On the city wall, the lookout put away the clairvoyant mirror in his hand and flew down.

"Report, Your Majesty, General Qiyu, the rebels have begun to attack the city again."

Li Baiyu, who was coaxing the little cutie to eat the sauced beef, made a move, stuffed the sauced beef in his hand into his mouth, and casually wiped the grease on the already dirty cloak and stood up.

Taking the clairvoyant mirror handed by the lookout, Li Baiyu raised it and looked out of the city wall.

The cutie's mouth was filled with sauced beef, and her cheeks were bulging, and when she heard the words of the lookout, she swallowed the sauced beef sullenly and wrinkled her nose.

"It's endless, it's endless, and it's not going to stop eating."

Cuiyun took out a handkerchief and wiped the flesh foam on the corner of the cutie's mouth and the fat on her pretty face.

"Princess Yue'er, don't be irritable, you can continue to eat it when it gets hot."

The little cutie nodded depressedly, and got into Cuiyun's cloak like a little chicken: "Call me out when you're done." ”

Looking at the extremely skilled cutie, Cuiyun nodded with a faint smile, wrapped in the cutie and began to snuggle under the battlement.

Li Baiyu put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand, his face was a little puzzled.

"Herald, go and invite Lu Aiqing."

"Yes."

After a while, Lu Tao trotted over with a clairvoyant mirror: "Your Majesty, the old minister knows what you mean by calling the old minister, the rebels' offensive formation has indeed changed and has become unreasonable." ”

Li Baiyu raised the clairvoyant mirror again and looked around.

"They know the difficulty of besieging the city, and they shouldn't have attacked it so quickly, and their formation is completely incomprehensible to me, how could their siege engines be so densely arranged."

"Let's go down with a round of artillery, and if we hit, we can destroy half of their siege engines."

Lu Tao shook his head silently: "The old minister is also confused, and he can't guess their intentions. ”

"Do they want to gather siege engines, plan to bombard a little bit, and make a gap in the wall?"

"Maybe."

"Herald!"

"Yes."

"Inquire about the situation of the remaining three gates and see how the rebels are offensive."

"Order."

"Old Aiqing, what should I do, do you want to open artillery to bombard their siege vehicles as soon as they enter the firing range, they are gathered together so densely, and if you don't fire the artillery, you will miss a good opportunity."

"As long as their siege engines are destroyed, it is even more impossible for them to attack the city walls just by relying on the ladder!"

"It takes at least two days or more to build or repair a siege vehicle, so we can hold on for a few more days and wait for reinforcements."

Lu Tao's face was a little hesitant: "There must be a reason for everything, they suddenly changed the unreasonable siege formation, there must be something strange, let's wait for them to get closer, and wait for us to observe clearly with a clairglass!" ”

"I respect Lao Aiqing's meaning, after all, you have a lot of experience, I said that I will not be offside and command indiscriminately, so I will not be offside and indiscriminately command."

"Your Majesty, thank you for your understanding."

"Report, Your Majesty, General Qiyu, the rebel offensive formation outside the other three city gates is as reasonable and justified as ever, only the rebels at the south city gate are weird."

The herald's reply made Li Baiyu's brows furrow even more.

Sure enough, there are weirdness, but where exactly is weird Li Baiyu They still can't figure it out.

Lu Tao stroked his beard and thought for a moment, then nodded thoughtfully: "Your Majesty, the siege vehicles are tall, and there is nothing to see when they gather together. ”

"Could it be that there is something strange behind the siege engine? The siege vehicle is just a 'scapegoat' that they throw, and the real siege weapon is hidden behind the siege vehicle? ”

Li Baiyu was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and muttered for a while, and then his heart suddenly burst out, and he suddenly raised his head and looked at Lu Tao.

Lu Tao also looked at Li Baiyu at the same time.

The two said in unison.

"Artillery!"

The same answer was said, causing the two of them to gasp.

Lu Tao raised the clairplane and stared intently at the back of the siege vehicle, as if he wanted to see through the siege vehicle.

After a break, Lu Tao silently put down the clairvoyant mirror: "It's too dense, plus the soldiers block it, I can't see anything at all." ”

"But since there is such a siege weapon as artillery, why didn't they use it early, then the masonry of our city gate would have been blown open by the cannonballs."

"What's the point of putting it off until now?"

Li Baiyu also looked at the slowly approaching rebels in puzzlement, and the Ouchi secret agents he had sent out had not found out the existence of artillery in the rebel camp until now, and over time, Li Baiyu thought that the rebels really didn't have this kind of siege weapon.

In particular, it is still uncertain whether there is artillery behind the siege vehicle, which is the biggest headache for the two of them.

Li Baiyu thought for a moment and looked at Cuiyun on the side.

"Cuiyun, take Yue'er down the city wall, a hundred steps away from the city wall."

"Yes!"

The little cutie clearly heard the conversation between Li Baiyu and the two, without the slightest reluctance, and obediently followed Cuiyun towards the city wall.

After the little cutie left, Li Baiyu looked at Lu Tao: "Old Aiqing, how to meet the enemy?" ”

Lu Tao observed the approximate distance of the rebels and muttered: "Turn the muzzle of the cannon, aim at one place, raise the muzzle of the cannon, and cross the siege vehicle to bombard the thing behind the siege vehicle." ”

"Whether it's artillery or not, let's test it with artillery fire first."

"It's not the best, if it hits their shell box, it's enough to destroy half of their shells."

"Okay, just do what you want, go and give the order!"

"The old minister retired."

After Lu Tao left, Li Baiyu looked at the siege vehicle in the distance and subconsciously swallowed his saliva, and the hand holding the sword of the Son of Heaven trembled slightly.

The more I saw the power of artillery, the more I understood its power.

It has always been his own artillery bombardment of the rebels, but now that it is his turn to be bombarded, Li Baiyu has to be nervous.

His kung fu is good, and according to the rules of martial arts, he is also a high-quality person, but the probability of surviving if he wants to block the cannonball is less than 1 in 10,000.

Li Baiyu sighed, looked up at the sky and looked up silently.

Maybe the capital is really going to be broken by the rebels today.

"Fourth brother, should I believe you?"

Li Baiyu stood on the city wall melancholy, and the Ouchi guards he sent out to investigate the reality of the artillery have not replied until now, and it is not clear whether they are alive or dead.

If there is artillery, can the city gate be blocked?

Although the city gate was sealed, the city wall built up brick and stone could not stop the cannonballs, let alone the temporarily sealed city gate hole.

"The artillery raised a corner and fired at the back of the siege engine."

The rebels were in range for a long time, and Lu Tao finally gave the order to open fire, and the shells fired towards the back of the siege engine with fire.

The slush fell apart in all directions, leaving a shallow depression in its wake.

The rebels gathered next to the siege engine suddenly pulled the siege engine and scattered in all directions, revealing the black barrel of the cannon below.

Lu Tao saw these shocking changes in his face from the mirror tube, and he understood the plan in his heart.

The rebels actually hid their cannon barrels under siege engines.

"Load the shells, lower the corner and fire."

Moments later, another round of shells was fired from the walls towards the rebel artillery.

However, the shell exploded after falling dozens of paces to the barrel, and the rebels began to set up the barrel at the city gate again.

"General, the best range was missed, the rebels' artillery was transported too close, beyond the minimum range of our artillery."

"Tear down the battlements and bricks, lower the muzzle."

"All guns are aimed at the artillery positions of the rebels."

"Order!"

"The Eight Ox crossbows turned around and fired non-stop, stopping the speed of their cannons."

"Order!"

Looking at the Praetorian Guards on the city wall who were in full swing to redeploy their artillery, Lu Tao trotted towards Li Baiyu with the order flag.

"Your Majesty, you have fallen for the rebels' tricks, the rebels have artillery, and I don't know how powerful it is, you can't stay on the city wall, go down to the city quickly."

Li Baiyu looked at the rebels who were starting to erect cannon barrels, and shook his head resolutely.

"I have retired, how can I be worthy of the desperate bloody struggle of the brothers."

"My Dalong only has the Son of Heaven who died in battle, and there is no monarch who has fled."

"Old Aiqing, defend the city."

"Your Majesty, the old minister has the courage to give you a task, as long as you can do it, the rebels will not be able to break through the city gate even if they have artillery."

"Say it quickly."

"Build a wall outside the city gate hole, you can build a thick city wall in a short time with the number of auxiliary soldiers, and the cannonballs can't fall down after bombardment to a certain position, the city gate hole is deep, and finally you can only rely on manual excavation, and now it's too late to build a heavy wall pile!"

"Really?"

"Really!"

"I'm going to build a wall, and I'll leave it to you."

"Your Majesty rest assured."

"Report, General Qiyu, the muzzle of the cannon is lowered, and you can test the cannon at any time."

"Immediately open fire and bombard the opponent's artillery."

"Order!"

Lu Tao had just finished giving the order, and the smoke from the artillery on the city wall had not yet cleared, and then there was a rumbling sound of cannons outside the city.

An artillery battle unfolded in an instant.