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As a general's disciple, he naturally wouldn't tremble because of fear. This trembling came from his sense of powerlessness in the soul. If he could fight head-on with the Southwest Army, he was confident that even if the Hanzhong Army could not crush these Southwest barbarians, at least they could It is possible not to lose the wind, but the current battle that is almost not at the same level makes this young general feel helpless from the bottom of his heart.

He didn't know what to do.

He doesn't even have the qualifications to fight back!

Zhong Heng pulled down the city wall in embarrassment, looked at the west city gate that had been blocked by bluestone, and smiled wryly.

At the very beginning of the war, they knew that the sky thunder might blow open the city gate, so they made preparations early and sealed the city gate tightly with an unknown number of stones to prevent the enemy from blasting it open with sky thunder. .

But right now, the enemy doesn't even need to get close, and directly uses the catapult to throw the sky thunder on his own head!

After removing Zhong Heng from the city wall, he looked up and saw two generals, Xie Jing and Pei Jin, who were also under the city wall.

Zhong Heng took several deep breaths before he calmed down. His face was bitter and his voice was hoarse: "We can't figure out why Lord Li Hou dared to attack Xiangyang, and he only used 10 people to attack Xiangyang. Now Lord Li Hou finally let us know Where is his confidence?"

After speaking, Zhong Heng pointed to the sky thunder that was still falling on the city wall, and said with some despair: "Two generals, how...how should we fight?"

The Southwest Army suppressed the Hanzhong Army with firepower. In just a moment, no one dared to stand on the west wall. This made it easy for them to get close to the city wall of Xiangyang City, and then set up ladders to climb up.

In other words, the city walls of Xiangyang City are almost useless.

Although Pei Jin's heart was already full of turmoil, but his face was expressionless, he said in a deep voice: "In any case, there must be no one on the city wall, no matter how many people die, there must be people standing on the city wall, otherwise the Southwest Army can easily break through the city wall of Xiangyang , enter Xiangyang."

General Pei's voice was resounding.

"I have 15 defenders in Xiangyang. How many of these things can Li Changan produce? As long as they run out of supplies, Xiangyang will still be impenetrable!"

"I disagree!"

Uncle Guo Xie Jing's eyes were a little red, and he roared angrily: "Why should the soldiers of our Hanzhong Army go up to the city wall and be killed by the southwestern barbarians for nothing? If you want me to say, open the city wall of Xiangyang and let these southwestern barbarians come in , we have more troops than them, we may not lose in a close-to-street battle, why should the soldiers die in vain?"

Having said that, he looked up at the city wall, and said angrily: "If you climb up to defend the city again, you will die in vain. Their catapults are useless in melee combat. They dare not throw their thunders in hand-to-hand combat. So far, only I can fight them in the street!"

To be honest, although Xie Jing is usually unreliable, what he said now is not completely unreasonable.

Zhong Heng and Pei Jin looked at each other, and there was some hesitation in their eyes.

Faced with this unexpected situation, they don't know what to do now.

So, Pei Jin turned his eyes and said slowly: "General Xie is the chief general of the Hanzhong Army. I will not interfere with how General Xie commands the Hanzhong Army."

Zhong Heng was also silent for a while, bowing his head slightly.

"At the end of the day, everything will be obeyed by the general."

Chapter 1047 No.90 five pieces of what is that?

During this period of time, Lin Hu led hundreds of craftsmen to make a lot of this kind of throwing version of thunder day and night, which was enough for the twenty catapults to waste for a long time, but when the catapults bombed the city wall of Xiangyang After six rounds, there was no longer a Hanzhong army standing on the city wall. Li Xin and Mu Ying watched with binoculars for a while.

The catapult stopped, and after about a stick of incense, someone slowly stuck his head out on the city wall of Xiangyang, watching what happened outside. At the moment when someone appeared, Li Xin waved again, Twenty catapults unleashed their firepower again, and a large number of sky thunders were thrown on the walls of Xiangyang City, blowing up the walls of this mighty city, causing smoke and dust to rise everywhere!

After several rounds of bombing, some of the city bricks on the Xiangyang city tower had been lifted up, and the broken bricks fell to the ground, injuring a group of people.

Li Xin has been using the binoculars to watch what is going on in Xiangyang. After bombing three rounds with the catapult, no Hanzhong army dared to climb the tower anymore. Li Xin put the binoculars into his sleeve In the middle of the night, looking back at the two generals behind him, he said slowly: "You two, no one in the imperial court's army dares to go up to the tower to defend the city. As long as they rush over and set up the ladder, Xiangyang City will be broken. Who is willing to do this?" The one who climbed first?"

Mu Ying was the first to stand up, but just as he took a step, he suddenly remembered what happened to the Mu family in Jincheng, so he slightly lowered his head to Li Xin, and said: "General, General Li's Ningzhou Army has arrived Now that I have never fought against anyone, it is time to see the quality of the Ningzhou Army."

In fact, at this time, Xiangyang City has basically given up on defending the city. As long as someone leads troops to rush over, what is in front of them is ready-made credit. But at this time, he still didn't choose to be the early bird.

After all, after the reorganization of the Southwest Army, Li Shuo and the Ningzhou Army under his command had never done anything. Let Li Shuo show off properly at this time, which can somewhat make the Mu family less conspicuous.

Li Xin could see through Mu Ying's careful thinking at a glance. He glanced at Li Shuo calmly, and asked, "General Li, can the Ningzhou Army fight?"

After "returning from learning" from Lin Hu, both Mu Ying and Li Shuo's confidence has skyrocketed. He directly half-kneeled on the ground, bowed his head to Li Xin and said, "Back to the general, the last general will lead the Ningzhou army to attack you." City, within three days, we must take Xiangyang!"

"it is good."

Li Xin nodded slightly, and said: "Then you will lead the Ningzhou army to attack the city. You will march in formation now. I will use the catapult to throw another round of fire mines to cover you."

Li Shuo bowed his head respectfully: "The last general obeys orders!"

The Ningzhou Army was reorganized from the Hanzhou Army and the Pingnan Army, and it was also the army led by Li Shuo. It had a total of 5 people. According to Li Xin's request, Li Shuo stayed 9 people in Ningzhou. The Wanning Prefecture Army went out, that is to say, the number of troops they went out of Shu this time was less than [-], only [-].

Soon, the Ningzhou Army began to gather, because the Ningzhou Army had almost no cavalry, so Li Shuo took the lead directly, leading two soldiers from the Captain's Battalion to the front, and guarding five hundred young men in the middle , rushed towards Xiangyang City.

At this time, because of the catapult, Xiangyang has basically lost the interest in, or the ability to defend the city wall. Therefore, Li Shuo and the others arrived under the city wall of Xiangyang almost without encountering any resistance. They didn't even look at the city wall, they directly mounted the ladder and climbed up the tower.

According to the practice of siege in this era, ascending the city tower is already the first achievement, but this time, the first ascending came too easily.

After Li Shuo climbed the tower, he found that the entire western city wall of Xiangyang, except for some corpses and soldiers who were seriously injured and couldn't afford to cry on the ground, there was almost no trace of the imperial army.

In other words, the imperial court had given up on defending the city and let them in directly when they were unable to deal with the catapults.

Li Shuo soon arrived at the gate of the city, and a group of people moved away the green stone blocking the gate, and opened the gate. The entire Ningzhou Army, with about 5000 to [-] people, entered Xiangyang City first.

Li Shuo led two battalions of captains and five hundred youths to the front.

Xiangyang is an important town of the imperial court. The imperial court would rather withdraw from Hanzhong and Ankang, but never withdraw from Xiangyang, which shows the importance of this place to the imperial court. That is to say, the imperial army may be forced to abandon the city wall by catapult But they will never abandon Xiangyang.

Li Shuo's face was solemn, and he drew out the long sword at his waist. Thousands of people behind him were all ready to fight at the same time, and slowly advanced from the west wall of Xiangyang City towards the east wall.

They walked on the widest avenue in Xiangyang City. This avenue is not only wide enough to accommodate eight horses in parallel, but also runs through the entire Xiangyang from the east to the west of the city.

At first, for nearly a mile, there was no sign of any imperial troops. Even because of the war, the nearby people had been evacuated in advance, and there was no one around.

But after walking for more than a mile, Li Shuo finally realized that something was wrong. He frowned and ordered, "Don't move for now, just step back."

The subordinates immediately took orders, and thousands of Ningzhou troops were about to take a few steps back slowly, but at this moment, there were shouts of killing everywhere in the surrounding alleys!

There are thousands of Hanzhong troops from the imperial court rushing out from all sides, wielding their weapons each, trying to fight these enemies who rushed into Xiangyang City close to each other!

Many of the Hanzhong Army were dispatched from the Forbidden Army back then. Even if they were not the Forbidden Army, they had been trained according to the standard of the Forbidden Army these years.

When Li Shuo saw this scene, he was not afraid at all. He waved his hands directly and formed a formation, revealing the five hundred young people they had been protecting all along.

Although these young men were also armored, they didn't have crossbows, knives or guns on their bodies, but they all carried a burden on their bodies, and there was a straight iron pipe hanging on their backs, which looked rather funny.

With Li Shuo's order, these young people immediately divided into three directions, and each direction staggered back and forth, forming three rows.

People in the first row lie on the ground, people in the second row squat, and people in the last row stand upright.

Then they took out the torch and started lighting the fire.

First of all, the group of people lying on the ground slightly raised the iron pipes in their hands, and aimed seriously at the court troops rushing towards them.

As the fuse burned, the firecrackers in the hands of these young people also made a loud noise, and then the firecrackers shook violently, and a lead bullet flew out. Being shot into the body by lead beads, although not life-threatening, he also lost his combat effectiveness, lying on the ground and rolling back and forth in pain.

After the first row of squatting people finished shooting, they began to load ammunition in an orderly manner. At the same time, the squatting people in the second row also rang their firecrackers.