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At the head of Shaanxi County, Li Ling, who had calmed down from the shock, personally commanded the west gate of Shaanxi County.

The road from Tongguan to Luoyang is connected through the west gate of Shaanxi County, and the soldiers and horses from the direction of Tongguan want to attack Shaanxi County, and the West Gate must bear the brunt, so Cui Qianyou deployed heavy troops in the direction of the West Gate.

However, the city wall of Shaanxi County is not the tallest and strongest in the direction of the west gate, but in the direction of the east gate and the south gate. Because the construction of Shaanxi County City is mainly used to defend against the attack of the enemy from the east, that is, the main function is to guard against the enemy from the direction of Luoyang, to defend the Tongguan behind and the farther Beijing Chang'an, and the direction of the east gate and the south gate is the direction of the enemy from the east to bear the brunt of the attack, so the construction is the most solid.

It can be said that the west gate is the weakest direction of the construction of the city wall of Shaanxi County, after Cui Qianyou led the army to defend Shaanxi County, although he ordered to increase the height and strengthen the city wall, but it is still not as strong as the east gate and the south gate. But Cui Qianyou is not very worried about this, there are 100,000 men and horses under his command, and the soldiers in Tongguan are only about 100,000.

After Cui Qianyou was summoned to Luoyang by An Lushan, although Li Ling, who was guarding on behalf of Cui Qianyou, was also worried about the Tang army attacking the city, he was not afraid of the Tang army's attack because he believed that there were 100,000 defenders in the city of Shaanxi County.

There are 35,000 defenders in the direction of the west gate, and they can be quickly drawn from other city gates when necessary, although the arrival of the Tang army is a little unexpected, but they have been making preparations to resist the attack of the Tang army, and after the soldiers are a little flustered, the preparations are still done in an orderly manner. Nearly 10,000 archers were already ready at the head of the city, and the rolling stones and trees were all ready to stop, just waiting for the Tang army to rush across the moat and enter the city.

Li Ling believed that the Tang army's attack could be easily repulsed, after all, there were 100,000 horses in Shaanxi County, and the Tang army in Tongguan was only more than 100,000 at most, and they had not undergone systematic training, most of them were participating in the war for the first time, and their combat effectiveness could not be compared with these soldiers with rich combat experience.

But Li Ling soon found out that his guess was wrong, the Tang army did not rush under the city like a tide, but after the battle under the city was completed, there was no movement, what was going on?

Just in Li Ling's doubts, several earth-shattering explosions came from the city, and then the sound of someone shouting and neighing came. Li Ling, who was wondering what was making such a loud noise, suddenly heard a sergeant shouting, "What is that?" When he looked up, he saw a lot of black things with a bright light flying towards the city.

"It's a stone thrown by the Tang Army's stone thrower!" I don't know who shouted, Li Ling also thought so.

But Li Ling immediately knew that his judgment was wrong, and after those black things flew to the city, a large cloud of sparks suddenly burst out, and at the same time as the huge sparks burst out, an earth-shattering sound came, and then a scream and scream rang out.

The first to land on the top of the city and explode was a bag of explosives thrown by a catapult, which happened to explode when it flew to the top of the city.

The explosion that occurred before landing was the most amazing, and the rebel sergeants at the head of the city stood very densely, and the sergeants near the explosion point were knocked down in a large area, one unlucky sergeant was killed on the spot, and the other dozen or so people were the most injured, and the screams of crying fathers and mothers made people listen to very terrifying, and many sergeants who were not bombed nearby but were frightened rushed to flee for their lives.

Tang Jun What kind of powerful weapon is this, they have never seen it, it is too terrifying.

But this was only the beginning, and more terrifying things followed.

Huge explosions sounded one after another in the city, but these explosions were all generated after the explosive package landed, the power was not as great as the first explosive package, but the lethality was also scary enough, each explosive package can cause more than ten people to be killed and injured, and the city was full of people.

Successive loud noises sounded one after another on the top of the city, and countless sergeants fell, and even the city wall was blown down in a large piece, which frightened the large group of sergeants, many of them threw down their weapons and fled, and some of the sergeants thought that God had punished them, and threw their weapons and knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing. But the nightmare of the rebel soldiers was far from over, and this was only the beginning, as the first bomb packs or improvised grenades thrown by the trebuchet were thrown at the top of the city, and after a short while, the "cluster" explosives bags fired by the "unconscionable cannons" that were fired a little later fell, and the real nightmare began.

With a loud "boom", a bag of more than 20 pounds of explosives fell from the sky and exploded near the battlements, and the air wave generated by the explosion immediately lifted off the city wall with a number of soldiers with bows and was ready to shoot, and fell into the moat amid the screams. Several sergeants near the blast site were shattered into pieces, with broken hands and arms flying everywhere, and even their internal organs were blown out.

The tremendous power of the explosion knocked more than 30 sergeants to the ground, and they were injured without dying, and the power generated by the huge explosion shattered a large part of the city bricks, and countless fragments of the city bricks flew everywhere with the blast wave, and many sergeants were injured by the fragments that flew quickly.

Huge explosive packets continued to fly from outside the city, most of them landed on the city, and some of them flew over the city and fell into the city, and a very few failed to fly to the city and fell into the moat and exploded, setting off sparks that rushed in. The huge explosive bag of twenty or thirty catties not only had an amazing explosion, but also caused many soldiers to be stunned by the shock wave and loud noise generated during the explosion. Li Ling, who was shouting at the top of his voice to tell his soldiers not to panic, was stunned by the shock wave generated by the explosion of a huge explosive package that fell nearby.

There was a bit of hell on earth, at least the rebels defending the city had never encountered such a situation. The figure of the other party had not yet appeared under the city walls, and they had suffered such a huge blow. There were explosions everywhere, and there were panicked sergeants running around at that time, and no one could stop them, and many sergeants were in a panic, and when they fled, they fell directly from the city wall, and they were seriously injured if they did not die.

At this time, almost everyone only hated their father and mother for giving birth to two fewer legs for themselves, and they couldn't run away as fast as they could.

The explosive packets that fell from the sky not only did not decrease, but also increased, the explosions came and went, the city was full of black smoke, everywhere the fire of explosions, the surprised and frightened rebel sergeants no longer had the heart to resist, all turned around and fled under the city.

Nearly 100 explosives bags fell, which not only caused great casualties to the rebels at the head of the city, but also destroyed the will of the rebels to resist.

A gust of wind blew some of the black smoke away, and it could be seen that on several sections of the city wall, the rebels defending the city had fled without a trace.