Although Jing Xianjun also knew that Wang Yongjun had a weapon that could explode, and he had also taken some precautions against this weapon, and a large number of wooden planks and other materials were reinforced to the city wall, his mind was still stuck on the small thunderbolt seven or eight years ago.

The planks reinforced by Jing Xianjun were still a bit of a precautionary against small thunderbolts, but now they were of no use to the new weapons used by Wang Yong.

For the attack on the city, Wang Yong has now given up the most primitive crude method of consuming the lives of soldiers, after the army surrounded Qingzhou City, he assembled the large trebuchets that had been made a long time ago, and prepared to use these trebuchets to throw gunpowder bags weighing dozens of catties into the city.

In recent years, the East China Sea has been exploring the power of black powder, and the granular black powder suitable for explosive filler is already the most suitable parameter for explosion in terms of purity, particle uniformity and size, and the rich sulfur and saltpeter mines in the East China Sea make the cost of black powder extremely cheap.

In this way, when Wang Ze knew that Wang Yong decided to participate in the Central Plains hegemony again, he gritted his teeth and sent 20,000 stones of the current number of gunpowder in the East China Sea to Wang Yong, after all, during the siege of Wang Yong's attack on the Northern Qi Dynasty, such gunpowder would greatly increase Wang Yong's combat power.

After having this large number of sponsorship from his precious son, Wang Yong simply took a large number of gunpowder bags packed with black powder to bully the Qi army, and the charge of dozens of catties of black powder was more powerful than the conscienceless cannon during the Huaihai Campaign, and the conscienceless cannon did not have the accuracy and range of Wang Yong's current large trebuchet.

In order to prevent Wang Yong from throwing the powder bag into his team when using the black powder explosive bag, Wang Ze also sent some technical officers to be responsible for the mapping of the trebuchet, and the hot air balloon that Donghai has always paid attention to secrecy was also sent over.

When Wang Yong slipped out hundreds of large trebuchets, the Qi army in Qingzhou City suddenly felt a lot of pressure, but after Jing Xianjun personally went to the city to encourage them, the Qi soldiers still mustered up the courage and prepared to beat the Xia army who would attack for a while.

However, when the huge hot air balloon painted with various patterns slowly filled with gas and expanded, the Qi soldiers suddenly quieted down one by one, and when the huge hot air balloon rose into the air with two surveying and mapping officers, the Qi soldiers were even more shocked.

Just as the soldiers of the Qi army looked at the hot air balloons hundreds of meters outside the city one by one, hundreds of large trebuchets started at once, throwing huge medicine bags into the city, and with the input of explosive bags, earth-shattering explosions suddenly sounded in the city.

Some houses near the city wall were directly bulldozed by the strong air waves, and some Qi soldiers who were swept up by the air waves could be seen in the air, and the Qi soldiers who were relatively close to the explosion point all died in the first time, even the Qi soldiers who were far away were also shocked to the eyes and ears in this explosion.

The huge explosion even made the Qi soldiers in the city think that the world was about to be destroyed, especially the section of the city wall of the Dongcheng City Gate Tower, which was exploded at the same time by more than a dozen gunpowder packets, was blown up and collapsed at the first time, and the thousands of Qi soldiers gathered here had disappeared without a trace.

Jing Xianjun had just walked out a section when the explosion sounded, although he was also swept to the ground by the air wave brought by the explosion, but after all, he was not seriously damaged, after learning that the city wall had been blown up for a while, Jing Xianjun stepped up the construction of a second inner wall in the city on the one hand, and on the other hand, stepped up to rescue the injured soldiers.

Jing Xianjun's active action could not improve the morale of the Qi soldiers, at this time they not only had to face the earth-shattering bombardment, but also faced the 100,000 army led by Wang Yong outside the city, not to mention that now Jinan City has also been captured, their retreat has been completely cut off, which makes the morale of the Qi soldiers even lower.

After two days of bombardment, the Qi army in the city finally could not stand such a heavy blow, under the leadership of several middle-level generals, hundreds of Qi troops opened the city gates, and then thousands of Qi troops responded positively to welcome the Xia army into the city.

In the face of the Xia army's entry into the city, none of the more than 20,000 remaining Qi troops in the city dared to resist, and it was obvious that Wang Yong's local arrogance of firing explosives packages without money had frightened these people.

So the only remaining less than 30,000 Qi troops in the city became prisoners of war of the Xia army, the commander of the Qi army, Jing Xianjun, obviously unwilling to accept such a result, and finally committed suicide after Wang Yong entered the city, and dozens of guards around him went to die together, so Wang Yong occupied the land of Sanqi again.

Of course, after occupying Qingzhou, Wang Yong was not so happy, on the contrary, he was a little depressed.

Different from the past after the occupation of Sanqi after the great increase in strength, now after the occupation of Sanqi Wang Yong and others are a little disappointed, in the past the land of Sanqi, the land of Sanqi, the land of rich land, the people are rich, now from Jinan County to Wei County, within a radius of nearly 1,000 miles, the total population is only 300,000, less than one-third of the population of the six counties in Qidong.

Even Jinan County, which has recovered the best in the past two years, now has only more than 100,000 people, including the county seat and surrounding counties, which is simply shabby to the extreme, and even Cheng Chong, who was overjoyed at the beginning to recapture Sanqi, was also scratching his head.

After being restrained by the Northern Zhou, Turkic, Nancheng and other countries, Wang Yong's action to recapture Sanqi was very smooth, but now Sanqi is no longer the rich land it used to be, in order to further expand his strength, Wang Yong will eventually get out of this land.

For this reason, Wang Yong specially convened a meeting, and not only all the high-ranking generals in Wang Yong's army attended the meeting, but even Pu Yangxun, who was originally in charge of local operations in the rear of Gaomi County, also came to the newly recovered Qingzhou City to participate in this important meeting. 135 Chinese

As for where Wang Yong's army should march in the future, the generals can be called different opinions, and some suggest that the troops should be directed to Puyang County, West Yanzhou, Dongping County and other places south of the river according to the way they attacked Jeju and Jibei County in the past, and ruled across the river from the Northern Qi.

However, Wang Yong quickly rejected this suggestion, because in this way Wang Yong would not only have to fight against the Northern Qi, but even Nan Chen, who was no longer on good terms, would inevitably attack himself as the next hostile target, which was not conducive to Wang Yong, whose current strength had yet to be further recovered, to tide over this dangerous period.

In addition, some people suggested that since Qu Liulang had now led his army into the Yellow River, and he had once again occupied Jinan City, he was regarded as the closest force in each country to Yecheng, the capital of Northern Qi State, it was better to simply go up the Yellow River and attack Xiaye City.

In the eyes of these generals, as long as they seize the capital of the Northern Qi Dynasty, then they are orthodox, completely forgetting that Luoyang was still the orthodox capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty before, but Yuwentai, who is in Guanzhong, does not want to compete with Gao Huan, who occupies Luoyang.

Wang Yong also quickly shook his head and vetoed this suggestion, he clearly knew that whether to seize Yecheng or not is not the most important thing for himself at present, after all, since ancient times, China has been "the emperor will have no species, and the soldiers and horses are strong".

Just when the generals were arguing, Pu Yangxun, who had been sitting on Wang Yong's right hand and watching the generals smile, straightened up and smiled at Wang Yong: "General, now the people in the land of Sanqi are sparse and already a crippled place, so it is inevitable for the army to attack, but there is no conclusion on where to send troops!" ”

Wang Yong has always had no conclusion on where the army will attack, and it is a little big to hear the many unreliable suggestions of the generals, and now he must have a good idea when he hears Pu Yangxun say this, he was suddenly surprised: "I don't know if Mr. Pu Yang has any good suggestions?" Please come quickly! ”

The generals in the room began to lower their voices when they saw Pu Yangxun straightening up and talking to Wang Yong, and when they heard Wang Yong speak like this, they were even more silent, wanting to hear what good ideas Pu Yangxun had.

Seeing that the generals' eyes were all looking at him, Pu Yangxun said with a smile: "General, and generals, our army has to face the Northern Qi and Southern Chen in the south of the great river, and even the Northern Zhou Dynasty is attacked from three sides, this plan is inevitable, and the soldiers are pointing directly at Yecheng is the way to seek death, it is better for the general to lead the army directly to Hebei!" ”

"North of the Great River?" For Pu Yangxun's suggestion, Wang Yong was stunned at first, not only is there the most Xianbei people distributed in the north of the river, but many of the heroes there are supporters of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but Wang Yong has quickly understood Pu Yangxun's meaning after so much war training over the years.

The north of the river seems to be the core area of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but because of the Turkic, Khitan, Xi people, as well as the attack of the Northern Zhou in the west and the Nanchen in the south, most of the troops here are on the border, and the interior is actually extremely empty, and even the only troops in the Central Plains are all concentrated in the counties near Jinan City to defend against their own attacks, which is indeed an opportunity.

When Wang Yong thought of this, he heard Cheng Chong ask Pu Yangxun in a rough voice: "I don't know where Mr. thinks we should start first?" Qinghe County and Jizhou in the north of the river are the richest, so it is better for our army to attack here first, and these two places are not far from Yecheng, we can also test the strength of the Qi army and choose the opportunity to take Yecheng! ”

"General Cheng, this move must not be!" Pu Yangxun hurriedly stopped Cheng Chong's thoughts, and he hurriedly said, "General Cheng! No matter how empty Yecheng is, the Qi army of Shangdang and Northern Yuzhou can also withdraw here at any time, and our army will not only be useless to take Yecheng, but will lead Northern Qi to concentrate most of its forces on us! ”

Speaking of this, Pu Yangxun pointed to the map spread out in the house and said to Wang Yong, Cheng Chong and others: "If we want to cross the river to the north, our first step is to start with Cangzhou, where Bohai County, Fuyang County, and Leling County are gathered together, and they are far away from other states and counties in Northern Qi, so it is extremely easy to cut off internal and external traffic!" ”

Pu Yangxun said proudly: "The three counties of Cangzhou are all flat land, and they are surrounded by barren grassland after the flooding of the big river, after we capture these three counties, it is completely possible for our army's current cavalry to mobilize 30,000 here, with these 30,000 cavalry enough to cross the north of the river!" ”

After having the 30,000 war horses provided by Wang Ze, the number of cavalry in Wang Yong's hands has actually reached 50,000, which can be said to be an extremely powerful force, even if the Northern Qi Dynasty will not be able to gather so many cavalry troops for a while.

"Mr. Puyang, after taking these places, can we seize Yecheng and let the eldest brother become the emperor?" Cheng Chong shouted loudly, in his opinion, even Wang Ze is a king now, so his eldest brother can be the emperor!

However, Pu Yangxun obviously did not mean to fool Cheng Chong, he said with a straight face: "General Cheng, if we can, we will never be the first to attack Yecheng, and now attack Yecheng and let the general ascend the throne and become the emperor, that is the way to die!" Our hope is in the north! ”

Pu Yangxun pointed to the map and said to Wang Yong, Cheng Chong and the others: "After capturing Cangzhou, we had better go to Qinghe County as soon as possible to get a large amount of supplies, the Cui family living here is one of the five surnames of the first gate, and there are many marriages with the Gao family, so there is no need to worry about looting him!" ”

"Well, yes, since it is a relative of Northern Qi, then you must take it down!" After Wang Yong looked at the location of Qinghe County, he also gritted his teeth and said, "Then after Qinghe County, will it be the turn of Zhao County and Jizhou, and the wealth of these two places will no longer be under the rule of Qinghe County!" ”

Pu Yangxun shook his head and said: "General, after all, this is too close to Yecheng, so we can only capture one county, because Qinghe County is close to Qinghe, and the water transportation is convenient, so we chose Qinghe County, after washing Qinghe County, we had better go down the river to attack Zhangwu, Gaoyang, and Yingzhou!" ”