The rise of the prince

Chapter 312 The Stars and the Bright Moon

Before he could react, he looked from a distance, and suddenly a puff of blue smoke rose from the valley in the distance, followed by a loud bang, the sound echoed in the valley, and then a sharp whistling that he had never heard before came from far to near.

boom!
A black afterimage was vaguely seen, and the eaves of the tower on the upper right of Ding Yi exploded, and pieces of rubble, wooden rafters, earth and rocks flew randomly.

Ding Yi's pupils dilated, his eyebrows raised, and just as he opened his mouth, a series of roars echoed in his ears. He watched in horror as the solid female wall built of bricks and stones shattered like tofu. open.

Immediately there were dense noises, whistling and ear-piercing, like ghosts and gods urging their lives, and the defenders on the wall fell one by one, and the leather shields in their hands were like paper paste.
The officer following him didn't understand what happened, half of his face was blown off, blood and flesh flew all over him, and he cried out in horror.

Ding Yi was in a daze, his mind didn't turn much, his mind was rumbling, and he was dragged down the city wall.

In the middle, when he sees people, he injures and kills them, while things are ruined. The bricks and buildings of the city collapsed and collapsed, and they all fell into the city. Amidst the huge roar, the city could not hear the wailing, but people could be seen fleeing and running around.

Ding Yi opened his mouth slightly, and was pushed into the carriage. The scene in front of him was as shocking as his eyes, but it was hard to tell the truth from the fake in his heart.
Bumping, screaming, thunder, panic, running... Ding Yi only remembered these.

"My lord, let someone go in!" Ji Chunsheng said impatiently as he rode a horse, holding a carbine more than ten feet in hand.

Li Xingzhou had already got off the podium on the high slope, and rode Mei Xue to the front of the formation. The horse army was on standby, far away from the musketeers and gunners of the Shenji Camp, fearing that the sound of guns would startle the horses and cause a tragedy.

Qifang, who was also waiting on the side, was still dumbfounded, she had never seen this kind of siege method.

Less than half an hour after the shelling and gun shooting started, half of the living people disappeared from the head of Linyang City, a large section of the female wall was blown down, the tower was directly destroyed, and fell to the inside of the city pool.

Some of the defenders at the top of the city died in the first round of shooting, but most of them escaped, and if they didn't escape, they were waiting to die.

Now there is no guard at the head of Linyang City, and secondly, a large section of the female wall has collapsed, and they almost want to go up.

But Li Xingzhou was not in a hurry, Qi Rui's death taught him a lesson.

"Wait a little longer." Of course he can trust Ji Chunsheng's martial arts, but there is a better way.

After a while, Li Xingzhou ordered people to pull down two cannonballs from the mountain, and shot them open in turn.A curved wall has the advantage of a curved wall. A curved wall means that there are two gates in the city, and it is impossible to use too large siege equipment to hit the gate.

But it also means that the gate is small and easy to break, but in ancient times, except for the battering ram, there were few effective means of breaking the gate, but in front of the artillery gate, the traditional gate could not resist at all.

After a few bombardments, sawdust flew across, the outer door couldn't withstand the impact, and the whole door collapsed immediately, while the inner door was blasting a few holes, enough for small people to get in and open the door.

After a while, the two doors opened, and Ji Chunsheng led the horse army, holding black cloth in hand, and charged in directly. Di Zhi led the heavy infantry to open the way, and Shenji Battalion followed, and began to enter the city slowly and orderly.

Li Xingzhou followed Shenjiying. The sword Tieniu had struck for him had already been unsheathed. No one knew what happened after entering the city.

Fortunately, although the walls of Linyang City are high, the inside of the city is narrow, and there is only one long street leading to the end. Once you enter the city, it is not easy to be ambushed.

As the saying goes, if there is an advantage, there must be a disadvantage. Linyang City is unbreakable, but once it is broken, the defenders in the city will have no chance to fight back, and there are no complex streets and houses for them to wait for an opportunity to fight back.

After Li Xingzhou Qifang entered the city, there was a shout of killing from the front, Li Xingzhou hurriedly rode forward, and on the wide street, Ji Chunsheng's horse army had already engaged the rebels far away.

Ji Chunsheng is a battle-tested man, very seasoned, he stabbed a rebel soldier to death with a three-meter-long carbine, and then immediately reined in the rebels. He had nothing to do with the rebels, and the horse soldiers behind him also rushed .

After a while, Ji Chunsheng's horse army and Di Zhi's heavy infantry fought with the rebels, and it was difficult for the Shenji battalion to shoot.

The fighting lasted only about fifteen minutes, the figures were chaotic and the smell of blood was strong.

Li Xingzhou didn't dare to go forward, but Ji Chunsheng could be vaguely seen in the crowd stabbing three or four people to death one after another, his body was covered in blood. Hand-to-hand combat is the most tormenting heart. They guarded the street and fought for about a quarter of an hour. The rebels couldn't hold on any longer and started flight.

The situation of the battle was tilted, people fled at first, then more and more, and finally retreated completely, but no one could run faster than a horse.

Ji Chunsheng took the lead, chasing and killing the fleeing rebels, and knocked down eight or nine of them one after another. By the time most of the rebels threw away their weapons and knelt down and surrendered, he was covered in blood and his face was hard to see, like a god of killing descended into the world. .

So when he came back panting for breath, Qifang didn't dare to speak.

There were still sporadic resistances from the rebels in the city, but they were not successful, and they were quickly dealt with one by one by the seasoned and skilled Ji Chunsheng. He began to follow Prince Xiao's warriors who fought in the north and south. He was very familiar with these things, so how could he hide from others? , Where will the rebels run, how will they hunt down, and how will they treat prisoners of war.

The battle started during the day and continued until midnight, when the city was lit with torches, the county government and the city were completely occupied, and the main roads inside and outside the city fell into their hands, the war basically ended.

Rinyang City looked dilapidated, more than a thousand people were captured, and many senior officials of the rebel army were all temporarily detained in the lobby of the county government.

Standing at the head of the dilapidated Linyang city, blowing the night wind, the auxiliary army began to clean up gravel and bricks at night. Ji Chunsheng and Di Zhi were still mobilizing soldiers to defend, and many soldiers with torches were patrolling the city. .

Qifang touched the remaining broken female wall at the top of the city in disbelief: "This is Linyang City, the number one city in Ansu Mansion?"

Li Xingzhou nodded, looking north from here, he could still see Leng Fengqing, which was as bright as a jade belt under the moon sky in the north.

"I thought that if I wanted to go down to this city, I would have to besiege the city for at least three to five months, or a year or so, but I didn't expect it." Qi Fang was speechless.

Li Xingzhou nodded triumphantly: "Hahahaha, I left after thinking about it for a day? Presumably Ding Yi thought the same way. It's a pity that he didn't catch him this time. He ran fast and didn't care about the life and death of many of his subordinates."

Qi Fang shook her head: "If I were him, I wouldn't care. If you want to blame, you can only blame it. It's terrible to blame the prince."

"It's scary, how can I be scary, my face is hideous, or are I swearing at people every day?"

"This subordinate doesn't mean that. If you say this, the prince is not scary, but rather rude, no big or small.

I'm talking about something else." She raised her head and looked at the moon in the distance: "Maybe it's like the shining stars and the bright moon in the sky. "

Li Xingzhou also looked at the moon: "It is said that there is an extremely beautiful fairy in the moon."

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Qifang sighed, and gave him a white look: "I probably understand the feeling. For a long time, I thought that I was a bright moon in the sky, shining on all families, all over the sky, and no one could compete with it."

As she spoke, she glanced at Li Xingzhou, who squinted at the moon and looked for the fairy, dissatisfied.

"In the end, one day, I realize that I am nothing more than a tiny star on the side of the bright moon. In front of the bright moon, a little bit of starlight is nothing. In Haoyue's eyes, fighting for brilliance is just an insignificant joke.

The prince will never understand that kind of powerlessness and unwillingness, but I sympathize with Ding Yi." She said as she stood in the wind with bright eyes.

(End of this chapter)