Hong Qing, the lord of Linqing City, was assassinated on the way out, and the accompanying guards, along with friends and servants, were all killed!

Overnight, the bodies of these people were thrown outside the city gate, and their heads were cut off and hung outside the gate of the city lord's mansion in Linqing City. A large number of leaflets were scattered around, which read, "This is the fate of the lackeys who betrayed the Hue dynasty." This move not only shocked the entire city of Linqing and the Kingdom of Oman, but also angered the high-level civil and military officials of the entire Kingdom of Oman from Emperor Saladin onwards.

This is undisguised, vicious and provocative!

If the assassin is not caught in the first place, what is the dignity of the Kingdom of Oman? And how can we appease the hearts and minds of officials everywhere in the Chiang Mai Plain?

Almost the day the news spread, the black-clothed guards went out in a big way, like red-eyed mad dogs, desperately trying to investigate some information about the Linqing case. Troops from all over the country also flocked out of the garrison to block and inspect the main roads at various intersections. Saladin's thunder and anger even gave Yan Xingbang a deadline. If the real culprit cannot be found out within half a month, the entire black-clothed guard will be severely punished from top to bottom!

Everyone knows that this assassination really angered the Omani people.

However, behind Saladin's unprecedented rage, there was also a bit of trepidation that he would never admit. Being able to ambush a city lord in advance and wipe out all sixty or seventy people means that the assassin has an amazing energy. If one considers the several other cases that were initiated almost simultaneously, all of which were located in the Chiang Mai Plain, it can be expected that this was a general outbreak after many years of lurking in the remnants of the Hue dynasty!

The defeat of the two Tiannan Wars has intensified the contradictions in the Kingdom of Oman a lot. Saladin really didn't expect that there was such a big hidden danger in the interior of his own land. If he can't completely arrest these remnants of the Hue Dynasty, he will really feel uneasy.

The full launch of the black-clothed guards, supplemented by the help of local governments and armies, the effect is still very amazing.

Soon. Under the pressure, the black-clothed guard burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm and energy, peeling back the cocoons from the huge and complex clues sent from all over the place, and piecing together the general outline of the matter. After analysis and inference. Yan Xingbang soon realized that this successive outbreak of the restoration of the remnants of the Hue Dynasty was carried out. Behind it, the Songjiang Army is promoting and leading!

"Songjiang people!"

Saladin's face was pale, his expression changed, and he was speechless for a long time.

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For ordinary Omani people, more than a decade is enough time for them to forget too many things. Even such a major event as the change of dynasty is basically enough to adapt. However, when a series of major cases spread, and the entire Chiang Mai Plain was enveloped in tension, the people finally remembered the previous dynasty that had been destroyed by the invasion of the Kingdom of Oman.

After the Omanis seized this place. Although a relatively moderate policy of rule has been adopted in order to occupy and integrate, and good results have been achieved, on the whole, the oppression and exploitation of the people of Qinghe are still more severe than those of the previous dynasty. If no one mentions it, then the people can live like this, after all, it is not yet time to live. But as the "beauty" of the Hue Dynasty was remembered in memory, the feelings of hostility to the current ruler seemed to reappear in this plain overnight.

Ruan Shiming's move had the expected effect. As the strict investigation of the black-clothed guards came to an end for the time being, the strength shrank back. The already stable Chiang Mai Plain is back in turmoil and chaos as it was a decade ago.

After creating such a problem for the Omanis, they should not have the heart to threaten Songjiang in the short term - this is what Chen Wu thought after receiving the report. But he didn't know that the Omanis had given up on continuing to storm the Nanfeng fortress and instead started the idea of Qingyue Kingdom.

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At about the same time as chaos erupted on the Chiang Mai Plain, the situation in other directions of the Eastern Continent was also evolving. This is destined to be a fast-paced era, and whoever can't keep up with the pace of change will be eliminated!

Tongshan Pass!

The joint attack of the Yanyun Legion and the Songjiang Legion was forced to pause after the darkness and the heavy casualties of each were killed. In the northernmost part of Tongshan Pass, the defenders of the city and the two coalition forces of the attackers left more than 5,000 corpses. The entire walls and ground of Tongshan Pass were stained red with blood, but the defenders still supported it to the end after reinforcements.

It is no longer possible to open the gap in one go. The coalition forces had to retreat for the time being, recuperating in preparation for another battle.

The shouting and killing under the defense line was much quieter. But this does not mean that the dark war of the Central Route Army has stopped. Both sides will do everything to win. They tried poisoning, assassination, bribery, sneak attacks on grain routes, arson, and other actions, but they failed to achieve much breakthrough. In the end, it was the new reinforcements from the Matsue Army that changed the situation on the battlefield.

This batch of reinforcements was the old unit that was replaced by the newly formed Songjiang Army Division after the 7th Division arrived in Donghai County. Among them, 8,000 people, together with the 8th Division, about 21,000 people, drove to the front line.

Their appearance brought the total number of Songjiang troops under Tongshan Pass to nearly 60,000.

Of course, in addition to these, the Songjiang Army also brought a batch of large counterweight stone throwing machines!

This weapon of attacking and defending the city has gradually spread within the empire with the successive use of the Omani and Songjiang armies. However, compared to the Songjiang Army, which has mature technology, Qianmingde's side is still only in the stage of knowing this kind of thing and trying to explore. Relying on their words, they couldn't catch up with the progress of this war, so Chen Wucai sent someone to send this batch of weapons.

If earlier, of course, Chen Wu would not be so generous, so as not to spread the technology and let other forces learn the parameters and structure of the stone thrower. But the Ministry of Industry's recent breakthroughs in gunpowder improvement, as well as the army's successful trials on Luzon, allowed Chen Wu to see the dawn of gunpowder weapons. With this kind of technology in hand that is ahead of the times, Chen Wu naturally doesn't care too much about the counterweight stone thrower.

After all, the stone thrower, a thing in the era of cold weapons, can never compare to the hot weapon technology dominated by gunpowder!

Song Wuji, the general of the Yanyun Legion, was not very interested in this kind of weapon with large specifications and very cumbersome to move. But after personally testing and seeing the power of this kind of stone thrower, he immediately realized the help of the counterweight stone thrower in attacking Tongshan Pass, and couldn't help but be overjoyed. And with the contribution of dozens of counterweight stone throwing machines, after the efforts of Dian Yong, the Songjiang Army successfully assigned an easy task again.

The one who rushed to the front was still the Yanyun Army!

The pattern and scheme of the war look the same as last time. There are still many feints to contain and concentrate forces in one place. But unlike the last time, the attacking troops had enough weapons to destroy the walls from a distance.

One by one, the counterweight stone throwers, which were assembled after arrival, were pushed to the front of the battle by the soldiers. The farthest from Tongshan Pass was even more than one hundred and fifty paces, and then the adjustment and calibration began. This unprecedented siege weapon looked very different from an ordinary torsion stone thrower, and the boulder used to counterweight the short side of the throwing rod weighed nearly a ton, which immediately attracted the attention of the defenders.

Many of the city guard soldiers with some vision instinctively felt uneasy.

Soon, these huge stone throwers proved to them the power of counterweight stone throwers with practical results. You must know that the pinnacle siege weapon of this cold weapon has a nickname for the return cannon in another world, and even Xiangyang Jiancheng was finally conquered, and Tongshan Pass was not spared.

A single boulder weighing two or three hundred catties was thrown out under the action of huge force, and fell to Tongshan Pass with a power that was enough to make people change color!

Although the first salvo was almost all missed, there were still two boulders that were lucky enough to throw them right in the middle of the Tongshan Pass wall. One of the boulders tumbled from the top into the defenders, and in an instant smashed two nearby people into meatloaf - perhaps in terms of lethality, such a boulder was not as good as a stone bullet weighing a few pounds, but the tragic condition of the person who was hit could cause great shock and panic to the survivors, which was incomparable to the stone bullet.

Another boulder fell directly onto the wall where the stone bars were piled up. The soldiers in a nearby section could clearly feel the slam of the wall under their feet. Where it was hit by a stone, there was a dent visible to the naked eye!

"What a terrible power!"

Not only did the coalition soldiers who saw this scene cheer, but even the soldiers of the defending army were frightened by the power of this stone thrower. Although this little dent is not yet known how far away it is from destroying the city wall, it is a real threat to Tongshan Pass after all!

Under the reprimand of the officers of the city guards, the defending weapons of Tongshan Pass immediately began to counterattack, trying to suppress the attack of the coalition forces by relying on the range advantage brought by the altitude.

"Keep the salvo!"

The officer of the Yanyun Legion who supervised the battle had experienced the defeat of the last attack, and with the comparison, he was extremely excited at the moment, and immediately ordered the stone thrower to continue loading.

Of course, in addition to the counterweight stone thrower, other ordinary models of bed crossbows and stone throwers were not idle, and participated in the attack together, used to suppress the soldiers defending the city. For a while, the rain of arrows in the sky and the stones of the stone thrower intertwined under the Tongshan Pass and played a new death movement!

Its brutality is no worse than the previous attack!

In order to get enough stones, the Yanyun Legion recruited a large number of laborers and collected more than 100 catties of stones. During the week-long bombardment, more than half of the dozens of counterweight throwing machines were destroyed by the defenders' counterattacks, or were damaged by their own factors. But these costs are worth it, after continuous concentrated bombardment, the front wall of Tongshan Pass has become potholes, full of cracks, and even exposed the soil inside the stone bars in some places!

This discovery made Song Wuji, the general of the Yanyun Legion, very excited. If we can break through here, the great cause of His Majesty Qianming will definitely take a big step forward. (To be continued.) )