Infinite Brilliant Scroll

Chapter 244 Ding Ding Qiankun, one of three battles
In the early morning, after a short rest, the imperial army continued to march towards Quancheng.

Guan Luoyang and Lin Lingsu looked at the mountain peak ten miles away to the northwest.

Thousands of flags fluttered in the wind on the land, and cavalry, chariots, and infantry left billowing smoke and dust wherever they passed.

The waves on the water are surging, and the sails are full, like white-winged water birds. Under the leadership of [-] large ships, they headed for the Yellow River.

By water, by land, the army advances hand in hand.

Lin Lingsu said in a low voice: "After all, there are many soldiers and horses commanded by generals, and every move is in accordance with the rules and regulations, which is extraordinary."

Guan Luoyang asked: "In one night, have you seen clearly how the number of masters in the barracks, the deployment of soldiers and horses, the distribution of supplies, artillery and ammunition, etc. are escorted?"

"of course."

Lin Lingsu said with a hint of admiration, "You carried the mountain, pulled the mountain and flew to the sky, and made such a feat. I just cast my magic eye and watched from the side. This matter, even if you let Gongsun Once it’s clear, there won’t be any mistakes.”

When Guan Luoyang heard the word "carrying the mountain", the thumb of his right hand subconsciously pressed the knuckles of the other fingers, making a soft noise.

He used some tricks to carry and pull out the mountain, and used his Qiongbiluo to reduce the gravity on the mountain with all his strength, so that he could move the mountain several times overnight.

But even if the weight is reduced a lot, it is not easy to do this kind of thing, especially, after breaking the mountain, it is not a small loss for Guan Luoyang to keep the mountain intact during the process of moving quickly. .

"Unfortunately, it is much easier to destroy a few small hills than to move them. After what happened last night, they are now alert, and it is probably impossible to repeat the old trick."

Guan Luoyang sighed softly, "Actually, I quite like this kind of feeling, the feeling of lifting big things and hitting people."

Lin Lingsu smiled and thought about it: "Chen Xizhen shot alone later, chopped up the mountain, rolled up the wreckage with his sword light, and sprinkled it into the distance. It can be seen that his "Taiqing Tianxin Theory" should have been cultivated to the realm of Jindan third turn or above. , and Longhushan's three-five male-female male-female evil-slaying sword is in hand, the strength is not bad."

"However, he is indeed practicing the evil way. If he takes the orthodox training method to reach the Golden Core realm, a mortal Taoist mind will already be invincible. He has feelings but forgets feelings. He shouldn't be so irritable and like a snake."

While speaking, Lin Lingsu sucked up a boulder, slapped it with one hand, and cracked it into many thin stone slabs. Wherever the lightning passed, the scorched marks left behind meandered into pictures, and the pens formed words, flying like dragons and phoenixes, engraving what he saw. message.

Guan Luoyang took a look, and saw that not only the number of masters, the proportion of cavalry, etc., but also the number of large artillery were marked on it.

"Don't mention the small and medium-sized cannons. The highest specification Dragon King Zun cannon can shoot shells to any place within a range of at least ten miles and a maximum of forty miles. They actually brought three hundred of such things?"

Guan Luoyang narrowed his eyes slightly, "It seems that Ling Zhen's judgment is really true. The big killers in Bianliang are basically controlled by Chen Xizhen's army. Couldn't get it."

Lin Lingsu said: "This Dragon King Zun Cannon is very heavy and huge, and it is inconvenient to carry. They have to escort minerals, grain, and heavy armor with bows and arrows. The number of gunpowder and shells that can be carried is limited."

Guan Luoyang nodded and said, "Judging from their marching speed, they will arrive at Quancheng before noon today. It's time to see how the preparations in Quancheng are going."

The two used their own methods and broke through the air.

Quancheng Mansion is a place of one mansion, with a large area of ​​jurisdiction, but many places are barren mountains, forests, rivers, and deserted rural farms.

Although the city where the magistrate's yamen is located has concentrated nearly [-]% of the wealth of the entire Quancheng Mansion, its real land area is less than one tenth of that of Quancheng Mansion, and it is located in the heart of the city.

Not long after the imperial army set off early in the morning, they had already stepped into the range of Quancheng Mansion, but it was only when the sun was in the middle of the sky that they could see the shadow of the city in the distance.

Real Jiangmo Wang Tianba was riding on a horse, reciting spells and casting spells, and the big golden eyeball with a diameter of three feet emerged from the air above his head again, still dazzling in the daytime.

"go with!"

The eyeballs rose higher and higher, looming among the clouds, and flew towards the city at high speed.

After a while, the golden eyeball flew over the city, hiding among the white clouds and looking down.

I saw red-clothed and armored soldiers everywhere on the city wall, with their knives and guns polished, full of murderous aura, and heavily guarded.

When the wind is strong, the colorful flags inserted between the arrow stacks on the wall will "hula la..." The flags are rolled, and behind each flag are piled up with stones, logs, and boiling oil. Pots and golden juice are all things used to defend the city.

The big golden eyeballs carefully flew around the city in the clouds. The walls on all sides looked like they were in full battle. There was half a sound of clamor and yelling.

Wang Tianba, who was in the army, was shocked in his heart, and said in his mouth: "Liangshan grassroots have very strict military discipline. Knowing that my army is approaching, they don't have a trace of depression and fear!"

Xiantian General Fenghui asked beside him, "How many soldiers and horses are there?"

"At least there are nearly 2 people."

Wang Tianba closed one left eye, and stared at the right eye, and said, "There are many sundries discarded on the streets in the city, in a mess, and there are also doors and windows damaged and fallen, but there is no sign of people moving around, maybe there are soldiers and horses in ambush In the city, wait for me to get closer and take a look."

The big eyeballs in the clouds tried their best to restrain the golden light, found an angle overlapping with the sunlight, and slowly lowered a little.

bang.

A rootless vine fluttered in the air, bursting the big eyeball, and then disappeared.

Wang Tianba let out a cry of pain, only saw a hint of greenness at last, quickly took out a elixir, crushed it and put it on his right eye, and shouted: "Be alert, there is a master in the city who broke my spell. "

Many generals started discussing with each other.

"With [-] soldiers and horses, Liang Shan probably sent most of them to Quancheng."

"I think this is a bit strange. There are [-] miles of water in Liangshan, the chaos in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, the steep peaks, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Instead of leaving their troops and horses in their lair, they sent them here to fight against us?"

"You don't know. Most of the family members of the Liangshan grassroots bandits are among the peaks of Liangshan. If they were not forced to, why would they be willing to fight bloody in their lair and let the family members take the risk."

"That's right. They won a few battles before, and when they were arrogant, it's not surprising that they had the courage to line up troops to defend the city of Quancheng."

"It will take a lot of time to take down Spring City. I don't think these short-sighted bandits are willing to give up easily."

"In my opinion, Quancheng is a mighty city after all, and it is wise for the Liangshan grassroots to defend it and consume the imperial army. If I were to command, I would not give up Quancheng easily, after all The side that defends the city is much richer, and if the momentum is not right, they can retreat to their lair and fight again."

When everyone was discussing, Xiantian General Fenghui, waving the nine-ring wind-splashing machete in his hand, took the initiative to invite Ying, and patted his horse to Chen Xizhen's side.

"Daozi, please let me be the vanguard, first lead [-] soldiers and horses, lead the siege cloud chariot and other equipment, and defeat the ambition of the Liangshan grassroots!"

Gou Ying shouted from the side: "In case someone goes out to fight for generals, if there are masters casting spells, General Feng alone is not safe enough, we should ask General Guan Sheng and others to be the forwards, Mr. Hua Yang, Mr. Dong Wei, and our magicians to support them. "

Chen Xizhen had never opened his mouth. At this moment, he suddenly waved his hand with a smile and said, "Why do you guys do this? The people in Liangshan tried several times last night. They just wanted to know the strength of the generals in the army, but how could a group of grassroots know the power of the imperial court?" The real background of the army?"

"I don't need generals to go out, and Taoist officials don't need to attack the city. I can cause them to suffer heavy losses and escape from the spring city."

These words spread loudly, and those small officials and generals around couldn't help but cheer up.

Gou Ying cupped her hands and asked, "What trick does Daozi have?"

"It's only [-] miles away from Quancheng. The artillery in our army can go there directly."

Chen Xizhen gave an order, and the thousand warlocks responsible for protecting the gunpowder and artillery slowly moved from the central army to the forward army. They untied the iron chains and pull ropes from the car, and uncovered the thick tent cloth, revealing the extremely ferocious Dragon King Zun gun.

This kind of artillery can hold several fat and strong men in its belly, but the barrel of the gun becomes slender as it goes forward, and the muzzle is only the size of a human head.

Hundreds of gunners lined up and cooperated with other soldiers and warlocks to adjust the height of the muzzle and select the shooting range. The pitch-black gun barrel with scales was raised high.

A group of generals around looked at each other in blank dismay, Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo and the others turned pale with shock, and hurried forward.

"Big guy!"

Guan Sheng said to Chen Xizhen in a loud voice, "There are not only soldiers and horses from Liangshan in the spring city, but also hundreds of thousands of people, all of whom are from the Great Song Dynasty. How can the artillery be so accurate when it shoots twenty miles away? Such shooting is bound to cause disaster." And the whole city, Marshal, please think twice!"

Hu Yanzhuo also said: "It's better to use 12 of us as the vanguard and fight a few battles with Liangshan's soldiers and horses first. The people in the city will know that the officers and soldiers have arrived, and they will inevitably be moved. At that time, try to encourage the people, and maybe we can take Quancheng faster. It's all in the name of Marshal Renyi."

From Guan Sheng and Hu Yanzhuo down, Dong Ping, Suo Chao, Zhang Qing, Hu Sanniang and others all asked for a fight.

Even among Chen Xizhen's old subordinates, some people like Tang Meng felt something was wrong and said a few words out loud.

Chen Xizhen didn't change his face, and said: "The bandits in Liangshan killed Liu Guangman, the magistrate of Quancheng, and killed the wise elders of the village without any calculation. They searched all the stocks and left no grain of rice. What a frenzy!"

"The true virtuous people of my Great Song Dynasty have probably been killed by them long ago, but whoever is still loyal, how can they live with these thieves?"

"The remaining living people in the city must be servile thieves who bowed their knees and helped the evildoers. There is no need to distinguish them. They will be clean if they are killed together."

Everyone is still waiting to say, Chen Xizhen has already put on the majesty of the military order, ordering thousands of gunners to immediately load ammunition and launch cannons to attack the city.

boom!boom!boom!boom!boom……

Earth-shattering roars sounded one after another, and the strong smell of sulfur permeated the front of the army formation, and the roaring and expanding fiery smoke sprayed out from the barrel.

In the sky, one after another cannonballs trailing black smoke and wrapped in red light flew over a long distance and bombarded the city one after another.

Whenever a cannonball falls, the house collapses on the spot, and everything within three feet around is turned into debris and ashes, blowing away with the air waves.

In a short while, the whole city was on fire, the flames were miserable, and the black smoke was lingering.

The sound of many houses collapsing and cracking was like an earthquake, and the city wall also rumbled and rolled down a lot of masonry debris.

Among the imperial army, some generals could already imagine what kind of tragedy the city would be in now. The flames were raging, there were dead bodies and wounded and terrified people everywhere, howling helplessly like puppies and chicks.

Many people showed a look of unbearable expression, tilted their heads and closed their eyes.

The people in that city are not enemy soldiers, but just like them, they are descendants of Yan and Huang, and they are also Song people.

'This man! ! '

Guan Sheng's eyes were red with anger, and he stared at Quancheng, not daring to turn his head to look at Chen Xizhen, for fear that he would reveal the murderous intent in his eyes.

Chen Xizhen was also looking over there, but he was very calm and calm, and even looked forward to the moment when the Liangshan soldiers in the city collapsed and fled.

I am also looking forward to whether any of those fierce generals and masters in the city will become dizzy and unable to restrain themselves, and will rush out of the city to the imperial army.

When the artillery hits the city wall, one dozen will be a big hole. If there are two or three shells in a tight place, a big hole can be broken on the spot.

The defenders on the city wall are even more miserable in the face of such artillery fire. As long as they can hit the city wall, every shell can clear out the defenders.

The things they prepared to defend the city became the accomplices of the shells. Under the blast, the hot oil pan was blown apart, logs were burned, stones flew up, and colored flags were broken one by one.

Chen Xizhen looked at this scene, his eyes changed slightly.

Under the artillery fire of the Dragon King Zun Cannon, those soldiers were directly smashed to pieces, and the whole body could not be seen. They were washed away by the poisonous smoke waves from the shells and fell to the inside and outside of the city. These scenes are not surprising.

However, some places are very strange.

"The Demon Subduing Real Man!"

Chen Xizhen's eyes were full of surprise, and he ordered, "Go and see the situation in the city."

Wang Tianba took the order, reluctantly opened the other uninjured eye, used magic to build a big golden eye again, carefully raised to a height where the shells would not be affected, and then flew to Quancheng.

After the golden eyes flew over the city, Wang Tianba's expression changed dramatically.

He yelled in shock and anger: "There is no one in the city. Those on the city wall and those on the city wall are not living people. There are no corpses there, only pieces of paper left after burning!"

"what?!"

All the generals shouted in unison.

Chen Xizhen's face twitched, and he immediately ordered to stop firing the cannonballs, and then ordered the gunners to get out of the way, the cavalry went first, and the Xiantian General Fenghui, the Bound Master Gou Ying, etc., immediately led the troops to Quancheng.

His orders followed one after another, and his voice was fairly steady, but each sentence was louder than the last one.

At this time, Chen Xizhen didn't want the surrounding soldiers to stop to talk and discuss at all.

If someone continued to talk about the decision to fire the cannon, Chen Xizhen didn't know what expression he should use to deal with it! !
Seeing a group of cavalry rushing out of the army formation like a long dragon, and rushing towards the spring city, all the surrounding generals who might speak freely were all sent out.

Only then did Chen Xizhen have the room to accept his anger.

He tightened his fingers and tightly clenched the rein in his fist, recalling everything he had experienced since receiving the news of Liu Guang's death.

Especially in retrospect, when I used the imperial decree to mobilize twelve members of the frontier army who had never been convinced by me, and then coerced Liu Hunkang and Wang Laozhi to lead an army of [-], I compared my mood from last night to today and now. .

Chen Xizhen's hands were trembling slightly, and he quickly ran the Taiqing Tianxin Theory, suppressing thousands of thoughts and the heart of the world entangled in luck, in exchange for the obsessive Taoist heart that is determined to leave an immortal fame in the history, suppressing the state of mind.

At this moment, he saw the cavalry's running momentum again, which was suddenly hindered.

The cavalry who charged at the front stumbled and fell to the ground.

Under the cover of that thin layer of earth and stone, there are countless sharp wooden thorns, which easily penetrated the horses and riders that fell from above.

The soldiers and horses behind had no time to react, and more than a thousand soldiers and horses fell into this long and narrow trap area one after another, howling in pain.

Although the soldiers and horses behind did not fall, they also caused a lot of trouble in order to stop urgently. The cavalrymen who were closer collided with each other.

The people on the horseback are all elite soldiers who practice the magic arts, and they reacted in a timely manner. As long as they didn't fall into the trap, they would be slightly injured at most. Thousands more horses were injured.

Chen Xizhen has experienced many battles, and there are many people around him who are familiar with the art of war, so he should not have suffered such ridiculous injuries.

But whether it was the walk across the mountain in Guan Luoyang last night, or the scene full of paper figures, it was a combination of supernatural force, spells, and simple strategies.

Too simple and too brilliant, so hard to guard against.

Chen Xizhen was busy turning his mind around, when he suddenly saw the scene of the cavalry being murdered, he felt a shock in his chest.

With great difficulty, Fenghui commanded the cavalry to stabilize the front line, glanced inadvertently, and saw a small commotion in the rear.

Chen Daozi, who commanded [-] elite troops to step into Jingdong East Road, had not yet had a face-to-face confrontation with any powerful enemy, so he vomited blood on the horse's back and fell down.

The other side of Spring City.

Zhang Wanxian floated out, returned to the shore of Liangshanshuipo, and reported to Guan Luoyang.

"Thanks a lot."

Guan Luoyang responded, turned around and said with a smile to Lu Da and the others, "You heard it all, this is the result of the first round."

He has already mentioned it to many leaders in Liangshan.

Within three battles, the imperial army will be defeated.

(End of this chapter)