readx; The battle of Xiangzhou has been quiet for three days, this morning, Cheng Qianli went to the city as usual to inspect, he paid special attention to the two hundred paper thunder made by the Hebei Intelligence Hall, he also witnessed the test of this legendary big killing weapon, but it was far less powerful than Cheng Qianli imagined, he had imagined that the power of a thunder, a radius of ten zhang is powder, but in fact, its power only affected one zhang, blowing up the roof and half of the wall of a small wooden house, and a few pigs in the house were frightened to death, that's all, This made Cheng Qianli secretly disappointed in his heart, but he had to praise the amazing power of Tianlei. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Qi Yuhua also felt very frustrated, she had seen the explosion of earth-shaking thunder with her own eyes in Broken Leaves, it could be called earth-shattering, moving ghosts and gods, a thunder explosion, a radius of twenty zhang was powder, and the sound of the explosion could be heard hundreds of miles away, compared with the earth-shaking thunder, the paper thunder they made was a child's toy, but she also couldn't say it, after all, it was made by a special craftsman of the Firearms Bureau, how many years have people immersed in silver, can they make it for the first time as a layman?

Moreover, the sulfur was seriously insufficient, so they could only make two hundred heavenly thunders, and their plan to make up for the lack of power with numbers was also in vain.

Despite this, Cheng Qianli still attaches great importance to these two hundred paper sky thunders, at least their explosions are very loud, which can be described as deafening, and can deter An Lushan's attack.

The paper thunder was placed in a few huts at the head of the city, which were originally used to place the arrows, but now all the arrows were vacated and placed outside, and the two hundred paper thunderbolts were stored in the house, and there were also several rooms for storing fire oil.

Cheng Qianli observed for a moment at the door of the hut, he mainly looked at whether the room was dry, whether it was damp, whether there was any leakage, fortunately, it was kept very carefully, the ground was covered with quicklime, the soldiers guarding around were very conscientious, there was no problem, Cheng Qianli nodded with satisfaction, and said to the captain of the guard: "Whether it is thunder or fire oil, they are very afraid of fire, be careful, if someone approaches the hut, warn first, the warning is ineffective, and you will be killed!" ”

"Yes!"

Cheng Qianli patted the lieutenant on the shoulder, turned around and continued to inspect, just walked a few steps, and suddenly heard someone behind him call him, "General Cheng, please stay!" ”

As soon as Cheng Qianli turned around, he saw that Zhou Yuanlang, the chief general guarding the southern city, was riding a horse and running quickly, he stopped, and after a while, Zhou Yuanlang ran to the front, turned over and dismounted and said: "General, I have an enemy report." ”

"What's the matter?"

Cheng Qianli saw his panicked expression, and he had an ominous feeling in his heart, Zhou Yuanlang stepped forward and said, "General, we found that the enemy troops in Nancheng have suddenly decreased. ”

Cheng Qianli was stunned for a moment, and he immediately said, "Go!" Look at it. ”

A group of people turned over and got on their horses, ran along the head of the city to the south city, a moment, they came to the south city, Cheng Qianli dismounted, walked quickly to the city wall, held the battlements and looked down, from the number of tents, did not decrease, it was still dense and could not see the edge at a glance, and the flags were overwhelming.

"General Cheng, we observe the intelligence of the enemy army every day, on the surface, the number of enemy troops does not seem to have decreased, but in fact, many of them are empty tents, we can see very clearly, many tents have not been entered or exited for a day, and there is another detail."

"What details?"

"General Cheng, please look over there!" Chow Yuenlong pointed to a tent road in the southwest corner.

Cheng Qianli put up the curtain and looked over, only to see several particularly large tents in the southwest corner, which seemed to be the place where the Yan army stored forage.

"General, every morning and evening, there will be more than 100 ox carts to bring in hay carts, but yesterday evening and this morning, only 20 carts were transported, a decrease of 80 percent, doesn't this mean that their strength has decreased? And last night the patrol soldiers did sense movement in the barracks. ”

Cheng Qianli was silent, the evidence was not very sufficient, but if An Lushan really withdrew his troops, where would they go? Could it be that he went to the Yellow River to defend the Anxi army going north? In all likelihood, the river should be frozen by now.

At this moment, a huge sound of leather drums suddenly came from outside the city, "Bang! Boom! Knock ....."

The earth-shattering drums broke the silence of the past three days, and the bell rang at the same time in the west, north, and east, 'Dang! While! While! While! ’

The bell was piercing, this was the bell of the war alarm, and the soldiers in the city began to run towards the city in groups, and the messengers who came from the three city towers reported the urgent reports to Cheng Qianli.

"General, there is movement of the enemy army in the north of the city, and it is starting to assemble!"

"The same is true in the east of the city, where ladders and nest cars have appeared."

"General Cheng, the west of the city is the same, the enemy army is about to attack the city."

"Immediately pass my orders, all the troops will go to the city, and prepare for battle!"

Sweat flowed down Cheng Qianli's forehead, and the three city heads were attacked at the same time, and An Lushan began a full-scale attack.

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After three days of silence, An Lushan's army once again set off a stormy attack, and An Lushan invested 150,000 troops from the east, west, and north directions, and launched a tidal offensive against Xiangzhou City.

The drums beat like thunder, the soldiers rushed like a tide, the ladders, the nest carts, and the battering rams appeared one after another, and the boulders roared across the sky and smashed into the dense soldiers, the dust was flying, the blood mist was filled, and the bones of the soldiers were broken, or they were smashed into meat cakes.....

But the boulder couldn't stop the overwhelming soldiers, and An Lushan's promise seemed to still echo in the ears of the soldiers, 'Those who rush into the city first will be rewarded with 100,000 yuan, and the official will be crowned a general!' Those who kill a soldier of the Tang Army will be rewarded with 20 yuan, and those who kill an officer will be rewarded with 100 or even 1,000 yuan. ’

Under the heavy reward, the Yan army was like crazy, they were not afraid of life and death, and fought hard to attack Xiangzhou City.....

An Lushan sat on the high platform five miles away, squinting to watch the battle, but his mind has been divided into half to go to Hedong, last night, he sent the general Li Guiren to lead 60,000 troops, go to Fukou and enter Luzhou, Hedong, after nearly half a month of luring the enemy, Guo Ziyi has mobilized more than 100,000 troops to fight Shi Siming, Hedong Dao is empty, only tens of thousands of newly recruited militia soldiers remain, vulnerable to a blow, although Li Qingan still has some troops in the area of Daiyunzhou, but the number is not much, An Lushan did not pay too much attention, the key is to take Taiyuan, As long as Taiyuan is taken, Guo Ziyi's army will look south, thinking of this, An Lushan laughed proudly.

Who would have thought that his attack on Xiangzhou was a strategy of 'repairing the plank road in the open and crossing Chencang secretly'?

Just then, there was a 'Boom!' in the distance. The sound of the explosion woke An Lushan from the Hedong strategy, and he hurriedly leaned over and asked, "What kind of explosion was just now?" ”

This voice was too familiar to him, and immediately after, there were several explosions, and some soldiers shouted loudly, "Dashuai, it's the sound of a thunder explosion!" ”

"Ahh

An Lushan exclaimed, stood up suddenly, stared into the distance, and his triangular eyes were round.

The Tang army defending the city finally began to use paper thunder, which was actually a cannon battle in later generations, three feet high and one foot in diameter, but Li Guangbi obviously kept a hand and did not give the most powerful gunpowder formula to Xiangzhou, but gave them the earliest and most primitive gunpowder formula and the production method of paper sky thunder.

Moreover, due to the lack of sulfur in the city, the charge of each paper thunder was not sufficient, and the result was that although the momentum was large, the power was insufficient.

The first batch of twenty paper thunderbolts were thrown with trebuchets, due to the inability to control the speed of the lead, at least eight paper thunderbolts exploded in mid-air, the sound was like muffled thunder, and they exploded above the heads of the soldiers of An Lushan, although the power was insufficient, but after all, this was the first use of gunpowder weapons on the battlefield in the Central Plains, and the degree of fright was greater, many war horses were so frightened that they screamed, and their front hooves were raised high, many soldiers were frightened, they thought of the big explosion outside Youzhou City, and they lay on the ground one after another, holding their heads with their hands, The battlefield suddenly became chaotic.

One by one, the thunderbolts were thrown from the city, and they continued to explode, disrupting the offensive rhythm of An Lushan's army, and even the 40,000 siege troops in the eastern city showed signs of retreat due to fear.

An Lushan has been staring at the explosion of the paper thunder, his eyes are not blinking, this is a heaven-sent opportunity for him to understand the power of the Tang Army's heavenly thunder, how can he let go of this kind of opportunity?

Gradually, An Lushan has seen that more than a hundred heavenly thunders, at least half of them exploded in mid-air, of course, this is related to the projector's lack of experience, and his paper heavenly thunder was the same at the beginning, but An Lushan, who is already very experienced in the heavenly thunder, saw a different doorway from others, these paper heavenly thunders have no lethality at all except for fright, perhaps their most important role is to frighten.

It should be like this, I heard that Li Qing'an used the heavenly thunder in Anxi several times to defeat the Great Food Army and the Tubo people, the Great Food Army is mainly cavalry-based, their war horses are not castrated, afraid of fright, the heavenly thunder can indeed have a good effect on the cavalry, as for the Tubo people, it is better to explain, the Tubo people regard all the different phases as gods, this kind of heavenly thunder, they don't think it is strange that the thunder god appears.

An Lushan looked at the many Khitan and Xi people on the battlefield who were desperately kowtowing in the face of the heavenly thunder, and he was even more determined in his thoughts, this kind of earth-shaking heavenly thunder is indeed very effective against the Yihu people.

"Dashuai!"

A team of cavalry galloped over, they turned over and dismounted, and presented two unexploded paper thunders, "Dashuai, this is a heavenly thunder that has not exploded, the lead has been pulled out, and it will be fine." ”

"Bring it up and I'll see it!"

The two pro-soldiers took the paper sky thunder and put them in front of An Lushan, An Lushan squatted down and studied it carefully, it was basically the same as the paper sky thunder he made in Youzhou, there was no difference.

"Cut it open!"

Several pro-soldiers stepped forward and used sharp daggers to cut through the paper thunder, An Lushan grabbed a handful of gunpowder and smelled it, and twisted it again, the particles were very rough.

He asked in a deep voice, "How many brothers have been killed by the thunder?" How big is the impact? ”

"Returning to the marshal, the scope of a heavenly thunder is about one zhang, and a total of more than 70 paper heavenly thunderbolts exploded in the army, killing and injuring more than 600 people in total, and many brothers were trampled and injured by their own people."

An Lushan couldn't help sneering, is this Li Qing'an's heavenly thunder? boasted so much, but it was nothing more than that, he shook it and threw away the gunpowder in his hand, this kind of paper thunder made him feel disappointed, even if Li Qingan did not give the best heavenly thunder to Cheng Qianli, but a leaf can know autumn, just with these two paper thunders, the heavenly thunder in Li Qingan's hand is not much better.

The desire for thunder that has plagued An Lushan for many years, at this time, is like an old woman with a, and he has no attraction to him, he only feels tasteless......

In fact, it is no wonder that An Lushan, just like saying to a person who has never known about nuclear weapons that the atomic bomb is very powerful, in this person's imagination, it may be a little more powerful than a mortar shell, this kind of fearlessness of the ignorant.

An Lushan immediately ordered: "Immediately reorganize the military horses, attack again, and those who dare to flee and retreat will be killed!" ”

"Boom! Boom! Boom! The offensive drums sounded again, the Tang army's two hundred heavenly thunderbolts had been exhausted, and the once chaotic Yan army gradually regained its calm, and they began to reorganize their ranks and launched a fierce attack on Xiangzhou City again.

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At the head of the city, Cheng Qianli sighed secretly, in fact, after the thunder explosion just now, An Lushan's army was in a mess, and an excellent fighter had appeared, if they could go out of the city at this time, An Lushan's army would inevitably be defeated, but unfortunately the city gate had been blocked by a boulder, and it was difficult for the other party to attack, and they were also difficult to kill, and the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was missed in vain.

And they only have two hundred heavenly thunders, which have been exhausted, Cheng Qianli looked up to the sky and sighed, he bit his lip tightly, and shouted loudly: "The enemy army is attacking again, prepare trebuchets, prepare thunderbolts!" ”

"Kill!"

An Lushan's troops were surging, and the battles between Dongcheng and Xicheng gradually stopped, and the offensive shifted to Beicheng.

Beicheng is the focus of attack and defense, An Lushan invested 80,000 troops in Beicheng, and the Tang army also invested nearly 20,000 defenders in Beicheng, the city head of more than ten miles is full of soldiers, arrows rain down, rolling wood and stones are smashed, a cloud ladder is overturned, and countless casualties are killed.

An Lushan obviously learned from the previous experience, the ladder was reduced to ten, and the nest car was increased to fifty, and the rumbling was pulled by the strong ox, slowly marching towards the city.....

But the Tang army also had a lesson, under the guidance of Li Guangbi's letter, the Tang army in Xiangzhou made 180 large thunderbolts in three days, the principle is the same as the bed crossbow, except that instead of arrows, stones are fired, and each thunderbolt can shoot 30 pounds of stones 500 steps away, and within 200 steps, the destructive power is extremely great.

This thunderbolt is far less lethal to people than a boulder thrown by a trebuchet, but it is the nemesis of large siege weapons.

Shot out in a straight line within two hundred steps, the target was accurate, and the stones whistled out, flying like meteors, drawing a low-level parabola, 'Boom! With a bang, several stones hit a nest car from several directions at the same time, and suddenly the bracket broke, and three nest cars fell apart and collapsed, and more than 100 soldiers in the car were killed and wounded, crying, screaming.

The Tang army's thunderbolt chariots exerted great power, and within one hundred and fifty paces, all fifty nest chariots attacking Beicheng were destroyed, and in just one and a half hours, An Lushan's army suffered more than 8,000 casualties.

"When! While! While! ”

Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, An Lushan ordered the temporary withdrawal of troops, and the siege soldiers retreated like a tide, and calm was temporarily restored outside Xiangzhou City.

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'Bang! With a bang, An Lushan smashed the golden helmet on the ground, pointed at An Shouzhong and scolded: "This is the nest car you are talking about, it was all destroyed before it got close to the city wall, and even the eggs were broken, how did you pat your chest and promise me last night?" ”

An Shouzhong knelt on one knee on the ground and said ashamedly: "My subordinates really didn't expect them to use the thunderbolt, why didn't I use it last time, but this time, my subordinates really don't understand." ”

"You bastard, are you an idiot for someone else? They were almost taken down by the nest car last time, won't they learn their lesson? ”

"Humble duty knows mistakes, please give the lowly position another chance, I will use the tunnel to attack the city, if it fails, please punish the commander together!"

"Good! Then I'll give you another chance. ”

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(To be continued)