After the prosperous Tang Dynasty

In the Tongguan camp, Wang Sili was still assigning manpower to prepare large-scale ordnance.

Looking at the blueprints that he and Xiao Yansui had marked and redrawn in letters, Wang Sili frowned and took a deep breath.

——These blueprints are related to large-scale ordnance. Before that, in the northwest area, he just tried to order people to make some relatively small equipment, and the effect was good. However, for these ordnance, the larger the finished product, the larger the blueprint. The more complex the fineness and parameters are, the more difficult it will be to make.

It's just that the situation in Tongguan is critical, and now, he can only choose to believe in Xiao Yansui. If something went wrong, he is responsible for it...

A few days later, as the first catapult made according to the modified drawings took shape, Wang Sili finally breathed a sigh of relief and ordered it to be transported to the front line of Tongguan.

Coincidentally, the terrain of Tongguan is dangerous and there are many mountains and rocks around. The modified catapult is relatively more stable. The boulders used for the catapult are also obtained directly in Tongguan, which is convenient.

What's more, with the current Northwest Army, it is impossible to capture Luoyang City. What Wang Sili wants is to rely on heavy ordnance to minimize the casualties of the Northwest Army soldiers and keep the battle situation in Tongguan...

However, when the soldiers on the front line of Tongguan were fighting desperately, the eunuchs from the palace rushed to the rear. In the edict, they were quite dissatisfied with the stalemate situation in Tongguan at this time, and even ordered the Northwest Army to leave the pass to meet the enemy. .

In the camp of the Chinese army, the faces of Wang Zhongsi and Ge Shuhan were livid.

The eunuch who delivered the order was already dissatisfied because of the difficulty of Tongguan. Seeing that Wang Zhongsi and Ge Shuhan looked ugly and did not accept the order immediately, he was even more furious.

Wang Sili's face was sullen, and when he raised his hand to open the tent and came in, what he saw was the look of the eunuch delivering the edict, who was about to explode in the tent with his arrogance.

Seeing the imperial edict in the hands of the eunuch, as well as the faces of Wang Zhongsi and Ge Shuhan, Wang Sili almost knew it.Previously, they had also talked about the fact that the sage would not praise the current situation in Tongguan, and might even blame it. However, no one thought that the edict ordering the battle would come down so quickly, and, It is not an exaggeration to say that the Northwest Army will die if it is ordered to let the Northwest Army, which has been damaged, leave Tongguan and give up the land it is defending to fight.

Because of Wang Sili's sudden appearance, the eunuch delivering the decree was also startled, he turned his head subconsciously, but before he could open his mouth, Wang Sili had already made a bold move, and grabbed the weapon placed on the weapon rack in the camp. With a wave of his hand, Ge Shuhan's spear pierced the eunuch's neck.

Wang Zhongsi and Ge Shuhan couldn't stop them at all, and saw the eunuch who passed the decree spurting blood from his neck, his throat was like a broken bellows, and he let out a broken breath that was almost inaudible after his trachea was cut. slumped to the ground.

Both Wang Zhongsi and Ge Shuhan did not expect that Wang Sili would be able to kill the eunuch who passed the decree. After all, this trip was almost the same as committing a rebellion!

"Sili!" Wang Zhongsi shouted angrily.

On Wang Sili's left cheek was a trace of blood that had just been spattered, he lowered his eyes expressionlessly, then threw the handle back to its original place, and then said in a deep voice, "Don't say you don't know, Yang Guozhongyi In the fight for power, let the Northwest Army come out of Tongguan to fight at this time, one here counts as one, I am afraid that the entire army will be wiped out here!"

Ge Shuhan was also startled and angry, and said sharply: "Then you can't be beheaded—do that!"

Wang Sili raised his eyelids casually, every muscle on his handsome face stained with a few drops of blood seemed to be tensed, and he said word by word: "The soldiers of Tongguan have fought bloody battles so far, they are lost, and they are about to fall. Then he was killed by the rebels, what's the matter with you?"

"Nonsense!" Wang Zhongsi was about to be driven mad by him, and he was still panting heavily when he spoke.

"Then hand me over and kill me if you want!" Wang Sili sneered.

Ge Shuhan grabbed Wang Sili's shoulders, and he didn't have the slightest intention of resisting, but the sneer at the corner of his mouth seemed to add a bit of coldness.

Immediately, Ge Shuhan directly grabbed Wang Sili and threw him out of the camp of the Chinese army, and then ordered to the soldiers: "Wang Sili disobeys the military order, one hundred army sticks!"

The soldier was a little frightened, and stared at Wang Sili who was still on the ground with wide eyes.

On the other hand, Wang Sili, who had a sneer on his face, suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked at him after hearing Ge Shuhan's order.

When Ge Shuhan saw him, he became angry, turned around abruptly and went back to the tent that was covered in blood by him.

"Tsk," Wang Sili snorted, raised his eyebrows a little, then raised his hand to wipe off the blood on his face, got up and patted the dirt on his body, and said to the soldier, "Let's go, one hundred army sticks." !"

The soldier couldn't help shaking his head, walked together with Wang Sili, and asked quietly: "What did you do to make the general so angry?"

"Dirty his gun." Wang Sili said casually.

The soldier was stunned, "No wonder, the general attaches great importance to his gun. It is said that he has never left his body since he joined the army."

The culprit was thrown out by Ge Shuhan to be beaten with a hundred army sticks, but Wang Zhongsi in the tent subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. After realizing his own thoughts, Wang Zhongsi was startled, and then smiled wryly.

When Ge Shuhan turned around and came back, Wang Zhongsi took the initiative to smooth things over and said: "Although Si Li has been growing up by my side, his father-son friendship with his father Wang Qianwei is quite deep. The army is still alive and the enemy is approaching. If it is because of him that there is a gap between the Shuofang Army and the Northwest Army, it would be inappropriate..."

Ge Shuhan nodded slowly. Since he didn't kill Wang Sili on the spot just now, but only punished him with a hundred army sticks, they are already a rope in the matter of killing the summoning angel. Grasshopper on the ground.

What's more, just as Wang Zhongsi said, Wang Sili is the son of Shuofang army general Wang Qianwei, and it is reasonable to kill him according to the military order today, but his father is inevitably dissatisfied.

After all, he has been in the army since he was a child, and he goes to the school grounds for training every day. There is no one who is not familiar with the executioners. He recovered alive and well.

Prior to this, Wang Zhongsi and Ge Shuhan had naturally disposed of the body of the eunuch who passed the decree, and afterward, Wang Sili went out of the camp in person to fake the illusion that the eunuch who passed the decree was killed on the way, and cleaned up everything.

But on the way, Wang Sili met someone who was completely unexpected to him.

"Why are you here!?" Rao was Wang Sili, the moment he saw Xiao Yansui, he was stunned and stunned on the spot.

"I wanted to go to Weizhou." Seeing him, Xiao Yansui was calm, lifted the veil on his face, and said to him: "However, the rebel army's blockade is very tight, and it may be very difficult not to alarm the rebel army. Sad."

"Aren't you in the south of the Yangtze River with Mr. Xiao? He even asked you to run to this dangerous place full of wars?"

Wang Sili did know that Xiao Yansui's father, Xiao Hua, was in Weizhou at this time, and even, with her identity as the daughter of the Xiao family in Lanling, if her identity was revealed and she was captured among the rebels, she would not die However, the most dangerous thing is that the refugees are on the way to escape.

"The people around me, Aunt, have all been on the battlefield, and they know the safest way to go." Xiao Yansui pointed to the guards around her, put on her veil again, and asked softly: "I heard that those who fled all the way The common people say that the battle in Tongguan is not going well?"

The situation in Tongguan is a secret in the military, but Wang Sili is an unscrupulous character, and Xiao Yansui's mechanical talent is probably far superior to him, so Wang Sili didn't hide it. He directly told the facts: "The Northwest Army was seriously attrition before, but now the situation is still stalemate, and the situation is a bit unfavorable."

Xiao Yansui blinked her eyes, "The consumption was stalemate before but now, what good idea do you have?"

Wang Sili glanced at her, and said calmly, "A modified trebuchet."

Xiao Yansui naturally understood the blueprints he had drawn, and asked subconsciously: "Is it useful?" After thinking about it, he felt that he had asked nonsense, so he changed his words, and simply said: "I will help you again Modify the shells fired."

"What?" Wang Sili was taken aback.

"Cannonball, um...it's the thing thrown from the trebuchet. It can be changed, and the power will be much greater." Xiao Yansui blinked.

Xiao Yansui can't remember exactly when gunpowder, one of the four great inventions of ancient China, appeared. However, the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty must have not appeared and been put into use at this moment.However, Xiao Yansui is clear about the composition ratio and production method of gunpowder, and even the chemical formulas of advanced versions of common explosives in later generations.

Facing the war, she plans to play something big.

Regardless of historical changes and the slow and excessive development of science, the era of cold weapons will be directly upgraded to the era of hot weapons.

As for the future, how can we care about the flood?

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Just when Xiao Yansui and Wang Sili were preparing to do something big together, Li Tan, who had gone all the way to Shu and joined Prince Li Heng and others, also followed Xuanzong and his party to Mawei Station.

In order to compete with Wang Zhongsi for power, Yang Guozhong contributed slanderous words, which made Xuanzong, who became more and more happy in his old age, issue an edict to force the Northwest Army to go out to fight, but unexpectedly, the eunuch who passed the edict was directly executed by Wang Sili. In the battle situation, Wang Zhongsi and Ge Shuhan also acquiesced in Wang Sili's actions.

Afterwards, under the fierce battle of the Northwest Army in Tongguan, there was even news that the eunuch who delivered the order was killed by the rebels who attacked the city, and that Tongguan was about to lose!

On the way to escape to the west, he left his hometown and had a difficult journey, lacking food and clothing.

The Beiya Forbidden Army, who defended Chang'an and pampered them before, was dissatisfied. Originally, the Shuofang Army defeated the rebels halfway and then returned to aid, and the Northwest Army fought hard to resist the enemy at Tongguan, but they barely controlled the situation.

However, with the news of the unfavorable situation in the Tongguan battle, Yang Guozhong and the general of the Northwest Army Wang Zhongsi fought for power, which led to the defeat of the Northwest Army. There is also the great general Chen Xuanli who accompanied him and the eunuch Li Fuguo, the confidant of the Prince of the East Palace Li Heng. The prime minister Yang Guozhong was dissatisfied, and under the instigation intentionally or unintentionally, it even attracted the Beiya Imperial Army who accompanied him all the way to mutiny at Mawei Station!

Faced with the mutiny of the generals, Xuanzong was helpless. Immediately afterwards, the Beiya Forbidden Army publicly punished and killed the traitor Yang Guozhong, and then forced Xuanzong to bestow the death of Concubine Yang Gui, which is known as the Maweiyi Incident in history.

With the deaths of Yang Guozhong and Concubine Yang, the rebellious soldiers in the Beiya Forbidden Army were temporarily appeased, and the Yang family's vitality was severely injured since then.The forces under Yang Guozhong's command also lost their leaders.However, in the area of ​​Shu that Yang Guozhong has been managing for a long time, the local county officials have been Yang Guozhong's confidantes for many years. Although there were a few undercurrents, they quickly subsided. In the change of Mawei Station, the biggest beneficiary of the East Palace!

At night, the moonlight is bright and the stars are dim.

In the midst of silence, Li Tan, who has been in and out with his elder brother Li Chu recently, simply spoke in a low voice to Prince Li Heng's dissatisfaction with Xuanzong's dissatisfaction, growing fear, and Yang Guozhong's confidant's intentional revenge. Said: "If you don't break, you can't stand. If you continue to enter Shu, there is no return. Although the Northwest Army is in a critical situation, the return of the Shuofang Army is already halfway."

After a pause, Li Tan did not make it clear that Xuanzong fled from Chang'an to a corner of Pian'an, just like Yang Guozhong and Concubine Yang, who were close at hand, could provoke the soldiers of the Beiya imperial army to mutiny. Xuanzong's behavior is inevitable for the soldiers in the north who are still fighting bloody battles. Feeling dissatisfied, he just said euphemistically: "East Palace is the crown prince of the country. If we can divide our troops to go north, I think it will be supported by the Shuofang Army and the Northwest Army..."

In fact, there were only three main armies in the northern part of the Tang Dynasty: the Shuofang Army, which has the best preserved strength today, the Northwest Army, which was lost in Tongguan, and the Anlushan Rebel Army, which was once the Northeast Army.

If they can win the support of the Shuofang Army and the Northwest Army, the next step will naturally be to establish another central government...

What's more, Donggong is the prince of the country, and Xuanzong is getting old and weak.Xuanzong had already left Chang'an, the capital city, and the prince returned to supervise the war, which was justified.

After Li Tan said this, Prince Li Heng was naturally moved. In particular, Wang Zhongsi, who led the Northwest Army, grew up with him freely and had a deep relationship with him. Heng has some origins.From this point of view, the relationship between Prince Li Heng and these generals in the army is actually a god-sent opportunity!

After a long silence, Prince Li Heng, who had never been very assertive, finally gritted his teeth, nodded and agreed, and decided to split up with Xuanzong and go north!

Leaving from Prince Li Heng, Li Chu stretched out his hand and patted Li Tan's shoulder, and said softly: "Tomorrow, you can find an opportunity in private and talk to Wen Ning."

Li Tan nodded.

After parting with his third younger brother, Li Chu couldn't help but frowned and breathed a sigh of relief.

Previously, Li Tan had spent so long with Xiao Yansui in Shanhai Town in the south of the Yangtze River, it was difficult for even him to tell the difference between the two of them.However, at this time and at that time, if Donggong urgently needed the goodwill of Xu Guogong's mansion before, Li Chu now feels that he should be careful when dealing with the Lanling Xiao family, a top wealthy clan that has been passed down for a long time.

Even in private, Li Chu once suspected that when Xuanzong left Chang'an with his people, Xu Guogong's mansion was actually divided into two. Among them, Pei's mother and son were all there, but Xiao Hua was the only one who was accidentally separated. Being captured by the An Lushan rebels, was it his bad luck, or was Xiao Hua himself doing it on purpose?

After all, the iron-clad aristocratic family of the flowing dynasty, looking at the inheritance of the Xiao family in Lanling for nearly a thousand years, betting on this kind of thing at both ends, the Xiao family really did it not once or twice...

However, due to the close relationship between Li Tan and Xiao Yansui, Li Chu couldn't express his doubts when the matter was not settled.

Prince Li Heng made up his mind, and after the entire East Palace power and Xuanzong parted ways, the situation that had just calmed down after the shocking change in Maweiyi was instantly broken again.

However, the Anlushan rebels always needed someone to clean up, but Xuanzong himself was unwilling to leave the peaceful Shu land. Due to the situation, Xuanzong had to agree to Prince Li Heng's request. This time, the Eastern Palace forces were completely separated from Xuanzong. The process was unexpectedly smooth.

After leaving Xuanzong, considering that the Northwest Army was in a bad situation, Prince Li Heng naturally led his people to Shuofang, trying to join the returning Shuofang Army.

Along the way, Li Tan, the king of Jianning, led the Donggong subordinates to take the lead, and survived a hundred battles. He was actually a general who led the army!Prince Li Heng was not only surprised, but also filled with joy. He only felt that when he defeated the rebels and regained the lost ground in the future, he would have an extra hero under his command!

When Prince Li Heng and Shuofang Army met in Lingwu, the Northwest Army in Tongguan, because of Xiao Yansui's participation and the wanton use of explosive shells, directly upgraded the war from the era of cold weapons to the era of hot weapons. The pressure on the army was relieved. If it wasn't for the loss of strength before, coupled with the limited productivity of the Tang Dynasty, it would be difficult to replenish the raw materials for making this kind of shells. The Northwest Army, which has directly upgraded its ordnance for an era, may already have a counterattack against Luoyang City... …