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Listening to the sound of explosions in his ears, he saw that the officers and men of the people's army around him were like the wind blowing wheat waves, and every time the cannon sounded, they fell down miserably. The artillery on the upper floor of Pingliang City is continuous, and there is no complete land where the Chinese army is located, and there are explosions everywhere and miserable howls everywhere.

Huang Ziren's hands and feet were cold, his whole body was trembling, and he looked around, the smoke of the sentinel in the Chinese army was billowing out, and there were not many people who could still stand upright in the choking smoke.

From Pingliang City Tower to Huang Ziren's front of the Chinese army, the former master is separated by the forward battalion, across the artillery camp, and the distance between the city tower and the Chinese army of the people's army, even if there are no 800 meters and 500 meters, it is absolutely impossible for the ordinary Ming army artillery to have such a long range, and in the past, the artillery of the Ming army was often sprayed out of a large piece of iron, with some broken iron pieces and other things in the middle to enhance the lethality.

And this time, the cannonballs shot from the tower of Pingliang City hit the crowd, like the sound of fried beans, and the sound of Pu Pu was endless.

Shotshot! Definitely a shotshot! Huang Ziren is no stranger to this kind of sound.

Huang Ziren watched Ye Yanqing being bombarded with a sieve, and after falling to the ground, his chest was scorched black, and Gao Yingxiang, who was known for his courage and bravery, was like crazy, opening his only remaining left eye in horror, covering his right eye with both hands, and black blood gushed out from between his fingers.

He swayed, not arguing with his position, and raised his head to the sky and screamed: "Ah! It hurts me! ”

Huang Ziren was terrified, although he didn't know when Xu Liang had such a powerful artillery, but at this moment. He just wanted to run, and he ran as fast as he could. What prestige, status. Ambition is gone. He just wanted to escape, as much as he could, out of the range of the inexplicable artillery.

In the smoke of gunpowder, he jumped and ran like a frightened rabbit, and fled backwards without hesitation.

Upstairs in Pingliang City, another round of artillery fired......

The moment the artillery suddenly erupted from the upper floor of Pingliang City, Gao Zilin, the military advisor hidden in the forward battalion, was alarmed, but he turned around following the sound of the cannon. I saw that Huang Ziren's position in the Chinese army was in a cloud of gunsmoke, people were neighing on their backs, their bodies were broken, their arms were broken, flesh and blood were flying, and the people's army was screaming and falling down in pieces.

Gao Zilin almost couldn't believe his eyes, even if he boasted of his strong martial arts and was as light as a swallow, under the shroud of such artillery fire, he couldn't help but fall in his heart. I was terrified.

The Chinese army was in the smoke of gunpowder, and I don't know how many dead and wounded people were in the smoke, the handsome flag fell, and the drumming stopped. General Huang's ornate carriage, which represented identity and power, was blown into a cloud of sawdust.

The people's army stared dumbfounded, in disbelief, at what was happening in front of their eyes. Until the surviving Chinese troops began to howl like madness and scattered, some of them stormed the other battalions.

Fear spreads much faster than expected. It doesn't take many words to explain, 100,000 people's troops. A huge phalanx suddenly erupted into a frightened scream. The various armies and battalions of the people's army did not care for anyone, and they scattered and fled.

On the castle tower, the sound of powerful and terrifying artillery sounded again, and this time the target was aimed at the two dozen cannons.

The east gate of Pingliang City was wide open, Wan Wenshan, the owner of the cavalry battalion of the Liang Army, took the lead, led two thousand cavalry of the Liang Army to rush out of the city gate, and killed the scattered and fleeing people's army.

On the battlefield outside Pingliang City, the battle situation showed a one-sided trend, the civilian army was on the run, and the official army was chasing and killing.

The sound of artillery on the tower continued for a while, and the artillery stopped firing until the Ming army appeared within the range of the artillery, so as not to injure their own people by mistake.

There was a cheer on the castle tower, and all the people waved their weapons vigorously, holding hands with the unfamiliar robes next to them, laughing and dancing.

Shaanxi political participation Hong Chengchou's lips trembled, squatting in front of an artillery gun on the city tower, stroking the barrel with both hands, excited to tears, looking at Xu Liang, "This, this is the Flying Eagle Cannon?" ”

Xu Liang smiled and nodded, the Flying Eagle Cannon has always been the core secret of the entire Liang Army, jointly built by the Tsing Yi Guard Arms Department and the military craftsman Chen Yu, Wang Dazhuang and others, and then after several improvement tests, finally caused thirty-six Flying Eagle Cannons, each cannon with ten shells, equipped with a fire sickle ignition, using a combination of bolts and buckles, the gun body is light, the firing range is long, and the lethality is considerable.

Xu Liang has never made up his mind to let the Flying Eagle Cannon appear on the battlefield, until today's life-and-death battle.

Hong Shenzheng nodded again and again, and shouted repeatedly: "Good, good, good, our army has this artillery, like divine help, why worry about the people's army not being destroyed!" ”

Then he stared at Xu Liang and said, "Guozhong, our army has this artifact, it's time to fight back." ”

Xu Liang couldn't bear to dampen Hong's enthusiasm for participating in politics, but the difficulty still had to be clarified. He pulled Hong Shenzheng aside, waved his hand and asked the artillery battalion owner Sima Qiudao to lead people to move the thirty-six flying eagle cannons down the city tower.

Pulling Hong Shenzheng down the city tower, Xu Liang said to Hong Shenzheng with a wry smile: "Lord Hong, although the Flying Eagle Cannon is sharp, there is a biggest problem at the moment. ”

"What?"

Xu Liang rubbed his hands and patiently explained: "That's the shell of the Flying Eagle Cannon, which is extremely expensive. ”

The two talked as they walked, and Xu Liang patiently told Hong Shenzheng about the problem of the Flying Eagle Cannon.

Xu Liang had to admit that the Flying Eagle Cannon was powerful and had a long range, but the Flying Eagle Cannon itself had a problem that was difficult to overcome at present. First of all, the cost of the cannon body is extremely expensive, and the cost of manufacturing a flying eagle cannon, including the cannon body and shells, is tens of thousands of taels of silver. Even more important is the quality of the gunpowder. The gunpowder used in the Flying Eagle Cannon must be specially made by the Arms Department, and if the gunpowder made in the Ming Dynasty is selected, not only the range will be greatly reduced, but it will also be easy to be a squib and blow up.

This further increases the cost of the Flying Eagle Cannon shells. The munitions department specially reported to Xu Liang that the cost of a shell was about 500 taels of silver.

With such a high cost, even if the Xu Mansion itself has the huge family property of the Lou family, and the business income of the Xu Mansion is supported, Xu Liang has built thirty-six flying eagle cannons, which is the limit of what he can bear at present. If you build more, the Xu Mansion will be declared bankrupt.

Hong participated in politics and listened, and the high cost of the Flying Eagle Cannon. It's also staggering. He hesitated and said, "Just now you said that the gunpowder used in the Eagle Cannon is extremely expensive. The official remembered that the court had allocated a lot of gunpowder and brought it over. Can it be purified and refined and used in the Flying Eagle Cannon? ”

Xu Liang still smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "It's useless." I have long experimented with the fact that if the ready-made gunpowder is refined, it cannot be heated and is very easy to explode, and in order to test this, our munitions department also sacrificed five munitions craftsmen in vain. To make gunpowder for the Eagle Cannon, it must be sulfur and nitrate before mixing. These things are extremely difficult to obtain. ”

Hong Shenzheng was silent, looked up at Xu Liang, and asked the most critical question, "How many times can Liang Jun fight a shell like today?" ”

Xu Liang said regretfully: "The Sima battalion master has counted it, and there are less than thirty shells left, if you save a little, you can still support a battle." ”

Hong Shenzheng groaned: "Can't you make more of it?" ”

Xu Liang was suddenly heartbroken. Pounding his chest, he paused, "Money, Lord Hong, it costs a lot of money to make cannonballs." Moreover. When the munitions department runs out of sulfur and nitrate, there is money, and it cannot be made. ”

Hong and Xu Liang were silent. For a long time, they all let out a sigh.

When Xu Liang and Hong participated in politics to discuss the matter of the Flying Eagle Cannon. Gao Zilin was being pursued by the Liang army, running all the way to Fengxiang Mansion.

The 100,000 people's army was defeated too quickly. Too suddenly, Gao Zilin was dressed as an ordinary civilian soldier, and was wrapped by the fleeing civilian army, and fled in the direction of Fengxiang Mansion, not far behind him, there were two thousand Liang cavalry led by Wan Wenshan, the owner of the Liang cavalry battalion, and chased the civilian army all the way.

Several times, Gao Zilin wanted to turn around and step forward to stab Wanwen Mountain, which was rushing to the front, with a sword, but he wanted to turn back, but the civilian army around him did not cooperate, ignored Gao Zilin's shouting and scolding, and fled faster around Gao Zilin.

Gao Zilin felt very aggrieved and helpless.

After retreating into the territory of Fengxiang Mansion, the pursuing Liang army stopped and returned to Pingliang on alert.

Shiyao Pass is the closest pass from Fengxiang Mansion to Pingliang Mansion. Most of the civilian troops who fled into Fengxiang Mansion gathered here. Gao Zilin entered the pass, met with the one-eyed king Gao Yingxiang, counted the troops, and suddenly felt cool in his heart.

100,000 people's troops, those who died, those who fled, those who scattered, and finally those who could still gather in the stone kiln pass, less than 20,000. The damage to the troops, or light, the soldiers are gone, it's a big deal to return to Fengxiang Mansion and Hanzhong Mansion, you can also recruit again, these years, the people are generally not full, and there are many people who are willing to follow the people's army.

Compared with the loss of troops, another consequence is the most severe. Because the flying eagle cannon shot from the upper floor of Pingliang City was too ruthless, too sudden, too unexpected, and it was before the siege of the people's army, the three drums of the people's army representatives were not finished, and the main generals of the people's army gathered in the Chinese army! The result was tragic, and most of the generals of the people's army surrounding Huang Ziren were bombarded by artillery to meet the king of Hades. King Gao Yingxiang had a big life and lost his right eye, but he finally picked up a life. Because the military advisor Gao Zilin was still thinking of mixing in with ordinary soldiers and waiting for an opportunity to assassinate Luo Rucai, the vanguard officer of the Liang Army, when he was using the flying eagle cannon, Gao Zilin was not in the Chinese army and escaped a catastrophe.

Thousands of troops are easy to obtain, but one general is hard to find. If the soldier dies, he can recruit again, and if he is gone, then there is really no recruitment. It is undeniable that there are occasionally one or two brave and resourceful talents in the people's army, but the vast majority of the people who are willing to follow and fight against the court are poor people, poor and white, illiterate, and belong to the kind of goods that the mud can't support the wall.

Re-cultivating a group of leading generals is not only time-consuming, but also laborious!

In the stone kiln guard's mansion, the military advisor Gao Zilin and the king of Chuang, Gao Yingxiang, sat opposite each other around a small round table, and the stone kiln guard carefully accompanied him.

The small round table is full of wine and exquisite dishes. However, Gao Zilin and Gao Yingxiang had no appetite.

The military advisor and King Chuang had no appetite and had a sad face, and the stone kiln guards were even more cautious when they sat with them.

The guard held the wine jug in his hand, added wine to the two, sat for a while, and tried to add wine, but found that the wine glasses of the two were full and had not moved.

Gao Zilin and Gao Yingxiang's faces were gloomy and silent. The guard felt that his pestle was a little redundant and annoying in the house, so he gently put down the flask, confessed to the two of them, crept out, and closed the door again.

There were only two people left in the house, Gao Zilin and Gao Yingxiang.

The two sat silently for a while, Gao Zilin suddenly picked up the wine glass, tilted his neck, snorted, drank the glass of wine in one gulp, and sighed to the sky: "Miscalculation, I didn't expect Xu Liang to have such a powerful artillery!" ”

Hearing this, King Gao Yingxiang reached out and straightened the bandage on his right eye, although the blood in the abandoned right eye socket had already condensed, it was still hot for a while, swollen and painful.

Gao Yingxiang recalled the scene when the artillery landed and the stump and broken arm flew around, and he still had palpitations.

"Ruthless, so ruthless." Gao Yingxiang's lips trembled, and the words he said changed tone. "Xu Liang must have possessed such a terrifying artillery for a long time, but he has been holding back, until our army gathers under the city, he will put out the artillery, one cannon is invincible!"

Sizzle, Gao Yingxiang inhaled the cool air, and covered his right eye with his right hand tighter.

Gao Zilin poured himself a glass of wine, drank it again, hissed the wine, was extremely depressed, and muttered to himself: "Xu Liang has always been scheming, I should have thought that Xu Liang took the initiative to give us a war contract, and there must be some unpredictable killing moves waiting for us." It's a pity that we are still paralyzed and careless, and we have fallen into this kid's way! ”

Gao Yingxiang sighed, "Xu Liang has such a sharp weapon, who else is his opponent in the world?" Strategist, it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's withdraw to Hanzhong Mansion, right? ”

Gao Zilin groaned, shook his head slightly, and said categorically: "The stakes of that artillery are the stakes, but I estimate that Xu Liang himself doesn't have much of such an anti-heaven thing, otherwise, how can he wait until we attack Pingliang City, and he would have killed it with that artillery!" ”

Gao Zilin's eyes flickered, looked at Gao Yingxiang, and said faintly, "If such a beneficial object can be owned by the Fragrance Sect for me, then the great cause of this sect is just around the corner!" He suddenly got up, clenched his fists, and said fiercely: "We must get this thing in our hands, at any cost!" ”

Gao Yingxiang listened and nodded slowly. He thought of another thing, and couldn't help frowning and asked: "Military advisor, after Huang Ziren was bombarded, he has not been missing, I don't know if he is alive or dead." He is a candidate for the Holy Son of this sect, and if he also has an accident, if the sect leader asks about it, we will not be able to explain it. ”

Gao Zilin sneered disdainfully: "What Holy Son! On the same day, Huang Ziren killed Zhu Zijian, the king of Shunyi, and usurped the throne. This son of a wolf is ambitious, ruthless, and a white-eyed wolf who can't be fed, if he dies, it will be fine, and the people's army will be under the control of my Smelling Fragrance Sect! ”

Some people just don't talk about it, say Cao Cao, and Cao Cao appears. As soon as Gao Zilin's words fell, the guards of Shiyao Pass rushed in, and reported excitedly to Gao Zilin and Gao Yingxiang: "Military Division, King Chuang, good news!" General Huang, he's back! (To be continued......)