Seeing that there were no more arrows thrown on the head of the inner city of Bianliang, Wang Huang breathed a sigh of relief.

Although there has not been much damage for the time being, only hundreds of people have been injured, but just the pressure of the rain of arrows in the sky, and the front army shot like a hedgehog, it makes people breathless.

Fortunately, the front line is all Xiaojie Guard, these old divisions of the original guard, can be described as a hundred battles, if they are replaced by a new army, or naturalized Hu Qi, this formation would have collapsed long ago.

He hesitated for a moment, and was about to change the army to allow the front army to rest, when he suddenly heard a whistle from the south.

This is the meaning of making the guards and the five guards on strict alert, Wang Huang turned his mind slightly, remembered the explanation of Sima Zhang Yunshu, the secretary of the army, and couldn't help but tighten his heart, thinking: Is it possible, the Yuguo defenders in the inner city of Bianliang want to break through from the west and north gates at this time?

It's really possible.

Although the defenders of Yu in the west and north of the two cities, although their offensive only lasted for half an hour, the arrows were thrown down as if they didn't want money. After this sudden pause, even his own main general couldn't help but feel relieved, let alone the soldiers under his command?

If you change to yourself as a defender, it is difficult to guarantee that you will not suddenly break through when the enemy forces outside the city are lax......

With such suspicion in his heart, Wang Huang shouted orders again and again, ordering the front not to act rashly and be strictly vigilant.

Then he gazed into the city.

Today's Wang Huang is on the rise compared to before he entered the army, not to mention that he has doubled. This look really made him see some doorways.

I saw that there was smoke and dust rising in the city, like a fog dragon, floating up. If you distinguish it carefully, it seems to be from south to north, the further north it is, the thicker it becomes, and the further south it goes, the lighter it becomes.

Wang Huang's face changed slightly, and he jumped off the horse like a fly, lying on the ground and listening to a few breaths.

This is clearly the dust stirred up by hundreds or even thousands of horsemen after running over, and it looks like it should be running from the south of the city to the north of the city. But there was no sound of horses' hooves, indicating that the horsemen had gathered in one place, near the north gate......

He flipped up violently and shouted, "Quick, put the firearms camp on guard, and the thieves will leave the city through the north gate......

Without delay, he raised the copper whistle and blew it twice. The whistle turned two corners, and the signal was heard clearly, pointing to the north gate.

The pro-soldiers on the other side waved the flag, one was the auxiliary of the sentry order, and the other was to warn Yin He, the commander of the Yongzhou army in the southern city, that the defenders should break the formation to the north.

Yin He sat on the horse, looked at the smoke and dust that had faded and almost no traces, and bowed his head slightly: Wang Huang has advanced by leaps and bounds, and sure enough, he has made progress in martial arts.

"Pass the order down, order the two Yongzhou armies in the east and south to prepare to break down!"

"No!"

The cronies gave the order in an orderly manner, but the deputy general Meng Sheng was a little puzzled and asked, "All the commanders, what do you mean?"

He thought very simply: since Wang Huang warned that the defenders wanted to break through the northern formation, the northern city gate would definitely be opened, and the city should be broken, and the north gate should also be taken advantage of to enter, but why did Yin He do the opposite?

"It can only be regarded as a rainy day, be prepared!"

Yin He wasn't quite sure, but he muttered, "As the Holy Lord often says, Wei Huazhi is talented, but he has low eyes, and he is corrupt, greedy for life and afraid of death. As the former secretary of the palace, he was inspected, but he was assassinated by the first emperor of Yuguo, and this is the only case, he is a capital crime.

However, he was very good at drilling camps, flattering Wei Siqi, and bribing Wei Li, the new prince of Yuguo, Zhang Liang and others at the expense of heavy money, and had to occupy a high position. Such a character, how much backbone and bloodiness can he have?

It is because I think that since he has seen through our scheme, he knows that his life is short, and nine times out of ten he will beg for words with death and brazenly break through. Wei Hua can only blend in with the armor cavalry that breaks through in order to fight for a chance to survive.

And whether it is the soldiers and civilians in the city or the officials of Bianliang, if they know that Wei Hua abandoned the city and fled, how can they have the heart to defend it? If Wang Huang can break the northern city, the southern city will naturally be defeated, and maybe the city will be opened and surrendered......

I see?

Meng Sheng said in admiration.

As soon as the words fell, I heard a drum sound in Beicheng.

Did the defenders really break through the north gate?

Why would Yin He rather brave the rain of locust arrows to make the front army stick to the city about a hundred paces

？

It's not just that the fear of being too far away and the formation too sparse will leave a larger gap, which will give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of.

However, the range of the fire crossbow is only a hundred paces, and no matter how far it is, it is not enough to shoot at the head of the city and the city gate. This is also one of the reasons why the former army is the old division of the pro-guard division.

It's just because of the entire Tang Army of the Eastern Expedition, now only Xiaojiewei, who was born in the original pro-guard division, knows how to use all kinds of firearms and thunder weapons.

At this moment, as soon as the city gate was opened, and as soon as the drawbridge fell, a battalion of soldiers raised their crossbows and aimed at the city gate.

However, he did not open the crossbow immediately, but when more than 100 horsemen had rushed out of the city gate, the soldiers blew up the fire fold and lit the fuse at the tail of the fire crossbow.

The principle is very simple, in fact, it is to tie a tube of gunpowder to the crossbow arrow, but the weight is not light. One tube has a pound up, so it is a crossbow that shoots hundreds of feet away, and now it can shoot more than 100 steps.

In just a few breaths, three or four hundred armor riders jumped out of the three openings of Jinglongmen, just when they were about to be halfway through. Seeing that the Tang cavalry under the city was still arranging a sparse formation, neither stepped forward to intercept it, nor did it see the reinforcements of the Tang army in the rest of the cities, Wei Hua was surprised and delighted.

With this mere three-layer cavalry formation, how could it stop the charge of a thousand armored cavalry?

The crossbow machine that was held in the hands of the soldiers of the Tang Army, as well as the sparks and blue smoke that ignited at the tail, Wei Hua naturally saw it.

But his impression was still at the stage of the secret recipe played by Xuandesi, thinking that all thunder weapons must be canisters, and they must be shaken before bombing the enemy, and they need to be projected with stone cannons.

And what is shot with a bow and crossbow is just a rocket.

It's a rocket that's powerful, and it's like a maggot attached to the bone, but it's only a hundred steps, and how many arrows can it shoot?

One thousand armor riders were killed and wounded, and three or four hundred were killed and wounded......

Wei Hua took a sharp breath and shouted, "Join the formation, the arrow, kill!"

At the sound of the order, the three armoured cavalry soldiers joined together and formed a sharp arrow formation, like a large arrow, and slammed into the north without relentlessness.

At the same time, Wang Huang waved his hand violently. A drum sounded, and a hundred crossbows were fired in unison.

The first round of 100 crossbows were all fireworks, just to disrupt the enemy position. I only heard a chaotic sound of "slap" and "slap", and between the sparks spraying everywhere, seven or eight out of ten horses were immediately startled.

The front arrow formation formed by the cavalry under Wei Hua had just raised the speed of the horses, and it was worth rushing out of ten zhang, and there was no formation for thousands of horsemen. Hundreds of horses scurried around like headless flies.

It was not until the Tang army fired the second round of explosives that it was fired at the rear of the enemy cavalry, that is, near the city gate and drawbridge.

Without him, it's just that the frightened war horse has no distinction between enemy and me, and is afraid that it will hurt itself after rushing over with a bomb.

The reason for the rear shot was that the startled horse rushed halfway at most, and the bomb had already exploded. The second is to take the opportunity to blow up the drawbridge and the city gate, so that the defenders in the city can avoid it.

Only three rounds, a thousand armor horses have been in a mess, not to mention horses, even people have been frightened to the point that the six gods have no master, and they are in a hurry.

My ears were full of people roaring and neighing, and I couldn't hear what the order was. And because of the smoke and dust around him, he didn't know the direction.

Wei Hua's face was hideous, and he kept slashing the horse's buttocks with a knife. The war horse neighed in pain and kept rushing forward, but there were either startled horses or chaotic soldiers around him, how could he rush out?

He only felt five thunderbolts, and there was only one thought in his heart: It's over?

Why is it never written in the secret recipe presented by Xuandesi, and there is such a use of firearms?

Since there is such a sharp weapon, why didn't the Tang army use this thing to attack the city as soon as it was besieged?

And if you use this thing, it is like covering your ears and stealing a bell, you must not be able to hide the origin, so why should the pseudo-Tang Emperor Wang Rong do this extra and pretend to be a bandit?

Suddenly hearing a bang, and feeling a shock on his ribs, Wei Hua actually felt that he was flying.

The endless pain attacked the nerves like a tide, and when he was dying, Wei Hua was like a blessing to his soul.

The reason why the Tang army besieged but did not attack was that it was clearly calculated that it would jump over the wall in a hurry and brazenly break through.

If you can easily deceive the city gates, why storm them?

The reason why he pretended to be a thief was naturally to deceive the imperial court. Presumably, Wang Rong is 100% sure

, will not let the soldiers and civilians in the city get away with it, let alone leak the news for half a point.

Wang Rong has already calculated everything......

With such a thought in his mind, Wei Hua completely lost consciousness......

The five hundred crossbowmen only fired one round, a hundred fireworks, and four hundred explosives, which made Wei Hua's 1,000 armored cavalry unable to form an army.

The city was like purgatory, full of stumps and howling.

Wang Huang has seen this situation many times, and it has long been boring, and he has trained his nerves like steel.

He sat on his horse, a hundred feet away from the city gates, his eyes like lightning, and he could see the battle as much as possible.

Wherever a rout escapes, he will give a hasty order and order the rear armoured cavalry to surround and intercept him. And just like that, not a single fish escaped from the net.

The front army had stopped firing crossbows, the smoke and dust were falling, and the eyes were gradually able to see.

The city gates and drawbridges had long been blown apart, and the moat, which was a foot deep, had been filled more than half by the corpses of men and horses. The defenders of the city were long gone.

Through the doorway, it can be vaguely seen that the cavalry who have not left the city are turning around in the urn city, not daring to enter, but there is nowhere to retreat.

Haha, the defenders can't close the city gates.

Wang Huang chuckled and shouted, "The front army is on guard, and the rear army fills the river!"

Destined to be sleepless tonight, Wang Rong stood outside the big tent of the Chinese army, looking up at the direction of Bianliang City in the east. The night sky over there was already lit up like day, and the noise was audible.

Scouts who deliver news come to the tent every half an hour.

"Report! —」

The scout turned over and fell off his horse, knelt down on one knee in front of Wang Rong, and reported: "Qiqi Shengshang, the Yongzhou army has broken through the Wangchun Gate and the Vermilion Bird Gate in the inner city of Bianliang! The various units of the Yongzhou Army are advancing along the Second Sweet Water Lane and Panlou Street towards the Bianliang Palace."

When the scout was done, he got on his horse and left.

About half an hour later, another scout galloped on horseback, reined in the war horse, jumped off the horse, and reported to Wang Rongyu: "The cavalry saint, the puppet emperor of the Yu State Wei Siqi set fire to the Bianliang Palace***, the puppet prince of the Yu State Wei Li fought fiercely with my Xiaojiewei in the Xuanyou Gate, and was killed by the enemy! Yu Guozai Zhang Liang wanted to escape from Xihua Gate, but was shot by our army's arrows! The former division of the Yuguo Palace checked that Wei Hua wanted to break through from Jinglongmen, but he was shot by my Xiaojiewei with a fire crossbow!"

Wang Rong listened to the news of killing the monarchs and ministers of Yu State one after another, and finally let go of the hanging heart in his heart. For so many days, there has been no large-scale siege.

First of all, I am afraid of damaging the soldiers, the logistics of the Tang Army are already overloaded, and being able to keep every soldier of the Tang Army warm and not being frozen to death by the winter cold has exhausted Huangfujian and Chu Kun.

If he rashly launched a siege war, resulting in the death of a large number of Tang soldiers, then the voices in the Chang'an court would overwhelmingly persuade him to retreat.

Secondly, there are materials. The Craftsman's Institute now invests a lot in firearms, in addition to being able to glow, heat, catch fire, and explode, this Bianliang City happens to be a testing ground. For so many days, there has been a siege without a match, just to test which of these weapons are good and which are not.

In the end, the hundred officials of the Yu State in Bianliang City could no longer sit still, and the industry outside the city was gone, and it was confiscated by the Tang Army. If Bianliang City is broken, they won't even have their lives. This is the real emptiness of both people and money, and it has reached this point, and it is time to think about a way out.

The final result was that the defenders of the outer city of Bianliang of the Yu State opened the city and surrendered one after another, let the Tang army enter the city, and the Tang army entered the city and controlled the gate of the outer city, and then took the surrendered Yu army, and they showed the way, respectively, to the important mansions in the outer city.

Xiaojiewei and Yongzhou Army are mainly responsible for attacking the inner city of Bianliang, and in just one night, Bianliang City ushered in a new change of the king's banner at the head of the city, and the banner of the Tang Army was planted on the head of Bianliang City!