Five hundred firearms, although it can cause a lot of casualties, but on a battlefield of tens of thousands of people, it is not enough to change the situation of the war, as long as the army of the imperial court rushes forward one after another, it can break up this firecracker team, and even capture some firecrackers and bring them back to the capital for study.

But......

This kind of thing that can directly kill people at a distance of dozens or even nearly a hundred paces without a bow and crossbow is really terrifying!

It was a blow from the heart, and no one knew what these firecrackers were holding in their hands, and no one knew why their comrades in front of them fell to the ground after a loud bang.

After these men rushed forward for dozens of paces according to the commander's order, they found that their brothers in front of them were lying on the ground, so some people stopped because they were afraid.

Fear is the first instinct when faced with the unknown.

At this time, nearly 10,000 people of Li Shuo's Ningzhou army had poured into Xiangyang City.

The Ningzhou general, who had just passed the year of establishment, was expressionless, and said coldly: "The shield soldiers are in the front, and the pitchers follow behind, advancing from west to east!" ”liejufa1111111111111111111111

"Everyone, take cover for the firecrackers!"

Five hundred firecrackers can't change the battle situation in Xiangyang City, but when thousands of shield soldiers join the battlefield, and more than a thousand unique "pitchers" of the Southwest Army follow closely into Xiangyang City, the battle situation is very different.

After the enemy was hit by the fire gun, the rhythm formation was already in chaos, and there was no decent counterattack, even the long-range bow and crossbow did not shoot a few arrows, dozens of hundreds of heavenly thunders under the cover of the shield soldiers, thrown into the enemy's formation, only a face-to-face effort, the Hanzhong army has begun to rout.

The wailing is loud!

Li Shuo saw that the Hanzhong army began to retreat, and said decisively: "Pursue slowly, don't be impatient, and slowly advance towards the east of the city!" ”

The predecessor of the Ningzhou Army was the remnants of the army that year, although the army has undergone a reorganization and has been incorporated into the Southwest Army, but Li Shuo is a major general after all, many elites in the army that year still stayed in the Ningzhou Army, and the later 50,000 Ningzhou Army was also trained according to the standard of the army, and the combat power was even better than the Southwest Army under Mu Ying, and the execution was very strong.

Because the formation of the Hanzhong army was chaotic, the retreat was not very orderly, and it was chased by a group of Ningzhou troops armed with firearms, and gradually turned from retreating to fleeing, with heavy casualties!

Li Shuo was now on the tower of the west city wall of Xiangyang, looking at the fleeing Hanzhong army from a distance with a clairmile mirror, and then looked back at the southwest military camp tent still stationed outside the city, and slowly exhaled a sigh.

In the army of that year, if there was the current equipment of the Southwest Army, let alone the Taikang Emperor, even in the face of the Chengde Emperor, or even the Emperor Wu of the Great Jin Dynasty, he would have the power of a game!

It's a pity that his brother, like his eldest father, is too proud in his bones, and the two are destined to never come together.

Thinking of this, Li Shuo sighed and instructed his subordinates: "Inform the general that the Southwest Army can enter the city." ”

"Yes!"

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On this side, Li Shuo played smoothly and was in high spirits, and on the other side, Xie Jing, the commander of the Hanzhong army, was quite embarrassed, seeing that the Hanzhong army was losing and retreating, he ordered the Hanzhong army to fight back more than once, but the morale has been dispersed by the fire and thunder, at this time any military orders have no effect, or Chong Heng saw that something was wrong, and gave the order to withdraw the troops, and the Hanzhong army fled from the west of the city to the east of the city in embarrassment.

The three generals who led the troops in Xiangyang also fled back to a house in the east of the city, and everyone's faces were very ugly.

Xiangyang is the most important city in the middle of the Great Jin Dynasty, once Xiangyang is lost, these southwest thieves can go straight to the capital, Yuan Zhao Tianzi sent them to Xiangyang, that is, let them hold Xiangyang no matter what, but now, the two sides exchanged troops for only half a day, and the Hanzhong army immediately collapsed, and the southwest thieves actually entered Xiangyang City like this!

Once this kind of great sin is passed into the capital, each of these three generals who led the troops in the southwest will not be able to escape the responsibility, even if Xie Jing, the maternal uncle of the Son of Heaven, I am afraid there is no way to stay out of it!

The three of them sat at a table, Uncle Xie Guo's face was full of anger, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Half a day, only half a day!" ”

"In just half a day, those southwestern barbarians entered Xiangyang City directly as if they were in a no-man's land, and this matter spread to the capital, none of the three of us wanted to have a good reputation, so we simply crashed to death, or died in Xiangyang, so as not to be embarrassed when we returned to Beijing!"

Pei Jin was relatively calmer, and he frowned and said, "The Southwest Army has come up with something new besides the heavenly thunder. ”

"Today, they use catapults to throw heavenly thunder, although it is powerful, but in essence, it is still the use of heavenly thunder, but after these southwest troops entered the city, the iron pipes that can shoot hidden weapons in their hands are something they have never seen before."

Pei Jin's voice was a little hoarse.

"The matter has come to this point, no matter whether Xiangyang City can hold it or not, we must find out what that iron pipe is, and it is best to grab one or two pieces from them and send them to the capital to hand them over to Your Majesty, so that even if the southwest is broken, we will not bear too much responsibility."

Chong Heng, who was frowning and silent, pondered for a long time before he said with a wry smile: "This thing, most of it is something made by Hou Ye Li, my grandfather often talked to me about him, saying that he is a rare figure for decades. ”

"Now it seems that my grandfather's vision is really good."

Chong Heng's grandfather, Chong Xuantong, met Li Xin when he was sixteen or seventeen years old, and gave him his portable sword.

"This kind of powerful thing is by no means something that can be made by a person after a year and a half, three or five years."

Xie Jing gritted his teeth and said: "It must be that Li Xin got an ancient book somewhere that recorded these things, but he has been hiding in the dark and has never used them." ”

"The first emperor treated him like a brother and brother, and made him a very popular minister, this person is not satisfied, he has hidden so many things, and he has not handed them over to the court at all!"

Uncle Guo scolded fiercely: "Wolf ambition!" ”

"It's useless to discuss what Hou Ye Li is thinking now."

Chong Heng smiled slightly bitterly and said, "The top priority now is how to deal with the menacing Southwest Army, and whether Xiangyang City should be defended?" ”

"The wall of Xiangyang City has been broken, if you want to continue to defend it, in the face of those unknown iron pipes, most of them will still suffer heavy casualties, so according to my family, let's leave a group of people behind the palace, and then the large army will temporarily withdraw from Xiangyang, and send it to the capital with the information obtained, so that the Hanzhong army will not be wiped out, and it can also retain some strength, and it can also help the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army to fight against the southwest in the future."

After Chong Heng finished speaking, he looked left and right, and then continued: "What do the two generals think? ”

Uncle Xie Guo's face was gloomy.

"Escaping from Xiangyang in embarrassment, most of them will be a capital crime after returning to Beijing!"

Pei Jin smiled faintly.

"Otherwise, General Xie will stay here alone, and take the Hanzhong Army to guard it, and my Ankang Army will absorb the advice of General Xiaozhong and start slowly evacuating Xiangyang tomorrow."

"What does General Xie think?"