Empress Wu didn't expect that a small Li Jingye would defeat the army she sent twice in a row, resulting in Li Jingye's army expanding sharply to 300,000 people like a snowball, and her prestige was declining rapidly, and more importantly, with the continuous advance of Li Jingye's army, now the ministers in Luoyang Palace are in a panic, and some even suggest returning to Chang'an. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is precisely because of this that Empress Wu made up her mind and let Cheng Wuting, the most famous general under her command, lead an army of 150,000 to quell the rebellion, she believed that with Cheng Wuting's talent, she would definitely be able to complete the task and quell Li Jingye's rebellion.

In fact, after several tosses, the remaining troops in Luoyang City are not much, only about 300,000 people, and Cheng Wuting is actually only 100,000 people, and now in order to make up the number, he deliberately transferred 50,000 Tubo troops from Gar Gongren, she believes that even if some of the Tang generals will choose to betray, the Tubo army will never be like this, coupled with Cheng Wuting's ability to command troops, this time it will definitely be able to achieve a big victory.

Empress Wu is not blindly confident this time, later facts have proved that Cheng Wuting's ability to command the army is definitely not false, although it is only 150,000 people, but Li Jingye was defeated in a battle, but Li Jingye quickly learned a lesson, deep ditch and high base, and Cheng Wuting's army launched a confrontation, although Li Jingye experienced a big defeat, but the main force still exists, and also occupies the advantage of troops, such a confrontation makes Cheng Wuting helpless for a while.

But what Empress Wu didn't know was that all her reactions were actually expected by Li Xian, and Li Xian also asked her to transfer the main force of Luoyang out again and again, and then take the opportunity to launch the action herself, of which the transfer of Cheng Wuting was the most important part.

And almost at the same time that Empress Wu dispatched Cheng Wuting's army to leave Luoyang, Wang Fangyi, who had been relegated to Xiazhou to join the army, led an army of 20,000 people, with some strange-shaped weapons from Xiazhou all the way to Luoyang.

During this period, Wang Fangyi passed through Chang'an, and it was customary to inspect Wang Fangyi, including Wang Fangyi's edict to send troops, the number of soldiers, and materials, money, and food, and then report to the Empress Wu in Luoyang, but Liu Renliang, who was in charge of Xijing's left-behind affairs, turned a blind eye to this, and watched this army bypass Chang'an, and then go in the direction of Tongguan.

Wang Fangyi led this army to travel at night, living in barren mountains and dense forests, in addition to those strange weapons on the back of the soldiers, there are more than ten days of dry food and water, these dry food are all dried goods such as jerky, and these dried meat are cured bacon, it is said that this technology is still provided by the new emperor to the Ming and Tang Dynasty merchants, and then pickled by the Ming and Tang dynasties.

"General, can our weapons really be so powerful? It's unbelievable that it's even more lethal than a crossbow. At Wang Fangyi's side, a general asked with a smile.

That general Ling is actually very fateful, it is the only disciple that Li Xian has accepted in his life, and he is also the former master of the Tang Sect Mingtang and the current Sima of Xiazhou, but in fact he is the deputy commander of this army of 20,000 people, Chen Ziang.

And the name of this team was named by the new emperor Li Xian himself, and the name was Shenji Battalion!

I saw Wang Fangyi smile faintly: "Chen Shuai is also the deputy commander of the Shenji Battalion, how can he not have confidence in the combat power he will play?" Hehe, I don't actually blame you, the main thing is that you have been here for too short a time, and you have not seen the great power of these gunpowder weapons at all, if you want me to say, this gunpowder weapon is too powerful compared to crossbow arrows, or that one of the two is in the sky, and the other is underground, there is no comparison at all. ”

"Huh? Is there such a big gap? The commander should also know that just the strong crossbow in the army is enough to shoot the war horse to death, and the soldiers are difficult to stop even if they wear thick armor, how rebellious this gunpowder weapon should be! Chen Ziang looked surprised and asked in a lost voice.

But seeing Wang Fangyi, he sighed softly: "I didn't believe in this matter originally, but once when we were conducting a blasting experiment, the powerful force actually blew up a mountain of more than ten zhang of earth!" Such a powerful force is so terrifying that even the earth trembles, but fortunately we have far more people, otherwise, that single moment would have left thousands of people without bones. ”

"What? Can leave thousands of people without bones at once? Oh my God, what a force this must be? It takes us an hour or two to kill a thousand people in a war, and it's still lucky, but so many people die at once, this, this, alas, is definitely something that people dare not think of. "Even if Chen Ziang is a young ranger and bold, when he heard that this gunpowder weapon was so powerful, he couldn't help but turn pale.

But seeing Wang Fangyi laughed: "Actually, these muskets in our hands are not so powerful, but this thing can pierce the leather armor and directly inflict heavy damage on the enemy, that kind of trauma is even stronger than the crossbow, and it is worth mentioning that it is extremely convenient to carry, not as heavy as the crossbow, and the speed of loading bullets is definitely much faster than loading crossbow arrows." In fact, the biggest threat to the enemy is those iron guys pulled by horse-drawn carriages in the back, this thing is called artillery, and a cannon can collapse a large part of the city wall, and it is not at all that flesh and blood can resist. ”

Wang Fangyi pointed to the iron cannons behind him that weighed one or two thousand catties and were pulled by several war horses, and said with a smile.

When Chen Ziang heard this, he suddenly shuddered, and he couldn't help but sympathize with those who dared to go against the new emperor Li Xian, because in the face of such a powerful weapon, even the city wall was blown down, let alone flesh and blood? They could even imagine the end, they must have been blown up to ashes, which is not like a normal battle, and they can still leave a part of the body, and if they are lucky, they can even leave a whole corpse.

But thinking about it again, he is now the deputy commander of such a powerful army, and the soldiers under his command have such a powerful combat power, and he is very proud in his heart.

Although he did not have a strong desire for meritorious service, his desire to compete with others never stopped.

"Duke Wei, Duke Zhang, Duke Wang, Duke Luo, let's compare together, let's see who has the greater credit, hehe, this time I won't be polite." A smile appeared on Chen Ziang's face and he thought silently. (To be continued.) )