On May 20, the tenth year of Jeongguan, after many hardships, with the firm support of the Silla queen, Kim Yuxin finally successfully thwarted the attack of the eastern coalition forces of Goguryeo in the border battlefield, and counterattacked into their base camp, causing great losses to the eastern coalition army, and the eastern coalition army had to retreat to the side of the Taedong River, ready to retreat at any time, and at this time, the ambush arranged by Kim Yuxin also successfully ambushed the support army of Quangae Suwen, which made Quangai Suwen also fall into a predicament.

At this time, from the territory of Quangai Suwen in the north, the Tang army marched to Anshi City and attacked the city, the Tang army destroyed three lines of defense along the way, and appeared under the city of Anshi on the occasion, using powerful siege weapons to attack Anshi City day and night, the city lord of Anshi asked Quangai Suwen to send troops back to help, the Tang army's offensive was too fierce, and the sophisticated weapons were not comparable to the previous Silla soldiers.

Quangai Suwen was shocked, and immediately sent the first batch of advance teams to rush back to Anshi City to assist in the defense, and he rushed back to his territory after laying an ambush, and did not even say hello, not only Jin Yuxin did not know, but also prepared to join forces with Quangai Suwen to fight a decisive battle with the Silla people, but the battle was not successful, fortunately, the Eastern Coalition Army also decided to retreat, otherwise in the face of Jin Yuxin's desperate organization of 100,000 strong troops and the courage of the last fight, it is estimated that the Eastern Coalition Army will be completely finished.

Kim Yuxin felt as uncomfortable as a punch on cotton, and the Goguryeo army retreated, and the speed of the retreat was very fast, and he had nothing to gain except to defeat an ambush and an army of the Imperial Palace. After pursuing all the way to the south bank of the Datong River, there was no other gain, and he knew that it should be the Tang army that sent troops, and Quangai Suwen was forced to retreat.

This time, he did not choose to cross the river to pursue, but ordered the army to be stationed on the spot and build a position on the south bank of the Datong River to facilitate the next attack. met the envoy sent by the queen to arrest the "defeated general Jin Yuxin". He was going to be brought back to the country for trial, but the envoy on the way gave him a revelation - the queen is just a show, who made him lose so many troops and land?

Jin Yuxin calmly accepted the queen's trial and accepted his own fate. After this battle. Jin Yuxin is obviously much calmer.

And the Datang side. When Zhang Liang received the intelligence from Suning and ordered him to withdraw his troops, he was very unwilling and stared viciously at the Goguryeo soldiers on the city wall. He used trebuchets and crossbows to attack for seven or eight days without really finding a loophole to attack, he felt that Anshi City was like a steel city, and he couldn't find a loophole to attack anyway, no matter what kind of Goguryeo soldiers on the city wall were beaten by him.

No amount of hard stone could destroy the defenses of Anshi Castle, no matter how dense the rain of arrows could not completely crush the Goguryeo soldiers, he tried to attack the city, but Mingjin withdrew his troops halfway through - it was a feint, and it seemed that the loss was not small, and if it was really a big loss, he himself could not deal with it.

This battle is really wretched, even if he knows in his heart that it is a feint, but if he really wants Zhang Liang to fight, he thinks it is enough, no way, he really can't find a loophole and can't find a chance, if it is really a fight, I don't know how many lives it will take to fill it, and I probably have to burn it like Laihu'er to have a way, although Datang has a fire attack weapon burning canister, but this stone can't burn! However, maybe that gunpowder could be tried......

Zhang Liang finally withdrew the army, but when he withdrew the army, he heard the cheers of the Goguryeo soldiers from the city and some of the voices that he heard as a mockery of himself, which made Zhang Liang furious, grabbed a bow and turned around to bend the bow and arrows, fixed his eyes, and as soon as his hand was released, a Goguryeo soldier who called the most joyful was shot through the head miserably, fell off the city wall, and fell into a puddle of ketchup, the cheers on the city wall stopped abruptly, Zhang Liang snorted fiercely, turned around and left.

In ancient times, because the resistance of the city was too strong so that the besieging side suffered heavy losses, in order to soothe the anger of the army, the army general would order the slaughter of the city for a few days, and then make up for the loss of the soldiers, so that the soldiers' anger could be expressed, and the army would get more supplies, and it could also destroy the fighting spirit of the next enemy, although it was inhumane, but for the enemy country, there was nothing humane to say.

For foreigners, naturally there is no humanity to say to the Han people, so for the Han people, there is no humanity to be with the foreigners, Zhang Liang also feels the same way, he has made up his mind that on the day the city is broken, all the soldiers in the city and the civilians who have helped the soldiers must be killed, in order to vent the hatred in his heart.

It is difficult for people to control the anger in their hearts, especially the generals and soldiers on the battlefield, who are red-eyed and can do everything, and they can't use the laws condensed by human civilization in a normal state to measure the soldiers after the bloody battle, because at that time these soldiers were in the most instinctive state, forgetting that they were in civilization, incarnated as beasts, and fought with the instinct of being creatures, and people at this time could not be measured by the scale of normal people.

After Zhang Liang returned to his teacher, he vented to Suning, very unhappy, hated the ancestors of the Goguryeo people for eighteen generations, and Suning's ears were calloused, Zhang Shigui, who escorted grain and grass from Beiping Port and part of the army, also had a black line on his face, Zhang Liang was like a mother-in-law chattering and chattering, and finally Suning shouted a stop, which stopped Zhang Liang.

"Okay, my General Zhang, don't you say it? Besides, I'm going to annoy you to death, can you just stop it?! Suning shook his head again and again, and even with Zhang Shigui, he said helplessly: "Isn't this thing all expected?" 5,000 people can conquer Anshi City, so the former Sui would have destroyed Goguryeo a long time ago, okay? Or is it my turn to wait? Okay, okay, let's get rid of my anger, I can bring a lot of reinforcements and supplies this time, I can have a good meal, and I eat fish every day, and I'm almost tired of dying. ”

Suning looked at Zhang Liang, who was still sullen, and said with a smile: "General Zhang." You don't want to do that, okay? I have good news for you, starting today, we don't need to spend too much effort to attack the enemy's city, perhaps, even a soldier can break through the opponent's city without losing a single soldier, and it doesn't take too much time. ”

Zhang Liang and Zhang Shigui were stunned, blinked, and said in unison: "Are you sick?" ”

Suning sighed helplessly. Said: "The artillery succeeded. ”

Zhang Liang is still a little foggy. I don't know what the "artillery" in Suning's mouth is, but Zhang Shigui understands, his eyes immediately widened, and he said in surprise: "The artillery." Really successful? How powerful? What about the range? What's the flaw? Can you siege the city? ”

Suning smiled: "It's really successful." King Tai and His Majesty watched the results together. It has been very successful, and His Majesty has ordered the Ministry of Industry to produce artillery at full capacity, and I have asked His Majesty to send some artillery to us on the Liaodong Peninsula. Prepare to wait for a little more soldiers and horses to take Anshi City to open a knife, the power is naturally needless to say, the city wall of Chang'an City is eighty percent hard, half the thickness, one shot down to collapse, as for the range, there are 1,800 steps! Six miles away! And that's just a real thing! ”

Zhang Shigui grew his mouth and couldn't speak, as for Zhang Liang, no matter how stupid he was, he heard the saying that the range was 1,800 steps and a full six miles, as for the previous Chang'an city wall and what was the collapse of the bombardment, he also heard a general meaning, so he stammered and said: "Su boy, you just said, say, what, fire...... Artillery, with a range of 1,800 paces and six miles? You, are you kidding? ”

Suning shook his head and said: "I wanted to make this artillery a few years ago, although I know how to make gunpowder, but the artillery involves too much, at first we were just a statement, and I don't know if he can really succeed, but then I tried it, and found that it does have the value of use, so I asked the Ministry of Industry to increase the production of steel to cope with the large amount of steel required for the production of artillery."

The first time I was shooting, for some reason, the whole cannon tube exploded and failed, but the second time, it was greatly improved, and this was the third time I shot and was successful, and the news from Chang'an really broke down a wall of earth.

The walls of Chang'an City are the thickest, most formal and toughest in the Tang Dynasty, which is unimaginable to Goguryeo, and I can blow up their royal capital with gunpowder, not to mention other cities, this time it is mainly rainy, and when participating in the war, I was careless, the remaining gunpowder was wet, and I couldn't use it, I still felt embarrassed, I didn't expect the artillery to really succeed, so fast, I originally thought it would take at least five years, who knew that it would be successful now! ”

Zhang Shigui's eyes lit up, and he said loudly: "Did Your Majesty agree to let us use it first?" ”

Suning said: "I just asked His Majesty, and I don't know if I agreed, but I was the first to propose to make artillery, and I was also the one who presided over it at the beginning, so it is reasonable, I was the first to use it on the battlefield, and His Majesty would not object, but we couldn't get too many artillery, and it was only five or six, according to our current steel production and the output of some other things, artillery could not be produced too fast."

However, that is, these five or six cannons, I am sure that the walls of Anshi City will be destroyed, but unfortunately it is a pity that our soldiers and horses are not enough, once Quangai Suwen loses Anshi City, he will definitely not be reconciled, and he will definitely fight back, at that time, our soldiers and horses may not be able to withstand Quangai Suwen's counterattack, so we have to wait, wait until His Majesty has the exact news there, and we have at least 30,000 horses here to implement the plan. ”

When Zhang Liang heard this, he said eagerly: "Su boy, just follow the fire you said...... Artillery, so powerful, the walls of Anshi City can be destroyed without losing a single soldier, then, why can't you attack Anshi City with the current strength? As long as there is that artillery, the Goguryeo people are not all local chickens and dogs, and they are easy to deal with! ”

Suning shook his head and said: "General Zhang, you don't know, this artillery has just been successfully tested, and there are still many deficiencies, and now the successful test is a solid cannonball, that is, an iron bullet, a big iron ball, using the explosion of gunpowder to generate a driving force to bombard it out of the barrel, directly bombarding the city wall, it is equivalent to smashing the city wall with a big iron ball, that is naturally very easy, the city wall is dead, so big, and it will not move, but people are different, an iron projectile shot out may not be able to kill a person." ”

Zhang Liang blinked and said depressedly: "Doesn't that mean that this artillery can only be used for siege, not for defending the city?" Can't fight in the field? That, that, what's so much use of that?! ”

Zhang Liang was very depressed, but Suning shook his head and said: "It's not like this, in addition to solid shells, artillery also has flowering bullets, solid bullets are against the city wall, flowering bullets are against the army, flowering bullets are still being tested, as long as the test is successful, the Goguryeo people are really local chickens and dogs!" Quan Gai Suwen is just a person who sells the first bid! (To be continued......)