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Li Xin lowered his head and drank another glass of wine, then glanced at Mu Ying, frowned and said, "Brother Mu, tell me, if we enter the capital..."

Having said that, Li Xin shook his head, his frown deepened.

"Forget it, let's not talk about it, let's drink."

Mu Ying raised her wine glass and clinked a glass with Li Xin. The black-faced general looked up at Li Xin, and said quietly: "You don't need to think about it so much. If you really enter the capital, everyone who should be killed will be killed." If you kill him, the general won't be able to do anything, we people can take the blame for the general."

He chuckled: "I know what the general is worried about. If Madam asks you, Mu Ying will kneel in front of Madam and plead guilty."

Li Xin frowned deeply, and finally exhaled slowly.

"Forget it, you haven't entered Beijing yet, so don't worry about it."

Li Xin's gaze became determined, with a faint murderous look.

"It's not too late to think about these things after we enter the capital."

Before he and Mu Ying, the relationship between friends was greater than that between superiors and subordinates. The two exchanged glasses, because they drank old Zhu Rongjiu, General Li's cheeks turned red soon.

He picked up the wine glass, raised his head and drank it down in a low voice.

"Brother Mu is right."

"It's time to kill."

Chapter 1097 Tactics in the Age of Firearms

For three whole days, the capital did not take the Southwest Army's "ultimatum" to heart. Although the Southwest Army has been rectifying the army these days, with frequent actions, the court's scouts can detect it, but even so, the court Some people here still feel that the Southwest Army is acting.

Another group of people felt that despite the Southwest Army's best efforts, it was impossible to break into the capital.

There were only military generals like Zhong Xuantong, and everyone tensed up, trying their best to deal with the coming bitter battle.

After these few months, no one will underestimate the combat power of the Southwest Army.

On the morning of the third day, before dawn, the Ningzhou Army camp began to move. First, dozens of catapults were skillfully pushed out by the Ningzhou Army soldiers. A stone's throw away from the city wall of the capital.

After two months, the Ningzhou Army has hardly stopped bombarding the city walls of the capital. They are familiar with all of this, and after two months, the "slingers" in charge of the catapults in the Ningzhou Army have also become very skilled. Without the influence of strong winds, you can basically point to where to hit.

After the catapult was in place, dozens of catapults skillfully loaded the sky mines. After a while, dozens of sky mines exploded under the west wall of the capital.

The defenders on the west city wall are already very proficient in dealing with these thunders. The three of them form a shield formation, and then squat on the ground, using three large shields as a shield wall. When the thunder explodes, as long as it is not accidentally thrown on them Under the feet of the shield soldiers, it is difficult to cause too much damage to these shield soldiers.

But today's thunder is a little different.

In the past, when the sky thunder exploded, these shield soldiers who were skilled in defending the city had at most a dozen casualties, but this time, there were at least a hundred screams at the same time!

Many people covered their wounds and rolled on the ground.

After all, it is impossible for a large shield to protect the whole body, there will always be some gaps. These injured Forbidden Army officers and soldiers have more or less iron plates stuck to their bodies.

"The rebel's sky thunder is mixed with iron pieces!"

Soon a general of the Imperial Army came to his senses and shouted loudly: "The shield soldiers should protect themselves more tightly, spread out and don't be too dense!"

In the past, the Tianlei of the Southwest Army only had pottery fragments and no iron fragments. Even if the pottery fragments were stuck into the body, it was only a trauma at most, and these iron fragments were not clean or even mostly rusty. Took a person's life!

The second round of Tianlei from the Ningzhou Army has arrived again.

Dozens of sky thunders that had already been ignited, under the precise manipulation of the slinger, some even exploded above the heads of these Forbidden Army soldiers, and the iron pieces splashed everywhere, and blood was everywhere on the city wall for a while!

Some of the unlucky ones were covered in iron sheets, and were quickly carried down crying.

The general of the imperial army with rich combat experience responded immediately, and shouted sharply: "Four people in a team, four people in a team, raise your shield to block the top of your head!"

The military quality of the Imperial Army is extremely high, and with things like catapults, the reloading speed is extremely slow, so they quickly changed into a formation of four, with three squatting on the ground and holding up shields to protect the whole body, and one in the middle He also squatted on the ground, holding a shield with both hands to protect the top of his head.

In this way, the casualties of the Imperial Army dropped sharply immediately.

However, after a few rounds of thunder, there were still hundreds of casualties, but these were insignificant compared to the 20 base number of the imperial army.

Li Shuo, who was watching the battle from the bottom of the city, was looking at the situation of the city wall with a binoculars. After seeing the shield formations on the city wall, he took a few deep breaths, and endured for a while, letting the catapult bombard again, and then the The general of the Ningzhou Army waved his hand and shouted in a deep voice, "Ningzhou Army Pioneer Battalion, come out!"

Most of the vanguard battalions of the Ningzhou Army were soldiers brought by the Ningzhou Army from the southwest, and they were also the most trusted soldiers in the Ningzhou Army. With a wave of Li Shuo's hand, 2000 people came out of the army immediately. Everyone is dressed in black armor and holds a standard spear, quite majestic.

Two months ago, when the Ningzhou Army was resisting the Forbidden Army's four Zhechong Mansions head-on, they used these Ningzhou Army elites to go up and fight hard. As a result, even without firearms, these Ningzhou Army elites could collide head-on with the Forbidden Army Don't fall behind!

Li Shuo looked cold, and waved his hand fiercely: "Rush over there!"

"Rush to the west gate of the capital at all costs!"

The vanguard battalion of 2000 people responded immediately, and they moved quickly towards the gate of the city according to the formation of three people and one team of the Southwest Army!

If it is an ordinary siege, once it enters the place of one arrow, the distance from this distance to the city gate will be filled with human life, because within this distance, there is no way to fight back, and you can only go forward with the shield if you are dead. Charge, but even if you raise your shield in the process of charging, casualties are inevitable.

However, the Ningzhou Army's charge was not like this at all, because they were covered by firearms!

From the beginning of their charge, the Ningzhou Army had a total of 33 catapults, and [-] of them stopped throwing sky mines. After the first batch of [-] sky mines were thrown, the second batch of [-] began to throw and ignite. Thunder!

Fifty catapults were thrown in three batches. Although there was still a reloading time, the reloading time had been greatly shortened. It was so short that the imperial army on the city wall had no way to shoot arrows on a large scale.

Two thousand vanguard battalion soldiers miraculously rushed to the west city gate with less than 100 lost!

Li Shuo at the rear, with piercing eyes, waved his hand again and shouted, "Go to the two captain's battalions again, follow, follow!"

The Southwest Army has a captain's battalion with 600 people, and two captain's battalions with more than 3000 people. They quickly followed Li Shuo's order amidst the rumbling artillery fire!

At the same time, the forbidden army on the city wall also reacted, and the general of the forbidden army roared angrily: "Top shield, top shield!"

"The top shield throws thunder down the city!"

The imperial court also has sky thunders, which are serious weapons for defending the city. What's more, the sky thunders don't need to be aimed, they just need to be lit and thrown down the city!

In this case, the soldiers of the Forbidden Army can throw sky thunders down the city while hiding behind the big shield, and each of the sky thunders of the court is filled with iron pieces. A soldier of the Ningzhou Army lost his combat effectiveness!

Soon, the casualties of the vanguard battalion of the Ningzhou Army expanded rapidly.

However, the vanguard battalion is not for siege!

Among these pioneer battalion soldiers, except for the first few rows of people holding spears, there are about 80 to [-] soldiers in the middle row. The cloth bag was not very heavy, only ten or twenty catties, so it was not difficult to carry it. Under the cover of the surrounding soldiers and the catapults in the distance, they piled the eighty bags to the gate of the city smoothly!

Because of the suppression of catapults in the distance, the people on the city wall only dared to stretch out their hands and throw down the sky thunder. Few people dared to take a closer look. When these people with cloth bags approached the gate of the city, the guards on the city wall who were watching did not respond. Coming over, one of the captains of the Forbidden Army, who had seen firearms before, turned pale after seeing this situation. He suddenly turned around and ran to his superior with a trembling voice.

"Lieutenant, the Southwest Army, carried some cloth bags to the gate of the city!"

Having said that, he swallowed.

"But...it might be gunpowder..."