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Chapter 346 Taiyuan County Raiders ([-])
The west wall of Jinyang City.

The Youzhou army will slowly advance the three-story building, which is almost flush with the city wall.On the third floor of the building car, all sides were covered with thick cowhide, and iron shields hung outside. More than a dozen crossbowmen hid behind the building car, aiming at the inclined arrows on the city wall.

In order to deal with the dense buildings and vehicles of the Youzhou army, the Tang army on the city temporarily built three battle sheds here, and the soldiers hid behind the war sheds and shot at the Youzhou army.

The ballistas and catapults of the Youzhou Army under the city kept beating huge arrows and stones onto the city wall, and the Tang army on the city wall also responded with catapults and catapults.

The ground and the city walls were soaked in blood.

"General Yuchi, at this speed, I'm afraid we won't be able to break through the city right away."

Yan Yelie was talking to Yu Chigong. In such a siege campaign, the nearly ten thousand cavalry under his command could not send troops and could only wait in the air, so it seemed a bit relaxed.

Yu Chigong glanced at Yan Yelie, his dark face darkened, he hummed softly, but stopped talking.

Seeing Yu Chigong's expression, Yan Yelie continued to speak passionately: "There are less than [-] defenders in the city, but our army has [-] troops gathered below the city. If ten times as many troops can't attack Jinyang City, Wouldn't it be a loss of face for our Youzhou army?"

Yu Chigong glanced at Yan Yelie, and said: "Don't use words to provoke this general, let me see, see, my Youzhou army has been building secret weapons under the city for a month."

"Li Shuzuo! Zhou Shuzuo!"

"Promise!" The two people beside Yu Chigong came out, and these two were the two craftsmen Li Chongjiu was promoted from the master craftsman of Youzhou to Cao Shuzuo not long ago.

Yu Chigong asked: "Zhou Shuzuo, is your Bashao Cannon ready?"

"It's ready, there are three doors in total, you can ask the general to use them to attack the city!"

Yu Chigong nodded, and immediately said: "Bring it out."

Zhou Shuzuo was overjoyed when he heard that his Eight-Shot Cannon finally had a place of bravery. After his Zhuge Liannu was rejected by Li Chongjiu last time, he developed another siege weapon this time with painstaking efforts.

Yan Yelie looked at Yu Chigong like this, and couldn't help but look forward to seeing what kind of weapon he was preparing to break Jinyang's strong city.

Immediately, the rain cloth behind was removed, revealing three huge objects.

This thing looks like the oranges used by farmers to draw water at that time. A wooden pole is one high and one low, but Yan Yelie looked at it and said without any surprise: "Isn't this your trebuchet? But it doesn't seem to be as good as this one." Three huge."

Zhou Shuzuo listened to Yan Yelei mocking his achievements, and couldn't help saying: "This eight-point cannon is not just big enough, otherwise it wouldn't be a waste. We spent a month building it."

Yan Yelie showed a mocking look. He had seen the stone throwing machine of the Han army. It is true that this kind of siege weapon can throw a big stone directly on the top of the city from a hundred steps away. .But he still doesn't believe that he can break through the high and thick Jinyang City with this thing.

Seeing Yan Yelie's expression, Zhou Shuzuo also wanted to fight for his breath, thinking that he will show you how powerful I am in a while.

The three eight-point cannons were slowly pushed forward. At this time, Li Chongjiu's banner also moved from the north to the west of the city.Yan Yelie, Zhou Shuzuo saw that Li Chongjiu was also here to watch the battle in person, obviously he also wanted to see how powerful these eight-point cannons are.

Zhou Zuojiang and Li Zuojiang looked at each other, obviously wanting to stretch out their hands to Li Chongjiu, to show the achievements of their Zhuojun master craftsman in the past few months, in return for his huge investment in Zhuojun master craftsman, and the promotion of the two.

Zhuo Jiang immediately shouted loudly: "Stop!"

Three eight-point cannons stopped at a distance of two hundred steps from the city.

Yan Yelie asked, "Why is your trebuchet called Bashao Pao?"

Zhou Shuzuo put on an appearance that you just don't understand, and said: "It's very simple, this tip is a wooden pole. You see, other trebuchets in our army only have one or two wooden poles as long poles. They are all called single-tip cannons or double-tip cannons. And my eight-tip cannon is made of eight wooden poles."

While talking, several burly men threw a huge boulder half a person's height into the leather nest of the eight-pointed cannon.

Yan Yelie was surprised and said: "This stone is almost as heavy as a horse."

Zhou Shuzuo showed a proud expression, and explained to Yan Yelie flauntingly: "It's less than a horse, to be precise, it's a huge stone weighing one hundred and fifty catties, and our single-tipped cannon like a trebuchet can only put ten Two catties of stone bullets can reach a hundred paces, but these eight-point cannons can hold a hundred and fifty catties."

Yan Yelie finally took a serious look at the eight-tip cannon, and saw that before the cannon tip, there were as many as a hundred cannon strings hanging down, each of which was pulled by one or two people.

Following Zhou Shuzuo's order, the eight-point cannon aimed at a tower in the west of the city, and more than 270 Youzhou soldiers pulled the cannon cord.

"one!"

Following the order, all the soldiers tightened their cannons, and their hands were ready to pull!
All the generals, all the soldiers, and Li Chongjiu, who was watching the battle on the mountain, all focused their eyes on this.

It was the first time Bashaopao showed his power, and Zhou Shuzuo showed a somewhat smug smile on his face.

"Two, let go!"

After a loud shout, everyone exerted their strength together, but only heard a click!
Zhou Shuzuo's expression changed suddenly. He saw, vividly, that the tip of the eight-point cannon suddenly snapped off because he couldn't bear the force, and the stone bullet of one hundred and fifty catties had already shot more than ten feet out of the stone nest. Half of it fell to the ground, smashing a shrimp-moving truck of the former army to pieces.

The dead bodies of more than a dozen people in the shrimp-touching cart were lying on the spot.

"fool!"

The commanding general in front immediately stepped forward and yelled, and the attacking front army also paused for a while.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Shuzuo turned pale, and immediately sat down on the spot.

"I'm going to kill you." The former commander of the army rode his horse back from the front line, seeing his own soldiers die at the hands of his own people, he was very angry.

Zhou Shuzuo, who was originally complacent, said quickly: "General, spare your life, I deserve to die, but it doesn't mean that the eight-point cannon can't be used. It's that the stone bomb is too heavy. I will change it for a hundred and twenty catties, and I will succeed." .”

"Bastard, are you going to risk my brothers' lives again?"

"If it doesn't work this time, I'm willing to sacrifice my head." Zhou Shuzuo immediately knelt down and kowtowed. He knew that all his future futures were betting on the Eight Shots, and if the Eight Shots failed, he would have no face anymore. Bing Cao Shuzuo's position continues, with such a gloomy future, it is better to die.

"Someone is also willing to be a guarantor, please give me a chance, General." The old Li Zuojiang also knelt down.

"I'll give you another chance, if you don't do it, you'll die!" Yu Chigong appeared in front of Zhou Shuzuo with a black face.

"Thank you, General, thank you, General." Both Zhou Shuzuo and Li Shuzuo expressed their gratitude.

At this time, Zhou Shuzuo and Li Shuzuo narrowly escaped death, and immediately went back to order to replace the [-]-jin stone bullets that were originally placed on the stone nests of the other two eight-point guns, this time with a slightly smaller [-]-jin stone bomb.

Knowing that his life is at stake, Zhou Shuzuo also showed a bit of ruthlessness. Being able to worship an official from a craftsman is something he has never thought about in his life. Now his future is at stake. If it doesn't work, it's strange His fate is not good, he just dies here.

The soldiers in the artisan workshop also felt the murderous look on Zhou Shuzuo's face, and they didn't dare to neglect him immediately.

"The stone bomb is ready."

"Prepare!"

"one."

"Two, let go!"
With the efforts of everyone, the cannon rope was pulled heavily, and the [-]-jin boulder leaped two hundred steps away, drawing an arc in the air. Everyone raised their heads together, looked at the stone bullet, It hit the Ximen Tower.

With a bang, the beam snapped, and half of the city tower collapsed!
"it is good!"

Everyone watching Yan Yelie raised their arms and shouted.

"Second shot, get ready!" Zhou Shuzuo's expression froze, not affected by the success of the second shot, his mind was relaxed, and he continued to shout.

"one!"

"Two, let go!"

For a moment, a huge stone bomb pierced the sky.

There was a loud bang, and sand and gravel flew across the city tower.

"It's done!" Zhou Shuzuo was in a crazy state, dancing with hands and feet.

And following his call, the Youzhou Army's cheers erupted like a landslide and tsunami on the entire battlefield.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

The three armies shouted together.

I saw that the triple-high Xicheng tower split and collapsed after being hit by two stone bullets.

boom! boom! boom!
Hundreds of huge drums were beating, thousands of banners and hedgehogs were moving down the city, and [-] cavalry of the Youzhou Army Fanjun, under the rhythm of the drums, pressed down under the city wall of Jinyang City.

In a blink of an eye, the flags waved, and the sky darkened, and the ballista and catapults, and three thousand crossbowmen fired all their arrows, covering the sky and blocking out the sun.

As the rain of arrows fell, a large area of ​​enemy troops fell at the top of Jinyang City.

"What city tower was blown down!"

Upon receiving the news from the guards, King Qi Li Yuanji's legs went limp and he collapsed to the ground.

All the guards looked at Li Yuanji's face from left to right, and one of them boldly said: "His Royal Highness, under Li Chongjiu's heavy army, Yin Kaishan fled without a fight, and this Jinyang City must not be protected. Instead of this, His Royal Highness Qi might as well stay." Qingshan is here, no matter what, I have to go back to Xijing, and bring this lawsuit before the emperor."

Seeing that Li Yuanji didn't speak, everyone was happy. Obviously, His Royal Highness King Qi didn't object to running away.

Another person said: "That's right, Jinyang's loss is not the crime of King Qi, but the despicable villain Yin Kaishan. The Son of Heaven will definitely not blame His Highness King Qi."

Li Yuanji listened to the words and said: "The enemy army is heavily concentrated at the moment, is it possible to leave?"

Another person said: "How can we go? The enemy has only infantry and cavalry, but no navy. We can walk along the Fen River and go south by boat. Li Chongjiu will definitely not be able to stop it then."

Li Yuanji heard the words and said: "I will listen to you, immediately inform Liu Shaoqing and Li Hujun, and let them go with us."

The subordinates heard the words and said: "But once King Qi leaves, the army's morale in the city will be disturbed. If there are no generals to stay behind, they will definitely be taken advantage of by the enemy."

Li Yuanji said: "Confused, Yin Kaishan fled before the battle, I also need Liu Shaoqing, Li Hujun and others to testify for me, otherwise my father will not listen to my one-sided words."

It was only when everyone heard the words that they suddenly realized.

(End of this chapter)