"Boom~"

An earth-shattering sound came from the inner city tower, shaking all directions!

Two of the rebels who were closest to the explosion point were blown away and fell from the city. Several others were shattered by broken pieces of iron, and the rubble filled with iron cans was blown to a bloody pulp. They were killed on the spot!

There was a cry of wailing from the top of the city. Li Shouzhen and his son were pinned down by several close guards, and the people around them were more or less hit by shrapnel.

Click, click, the beams and columns on the east side of the tower were blown apart, and the eaves tilted to one side, threatening to collapse at any time.

The horses under the city were frightened, yelled "Xilulu" and backed away, almost running away uncontrollably!

The war horses beside Guo Wei and Chai Rong raised their hooves and neighed, and the soldiers in front of the tent tightened their reins.

Zhu Xiu clearly saw that Guo Weiwei's body trembled, and he unconsciously took a step back, looking at the city head with a bewildered face.

Chai Rong held the handle of the knife tightly, his face flushed with excitement, and he was a little embarrassed when he spoke: "Seriously... earth-shattering... the power of the Black Fire Thunder is not worth it compared to it...

carry!"

Wei Renpu trembled in fright and pulled off a handful of his beard. He subconsciously covered his head and face with his hands, regardless of his heartache.

It wasn't until the commotion subsided and Zhu Xiu's snickering could be heard beside him that Wei Renpu fearfully let go of his hand little by little and looked around with lingering fear. His eyes were still a little dazed and he didn't come back to his senses.

Li Chongjin was the most exaggerated. He was so frightened that he rolled off the saddle, threw away his iron gun and lay down under the horse's belly, holding his head tightly with both hands.

As the chief blaster of the blasting team, Zhao Kuangyin, although it was not the first time he had seen the power of thunder, the sound like thunder falling from the sky still frightened him.

Zhao Kuangyin gritted his teeth and shouted: "How can such a terrifying firearm as Zhentian Lei be used by you like a toy?"

Zhu Xiu said with a smile: "Today we broke the city, I want to make some noise to celebrate! Brother Zhao, don't feel bad, just treat it like setting off a big firecracker! It didn't kill Li Shouzhen and his son, so it's good to scare them! Who can do that?

That guy dares to speak nonsense in front of Guo Shuai!"

Shi Xiangwen clapped his hands excitedly: "Zhu Xiu, I want to enlarge the firecrackers!"

Guo Wei, Chai Rong, and others all changed their expressions. Zhu Xiu hurriedly comforted him: "There is only one left. Let's find an opportunity to let him go. We can't waste it!"

"Oh~" Shi Xiangwen shook his big head in boredom.

Zhao Kuangyin sighed. Thunderbolt was difficult to create, but in his opinion, it was an extremely valuable weapon that must be used at critical moments to turn the tide of the war.

How could he be like Zhu Xiu and just throw it out like a firecracker?

Apart from killing a few rebels, blowing up the city tower, and scaring Li Shouzhen and his son into running away, it had no real effect at all.

It’s simply a waste of natural resources!

Zhu Xiu knelt down, patted Li Chongjin and said with a smile: "Get up, aren't you afraid that the horse will piss on your face later?"

Li Chongjin blushed, hurriedly got up, swallowed his saliva and came closer: "That thing is Zhentian Lei? Did you make it?"

Zhu Xiu clapped his hands and said proudly: "This is the only one in the world, there is no other semicolon!"

"Good boy~" Li Chongjin's eyes were as big as copper bells, "If there are tens of thousands of them, wouldn't it be over if they were thrown into the enemy's position during a battle? Do we still need to fight this battle?"

Zhu Xiu curled his lips and said: "Do you think making Thunder Thunder is just like Shi Dalang rolling a clay ball, rolling it into a ball and flattening it? I have been busy for several months and only made a few..."

Shi Xiangwen, who was squatting aside and writing and drawing on the ground with a branch, cast a resentful look at Zhu Xiu. Zhu Xiu quickly responded with a kind smile to comfort him.

Li Chongjin breathed a sigh of relief, stroking his chest and murmuring: "That's okay, this thing is too scary. If you throw it away, you won't know how to die! If you want to get it out in the future, don't forget to leave a few for me..."

"Let's talk about it again!" Zhu Xiu was a little embarrassed.

On the city tower, Li Shouzhen and his son fled in panic, surrounded by generals, and hurried down to the city.

The rebel archers formed their positions and fired arrows towards the city.

"Send the order to the entire army to seal off the inner city. There is no need to rush to attack the city. We will clear Luocheng first!"

Guo Wei mounted his horse, led his soldiers out of the rebel bow and arrow range in the inner city, and took full control of Luocheng first.

Li Chongjin picked up Wang Jixun's head and chased after him, shouting: "Commander, I will be credited with killing the rebel general Wang Jixun!"

Guo Wei laughed and said: "Zhao Kuangyin shot him off his horse with an arrow, and then you could catch up and kill him. This credit should be divided equally between you two."

Li Chongjin became anxious: "I fought with Wang Jixun for hundreds of rounds, but he couldn't defeat me, so he ran away! Even if Zhao Da'er doesn't fire his arrow, I can catch up and kill him!"

Zhao Kuangyin clasped his fists and said: "I only shot Wang Jixun's horse, but did not hurt him. I should not receive the credit!"

Guo Wei glanced at him and smiled. How could he not know that Zhao Kuangyin could kill Wang Jixun with one arrow, but he only shot horses and not people, but he did not want to compete with Li Chongjin for credit and cause trouble.

This person takes the overall situation into consideration, understands the general situation, and has a well-founded approach to advance and retreat. He is indeed a talent.

Guo Wei nodded, said nothing more, and ran forward on his horse. Wei Renpu glanced at Zhao Kuangyin with admiration and followed closely.

Li Chongjin was furious, glared at Zhao Kuangyin, gritted his teeth and said: "Zhao Da'er, do you need to meddle in other people's business?"

Zhao Kuangyin smiled lightly and did not argue with him.

Chai Rong reprimanded: "Shut up! The commander-in-chief has his own judgment in his heart. It's yours and he will never withhold it."

"Hehe~" Li Chongjin said with a smile: "The war is almost over, I am still thinking about earning more credit so that I can ask my uncle for a serious official position when I go back. Cousin, you will have to help me Duoduomei by then.

Yancai."

"You~" Chai Rong couldn't laugh or cry, shook his head, whipped his horse whip, and chased Guo Wei, followed closely by Zhao Kuangyin.

"Brother, look at this Zhao Da'er, he is so cunning. Ever since he came to Dazhai, Hexi, he has been following Guo Shuai and Chai Shuai closely, circling around them like a follower!"

Li Chongjin started to complain to Zhu Xiu again, with disdain on his face.

Zhu Xiu smiled and said: "If you don't surround yourself with these two handsome men, how about you, the Black King?"

Li Chongjin groaned: "I'm not happy yet! If they surround me, kick them away!"

"Let's go, you Black King is not a peerless beauty, ghosts are happy to surround you!" Zhu Xiu patted the gray donkey's butt and ran forward in a leisurely manner.

Li Chongjin followed behind and kept mumbling: "Zhao Da'er has deep thoughts, be careful not to be deceived by him in the future..."

~~~

Guo Wei ordered the Luocheng rebels not to kill those who surrendered, and asked Li Chongjin to display Wang Jixun's head everywhere. The morale of the rebels quickly collapsed. More than ten thousand rebels were leaderless and chose to surrender.

Chai Rong took full charge of Luocheng, comforted the stranded people, treated the wounded soldiers, and cleaned up the warehouses burned by the fire. Luocheng quickly settled down.

The surrendered soldiers were taken down by Bai Wenke, Li Qian and other generals, their numbers were counted and their military status was re-affirmed. If nothing else happened, they would still belong to the Hezhong Army.

Guo Wei moved the Chinese army's tent into Luocheng, summoned the generals of each camp to discuss military affairs, and then asked the officials to write a report of the victory and send it to Kaifeng.

At the serious military meeting in front of the tent, Zhu Xiu, Li Chongjin, and Zhao Kuangyin were not qualified to participate, so they sat around the campfire and chatted.

It was not until evening, when the sky was getting dark and the generals dispersed, that Zhu Xiu and the other three were called into the tent.

Guo Wei was chewing a piece of pancake, studying the Luocheng defense map at his desk, and discussing something with Chai Rong.

Zhu Xiu and the others had just entered the tent. After saluting, Guo Wei waved and said, "You all should come and see how to attack this inner city?"

Zhu Xiu glanced at the city defense map for a few times and said with a smile: "I have carefully observed the city walls today. The inner city walls are not as tall and strong as Luocheng. They can be captured even by force."

Chai Rong said: "What Guo Shuai wants is to think of a way to reduce casualties as much as possible."

Guo Wei finished eating a piece of cake, drank a few mouthfuls of cold water, wiped his mouth and said: "I have preliminary discussions with the generals to pretend to attack the east and west sides of the inner city, then send an army to attack the city behind, and finally focus on the attack. The place was placed at today’s south gate!”

Zhu Xiu thought for a while and said with a smile: "First distract the enemy's attention and make them a frightened bird. They can't tell where our army is mainly attacking, and then surprise and attack the south gate. This strategy is feasible!"

Guo Wei coughed a few times and winked at Wei Renpu cryptically. Wei Renpu smiled and said: "Guo Shuai wants to select a group of brave men to climb into the city at dawn with the help of hooks and flying claws, seize the south gate, and repeat his old tricks to welcome the army into the city. .”

Zhu Xiu agreed: "With the height of the inner city wall, anyone with strong skills can definitely climb it. I think it is feasible."

Chai Rong walked up to Zhu Xiu and said with a smile: "It's like this. I heard that the five hundred athletes from the Weihu Camp accompanying you this time are all the bravest warriors in the army, so why not entrust your Weihu Camp to take on this important task?" ..."

Zhu Xiu was startled, looked at Chai Rong, then looked at Wei Renpu, and suddenly understood.

It turns out that these guys focused their attention on the tiger camp, so no wonder they were hesitant to speak.

Zhu Xiu looked towards Zhao Kuangyin, and this guy actually looked up at the top of the big tent, with an attitude of "Don't look at me, I don't know anything."

No need to guess, it must have been Zhao Kuangyin who revealed the news about Weihu Camp to Chai Rong.

Guo Wei waved his hand and said with a tigerish face: "That's all, if it's difficult, forget it! I will re-select the manpower..."

Now that the talk has come to this point, how dare Zhu Xiu refuse, and he holds his hands and says: "The Leihu Camp is willing to carry out this mission!"

The assignment of tasks was false. Guo Wei and Chai Rong clearly wanted to test the authenticity of the Leihu Camp.

In this case, we might as well show it openly and let them see the special training method unique to the Chang Rebel Army.

Although it is just a comprehensive special training method that combines military physical training and special subject training, it benefits from the advanced guiding ideology of later generations and conducts targeted training on physical fitness, intelligence, skills, etc., so that the quality of sergeants can be improved in all aspects.

After more than half a year of training, Zhu Xiu was very confident in the individual quality of the soldiers in the Beihu Camp, and they would definitely not be inferior to Wangyundu under Guo Wei.

"Du" is a military establishment unit, with different numbers of people depending on the function.

Starting from Zhu Wen, Taizu of Liang Dynasty, princes of all dynasties like to select elite soldiers to form a powerful pro-army team.

When Zhu Wen served as the governor of Xuanwu, he built the "Luoyan Capital" and the cavalry "Taibai Capital". After he became emperor, he established the "Tingzi Capital" for the imperial army.

The predecessor of the Tianxiong Army was Weibo Town, which had been dominant in Hebei Province for more than 140 years. The last leading figure, Yang Shihou, established the "Silver Spear Effect Jiedu".

Yang Xingmi, Taizu of the Southern Wu Dynasty, built the "Heiyun Capital" and fought rampantly in Huainan.

Li Keyong's "Ya'er Army" commanded Li Siyuan, Emperor Mingzong of the Tang Dynasty, to "rush across the capital".

Since Guo Wei led the army alone, he has yearned for the famous and powerful armies of the previous generations and planned to build a "Wangyundu" in imitation of them.
To be continued...