readx;? The cannon fire was like a huge hammer, striking the heart of the earth, making it impossible to be quiet all night, just as the pulse of the earth became manic, and the whole earth trembled!

Everyone was shocked by the power of artillery, even Yang Jing was no exception!

Because he has never seen it with his own eyes, he has experienced the momentum of artillery so closely, and this immersive feeling is incomparable to any film and television works or 3D movies!

He could fully understand the stunned gaffes of Xiangguo Gao Taixiang, Dali Wang Duan Xingzhi and others, because even he and Du Kefeng couldn't imagine that this new type of gunpowder could have such terrifying power!

A cannon on the south side of the wall, called General Yingwu, blew up after firing the fifth time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The craftsmen and gunners, the auxiliaries who transported the ammunition, the defenders at the head of the city, the sword and shield men who protected the craftsmen and gunners, almost most of the people on that section of the city wall were killed, and half of the walls were blown down!

Such losses are extremely heavy, but they are also helpless, because the time is urgent, there is no time to do the experiment of the finished product, these cannons are pulled to the city, Du Kefeng can not accurately calculate the possible probability of exploding, some resignation.

If given enough time, Du Kefeng and Dali's craftsmen will definitely be able to improve the safety of artillery.

But the Mongols didn't give Dali much time, so the bombing was also expected by Yang Jing and Du Kefeng.

But even so, when the southern section of the city wall exploded, Yang Jing and others still felt extremely sad, so when Gao Taixiang ordered people to plug the gap, Yang Jing, who had not yet pulled out the arrow shaft on his body, took the initiative to ask Ying and led the monks to defend the gap.

Duan Xingzhi, the king of Dali, resolutely rejected Yang Jing's invitation to fight, in his opinion, Yang Jing was brave enough, and he had paid enough for Dali.

This is really the case, but does Duan Xingzhi, the king of Dali, really think so in his heart?

That may not be.

Judging from the current situation, Yang Jing played a dispensable role in this war, but his role and achievements were unprecedentedly huge, he and Liu Hanchao, two Han people of the Great Song Dynasty, actually gained a military spirit and prestige comparable to Gao Taixiang, and even higher than Gao Taixiang!

As the king of Dali, how could Duan Xingzhi watch Xiangguo Gao Taixiang and Yang Jing capture the hearts of Dali's people!

The Gao clan controls the real power of Dali, can the Duan clan sit back and relax?

No, the Duan clan has been wary of the Gao clan, because the Gao clan once replaced the Duan clan and sat on the throne of Dali, and after the Gao clan defeated the Yang clan, the power in Dali has not declined again.

Although the Duan clan has an orthodox prestige and a legitimate succession to the throne, there is no other day in the sky, and one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, not to mention that Gao Taixiang is no longer as simple as a high-ranking master, his power is enough to overthrow Duan Xingzhi at any time!

Yang Jing's ability is also beyond the scope of an envoy, and many of his things have actually touched the military and political internal affairs of Dali, which is also extremely unreasonable, and it is not reassuring!

If Yang Jing is allowed to fight again and hold that gap, after this battle, Yang Jing's prestige will be even higher, and once the Great Song Dynasty intends to support the Gao family, then the Duan family will be in danger!

He can rely on Gao Taixiang as the Great Wall of Dali, whether it is military aircraft or internal affairs, he can be handed over to Gao Taixiang to take measures, but it does not mean that he Duan Xingzhi is a puppet at the mercy of others!

He has been demonstrating and declaring his royal power, so even if he is at the moment of life and death, he is still putting on the posture of King Dali, knowing that this will delay the military plane, and he must also bring the honor guard of King Dali, because he wants to declare to all Dali people that he is still the king!

No matter what kind of victory Gao Taixiang and Yang Jing fought, it was all under the command of him, the king of Dali, and it was fought for him, the king, whether it was Gao Taixiang or Yang Jing's credit, it will eventually be attributed to him, the king of Dali, because the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister!

This is also for Gao Taixiang Even if he is a supreme minister, even if he controls the fate of the empire, he still has to bow down to him Duan Xingzhi, and he Duan Xingzhi knows that Gao Taixiang has worked hard, but still did not help him, but accepted his worship.

Because he wants Gao Taixiang to know, to let everyone know that he will always be the king, and Gao Taixiang and others, no matter how high their achievements are, they can only be courtiers!

No matter how many dazzling exploits the courtiers have, they will eventually go to their king!

This is also one of the reasons why Yang Jing hates politics, if he didn't want to use Dali as the southwest barrier of the Great Song Dynasty, Yang Jing would not be so hardworking, but even so, there is no need for him to bury his life here in Dali.

The reason why he wanted to plug the gap was because he knew that now the Mongols were already in chaos, the deserters and the overseers were fighting each other, the Mongol army was in chaos, and now the artillery was booming, everyone was dumbfounded, and the Mongols would not have found that the southern section of the city wall had been blown down, and even if they did, no one dared to use this as a breakthrough point, and they could still kill the southern section of the city wall so calmly and rationally in the midst of the chaos.

Therefore, the southern section of the city wall is safe, and the reason why Yang Jing wants to go over to defend it is indeed to accumulate some prestige and prepare for future plans.

Because he knew that even if Gao Taixiang, who came to guard by default, might not have any good intentions.

Even if Yang Jing saved their kingdom, Yang Jing was a Song man after all, and he was also an envoy of the Great Song Dynasty.

Yang Jing's high prestige is by no means a good thing for Dali, because the people of Dali will admire the strength of the Great Song Dynasty and will have the idea of clinging to the Great Song Dynasty.

Although Dali accepted the canonization of the Great Song Dynasty, it has always been an autonomous kingdom, and the tribute to the Great Song Dynasty has not become normalized.

For Gao Taixiang, the best result of this battle is that Dali defended the kingdom, and Yang Jing became a martyr, pay attention, a martyr, not a hero!

Even when the artillery showed amazing power and Gao Taixiang saw the dawn of hope, he asked the people around him to pass the news to the rear, prohibiting the army of the Great Song Dynasty from entering the territory of Dali on the grounds of assistance!

Before victory was fully in their hands, they were already thinking about the political struggle.

For the people of Dali, it is understandable that they want to maintain independence and autonomy, even if Yang Jing shows a heroic side and gains their recognition and admiration, it still cannot be compared with the interests of the kingdom.

In terms of individuals, they can respect and even worship Yang Jing, but in terms of the country, they have to be wary of Yang Jing, which is determined by their position and has nothing to do with personal qualities, which is the cruelty of politics and the helplessness of people.

Yang Jing also saw through this, and he saw it from the moment he watched Gao Taixiang salute Duan Xingzhi, and Duan Xingzhi maintained a high-ranking king posture.

So he didn't ask to defend that section of the city wall again, but stood silently at the head of the city, watching the Mongols fleeing frantically in the night.

The first half of the night seemed to have passed a long century, because of the frenzied attack of the Mongols, and the second half of the night was as short as a breath, because of the frenzied retreat of the Mongols.

When the artillery stopped, Gao Taixiang asked Gao Chi and others to lead almost all the elites of the monks and soldiers, and went out of the customs to pursue and kill the Mongols, and even asked Gao Tong, who was stationed on the south bank of the Jinsha River, to lead a large army to outflank!

When the golden sunlight pierced through the clouds and erupted, Yang Jing finally walked down the last barrier of Longshou Pass.

Zhao Jingyin, as the nominal envoy, is sitting in the big tent of the Chinese army with Duan Xingzhi, the king of Dali, Duan Zhishi, the Marquis of Xihai, who performed prominently when defending the city, and Gao Taixiang, the Xiangguo who sat in the center, and others, waiting for the good news, and even imagined in his heart that he would leave a name in history and celebrate the whole country.

Yang Jing sat quietly in the tent, stripped naked, and let the deer and white fish dig out the arrows from his body one by one.

The copper basin containing the clear water had become scarlet, and with a "clang", Lu Baiyu threw another arrow into it, and there were already seven or eight arrows lying in the basin.

In the other camp, Feng Ruochen was also treating Liu Hanchao's wounds, and in terms of the envoys, only Zheng Zhuoqun, a small man in the Ministry of Rites, was guarding outside Yang Jing's tent with a worried face.

Lu Baiyu is a powerful woman, cold on the outside, but also strong on the inside, because she is a Gu master who is destined to be lonely and bitter in her fate, and the Gu master is destined to rarely be able to get a good death.

She has always been strong and alive, and she rarely cried since she was a child, but now, she cut the flesh and skin from Yang Jing's body one by one and dug out those arrows, but she cried.

She didn't feel sad for Yang Jing, she just felt worthless for Yang Jing.

She couldn't understand Yang Jing's behavior, although Yang Jing had already explained to her that if the Mongols captured Dali, the Great Song Dynasty would lose the barrier in the southwest, and Dali would become the cannon fodder and vanguard of the Mongols attacking the Great Song Dynasty.

How important Sichuan is, she doesn't want to understand, although she has also heard her father say that the empire of the past dynasties, Sichuan and Shu have always been the last to be breached, because the geographical location there is extremely special and complex, Sichuan and Shu have been easy to defend and difficult to attack from ancient times to the present.

If Sichuan falls, the Great Song Dynasty will not be far from the end of the country.

In fact, she knows these truths very well, but she just feels worthless for Yang Jing, why does an envoy of the Great Song Dynasty want to fight desperately in the land of Dali, and in the end she has to be vigilant by the Dali court.

This is something she can understand, but she can't let go.

Yang Jing's body was still covered with dragon scale Gu, his burns had completely healed, and now there were more than ten or twenty arrow sores, if it weren't for the endless Gu worms that appeared in Lu Baiyu, Yang Jing would have died many times.

Yang Jing gritted his teeth and endured the pain, although Lu Baiyu took out a big cyan caterpillar with long hairs all over his body before he did it again, and let the insect paralyze Yang Jing's flesh and skin, but Yang Jing still felt the pain of the knife cutting on the flesh.

He looked at Lu Baiyu's tears, and only smiled bitterly, reached out to wipe away her tears, and then grinned, and didn't say anything.

I remember that when I was on the shore of Dongting Lake, Lu Baiyu still wanted to fight with him, but now he shed tears for him, there are so many things that Yang Jing doesn't even want to recall.

He just wanted to take out all the arrows and then sleep well, as for the pursuit and cover killing of Dali, how many killings could be made, Yang Jing didn't care too much, because he knew that the Mongols should be retreating after this battle.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that the Mongolian army did retreat, but some people did not leave!

Although the sun outside is clear and bright, there are still many dark places, and those places where the sun can't reach are the places where danger lurks!