Engineer is an innovative branch of the army advocated by Guo Rong.

Although it overlaps with the auxiliary troops and logistics battalions in a large range of functions, under Guo Rong's strong insistence, it still won great attention and support from Emperor Li Yu.

Guo Rong's reason for insisting is very simple: The role that a high-quality and professional engineer can play is definitely not something that can be replaced by some so-called auxiliary troops and logistics battalions.

Therefore, in order to enrich the force in Guo Rong's hands as much as possible, under the direct intervention of Emperor Li Yu, dozens of craftsmen who belonged to the Ministry of Industry and were not treated by them were directly assigned to Guo Rong's Changying army.

The existing 400 sappers of the entire Changying Army were formed with these craftsmen who were not treated by the Ministry of Works and the generals as the technical backbone.

When Guo Rong and Wei Guanzhi took the emperor's edict and the approval of the Criminal Department to take the Fangmen on the south side of Xishi, a team of sappers who were ordered to assist in defending the Fangmen on the south side of Xishi, according to Guo Rong's suggestion, used the parts that had been prepared long ago to erect two eight-bull crossbows at the Fangmen site!

Even Guo Rong, who proposed the concept of standardization and modularization, did not expect that in just a few days, these Datang craftsmen would really realize the modularization and standardization of the eight-bull crossbow.

At this moment, on top of the two eight-bull crossbows, the crossbow arrows with a length of more than three feet and a diameter of nearly five inches are aimed straight ahead like a thick red tassel spear.

According to Guo Rong's order, there is a team of 50 sappers in the entire West Market, and there are four square gates, so in the entire West Market, there are a full eight eight-bull crossbows, and Guo Rong knows that this alone is enough to completely crush all the doubtful voices.

Along with Guo Rong and Wei Guanzhi, there were also a large number of Jing Zhaoyin's scribes, whether they were joining the army or Liucao, everyone had one or several pieces of paper in their hands.

Under Guo Rong's order, a group of heavy infantry armed with rifles in a unit, under the leadership of their respective chiefs, followed the footsteps of the Jingzhao Yin clerks, and strode towards the Xishi, which had been surrounded by death.

Soon, a scribe of Jing Zhaoyin stopped at the door of a spice shop of the Hu elite, opened the paper in his hand, and read the contents aloud.

"On the third day of June in the twentieth year of Zhenyuan, due to a price dispute...... One person was killed and six were seriously injured,......, former Kyung Zhao Yin Li Shi...... has been destroyed...... Now the evidence is conclusive, and Chang'an County is hereby ordered to ...... Detained, asked and beheaded in three days! ”

"Up!"

The voice of the scribe fell, and the order of the commander of the Changying Army was issued at the same time, and ten heavily armed and armed heavy infantry of the Changying Army approached the shop step by step with neat steps.

"Rush!"

With the order of the chief,

Soon, two terrible screams came from the shop, and after dozens of breaths, several trembling and bloodied Hu people trembled and carried the bodies of the two people out of the store.

In another Hu people's shop, before the scribe finished speaking, several arrows suddenly shot out of the shop, and then more than ten Hu people dressed in the Western Regions suddenly brandished scimitars and killed them from the store.

Some of these crazy Hu people howled and pounced directly on the Changying soldiers in front of them, while others took advantage of this moment of chaos to rush directly to Fangmen, trying to escape from the West Market and seek a way to survive.

"Flutter! Flutter! Flutter! ”

The sound of the Hu people's scimitar blade piercing the body came and went, and the sharp lance pierced the bodies of six or seven Hu people almost instantly, making the Hu people's crazy howl stop abruptly,

Collecting the lance, stabbing again, the movements of the ten lance players were uniform, and in just a few breaths, there were only six or seven huge corpses left in the open space in front of the store, and the red blood flowed on the ground.

In the other direction, when I found a few Hu people rushing madly towards this side, the faces of the Mo sword soldiers, heavy cavalry, and sappers who were guarding near the Fangmen, with a total number of more than 100 people, had excited smiles on their faces at the same time.

"Kill!"

Almost the moment he saw Hu Ren, the team leader Su Qing shouted, clamped the horse lance with his arm, jumped out and charged ahead, and more than ten heavy cavalry followed.

However, the moment of leaping out,

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

Su Qing's ears suddenly heard two consecutive sounds of breaking the sky, and at the same time, two white shadows with cold light flashed at the tips of Su Qing's eyes, and then a series of wailing sounds sounded.

Turning back to his senses and facing forward, seeing the scene in front of him, the excited expression on Su Qing's face instantly became a little distorted.

The three Hu people who rushed to the front had been directly pierced into sugar gourds by a crossbow arrow, and one of the Hu people behind them had been shot away and then nailed to the ground.

The only Hu man who was not hit by the crossbow bolt had stopped his charge, still holding a knife in his hand, but the whole person was trembling incessantly, apparently completely collapsed.

As soon as the war horse took a step, the horse lance was not yet in his hand, and his first battle ended directly before it began, Su Qing, who looked confused, tightened the reins and looked back at the rear.

Between the two eight-bull crossbows operated by the sappers in the rear, the moment he saw the obscene smiling face that he was familiar with, Su Qing's face was covered with anger.

"Lan Miao! You deceive people too much! ”

Lan Miao was originally a craftsman in the Lieutenant Colonel Office of the General Prison, familiar with construction, and proficient in military warfare, because of the exclusion of his colleagues under the order of the Emperor Taishang, he was directly transferred from the General Prison to the Changying Army.

And in this short period of time, from different places, bursts of blood mist quietly floated in the air, making the entire West Market shrouded in a faint smell of blood.

It is not strange that Hu Renzhong will have a sword, it is not strange to have a sword, and even if someone wears a set of armor, Guo Rong will not be surprised, but the moment they saw the arrows flying out of the store, the calmness on the faces of Guo Rong and Wei Guanzhi disappeared!

"Prepare for war!"

With Guo Rong's order, all the Changying troops around him quickly put away their smiles and raised their minds to the highest point.

A whole group of heavy infantry quickly surrounded the Hu people's house just now, twenty archers and twenty crossbowmen quickly took position, and the eight-bull crossbow was also slowly moved.

With the order of Lan Miao, the craftsman who was willing to be the prisoner, the triggers of the two eight-ox crossbows were pulled, and the two crossbow arrows were fired straight in the direction of the shop, and then the forty crossbowmen began to fire in a volley.

As the crossbowmen began firing a volley, the heavily armored Tasseled Army infantry burst straight through the main entrance into the shop in a sprint.

After a fierce shout of killing, the three corpses of Hu Ren, who had been poked with holes, were carried out.

After confirming that there were no living people inside, under Guo Rong's instructions, a man named He Mang, who is said to have been born as a captain of the school, took a few sappers and carried the sapper shovel into the store.

Unexpectedly, He Mang left the store and came to Guo Rong's side, after hearing the words from He Mang, Guo Rong's brows were furrowed, and his face became even worse, it seems that the problem in Chang'an City is much bigger than he imagined!

Soon, three horned bows, six three-stone strong crossbows, more than a hundred crossbow arrows, and three spears were placed in front of Guo Rong and Wei Guanzhi, both of whom were in a cold sweat.

As the clock ticked by, the sun began to set.

The drums beat again and again, but today's curfew in the West Market was not enforced.

After He Mang discovered the second shop where the Tang army's ordnance was hidden, another thousand Changying troops were urgently transferred to Chang'an City and entered the West Market.

The search, arrest, and detention of the traitor Ke Hushang for whom there is conclusive evidence continues, but after the arrival of the second wavelength of the Ying Army, the overall investigation of the West Market begins.

From the crowd of onlookers watching the excitement, they suddenly became the targets of search, and the merchants in the West Market instantly panicked.

Gradually, however, they found that although the heavily armed soldiers of the Changying Army were murderous, not polite in their words, tough in their style, and slightly rude in their behavior, after the search, they did not smash or loot, second, they did not plunder property, and third, they did not violate the female dependents.

Then the hanging heart was also put down, and many people felt that they had added a lot of talking points, and then these businessmen who had experienced the search gave full play to the characteristics of the Tang people's love of watching the excitement and opened the crazy onlooker mode.

Compared with other merchants in the West Market, after seeing the methods of the Changying Army, all the Hu merchants had fallen into despair, and the vast majority of the Hu merchants chose to cooperate honestly and hand over the designated person.

However, the violent assault on the defense line of the Changying army still existed, but these acts of resistance did not make any waves in front of the Changying army, who were waiting for the battle.

From the blockade of the West Market by the Changying Army in the afternoon to the end of the operation near midnight, there were a total of nine large-scale revolts in the West Market, of which seven were shops of the Hu people and two were Tang people.

Without exception, a large number of prohibited ordnance was found in the backyards of the nine shops, including strong bows, heavy crossbows, heavy armor, lances, spears, and even a half-assembled eight-ox crossbow.

As the search came to an end, when all the forbidden ordnance was put together, Guo Rong was scorched by the staggering number of ordnance mines, because these were enough to equip the entire two regiments of the Changying Army.

Compared with Guo Rong, Wei Guanzhi began to be afraid for a while!

So many ordnance is definitely not something he only has when he served as Jingzhao Shaoyin, but if something really goes wrong, he will definitely bear the brunt of it, and there will be no place to bury him.

In fact, there are far more than these nine weapons found in the vast West Market, and under the craftsmanship of the He Mang family, there is hardly a single prohibited ordnance that can be hidden.

It's just that the number of others who have been found is really small, and what they chose was not to take the initiative to find Changyingjun to send them to death, but to confess their master, the nobles in Chang'an City!

For the large number of weapons hidden in Chang'an City, Wei Guanzhi hated the itching of his teeth, but such an astonishing number of honors was far beyond the reach of him and Guo Rong.

If the Emperor Taishang dispatches the Shence Army, he may be able to move, but it will cause turmoil in Chang'an, but if he doesn't move at all, Wei Guanzhi is extremely unwilling.

Gazing at the ordnance stacked together, thinking for a long time, Wei Guanzhi began to give orders, although the people did not move, and the store was not sealed, but in the hands of Jing Zhaoyin's subordinate officials and old officials, it has become an iron case!

"Your dowry has been settled!"

With the end of the large-scale search, today's operation has come to an end, and Guo Rong turned his attention to today's main target, the Hu merchant shop that mainly sells glass products.