Late Tang

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Liaodong City.

The important town of Liaohe, the capital of Gao Degui, the king of Goguryeo, and the fortress of Liaohe for hundreds of years.

Gao Degui mobilized [-] Goguryeo troops and [-] Khitan troops to stand firm, intending to rely on the fortification of the city to prevent Li Jing's troops from going north.

Li Jing began to lead his troops to the city of Liaodong in July, and all the armies of the town [***] gathered together. The soldiers, the united soldiers and the township soldiers, the city of Liaodong reached a full 10 horses, of which the number reached four in the battle. Thousands of people.

It was the first time for Li Jing that so many soldiers and horses gathered together.

However, even though there are [-] soldiers, facing Liaodong City, the fortress of Liaohe's most important city, he still feels that his strength is not an advantage.Especially there are [-] defenders in the city.For this battle, Gao Degui fought with all his might, and almost all the soldiers and horses in the rear were transferred here.If Liaodong City cannot be defended, then the entire Goguryeo Kingdom, which has just been restored for less than a year, will be subjugated again.

In the past, there were cavalry in the town of [***] that had been carrying out guerrilla raids near Liaodong City, but now, it is completely besieged on all sides.

Liaodong City has two cities inside and outside, and the city is tall and strong.If it is an ordinary method of siege, the food stored in the city can be used for three years by the 20 defenders of Goguryeo and [-] people.Moreover, there is a large amount of ordnance stored in this city. If there is a strong attack, the outcome is uncertain.

However, when Li Jing used troops, he seldom fought in conventional battles.

Li Jing had long been prepared to deal with such an important city as Liaodong City.

The Ordnance Department of Zhen[***] has been researching super catapults. The original General Cannon is one of them, but it is not the most powerful.The most powerful catapult was actually researched more than three years ago.It has been successfully developed and started production a year ago.However, Li Jing has not put this weapon into the battlefield.

Firstly, the battle between Liaodong and Liaoxi in Liaodong and Liaoxi was fought in mobile warfare, and although this kind of catapult is amazingly effective, its transportation is a weak point.

But now, the battle of Liaodong City is a battle of city defense, and Zhen [***] has surrounded Liaodong City.Li Jing has plenty of time to bring cannons from the rear, especially now that Liaodong has a wide and flat road.

Under the city of Liaodong, the engineers of the engineering battalion are installing the cannons brought in with the help of the auxiliary soldiers.

Li Jing and a group of generals came to watch, and saw that with the help of pulleys and levers, the first cannon gradually revealed its ferocious face.Countless soldiers who saw this colossal object for the first time all exclaimed in amazement.

Li Qi, the master craftsman of the Ordnance Department, pointed to the huge trebuchet that looked like a ferocious monster, and proudly explained it to Li Jing and the others.

"This is the Longwu Thunderbolt Fierce Fire General Cannon, which can throw a stone bullet weighing three hundred catties a distance of one hundred feet!"

Just this one sentence immediately shocked all the generals.

The people present were all leading generals, and they were no strangers to catapults.But ordinary small catapults can only throw stone bombs of two catties, five catties and ten catties, medium-sized ones can throw ten catties and twenty catties, and generally large ones can throw thirty or forty catties.The largest known catapult needs to be used by 300 people at a time, and it can only throw a hundred catties.

Catapults capable of throwing a hundred catties are available in [***], but they use counterweights and manpower.But the distance can't reach a distance of one hundred feet at all, at most it's a hundred steps, and it's only fifty feet.

But now, Li Qi actually pointed to this huge catapult and said that he could throw three hundred catties of stone bullets, and it could also throw a hundred feet away.

Few people believe that the bigger the catapult, the better it is.

But Li Jing didn't doubt it, instead he smiled slightly.In fact, the so-called Longwu Thunderbolt Fiery General Cannon is the Xiangyang Cannon.To be precise, this is actually called a counterweight catapult.

The principle is to use the principle of leverage to throw the ball. Li Jing told the craftsmen of the Ordnance Department what he knew about the principle of the Xiangyang Cannon, and they spent three years finally building this super giant catapult.

Throwing a stone bomb of three hundred catties to a distance of one hundred feet, Li Jing has already seen it in the experimental field.

The boom of this catapult was five feet long, and its counterweight weighed a full [-] jin.

In order to be able to withstand the heavy hammer and boom, the cannon's support column is a steel-clad wood structure, especially the [-]-jin counterweight, which is directly forged with a hydraulic satin hammer.

The five-foot-long suspender is directly made of high-quality stainless steel. On the base, there is a suspender, with a [-]-jin heavy hammer hanging on one end, and a five-foot-long suspender at the other end. There was also a grenade belt hanging from one end.

Using the principle of leverage, one end is a [-]-jin heavy hammer, and the other end is equipped with stone bullets to be fired. At this time, go up, put the stone bullets, let go or cut the rope, let one end of the heavy object fall, and the stone bullets are also thrown out.

The principle is simple, but finding a reasonable value for this leverage is difficult.

The super catapult in the town of [***] is already the largest standard that can be used.

"How many of these super catapults do we have?" Li Juyi looked at the catapult that looked like a tall building, and then at the [-]-jin counterweight hammer at the other end, thinking that he could lift a [-]-jin catapult to a Hundreds of feet away, he couldn't help but amazed again and again.

One hundred feet away, even though the bed crossbow can shoot seven hundred steps, the distance is still twice that of this super catapult, but even the thickest arrows fired by the bed crossbow are no more than an iron spear.But even if it is a fire spear, it is extremely huge, each piece of wood is as thick as a human being hugging it, plus a super catapult covered with a thick layer of steel, no amount of spears is useless.

The spear can't penetrate, the fire can't burn, as long as it is not directly captured by the enemy, it can't deal with such a giant super catapult at all.

"I brought ten seats this time!" Li Qi said with some embarrassment.Speaking of which, this super catapult has many advantages, but it is too big, even if it is disassembled and transported, it is extremely difficult.Even for these ten catapults, it took almost three months to transport them from Dengzhou to the city of Liaodong.

But for Li Jing, ten is enough.

Such weapons belong to the strategic level.

For a long time, Li Jing has been troubled by the fact that the power of black powder is too small.But with this huge catapult, combined with black powder, it is undoubtedly more powerful.

Li Jing brought these catapults here this time. The real killer is not the catapults, but the various super-large gunpowder shells newly developed to match the catapults.

The amount of three hundred catties can completely lead to qualitative changes from quantitative changes.

Based on Li Jing's instructions, the Ordnance Department has researched more than ten new types of gunpowder ammunition.

This super catapult does not have to rely entirely on throwing solid stone projectiles.

In addition to solid stone bombs, the Ordnance Division has also developed various explosive bombs.

Kill enemies with fragments of shells or sprayed poisonous fire and poisonous smoke.

This time, the catapults were shipped together, including incendiary bombs, poison bombs, poisonous smoke bombs, and explosive bombs.

At this time, the sun was rising in the east, but the Koryo defenders on the south gate of Liaodong City were shocked by the ten tall buildings rising from the city.Many people think that this is Yunlou rushing the car, while others think it is Arrow Tower.Individuals who pointed out that this is a catapult were immediately despised by others. How could there be such a large catapult.

"Have you finished debugging?" Li Jing asked with a chuckle as he looked at the crowds in the opposite city with a binoculars.

Although it was only seventy feet away from the bottom of the city, the archers on the city couldn't shoot at this distance of 140 steps.Although the heavy crossbow was far away, the engineers under the catapult were all equipped with shields, and the huge catapult was the best cover, so they were not afraid of the city at all.

Li Qi said confidently: "It's ready and ready to launch at any time."

"Then let's do it!"

"Come on!" Li Qi shouted loudly.

"Stick or explosive?" the loader asked loudly.

Li Jing looked at the towering gate tower at the south gate, "Are you sure you can hit the gate tower?"

"No problem." Li Qi said.

"Then send an explosive bomb, just a barbecue bomb."

"Incendiary bomb, reload!"

"Target. South gate tower!"

"Aim complete!"

"emission!"

Seventy paces away, at the south gate, a group of Goguryeo generals who heard the police were accompanying Goguryeo King Gao Degui, and they were observing the huge instrument that shone with a faint black light, which looked like a catapult.But can such a huge catapult really work?

Just when Gao Degui was about to speak to boost morale, he suddenly heard a sharp whistling sound in the air. He turned his head sharply and saw that the huge catapult, which was slightly higher than the Liaodong city wall, had already passed away. It was launched, and a huge iron bucket like a large water tank flew straight towards it.

"Protect the King!" Several guards of Gao Degui shouted loudly.Gao Degui's face turned pale with fright, and his heart was full of ghosts.Under the escort of the guards, he hurriedly ran down the city.As soon as he ran to the carriageway in the lower city, he heard a huge crash.

Turning his head in a hurry, he saw that the big iron cylinder hit the gate tower directly, collapsing half of the gate tower at once.Then, I saw a burst of fire and white smoke rising.There was another loud bang, a rumbling bang, and the big iron vat that had been smashed down for a long time without breaking the city gate tower suddenly burst into pieces.

Countless iron fragments and clusters of flames splashed out, and the Goguryeo people near the gate tower suddenly screamed.

Hit by splinters, splashed by flames.

Gao Degui was lucky, when the explosion happened, a few guards blocked a few fragments for him.Three guards died on the spot, and several others were covered in blood.He himself didn't touch a piece of debris, only two flames splashed on his body.

As he continued to run down the city, he patted the flames on his clothes casually, but instead of extinguishing the flames, he even burned his hands.

He finally found out that something was wrong, but at this time the flames on his body were getting bigger and bigger, Gao Degui screamed in fear, and the surviving guards next to him came to beat them one after another, but in a blink of an eye, all the guards were on fire.

In less than a moment, Gao Degui was burned to a mass of ashes.

Li Jing and the generals held up the binoculars and carefully stared at the "power of the general's cannon of the Thunderbolt of Longwu". Howling, and the hundreds of Goguryeo soldiers who did not escape their death in the end, everyone took a breath of air.

Although the incendiary bomb used in this cannon is Shenhuo, the combined power of this super catapult, plus [-] catties of heavy shells, plus Shenhuo is too amazing.

Li Jing was very excited to see it, this combination can completely compare with the cannon howitzer.This power is for sure.

"One more shot!" Li Jing shouted excitedly.The generals of Lian Zhen [***] were so surprised, so the Koguryo guarding the city must be even more frightened.It would be great if a few more shots could severely hit the morale of the Goguryeo people, and even scare the Khitan people away.

Li Juyi, Wang Zhong, Lin Wu and other towns were also blushing at this moment, extremely excited.No one thought that it turned out that this thing is so stupid and unstructured, and it is actually so easy to use.

"One more shot, one more shot!"

"Okay, let's shoot again, solid bullet!"

Not long after, there was a loud bang, and a huge solid stone bomb of three hundred catties hit the head of the city directly, and the battlement, which was nearly ten feet wide, was directly smashed.

Seeing this effect, all the soldiers cheered loudly.

Just when Li Jing was about to mobilize more small and medium-sized catapults, crossbow carts, and arrow towers for an attack, Wang Yanzhang came to report that an angel from Chang'an came to announce the decree.

Li Jing hurriedly took the generals back to the camp to meet the angel, but the one who came was still an old acquaintance, Zhang Tai, the envoy of the North Court of Xuanhui and the guard of the right guard.

After setting up the incense table, Li Jing led the generals to meet the order.

"Under the door:"

"Writing is used to govern the state, and military is used to restrain violence. The appointment of a marshal must be based on the temple's strategy. Gou is not an outstanding person, so whoever agrees to send it.

Grand Tutor, Jian Zhongshu Ling, Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, Yushi Dafu, Zuowuwei General, Hushi General, Shangzhu Kingdom, Andong County King, Datong Army Jiedu Envoy, Lu Long Army Jiedu Envoy Jing.

Feelings of the situation, astrology was born.With the posture of civil and military, with the weapon of economy.Since the Hulu rebellion, the frontiers have not been peaceful, Yun Zhongzhen has established himself, and he has done his duty with righteousness and courage.In addition, his knowledge is grand and his strategy is deep.Zhang Fei is a chaos of thousands of people, but he is the commander of the three armies.Therefore, we can wipe out the Hulu, regain Anton, build a great honor, and become our king.Although he was less than Kang's successor, Xia Mi praised his achievements; Guangwu Zhongxing, Deng Yu gathered his work.Looking at the past from the present, it is not enough.However, the atmosphere is still unclear, the army is in a hurry, and they want to be well-equipped, relying on the integrity of their teachers, it is appropriate to bear heavy responsibility, and overcome many difficulties.It can serve as the marshal of the soldiers and horses of Lulong Town, Chengde Town, Yiwu Town, Weibo Town, and Yichang Town of Hebei Province, and control the soldiers and horses of the towns of Hebei Province.He was also granted the Hebei Road Observation Ambassador, Hebei Road Yingtian Duzhi Ambassador, Hebei Road Salt and Iron Transshipment Envoy and Coin Casting Envoy, and the ambassadors of various tribes.Still envoy Chijie Lulong Army Jiedu Envoy and Datong Army Jiedu Envoy! "

"The eighth day of the eighth month of the fifth year of Qianfu in the Tang Dynasty!"

Li Jing knelt to listen to the imperial decree, but after Zhang Tai announced the decree, Li Jing still bowed his head and did not accept the decree.

Zhang Tai could only cough, and said with a gentle smile, "Prince Andong, please receive the order!"

Li Jing finally came to his senses and looked at Zhang Tai's helpless expression. Although he clenched his fists in his sleeves, he finally got up and took the imperial edict from Huang Ling! (To be continued.)