Even Li Kui upgraded the firearms of the Great Song Dynasty from assault guns to artillery.

But it can't hide the shortcomings of this weapon, the firing speed is too slow, so slow that it makes people desperate.

Artillery shells could not make flowering shells and lacked sufficient lethality.

But the slow speed is Li Kui's feeling, in addition to the Fei Lian Army, whether it is the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, the people of Qingtang are all frightened by the deafening movement of the artillery, and there is a kind of great horror that will be scattered in an instant, as if hanging above the head is terrifying.

Bang

Bang

Bang

After the projectile rushed out of the cannon, it shot towards Qingtang City with a roaring sound like Devil May Cry.

The projectile with huge kinetic energy can be easily smashed when it touches a large tile, and it can gnaw off a piece when it touches a pillar, causing a vibration like a giant hammer.

Not to mention ordinary Qingtang people, even if they are well-informed and have royal power, Ali Gu, seeing this scene, also showed a desperate look, and sighed: "This is the sky that is going to kill me?" ”

At the head of the city, Ali Gu can despair, and he can grieve at the injustice of fate.

Why did the Song State have a weapon that surpassed the ghosts and gods, but he didn't.

But Ali Gu's guards didn't dare to slack off, and although they were scared half to death, they still mustered up the courage and held a shield to protect Ali Gu, the king of Qingtang.

The general shouted: "King, the city is in danger!" ”

Ali Gu's dull gaze swept over the city, and all he saw were soldiers kneeling on the ground, and his heart was even more sad, and the corners of his mouth trembled and called: "Could it be that the Buddha abandoned us and other devout believers?" What should the king do? ”

Suddenly, he seemed to notice a familiar guy next to him, and wanted to get closer, but was stopped by his guards. Of course, this person is familiar with Ali Gu, who is the fierce general he once valued, and he is also the deputy general of the ghost pupil. The family of Rongbu is not a first-class family in Qingtang, but it can also be ranked among the top second-rate families. However, after the first battle of Lanzhou, the ghost pupil was captured, and Rong Bu Zhu actually escaped back.

Not only did Qingtang City panic, but it also brought news that made him almost vomit blood.

One of the most elite troops in Qingtang was completely annihilated by the Song army.

Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and although it is difficult for the general of the defeated army, it is not without a chance to turn over. But the flannel is different, he turned his back on the main general, and fled back greedy for life and death.

Deserters are always the most despised existence in the army.

Even if the flannel cloth promotes the strength of the family is good, it can't let him escape responsibility.

Under the anger, Ali Gu wanted to kill Rong Bu Zhu, and finally under the persuasion of the Minister of State and others, this made Rong Bu Zhu a petty official in the city. Unexpectedly, the flannel that everyone in Qingtang City laughed at at the beginning, although he was embarrassed at this time, he was a little calmer than others. Ali survived under Song Jun's ghost-like means, and he felt that he seemed too harsh at first.

This is a lucky person who survived under the means of the demons!

It's not easy.

Ali Gu glanced at this loyal subordinate in a complicated manner, raised his hand and said, "Let him come over." ”

"King, the flannel urges the sinful body, and is willing to die for the king!"

Guarded by the guards, they retreated unscathed to a safe area - a hiding hole under the city walls. Ali Gu was in the mood to ask Rongbu Xuan: "This king is wrong to blame you, you said that Song Jun has the ability of ghosts and gods, but this king is narrow-minded, I didn't expect this to be true, and I hurt you!" ”

Bitter or not, of course Rong Bu knows that he was a general in the army, and suddenly became a petty officer in charge of more than a dozen soldiers at the head of the city, and his former opponents came to him every day to find fault, and he had to endure it.

This is the price of fear of death, and he has no complaints.

But I can't blame him!

The attack order launched by the Ghost Hitomi was also the Oni Hitomi's main formation that was defeated by the Song army. This is a dignified battle, as for why the combat effectiveness of the Song army is exaggerated, it is because he wants to live, and he must not do so. To say that Song Jun also carried a head on two shoulders, they still had a lot of people, but they were killed and urinated, wouldn't they wait for Ali Gu to kill him?

But listening to the king's words, it seems that he will be wrong.

Could it be that the king thought that he and Ghost Hitomi had encountered the same attack in Lanzhou as they had outside the city?

He didn't know what a cannon was, only Thor.

But if the Ghost Hitomi encountered such an attack at the beginning, how could he go out of the city to attack? I'm scared to death. Hiding in the city as a turtle with a shrunken head is the right way to go. chased out to fight with the Song army, wouldn't there be a hole in the head?

What surprised him was that it was not Ali Gu who forgave him for his mistakes, but he was wrong, and he thought that in the battle of Lanzhou, the elite of Qingtang encountered the same desperate situation as now. was destroyed by the Song army's witchcraft in unwillingness and despair. But in fact...... Absolutely not.

To tell the truth, you have to be unlucky.

In case the city is broken, he will flee with a few people, and the chances of survival are too small.

Telling lies, deceiving the king, is a bit inhuman.

However, as long as he is reinstated, he can command the army, and the more people there are, the better the chance of surviving the chaos. In his opinion, with such ghostly means of the Song army, Qingtang City could not hold it. If you break out of the city, there are more people, and the chance of saving your life is greater.

The dignified man of the flannel cloth endured the fever on his face, nodded and acquiesced: "The ministers are not waiting hard, and the king has been disappointed." ”

"It's the king's fault."

After seeing the methods of the Song army, and then looking at the deserter flannel under his command, Ali Gu was really pleasing to the eye. Anyway, if you don't escape, it is estimated that it will be a fateful death.

Before he appeared at the East City Gate, as the king of Qingtang, it was naturally to boost morale, but now...... He was also afraid that he would lose his encouragement.

Only when people live can there be hope, if the coldness is gone, won't all the hardships of this life be in vain?

Ali Gu is not from Qingtang, he is the adopted son of the previous King of Qingtang, and he ascended to the throne of King Qingtang by virtue of his adopted son, and it is reasonable for him to say that he has suffered more than hundreds of thousands of Qingtang people.

So far, let Ali Gu Dengcheng boost morale, I'm afraid he won't be able to do it. He looked at the flannel cloth promotion, the indescribable disgust in his heart, but at the same time he was relieved, since the Rongbu promotion has already experienced it once, if he does not let him experience it again, this is also the most experienced talent in Qingtang City for the Song army, without him, it is unreasonable: "Rongbu promotion, this king will reinstate you as an official and let you temporarily guard the city gate?" ”

The flannel swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, did he dare to say that it was not good? Can't. If he dares to say a word, his life will be over immediately. Since he didn't dare, he could only go up hard: "The last general will take the order!" ”

"Sons, follow me!"

As he climbed the city wall, a cannonball flew into the city with his head and landed on the roof of the house near the city gate, and with a bang, a huge hole in the roof collapsed.

Frightened, the flannel shrank his head suddenly, and finally climbed to the city wall, hiding behind the female wall, but pretending to be very knowledgeable and encouraging the soldiers: "The weapons of the Song Kingdom are very expensive, and they won't last long!" ”

"My Qingtang city wall is thick, and the Song army's weapons can't penetrate it!"

The flannel coaxed the soldiers who didn't know the truth, and at the same time he kind of believed his words.

He really didn't experience an artillery battle. Since he fled back from Lanzhou, Ali Gu didn't even have the heart to interrogate him, and directly put him on death row. If it weren't for the fact that the family paid a huge price to get the prime minister, they would have been exempted from the death penalty. Therefore, how the Qingtang army in Lanzhou City was defeated, the high-level leaders of Qingtang are not very clear.

However, the self-righteous Qingtang monarchs, with their familiarity with the Great Song Dynasty, made up for a defeat that was sneak attacked.

It wasn't until Li Kui launched an attack on Qingtang that they found that they had seen too little and couldn't understand the situation.

But this is obviously not the time to pursue it. And the flannel contributed to the Song army, the Song army from the direction of Lanzhou, the most experienced generals.

And at this moment, Aligu, who is the king of Qingtang, knelt down in front of the Buddha statue and made a promise to the Buddha statue sincerely.

"Buddha, as long as the disciple dodges ...... No, the people of Qingtang Dodge the butcher's knife of the Song people, and the disciples are willing to offer gold clothes to the Buddha. ”

The splendor of the Golden Buddha of Jueming Temple in Youzhou in Western Xia has spread to the land of Hehuang.

The country is poorer, much poorer than the Western Xia. Even in Western Xia, it was difficult to maintain the grand project of gilding the big Buddha in the temple. After all, the gold is too hard, so hard that most temples do not have the financial resources to support the grand project of the Buddha gilding.

The monasteries couldn't afford it, but the king could.

After praying for a while, Ali suddenly found that there was no movement like thunder.

Immediately overjoyed, a burst of gratitude to the Buddha statue: "The Buddha protects the disciple, and the disciple will fulfill his promise!" ”

After saying that, Ali Gu hurriedly left the monastery with the people.

Outside the city gate, a cadre of generals and officials of the Song army saw that the artillery had stopped attacking, and immediately curiously surrounded Li Kui and asked, "Renjie, why don't you fight?" ”

"If the cannon is fired too much, the cannon will get hot and hot. It needs to be trimmed for a while and wait for the barrel to cool down. Moreover, I found that although artillery could deter the defenders of Qingtang, the siege effect was not good. Otherwise, the barrel of the cannon will overheat, which will cause the bore to explode. ”

Li Kui replied casually.

You Shixiong stood far away, and he didn't have the face to ask. After all, he had asked Li Kui how to investigate, but there was an internal response, and how to break the city A series of questions. But Li Kui said coldly: "I don't know anything." ”

It's not that Li Kui didn't investigate, but now Qingtang can't investigate. The city under siege is unrealistic to want to blend in, and the strength of Qingtang City and the defense of the city wall are already known. There is no need for investigation.

Because of this, Boss You Shixiong was unhappy, thinking that Li Kui was arrogant and arrogant and looked down on people.

As a commander, if you fail to control the overall situation, you will fail.

But he didn't expect that as soon as Li Kui came on the field, he used Da Song's new weapon. And these new weapons are kept secrets so well that they have no way of knowing, which is excessive. Even friendly forces are defended, can you still be a little honest?

Fortunately, some people mind, but some people don't. Liu Yannian looked around the artillery and looked around the artillery, and was amazed: "If my Great Song Dynasty can let the whole army use such divine weapons, why worry about the injustice of Western Xia and the instability of the Northwest?" ”

However, Li Kui is very sober, although he is the inventor of artillery, but if he really asks him to say that artillery is omnipotent, he can't say it. After all, the current artillery can't break through the city wall, but it's better as a defensive weapon: "General Liu, although the artillery is easy to use, it is not powerful enough to destroy the city wall. ”

"Don't get in the way, just let the old man's pawns go up."

Liu Yannian is kind-hearted, it's not that he can't look down on the Lian Army, but he thinks that the hard work of going to the city is tiring, and it is good to let the forbidden army of Qin Fenglu go. After all, Fei Lianjun is expensive.

But Li Kui smiled and shook his head: "General Liu, there are other weapons that are useless, you have to give them a try." ”

"Yes, Renjie is right, the old man Meng Lang is gone." After Liu Yannian was stunned, he immediately smiled evilly. He asked curiously, "Renjie, what kind of weapon is next?" ”

"Boom. I prefer to call it a grenade, though. Li Kui was not clumsy, but planned to designate a feasible firearms siege plan. Before the Great Song Dynasty attacked the city, it was either to pounce on the city wall, or to dig tunnels to erect pillars under the city wall, and then dig deep and burn the pillars, causing the city wall to collapse. After the appearance and use of gunpowder, gunpowder was used to blow up the city walls. It is also necessary to dig tunnels under the city walls.

Such a method is time-consuming, and the enemy can often prevent it by observation.

Li Kui pondered, how to attack the city quickly? After all, now that the Western Xia threatens the Great Song Dynasty, there is no need to worry, and as far as Zhang Dan's urine is concerned, I am afraid that he will inevitably attack the Liao State.

If it was really time to attack the sixteen states of Yanyun, Li Kui also wanted to try the feeling of breaking the city and sealing the king.

Therefore, a complete set of firearms siege plan is very important to him.

Why is it used on the head of Qingtang City, he can only be regarded as unlucky.

Liu Yannian was very amazed by the weapons displayed by Fei Lianjun, he was also one of the people who knew artillery, but the Privy Council gave priority to providing this weapon to Fei Lianjun and Jingying for use, Qin Fenglu wanted to get a new firearm, it was a bit wishful thinking, at least in the last year or two, it was unlikely. Artillery costs a lot, and the Privy Council has to do what it can.

The main reason is that the finance of the Great Song Dynasty is based on the budget system, and the budget of the year is allocated after it is formulated.

It was not easy for the Privy Council to save a sum of money to change the clothes of the Fei Lian Army and the Beijing Battalion, let alone take care of all the troops.

Liu Yannian can only be greedy, the number of divine arm bows in his army is insufficient, what kind of artillery do you want?

Li Kui glanced back at Gao Yu, Gao Yu understood, and shouted: "Feng Zhang! ”

"The end will be."

Feng Zhangrong pretended to be out of the column and shouted.

Gao Yu asked: "The warriors who climb the city are ready to go to the city?" ”

In the past, the battle of Dengcheng was often an alternation between cannon fodder and elite dead soldiers. The former is just a number that is used to drain the physical strength and will to fight of the soldiers defending the city. The latter is the key to the final word.

But there is no cannon fodder in the Feilian Army, and there are more than 10,000 people in the army, all of whom are elite. It is simply impossible to let the most elite soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty be cannon fodder. Without cannon fodder, it would only be the dead to charge.

There were no protected crossbowmen, just long engineering ladders raised on the shoulders of the soldiers, ready to storm.

And before, the soldiers protected by threes and threes shields approached the city wall obscenely.

The Qingtang soldiers at the head of the city finally got used to the fact that the cannon was moving big and the power was small, and they were curious about what kind of conspiracy the Song army was going to play.

But he found that behind the shield, there were cold short sticks that were still smoking from the soldiers.

If you look closely, it's not a stone. It's a weird long-handled throwing weapon that smashes people on the head. It's unremarkable, hornless, pointless, like a short stick with a wooden handle. But the next moment, this seemingly ordinary thing suddenly exploded.

This kind of weapon was turned into a thunderbolt by the craftsmen of the Privy Council of the Great Song Dynasty, but Li Kui privately said that it was a grenade, which made up for the dilemma that the artillery could not shoot flowering shells. And the cost is not expensive, it belongs to the murderous upstart with good quality and low price, and Li Kui has high hopes.

Suddenly, clouds of exploding smoke and dust rose from the head of Qingtang City.

Unlike artillery shells, which must be sent by artillery, grenades can be thrown at the top of the city from a distance of thirty or fifty meters. And the firing speed is not much faster than the artillery, the only drawback is not that the ring is pulled, and it has to be lit and thrown out with a fire fold to explode.

After the explosion, shrapnel flies, and although it rarely kills a person with a single hit, as long as it is within a certain distance, the injury cannot escape.

For a time, the city was as noisy as rolling thunder.

Ali Gu, the king of Qingtang, who had just run out of the temple and wanted to find out, sat on the ground in fright, and said in horror: "God has abandoned me, God is going to abandon me!" ”