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At the top of the city of Shaanxi County, Li Ling, who had calmed down from the shock, personally took command of the west gate of Shaanxi County.

The road from Tongguan to Luoyang is connected through the west gate of Shaanxi Province. If soldiers and horses from the direction of Tongguan want to attack Shaanxi Province, the west gate will definitely bear the brunt, so Cui Qianyou deployed heavy troops in the west gate direction.

However, the city wall of Shaanxi County is not the highest and strongest toward the west gate, but toward the east gate and south gate. Because the city wall of Shaanxi County was mainly built to defend against attacks from enemies coming from the east, that is, its main function was to defend against attacks from the Luoyang direction. In order to defend Tongguan behind it and the capital Chang'an further away from invading enemies, the east gate and south gate were the directions where the enemies coming from the east would bear the brunt of the attack, so they were built the strongest.

It can be said that the west gate is the weakest direction in the construction of the city wall in Shaanxi Province. After Cui Qianyou led his army to guard Shaanxi County, although he ordered the city wall to be heightened and reinforced, it was still not as strong as the east gate and south gate. But Cui Qianyou was not very concerned about this. Worryingly, he has 100,000 men and horses under his command, and the soldiers at Tongguan are only about 100,000. Even if Yang Xi attacks the city with all his strength, he will not be able to do anything to him.

After Cui Qianyou was summoned to Luoyang by An Lushan, Li Ling, who guarded Cui Qianyou's place, was also worried about the Tang army attacking the city, but he relied on the 100,000 defenders in Shaanxi County and was not afraid of the Tang army's attack. Even though he suddenly heard today that the Tang army had already After being shocked by the news of the attack on the city, he calmed down, ordered the entire army to be on the highest alert, and personally took command in the direction of the west gate.

There are 35,000 defenders in the west gate direction. They can be quickly mobilized from other city gates if necessary. Although the arrival of the Tang army was a bit unexpected, they have been making preparations to resist the attack of the Tang army. After the soldiers were slightly panicked, they made various preparations. It was done quite orderly. Nearly 10,000 archers were already ready on the top of the city, and the rolling stones and trees were also ready, waiting for the Tang army to rush across the moat and board the city.

Li Ling believed that the Tang army's attack could be easily repelled. After all, there were 100,000 troops in Shaanxi County, and the Tang army in Tongguan only had more than 100,000 troops at most. Moreover, they had not received systematic training. Most of them were participating in the war for the first time. Their combat effectiveness was not comparable to that of his subordinates. Compared with soldiers with rich actual combat experience.

But Li Ling soon discovered that his guess was wrong. The Tang army did not rush towards the city head like a tide. Instead, after the formation of the city, there was no movement. What happened?

Just as Li Ling was wondering, several earth-shaking explosions came from the city, and then the sound of someone shouting and neighing was heard. Li Ling, who was wondering what made such a loud noise, suddenly heard a sergeant shouting, " What is that?" When he looked up, he saw many dark things with bright lights flying towards the top of the city.

"It's the stones thrown by the Tang army's trebuchet!" Someone shouted, and Li Ling thought so too.

But Li Ling immediately knew that his judgment was wrong. After those black things flew to the top of the city, they suddenly exploded into a large group of sparks. At the same time as the huge sparks exploded, earth-shattering sounds were heard. came, and immediately there were screams and screams.

The first thing to hit the city and explode was an explosive package thrown by a trebuchet. It happened to explode when it hit the city.

The power of the explosion that occurred before it even hit the ground was the most astonishing. Moreover, the rebel sergeants were standing very densely on the top of the city. A large area of ​​the sergeants near the explosion point was knocked down. One unlucky sergeant was killed on the spot, and more than a dozen others were killed.

The injuries caused by the bombing and the screams of crying for parents and mothers were very terrifying. Many nearby soldiers who were not hit by the bombing but were frightened rushed to escape for their lives.

What kind of powerful weapon was this from the Tang Army? They had never seen it before. It was too terrifying.

But this was just the beginning, and more terrifying things happened later.

Huge explosions sounded one after another on the top of the city. However, these explosions were caused after the explosive bags fell to the ground. The power was not as great as the first explosive bag, but the lethality was scary enough. Each explosive bag could

As a result, more than ten people were killed and injured, and the city was full of people.

Continuous loud noises rang out one after another on the top of the city, and countless soldiers fell down. Even a large piece of the city wall was blown down, frightening the large group of soldiers. Many people were so scared that they dropped their weapons and ran away.

Some soldiers thought that God was punishing them, so they threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly.

.But the nightmare of the rebel soldiers was far from over. This was just the beginning. The first things thrown on the city were explosive packets or simple grenades thrown by trebuchets. After a short while, the shots were fired a little later.

Only then did the "cluster" explosive packets fired by the "heartless cannon" fall, and the real nightmare began.

With a loud "boom", a 20-kilogram explosive package fell from the sky and exploded near the city battlements. The air wave generated by the explosion immediately knocked off the city wall many soldiers holding bows and preparing to shoot.

While screaming, they fell into the moat. Several sergeants near the explosion point were blown to pieces, their broken hands and arms were flying everywhere, and even their internal organs were blown out.

The huge power of the explosion knocked over thirty soldiers to the ground, killing or injuring them. The power of the huge explosion even shattered a large area of ​​city bricks. Countless city brick fragments flew everywhere along with the explosion wave.

, many sergeants were injured by rapidly flying fragments.

Huge explosive packets flew continuously from outside the city, and most of them landed on the top of the city. Some of them flew over the top of the city and fell into the city. A very few failed to fly to the top of the city and fell into the moat and exploded, setting off a huge explosion.

Sparks struck. Huge explosive packets weighing twenty or thirty kilograms not only exploded.

The power was astonishing. The shock wave and loud noise produced during the explosion knocked many soldiers unconscious. Li Ling, who was shouting at the top of his voice, asking his soldiers not to panic, was a huge explosive package dropped nearby.

The shock wave generated by the explosion stunned him.

The top of the city felt a bit like hell on earth. At least the rebels guarding the city had never encountered such a situation. Before the opponent's figure appeared under the city wall, they suffered such a huge blow. There were explosions everywhere, and there were explosions everywhere.

The panicked sergeants were running away at that time, and no one could stop them. Many sergeants were so panicked that they fell off the city wall while escaping. They were seriously injured even if they didn't die.

At this time, almost everyone only regretted that their parents had given them two fewer legs and that they could not escape as quickly as possible.

Not only did the number of explosive packets falling from the sky not decrease, but there were more and more. The explosions were heard one after another. Black smoke was everywhere on the city, and there were explosions of fire everywhere. The surprised and frightened rebel sergeants no longer had the intention to resist.

Turn around and run away down the city.

Nearly a hundred explosive packets fell, which not only caused heavy casualties to the rebels on the city top, but also destroyed the rebels' will to resist. The original scene of holding a bow facing the outside of the city can no longer be seen in the sections created by the explosion.

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