The capital has indeed started fighting.

After Hou Jingde took the two Zhichong Mansion out of the city and was dispersed overnight, the imperial court's attitude towards the Southwest Army turned conservative in an all-round way, even if the strength was superior, it could not be defended, so that Li Shuo only brought more than 50,000 people, and then pushed it to the capital.

This is already a shame that has not been seen in the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty for more than 100 years!

Even when the Northern Zhou Dynasty was at its strongest, there were 200,000 iron horsemen, and 300,000 people who controlled the strings were eyeing the Southern Jin Dynasty, and with the efforts of the ancestors of the Great Jin Dynasty, they never hit the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty, but now the southwest rebels, only 50,000 people, have really come to the city of the capital.

Hundreds of thousands of Gyeonggi forbidden troops are so scared that they can't hold out!

Even if the Southwest Army can't defeat the capital, this incident will be recorded in the history books, so that the descendants of the Great Jin Dynasty will be ashamed of it!

The personal reputation of the Emperor of Yuan Zhao also fell to the freezing point with the arrival of the Southwest Army under the capital.

The Great Jin Dynasty has been founded for more than 100 years, a total of nine emperors, he is the first emperor to be beaten to the door of the house, even if the people can't say anything about him, in the future, when he comes to the underground, most of the ancestors can't spare him.

After Li Shuo arrived at the city of the capital with more than 50,000 people, he was not in a hurry to attack, but slowly pushed out the catapults that had been made in the past few days, and a total of thirty catapults drove to the west gate of the capital.

Next, Li Shuo sent people to shout to the capital, persuading them to open the city and surrender, depose the faint king, and welcome the six princes into the throne of Beijing.

Of course, this was just a routine, no one dared to open the door at this time, and no one would respond to it, although there were thousands of guards on the city walls, but there was silence, and no one dared to make a sound.

Li Shuo didn't talk nonsense with them, and with a wave of his hand, the catapult under his command began to advance unhurriedly.

Ordinary catapults, because they throw stones, are too heavy, and the range is not even as good as that of bows and arrows, especially on the city wall, in the case of throwing, the range of bows and arrows can reach three or four hundred steps, and the general catapults want to attack the city wall, they will definitely be shot by local bows and crossbows, but the weight of these clay pots is far less than the stones, but it is not too light, which leads to the fact that the range of this catapult can reach four hundred or even five hundred steps, which has exceeded the land of one arrow, The longbow that was thrown from the tower of the city had nothing to do with these catapults.

From before the start of the expedition to the east of Shu, Li Xin deliberately trained a group of slingers, these people have a good grasp of distance and accuracy, one by one, the clay pots smashed on the city wall with great accuracy, and then exploded!

Although the speed of the catapult loading was outrageously slow, it exploded in half an hour, and each catapult still threw out more than a dozen clay pots and hundreds of heavenly thunderbolts, exploding on the city wall!

Because at this time, the imperial court's response to firearms was far from being comparable to before, so there were not too many people standing on the city wall, only a few people were arranged, hiding behind bunkers, watching the movement of the southwest army with a clairvoyant mirror, and then reporting to the commander behind him at any time.

Because there are not many people, these clay pots exploded on the city wall, and the number of natural casualties is not much, but the city wall must always be in a state of people, and if one person dies, the forbidden army will send someone to fill it, and after half an hour, there are hundreds of casualties on the city wall.

Li Shuo, who was attacking under the city, also held a clairvoyant mirror and watched the situation on the city wall, he was not in a hurry, he only ordered the catapult not to stop, and kept throwing thunder.

That's it. After three or four hours of indiscriminate bombardment by catapults, the commander of the Ningzhou army waved his hand and led his men to hug the catapults and retreated back to his camp.

Early the next morning, Li Shuo still took his soldiers and pushed thirty of them, and blew them up on the walls of the capital for a whole day, and for three days in a row, although the forbidden army suffered only more than 3,000 casualties, everyone in the capital had a little more panic in their hearts.

The most terrifying thing is not how strong the enemy is, but that there is no way for their own side to fight back, and if these southwestern armies do not attack the city, the forbidden army will have no way to go out of the city to attack them.

More importantly, although the city wall of the capital city of the Great Jin Dynasty is strong, it can be blown down in a few days, and the main body of the entire western city wall is still strong, but there are many places that have been potholes, and there are even some gaps, which is extremely terrifying.

The general of the forbidden army, Chong Xuantong, retreated from the city wall with a gloomy face, wiped the black ash off his face with a towel, and rode to the imperial city.

In the Weiyang Palace, the Son of Heaven is discussing with several prime ministers, mainly discussing how long the food in the city can be eaten in the case of the closure of the capital, and how to maintain order in the capital.

This is wartime, Chong Xuantong was led to Weiyang Palace only left, and soon saw the Son of Heaven, he knelt in front of the Son of Heaven, bowed his head and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, the Southwest Army has retreated." ”

Yuan Zhao Tianzi looked at the time, and then said expressionlessly: "Every day, the sound of thunder rises at sunrise and rests at sunset, these southwest troops are really like being on duty in the Yamen. ”

Chong Xuantong lowered his head and said astringently: "Your Majesty, in the past few days, although there are not many casualties of the forbidden army, there are already people in the capital, and none of us knows how many firearms these southwest thieves still have are useless, and if they continue like this, if they don't make any counterattacks, the city may be in chaos." ”

He lowered his head, gritted his teeth, and said: "Not only the people in the city, but even the soldiers of the forbidden army, hundreds of people die every day, I am afraid that there will be dissatisfaction in my heart......"

Yuan Zhao Tianzi frowned slightly, and then spoke: "The number of the southwest army is too small, and they dare not use human lives to attack the city, they made this appearance, just to attract the forbidden army out of the city and hate them to fight, the old general and endure it, don't fall for them." ”

Speaking of this, the Son of Heaven remembered something, and his brows furrowed even deeper.

"Mr. Ram has been out of town for so long, and he hasn't come back yet......"

Chong Xuantong knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, since this kind of thing is explosive, it will explode at a moment's notice, and the minister means that we can send strange soldiers out of the city, find the firearms depot of the Southwest Army, and burn it down......."

Now that the craftsmen in the capital have made the heavenly thunder, a general of the level of Xuantong is no stranger to the nature of gunpowder, and it is not strange to come up with a way to deal with it.

The Son of Heaven shook his head slightly, and said astringently: "The old general should know that my teacher is an extremely cautious person. ”

"Now it is Li Shuo of the Southwest Army who is attacking the city under the capital, and the soldiers he leads are the Ningzhou Army in the Southwest Army, and the quota of firearms in Ningzhou is allocated every two days by the so-called Great General's Mansion in the Southwest, even if we destroy their firearms, it will only destroy the firearms for a day or two, and it is of no great use."

Speaking of this, the Son of Heaven looked at Chong Xuantong and sighed slowly.

"Old general, it's better to stick to it according to my wishes, if there is damage to the city wall, I will let the Ministry of Industry repair it overnight, and the people in Beijing, I will let Jingzhao Mansion appease, and the old general only needs to take the forbidden army to defend it."

Chong Xuantong lowered his head and smiled bitterly.

"Your Majesty, if you keep it defended, the spirit of the forbidden army may be dispersed......"

The Son of Heaven still shook his head stubbornly, he stepped down from the throne and personally helped the old general up from the ground, his eyes were firm.

"Old general, give me another time, buy more time......"