Soon after the eldest grandson Quanxu left, a cannonball landed in the Jiedu Envoy's mansion and blew up a side hall. Helan Jinming was so frightened that he decided to flee tonight.

When the night was high, Helan Jinming wore coarse cloth clothes, packed all the valuables in the house, and led three hundred guards to the riverside, where his boat had been prepared and waited for many days.

This ship is the most expensive and powerful big yellow dragon in the Tang Army's Yangtze River Navy, this ship has three layers, equipped with several bed ballistas, and a large shooting rod that can be used to fight very well in close combat, and the upper deck of the cabin can run horses, and can accommodate more than 600 soldiers. Ordinary ships are so close that they can't even reach their side.

After Helan Jinming boarded the big boat, he immediately gave an order, asked the soldiers to row quickly, and escaped to Jiangxia on the other side of the river while taking advantage of the night wind.

The eldest grandson Quanxu still held on to the city wall, always guarding against the Yong army to attack the city, he held on until dawn and did not see the arrival of the Yong army's reinforcements, so he put his mind at ease.

The Yongjun army began to bombard the city wall again, and the soldiers of the southern battalion in the city rushed to the river beach as if they had blown up the pot, seizing the large and small warships and retreating to the opposite bank.

The eldest grandson Quanxu was in a hurry, carried the horizontal knife in his hand, and led the team to intercept the fleeing soldiers.

"Stop! Those who escaped from the battle will not be spared! ”

The soldiers fled with their heads bowed with large and small packages, and when they heard the angry shouts, they were startled and paused, and when they saw that it was Guo Ziyi's lieutenant, they all argued in annoyance: "The big officials have all fled, what are you stopping us from!" You have the ability to stop them! ”

"Who ran away?" The eldest grandson Quanxu asked thoughtlessly.

"Who else, Dr. Helan! There is also Zhao Junenvoy, Wang Junan! ”

The eldest grandson Quanxu felt the sky spinning for a while, the horizontal knife in his hand fell to the ground, and he stomped his feet and sighed heavily: "Hey! Let that guy be deceived! ”

The soldiers rounded him and continued to spread their legs and run to the riverbank.

The eldest grandson Quanxu was only depressed for a moment, then bent down and raised the horizontal knife in his hand from the ground and shouted: "You are all sons of the Tang Dynasty, now that the family and country are about to fall, how can you bear to leave the father of Jiangcheng." Whoever still has the slightest blood, the eggs in the crotch are still there, just pick up the knife and fight the Yongjun with me! The general could have assured you that as long as you hold on to the city for three days, Guo Linggong will definitely bring a large army back to Jiangcheng! At that time, you and I will be meritorious ministers, and it is not a problem to reward meritorious deeds! ”

After hearing the agitation of the eldest grandson Quanxu, many of the soldiers stopped, and still dropped their burdens, picked up swords and guns and moved closer to them.

After a little inspection by the eldest grandson, there were only more than 3,000 soldiers left, accounting for less than one-tenth of the original garrison of Jiangcheng. Coupled with the 3,000 Guo family troops led by him, it was really stretched to more than 6,000 people to defend three city walls.

But at the moment when the big rout occurred in Jiangcheng, three giant Kong Ming lanterns floated in the sky, and the people on them looked down condescendingly, and saw the embarrassing situation in the city clearly.

The eldest grandson Quanxu was furious, and the flames in his eyes seemed to shoot down the Kong Ming lantern, and shouted to the guards beside him: "Follow me to the city!" Shoot these three things down with a bed crossbow. ”

Panting, he sprang up and ran as fast as he could, tossed aside the counterweights such as the skull, and ran up the stairs with a hundred-meter sprint speed, and lifted one of the bed crossbows off the track with great force. Two soldiers took advantage of the situation and carried the two ends of the crossbow on their shoulders, while the other three turned the winch to wind it and loaded the thick shaft into the slot.

"Elevate! Raise it again! No matter how high! To the right! ”

The eldest grandson Quanxu narrowed his right eye, aimed at the Kong Ming lantern in the sky that seemed to be the size of an autumn pear, and pulled the crossbow arrow and shot upwards at a forty-five degree angle, which was worthy of hitting the Kong Ming lantern hanging basket.

Yongjun in Kong Ming's lantern was startled and continued to investigate as if nothing had happened.

"String again, shoot again!"

This time, the eldest grandson Quanxu adjusted the angle, the crossbow string was fired in response, the arrow shaft penetrated from the lower right of the Kong Ming lantern, pierced the skin, and even the copper lamp overturned, ** spicy fire oil was poured on the hanging basket and caused a fire, the people in the hanging basket let out a miserable scream, and in an instant the Kong Ming lantern turned into a huge fireball, planted down obliquely, and fell on a private house causing a more violent explosion.

The other two Kong Ming lanterns were so frightened that they hurriedly turned up the flames and climbed high into the air. Under the mobilization of the eldest grandson Quanxu, all the bed crossbows on the city head were erected and launched into the air, and another Kong Ming lantern hit six crossbow arrows, and the burning fire fell on the city wall, and the explosion was particularly intense, and more than a dozen Tang soldiers were also killed in the fire.

The remaining gondola was hit by two arrows, and the lamp chief hurriedly increased the flames, so that the Kong Ming lantern continued to climb upward, and one of the riders with fans on both feet in the gondola had already died, and the lamp chief hurriedly took his place and gradually flew over the city wall.

The eldest grandson Quanxu had already shot the bed crossbow tree upwards at ninety degrees, and the bowstring was full again, and the arrow finally lost its strength when it flew into the air, and fell down obliquely.

Chief Kong Ming relaxed his heart, laughed triumphantly, and at the same time lit the fierce fire and thunder in the hanging basket, threw it down, and pulled out a long flame on the head of the city, and the soldiers who controlled the crossbow arrows hurriedly retreated, and even the eldest Sun Quanxu jumped off the city wall in a hurry, and the flames on his back robe were ignited, and he fell to the ground and rolled several times before it was completely extinguished.

"Our bed crossbow can't reach them!"

The eldest grandson Quanxu looked up at the sky with a disgraced face, and the giant Kong Ming lantern swaggered away from Jiangcheng, and in the short moment of confrontation just now, hundreds of soldiers were killed in the fire, and the other party only lost two Kong Ming lanterns. For the first time, he felt the inequality that comes with the difference in weapons.

Kong Ming's lantern landed crookedly on the land on the shore of the Han River, and the lantern chief crawled out of it dizzily and ran to report to Li Siye, the king of Yong.

The Tang army was leaderless, and most of the soldiers fled to the other side of the river by ship, and only a few men and horses remained in Hankou.

Li Siye keenly grasped that this was a perfect time difference, Helan Jinming fled to the other side, and Guo Ziyi had not yet arrived to plug this loophole, wouldn't this be a chance given to him by God to easily take Jiangcheng?

At that time, there were less than 50,000 Yong troops who arrived near Jiangcheng, most of whom were still cavalry. So Li Siye gave an order, dismantled the ships that carried artillery and transformed them into siege equipment, turned cavalry into infantry, and launched a fierce attack on Jiangcheng along the bank of the Hanshui River.

He knew that the enemy was short of troops, so he stretched the battle line as long as possible, so that the enemy's limited strength spread evenly across the walls. At the same time, the artillery continued to fire in the direction of the siege, and more than 100 Kong Ming lanterns flew into the sky at one time, and the fierce fire and thunder were thrown down without money.

Because the workshop behind the Yongjun army innovated the process of fierce fire and thunder, the further purification of oil has obtained a composition closer to gasoline, so it burns more fully when it is dropped, and the soldiers of the Tang army are more buried in the fire on the city wall, and many soldiers of the Guo family army are on fire, and they fly up to hug the Yongjun who are besieging the city, and roll down the city wall together.

Although the city defense of Jiangcheng is as strong as Xiangyang, it has not been transformed to protect the aerial firepower, and the soldiers have no cover above their heads, and the lives of many good men have been sacrificed in vain.

The Yongjun army finally broke through the city wall within three hours, and took half of the Jiangcheng in his hands. As long as he crosses the other side of the river, the whole world is in his pocket.

The soldiers escorted a sturdy-tied general upstairs to the upper floor, a man still struggling with a look of disgruntle. Li Siye was looking at the river from afar at the moment, only turned his head to look at him, and asked: "I think you are extremely brave and unusual, you can be a national soldier, are you willing to join the army of the lonely king and make meritorious contributions?" ”

"Whew! You are a thief of the country, my eldest grandson's family has been loyal and good for generations, how can I commit myself to you, a thief! ”

"In that case, let's kill it."

Since he spent countless efforts in Nanyang City and failed to persuade Zhang Xun to surrender, he no longer bothered to think about it, unless you can reach the ability and level of Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, otherwise hard resistance is the landing of people's heads.