Outside the city of Jinyang, the former county seat of Jinyuan in Hedong, more than 100 artillery pieces continued to bombard and roar, and the cannonballs tore through the smoke and shook the city wall. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Jinyang City, towering over the boundary of Hedong for more than 1,000 years, is a key traffic point since ancient times, and it is a place where the war is endless. The lord of Jinyang City in the past dynasties, regardless of how to govern martial arts, are constantly ramming, heightening, and thickening the city wall.

Even the siege artillery that can smash the three-foot-thick wall with one shot still looks as soft as a rabbit in the study in front of the Jinyang city wall.

With the steel bars staggered and overlapped into a net, the mesh is filled with a large number of fragmented tiles, and then a large amount of mortar slurry water is watered, so stacked, the outer three layers, the inner middle is the brick and wood rammed earth for thousands of years as the core, the section is slightly trapezoidal city wall, twelve zhang high, five zhang wide on the top, enough for several carriages to run side by side.

In the face of such an impregnable wall, the bombardment of more than 100 artillery pieces, the ammunition consumed only thickened the city wall at best, and there was no destructive effect at all.

He Shouyuan, the protector of the Heavenly King Sect, held the newly developed telescope in the sect and couldn't help but look in the direction of Jinyang City, feeling a little irritable and dull in his heart.

In this majestic city, which was still guarded by the officers and soldiers of the Qianchao Dynasty, preparations had begun half a year ago to defend against the Heavenly King's army, which was far from this point, and after various novel techniques to increase the height and thickening of the city wall, with the power of today's Wangjiao gunpowder, it could not even blow up a three-foot-deep pit.

It is said that Yi He Shouyuan, the most flexible and flexible guardian general, there is no need to gnaw hard outside Jinyang City, but as long as the attack of the Heavenly King Sect army weakens slightly, there will be a round of counterattack in Jinyang City immediately.

The trajectory was like a shuttlecock thrown high, and the cannonballs fired from Jinyang City flew into the air more than a thousand zhang, accurately hitting several places on the ground where the Heavenly King Sect Army was densely populated. The shells that had not yet landed were scattered in mid-air like bullets, crackling and falling, killing even the fearful soldiers without time to escape, and even the guards in charge of the overseers were swept into a hornet's nest by the scattered bullets.

And this is just one of the ways to fight back in Jinyang City. The various artillery pieces set up on the city wall forced the Heavenly King Sect army to place artillery mounts five hundred zhang away.

"Report-" A herald rushed into the camp, holding a scroll of instructions and said: "The elders have ordered that He Shouyuan God must continue to storm Jinyang City, and there will be no chance of negotiation inside and outside the city!"

"Got it!" He Shouyuan gritted his teeth and accepted the order, and the depression in his heart could be imagined.

In the past, he galloped on the Central Plains, and with He Shouyuan's alert and changeable military style, he had no problem cutting off the enemy's retreat like scissors in a field battle, but it was really not his forte to attack the city, not to mention Jinyang City, which was known as the strong wall of Kyushu.

But He Shouyuan had to do this, and attacking Jinyang City was just a direction that was difficult to distinguish between true and false among the many measures taken by the Wang Sect today.

With the storage of Jinyang City, it is not a problem to resist He Shouyuan for half a year, such as today's cold and freezing, when the spring and summer of the next year are in full swing, when the green and yellow are not connected, the Tianwang Sect army will also face the problem of logistics shortage, if He Shouyuan chooses himself, then it will be the time when Jinyang City breaks through to the outside world, or when the reinforcements of the Qianchao Dynasty arrive.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, perhaps the army of the Qianchao Dynasty will frantically counterattack and fight a battle of annihilation on an unprecedented scale north of the Yellow River.

The higher-ups of the Heavenly King Sect vaguely foresaw this, and they wanted to do their best to prevent the arrival of this annihilation war. On the one hand, it divided the important cities north of the Yellow River to disrupt the layout of the Qian-Dynasty by harassing guerrilla warfare, and on the other hand, it was to advance the front line to Yujing, the imperial capital of the Qian-Dynasty, as soon as possible, and force the army to return to defend Qinwang.

That's true, but why did the elders of the sect give He Shouyuan such an order at this critical juncture when the siege of the city was difficult? The point of the siege was to isolate internal and external contacts, and even if He Shouyuan had not re-taught in the Jiaozhong Academy, he had already experienced and understood it in the smoke of war.

He Shouyuan is not like the elders in the sect, he has mysterious and mysterious mana, he has only completed the cultivation of the sect's refining classic "Divine General", a body of copper skin and iron bones, and the ordinary flintlock musket is ten steps away, and the parts outside the vital point can basically be resisted, which shows the magic.

As for the higher level of the secret method, it is necessary to consult the priests of the army, who are also an important fighting force when necessary.

He Shouyuan was thinking of this, and there was a sound of firm footsteps behind him, and the dust on the ground was like ripples at the moment of landing.

"For the dyed priests, Ben was about to seek you. He Shouyuan handed over the instructions he had just received and asked: "Could it be that the elders in the sect think that my attack is not effective?" You have also seen it, I have already used the strongest firepower under my men, not to mention the collapse of the Jinyang City Wall, it is difficult to even collapse a corner!"

Because the dyed priest is over 60 years old, his beard is still black and thick, the ephedra robe, the black waist is like all the priests, he belongs to the snake flag, and the bamboo cane is wrapped with snake patterns.

Seeing that he took the instruction and looked at it carefully, he even closed his eyes and silently used his mana, but after a long investigation, it was still fruitless.

This order is ordinary, perhaps just a reminder to the gods. Indye said lightly.

He Shouyuan took off his helmet and scratched his scalp, and said impatiently: "This Jinyang City is also hard, I ordered the people to make a tailwind fire kite to shoot into the city, but unexpectedly, there was an artillery shot down immediately, I looked at it from a distance, presumably it was specially used to deal with the air attack." ”

"It is rumored that among the righteous army of the king of Chu in Guangzhou County, there are strange people who are good at making firebirds, throwing fire and thunder from the sky, and the old cadres and soldiers were unable to resist at the beginning, and they were captured by the righteous army of the king of Chu. Now that I think about it, there are also high-ranking people among the old cadres and soldiers who helped to create new guns based on artillery, specifically to deal with the clever plan of the righteous army of the king of Chu, and also moved to this Jinyang city. ”

"With such an accurate head, where can a few random soldiers be controlled?" He Shouyuan slammed the table and scolded: "It must be those cultivators who helped the old Qian's court, if I break through Jinyang City, I will definitely hang them above the city gate, and I will not collect their corpses for a hundred years!"

"God will calm his mind a little, and these lost people are where the teachings of the Heavenly King have not been reached. If he wakes up and knows how to return, it proves that I teach Taoism. After Yin Ran said this, he seemed to suddenly understand something, "I see, what the sect elder mentioned is not the old cadres and soldiers coming to help, but there may be other cultivators coming to help Jinyang City——"

Before the words fell, there was a thunderstorm outside the tent, and even the tables and chairs in the tent trembled slightly.

"Not good!" Because he was infected with the cultivation mana in his body, he immediately understood that it was not the sound of artillery in the distance, but the practice of thunder by a cultivator in the clouds!