Thang Long Mansion, outside the main gate of the inner city south.

Sang Yi urged the soldiers to fill the cannon with gunpowder, and said to Xu Ping: "What is this ghost city gate made of?" It's been a day, and it hasn't exploded yet! ”

Xu Ping had a calm face: "It doesn't matter what it does, if it doesn't explode, it won't hit much!" Day and night, and boom! ”

The city tower above has long been destroyed by small cannons, and the soldiers defending the city at the head of the city can't stay still, so they can only hide in the hidden soldier hole behind the door, helplessly listening to the explosions one after another, and everything is handed over to the verdict of fate.

Because he was not busy, he didn't bring any powerful siege equipment in the army, and Xu Ping also felt a little helpless. At this time, he was in a dangerous situation, and the Jiaozhi garrison from other places was surrounding Thang Long Mansion, and in order to prevent accidents, Xu Ping did not want the soldiers to forcibly enter the city. These dozen or so small cannons were originally moved with the cavalry, and their mobility was good, but their power was insufficient, and the wall of the stone fortress collapsed with a salvo, but they were powerless in the face of the strong gates of the inner city.

The inner city is covered with masonry and rammed earth, which is extremely solid, and what is even worse is that the foundation is also deep, and it is difficult to dig holes with gunpowder like the outer city, and I don't know what year and month to dig just to dig the powder room.

After several trade-offs, Xu Ping still hit the idea to the city gate, and ordered Sang Yi to lead people to bombard with small cannons day and night, even if the iron was beaten, there were times when it was blasted open.

The Song army bombarded outside, and the Jiaozhi army was helpless. They also have stone cannons to defend the city, but they can't stand at the head of the city, and they are smashed by the Song army's artillery as soon as they put it up, and they can't threaten the Song army outside the city when they put it under the city wall, and near the city wall is the dead end of the stone cannons in the city.

Sang Yi watched a few more rounds of cannons, so he had to let the cannons take turns to cool down. The artillery is easy to use, but it is also squeamish to use. After a few rounds, the barrel turned red. It must be cooled down before continuing.

to Xu Ping's side. Sang Yi said: "Although this city gate is strong, if you fight it all night at night, it will inevitably be blown open." However, even if the city gate is broken, there is still an urn city inside, and it will take a lot of effort to do it. ”

"Don't worry about that, wait until the gates are broken and gunpowder is piled up in the doorways. Really took it and lifted half of the inner city for him! What are you afraid of in the urn city, there are many people in it who are also bombed together! ”

Xu Ping had a calm face and looked at the murderous atmosphere at the city gate. I didn't expect it to be so troublesome, after the gunpowder brought for the first time exploded in the outer city, there was not much left, and Xu Ping had already ordered the horse to go back to Langzhou to get it. After two or three hundred miles, it took a few horses to get enough gunpowder in two days.

If you have the ability, the city gate will still be able to hold on to it at that time, so you don't need artillery, just pile gunpowder outside the gate, and even lift this half of the city wall together.

Inside the inner city. The elite soldiers were all sent by Li Foma to defend the city, and the young men among the civilians in the city were also recruited. He was sent to the city walls to do all kinds of miscellaneous work and assist in the defense.

As for the nobles and wealthy families in the city, they were confined to their own houses and were not allowed to move around.

At this time, the official system of Jiaozhi had not been established, and there were still remnants of the tribal system of the Tibetan State in politics, and the so-called ministers did not have any government affairs that they had to deal with every day, and they were not allowed to go out and did not affect the operation of the court.

Li Renyi has been nested in his study for the past two days, carefully paying attention to the movements inside and outside the city. At the beginning, when he heard the low cannon sound of the Song army outside the city, his heart tightened as soon as he sounded, and later, the cannon sound kept ringing, and he couldn't hear it if he didn't pay attention.

Although he had experienced the battle in Langzhou, Li Renyi had not seen the power of artillery with his own eyes, but he had heard that this thing was more powerful than stone artillery. Now it's been a day outside, and I don't know what has become of the city gate, but it is not surprising that the inner city will be breached sooner or later.

Now Li Foma is dragging out time, if he can drag it until King Qin's reinforcements return to the inner city and it has not been breached, then he will win, and he will have the capital to turn over.

If the city gate was breached before this, everything would be closed, and the Song army would never let him go.

But other Jiaozhi princes and ministers may not all have this fate, and after thinking about it for a day, Li Renyi finally figured this out. At this time, the war between Jiaozhi and the Great Song Dynasty was, in the final analysis, just a war with the Yongzhou locality, and the Great Song Dynasty did not pour the country to attack, and from all aspects, it was impossible to attack the country.

It's just Yongzhou place, this is not a battle to destroy the country, even if Li Foma is captured, it can't destroy the country of Jiaozhi, it's a big deal to change someone to be the king of Jiaozhi.

The more Li Renyi got up, the more he felt that it made sense, Xu Ping, a local governor, how could he dare to destroy a country, could it be that he still wanted to occupy a place and rebel? The great thing is to arrest Li Foma, who does not abide by the courtesy, to Bianliang, Tokyo, to declare the martial arts of the Great Song Dynasty and set an example for other Tibetan states.

The starlight outside was misty, and the cool breeze at night blew in through the window, slowly sweeping away the heat of the day, Li Renyi's eyes lit up, and the depression of the past few days finally slowly dissipated.

Not far from the forbidden city, there is a palace in the west and north, where two brothers who once rebelled, Li Bo, the king of Kai, and Li Li, the king of the eastern expedition, lived.

Quelled the "Rebellion of the Three Kings" and captured Li Li, the king of the Eastern Expedition, and later Li Foma personally conquered Chang'an Mansion and captured Li Bo, the king of the rebellion. After the two were captured, in order to declare that he did not forget his brotherly affection, Li Foma still retained the titles of the two and raised them in Thang Long Mansion, in fact, put the two under house arrest.

At this time, in the king's mansion, Li Bo was drinking wine in the back garden, watching the singers not far in front of him playing, singing, dancing, but his heart was a mess.

Among the brothers, Li Bo is the most unambitious, he is a concubine, and he cannot be compared with the others in terms of identity and status. In the end, he rebelled, but he was also forced to be helpless, and when the situation reached that point, he had to raise troops to make a show, and as soon as Li Foma arrived, he led his men to surrender. Originally, I wanted to be a peaceful empty king in Thang Long Mansion from now on, but I didn't expect such a big thing to happen in Cochin.

It is difficult for Li Bo to say whether he hates Li Foma or not, the throne is not related to him, and Li Foma did not kill all of them after the defeat and capture, although he has no freedom of movement, he can still enjoy wealth and nobility in the palace. As for being forced to rebel by Li Foma back then, he has now figured out that after his eldest brother ascends the throne, it is impossible to allow his brother to take charge of the army and divide one side, and this result cannot be considered too bad.

But now that Jiaozhi is on the verge of annihilation, what should I do?

I couldn't think of a clue after thinking about it, so I had to drink and borrow wine to drown my sorrows.

At this moment, the chief of the house brought in a man in a cloak and a hat, and went straight to blast all the singers out.

Li Bo was dumbfounded, although he was under house arrest, the chief manager was from the imperial court, and he couldn't actually control him, but it was too much to be so rude in front of him.

Isn't Li Foma going to kill his brother when he is facing the disaster of destroying the country?

Seeing that all the singers went out one after another, the person who came in with the chief manager came to Li Bo, removed the hat on his head, and said to Li Bo: "Second brother, at this time, do you still have the heart to drink?" (To be continued.) )