The sky was overcast, and the autumn wind was slightly cold, as if the cold winter couldn't wait to announce that it was coming.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The deafening artillery roared endlessly, and one after another, the crimson solid iron balls weighing more than ten catties dragged the looming Martian tail flame, drew a graceful arc, crossed the sky above the moat, and smashed into the west gate of Luoyang City......

More than 100 huge cannons of thousands of catties of one color were lined up in a row, firing in turns, and in a short time, a thick white mist rose above the artillery array, and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke spread.

On each side of the artillery array, 3,000 cavalrymen armed with sabers were waiting in strict formation, clearly guarding against the city and sending cavalry out to attack the artillery array.

In the Chinese army camp that stretched for several miles in the rear, a huge hot air balloon slowly rose, and finally hovered at a height of more than 30 zhang under the traction of a thick hemp rope.

Yue Shouqian, Feng Buping, Luo Fan, and the two Quanzhen disciples who had achieved great internal success stood in the tough hanging basket under the hot air balloon, holding binoculars in unison, looking at the situation of Luoyang City.

Luoyang City is known as the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties, was the first city in the world, but unfortunately it was destroyed in the war of the Anshi Rebellion, and now Luoyang City is the early Ming Dynasty to cultivate goodness, with the name of the ancient capital, but in fact the scale is only one-twentieth of the Sui and Tang dynasties.

More than 100 cannons bombarded indiscriminately, and within a few rounds, the surface of the city wall near the west gate was covered with spider web-like cracks, and the double-storey city tower above was also dilapidated and crumbling, but there was no half of the guards.

Luo Fan turned the camera and looked at his own artillery array, looking at groups of topless gunners, recovering their gun positions or carrying ammunition. Or clean the breech. or reloading ammunition. Or insert the fuse and sweat profusely...... While estimating: "With the power of our army's hundreds of 'Thor' generation artillery, half an hour is enough to collapse the city tower, but the city wall is too thick, even if you use cannonballs to peel off the outer bricks, it is difficult to collapse the rammed earth wall several zhang wide inside......

The guard was wise, and knew how to withdraw his soldiers, lest they be bombarded in vain!"

Feng Buping said: "The guard will rely on this outer gate and inside the urn city." I'm not afraid that we'll break through the outer city gates......"

Yue Shouqian put down the binoculars and said in a deep voice: "It seems that we should contact the Wang family to cooperate with the outside world, and the strategy of attacking and seizing the city at night is indeed the best choice."

Otherwise, in a dignified siege battle, our 50,000 army will suffer at least 30% casualties!"

Luo Fan sighed: "With standard-equipped muskets and artillery, bombing from afar across the moat, siege warfare can be extremely boring......

It's only been half a year, and I'm a little bored!"

Yue Shouqian smiled and said: "Luoyang has not been fighting for a long time, so no heavy artillery has been placed.

If you change the perennial nine-sided town. There are a large number of artillery in the city, and the Ming army will not just be beaten and not fight back.

Moreover. According to the report of the spies, the Ming court was blinded by our muskets and artillery, and now they are dispatching artillery from Jiubian to the south, and at the same time buying Hongyi cannons from Westerners in Liangguang and Guangzhou......

In the future, if it is really a battle of artillery in formation, our 'Thor' generation will not lose!"

Luo Fan shrugged his brows, "A few thousand catties of heavy artillery is not a three-to-five-pound fire system, just leave if you mention it......

Waiting for the Ming military to do their best to transport the heavy artillery over thousands of miles, we have already occupied Shandong, and received the full supply of the large armory workshop on Taiwan Island from Qingdao and other seaports, large and small types of artillery, as long as the transportation can keep up, how many are available, and are you afraid of those obsolete goods in the Ming court?"

It is really a chore to transport thousands of pounds of heavy artillery on the uneven dirt official road, which Luo Fan has a deep understanding of - this time he transported more than 100 'Thor' generation guns from Guanzhong to Luoyang, and the road was repeatedly pitted and dragged on, which made him very annoying.

Feng Buping said with emotion: "In ancient times, ants were attached to the siege of the city, and the battle of swords and guns was certainly a mountain of corpses and a river of blood, and in the future, thousands of cannons and thousands of guns can destroy the mountains and mountains, destroy the city and destroy the country, and it is no longer possible for individual courage to resist!"

Yue Shouqian nodded in agreement, "It is inevitable that firearms will flourish in the world...... It's time to set up a night attack, let's go!"

The three of them are all masters, no need for hot air balloon lifting, only turn over and jump out of the hanging basket, lift the air and light the body, borrow force on the rope three or five times, you can float down more than 30 zhang, and land safely.

Only the remaining two Quanzhen disciples remained in the hanging basket to observe the enemy's situation, just in case.

Yue Buqun also felt that the artillery bombardment of the city was boring, at this time he was taking a flat boat, rippling on the water of the Luohe River, watching and sensing the battle at the west gate of Luoyang from afar.

The artillery array roared, the momentum shook the sky, and it seemed that the fight was hot, but he sensed that the killing intent of the Quanzhen army of 50,000 was condensed and did not move, and it was clear that he did not move the real thing.

In the past six months, he silently watched several large-scale siege battles of the Quanzhen Righteous Army, only at the beginning when the fire and artillery were not sufficient, he used the traditional ant siege to kill the corpses under the city wall, and then the artillery battalion was established, and then he relied on artillery to break through the city gate and city wall, destroy the defense, and then the fire command infantry attacked the city along the gap.

Of course, due to the overwhelming force of dozens or hundreds of artillery pieces in turn, it was like the earth shaking the mountains, in fact, in most cases, the Ming army defending the city did not wait for the city wall to be blasted, and then they were frightened and surrendered...... As a result, Yue Buqun had never seen a few killing and brutal white-knuckle battles.

The tip of his nose moved slightly, smelling the smell of gunpowder and gunpowder smoke wafting in the wind, and looking at the thick clouds of smoke above the artillery array, Yue Buqun became more and more familiar with this scene, or a sense of intimacy, and in the case of the sympathy of heaven and earth from time to time in the Dao Heart, this inexplicable feeling was definitely not false!

After thinking about it again, Yue Buqun faintly understood that this was because under his influence, the world was rapidly entering the era of thermal weapons, and although there was still a gap of more than one or two hundred years from the nuclear age in the previous life, it was finally changing rapidly from the idealistic world to the materialistic world.

For Yue Buqun, who came from the era of thermal weapons, even if he had long been accustomed to the cold weapons of swords and swords in this world, and practiced swordsmanship to the peak and entered the Tao with a sword, deep in his heart, he was still deeply engraved with the imprint of the era of thermal weapons.

This is not due to the power of his enthusiasm for hot weapons, in fact, according to his current martial arts, except for the nuclear weapons that are so strong that he has no friends, he is not afraid of the rest of the thermal weapons, not only because his sword heart also has the ability to 'avoid danger without seeing or hearing', but his spiritual sense in the dark tells him that one day, his martial arts will be so strong that he doesn't even care about nuclear weapons......

Sensitive as he was, he soon determined that this was a complex feeling similar to 'hometown timidity' - the distance between him and his previous life was not how far away, but hundreds of years of time and space, and now he accelerated the development of the times, which is equivalent to shortening the distance from 'hometown'.

This feeling is so wonderful that it is indescribable, but Yue Buqun can't help but immerse himself in it, and he can't extricate himself for a long time.

After a long while, he sighed quietly: "If this world can be filled with high-rise buildings, reinforced concrete, and become a familiar world in an instant, under the spiritual traction, I will definitely be able to 'unite heaven and man' in the next moment, and it is not ......impossible to even achieve the Yang God."

The sword heart moved slightly, cutting away the unrealistic thoughts, Yue Buqun once again glanced at the roaring artillery array filled with gunsmoke, and his true qi came out through his feet, and he poked into the river from the hull of the boat.

The flat boat, which was originally gently rippling with the waves, suddenly swirled lightly and dexterously, and spun away like an arrow from the string along Luoshui towards Zhengzhou.

The Quanzhen Sect has begun to attack Henan, how can Shaolin be allowed to stay out of the matter? )

PS: Recently, I've been staying up late to review the biography of the Tang Dynasty, and I finally finished it yesterday, and today I have been studying the history of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and Lao Shi's start is not far away......