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"Immediately report to the marshal, the rebels are ready to flee from the direction of the east and south gates!" Pang Zhong, who had already received reports from several directions and had roughly understood the situation in the city of Shaanxi County, deduced that after our army entered the city and was quickly defeated, the rebels flocked to the east gate and the south gate to escape from the direction of these two city gates, and immediately ordered his own soldiers around him to report the news to Yang Xi, who was in command outside the city.

This battle went very smoothly, and it can be said that Pang Zhong was the most proud in the course of his life, and the city of Shaanxi County, which was guarded by 100,000 male soldiers, turned into an undefended city in an instant. Such a battle situation was something he had never dreamed of.

The power of gunpowder is so great, the rebels scattered and fled after being attacked, which is a bit incredible, you must know that the 100,000 horses guarding Shaanxi County were originally the elite border army of the Tang Dynasty, no matter what the circumstances, they should not be crushed at the touch of a button.

But this situation really happened, after Pang Zhong led the soldiers into the city of Shaanxi County, they encountered no resistance at all, and after the soldiers threw out the improvised grenades they carried, even the rebels of hundreds or thousands of people immediately scattered and fled, and even stampeded because of the struggle for the passage to escape. Pang Zhong also accepted this fact after leading his men and horses to rush and kill for a while, and did not encounter any resistance.

He is a fierce general who has been fighting for a long time, and he can quickly adapt to the situation on the battlefield when fighting, and since the battle situation is like this, the next thing he wants to think about is to expand the results. There are 100,000 rebels in the city of Shaanxi County, and if these 100,000 horses can be wiped out and captured, the blow to the rebels will be immeasurable. After Pang Zhong received the sergeant's report that a large number of rebels were preparing to flee from the east and south gates, he immediately asked Yang Xi to be informed, hoping that Yang Xi could send men and horses to stop the attack. If Yang Xi sent tens of thousands of horses to pursue the defeated rebels, it was likely that he could annihilate all of them. Even if it cannot be completely annihilated, it can deal a devastating blow to it.

However, what Pang Zhong didn't expect was that Yang Xi had already considered these in advance.

Liu Guangting, who received his order, had already led more than 10,000 men and horses to quickly kill in the direction of the east gate, and Wang Sili, who came quickly behind, did not want to miss the battle exploits, after receiving Yang Xi's order, he also personally led 10,000 horses, threw down his baggage, and quickly killed in the direction of the east gate and the south gate.

Unlike Liu Guangting, who was full of passion and heroism and wanted to reap military merits as soon as possible, Wang Sili had already regretted very much that he had accepted the mission of the soldiers and horses behind him, so that he missed today's very shocking and almost one-sided battle.

Such a war may not be encountered once in a lifetime, but now that it has happened, he has almost no chance to participate.

If there is no gap between him and Yang Xi, Yang Xi will not entrust him with the post of leading the rear army, then he can win admirable military exploits in this war. should not alienate Yang Xi, the actual leading marshal, because of the attraction of the crown prince Li Heng.

However, regret is regret, Wang Sili still hopes to make up for this regret, take advantage of the defeat of the rebels, annihilate a certain number of rebels, and put the glory of military exploits on his head. He also gave a death order, ordering all the soldiers of the army to rush to the east and south gates of Shaanxi County at the fastest speed they could achieve, striving to kill more enemies and get a piece of the pie from Liu Guangting.

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Before Cui Qianyou left Luoyang, although he made very careful arrangements and ordered many henchmen to stay behind to guard Shaanxi County, in the face of the Tang Army's fierce "artillery" siege, they had never seen the power of gunpowder, and they were in chaos in an instant. The huge shock and lethality of the explosives made all the soldiers panic, and when the explosives bags kept falling on the top of the city, all they wanted to think about was to find a place to hide to avoid being killed by the explosives, or to run away, and they didn't even care about the weapons in their hands.

When the Tang army began to attack the city, Li Ling personally went to the city to command, but he also had never seen such a siege battle, after the explosive bag fell, he was shocked by the huge explosion power, and was finally stunned by the air wave generated by the explosion of a nearly thirty pound explosive bag that fell beside him. Many of the sergeants around him thought that Li Ling had been killed, and they became more and more panicked, and the frightened generals were not able to organize resistance at all.

Li Ling was then carried by the loyal guards to flee the city, and after escaping for a while, he came to his senses, and saw that the city was in chaos, countless soldiers were only concerned about fleeing for their lives, and the rebels had rushed into the west gate.

But when the city is in turmoil, it is difficult to escape.

There were more than 30,000 sergeants who fled desperately from the direction of the West Gate, and the escape of these sergeants affected the defenders of the other city gates. After the defenders in the direction of the east gate and the south gate swayed between defending and fleeing for a while, they saw a large number of soldiers rushing to the west gate and forming a mess, which directly led to the defenders in the direction of the two gates also losing their fighting spirit.

The gates were finally opened, and the desperate rout rushed out of the city before the drawbridge could be lowered, fearing that the powerful explosives would fall on them again, and many jumped into the moat. It was already early winter, and the river was very cold at night, and some of the sergeants who could not swim sank into the icy moat and never came up again. Many were trampled to death, some fell straight off the walls and lost their lives, but many more rushed out of the city through the gates where the drawbridges were lowered.

Rushing out of the city, many people ran as if they had been granted amnesty.

But the bad luck did not end there, just as the rout fled from the city in large numbers, an earth-shattering shout of killing was heard from the west.

The defeated soldiers were horrified to see that in the direction of the west of the city of Shaanxi County, countless torches were scattered into dots, moving quickly in this direction, and the sound of killing came from that direction. "The Tang Army is chasing and killing!" I don't know who shouted. This shout was more like a spell of urgency, which dealt another blow to the already fragile hearts of the rebel soldiers. Both on horseback and barefoot fled with the greatest force they could, and the whips in the hands of the riders were drawn vigorously on the horses, and everywhere there was the sound of people shouting and neighing. And those sergeants who failed to grab the horses could only use their legs to flee in the opposite direction from which the Tang army was pursuing.

But the chaotic rout, how can the rapid escape be compared to the Tang army's pursuers, who have already exerted their speed to the extreme, and after a while, the Tang army sergeants who are quickly pursuing rushed into the rebel rout.