to him.

"General Wang's men and horses are already waiting outside the pass, as long as we open the gate, we can lead the army into the pass, Luoyang has been surrounded, I'm afraid it won't last long......"

"Shen Yue!" Dai Xuan opened the tent and went straight inside, "You are so bold!

The people in the tent looked at Dai Zhou in shock, Shen Yue's face was cloudy, and one hand quietly touched the long knife on his waist, Dai Zhou was his old acquaintance, but at this time, he couldn't take care of it so much, once the matter leaked out, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Haha......" Dai Xuan laughed twice, "You want to kill me?" If I shout a few times, you'll all die. ”

"What do you want?" Shen Yue's face was ugly.

Outside the Tiger Prison Pass, Wang Junkuo, the general of the Left Guard, hid in a dense forest with his men and horses, and this time he was ordered to come to capture the Wujiao Pass, and he already had a set strategy in mind. Wujiao Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it can only be outwitted, but Tang Jun has been planning for a long time, and he has already rebelled against Shen Yue, the guard general in the pass, just waiting for this moment to come.

Time passed minute by minute, but the people sent out have not returned, could it be that something happened in the pass?

"General." His soldiers handed him a bag of water.

Wang Junkuo waved his hand, indicating that he was not thirsty, and still looked in the direction of the pass with his feet crossed. In the dark night, there seemed to be a vague figure running towards this side, getting closer, and finally determined that this was the soldier sent out.

"General......" The soldier panted and stood beside him.

"How?" Wang Junkuo asked eagerly.

"The door is open!" The news from the soldiers left the waiting soldiers ecstatic.

The group took advantage of the night to tiptoe in the direction of the Tiger Prison Pass, walked for about two quarters of an hour, and finally saw the gate of the Tiger Prison Pass. The crowd no longer hesitated, and hastened to rush in.

Wang Xingben was tied up in his sleep, and by the time he woke up, the Tiger Prison had already changed hands.

The news of the capture of Wugao Pass was transmitted back to the Tang army camp in Luoyang at noon on the same day, and all the soldiers celebrated with each other, and Li Er immediately led more than 3,000 people to Hugao Pass.

The news of the Tang Army's camp had an abnormality reached Wang Shichong's ears in Luoyang Palace, looking at the ruins of the bell tower that was blown up that day, for so many days, he was puzzled, I don't know what demon method Wang Mai used to raze such a large building to the ground, could this person really know how to spell?

"Is this a spell?" Song Laosan asked with a glaring eye after listening to Wang Mai's description.

"It's not a spell," Wang Mai said angrily, "When the black powder explodes, it will produce enough gas to push the ammunition out of the artillery, understand?" ”

Song Laosan looked at Lao Huang beside him, and Lao Huang also shook his head: "As soon as it sounds here, it explodes over there, isn't this a spell?" ”

"Do you remember those fireworks that were set off on the Shangyuan Festival? A truth. Wang Mai continued to explain.

"Fireworks are spells too?" Lao Huang seemed to understand something.

Wang Mai covered his forehead weakly: "Forget it, you just need to know that this thing is very powerful." I lit a fire on my side, and the door exploded on that side, and it was as simple as that. ”

"So that's how this copper pipe was cast?" Everyone looked at the artillery on the edge of Luoshui, and they were all amazed, if it was really as amazing as Wang Mai said, then Wang Shichong would not be finished soon.

"So," Wang Mai pointed to the bronze cannon body, "let's light it." ”

Lao Huang held a long bamboo pole with a burning torch tied to the head of the bamboo pole, and leaned towards the medicine twist at the tail of the copper cannon tremblingly. After comparing for a long time, I didn't light the medicine twist, and I was shocked to see others.

"Lao Huang, are you okay?" Liu Da said dissatisfied.

"Why don't you try it?" Lao Huang complained, gritted his teeth, lit the medicine twist, and then ran quickly to the side.

The medicine twist has been tested many times, and the burning rate is well controlled, and the sharp-eyed person can see that part of the outside of the cannon body has been burned out.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang, and Wang Mai, who had already covered his ears, immediately looked in the direction pointed by the gun.

"It worked......" everyone was happy.

Wang Mai walked in front of the iron projectile in a few steps, and the success was a success, but the range was very impressive. "Increase the dose." Wang Mai said.

Fired again, the projectile happily flew twice as far as it did at the beginning...... It increased again, and after a loud bang, the traces of the projectile were seen.

Fugui touched his arm, pointed to the tail of the cannon that was still smoking, and did not speak.

"Blown up?" Wang Mai's eyes widened, and he stepped forward to find that the bronze cannon body had cracked.

Everyone looked at each other, and looking at Wang Mai's expression, he knew what kind of "artillery" had failed.

Wang Mai hung his head: "Pull it back and recast ......"

"Wheat, what the hell do you want to do?" Song Laosan asked puzzled.

"Don't we have heavy weapons to attack fortifications? I got this cannon out to blow open a city gate. Wang Mai said dejectedly.

"This thing is so powerful, no matter how thick the copper pipe is, it can't carry it." Song Laosan said.

"It shouldn't be." Wang Mai shook his head, he remembered that there were many bronze cannons in history, why couldn't he do it himself?

"It takes a lot of time to cast such a large copper pipe, what if it doesn't work next time?" Song Laosan asked.

"This ......" Wang Mai sighed, he didn't know the matching of the dosage, he could only rely on repeated attempts to determine, even this projectile was guessed and made, it was too taken for granted, even the most primitive artillery was not so easy to make. Is it true that human life can only be used to fill that bottomless pit?

"If you want me to say, don't you just tie this gunpowder to an arrow and shoot it." Song Laosan pursed his lips.

"It's easy to say, it's too dangerous to do this, and how far can a bow and arrow shoot? When we shoot at the city gate, people will be able to catch us......"

"Of course, ordinary crossbow arrows can't be used, but bed crossbows can ......," Fugui said.

"That thing is clumsy and heavy, it's okay to defend the city, when have you ever seen a bed crossbow for siege, it's not enough for people to be targeted......" Song Laosan denied this proposal.

"If you want me to say, gather people, just fight hard, there are people in Luoyang......" Lao Huang didn't finish speaking, and was choked back by Wang Mai's eyes.

"It was okay two days ago, but the Tang army outside the city didn't know what happened in the past two days, and stopped attacking the city, let's not talk about the strong attack now, it's good if Wang Shichong doesn't come to fight us." Song Laosan sighed and said.

Wang Mai guessed in his heart that Dou Jiande was coming to the rescue, but he didn't dare to tell anyone about it, for fear of causing panic, so he was more anxious than anyone else.

Li Shimin didn't know how long the battle would last, but the people of Luoyang had reached the brink of danger, and Lao Zheng said that the food in the city was not enough for ten days. No wonder Wang Shichong is not in a hurry, he is waiting for everyone to starve to death in the city.