The Zhang family Sanlang family was a craftsman in Yingzhou and made a living by tanning leather goods for generations.

Since the great-grandfather settled in Liucheng with the imperial army, the Zhang family's sling belt and arrow bag have become the most popular leather goods in Liucheng, comparable to the Ai Shi or Donkey Cards in later generations.

However, Zhang Sanlang didn't like this job. When making nitro leather goods tasted very much, they were not good for skin and eyes. Zhang Sanlang's grandfather was blind when he was a child, and his father's eyes were no longer good now.

This made Zhang Sanlang very scared and refused to learn craftsmanship with his father like his two brothers.

Because Zhang Sanlang's dream is to be a hunter, and the most important thing is to have good eyes. First, the hunter who is carrying the prey on his back is really handsome, and second, he has meat to eat as a hunter.

Although Zhang Sanlang's father was helpless that his youngest son was disobedient, fortunately, his skills were very strong at home and he did not lack the stuttering of a idler, so he simply let his favorite young son do nothing all day long

He swayed, and learned some unknown kung fu with some neighbors' gossips, and listened to the old headhunters who had drunk too much wine and bragged about the rumors in the wine shops that were unregulated.

If life has been moving around peacefully in this way, maybe in another two years, the father of the Zhang family will give Zhang Sanlang a few good photos to exchange for a wife and buy him a small spot next to the house at the foot of the East City Wall.

Children's house.

Then Zhang Sanlang honestly took over his father's mantle and continued to be a little cobbler, gave birth to a few babies, lost his eyes, and then died on a mud kang.

Then the Khitans rebelled.

The Khitans rushed into the not-so-slightly narrow yard of the Zhang family. The blind grandfather and grandmother who were trying to save him died just like that.

My father and his two brothers delivered goods in the governor's mansion, but were also killed by the Khitans.

In a blink of an eye, the most famous Zhang family cobbler in Liucheng broke the inheritance.

When the rebellion broke out, Zhang Sanlang was originally in a wine shop in the city and heard a few Xi people and the old headhunters of the Marine tribe chatting about the mountains. He ran home while the troubled one found that there were only his disheveled mother and who were hiding in the cellar.

The sister inside.

Later, more than a dozen people were stuffed into the house. They were all villagers gathered in the surrounding villages and towns, but most of them were women, children, young and old, and there were very few adults left.

Every day, the Khitans would drive away the people who could still move to do some heavy tasks like driving animals, in exchange for a meal of rice bran that could barely fill their stomachs.

It's just that because there are two young sisters in the cellar, Zhang Sanlang often doesn't have enough food. Especially recently, the Khitans seem to have encountered some enemy. They are afraid that there will be spies in the city, so they are strictly prohibited from leaving the house. If there is no work, there will be no one.

Eat for meals.

Zhang Sanlang hadn't eaten for three days. Before dawn today, Khitans shouted to recruit people on horseback and flew back and forth in the market, saying that they were going to transport supplies to the army, and that they would need to move as long as they could move.

There is food to eat.

The hungry Zhang Sanlang had no time to think about whether the enemy the Khitans encountered would be coming to rescue his imperial army. His only idea was to help others work so that they could change their mouths and eat.

But just after moving the firewood and charcoal twice, the Khitans drove him, a child who was not yet adult. It was not the Khitans who discovered their conscience, but the sound of fighting on the western city walls had gradually calmed down, and they had gained it.

The adults who came to the news said that it seemed that the Khitans were preparing to surrender.

In his arms, the two small steamed buns he had transported from the firewood and charcoal for exchange. When Zhang Sanlang was driven back to his home in the east of the city, he looked up and saw a trace of it on the top of the mountain in the east of the city.

The sun at the top was still shining with a little dazzling light, blooming with a series of beautiful fireworks.

Although Zhang Sanlang didn't know what it was, then a series of loud noises like muffled thunder came from outside the city wall several feet high.

Zhang Sanlang looked at the blue sky without clouds. When he was curious about why the sky was thunderous, the indestructible and towering city wall slowly collapsed outside the city with a strong shock like a dragon turning over.

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A crack that was wider than the widest street in the city appeared out of thin air on the original city wall.

The arrow tower at the two corners of the city wall disappeared along with this section of the city wall.

Outside the crescent cracks of the city wall, three large black ships were waving countless oars with their teeth and claws, spewing a series of flames onto the city wall, slowly leaning towards the shore.

"Prince, I've hit it!"

Jianzhen did not disappoint Li Chongrun's expectations. In the first round of artillery attacks, a large area of ​​smoke rose from the government office a few miles away. When Li Chongrun looked over carefully, he found that the figures that were originally gathered there seemed to be just now.

The smoke and dust splashed were all blown by the wind.

"What a accurate head! Whoever fires the cannon must add a chicken leg to him at night!" Li Chongrun shouted, adding chicken leg is a common word for Li Chongrun, which actually means rewards.

Everyone is used to adding chicken legs and not eating chicken legs, but the silver balls given by the prince are much more fragrant than real chicken legs, so they all accept this inexplicable reward method.

Looking down at Liucheng, which had become a battlefield, Li Chongrun commanded the artillery that had just been fired by the school and began to name the Khitan cavalry who were intended to come to the East City Wall to support him.

Three black ships have already reached the shore.

Teams of cavalry in black-clad clothes jumped down from the ship, waded through the knee-deep river water, and rushed towards the crack without any pause.

"Hurry, there are crowds of people in Beiliu, and fight there!"

Li Chongrun's order was very simple and straightforward. Taking the avenue facing him in the city as the boundary, the slightly long Liucheng was planned to be two areas north and south by Li Chongrun. In the north, except for the government office, the barracks and a somewhat magnificent Buddhist temple.

The eight markets outside have been numbered, and the sixteen markets in the south have also been numbered. Li Chongrun was like playing a gopher game. He saw people and horses gathering in his back with the sun. He was just a shot without saying a word.

past.

There were already many Khitans and Martyrs gathered on the city wall in the east, but they were scared by the sudden collapse of the city wall and two corner towers just now. Many people had slipped down from the soldiers inside the city wall.

The artillery on the black ship lit the name twice, and after several huge gaps were blasted out on the city wall, there was no chance of exerting its power again.

Without any interference, the factory guards, who were carrying the shields that were dug holes in their hands, and also arrived on the shore with the opposite camps.

Li Chongrun's flagship turned around and returned to the other shore, leaving two tower ships with a roar from time to time, preventing the enemies on both sides from rushing towards the city wall that was already grinning in the east.

However, the expected fierce resistance and overwhelming rain of arrows did not appear. The black cavalry controlled the army and attacked the wide avenue in the middle of Liucheng without any effort.

Not far away, the forts on Phoenix Mountain were still making some roaring sounds, but the black cavalry that was galloping past did not encounter any stubborn resistance, as if all the enemies in the city were attracted by the Turks.

However, after seeing several huge holes cracked on the ground, many blood stains were spread around, as well as horses and Khitan corpses that had not been able to withdraw, the Black Cavalry realized that it was the continuous sound of cannons on Phoenix Mountain to him.

The smooth journey is being carried out.

When the leading team of black cavalry charged to the Great Buddha Temple in front of the government office, they encountered the most tenacious resistance since entering the city. When a heavy rain of arrows poured over, a team of Goguryeo infighters in heavy armor came from the main entrance of the Buddhist temple.

Covered and killed it out.

The black rider who took the lead got several arrows. Although he was protected by heavy armor, he still fell from the horse miserably. When he saw the enemy who was panicked like a god descending to earth, he was finally knocked down from the altar. His originally sluggish morale suddenly burst out.

He got up and shouted some slogans that he couldn't understand and charged at the Black Cavalry.

Then he was named by the cannons on the fort, and a few shrill sounds ran down from the top of the mountain and plunged into the crowd at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye.

The cannonball carved with coal and jade hit the ground paved with bluestone and instantly shattered into countless pieces, like countless steel needles, instantly piercing the infantry around him.

The originally thick leather armor did not play a slight role in the sputtering like pear blossoms, but only a few shells. The little morale that had been barely aroused by it fell back to the bottom in an instant.

Yang Sanlang from the east of the city fled home when the city wall collapsed. He took advantage of the hustle and rushed to his mother with the two steamed buns he held tightly in his hand, and helped her hide it in the cellar under the kang hole. He felt a little

I nervously looked into the yard with the window, trying to see where the immortals came, but it easily collapsed such a high city wall.

Several strange figures were exposed from the gate of the courtyard. The first one was a white wooden shield with no insignia on it. Only a hole was dug on the right side, and a weird short gun poked with a long spearhead was slapped by a

The soldier dressed in gray cloth shorted and stretched out from the hole.

Several Khitans and Martyrs who came to hide in the yard with him were secretly hiding out weapons at this time. When they saw enemies with different clothes and dressed in rushing in, they shouted in unison and slaughtered at everyone.

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An explosion that was slightly smaller than the sound just now roared from the spearhead. The saber in the front of the man, who was tall and big, only just lifted up, a big hole exploded in his chest, silently

The ground fell to the ground.

The other man, who had just opened the bow and arrow in his hand, was also blasted a big hole in his chest by another gray-clothed soldier holding a strange weapon, and the bow and arrow in his hand tilted and shot.

He entered the lap of another man who had not had time to draw the bow.

Seeing that the Khitan was retreating to his door, Zhang Sanlang didn't know where he got the courage to take off the long cutter left by his father from the wall, and when the Khitan was not paying attention, he went through the door.

Then he stabbed hard at the neck that was not covered by the Khitan leather armor.

The sound of the same time as the Khitans screamed and fell down, there was also a wary question: "Who?"
Chapter completed!