The follow-up army, which was already a semi-mechanized army at the end of the Han Dynasty, was all sappers and led by Gao Shun.

Gao Shun rode on a war horse and escorted the Fujiao cannon to the city, and he shouted: "Li Lang, is this going to attack the city?" ”

Li Qin glanced back at him, waved his hand, and said, "Smash everything that can be smashed, don't be polite to me!" ”

"Okay, the last general has always been unsure of what to call polite!" Gao Shun said with a smile. He turned around and immediately ordered someone to install the horn cannon and prepare for the siege.

The horn cannon used by the current Fujiao army is an upgraded product, and the attack power is stronger than when rescuing Jincheng County, and the gun truck is also much smaller, the accuracy has been further improved, and the weight of the stones fired has also increased a lot, and the most important thing is that there are now two corner cannons!

After the horn cannon was installed, Gao Shun shouted: "Test fire a stone, target the city gate tower!" ”

The Fujiao gunners agreed in unison, loaded a large stone of about 200 catties into the car, aimed it at the city gatehouse, and launched it with a roar!

The big stone roared and flew towards the tower, and in the light of the fire, it hit the battlements in front of the city gate, and immediately smashed the two battlements without a trace, and the big stone also fell outside the city!

Among the Qiang soldiers in the city, some of them have seen the horn cannon, they screamed, this terrible chariot that can make big stones fly, they saw it when they were in Jincheng County, they didn't know what it was, they thought it was a meteorite falling from the sky, but now they all know that this is a trebuchet, and it is a particularly strong kind of trebuchet!

Li Wenhou saw the flying rubble, although this time it was far away from him, he still felt the same way, and stomped his feet and said: "Oh no, the Fujiao army is using this kind of trebuchet again, how can I forget, they have this kind of siege weapon!" "When I was in a hurry, I didn't call myself anymore, but claimed to be me again.

Bian Zhang shouted: "Your Majesty, do you recognize this trebuchet? ”

Li Wenhou said angrily: "Nonsense, of course I recognize it, I have also been smashed!" He called his guards and said, "Open the gates, and go out and destroy the trebuchet!" ”

In the face of the trebuchets of the Fujiao army, it is pointless to block the city gates, this terrible siege weapon can even smash down the city walls, let alone the city gates, the only way to solve this weapon is to draw the bottom of the kettle and destroy them!

It's easy to find, but it's too hard to implement. Of course, Li Wenhou's personal guards and Qiang soldiers are all tough people, but when they heard that His Majesty the Emperor asked them to go out of the city to smash the car, but everyone didn't dare, going out was a death, and the horn soldiers outside could be blocked, not to mention smashing the car, even if they went out of the city for a turn, whether they could come back alive or not was a matter between the two words!

Bian Zhang ran over and shouted: "Your Majesty, there will be brave men under the heavy reward, if the brothers dare to destroy the trebuchet, then when they come back, everyone will be crowned marquis, and ten thousand households will be marquis!" ”

Li Wenhou hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, all of them are sealed as the marquis of ten thousand households, and those who consider themselves warriors will go, go!" ”

A few roars, there are still Qiang soldiers who are not afraid of death, a few of the most powerful Qiang soldiers picked up their weapons, and ran to the city, planning to go out and smash the car! But these few people are too few, not enough to feed the horn soldiers, let alone smash the car, even if it is in front of the trebuchet, there are not one or two hundred people are not enough, a few people are too few!

Bian Zhang saw that most of the Qiang soldiers were still standing still, and he shouted again: "After smashing the car, you don't have to go back to the city, there are all our people outside the city, you go and gather the army, and we will fight together inside and outside, and completely defeat the Fujiao army." Everyone, the moment of meritorious service is just around the corner, if you give up, there will be no more in the future, if you want the scenery, even if you take your life to fight! ”

This sentence is quite effective, whether you can smash the trebuchet, this is not guaranteed, but if you can't hit the trebuchet, but whether you can recruit soldiers, this is easier to do, even if you can't do it, it doesn't matter, turn around and run, now staying outside the city, it's much safer than staying in the city!

When the Qiang soldiers were neutral, dozens of people shouted, and the copying guys ran down the city, and they shouted as they ran, and the people who heard their shouts also copied the guys and ran with them!

Seeing this, Li Wenhou said: "Brother Bian, you still have a way, let them go down in a few words, otherwise I really can't help it!" ”

Bian Zhang said with a bitter face: "This is also forced to be helpless, according to Chen's estimate, half of these people who went down can really smash the car, and they have to thank God!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the second big stone smashed over, and the direction of the smash was much more accurate than the first, and with a loud bang, the city gate tower was smashed! The Qiang soldiers on the city wall all exclaimed, and they all dodged, and they no longer dared to stay near the city gate tower!

Outside the city. Gao Shun saw that the second big stone was hitting the target, and he shouted: "Just shoot again according to this strength, the two cannons are the same target, and you are not allowed to change places!" ”

With a clear goal, it was much easier to just throw boulders, and the Fujiao artillery loaded one boulder after another and threw them at the gate tower! Four or five big stones passed, and the city gate tower, which had already collapsed, collapsed again, and even the city wall was smashed to cracks!

The city wall of Gaonu County is built of earth, only the city gate tower uses some stones, if the same position is repeatedly smashed by big stones, the earthen wall can not stand it!

Two more big stones smashed over, and the gate shook to the ground, and even if the earthen wall was built strongly, it was finally about to collapse!

At this time, the city gate suddenly opened, and countless Qiang soldiers rushed out of the city, screaming, and rushed in the direction of the Fujiao army! But they only rushed out a few dozen people, and when the Qiang soldiers behind were rushing out, they saw another boulder smashed in the sky, not biased or oblique, and still smashed into the city gate tower, and the city gate tower was below the city gate tower, but it was the city gate hole!

There was a loud bang, the city gate collapsed, and the entire city wall was concave in a large piece, and the Qiang soldiers who were in the hole in the city gate and were rushing out were all buried alive in the earth and stones, and they didn't even give the Qiang soldiers a chance to scream, they all confessed!

The Qiang soldiers behind shouted loudly, reined in their horses, hurriedly retreated, and ran to the other city gates along the street into the city, and now they were not going to attack the trebuchet, but to get as far away from the trebuchet as possible!

Li Wenhou and Bian Zhang fell together on the city wall, the city gate collapsed, the vibration was too strong, the entire city wall was trembling, not only did they sit on the ground, all the Qiang soldiers lay down, everyone was terrified, this kind of battle scene, they could not imagine it anyway, it was too strong!

The city is on fire, the scene on the city wall, the Qiang soldiers outside the city can see clearly, there are still countless brave Qiang soldiers are still rushing here, more than 200,000 troops, there are still many brave people. But these brave Qiang soldiers were all shocked when they saw that the gate of the city was smashed by a big stone, and they didn't dare to come, which has nothing to do with whether they are brave or not, but the normal psychological reaction of human beings.

In this era, people are closed to news, there is no TV, no movies, of course, there are no newspapers and the Internet, for the things in the world, many Qiang soldiers are not aware of it, seeing the big stone collapse the city gate, just like modern people see the alien high-tech spacecraft throwing storm bombs to the earth, the initial reaction is at a loss, I don't know how to react!

The moment the city wall collapsed, the Qiang soldiers were stunned, they were so shocked that they couldn't move, but it was only a moment's work, the Qiang soldiers came back to their senses, and they were so frightened that they no longer dared to rush to the Fujiao army, whether they were brave or cowardly, they turned their horses' heads, turned around and ran, ran as far as they could, no one was in the mood to fight again, and they just wanted to save their lives first!

Being hacked to death in battle is death, and being stoned to death is also death, although the result is the same, but almost all the Qiang soldiers do not choose two ways to die, all of them want to live first, and run away frantically!

Li Qinle turned his horse's head and looked into the distance, he couldn't see too far in the night, and he didn't even go beyond his own army as far as his eyes could see, but he felt that the Qiang soldiers were fleeing, and they were fleeing in groups, and now Gaonu County has become a lonely city, and he doesn't want to get any more support!

Smiling, Li Qin said to Jia Xu: "It seems that the trick of raiding is really good, especially the use of horn cannons in the fire, that is, it is good to make it, and then it is better!" ”

Jia Xu was so excited that his face was full of redness, and he said: "Can't let Li Wenhou run away, he definitely doesn't have the intention of defending the city now, he escaped once last time, there are two in everything, he must still escape this time, we have to hurry up to block the city gate, maybe we can catch a live one!" ”

Li Qin said: "Don't think about it, he will definitely flee in the opposite direction, and it must be the East Gate!" He beckoned to the black egg and said, "You take people to the east gate, stick to the moat and go around, and when you reach the east gate, don't start a battle immediately, but fall down, and then fight when you follow seven or eight miles of land." ”

Wu Danzi agreed loudly, ordered two thousand horn soldiers, and walked along the moat to the east gate. Walking along the moat, you can encounter less Qiang soldiers, how can any Qiang soldiers dare to approach the city wall at this time, so the black egg will not be subject to much resistance in the past, and will not pursue immediately, because when Li Wenhou just escaped from the city, there will be a lot of Qiang soldiers around him to protect him, but if he escapes a distance, the Qiang soldiers will begin to flee, and they will not follow Li Wenhou to mix, at this time, the black egg will catch up and start a war, and the maximum result can be obtained!

On the city wall, Li Wenhou and Bian Zhang helped each other to stand up, Bian Zhang said: "Your Majesty, the Fujiao army is sharp, we have to temporarily avoid the enemy's front, otherwise you walk from the east gate, I will resist on the city wall for a while, attract the attention of the Fujiao army, and when it is almost dawn, I will break through from the north gate, and we will join forces in two hundred miles after three days, what do you think?" ”

Li Wenhou said: "North? It's not proper, the north is vast and sparsely populated, suitable for fighting, it's better to rush to the south, there is a prosperous place in Bingzhou, we can coerce the people, so that Li Qin does not dare to attack, we can get time to rest! ”

"South? Okay, then south! After Bian Zhang finished speaking, he sent Li Wenhou down to the city, he himself planned to gather the soldiers, pretend to resist, and delay time!

(To be continued)