At the end of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 616 Summoning Thunder? (three more)

In the middle of the night, it was as dark as ink, and a fire dragon was moving quickly on the mountain path, and finally walked out of Taihang Mountain, went up the official road, and rushed straight to Lingqiu County.

The rapid sound of horseshoes shattered the tranquility of the dawn, and also awakened the spring dreams of the guarding soldiers. When they rubbed their sleepy eyes and looked out from the top of the city, they found that the sound of hoofs was thundering outside, and thousands of horses were galloping. The army flooded in like a tide, with bright armor, swords and guns like a forest, and a murderous aura, everyone shuddered cleverly in fright, suddenly lost sleepiness, and hurriedly reported to the general in charge of defending the city.

It is said that the general Liu Wuzhou sent to guard Lingqiu was named Xun, a relatively uncommon surname, but this person was quite brave, so he was reused by Liu Wuzhou.

Let's say that Xunxiang was awakened by his own soldiers in his sleep. When he heard that the Qi army was attacking, he couldn't help being shocked.

When Xun Xiang climbed to the top of the city, the Qi army had already launched an attack on the city. The attack was overwhelming and unstoppable. The arrows rained down on the top of the city, and the defenders couldn't raise their heads at all.

Xun Xiang couldn't help being surprised and anxious, but this guy was bold, raised his shield, braved the rain of arrows, walked to the side of the parapet to check the situation outside, saw a big flag flying high, and wrote a letter "Qi" flying like a dragon and a phoenix. There is no doubt that it is the Qi army, and there is a general flag with the word "Li" next to the flag, which should be Li Jing, the right guard general of Qi.

"Isn't Li Jing seriously injured?" Xun Xiang was surprised and suspicious. Some time ago, Li Jing raided Lingqiu but turned back halfway. Later, he found out that Li Jing was seriously injured when he was assassinated. In addition, for a long time to come, Li Jing did not die. There was movement, probably he was really injured, and the injury was not serious, so he was a little slack in looking for Xiangxiang. Unexpectedly, Li Jing's soldiers came to the city suddenly, and he was really caught off guard.

At this time, there was a sudden loud noise, and a violent vibration from the top of the city. Many people couldn't stand still, and even fell directly. Xunxiang got up and was still urinating. I almost peed in my crotch.

"What's the situation?" Xun Xiang was in shock, but at this moment, the Qi army outside the city cheered earth-shatteringly, followed by the roar of horseshoes.

Xun Xiang couldn't help his scalp getting numb, and he didn't care about the danger, so he hurriedly stood up and raised his head to look out of the city.

I saw an armored cavalryman with animal patterns from the Qi army roaring towards the city gate, holding a shield in his left hand and a knife in his right.

Xun Xiang suddenly thought of something, and couldn't help but change his face. At this time, someone yelled in horror: "The city-gate-broken--!"

That's right, the gate of Lingqiu County was broken at this time, and it was blown to pieces, in a mess, and a group of defenders guarding behind the gate were also affected, lying down in disorder. land.

It turned out that just now, the Qi army in charge of attacking the city gate detonated two "enemies of ten thousand people".

The so-called Enemy of Ten Thousands was invented by Shenjiying to deal with heavy mines like city gates. This kind of mines is easy to make. First, wrap a hundred catties of black powder with oiled paper, Paste the outside with mud, dry it into a huge mud ball, and then nail a wooden frame to put the mud ball in, which is convenient for transportation and movement. When using it, you only need to ignite the fuse. Due to the large amount of medicine, the power is quite terrifying , so it was named Wandi, which is a sharp weapon for attacking fortifications.

However, this thing is too cumbersome. It is impossible to use a stone trebuchet to deliver it remotely. It can only be lifted manually, so there are advantages and disadvantages. It is very difficult to get under the city gate.

However, since this was a surprise attack and Lingqiu City did not have a moat, the Qi army sent the two big guys to the city gate relatively easily. It was blown up.

At this time, the Qi army's animal-pattern armored light cavalry charged, and directly broke through the broken city gate, and rushed into the city like a broken bamboo, followed by infantry, flooding in like a tide.

Xunxiang couldn't help being scared out of his wits. Up to this time, he still didn't understand how the Qi army lost the city gate, but when he came back to his senses, the Qi army's cavalry had already driven straight in from the city gate. It was the infantry who swarmed and attacked the top of the city.

Xiang Xun had no choice but to lead his troops to resist in a hurry, but the Qi army was well-equipped, well-trained, and had an absolute advantage in strength. How could he resist, and the terrible loud noise just now directly blasted the city gate? No more, Liu Jun, who didn't know what to do, thought that Qi Jun had invited Lei Gong to blow open the city gate, and his morale and courage were basically frightened away. How can he still love to fight?

Therefore, the Qi army attacked the top of the city like a shattered one, Xun Xiang hurriedly fled to the west gate under the protection of his own soldiers, and then fled in a hurry, not even the city, life-saving is the most important thing!

When the battle was over, the sun had only risen two poles, and the Qi army occupied Lingqiu City cleanly, with almost negligible casualties.The soldiers planted the flag representing the Qi State on the top of the city and let it fly high. All the soldiers of the three armies cheered and their morale was high!

Gao Bufan and Li Jing rode their horses into the city, the latter touched the city gate which had been bombed so that only a door frame remained, and sighed, "Once this thing comes out, a sword, a gun, and a sword are no match for you!" Xiang Gaobufan's gaze was rather complicated.

Gao Bufan couldn't help sweating secretly. Indeed, in ancient times when cold weapons were king, once gunpowder was widely used in military affairs, there would really be no such thing as cold weapons. At the industrial level, muskets, earth cannons, etc. may be barely able to be made, but more advanced thermal weapons are obviously impossible.

At noon, the battlefield was finally cleaned up. The 200 defenders were captured and more than [-] were captured. About [-] people were killed, and the rest fled. It was definitely a beautiful victory, but the gains were not many. After all, Liu Wuzhou was still quite poor. If it weren't for the Turkic people supporting the horses behind him, he would never have made such a big commotion.

Li Jing made some statistics. In this battle, a total of more than one hundred war horses were captured, more than a thousand cattle and sheep and other livestock were obtained, and the food was only less than two thousand shi, which was only enough for seven thousand Qi troops and horses to feed for about a month. It can be seen that Liu Wuzhou was indeed relatively poor.

In addition, Xunxiang lost the city and fled back to Yanmen County in a panic. Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, who were attacking Yanmen County with all their strength, couldn't help being surprised, stopped the attack immediately, and put on a defensive posture.

"Who is the general of the Qi army?" Liu Wuzhou asked with a gloomy face.

He lost the city in a daze of confusion in looking for acquaintances. At this moment, his face was ashamed and quite dejected. He lowered his head and did not dare to look Liu Wuzhou in the eyes, and replied: "It should be Li Jing!"

"Li Jing?" Song Jingang couldn't help but exclaimed. Seeing Liu Wuzhou looking over with dissatisfaction, he coughed lightly in embarrassment and said, "Li Jing... Didn't Li Jing say that he was seriously injured? Why did he suddenly attack Lingqiu?" ?”

It is said that Song Jingang is the number one general under Liu Wuzhou. He was originally a horse thief. He was as famous as Wei Daoer and Wang Xuba. He used to be active in Shanggu County. Terrified, he had no choice but to take people over the Taihang Mountains and into Yanmen County and Mayi County for activities. Last year Liu Wuzhou rebelled, and Song Jingang took his minions to join him.

It was precisely because Song Jingang had been beaten to the brim by Li Jing before, so when he heard his name at this moment, he lost his composure immediately.

Liu Wuzhou glared at Song Jingang in dissatisfaction, and said with a dark face: "Li Jing is good at using surprise soldiers, and his injury is probably a deliberate false news. We were fooled."

Xun Xiang said with lingering fear: "This Li Jing is really amazing, I don't know what kind of strange magic he used, he actually attracted the sky thunder, and with a bang, the city gate was wiped out, and our souls were also scared away. The last general has no way to resist, and the city is lost in a blink of an eye."

Liu Wuzhou's complexion changed slightly, and he quickly asked about the situation at that time, and he couldn't help frowning after listening. To be honest, he didn't really believe that Li Jing had the ability to summon the sky thunder, but suspected that Xiang Xun was deliberately exaggerating to exonerate himself. .

　Make up yesterday's chapter.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)