For three whole days, the capital has not taken the "ultimatum" of the Southwest Army to heart, although the Southwest Army has been reorganizing the army in the past few days, and the actions are frequent, and the scouts of the imperial court can also be detected, but even so, some people in the imperial court still feel that the Southwest Army is making a play.

Others felt that despite the best efforts of the Southwestern Army, it would be impossible to break into the capital.

There are only generals like Xuantong, and everyone tenses their nerves and tries their best to deal with the bitter battles that may come.

After these few months, no one will underestimate the combat strength of the Southwest Army.

On the morning of the third day, before dawn in the morning, the Ningzhou military camp began to move, first of all, dozens of catapults were pushed out by the officers and soldiers of the Ningzhou army very skillfully, just pushed to a stone's throw away from the city wall of the capital.

In the past two months, the Ningzhou army has hardly stopped bombarding the city wall of the capital, and it is easy to grasp all this, and after two months, the "slinger" in charge of the catapult in the Ningzhou army has also been very skilled, and now without the influence of strong winds, it can basically point where to fight.

After the catapult was in place, dozens of trebuchets skillfully filled the heavenly thunder, and after a while, dozens of heavenly thunderbolts exploded under the western city wall of the capital.

The defenders on the west city wall are also very skilled in dealing with these thunderstorms, the three of them form a shield array, and then squat on the ground, using three large shields as shield walls, when the thunder explodes, as long as it does not happen to be thrown under their feet, it is difficult to cause much damage to these shield soldiers.

But today's thunder is a little different.

In the past, the thunder exploded, and these shield soldiers who skillfully defended the city had at most a dozen casualties, but this time, at least hundreds of screams sounded at the same time!

Quite a few people covered their wounds and rolled on the ground.

After all, it is impossible for the big shield to protect the body, there will always be some gaps, these injured soldiers of the forbidden army, there are more or less some pieces of iron pierced on their bodies, shallow to break the skin, deep into the flesh and remain!

"The heavenly thunder of the anti-thief is mixed with iron pieces!"

Soon, the generals of the forbidden army reacted and shouted: "The shield soldiers protect themselves tightly, spread out the formation, don't be too dense!" ”

In the past, the thunder of the Southwest Army only had pottery shards and no iron pieces, even if the pottery pieces were pierced into the body, at most they were only external injuries, and these iron pieces that were not clean and even mostly rusted were likely to kill a person once they entered the flesh!

The second round of thunder of the Ningzhou Army has arrived again.

Dozens of heavenly thunderbolts that had already been ignited, under the precise manipulation of the slingers, some even exploded on the heads of these forbidden soldiers, and iron pieces splashed everywhere, and for a time the city walls were full of blood!

Some of the unlucky ones, covered in pieces of iron, were soon carried down with a wail.

The generals of the forbidden army, who had rich combat experience, immediately responded and shouted: "A team of four, a team of four, raise a shield to block the top of your head!" ”

The military quality of the forbidden army was extremely high, and the reloading speed was extremely slow, so they were quickly able to change formation, becoming a group of four, three of whom squatted on the ground and raised their shields to protect their bodies, and one in the middle also squatted on the ground, raising their shields with both hands to protect the top of their heads.

In this way, the casualties of the forbidden army immediately decreased sharply.

However, after a few rounds of thunderstorms, there were still hundreds of casualties, but these were a little insignificant compared to the base of the forbidden army of 200,000.

Li Shuo, who was watching the battle under the city, was watching the situation of the city wall with a clairvoyant mirror, and after seeing that the shield arrays on the city wall were erected, he took a few deep breaths, endured for a while, and let the catapult bombard again, and then the Ningzhou army commander waved his hand and shouted in a deep voice: "Ningzhou army vanguard battalion, out of the ranks!" ”

The vanguard battalion of the Ningzhou army, most of them are soldiers brought from the southwest by the Ningzhou army, and they are also the most trustworthy soldiers in the Ningzhou army.

Two months ago, when the Ningzhou Army resisted the forbidden army head-on, it used these elites of the Ningzhou army to carry it hard, and the result was that even without firearms, these elites of the Ningzhou army could collide head-on with the forbidden army without falling behind!

Li Shuo's face was cold, and he waved his hand fiercely: "Rush over!" ”

"At all costs, rush to the west gate of the capital!"

The vanguard battalion of 2,000 people immediately responded, and they quickly moved towards the city gate according to the formation of three people in a team of three of the Southwestern Army!

If it is an ordinary siege, once you enter the land of an arrow, the distance from this distance to the city gate must be filled with human lives, because in this distance, there is no way to fight back, and you can only rush forward with a shield if you are dead, but even if you raise the shield in the process of rushing into battle, casualties are inevitable.

However, the charging formation of the Ningzhou army was not like this at all, because they had the cover of firearms!

From the beginning of their charge, the Ningzhou army had a total of 50 catapults, and 33 of them no longer threw thunder, and after the first batch of 17 thunderbolts were thrown, a second batch of 17 thunderbolts began to throw ignited thunder!

Fifty catapults, thrown in three batches, although there is still a time to load, but the time to reload has been greatly shortened, so short that the forbidden army on the city wall, there is no way to release arrows on a large scale.

Two thousand soldiers of the vanguard battalion, with less than a hundred casualties, miraculously rushed to the vicinity of the West City Gate!

Li Shuo, who was in the rear, his eyes were blazing, he waved his hand again, and shouted: "Go to the two more lieutenant battalions, follow, follow!" ”

One lieutenant battalion of the Southwest Army was 1,600 people, and more than 3,000 people in the two lieutenant battalions, and they quickly followed in the rumbling artillery fire according to Li Shuo's order!

At the same time, the forbidden army on the city wall also reacted, and the general of the forbidden army roared angrily: "Top shield, top shield!" ”

"Throw thunder at the top shield under the city!"

The imperial court also has a thunderbolt, this thing is a serious weapon to defend the city, and more importantly, the thunder doesn't need to be aimed, as long as it is lit and thrown under the city!

In this case, the soldiers of the forbidden army can throw thunder under the city by hiding behind the big shield, and each of the heavenly thunders of the imperial court is filled with iron sheets, and each one explodes in the crowd, which will make more than a dozen Ningzhou soldiers lose their combat effectiveness!

Soon, the casualties of the pioneer battalion of the Ningzhou Army were rapidly expanding.

However, the pioneer battalion was not for siege!

Among the soldiers of these pioneer battalions, except for the first few rows of people holding spears, the middle row of soldiers, about seventy or eighty people, each carrying a seemingly inconspicuous cloth bag, these cloth bags are not very heavy, only one or twenty pounds, so it is not difficult to carry, under the cover of the surrounding soldiers and the catapults in the distance, they successfully piled the eighty bags to the city gate!

Because there was a catapult in the distance, the people on the city wall only dared to stretch out their hands and throw the thunder down, and few people dared to look closely, and when these people with cloth bags approached the city gate, the forbidden army watching on the city wall reacted, and one of the forbidden army captains who had seen firearms turned white after seeing this situation, and he turned back suddenly, ran to his boss, and his voice trembled.

"Captain, Southwest Army, carry some cloth bags to the city gate!"

At this, he swallowed.

"Yes...... Probably gunpowder ......"

This lieutenant's face also changed suddenly.

At present, it is no secret that gunpowder is in the capital, especially in the military, as long as anyone with a little knowledge knows what gunpowder is.

And the Southwest Army got so much gunpowder, and the purpose was already very obvious.

They want to blow up the gates!

Without saying a word, the lieutenant immediately ran in the direction of Xuantong.

However, it was already too late!

Under the city gate, a captain of the pioneer battalion of the Ningzhou Army had already taken out the fire fold from his chest, and then shouted loudly at the robes around him!

"Spread out, spread out!"

"Fucking disperse!"

(End of chapter)