"Can we begin?"

Xin Jinggao couldn't wait any longer, and he urged Yue Xi again.

Yue Xi smiled: "It's okay, just wait for the general's order!" ”

"Well, siege!"

With Xin Jinggao's order, the stone thrower stopped throwing stones, and the strange cars began to move forward.

Cai Xide saw the appearance of these strange cars, and sneered: With these cars, he can't even cross the trench in front of the city, how can he get close to the city wall!

But as the strange car approached, Cai Xide suddenly said "Huh": "So that's the case!" ”

Under the strange car, two long logs protruded from the ground, which looked like rutted rails, but they were only five zhang long, and they seemed to be tools used to build bridges and cross trenches!

Cai Xide pointed to the strange car and ordered: "Shoot through them!" ”

The bed crossbow at the head of the castle began to aim with the help of Wangshan, and then gathered to shoot, but the strange car was protected by an iron plate, although every time it was shot, the strange car would shake violently, and the iron plate was bent and deformed, but it was still not overturned.

"Kaejo, get ready to go out of the city to fight!" Seeing this situation, Cai Xide immediately decided.

Don't let these weird cars build bridges easily!

The trench outside the city is another line of defense at Tongguan, preventing the enemy from easily approaching the city walls. Cai Xide gave an order, and the city gate suddenly opened, and the cavalry who had been prepared for a long time was about to rush out.

Almost at the same time, Xin Jinggao also ordered: "Siege!" ”

To seize Tongguan, it is impossible to have no casualties, he gave an order, and suddenly all the troops moved together, shouting and rushing to the city wall.

The bed crossbow in the city suddenly made a heavy sound, and iron spears that served as crossbow arrows were shot out, causing a large number of casualties among the Tang army in a short period of time. But there were still a large number of Tang troops who rushed to the front of the trench and shot arrows desperately, shooting back the rebels who rushed out of the city gate.

However, compared with downward shooting, after all, it was a loss, and those defensive equipment at the head of the city did pose a great threat to the Tang army.

"It's coming, it's coming!" Seeing the bloody battle in front of the city, Yue Xi's face turned a little pale, his hands and feet were cold, and he only hoped to get closer earlier. At this moment, he was a little annoyed in his heart, he was not familiar with military affairs after all, and he should not have pushed those strange cars forward so early, and was met with a fierce reaction from the other party.

However, the effort paid off, and although the casualties were heavier, the cars finally crossed the trench - not with their own long logs, but with Xin Jinggao's command soldiers to brave the rain of arrows to fill the earth.

After they had crossed the trench, they went straight to the wall. Cai Xide ventured down from the city and noticed that they seemed to be digging into the corners of the city walls. Seeing this situation, Cai Xide laughed: "After all, it is a talented soldier, so if you dig through the wall, then Tongguan will not be Tongguan!" Pour water! ”

Above the city, boiling water poured down, and although it was blocked by iron plates, it still poured all over the ground. When he first saw this water, Yue Xi's expression changed greatly, he almost jumped up, and shouted Mingjin, but when he found that it was only water and not oil that had fallen, he was relieved, and said "slow" again.

Xin Jinggao glanced at him with some dissatisfaction and ignored him again. He was already a little disappointed with Yue Xi's "secret weapon", but fortunately he had other preparations, asking people to straighten out the equipment, prepare ladders, climbing cars and other things, and prepare to start on his own.

It was then that the cars finally realized that something was wrong, and one of them was pushed under the doorway, and then quickly retreated. Immediately after that, the rest of the cars came here one after another and left.

Cai Xide was at the head of the city, and when he saw these strange cars starting to retreat, he was very suspicious: Are they here to be funny on the battlefield?

"Retreat, let our people retreat!" Yue Xi took Xin Jinggao's hand and shouted, "It's done, it's done, just wait three more minutes!" ”

Xin Jinggao ordered Mingjin, and in the sound of the gong, the Tang army retreated in batches, but it was unhurried. Cai Xide always felt that something was wrong at the head of the city, he looked down at the city wall and looked down for a while, except for finding that there was a pit where the strange cars had just stopped, there was nothing else unusual.

"The enemy seems to have something piled up in the pit." Someone shouted.

Cai Xide frowned, no matter what it was, it was definitely not a good thing, and he ordered: "Shoot me with a rocket!" ”

The archers at the head of the city immediately took rockets and shot them at the city, and some people threw down their torches, and then they heard several loud bangs, and the ground of the entire Tongguan shook.

"Grenade!" Cai Xide was so shocked that he could barely stand on his feet, and he didn't make a fool of himself by holding on to the city, and his heart flashed, and the word immediately surfaced.

Although he did not participate in the coup d'état on Chinese New Year's Eve, the name of "grenade" was already like thunder, that is, in the military order issued by An Lushan, he was specially reminded to pay attention to the use of this strange weapon by the Tang army. The momentum of Fang Cai was very similar to the rumored grenade, Cai Xide hurriedly stretched out his head to look, but only saw a piece of gunsmoke, after the wind blew away the gunsmoke, there were several collapsed places on the Tongguan city wall.

However, this collapse is too small, at least for the city wall, it is only a layer of oil, and it is not damaged at all.

Seeing this situation, Cai Xide couldn't help but laugh: "This is Ye Chang's magic weapon, it's better to ...... a stone thrower."

Before he finished speaking, an earth-shattering loud bang was heard!

This time, it came from under his feet!

He was standing on the tower of the city gate, and the loud noise was the gunpowder that had been placed in the hole in the gate. The most gunpowder is put here, and the gunpowder in the painted wooden box is nearly a thousand catties, and it is in the city cave, with this loud noise, not only the city gate is blown open, but even the city tower is broken and collapsed!

Cai Xide and his main subordinates were all standing on this tower, so without exception, they were all engulfed in smoke and rocks!

Although the few sounds just now, although they were also huge, and the smoke was billowing into the sky, in fact, because the gunpowder was not buried well, and the quantity was relatively small, it was like child's play. This door hole is the most important, this time it is true, and the door hole is relatively weak relative to the city wall structure, after being bombed, due to the destruction of its own structure, this collapsed.

The smoke cleared slightly, and Xin Jinggao was overjoyed when he looked at this scene.

"Siege, drums, siege!"

There was a great chaos in the city, and this was the best time to attack the city, although the first few explosions had a poor effect, but after all, the last time it was to blow up the city gates. The part that was blown up and collapsed became the weak link in the siege.

He patted Yue Xi's shoulder hard: "Not bad, it's really a good thing!" ”

He was so excited, but Yue Xi couldn't be happy.

"How could this be ......" Yue Xi muttered as he stared at the Tongguan city wall.

He was one of the few people who had ever touched gunpowder, so he knew very well that when he first tested the power of this wooden box on the island, a small box could lift a concrete house away. This is the source of his confidence, and in his opinion, the Tongguan city wall should also be lifted away, not just collapsed as it is now.

Even in the instructions given to him by Ye Chang, it was also said that the gunpowder explosion of the city was enough to break through any Xiongguan fortified city, and it was not said that it was just to let the city tower collapse. The power in actual combat is very different from what Ye Chang described.

However, he is a person who is good at summarizing, Ye Chang's statement should be correct, because there is an experimental verification on the isolated island, then there must be something wrong with today's blasting method.

"By the way, it shouldn't be like this...... It should be digging into the ground and blowing up the city in a relatively sealed environment, rather than just digging a shallow pit at random......"

He was muttering to himself, Xin Jinggao didn't understand, and he didn't bother to pay attention to it, just watched the troops shout and charge towards Tongguan again.

The rebels at the head of the city could no longer organize a counterattack, the explosion was too loud, and the collapse of the city tower also frightened them, although the initial formation of the gunpowder siege of the city, although it was not very beautiful, and the results were just like that, but at least the intimidation effect was full. Therefore, this time in the siege, when the rebels finally began to resist in a decent way, the Tang army had already climbed on the collapsed city gate.

"It's done!" Seeing this situation, Xin Jinggao looked up to the sky and smiled: "This Tongguan has fallen into my hands!" ”

As he said, the rebels in the city saw that the incident was irreparable, and they abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and a few of them fled out of the city, and were also intercepted by the Tang army after going around Pujin Pass to Tongguan.

Chang'an City, these days are rare sunny days, the warm sun shines on this imperial capital.

But some people are cold in their hearts.

The Zen platform was only built yesterday, and the cement on it had not yet dried, and Li Heng stood in front of the steps under the stage with a blank face, looking at the ceremony above.

Since Cao Pi usurped the throne from the hands of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, the Chinese Dynasty has changed, and there are many of this Zen let the ritual test, the Jin Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty...... Even those Hu regimes who entered the Central Plains also had to learn this form, that is, the Eastern Wei of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Western Wei of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Wei and Chan cede to the Sui, and even the Tang Gaozu Li Yuan nominally accepted the Chan concession from the hands of Emperor Yang Yu of the Sui Gong.

Now it's his turn.

Li Heng suddenly wanted to laugh.

He tried his best to even kill his relatives and rebel against his father, and finally sat on the throne, but it was less than two months now, and he had to hand over the jade seal sigil representing the throne.

After handing over Lushan, if An Lushan can really sit firmly in the world, then he will die inexplicably in about a year or two, and the history books upload a "violent pawn", if An Lushan can't sit in the world, before the most Lu is destroyed, An Lushan will definitely not leave him.

Although he had a clear understanding of this, Li Heng still did not dare to resist. He glanced at the triumphant solemnity standing beside him, and then lowered his head again.

Yan Zhuang is indeed proud, and after An Lushan ascended the throne, he made it clear that he would get the post of a Shangshu, and after the situation stabilized, he could even become the prime minister of the new dynasty together with Ji Wen. Now An Lushan also needs to rely on the prestige of the old ministers, so Chen Xilie and Ji Wen are the phases.

Chen Xilie on the stage shook his head, reciting a lengthy Zen article, An Lushan was at the other end of the Zen platform, although he was not officially the Son of Heaven, but his current honor guard umbrella cover was no different from the emperor.

Even last night he officially stayed in Xingqing Palace, this palace that was snubbed by Li Heng was a favorite place of An Lushan, when he was still Li Longji's courtier, every time he entered, he saw the beauty of the palace, and he had envy.

"Mu Monkey and Crown."

Among the ministers watching the ceremony below, I don't know who muttered, Wang Wei turned his face sideways and looked, but he didn't see who was speaking.

Not only him, but the rest of the people are also looking for someone who has the guts.

They have long been impatient with everything in front of them, even Chen Xilie on stage, but their lives are at stake, and no one dares to resist, so they can only twitch their faces and continue to perform the play.

Fortunately, An Lushan was also impatient.

After returning to Chang'an, his injuries began to repeat, if it weren't for the rhetoric of Yan Zhuang and others, he would never have done anything to receive Zen, that emperor's throne, sitting on his ass, his own soldiers are strong and strong, at least no one in Chang'an City dares to be unconvinced, and the Han people are polite, and they have been tossed repeatedly for so long,

He didn't understand the four or six prose texts that Chen Xilie read above, but he only knew that the more he nagged, the more tired he was standing here. Seeing that the clock had passed two quarters, he didn't want to wait any longer, strode forward, and walked directly onto the meditation platform.

It's not etiquette.

Therefore, seeing him walk up, Chen Xilie's eyes were stunned, he didn't understand what was going on, and he didn't know whether he should continue to read it.

An Lushan snatched the long paper in his hand, threw it aside, and then beckoned to the audience: "Come up!" ”

Li Heng knew that he was calling himself, and he snorted coldly in his heart, only wishing that the sky would suddenly rain lightning and chop An Lushan to death.

Unfortunately, the thunder on Chinese New Year's Eve was a grenade, not a real thunderbolt, and if a thunderbolt fell from the sky, he Li Heng would not be spared.

"Your Majesty, it's better for you to come to power quickly." Yan Zhuang next to him said in a low voice.

Li Heng looked at the other side again, Ji Wen looked solemn over there, sighed and said, "The matter has come to this, what's the use of delaying any longer, it's better to be refreshed." ”

"I treat Qing well, why bother forcing me to do this?"

"Taishang treats you well, why do you persecute Taishang in the Calyx Xianghui Building? Ye Chang treats you well, so why force Ye Chang? Givin said in a low voice.

Li Heng saw that there were already samurai coming with swords, and he knew that he really couldn't delay any longer, so he could only take a step and slowly step onto the steps.

The first order, the second order, the total is only the ninth order, and he is very eager in his heart, what changes will occur in these nine steps. But to his disappointment, nothing changed until he took the stage.

Behind him, Ji Wen and Yan Zhuang also walked up with seals.

According to the ceremony, Li Heng received the seal from the hands of the two, and then An Lushan worshiped the seal, and Li Heng then sealed the seal with An Lushan, and then worshiped An Lushan. After that, it was the worship of hundreds of officials and the amnesty of rewards. Li Heng grabbed the seal, and his hands shook involuntarily.

This seal, he hasn't caught it yet......

Tears suddenly welled up, he tried several times, but he couldn't hand over the seal to An Lushan, An Lushan stared at the seal, and finally got impatient and snatched it directly from his hand.

Li Heng still held on to it, but heard An Lushan shouting: "Let go!" ”

Under this shouting, Li Heng couldn't hold on any longer, let go, and then cried bitterly.

After more than ten years of planning, it came to naught, and since then, it has been difficult to save his life, let alone get the seal back.