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Then there's the third row.

After the third row of ammunition was finished, the first row of soldiers lying on the ground had already filled the ammunition and started to light the fire.

This kind of tactics more or less made up for the shortcoming of the slow reloading time of some firecrackers, which made one's own side lose its loopholes.

Li Shuo and Mu Ying each took [-] firecrackers from Lin Hu, and trained [-] firecrackers. After months of hard training, at last, for the first time, they were on the battlefield. Show your might!

One after another, the lead bullets flew towards the soldiers of the Hanzhong Army who rushed over, and after a loud noise, these soldiers fell limply in the dust one by one, with blood flowing horizontally!

In this way of death, one or two deaths may be no problem, but the large-scale death will soon make the Hanzhong army very panicked.

After all, for no apparent reason, my robe fell limp to the ground, and I didn't know how to deal with it at all!

The morale of the army will soon be chaotic!

The three court generals standing on the tall building not far away saw all this with their binoculars. The three of them put down the binoculars with complicated expressions on their faces.

The uncle Guo's face was full of horror, and he even trembled when he spoke: "You two..."

"What is that?"

Chapter 1048 Half a day wins half a city!

Although five hundred firecrackers can cause a lot of damage, they are not enough to change the situation on a battlefield with tens of thousands of people. As long as the imperial army rushes up one after another, the firecracker team can be dispersed. They even captured some firecrackers and brought them back to the capital for research.

but……

This kind of thing that can directly kill people at a distance of dozens of steps or even nearly a hundred steps without using a bow and crossbow is really too terrifying!

This was a blow from the heart. No one knew what the firecrackers were holding in their hands, and no one knew why the comrades in front of them fell to the ground after a loud noise.

After these people rushed forward dozens of steps according to the command of the chief, they found that the brothers in front of them were lying on the ground, so some people stopped in their tracks because of fear.

In the face of the unknown, fear is the first instinct.

At this time, Li Shuo's Ningzhou Army had nearly [-] people rushing into Xiangyang City.

The general of Ningzhou, who had just passed his thirties, was expressionless, and said coldly: "The shield soldiers stand in the front, and the pitchers follow behind, advancing from west to east!" liejufa1111111111111111111111

"Everyone pay attention to cover the firecrackers!"

Five hundred gunfire soldiers could not change the battle situation in Xiangyang City, but when thousands of shield soldiers joined the battlefield, and more than 1000 "pitchers" unique to the Southwest Army followed closely into Xiangyang City, the battle situation changed drastically. It's the same, the firecrackers are a unit that Li Shuo and Mu Ying have intensively trained in the past few months, and they are relatively unfamiliar to use, but the pitchers responsible for throwing sky thunders have already existed in the Southwest in the ninth year of Taikang. It is easy to apply.

After the enemy was hit by the firecrackers for a round, the rhythmic formation was chaotic, and a decent counterattack was not formed. Even the long-range crossbow did not shoot a few arrows. Under the cover, he threw himself into the enemy's formation, and the Hanzhong Army began to be defeated in just one face-to-face effort.

The sound of wailing is loud!

When Li Shuo saw the Hanzhong army retreating, he said decisively: "Pursue slowly, don't be impatient, and slowly advance towards the east of the city!"

The predecessor of the Ningzhou Army was the remnant of the Pingnan Army. Although the Pingnan Army had undergone a reorganization and had been incorporated into the Southwest Army, Li Shuo was, after all, a young general of the Pingnan Army. , or stayed in the Ningzhou Army. Later, the 1 Ningzhou Army also trained according to the standards of the Pingnan Army. In terms of combat power, it even surpassed the Southwest Army under Mu Ying. Its execution ability was very strong. After Li Shuo's order, he immediately nodded his head. There were only more than [-] Ningzhou troops, and the tens of thousands of Hanzhong troops who fought abruptly were retreating steadily!

Because of the chaotic formation of the Hanzhong Army, the retreat was not very orderly. They were chased by a group of Ningzhou Army armed with firearms, and gradually changed from retreat to rout, with heavy casualties!

Li Shuo was now on the tower of the west city wall of Xiangyang, using binoculars to look at the fleeing Hanzhong army from a distance, and then looked back at the Southwest army camp still stationed outside the city, and let out a slow breath.

If the Pingnan Army back then had the equipment of the Southwest Army, not to mention the Emperor Taikang, even the Emperor Chengde, or even the Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, would have the power to fight!

It's a pity that my elder brother is just like the eldest father, he is too arrogant in his bones, the two of them are destined not to be able to get together.

Thinking of this, Li Shuo sighed, and ordered to his subordinates: "Notify the general, the Southwest Army can enter the city."

"Yes!"

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On this side, Li Shuo fought smoothly and vigorously, but on the other side, Xie Jing, the general of the Hanzhong Army, was quite embarrassed. Seeing that the Hanzhong Army was retreating steadily, he ordered the Hanzhong Army to counterattack more than once, but their morale had been destroyed by the firecrackers. There was also Tianlei breaking up. At this time, any military order had no effect. It was Zhong Heng who saw that something was wrong and gave the order to withdraw the troops, so the Hanzhong army fled from the west of the city to the east of the city in embarrassment.

The three generals who led the troops in Xiangyang also fled back to a house in the east of the city, and everyone's expressions were very ugly.

Xiangyang is the most important city in the middle of the Great Jin Dynasty. Once Xiangyang is lost, these southwest rebels can go straight to the capital city. Emperor Yuanzhao sent them all to Xiangyang, just to let them defend it no matter what. Xiangyang, but now, within half a day of the fighting between the two sides, the Hanzhong army was immediately defeated, and the southwest rebels broke into Xiangyang city abruptly!

Once such a huge crime is spread to the capital, each of the three generals who lead the army in the southwest cannot escape the responsibility. Even Xie Jing, the emperor's own uncle, may not be able to stay out of it!

The three of them sat at the same table, Uncle Xie Guo was full of anger, gritted his teeth and said, "It's been a long time, it's only been a long time!"

"In just half a day, those barbarians from the Southwest entered Xiangyang City directly as if they were in no one's land. This matter spread to the capital. The three of us don't want to have a good reputation, so we simply hit our heads or died in battle. In Xiangyang, to avoid embarrassment when returning to Beijing!"

Pei Jin was relatively calm. He frowned and said, "The Southwest Army has created something new other than Tianlei."

"Today they use catapults to throw sky thunders. Although they are powerful, they are still the use of sky thunders in essence. However, after these Southwestern troops entered the city, they have never seen iron pipes that can shoot hidden weapons in their hands. thing."

Pei Jin's voice was a little hoarse.

"The matter has come to this point, no matter whether Xiangyang City can be defended or not, we must find out what that iron pipe is. It is best to snatch one or two pieces from them and send them to the capital for His Majesty. In this way, even if the Southwest is destroyed, we will not bear too much responsibility."

Zhong Heng frowned and said nothing, after thinking for a long time, he said with a wry smile: "This thing is probably made by Lord Li Hou. My grandfather often told me about him, saying that he was rare for decades. character."

"Looking at it now, my grandfather's vision is really powerful."

Chong Heng's grandfather, Zhong Xuantong, met Li Xin when he was sixteen or seventeen years old, and gave him his own sword.

"This kind of powerful thing is definitely not something that one person can figure out for a year or a half, or three or five years."

Xie Jing gritted his teeth and said, "Li Xin must have obtained an ancient book somewhere that recorded these things, but he kept it in the dark and never used it."

"The first emperor treated him like a brother and sister, and made him an extremely human minister. This man is not satisfied. He has hidden so many things privately and never handed over to the court!"

Uncle Guo scolded harshly: "Wolf ambition!"

"It's useless to discuss what Master Li is thinking now."

Zhong Heng smiled wryly, and said, "The top priority now is how to deal with the menacing Southwest Army, and whether Xiangyang City should be defended?"

"The walls of Xiangyang City have been broken. If we continue to defend, we will probably suffer heavy casualties in the face of those unknown iron pipes. Therefore, according to my advice, let's leave a group of people in the rear, and then leave Xiangyang for the time being. Take the information you get and send it to the capital, so that the Hanzhong army will not be completely wiped out, but you can also retain some strength, and in the future you can also help the Gyeonggi forbidden army to fight against the southwest."

After Zhong Heng finished speaking, he looked left and right, and then continued: "What do you two generals think?"

Uncle Xie Guo's face was gloomy.

"If you escape from Xiangyang in such embarrassment, it will probably be a capital offense after you return to Beijing!"

Pei Jin smiled lightly.

"Otherwise, General Xie will stay here alone and lead the Hanzhong Army Xiaoshou. My Ankang Army will learn from General Xiaozhong's advice and start slowly withdrawing from Xiangyang tomorrow."

"What does General Xie want?"

Chapter 1049 Raising the Flag!