Heavy snare drums rumbled, shaking Qunu City in all directions. [This site has a new domain name. initials, previously registered accounts can still be used]

More than 70,000 soldiers were exchanged in the city, plus the rebels themselves were no less than 150,000, and during the year, the Min State secretly pursued an ulterior policy.

Shiva sect is the largest sect in Brahmanism, since the beginning of the rebellion, there is a steady stream of members of this sect in Beitianzhu to set off to join the rebels, especially the Shiva Brahmins in various places also secretly encouraged, after the victory of the north and south of Fujian, the Qunu city was surrounded, intentionally or unintentionally, the magistrates who re-inaugurated in various places still acquiesced in these Shiva sects, and even the Brahmins in the temple secretly set off to join the Qunucheng rebels.

Wrapped in a number of rammed earth walls and ditches that were deliberately built very shallow and low outside the city of Qunu, in fact, they were left for these people, and they were filled with religion, and people sometimes became unreasonable, and Li Jie, who had experienced a rebellion, no longer had the patience to change them with Chinese civilization, so he simply let them go.

Staying in the local area is a scourge, and it is better to concentrate on it all at once, so in the secret propaganda of Fujian, from Bengal to Punjab, at least 40,000 to 50,000 Brahmanical fanatics have left their homes to join the war.

Even after getting rid of the enemies who starved to death in a year, Min officials estimated that they were still facing more than 160,000 rebels at least.

Although the elite and equipment are not the same, even if 160,000 rabbits are killed, they will be killed for a while, so the Tang army is still very cautious in dealing with it, and various engineering units are in full swing to prepare for the attack, bed crossbows, gunners and crossbowmen are nervously aiming at the arrow tower of the city wall, and tens of thousands of stragglers are wearing armor and rushing out.

"Capture the city walls, open the gates, and return your freedom, and those who have made meritorious deeds will be rewarded with land, and if you do not retreat, you will be beheaded on the spot, and you will prepare, and you will wait for orders!"

One by one, the commanders of the Tang Army brandished their sabers and roared loudly, and more than tens of thousands of captives of the Shalou were also clenched their swords and the ladder on their backs, nervously preparing.

In the pre-Qin era, the Qin people relied on assembly line operations, and five million people could create weapons and armor that swept across the six countries for a million army.

However, because of the standard sword in his hand and the standard armor on his body, these were either captured in the war, or the prisoners of war sold by the Tubo people believed in the promise of the Fujian State, and the stimulation of freedom and land made the excited eyes of a group of people who covered the Lou Qi were blood-red, and they were engrossed in waiting for the herald to give the order.

In the telescope, looking at the always empty city wall, Li Jie always frowned, the huge demolition of the fortifications of the Fujian State, if he couldn't guess that a large-scale attack was imminent, he Palawa would not have to rebel, not to mention that there was a scar Liu.

As for starving to death when the food is exhausted? Li Jie didn't believe it, but in front of him was Qunu City, once the capital of Tianzhu, in order to exchange prisoners of war, he also paid a large amount of food, and in the past year, there were Tianzhu people from other places who fled to the city, bringing more or less some food, even if the vast majority of people starved, it was impossible for the whole city to starve to death.

The only possibility, there is an ambush!

However, even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire behind the city wall, the Fujian State still has to step through the city and put down the binoculars, Li Jie took the Lingqi with his own hands and commanded it suddenly, and the captains of all roads who looked at the Dianjiangtai all seemed to be amnesty, especially the several captains at the forefront, who waited for a long time with their arms open, as if catharsis, they cut down the Xueliang war knife in their hands fiercely, and shouted loudly: "Fire!" ”

The huge copper pipes with steel hoops were put in place by the soldiers, and the steel drills, which had been burned red in the charcoal fire for a long time, were stabbed into the butt of the cannon by the soldiers, and immediately, the white smoke rose into the sky, and for a long time, the human ears recovered some hearing from the huge shock, and they could feel the roar and vibration.

Boom boom boom~

It was really like a muffled thunder, and even the generals were shaken, and the Tang army used artillery only four times in total, the first time in the Battle of Goguryeo, tens of thousands of Quanjia sailors were buried, and the second time the ship-breaking cannon was ambushed on the cliff where the Japanese army did not break through, and the artillery fire was powerful when the Japanese army was crowded in the narrowest part of the checkpoint.

These two times were dismantled ship guns, more than 1,000 catties of copper cannons, the firing range was only a few hundred meters, the rate of fire was slow, and the loading was troublesome, at that time Li Jie did not have the confidence to use this thing on a large scale in the war, until later, a certain craftsman had a flash of inspiration and used the steel hoop of the hoop barrel to hoop the cannon barrel, which allowed the artillery to enter the army slightly.

In the decisive battle in the north, the Tang army also used artillery, but limited to the limited amount of gunpowder, the usage was quite like a mine, far away Lu Dongzan did not see clearly, the fourth decisive battle outside Xiliu City, the artillery destroyed 300,000 Lou Qi's army The sharp power once again made the eyes of many generals shine, and on a larger scale, artillery was used in the Zhuwei Mansion.

This time, there are enough 400 cannons on all sides of Qunu City, this time it is different from the last long-distance cannon, the front of the cannon is slender, the back of the cannon is thicker, and a skylight is opened on the thick belly, after each cannon, the Tang army will use a steel hook to remove the barrel of the cannon from the cannon, dissipate heat, and pour the medicine, and the sergeant at the other end carries another cannon barrel filled with gunpowder into the main gun.

This is an imitation of the Ming Dynasty Fran cannon, the famous mother-and-child gun, the mother gun heavy cannon bears most of the pressure, and each gun is equipped with nine guns that can greatly increase the rate of fire, which is the world's earliest breech gun.

Speed and power have always been the two tangled development trends of early artillery, it seems that Li Jie always cares about the former, and this time the Min State is not confident that its artillery power can destroy the stone wall of Qunu City, it is better to use the fast rate of fire of the Fran cannon to suppress the effect, four hundred are all such rapid-fire guns, in the white smoke set off by a large piece of gunpowder, only the fire set off by the explosion of the flowering bomb can be seen on the general's platform.

The outer skin is made of lead-iron alloy, the inside is filled with gunpowder, and the other end is the ignited ignition powder, which also originates from the flowering shell technology of the Ming Dynasty, when the cannonball smashes on the city wall, the ignition powder also burns to the head, and the violent explosion will pop out the sharp metal fragments inside and the bullet skin, blooming a flower of death.

The violent explosion sound was isolated from the thick smoke and dust, which made Li Jie helpless to put down the binoculars again, and the spectacular scene saw a group of Fujian **** generals who had experienced the battle of Xiliucheng in amazement, and the high-ranking nobles of several vassal countries who accompanied him were as pale as earth.

"The god of light and shadow has sent down divine punishment!" With a plop, the Persian prince Belus actually recited the "Persian Ancient Scriptures" as soon as his legs were weak and knelt on the ground, Lu Dongzan's face was not much better, and his round face, which was originally red and fat, was as white as a steamed bun at this time.

The original powerful bed crossbow of the Fujian State also became eclipsed by the artillery fire.

In just a few minutes, the West Gate 100 guns and nine guns were finished, and the extra loading was done and four more shots, at the same time, the bed crossbow fired four rounds, it is estimated that the digging arrows have densely covered a city wall, and the cannon stopped, and the Tang military captain at the front was stunned for a while, and then he reacted, waving the Tang knife and shouting in annoyance: "Charge, charge!" ”

The rumbling snare drum sounded, and tens of thousands of Shalouqi prisoners of war who were still kowtowing to God on the ground picked up their war knives as if they had just woken up from a dream, and the momentum was like a rainbow, and they carried the cloud ladder and plunged into the vast gunpowder smoke amid the shouts of killing to the sky.

"Lu Xiang, is this instrument of my Fujian country profitable?"

Lu Dongzan was still immersed in shock, and after a while, he came back to his senses, looking at Li Jie's show-off eyes, Lu Dongzan couldn't help but have a complicated face, and nodded heavily: "The sharp weapon of the Fujian Kingdom cannot be resisted unless it is a god." ”

Since the first time King Shuo disturbed his relatives in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Jie continued to give him all kinds of troubles that were difficult to deal with, so that Lu Dongzan, who had always been proud, was helpless like a mountain blocking the way, and finally the interests of the two countries came together, and Tubo did get rich with it, but every time Lu Dongzan still had a feeling of being deceived.

This time, Li Jie gave Lu Dongzan a blow on the armament he was proud of, not to mention the effect, the magnificent attack just now, the earthquake-like effect made Lu Dongzan dumbfounded.

"Hahaha, a little trick, Lu Xiang's praise." Laughing heartily, Li Jie waved his hand, which made Lu Dongzan even more depressed, saying that you are fat and still panting?

didn't continue to show off, and didn't even care about the battle situation of the city wall, Li Jie instead opened the topic and talked about the Tibetan issue.

"This time, Xiangxiong Guoxing troops are on the side, I don't know how to deal with Lu Xiang, do you need help from Fujian?"

Looking at Li Jie's sudden kindness, Lu Dongzan's heart suddenly rose again, Fujian assisted the Japanese state, the surname of the Japanese country is Li, the Fujian country aids the Lin Yi country, and now the Lin Yi country is gone, the Min country enters Tianzhu or under the guise of aiding the prince of the Jieri Dynasty, that poor mud can't support the wall, but as today, the streets and alleys of Zhu are full of Tang people, and the former prince of the Jieri has disappeared to the corner where he doesn't know, and now, Li Jie is kind enough to help Tubo fight?

Raising 120,000 vigilance, Lu Dongzan's head shook into a rattle: "The old King of Min is bothered, Xiangxiong is just a small group of bandits, a poor and sour country, while the main force of our country is not here, he dares to turn over and plunder, it is estimated that the Tubo army has not waited for some Luo, and the Xiangxiong villain should also retreat and flee, for this reason, it is not worth tossing the allies of Fujian." ”

"But in that case, Prime Minister Lu will make another meritorious service." Li Jie's words once again made Lu Dongzan stunned, and then with Li Jie's words as if with a spell, his face became gloomy again.

"Don't you think that Lu Xiang has made too much credit? Now the capital of Tubo is a little bigger, seven or eight out of ten nobles rely on the property and rice trafficked back by Lu Xiang from Tianzhu, and the whole Tubo is strong because of Lu Xiang, if Lu Xiang is the lord of the country, he should be a generation of Ming monarchs, but unfortunately the lord of Tubo is the lucky boy of Songtsen Gampo......"

"What exactly does King Min want to say? The help of Chinese etiquette, doesn't the King of Min belittle my lord so much, don't you think it's too rude? Categorically interrupting Li Jie's words, Lu Dongzan scolded angrily with a black face. He wasn't angry at all, but Li Jie's smile became even weirder.

"There is an old saying in China, the birds are exhausted and the good bow is hidden, and the cunning rabbit dies and the lackeys cook. Don't you think you've already made a great contribution? If you are not vigilant at this time, sooner or later there will be a big disaster for the Geer family, and Lone and Lu Xiang are friends after all, and Lone doesn't want Lu Xiang to have any mistakes. ”

Friend? Lie to the ghost, everyone knows that Fujian and Tibet are interests, but Li Jie Shanshan's words did speak to Lu Dongzan's heart, looking at him bowing his head and being silent, Li Jie smiled and added: "Min is happy to see that Tubo should be changed to a good lord, or, Min is also willing to open the door for Lu Xiang!" ”

It's really a mixture of temptations, ambition, hesitation, for a while, all kinds of expressions kept changing on Lu Dongzan's fat face, lowering his head, Li Jie could even hear Lu Dongzan gritting his teeth, knowing that this old politician needed a while to digest, Li Jie didn't force it, and once again focused on the battlefield, but after a while, the face that was originally in the palm of the victory was full of astonishment.

Stepping on the crossbow arrows and cloud ladders that permeated the city wall, the cannon fodder of thousands of people in Xicheng had already climbed the city wall like swords and ants, but there was no shouting and killing sound of swords and soldiers at all, and the group of people quickly disappeared on the city wall, making the huge city wall quickly become silent.

What about people? Surrendered? Wiped out? Confused, Li Jie was stunned and picked up the telescope again .......