Yun Zheng was wearing earplugs. The sound insulation effect of these earplugs was very good. He felt dizzy. A strong hot wind blew towards his face, causing his cloak to fly up backwards. The big green horse under his crotch was treading restlessly with its four hooves.
He moved, as if he felt a disaster was coming.
The first thing to shatter was the siege vehicle. The thick logs spun backwards. Yun Zheng watched as a log was inserted into the belly of an elephant, flying the huge beast more than ten feet away.
It fell to the ground, dust mixed with blood flying everywhere.
The entire city gate suddenly arched up, and then broke into countless small pieces. The city walls on both sides also cracked, and then collapsed. The huge alarm bell on the city gate flew into the city far away, like
A small bell thrown away by a naughty boy.
The dark red flames were no longer restrained by the tower, and suddenly expanded outwards, and then turned into a thick black smoke soaring upward.
The monkey and Han Niu guards fluttered down countless small stones on the big shield above Yun Zheng's head, making a loud sound when they hit it. Yun Zheng frowned, looking at his subordinates who were injured by flying stones and didn't know what to say.
What's good is that every time he does an explosion test, he always fails to calculate the amount of gunpowder. I'm afraid Peng Jiu secretly added gunpowder this time.
But at this time, there was no time to argue with Peng Jiu. He drew out the long sword from his waist, pointed at Shenglong City and shouted: "Wu Shengjun, advance!" Monkey and Hanniu put away their shields, and roared loudly together: "Wu Shengjun, advance!"
Lang Tan stood at the front with his shield raised, pointed his sword at the huge gap in front of him and hissed wildly, leading his troops to rush towards the long-defunct Suzaku Gate.
Wu Sheng's army had practiced siege battles countless times, and each department knew exactly what they should do. The Jiaozhi people had been scared out of their wits by the explosion as powerful as heaven. They stared blankly at the Song army pouring into the gap like a tide, and then they were attacked by the Song army again.
Chopping it down like wood.
Lang Tan led his men forward and rushed forward. Whenever there was resistance, he would immediately deal with it. Regardless of whether there was anyone in the houses on both sides of the road, a gunpowder bomb would be thrown into it. Peng Jiu, who was covered in mud, was on his left wing. Chu Dazhi led
The tribe became his right wing, and the three teams advanced alternately. Their target was the inner city of Thang Long City. As the first wave of attacking troops, what they had to do was to keep advancing and completely defeat the resistance in the city.
After they entered the city wall, the elephants, mules and horses laboriously dragged the scattered boulders out. A wide enough avenue needed to be cleared to facilitate the cavalry pouring into the city.
The Cochin people who finally woke up threw away their weapons and fled into the surrounding houses. They were unwilling to continue fighting against such a powerful enemy.
Standing at a high place, Li Dezheng was covered in dust. He couldn't figure out what force had completely destroyed Thang Long City, which he had spent all the money and money from the treasury to build. A huge copper bell fell under the tall building, and his most beloved city was destroyed.
A rockery was smashed to pieces.
This blow completely shattered Li Dezheng's intention to defend Shenglong City. Looking at the blood stains on the ground, the sorrow in his heart had no place to express. The general was a veteran who had followed him for decades, and
I am not a coward. The reason why I wanted to break out of the encirclement was actually because I saw something was wrong and I was furious...
If the Song army can blow up the outer city, they can then blow up the inner city and the palace. The tall city wall cannot be an obstacle to them...
"Gather the Royal Guards, let's break out from the east gate!" Li Dezheng ordered with difficulty. Standing on this high-rise building in the palace, he could clearly see the Song army entering Shenglong City in a steady stream. If he hesitated any longer, maybe
I can't leave.
A eunuch said in a sharp voice: "Your Majesty, what should I do with the concubines in the palace?"
"Take away the prince and princess, and order the concubines to commit suicide to observe the law!" Li Dezheng ordered the warriors around him with red eyes.
So the pleadings and screams of women rang out in the palace. Li Dezheng seemed to be unable to hear anything. He kicked away a concubine who was holding her legs and begging, and walked indifferently outside the main hall. There was also a gun outside the main hall.
The cavalry is at your own disposal.
When he was arranging his team, he heard another loud noise, which was a signal that the inner city was being blown apart. The inner city was not as tall as the outer city, so it was not difficult to blow it up.
Li Dezheng looked at the young prince and princess on the soldiers' backs, drew out his long sword, and roared: "Let's go, meet the prince, and then come back and cut these evil thieves into pieces!"
The gate of the palace opened wide, and three thousand black-clad warriors fiercely rushed towards the Song army that had just entered the inner city. These people were all the elites of the Jiaozhi army. Some people with strong martial arts even climbed to the roof, where
Flying across the sky, when he saw Song Jun, he screamed strangely and jumped off the roof, without caring about his own life or death.
Lang Tan took three blows to kill a black warrior. He sat on the ground panting and watched these black warriors desperately attacking. He stood up with difficulty and threw a gunpowder bomb to kill three black warriors.
After being blown up, he shouted: "Form up, form up." He killed hundreds of his subordinates in a short period of time, which made Lang Tan very angry. His advantage was originally in crossbows and gunpowder bombs, and it was really hard to fight with the enemy.
It was the stupidest method. Fortunately, the presence of crossbow arrows and gunpowder bombs stopped these black warriors from attacking like a tide, giving him precious time to form a formation.
As long as Wu Shengjun formed a military formation, he was not afraid of any powerful warriors. No matter how powerful these black warriors were, there was no room for them to display their skills in the dense rain of crossbows. As for those who rolled towards the ground holding rattan shields
With their swordsmen, a gunpowder bomb can blow them apart.
When hundreds of battle formations were gradually established, the black warriors could no longer take advantage. However, they still firmly guarded the gate of the imperial city and did not allow Wu Shengjun to enter from here.
A large group of cavalry rumbled from the crowd to the east. Lang Tan took a look, took out a red signal bomb from his waist, inserted it into the ground and ignited it. The large signal bomb was followed by a stream of red smoke.
It flew high into the sky and finally exploded at high altitude. The entire Thang Long City could clearly see it.
Yun Zheng raised his head and glanced at the red signal flare and said to Su Xun with a smile: "Li Dezheng ran away. Just as we thought, he ran to the east. He wanted to see his prince Li Rizun."
"With a weak leader and a strong minister, Li Dezheng's life will not be easy. That's how Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty went to seek refuge with his son, and he was made the Supreme Emperor by his son. Do you think Li Rizun would do this?" Su Xun smiled.
asked.
"I think Li Rizun will kill his father and become emperor himself, but I am not prepared to let such a human tragedy happen to him. It would be better for Li Dezheng to accompany me to Dongbian Liang City!"
Are you going to watch the fun? This is a historic moment. You don’t see the drama of a generation of emperors coming to an end. Every time at this time, I usually think of Farewell My Concubine. How about you?"
Su Xun nodded and said: "Then let's go and take a look. Since Li Dezheng has started to escape, it means that the morale of the soldiers in the city has been broken up, and there should be nothing wrong.
If you want to see it, go there early, look, they have broken through the outer city again!"
Yun Zheng looked at the red smoke column rising above the outer city and smiled: "Don't tell me, Li Dezheng's army can break through the heavily guarded outer city defense. It is really not to be underestimated. I just don't know how much it cost to escape from Peng Jiu."
It slipped out of the greedy man's hands."
The two of them were talking, lightly kicked the horse's belly, and then ran toward the east, surrounded by guards. The big green horse's pace was very light and vigorous, constantly avoiding the corpses and rubble on the ground, and it didn't take much time to get there.
When they arrived at the outer city, Peng Jiu was cursing and reprimanding his subordinates. The ground was covered with the corpses of red-armored cavalry and dead horses. Some of the corpses were carrying gorgeously dressed little boys and girls on their backs.
Under the dense rain of arrows, there were no survivors, and there were so many corpses that two half-human-high walls of corpses were built on both sides of the road, with the hooves of the big green horse "tap, tap, tap" in the pool of blood.
Yun Zheng rode through the outer city without explaining the reason for the defeat to Peng Jiu. A tall middle finger already explained the problem. Peng Jiu, who had just settled down, took off his helmet and threw it to the ground, commanding his men.
Continue searching for enemies in the outer city.
Li Dezheng's heart was bleeding. When he broke out of the imperial city, most of the black warriors had been killed and wounded. There were almost no warriors who could follow him all the way to the outer city. When he rushed out of the outer city, the red-armored knight used his own flesh and blood to build a solid foundation for himself.
He broke through two walls of flesh and blood and listened to the dying screams of the knight and his youngest son and daughter. His heart was cut like a knife.
Four days ago, I was still watching the singing and dancing of beauties in the Hanyuan Hall, accepting tributes from tribes from all directions, celebrating my sixtieth birthday, and celebrating the peace and prosperity of the Jiaozhi Kingdom. Three days ago, I was ambitious and wanted to defeat the cowardly one with the help of two thousand warriors.
The Song Army cavalry, two days ago I was thinking of relying on the fortified city to wait for reinforcements, and a day ago I was thinking that as long as the whole people mobilized, they would use their flesh and blood to grind the Song Army to death under Shenglong City...
The situation changed too quickly and too urgently. From discovering that the Song Army was not a coward to discovering that the Song Army was unstoppable, there were only four short days. As the emperor and commander-in-chief, he did not believe that there would be no obstacles in front of him, so after rushing out of the outer city,
, he immediately drew out his spear and prepared to fight to the death.
When the war horse protruded from the city, his heart kept sinking. There was a black-armored cavalry in front of him. There were not many, only 800 people, but the general who led him immediately blocked the front with a spear and a red tassel on his helmet.
It was blown by the wind, and the scarlet cloak was fluttering like a flag.
Seeing Li Dezheng rushing out of the city gate, the leading general took off his cloak and threw it aside. The knights under his command also did the same thing. The steel sword was pulled out of the scabbard and made a tooth-piercing sound. These people were like
Seeing the plump lamb, he looked like a hungry wolf standing a hundred feet away, but his momentum was so powerful that it was suffocating. (To be continued)