Shortly after Changsun Quanxu left, a cannonball fell into the Jiedushi's mansion, blowing through a side hall. Helan Jinming was so frightened that he lost his mind and decided to flee tonight.
At night when the wind was high, Helan Jinming wore coarse clothes, packed all the valuables in his house into boxes, and led three hundred personal guards to the riverside, where his boat had been waiting for many days.
This ship is the most expensive and powerful Dahuanglong in the Yangtze River Navy of the Tang Dynasty. The ship has three floors, upper, middle and lower. It is equipped with several ballistae, as well as a large shooting pole that is very powerful for close combat. The upper cabin can be used for horse racing. , can accommodate more than 600 soldiers. Generally, ships cannot even reach its side when approaching it.
After Helan Jinming boarded the big ship, he immediately sent an order to the soldiers to row quickly and took advantage of the night wind to escape to Jiangxia on the other side.
Changsun Quanxu still stood on the city wall, always on guard against Yong's army attacking the city. He waited until dawn without seeing any reinforcements from Yong's army, so he felt relieved.
Yong's army began to bombard the city wall again. The soldiers in the south camp of the city seemed to have exploded. They ran swarm to the river beach, seized large and small warships, and tried to retreat to the other side.
Changsun Quanxu was so furious that he held the horizontal knife in his hand and led his team to intercept the escaping soldiers.
"Everyone, stop right there! Anyone who escapes from battle will be killed without mercy!"
The soldiers carried large and small packages and ran away with their heads lowered. When they heard the angry shouts, they were startled and stopped. When they saw it was Guo Ziyi's deputy general, they all argued in annoyance: "The high officials have escaped, what are you doing to stop us! If you have the ability, kill them." Stop it!"
"Who ran away?" Changsun Quanxu asked confusedly.
"Who else can it be, Dr. Helan! And envoys Zhao Jun and Wang Jun!"
Changsun Quanxu felt that the world was spinning for a moment, and the horizontal knife in his hand fell to the ground. He stamped his feet and sighed heavily: "Hey! I let that guy lie to me!"
The soldiers bypassed him and continued to run towards the river beach.
Changsun Quanxu only felt depressed for a moment, then he bent down from the ground and raised the horizontal sword in his hand and shouted: "You are all sons and daughters of the Tang Dynasty. Now that your country is about to fall, how can you bear to abandon Jiangcheng elders? Who has any blood left? , the balls in your crotch are still there, pick up the knife and fight with me against the Yong army! I can assure you, as long as you hold on to the city for three days, Guo Linggong will definitely lead the army back to aid Jiangcheng! You and I will both be meritorious by then. My ministers, it’s no big deal to reward you for your merits!”
After hearing Changsun Quanxu's instigation, many soldiers stopped, dropped their baggage, picked up their swords and guns, and moved closer to them.
After some inspection by Changsun Quanxu, there were only more than 3,000 soldiers left, accounting for less than one-tenth of the original troops stationed in Jiangcheng. In addition to the 3,000 Guo family troops he led, it was really difficult for more than 6,000 people to defend three city walls. Overstretched.
But at the moment when a huge rout occurred in Jiangcheng, three giant Kongming lanterns floated in the sky. The people above looked down from a high position and saw clearly the embarrassing situation in the city.
Changsun Quanxu was frightened and angry, and the flames in his eyes seemed to be about to shoot down the Kongming Lantern. He shouted to the guards around him: "Follow me to the top of the city! Use the bed crossbow to shoot down these three things."
Panting, he stretched out his legs and ran quickly, throwing aside his bag and other weights, sprinting up the stairs at a speed of 100 meters, and ran up the city wall, using all his strength to lift one of the crossbows from the track. Two soldiers Taking advantage of the situation, they ran over and carried the two ends of the crossbow on their shoulders. The other three people turned the winch to wind it up and loaded the thick arrow shaft into the arrow slot.
"Raise! Raise higher! Higher! Go to the right!"
Changsun Quanxu squinted his right eye, aimed at the Kongming lantern in the sky that looked like the size of an autumn pear, pulled the string of his crossbow and shot the arrow upward at a 45-degree angle, barely missing the hanging basket of the Kongming lantern.
Yong Jun in the Kongming Lantern was startled and continued to investigate as if nothing had happened.
"Wind it up again, cum again!"
This time Changsun Quanxu adjusted the angle, and the crossbow string fired in response. The arrow penetrated from the lower right side of the Kongming Lantern, piercing the skin. Even the copper lamp overturned. Hot kerosene poured on the hanging basket, causing a fire.
The people inside screamed, and in an instant the Kongming Lantern turned into a huge fireball, tilted down, landed on a house, and caused an even more violent explosion.
The other two Kongming lanterns were so frightened that they hurriedly turned up the flames and climbed high into the sky. Under Changsun Quanxu's mobilization, all the crossbows on the city were set up and fired into the air. Another Kongming lantern hit six crossbow arrows in a row.
, the burning fire fell on the city wall, and the explosion was particularly violent, involving more than a dozen Tang soldiers and perishing in the sea of fire.
The remaining hanging basket was hit by two arrows. The lantern chief hurriedly increased the flame, causing the Kongming Lantern to continue to climb upwards. One of the riders in the hanging basket who was pedaling the fan was killed, and the lantern chief hurriedly took his place.
, gradually flying over the city wall.
Changsun Quanxu had already raised the crossbow at a ninety-degree angle and shot it upwards. He fully stretched the bow string again and fired out. However, the arrow flew into the air and eventually lost its strength and fell down at an angle.
The commander of the Kongming Lantern relaxed his mind and laughed triumphantly. At the same time, he ignited the fierce fire thunder in the hanging basket and threw it down one after another, pulling out a long line of fire on the top of the city. The soldiers who controlled the crossbows hurriedly retreated. Company Commander Sun Quanxu
They all ran and jumped off the city wall. Flames ignited on his back robe, which fell to the ground and rolled several times before being completely extinguished.
"Our bed crossbow can't reach them!"
Changsun Quanxu looked up at the sky in disgrace. The giant Kongming Lantern fled Jiangcheng in a swaggering manner. In just a short moment of the confrontation, hundreds of soldiers were killed in the sea of fire. The opponent only lost two Kongming Lanterns. For the first time, he felt the impact of the difference in weapons.
inequality.
The Kongming Lantern fell crookedly on the land on the bank of the Han River. The lantern leader climbed out of it dizzy and ran to report to King Yong Li Siye.
The Tang army was leaderless, and most of the soldiers fled to the other side of the river in ships, leaving only a small number of troops in Hankou.
Li Siye keenly realized that this was a perfect time difference. Helan Jinming fled to the other side, but Guo Ziyi had not yet arrived to plug this loophole. Wouldn't this be an opportunity given by God to him to easily capture Jiangcheng?
At that time, there were less than 50,000 Yong troops arriving near Jiangcheng, and most of them were cavalry. So Li Siye gave an order to dismantle the cannon-carrying ships and transform them into siege equipment, and change the cavalry into infantry, along the banks of the Han River.
Launch a fierce attack on Jiangcheng.
He knew that the enemy's troops were insufficient, so he stretched the front as much as possible, so that the enemy's limited troops were evenly dispersed on the city wall. At the same time, artillery continued to fire salvos in the direction of the siege, and more than a hundred Kongming Lanterns flew into the sky at once.
, Fierce Fire Thunder throws down without any money.
Because the workshops at the rear of the Yong Army innovated the craftsmanship of fierce fire thunder, the oil was further purified to a composition closer to gasoline, so it burned more fully when dropped. More soldiers of the Tang Army perished in the sea of fire on the city walls.
Many soldiers of Guo's army were ignited with fire, and they jumped up to hug the Yong army attacking the city, and rolled down the city wall together.
Although the city defense of Jiangcheng was as strong as that of Xiangyang, it had not been modified to protect against aerial fire. The soldiers had no cover over their heads, and the lives of many good men were sacrificed in vain.
Yong's army finally broke through the city wall within three hours and captured one-half of Jiangcheng. After entering the city, Li Siye drank his horse by the Yangtze River, climbed the Yellow Crane Tower and looked at the other side of the river city, feeling infinite pride in his heart. As long as
Crossing the other side of the river, the whole world is within his grasp.
The soldiers escorted a tightly tied general to the upper floor. The man was still struggling with an angry look on his face. Li Siye was looking at the river in the distance at the moment. He only turned his head to look at him and asked: "I'm watching you."
He is extremely brave and worthy of being a national soldier. Are you willing to join the army of the lonely king and make meritorious deeds?"
"Bah! You are a traitor to the country. My eldest grandson has been a loyal family for generations. How can I commit myself to a traitor like you!"
"In that case, let's kill him."
Since he spent countless efforts in Nanyang City and failed to persuade Zhang Xun to surrender, he no longer bothers with such efforts. Unless you can reach the level and ability of Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, resisting forcefully will result in death.