Since Li Yong's public opinion war, those ministers who oppose the capture of Songzhou have shut up, and if they don't shut up, they will become sinners for the ages, of course, there are iron heads, naturally they have been cleaned up by Li Er, so many charges, any one of them is enough to find out their bottom, and the resolution to capture Songzhou was easily solved, under the vigorous operation of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the state apparatus was fully operational, the assembly of the army and the collection of grain and grass were completed in half a month, and Li Yong also sent a message to Xue Rengui to gather with the black army to his rear army, Due to the requisition of a large number of people and materials, Xue Rengui and everyone in the black army easily mixed in with weapons and equipment, and as for the dragoons and ghost special forces, they set off in batches and went to Songzhou first to inquire about intelligence. The day of the expedition finally came, Li Er took the minister of civil and military affairs to see off the army, Li Lizhen wanted to see Li Yong off, but was stopped by the eldest grandson, saying that they had already made a marriage, and sending him on the expedition would bring him ominous, so Li Lizhen was not insisting, but she still asked Li Yong to send a letter that met the safety of Li Yong, Li Yong naturally put this peace charm in his arms and kept it closely, and Zheng Liwan was left in the courtyard by Li Yong and did not let her send it, after Li Er said a lot of unnutritious words, Under the leadership of Duan Zhixuan, the army marched to Tonggu Pass, if Wuzhou and other places were not occupied before, if you wanted to take Songzhou, you must go to Shu, and now you can use Tonggu Pass to go out to Wuzhou, but there will be another problem when you go to Wuzhou, that is, there is a Fuzhou in the middle, in the analysis of Li Jing and other generals, because the strategic location of Fuzhou is not as important as Songzhou, so Fuzhou's city defense and defense will inevitably not be very strict, Duan Zhixuan's 50,000 army can be easily taken, Li Yong also read the corresponding information and knew that Fuzhou City was indeed short and there were few defenders, so he had to admire a great god like Li Jing, who could accurately analyze the strength of Fuzhou City in the limited information. After determining the marching route and battle plan, Duan Zhixuan led the army to supply all the way to Tonggu Pass according to the marching route, Niu Jinda, as the forward, had arrived in Tonggu with 10,000 troops, just waiting for Duan Zhixuan's arrival, and Li Yong was responsible for the transportation of materials as the rear army, and the scum battalion and the black army disguised as a civilian man followed closely behind the butt of the army, and the general in charge of the transportation of materials for the rear army was Li Yong's old acquaintance, that is, Su Dingfang, his expedition this time was specially arranged by Li Jing, Although he didn't know that Li Yong was the commander of the Black Army, he was also very puzzled by the arrangement of the marshal, and he had no choice but to be the captain of the transport brigade with grievances. After half a month's march, Duan Zhixuan's army finally arrived at Tonggu Pass to meet Niu Jinda's forward, Li Yong They arrived two days late, Duan Zhixuan and other senior generals discussed the next plan in the big tent of the Chinese army, as a middle and low-level officer, Li Yong naturally did not have this qualification to participate, and he could participate in his transport brigade captain, Li Yong took advantage of this free time to find Xue Rengui hidden in the people.

"How's it going, is everything going well?"

"Don't worry, everything is going well, as long as I get out of Tonggu Pass, I will take my brothers to break away in batches, and then go to Fuzhou first."

"Okay, after you capture Fuzhou, go directly to the vicinity of Songzhou to hide, keep an eye on Lu Dongzan's reinforcements at any time, remember, the battle of Fuzhou is the first battle of the transformation of the Xishan Army, it's up to you."

"Commander, please rest assured, I promise to complete the mission."

"Then the black army will be under your command, I am only responsible for the preparation, we are bright and dark, you know?"

"Yes."

With a simple exchange, Xue Rengui roughly understood what Li Yong meant, that is, this time he no longer commanded the black army, but let him personally command, Xue Rengui suddenly felt that the pressure increased sharply, this can be regarded as the leader's trust in himself, and secretly cheered himself up, and then ordered with several other major officers.

"Do what you planned."

"Yes."

After Duan Zhixuan's army stayed in Tonggu for five days, Niu Jinda continued to march towards Wuzhou as a striker, Duan Zhixuan also followed up one day later, Li Yong's rear army followed up three days late after replenishing supplies, Xue Rengui and the black army began to break away from the team in batches after they left Tonggu Pass, and when they arrived in Wuzhou, they had all been separated and completed, and there were thousands less people among the tens of thousands of people, and they didn't attract anyone's attention at all, it was Duan Zhixuan They didn't know, the terrified black army had followed them here, And is in a hurry to march to Fuzhou, the black army's marching ability is famous all over the world, although from cavalry to infantry, but also to pull forty artillery, the black army's marching speed has already caught up with the forward's Niu Jinda, this march speed can be imagined how fast, this time the artillery is twelve pounds of artillery, each artillery is pulled by two horses, plus the flat area of Fuzhou, so that Xue Rengui's black army to catch up with the road is much more comfortable.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry up later."

The weapons and equipment of the black army are responsible for the logistics support troops, and the black army on the march is lightly armed, such a division of labor can allow the combat troops to have better physical strength to deal with emergency operations, and can make the troops move without affecting the speed, the black army marched day and night, and rushed to the assembly point outside Fuzhou City two days in advance, because this time it is a siege, so there is no need for ghosts and dragoons, Fuzhou City as the intelligence shows that there are only 20,000 defenders, and the city wall is not high, after Xue Rengui settled the black army, He took people to observe the city defense situation in Fuzhou.

"Let the troops rest well, tomorrow we will meet the group of turtles in Fuzhou City, let them know the power of our black army's firearms, tomorrow's tactics will use the No. 1 tactic, remember, tomorrow's battle is the first battle after the transformation of our Xishan Army, the commander is full of expectations for us, don't drop the chain for me, if anyone discredits my Xishan Army, do you know what the consequences are, right?"

"Commander, needless to say, tomorrow I will guarantee to play the morale and demeanor of our Xishan Army, and let those savages know what Tianwei is and what is despair."

Xue Rengui arranged the battle plan, Zhang Renyuan and other senior officers began to return to their posts to issue combat orders and combat tactics to their troops, and Niu Jinda's forward troops were still two days away from Fuzhou City, and the Tubo defenders in Fuzhou City did not know that a mysterious army was already outside their city, and there was nothing to say all night, except for the sentry guards of the black army, the rest of the personnel were asleep, some of them were nervous and couldn't sleep, and some people naturally slept and snored. The soldiers, who were so nervous that they couldn't sleep, gradually fell asleep under the comfort of their respective squad leaders. In the early morning of the next day, in order not to reveal their whereabouts, the herald verbally conveyed the assembly order to the various camps, and the black soldiers quickly ran out of the camp tents to gather, and after a while, they were all assembled, Xue Rengui looked at the thousands of black troops in front of him, cleared his throat and said.

"Today is the first battle after the transformation of our Xishan Army, among you are veterans who have participated in Tuyuhun and Turkic, and there are also recruits who have just joined, I also know that many of you are very nervous and afraid, but we are the powerful Xishan Army, the invincible black army, in Tuyuhun, they call us the demons of hell, in the Turks, they call us the black plague, today we want the Tubo people to call us the punisher of God, the purpose of this expedition to Songzhou you know before you come, behind you are the relatives of Xishan, and the people of the Tang Dynasty, those people are the people you swore to protect when you joined the Xishan Army, today it is time to fulfill our obligations, even if we die, our heroic souls will be buried in the martyrs' cemetery, so that our children and grandchildren will worship and admire, I now order, all battalions and companies to distribute equipment, line up to prepare for the attack. ”

After Xue Rengui was mobilized before the war, each battalion began to receive weapons and equipment from the logistics support troops that had been prepared for a long time, and the soldiers began to wear armor for themselves and their comrades, and after a while, all the soldiers put on the black Xishan armor, and a package of ammunition was distributed with 100 rounds of ammunition for paper shells, and each person also wore five wooden-handled grenades, of course, the kind that needed to be ignited, and the artillery regiment put their precious artillery on the horses, and the gunpowder and shells had been packed in boxes on the carriage, and everything was ready. Xue Rengui said to the trumpeter.

"Let's go."

"Woo~" The silent horn sound came from the woodland outside Fuzhou City, and the Tubo defenders of Fuzhou City found that a strange team came out of the woods ten miles outside the city, they were wearing uniform black armor, and they were carrying something like a burning stick on their shoulders, and they marched neatly towards them, and there were dozens of things with wheels behind them that were pulled by horses, and the defenders immediately reported to the general defending the city in the city, and the Tubo guards heard that there was such a strange team coming to them, He hurried to the city wall with his own soldiers, everything in front of him was like a soldier and a report, this strange team seemed to be about 3,000 people, and when they walked seemed to listen to a few drums beating on the side, when they were almost three or four miles into the city wall, they all stopped, and the things that came to the wheel of the horses behind were put down, and then the men took down the boxes of things from the carriage, and stuffed things into the iron cylinder, and no one explained everything to him.

"The defenders of Fuzhou, the punisher sent by our heavens, today we are here to take away you sinful people, you can wait for death in the city, or you can come out to compete with us, but you Tubo people are all soft eggs, it is better to stay in the city and wait for death."

Speaking of pretending to be gods and ghosts, the entire Xishan Army counts Wang Xuance, otherwise what about the feat of destroying a country with one mouth in history? Wang Xuance was wearing a helmet and a mask, and the Tubo generals above saw him like this, and the soft eggs who were said that they had no eggs, and they were crazy at that time, just these 3,000 people, he had more than 20,000 defenders here, and they were all Tubo warriors, what kind of international joke? Furious, he immediately gathered his troops and horses to prepare to go out of the city to clean up these strange armies who did not know whether they were alive or dead, if it was the Tuyuhun or Turkic army that saw these people, they would have slipped away a long time ago, and Tubo had never been in contact with the black army, and the Tubo people were short-tempered, they all thought they were warriors, and they did not take other countries into their eyes, and the guards ordered his 20,000 horses, leaving only a thousand people in the city, and they rode out of the open city gate, and the black soldiers seemed to be stupid and motionless, and those Tubo cavalry all showed fierce eyes, frantically urging the war horse to wave the weapon in his hand and rush towards them.

"Raise the gun~"

The black army's musket team phalanx began to raise the musket flat to the front, after they stopped, they began to load the musket with the artillery in the rear, those running Tibetan cavalry suddenly heard the loud sound of thunder, and then saw dozens of things in front of them smashing towards them, and then fell between them, instantly smashed people and horses, limbs flying, and smashed to the ground everywhere smashed people and horses smashed into minced meat, Tubo's charge instantly stopped, those war horses uncontrollably want to run around, the rider on the back can not control it.

"Add two to the left, the height is too high five degrees, put ~"

The artillery behind it completed the loading and adjusting the angle again, and another round of artillery bombardment began, and the 20,000 Tibetan defenders collapsed instantly, and the defender shouted to control the chaos of the army, but a cannonball flew over his head, and when other soldiers found him, his head had been smashed by the cannonball, and the main general was killed, and those soldiers were even more uncontrollable, they wanted to retreat to the city, but those artillery had blocked their back road, and they could only rush forward desperately, but the musket phalanx that had been prepared for a long time had been aimed at them.

"Prepare to shoot."

All the black soldiers nervously held the muskets in their hands to the Tubo soldiers who rushed towards them, the power of the artillery just now had boosted their morale, but the bloody scene still made many recruits vomit at the beginning, the officer in charge of the phalanx scolded him, only to endure, some veterans whispered to comfort the recruits around them, those officers also looked at those Tubo soldiers, just arrived at the firing range, they all pulled out the long knife on their waists and pointed forward.

"Fire~"

The sound of fried beans "bang~bang~", the white smoke after the flintlock was fired, and the first row of muskets made an orderly detour after shooting, just like the usual training, and then checked the barrel, because the flint gun has a disadvantage, that is, sometimes because the flint cannot fire the musket of the barrel, in the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, if the soldier does not know that his barrel does not fire the ammunition inside, and adds ammunition to the inside, it will lead to too much gunpowder explosion, in order to avoid this, The blacks strictly insisted that after the shooting, the barrel was checked for successful firing, and the three-stage shot and the paper cartridge case were enough time for them to do such an inspection. After hearing these strange sounds and white smoke, the Tibetan soldiers who had already collapsed suddenly fell down one after another as if they had been under magic spell, and those soldiers became even more frightened and began to believe what the man had just said.

"Run, they are sent by God, run away~"

These soldiers ran around like crazy, but the black army didn't give them a chance to escape, so Xue Rengui immediately ordered.

"The artillery opened fire on the walls and gates, destroying it, and the musketeers advanced and fired freely."

The heralds who received the order immediately conveyed the news to all the heralds of the phalanx, and the phalanx commanders who received the orders of the heralds immediately gave the order.

"Destination Fuzhou City, 45 degrees altitude, rapid shooting, put ~"

"Boom~Boom~" Forty twelve-pounder guns fired at Fuzhou City at the same time, and the walls and gates of Fuzhou City were smashed and collapsed before they could last four rounds, and those musket phalanxes who received the forward free fire began to listen to the drum beat and move forward, shooting and loading while walking, these actions have been completely memorized in their muscles, and these recruits have transformed into veterans after experiencing this time. A gunshot, all of which made a large number of Tubo soldiers fall, Xue Rengui and the entire black army really saw the power of firearms, which was seen in training before, and now seen on the battlefield, Xue Rengui sighed, thinking that it was really like what Gongzi said, the power of thermal weapons is unimaginable, the lethality of this firearm has turned the entire battlefield into a Shura field, and the shells are basically turned into meat residue, even if they are not killed by the musket, but the lead bullets in the body will slowly torture to death.