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    In the capital city, there is a thick fog and bleak atmosphere. The once prosperous capital city has long lost its calmness and confidence that was unparalleled in the world. Instead, it is shrouded in panic and fear. In the huge capital city, there are not even a few shops open for business.  Shops and shops, except for groups of soldiers passing by in formation from time to time, almost no one can be seen on the street. Occasionally, a few wild dogs ran past, howled miserably, then tucked their tails between their legs and hid in the corner.  These beasts also noticed the abnormality in the atmosphere.

    There was a dead silence in the Tai Chi Hall. Cao Yi and Wang Jinglue were still sitting at the head of the ministers, but behind them, there were two more guards with swords, their hands pressed on the handles of the swords, their eyes fixed on them.  If the target in front of them makes even the slightest move, they will unceremoniously pull out the knife and place it on their necks.

    Cao Yi and Wang Jinglue, who were the most glorious civil servants and generals in the past, put their hands on their knees and closed their eyes silently. They seemed to have accepted their fate. Seeing their appearance, all the officials in the main hall were silent, even these two people.  They have all been taken down, and others dare not say anything. I am afraid that if the one sitting on top is slightly dissatisfied, it will be the fate of the nine implicated tribes. Although the world outside the city is controlled by the Northern Army, but now, the people above  In the capital, it is still as easy for Qin Rouniang to kill a person or even a family as crushing a small ant.

    The Tiger Guard was destroyed. This news was like a hurricane, sweeping away the little thoughts of all the people in the capital city who had any luck.

    Su Can did come back, but there were only more than a thousand people who came back with him. All 50,000 Tiger Guards were wiped out on the more than 100-mile journey from Linfeng to Shangjing.

    Everyone knows that the end of Shangjing is coming.

    The main force of the Northern Expedition Army arrived one after another at the foot of Shangjing City. In the past few days, the total number has exceeded 200,000, and the huge Shangjing City has been completely surrounded.

    Suddenly there was a loud thunder-like sound in the sky, and then everyone felt that the Taiji Hall seemed to shake a few times. Could it be an earthquake? Everyone looked up in fear at Qin Rouniang who was sitting on the throne, but the Queen Mother remained motionless.

    The thunder was still ringing, and it would be repeated every quarter of an hour or so. After several times in a row, everyone suddenly understood that this was not thunder. This was the besieging Northern Army who finally mobilized their troops and generals for several days.  The first wave of attacks began.

    That was the result of countless thunderbolt cannons being fired at the same time. Even the imperial city in the center of the city felt an earthquake-like shaking, which shows how much pressure the defense on the city wall was under at this time.

    Wang Jinglue opened his eyes at that moment. He was a very experienced military commander. If he wanted to cause such a shaking of the mountains outside, he would have to fire at least a thousand or even thousands of thunder cannons at the same time to create it.  Shocking effect, this is not the opponent's official siege rhythm, this is a demonstration. This is causing irreparable fear and pressure to the defenders of Shangjing City. If it is an experienced army defending the city, for this kind of incompetent force  They would definitely look down upon the indiscriminate bombardment, but now, are there any experienced troops in Shangjing City? I am afraid that the men led by old man Qin Sheng are hiding under the walls and shivering.

    However, what does this have to do with himself? Wang Jing smiled a little self-consciously, and closed his eyes again. His feet even beat the rhythm on the ground, secretly calculating the interval between the opponent's launches, and the Northern Expedition Army  The firing speed of the thunderbolt cannon was indeed much faster than that of similar weapons in Dai Viet. After a while, he came to a conclusion.

    "Let's break up!" Qin Rouniang, who was aloof, suddenly said: "Go back to your own yamen, do your own business, and provide assistance to General Qin. If you are slacking off, you will not slack off immediately. You guys should be more careful.  Well, if the city is destroyed, no one can survive!"

    She stood up and walked away.

    As if they had been pardoned, all the ministers spread their feet and left the Tai Chi Hall. After a while, only Cao Yi and Wang Jinglue were left in the Tai Chi Hall.

    "The sunshine outside is so beautiful!" Cao Yi finally opened her eyes and looked at the bright sunshine outside the hall.

    "Yeah, just take a second look. I can't see it for a few days. It's a pity that there is no wine or food. Otherwise, it would be good to have a few drinks outside in the sun." Wang Jingliu said with a smile.

    What is slightly different from Wang Jinglue's prediction is that the Northern Expeditionary Army does want to establish prestige and intimidate, but the damage to the city wall of Shangjing City cannot be underestimated. Shangjing City is the most powerful city in the world, and it is not easy to capture it.  It's an easy thing. What the Zhengbei Army has to do now is to gradually destroy the will of the city's defenders. Therefore, this round of attacks is not just a demonstration, because they used iron bullets, that is, in Zhengbei.  Braised pork as it is commonly known in the military.

    There are not many of these thunderbolt cannons, which are made entirely of fine iron, even in the Northern Army. They are basically installed on warships. This time, the ones transported to Shangjing City were dismantled from five-masted warships.  After coming down, the red-hot iron bullets fell on the city, causing far more damage than ordinary thunderbolt shells. What was even more dangerous was that wherever these red fireballs went, they caused raging fires. On just the first day,  Everything that could burn in the city was basically burned down. No one could rush to the city under the attack of the Northern Army at all costs.When I came to put out the fire, I could only watch helplessly as those red fireballs were mixed with the rain of thunderbolt shells, flying up to the top of the city, flying up to the towers, igniting everything that could burn.

    It's not that Qin Sheng has never thought about counterattack, but he also knows that the thunder cannons in the city are not like those of the Northern Army, which can be moved at will. Instead, they are assembled and fixed. It is not a simple matter to move them. Once  Exposing the target will inevitably lead to attacks from outside the city, but Qin Sheng wants to use it on the edge of the sword, which can cause a lot of damage to the siege infantry of the Northern Army. But now there is no point in attacking the opponent.

    No matter how violently the opponent bombed, in the end, they still had to face the tens of meters high city wall of Shangjing City. This was his last resort. Ordinary ladders were not enough to reach the top of the city of Shangjing. And the defenders  He was well prepared for the city's equipment. He didn't have the strength to go out into the city to fight in the field, but he was confident enough to defend the city.

    The majestic Shangjing city towers in the past are no longer what they look like. They once shocked all those who came to Shangjing for the first time. These majestic buildings that were envious were turned into ruins and wisps of smoke in the fire. In the Qin Dynasty,  When you become a general, you have to hide in caves like soldiers to avoid being harmed by the brutal bombardment of your opponents.

    After a day of indiscriminate bombing, from the next day, the Northern Expeditionary Army began to fill in the trenches outside the city. What was different from Qin Sheng's imagination of countless soldiers carrying sandbags coming to fill in the trenches was that,  What his opponent dragged over was some long equipment that he didn't recognize. This non-stop operation, which was tens or hundreds of meters long, continuously transported earth and stone to the trench he had worked so hard to dig. He dug it out in an hour.  The trench was filled up evenly by the opponent in a matter of seconds.

    Qin Sheng suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness. He originally expected that at this moment, he could use crossbows and other weapons to cause a certain amount of damage to the Northern Conquest troops who were filling the trenches, thereby slightly boosting the morale of the city. But now it seems  Come, it's a futile battle again, because the opponent's soldiers are far out of the range of the bed crossbow.

    Another day passed. This time, the opponent finally entered his attack range. Qin Sheng let out a long breath. The depression of watching the enemy act arbitrarily and being unable to fight back finally passed. The next step was  When two soldiers meet.

    The filling work finally started, and this time, the city finally started to fight back.

    But the counterattack on the city meant that the soldiers had to go up the city wall, and the suppressive shooting of the Northern Army came soon after. This time, their thunderbolt cannons no longer fired solid shells, but a kind of shell they had never seen before.  Weapons seen.

    This weapon was just developed by the Fengrui Soldiers Workshop of the Northern Expeditionary Army. The inspiration came from Guo Feng's sudden idea when he plotted against his opponent in Weizhou. They reprocessed and refined the fierce fire oil to make it more powerful.  The purity is higher, and then it is sealed in a container together with sharp iron pieces, iron nails, etc., and then fired with a thunder cannon. The amount of fire oil is not much, but it is just enough to cause enough fire in the sealed container.  Explosion, the iron pieces and nails inside swept out with the power of the explosion, and its power was huge.

    The first weapon of this kind that landed on the top of the city caused huge damage. It landed just next to a bed crossbow. After a loud noise, the sound of chichi was heard endlessly, and then the bed crossbow  None of the dozen soldiers on board were spared. They were all hiding on the ground. Everyone's body was covered with iron nails and iron pieces. Some were killed on the spot, while others were howling on the ground. Such small weapons  , shooting out in all directions, leaving no trace, and completely unable to hide. Even if you hold up a shield, you cannot completely escape.

    As one after another such bombs exploded on the city head, large areas of soldiers fell into a pool of blood. If the thunderbolt cannons in the past few days only damaged objects but not people, today, on  These soldiers in the capital finally saw the cruelty of war. Each of their companions, who were alive just a moment ago, turned into bloody corpses next to them in the blink of an eye. Not everyone could accept this kind of blow immediately.

    Zhu Zhu fell down. Unfortunately, he was hit in the first wave of shooting. Almost no part of his body was still healthy. He was full of wounds. This little citizen who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape,  He didn't even escape the first wave of attacks. He didn't even see clearly what the Northern Expeditionary Army looked like, so he died quietly at the top of the city.

    This kind of attack caused heavy casualties to the soldiers operating crossbows on the top of the city. There were sporadic counterattacks. The Northern Army calmly filled in the trenches outside one by one until they reached the outside of the moat.

    After crossing the moat, you can directly attack the city wall of Shangjing.

    Meng Yao looked at Shangjing City from a distance and sighed, "What a pity. If we don't want to prevent the city from suffering too much damage, a large amount of fierce fire oil attacks would be the best choice."

    "That's not possible. Your Majesty, you want a intact Shangjing City, not a ruined Shangjing City full of ruins." Yao Changkun said with a smile.

    (No more today, because I have to accompany my wife and daughter to see grandpa and grandma. I will try to write tomorrow.)Let¡¯s go! Happy New Year to everyone! All the best!) (Your support on this site is my biggest motivation)
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