During this time, Lin Hu led hundreds of craftsmen to make a lot of this kind of throwing version of the heavenly thunder day and night, which was enough for these twenty catapults to squander for a long time, but after the catapult bombarded the city wall of Xiangyang for six rounds, there was no longer a standing Hanzhong army on the city wall, Li Xin and Mu Ying watched for a while with a clairvoyant mirror, and after making sure that everyone had retreated from the city tower, Li Xin ordered a ceasefire.

The catapult stopped, and after about a pillar of incense, someone slowly stretched out his head on the wall of Xiangyang City, waiting to see what was happening outside, and at the moment when someone came up, Li Xin waved his hand again, and twenty catapults once again swayed their firepower, and a large number of heavenly thunders were thrown on the wall of Xiangyang City, and the wall of this Xiongcheng was blown up, and smoke and dust were everywhere!

After several bombardments, some of the city bricks on the tower of Xiangyang City have been lifted, and the broken bricks have fallen to the ground, injuring a group of people.

Li Xin has been using the clairvoyant mirror to watch the dynamics of Xiangyang, after blowing up three rounds with a catapult, there is no longer a Hanzhong army in the clairvoyant mirror that dares to climb the city tower, Li Xin put the clairvoyant mirror into his sleeve, looked back at the two generals behind him, and slowly spoke: "Two, now that no one in the imperial army dares to climb the tower to defend the city, as long as you rush over and set up a ladder, Xiangyang City will be broken, who wants to be the first to do this?" ”

Mu Ying was the first to stand up, but as soon as he took a step, he suddenly remembered the matter of the Mu family in Jincheng, so he bowed his head slightly to Li Xin and said: "General, General Li's Ningzhou army has never fought with anyone until now, it's time to see the quality of the Ningzhou army." ”

In fact, at this time, Xiangyang City has basically given up defending the city, as long as someone leads the troops to rush over, what is in front of him is a ready-made credit, but the Mu family's power in the southwest is already huge enough, even if Mu Ying himself is very jealous of this credit, but at this time, he still did not choose to be this budding bird.

After all, after the reorganization of the Southwest Army, Li Shuo and the Ningzhou Army under his command have not made any moves, and at this time, it is appropriate to let Li Shuo behave, which can also make the Mu family less conspicuous.

Mu Ying's careful thinking, Li Xin could naturally see through it at a glance, he glanced at Li Shuo with a calm face, and said: "General Li, can the Ningzhou army fight?" ”

After "returning from his studies" from Lin Hu, now whether it is Mu Ying or Li Shuo, his confidence has skyrocketed, he directly knelt on the ground, bowed his head to Li Xin and said: "General Hui, the last general Ningzhou army will attack the city, and within three days, Xiangyang will definitely be taken!" ”

"Okay."

Li Xin nodded slightly, and said: "Then you will lead the Ningzhou army to attack the city, and you will march in line now, and I will use the catapult to throw another round of fire and thunder to cover you." ”

Li Shuo bowed his head respectfully: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

The Ningzhou army is the Hanzhou army and the army reorganized, but also Li Shuo led up the army, a total of 50,000 people, according to Li Xin's requirements, Li Shuo left 10,000 garrisons in Ningzhou, and brought 40,000 Ningzhou troops to the expedition, that is to say, the number of troops they went out of Shu this time was less than 100,000, only 90,000.

Soon, the Ningzhou army began to assemble, because the Ningzhou army had almost no cavalry, so Li Shuo directly took the lead, leading the two men from the Duwei battalion to rush to the front, protecting five hundred inconspicuous young men in the middle, and rushing towards Xiangyang City.

At this time, because of the catapult, the Xiangyang side has basically lost the interest in guarding the city wall, or the ability to defend the city wall, so Li Shuo and others, almost without any resistance, arrived under the city wall of Xiangyang City.

According to the practice of attacking the city in this era, climbing the tower is already the first achievement, but this time the first climb is too easy.

After Li Shuo climbed the tower, he found that there was almost no trace of the imperial army in the entire western city wall of Xiangyang, except for some corpses and soldiers who were seriously injured and could not afford to wail on the ground.

In other words, the imperial court, unable to cope with the catapults, had already abandoned the defense of the city and directly let them in.

Li Shuo soon came to the city gate, and the group moved away the bluestone blocking the gate, opened the city gate, and the entire Ningzhou army was about four or five thousand people, and took the lead in entering Xiangyang City.

Li Shuo walked in the front with two battalions of lieutenants and five hundred young men.

Xiangyang is an important town of the imperial court, and the imperial court would rather withdraw from Hanzhong and Ankang, but has never withdrawn from Xiangyang for half a step, which shows the importance of this place to the imperial court, that is, the imperial army may be forced to abandon the city wall by catapults, but they will definitely not abandon Xiangyang.

Li Shuo's face was solemn, he pulled out the long sword at his waist, and there were thousands of people behind him, and at the same time they were ready for battle, slowly advancing from the west wall of Xiangyang City towards the east city wall.

They walked on one of the widest streets in Xiangyang City, which was not only wide enough to accommodate eight horses in parallel, but also ran through the entire Xiangyang from the east of the city to the west of the city.

At first, there was no trace of any imperial army for nearly a mile, and even because of the war, the people nearby had been evacuated in advance, and there was no figure around.

But after walking for more than a mile, Li Shuo finally noticed that something was wrong, he frowned, and commanded: "Don't move for the time being, retreat back." ”

His subordinates immediately received the order, and thousands of Ningzhou troops were ready to slowly retreat a few steps, but at this time, in the surrounding alleys, shouts of killing were everywhere!

There were thousands of Hanzhong troops from the imperial court, rushing out from all sides, each wielding their weapons, to fight these enemies who rushed into Xiangyang City!

Many of the Hanzhong army were transferred from the forbidden army back then, even if they were not forbidden troops, they were trained according to the standards of the forbidden army over the years, and they were all rare elites.

When Li Shuo saw this scene, he was not afraid at all, he directly waved his hand, set up a formation, and exposed the five hundred young people they had been protecting.

Although these young men were also covered with armor, they had no bows and crossbows on their bodies, and no knives and guns, but they all carried a burden on their backs, and a straight iron pipe hung behind them, which looked quite funny.

Li Shuo gave an order, and these young people immediately divided into three directions, each direction staggered back and forth, and divided into three rows.

The people in the first row were lying on the ground, the people in the second row were squatting, and the people in the last row were standing straight.

Then they took out the fire fold and started to light it.

First of all, the group of people lying on the ground, raised the iron pipe in their hands slightly, and aimed very seriously in the face of these imperial army troops who rushed over.

As the lead burned, the fire gun in the hands of these young people also broke out with a big sound, and then the fire gun shook violently, and flew out a lead bullet, the person who was shot had no iron armor, and the distance was close, and he was directly hit into the body by the lead bead, although there was no danger to life, but he also lost his combat effectiveness, and he rolled back and forth in pain while lying on the ground.

After the first row of people lying on their stomachs finished fighting, they began to reload ammunition in an orderly manner, and at the same time, the people in the second row of squatting people also sounded the fire gun in their hands.

Then there is the third row.

After the third row of bullets was fired, the first row of soldiers lying on the ground had already loaded their ammunition and began to ignite.

This method of warfare somewhat makes up for the shortcomings of some firearms that are too slow to reload, and makes your own side lose flaws.

Li Shuo and Mu Ying, each took five hundred firecrackers from Lin Hu, and they also trained five hundred firecrackers, and they trained hard for several months, and finally showed their might on the battlefield for the first time!

One by one, the lead bullets flew towards the soldiers of the Hanzhong Army who were screaming and rushing over, and then after a loud bang, these soldiers fell into the dust one by one, and blood flowed everywhere!

With such a way of dying, it may be okay to die one or two, but the large-scale death soon made the Hanzhong army very frightened.

After all, for some reason, his robe fell to the ground, and he didn't know how to deal with it at all!

The morale of the army will soon be in turmoil!

The three generals of the imperial court standing on the tall building not far away all saw all this with clairvoyant mirrors, and the three of them put down the clairvoyant mirrors, their faces were quite complicated.

Xie Jing's face was full of bitterness, and he said astringently: "The two ......"

"What's that?"