Soon, Wang Zicheng rushed over with the local county magistrate and Mr. Qian.

Along with them, there were also a large number of officials, catchers, black-clothed people, and Qingluan guards. It can be said that almost all the manpower of the local government was dispatched, with nearly 1,000 people.

The full name of Qianzong is "Yingqian Zong", which is the sixth grade, which is the same grade as the Qingluanwei Baihu, and is two levels higher than the county order of the seventh grade, and is not subject to the county order.

From the beginning of the founding of the country, it was a combination of civil and military, and the military attaché's strength in the court was not weaker than that of civilian officials. There is no very clear and insurmountable boundary between civil and military, and many cabinet elders are people who are in and out of the prime minister, so the status of military attachés in the Daxuan Imperial Court is not low, and there will be no situation where high-grade military attachés are controlled by low-grade civil officials in the previous dynasty.

According to the Daxuan military system, there are 500 soldiers led by Qian, including 200 elite soldiers and 300 auxiliary soldiers. As the name suggests, auxiliary soldiers are auxiliary soldiers, such as transporting grain and grass, building fortifications, cooking and feeding horses, maintaining firearms, and so on.

The local Qianzong surnamed Zhao, this time brought 150 regular soldiers and 200 auxiliary soldiers, all of whom were equipped with firearms and armor, not the handguns that people in the Taoist sect were accustomed to, but long guns, with a longer range, and multiple projectiles could be stored in the magazine, which could be fired continuously. The auxiliaries mainly brought four artillery pieces from the battalion.

In the early days, when front-loading artillery was used, the size of the artillery was distinguished by the weight of the shell, and four types of artillery were most commonly used in the army at that time, heavy artillery with 60 kg shells, 30 kg and 20 kg of general artillery, and 10 kg of small artillery. Among them, heavy artillery can only be equipped on large sea ships and fixed gun emplacements, and cannot be moved.

However, with the continuous update and iteration of artillery technology, the artillery equipped in the army has gradually changed to rear-mounted rifled artillery, and it is not of much significance to judge the size of the shell by its weight, so it is changed to distinguish the size of the artillery by the caliber of the artillery.

At present, the army is equipped with first-class artillery of 1 inch 9 to 2 inches and 3 minutes, C class artillery from 3 inches and 1 to 3 inches and 6 minutes, B artillery from 4 inches and 5 to 4 inches and 6 minutes, and heavy artillery of the first class with more than 4 inches and 6 minutes. Among them, there are subdivisions of heavy artillery, and some heavy guns can only be fixed on battery batteries or equipped on ironclad ships, which has little to do with local armies.

This time, what Zhao Qian brought was four C-class artillery guns with a caliber of 3 inches and 1 to 3 inches and 6 minutes, which may not be enough to attack the city, and can be used to attack a mansion.

In addition to acting as a frontal assault on the black-clothed man, there are not a few people who are serving and catching fast, at this point, similar to Tiangangtang, there are two deputy servants in a fast hunting service, and each deputy has a helper, plus three classes of officials, there are more than 200 people. They were mainly responsible for clearing the streets, imposing martial law, dispersing the crowds of spectators, and preventing accidental injuries to ordinary people.

Then there is the local Qingluan Wei Hundred Households who went out to assist the man in black.

Although Qingluanwei is the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, mainly focusing on criminal investigation and handling cases, after all, in the ranks of the black-clothed people, many high-ranking officials in black enter the court, in addition to joining the military department, they will also be transferred to Qingluanwei, and then through Qingluanwei to the criminal department, Dali Temple and other yamen, and finally enter the ranks of civil officials, so there is no shortage of people in black in Qingluanwei, and it is not difficult for the two sides to cooperate.

When Zhang Yuelu and Qi Xuansu came to the outside of Xiachang Mansion, they saw that this place had been surrounded and impassable.

Although the grades of Daomen and the imperial court are not the same, the Taiping Dao Dazhenren, one of the three deputy masters of the Daomen, is also the national teacher of the imperial court, so he erected a ruler between the Daomen and the imperial court, and there can probably be a correspondence.

There is no doubt that the local county order, Qianzong, and Qingluanwei Baihu are not as good as Zhang Yuelu, the four-grade sacrificial wine Taoist, only Wang Zicheng is equal to Zhang Yuelu, so it is decided by Wang Zicheng and Zhang Yuelu.

Wang Zicheng asked in a deep voice, "Are the people of the Xia family still unwilling to come out and surrender?" ”

Mr. Zhao Qian replied: "Returning to the upper grade, I have already let the brothers shout three rounds of words, as long as they are willing to open the door and surrender, only punish the evil, if they are obsessed, the jade will be burned, and it will be too late to regret." But there's no movement in it, so please show me from above. ”

Wang Zicheng glanced at Zhang Yuelu and asked, "I don't know what Master Zhang means?" ”

Zhang Yuelu said: "If it is a normal gentry, seeing such a battle outside the door, they would have opened the door to explain the situation, but now no one responds, it can be seen that they are thieves with a weak heart and do not recruit themselves, then there is no need to be polite, directly bombard the gate and courtyard wall with artillery, and storm it." ”

Wang Zicheng nodded and said: "According to Master Zhang's words, Mr. Zhao Qian, aim for me." ”

General Zhao Qian, who was dressed in black armor, led the order and came to a place about a hundred zhang away from the gate of Xiafu, and could only barely open two cannons, and the other two cannons were arranged on both wings.

Qi Xuansu observed the artillery with great interest, it is said that this kind of artillery was developed and designed by the Daomen Tianji Hall, and then jointly produced by the Ministry of Industry and the Shenji Battalion. It adopts a multi-layer composite gun body structure, and the whole gun is composed of large and small double barrels with a composite multi-layer gun body, in which the small tube is engraved with rifling, which changes from a front-loading shell to a reloading projectile, and the reloading time is shorter. On the whole, the front-loading smoothbore artillery of the previous dynasty was lighter and had a longer firing range than the previous one of the Great Wei, and the shells were not solid, but flowering, which were loaded with fierce gunpowder and could cause a violent explosion after landing.

Then I saw Mr. Zhao Qian raise his right hand high: "One round loading." ”

The four guns moved at the same time, and the well-trained gunners quickly opened the wooden box, and the two men lifted a conical shell with a metal shell and loaded it into the chamber from the rear of the gun.

Then I heard the gunner shout: "Reloaded." ”

Mr. Zhao Qian waved down his palm suddenly: "Release!" ”

Qi Xuansu only felt a scorching wave of qi rushing towards him, and at the same time, the ground under his feet shook, as if shaking.

Then the gatehouse of the Xia Mansion had completely disappeared, and even a section of the courtyard wall had completely collapsed, and there were still a few embers on the ruins.

Mr. Zhao Qian raised his right hand again: "Adjust the angle and reload the second shot." ”

Then there is the term of the gunners, when the direction and how many angles come and go, and then you can see the rotation of the gun and aim in other directions. Then the gunners cleaned the chamber and reloaded the ammunition.

"Reloaded."

"Reloaded."

"Reloaded."

The gunner's voice rang out continuously.

Mr. Zhao Qian waved his hand again: "Release!" ”

The four C-class guns roared again, their muzzles spitting out red flames more than a foot long, and a huge wave of air escaping from the tail of the guns rolled up a cloud of smoke and dust.

A whistling sound sounded in the air, and four cannonballs drew a curve in mid-air that was difficult to see with the naked eye, and fell into the Xia Mansion.

The cannonballs exploded, and the huge waves of air and the flames of the explosion formed clouds of smoke, which were connected in a blink of an eye, and the soil, stones, trees, and house wreckage that were shattered were directly thrown into the air by the air waves.

Qi Xuansu only felt that the ground under his feet trembled, and his ears were full of the sound of wind and thunder.

The power of this kind of artillery, even if it is a congenital person, cannot be defeated from the front.

After two rounds of volleys, the Xia Mansion was already devastated, and even if there was any formation, it should be almost destroyed.

When the prince was established, he ordered to attack the palace.

Qi Xuansu, Zhang Yuelu, Wang Zicheng and others walked last, and the county magistrate stayed outside and was responsible for maintaining order in the city.

After entering the house through the ruins of the courtyard wall, you can still smell the smell of gunsmoke.

Zhang Yuelu stretched out his hand to fan the smoke and whispered to Qi Xuansu: "I remember that there is a rumor about Xuansheng and the Eastern Emperor, after the Eastern Emperor encountered the change of the Great Bao'en Temple, he almost died, and when he met Xuansheng, he was reprimanded by Xuansheng. The original text is: Xuansheng reprimanded the Eastern Emperor for relying on his brother's relatives, being burdened by the feudal territory, cultivating by virtue of his power, having no scruples, adding a sword and not being self-conscious, arrogant, not listening to the advice of others, being arbitrary and arbitrary, and being alone and taking risks, so that there is today's disaster. In the vernacular, Xuan Sheng said that because of his background, realm cultivation, and power, the Eastern Emperor was arrogant, despised the power of others, and exaggerated his personal role, so he suffered such a big loss. I don't know if this rumor is true or not, but since then, when the Dao Sect exterminates the Gu Immortals, it will never go it alone if it can borrow its strength. Today, we also save some effort and use firearms to open the way. ”

After a short time, news came from the black-clothed people and Qingluanwei that some of the servants were found dead in the backyard, not from artillery, but from some kind of poison, as if they had been killed and killed, while the rest were gone.

Wang Zicheng became more and more sure that this place was the stronghold of the demons, and ordered a strict search, and could not let go of one place.

In this regard, Qingluanwei is professional.

Luo Xiao personally led people to search, and soon found the entrance to the underground palace in a rockery.

Wang Zicheng was not polite, and directly sent someone to blow up the rockery with explosives, revealing the entrance to the underground palace below.

The opening of the dungeon is quite wide, which can accommodate four people in parallel, all the way down the slope, not only steps, but also tracks, which can be used to push the car up and down.

Mr. Zhao Qian shouted: "Shield soldiers." ”

More than a dozen black-clothed people in armor and holding large shields walked side by side into the entrance of the underground palace.

Although these shield soldiers are only in the cultivation stage of the acquired people, they are extremely powerful, physically strong, and their bodies are covered with "prison ox armor", which is composed of 360 nail leaves, each of which is only the size of a baby's palm, only slightly thicker than cardboard. It is specially used to deal with the anti-qi and hurt people of the masters of the rivers and lakes, and it also has a certain resistance to various spells. It is covered with a cotton armor, which is specially processed, soaked in water and then dried in the sun, full of toughness, lined with iron leaves, and fixed with copper nails outside.

After the advent of firearms, the traditional iron armor became somewhat outdated, and the improved heavy armor of the Daomen was too expensive to distribute ordinary soldiers. So at the beginning of the Great Jin Dynasty, there was a cloth mask armor with cloth on the outside and iron sheets on the inside, that is, the predecessor of cotton armor. Today, cotton armor has been further developed, and special face armor has been added to resist miasma and poisonous gases.

Finally, there is the large shield, called the "Steel Iguana Shield", which can block half of the body, and can resist both the fire of the fire gun, as well as the True Qi and some spells.

Behind the shield is a man in black with a long gun, who can shoot through the gaps between the shields.

Advancing layer by layer, ordinary demons are not opponents at all.