Outside Hangu Pass, the command flags in the hand of the command soldiers waved again, and the shrill roar of the school next to the catapult cart array sounded again: "Let it go! Let it go..."
Hundreds of baggage soldiers struggled to pull the cables in their hands and dropped the nearest end of the throwing cart. Please use... Visit this site. In a flash, hundreds of gray-black barrel-shaped objects were thrown high.
He rose up, with a shrill roar, and rolled towards the majestic city wall of Hangu Pass.
This time, the object thrown by the catapult car made the Han army in the pass feel strange, because their size is small, not only did the previous huge rocks bring, but the effect brought by the previous Zhao army's catapult car is far less than that.
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"What is this? It seems to be made of iron. Is Zhao Jun so extravagant that he used to wrap objects in iron to make throwing objects in catapults?" Many evasive generals looked at the drum-shaped objects rolling not far away.
Said strangely.
"Even so, his power is too small. He couldn't even smash the fragments of the female wall as big as a fist when he hit him. Couldn't Zhao Jun be so stupid and use iron as a throwing object to a catapult?"
A primary school pulled over a person beside him and laughed at the round barrel, looked at it, and said in surprise: "Not many, why are there smoke coming from it? Well... there is a strange smell?"
"What's the smoke and the strange smell, don't forget, the walls are full of blood, and some spilled tincture oil, smoke and strange smell, it's so normal. You, please hide well
, lest the next huge rock of Zhao army be hit by the Zhao army." Another small school spitted and muffled.
"If Zhao's army's catapult cart kept throwing things like she, we wouldn't have been suppressed so miserably. Alas... I don't know when reinforcements will come. Damn it, I can't defend this Hangu Pass if I can't stay there.
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"Boom..."
As soon as the school finished speaking, he felt his eyes lit up, and the loud noise in his ears, and then he didn't know anything.
That's right, the ones thrown by Zhao's army are nothing more than the thunder. The thunders were thrown by Zhao's army with a catapult cart and hundreds of thunders in the city sounded almost at the same time. Above the city, bursts of explosions
Jialian remembered that the huge impact force directly formed a blank space on the city. Everything around it was overturned when there were thunder. The current thunder and the original thunder were even more powerful.
, wrapped in iron sheet, inside is improved gunpowder.
If the simple thunder of the sky is not as powerful as this, the more powerful one is the iron beads that thunder of the sky is, and the huge energy of the flames ignites, dozens or hundreds of them are inside it.
A small bead bullet came out and spread out toward a distance of twenty or thirty feet around.
Under the rapid rapid stimulation of this iron bead, even the Han soldiers were wearing armor and were difficult to resist. Moreover, once they entered the human body, they could not be cured with the current conditions of the Han army.
After the explosion, it was like raining. Except for the continuous scattering of various broken and fragmented things near the thunder, the other soldiers hiding behind the female wall were unable to withstand the iron beads coming from all directions.
At this moment, Zhang Ling, the commander in the middle of the gatehouse and behind the central army guard, was also buzzing his ears, and a buzzing sound in his head. However, at this moment, he was already shocked by the situation in front of him. On the city wall
Most of the soldiers who were hiding behind the female wall and could have escaped from the Zhao army's catapults were now lying on the ground, and Yin Hong's blood was flowing out from the bodies of these soldiers.
"Damn it! The thunder of the sky, this is the thunder of the Zhao army!" After a while, Zhang Ling immediately reacted. Because the Zhao army had never used it in these sieges, and he almost forgot about the Zhao army's this.
But at this moment, he finally understood why the Turks and Western Regions both feared the Zhao army's weapons very much.
A burst of black smoke enveloped the city, making Zhang Ling's heart feel cold. There were more than 4,000 soldiers on the city wall, and the rest were 3,000 of the young and strong men drawn from the inner and even Tongguan. At this moment,
The intact ones are afraid that less than half of them will survive because many soldiers are hiding from the Zhao army's catapults outside the city, otherwise, they will be afraid that the casualties will be even greater.
After a while, the buzzing sound in Zhang Ling's ears gradually eased, but he still felt the buzzing sound in his ears, which made him feel extremely uncomfortable. However, at this moment, he no longer cared about these things, because he looked at them.
The Zhao soldiers who arrived outside the city were carrying a ladder and heading straight for the wall.
"Come here, immediately let the soldiers who are resting in the pass go to the city to defend. In addition, tell them to be careful of Zhao's catapult cart." Zhang Ling roared shrillly. He roared several times before the messenger who was still stunned by the side came to wake up.
, hurried to send orders. However, he understood from the trembling figure of the messenger that he was afraid that the remaining soldiers on the city wall would have lost their fighting spirit and morale at this moment.
…………The Zhao army of Lingfu began to advance between Nanyang Prefecture and Xiangyang Prefecture, which immediately forced the King of Hanzhong who was preparing to go north to stop. Lingfu is a prefecture in Jingbei under Jingzhou, but it was already
In the Xiling Prefecture, the Tang army had no choice but to retreat, and finally surrendered to Zhao, making the right side of the Ling Prefecture Yuzhou, and in Yuzhou, the two towns were stationed in the two towns. At this moment, the Zhao army in the entire Chunling Prefecture moved, causing the coalition side of the Nanyang Prefecture to be in the coalition.
Later, he was threatened, and even the Nanyang Prefecture would cut off contact with Jingzhou at any time, allowing the 50,000 coalition forces to go deeper. Therefore, the King of Hanzhong, who had just been ready to attack, had to stop his idea of going north and instead stick to the right wing first.
"Damn it! Damn it! Murong Cheng, if your troops go north faster, why is this king here?" Seeing that he could not advance or retreat, King Situ Fei of Hanzhong had to complain angrily. Yuzhou is located north of Yangzhou, if the Qi army could restrain him, the Qi army could restrain him.
How could the Zhao army living in Yuzhou, the Zhao army in Chunling Mansion easily threaten its flanks?
In fact, whether it is the King of Hanzhong or other princes, they all have a lot of attention to the situation in Zhao. Although many places in Zhao State have changed officials, even the center is the same. However, this has not affected the foundation of Zhao State.
In other words, it did not affect Zhao Xun's rule over the local area.
These officials were dismissed, replaced, or even executed, and did not cause chaos in the local area. After all, for the people, the court did this for their own good. The local government soldiers and county soldiers were the other way to maintain local stability.
One reason. Because the government soldiers and county soldiers are all military generals, according to Zhao Xun's regulations, they do not belong to the civil service system, nor do they belong to the war soldiers. They are not allowed to interfere in local government affairs, and they are not allowed to have any involvement with war soldiers such as the town soldiers.
At the same time, they are also under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War and the Privy Council, and are assigned by the emperor.
In addition, the two Western Regions prefectures, Dong Yongzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou and other newly introduced prefectures have been strictly regulated because of the strict supervision of the three secret guards to which the predecessors of the Flying Eagle Guard and the Jinyiwei.
Even though most of the officials were taken down, Zhao did not cause chaos in the country.
Of course, so many officials have been replaced, which has a great impact on Zhao State. At least, Zhao State has to invest its strength in the replacement of internal officials in the past few months and rectify it. Even the five major secret guard systems are also
It needs to be reorganized and expanded. At the same time, Zhao State also needs to investigate the cases involved in these officials, and the cumbersomeness of it is naturally difficult to explain.
To fight against foreign countries, one must first settle the internal situation. In a certain situation, it still makes sense. After all, internal instability, how can one defend against external enemies? It is said that powerful fortresses are often captured from the inside! A powerful empire,
It also began to collapse from the inside. However, this does not mean that Zhao is now unable to deal with the war with the southern princes.
Because the flanks were threatened, the forced King of Hanzhong had to stop the northward action. While arranging troops to strengthen the defense of the flanks, he hurriedly urged King Qi and King Shu to accelerate support. In addition, he also asked the Shu army to make a north in Yangzhou
The actions made were to restrain the Zhao army in Yuzhou.
Whether it is King Murong Cheng of Qi or King Situ Che of Shu, they all hope that the Jingzhou coalition forces can consume each other with the Zhao army, but they definitely do not want Xiyongzhou and Jingbei to fall into the hands of the Zhao army. Therefore, after learning about the Zhao army in Chunling Prefecture of Jingbei
After the Zhao army in Yuzhou began to take action, the two of them dared not delay any more and urgently ordered the army under their command to support the north to accelerate their march.
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Xiangyang City, after the Luoyang King retreated Jingnan's troops, most of them were concentrated in Xiangyang Prefecture, Bei'an Prefecture and Jingling Prefecture. However, as the center of Jingzhou, Xiangyang was the civil and military officials under Situ Hao evacuated from the south,
They are all concentrated in Xiangyang City.
Of course, Situ Hao did not simply ask his officials to evacuate the school from Jingnan, but was also conducting an investigation of these officials and schools. Don’t forget that the officials and schools bought by the Shu army in Jingnan were mainly their own.
Although Situ Hao knew that this was a rumor spread by the Zhao army, he also knew that many of the Jingnan officials and generals really had a great relationship with the Shu army, and his secret guards and participation in the Jingnan alliance
There are some problems found in the kingly way.
Therefore, after King Situ Hao of Luoyang threw Jingbei all the matters to King Hanzhong this time, he began to rectify and clean up the generals and school officials in the Xiangyang Prefecture and other prefectures. For a moment, among the Luo army,
Officials won over by various princes were replaced by Situ Hao. Even the Zhao army was preparing to continue to bribe and win over Luo Army officials and generals, and thus they were blocked.
"Your Majesty, this time the King ignored the war between Jingbei and Hangu Pass and turned back to Xiangyang Prefecture, not knowing..."
Seeing that the Zuo Chengwang Dao, who participated in the Jingnan Alliance and later was responsible for the evacuation of the officials in Jingnan, Situ Hao understood that he was wondering whether his move was related to Zhao State.
"In this battle, the Jingzhou coalition and the princely coalition basically have no chance of winning, or the Zhao State's purpose is Xiyongzhou instead of Jingbei. Therefore, the Jingbei War will not happen, and Xiyongzhou will be difficult to preserve. Since this matter is the case,
Regarding the land of King Hanzhong in Xiyongzhou, what is the point of my king joining in? The alliance of princes is uneven, how can we deal with the step-by-step advancement of Zhao? Well, let’s sort out our internal problems first.
First of all, it’s not our turn to consider the others.” Situ Hao said slowly.
Although Situ Hao said this, Wang Dao still feels that his king is a little different from before. If it were before, he would never pay too much attention to civil and military officials and internal affairs issues under his command, but now...but as a minister,
Of course, he would not guess too much about the thoughts in his king's mind, although he still suspected that this had something to do with Zhao State.
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At the top of Hangu Pass, the Han general Zhang Ling was covered in blood and stood with a sword.
I don't know whether it was the black smoke burning from the turbulent oil on the city wall or the black smoke from Zhao Jun's thunder that made him dark. On Zhang Ling's face, there were still blood marks, even the earlobe of his right ear seemed to be
Something cut off one piece, making the right ear smaller than the left ear.
There are potholes everywhere on the city wall, and there are still only one in ten women's walls. On the ruins on both sides of the wall, there are small round holes everywhere.
At this moment, Zhang Ling's heart was cold, and the strength of the Zhao army outside the city had already scared him. The Zhao army's rigorous military formation, without the momentum of military orders, would rather die than retreat, and the perfect cooperation of all kinds of troops,
It made Zhang Ling feel powerless.
If only these were the only ones, Zhang Ling would not be afraid. He could use the Hangu Pass natural danger as a means of dealing with it. He was confident that more than 10,000 soldiers under his command would not be afraid of it. However, Zhao's sharp weapon was powerful
The logistics and baggage team gave Zhang Ling a blow, allowing him to see the other side of the Zhao army's strength, that is, the advantage of weapons.
Hundreds of catapults have suppressed the threat of the natural danger of Hangu Pass to the Zhao army. In addition, hundreds of crossbows have prevented the defenders at Hangu Pass from looking up, and they are suppressed and beaten by the Zhao army, so they are guarded.
The soldiers in the city could not rely on the advantages of Hangu Pass. It would be fine if these were the only ones, but the thunder used by the Zhao army was a fatal blow to the Hangu Pass defenders.
Although the Zhao army only used it twice, it caused more than 5,000 casualties to the defenders, of which more than 3,000 casualties were only 3,000 casualties. However, the impact on the defenders was indeed unparalleled.
This weapon made it impossible for the soldiers guarding the city to avoid them at all. Those who were hit would die and those who were injured could not be cured. As a result, the morale of the Han army guarding the city plummeted and was almost captured by the Zhao army.
If it weren't for the fact that there were new reinforcements in Tongguan, if the Zhao army had not used it many times, I'm afraid that Hangu Pass would have been lost at this moment. The Zhao army captured seven ri, and the soldiers guarding the city lost seven ri.
More than a thousand, and the young and strong men who helped defend the city also lost more than two thousand people. Among them, more than half were casualties caused by the Zhao army's use of the thunder and the Zhao army's thunder and the Zhao army's thunder came out.
For a long time, the soldiers on the city wall were in a dizzy situation, and were then killed by Zhao's crossbowman.
Although there were many support from Tongguan and temporary support from Chang'an, the defenders at Hangu Pass now have only more than 6,000 or 7,000 people, and a little more than 5,000 young and strong. However, Zhang Ling felt that he was
I'm no longer able to defend it.
“Woo woo woo woo…”
The Zhao army's siege suddenly ended, and the desolate horn of withdrawal sounded. The Zhao army soldiers crowded under the wall retreated in an orderly manner. In just a moment, they retreated cleanly from the gate.
"Huh... Zhao army retreated!" Many soldiers of the defenders all breathed a sigh of relief. But Zhang Ling had no intention of relaxing at all. He knew that the Zhao army did not do their best to attack the city, and his soldiers did not give it to him either.
The Zhao army brought too many casualties.
"General, the Zhao army is attacking the morale of our soldiers. At the same time, it is also consuming our soldiers and supplies. The powerful bow and crossbow of Zhao army is too lethal for us, but we have not resisted it.
Measures: The arrows and crossbows in the pass have long been used up. In addition, our crossbows were all damaged under the fierce attack of the Zhao army's catapult cart." The deputy general said to Zhang Ling with a serious face.
The arm was also interred by Zhao Jun's crossbow arrows, and now it was Yin Hong, but he no longer cared about these things.
What the deputy general said, how could Zhang Ling not be clear? But what could he do? Even if he promised to get promoted and make money without any improvement, he could not improve morale or turn the world around.
"Huh..." Zhang Ling looked up to the sky and let out a long breath of bloody air, looking at the western sky from afar, looking at the sky that finally gradually became dim, a feeling of relief suddenly appeared in his heart. This was
Things never happened before.
"Send someone to urgently ask Chang'an. The Zhao army's offensive is far beyond our expectations. Judging from the current situation, Hangu Pass cannot be defended. Let Lord Lin prepare early!" Zhang Ling was silent for a little while and said indifferently to the side of him.
The deputy general said.
Zhang Ling no longer has hope for Hangu Pass. Now, he can only inform Chang'an of the situation and make Chang'an ready for defense.
Deputy General Su Zilin said in a deep voice: "The cavalry will be arranged to inform you at the end, but is there no hope here? Chang'an did not say that reinforcements and food and supplies for support will arrive in the near future. In addition, the king is also in the land of Jingbei.
Start the action and attack the Henan Prefecture of Zhao's army to pull the Zhao army back."
Zhang Ling pointed to the city wall, pointed to the expression on the city wall that he had survived the disaster, and said in a muffled voice: "You are right. Whether it is Chang'an or Jingbei, you will still take support actions. However, here we
The support was no longer supported. The Zhao army attacked here only half of the troops in Dong Yongzhou. Therefore, the reinforcements from Jingbei could not effectively restrain the Zhao army here."
Su Zilin said in a deep voice: "The king shouldn't have arranged most of his troops in the north and northwest of Chang'an. Now, the attacks we have received are the most fierce, while the north and west are very small."
"Okay, don't complain. The north and northwest have received few attacks, which is not because there are many garrisons there. In addition, it is also close to Hanzhong. What is really beyond everyone's expectations is that the Zhao army will attack at this time.
The situation inside the Zhao army is not as heavy as we imagined. Well, arrange manpower to deal with the city wall, hoard materials, and prepare to fight the Zhao army at any time."
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