After Zuo Liangyu's plan was set, he sent Wang Shuohua and rushed to Kaifeng City in rushing to tell Li Guo that now the Marquis of Ningnan Zuo Liangyu had agreed to his request and asked him to send troops as soon as possible.

At this time, Li Guo had received the decree agreed to by Li Zicheng. Seeing that Zuo Liangyuye had agreed to his request, he was extremely happy and immediately had a feast for the envoys, and promised that after three days, he would immediately send troops south.

With money, Li Guoguo refused to go back on his word. Three days later, he mobilized 60,000 elite troops and divided them into two parts, and moved into Guide Prefecture and Nanyang Prefecture respectively. Since then, the entire Henan territory has been under the control of Dashun Kingdom.

Seeing that the Dashun Army finally entered Henan, in order to prevent the Tang army from invading from the north, Zuo Liangyu felt very calm and immediately gave Li Guo's entire army 300,000 yuan in silver according to previous conditions. In addition, a large number of silver, grain and weapons were provided first. For a time, the host and the guest were very happy and the relationship was very harmonious.

Immediately, Zuo Liangyu quickly ordered his son Zuo Menggeng to ask that after leading 100,000 elite troops to western Hubei, he could only resolutely defend the main cities of Yunyang and Jingzhou prefectures, and never fight with the Tang army without authorization.

After all, he also knew that his son Zuo Menggeng had limited military talent, and it was absolutely unrealistic to want to fight against the Tang army in a field, so he could only expect that the Tang army would retreat automatically after being trapped in a strong city for a long time.

Zuo Menggeng followed the plan, and after swallowing the entire Shizhou Guard, the second army of the Tang army saw that Yunyang and Jingzhou in western Hubei had sufficient troops. Zuo Menggeng's defenders were ready to stick to it, but did not trade and attack again. They just continued to stand stalemate with it on the outside line, constantly plundering all towns in western Hubei, making the main prefectures and towns in western Hubei an isolated island in the vast ocean.

At the eastern defense line, the Tang army did not seem to have any abnormal movements, and the overall situation showed a temporary calm atmosphere. It seemed that the direction of this battle situation was similar to what Zuo Liangyu had previously estimated.

However, Zuo Liangyu, who was a little relieved now, never expected that the peace now was just a brief peace before the storm.

After only three days of stability, Zuo Liangyu came from the east.

"Report! Ningnan Hou, the sixth town of the Tang army, is dispatching troops, but it seems like it is going north to attack southern Henan."

"Oh, what happened?" Zuo Liangyu pondered for a moment, and then replied with a smile: "Now the defense in the north has been taken over by the Dashun Army. The Tang army wants to attack them, so let them fight. This marquis has invested so much that he invited these 60,000 Dashun Army to come. It is not that they have nothing to do when they come to our place for free."

Zuo Liangyu stood up and walked back and forth in the room for a few steps. Then he instructed him to come and envoy: "After you go back, convey the orders of this marquis to the two generals Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren, asking them to step up the defense line from Macheng to Susong. Never neglect the defense because of the Tang army's abnormal movements, so as not to catch themselves off guard."

"Ningnan Hou, the young man has written down."

Zuo Liangyu nodded and reminded: "However, the Dashun Army stationed in northern Henan is our friendly army. It is completely ignored and has a way of treating guests. You also tell Jin Shenghuan King Deren and others that they should not just watch it. Seeing that the Tang army and the Dashun Army bite the dog, one should also prepare troops and prepare to go north to support. If this is done, one will show the attitude of our army and the friendly army to share the joys and sorrows, and the other will be that if the Tang army is defeated in southern Henan, all these benefits will not be taken over by the Shun Army."

"Yes, I understand."

After the envoy said that, he hurriedly left. Zuo Liangyu looked at his departure back and couldn't help but feel secretly happy for his timely arrangements.

If I had been stingy with money and land at the beginning and had not invited the Dashun Army to share the pressure for me, then the current eastern defense line might have begun to collapse from southern Henan.

In this world, I can’t bear to leave my children and can’t trap a wolf.

However, the development of the battle situation quickly exceeded Zuo Liangyu's predetermined plan.

It turned out that the Tang army is now in the west and east, and it seems that there is nothing special about the actions, but in fact, the Tang army has always used such military feints as a cover, and is secretly planning a major breakthrough point.

This breakthrough point is Jiujiang City, which Hao Xiaozhong's troops defended heavily.

The various feints of the Tang army in the west and the Tang army in the east were just to make people's eyes and ears. The real purpose of the Tang army was to concentrate its troops and take over Jiujiang City with all its might, the most important fulcrum of Zuo Liang's Yu tribe in the south.

Tang Jun's strategic intention was completely beyond Zuo Liangyu's imagination.

Zuo Liangyu believed that Hao Xiaozhong's troops stationed in Jiujiang City had 50,000 elite troops, and such a strong city could be used, and the amount of grain and grass in the city was available for as many as three years. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was as solid as a god. Even if the Tang army wanted to attack with all its might, they would be at a loss. In the end, they could only be trapped under the strong city and obediently escaped and retreated.

He completely underestimated the Tang army's methods and determination.

Because, the next key attack direction of Tang King Li Xiao was to mobilize all the troops of Huang Degong's headquarters in the ninth town, and secretly draw the A and B battalions of Liu Zehan's headquarters in the eighth town from southern Gan. With all the elite troops of more than 80,000 soldiers and all the artillery troops of the two towns, they attacked Hao Xiaozhong's Jiujiang City with all their strength.

Li Xiao's plan of fighting with all his strength was implemented very secretly and smoothly.

With the cooperation of the Tang army in the west and east, the Tang army gathered in the south, after half a month of assembly, all of them were concentrated outside Jiujiang City and quickly prepared for all combat preparations.

On June 15, the second year of Chongqing, a Tang army's largest siege battle officially began since its establishment.

The morning light surged, and the loud Swan roared loudly, and the Tang army finally began to attack the city.

Hearing the siege horn from outside the city, Hao Xiaozhong, the guardian of Jiujiang City, who was still in a hangover, woke up from his sleep instantly.

Hao Xiaozhong rubbed his swollen eyes, and his heart was shocked and suspicious. Why was it so good? Why did the siege alarm sound? Could it be that the Tang army started siege today?

However, this Jiujiang City has strong soldiers and a solid city, and is well prepared. It is not so easy for those Tang troops to attack the city.

At this moment, the door slammed and was pushed open suddenly, and a panting soldier ran in quickly.

"Why are you so rude? You break in without reporting first? You are becoming less and less rules. By the way, why is there an alarm outside?!" Hao Xiaozhong frowned and shouted at the small soldier with a stern voice.

"Report to General, big things are bad!" The soldier replied with a look of horror and panting: "There are a large number of Tang soldiers outside the city, pushing nearly two hundred cannons to the south gate of Jiujiang City, shouting and attacking!"

The soldier's words were like a cup of cold water, poured down from Hao Jiaozhong's head. He stood up from the head of the bed, his eyes wide open. The two blood-red eyes were filled with shock and incredible expressions.

No?!

Does the Tang army really have the courage and courage to attack my Jiujiang City?!

"Go away! Take the book and go and see it!"

"Abide by the order!"

Hao Xiaozhong, who came to the south gate of Jiujiang City, pointed his arm along the direction of the soldier and saw in horror that in the south of Jiujiang City, a total of up to 180 heavy artillery of the same size were pushed out from the densely surrounded Tang army formation, forming a straight line, and slowly pushing forward. These heavy artillery that were moving silently shone with a faint silver light under the reflection of the rising sun.

180 steel heavy dragon guns with silver gray glow were slowly pushed one thousand meters outside the south gate of Jiujiang by the Tang army gunners. Next, the Tang army gunners began to fix the gun frame, adjust the firing angle, load gunpowder and shells, and soon made preparations for combat.

These 180 heavy dragon guns lined up along the right side of the city wall on the south side of Jiujiang City, with majestic momentum. The black muzzle was facing the opposite Jiujiang City Wall. Its awesome aura made the enemy guarding the city so scared that they began to weaken their legs.

Good guy, these cannons look so scary that you can imagine how amazing the power will be once they are released.

The main general Hao Xiaozhong saw such a terrifying cannon for the first time in his life. His face was filled with cold sweat.

At this time, there were many young and strong men and women who were drawn from the people to participate in defending the city. For these people, it was the first time in their lives that they had seen such a strange-shaped huge cannon. In addition to fear and worry, they also felt inexplicably excited and curious.

They were chattering and talking in a low voice, without knowing that these heavy cannons with huge black muzzles would be their best tool for ascending to heaven for free.

Seeing the Tang army pushing the artillery so proudly, Hao Feizhong, the chief general who had experienced many battles, almost intuitively felt that if the Tang army allowed to attack the city like this, it would definitely cause extremely terrible damage and attacks in Jiujiang City. Such a result must be found before the Tang army began to attack the city.

Hao Xiaozhong thought quickly and shouted to the soldiers guarding the city and Qingzhuang: "Don't panic, everyone! I have enough troops and horses in Jiujiang City and are well prepared. The Tang army wants to capture Jiujiang City, but I am afraid he doesn't have such a good mouth! In addition, there are still two thousand cavalry in my city. When these Tang army artillery approach, our army can send cavalry to break out of the city, catch them off guard, and make their artillery a pile of useless scrap iron!"

As soon as Hao Feizhong said this, the soldiers on the city wall were greatly encouraged, and the people became much more calm and the degree of panic became much smaller.

However, although Hao Xiaozhong said this, he had no confidence in his heart.

Will these Tang army artillery be so easy to be eliminated by the cavalry who left the city to attack? Will the chief general of the Tang army be so negligent? Could it be that it is just a wishful conjecture?

Hao Xiaozhong tried to calm down on the surface, but couldn't help but sigh quietly in his heart.

Do your best and leave your destiny.

Hao Xiaozhong took a breath and quickly began the battle arrangements. He ordered the two thousand cavalrymen in the city to wait at the south gate together, and wait for the Tang army artillery to get closer, and then leave the city to raid. The south wall was also guarded by him and his elite troops.

To his surprise, the Tang army artillery that were moving slowly stopped 800 steps away from the south gate of Jiujiang City. Then these Tang army gunners were extremely skillful in loading fixed gunpowder on the spot, calculating the distance with the gun yard, adjusting the firing angle, and preparing to shoot.

Hao Xiaozhong's eyes widened immediately.

No?

You know, among the contemporary artillery he remembered, the most powerful Red Barbarian artillery could only be shot about 400 feet away. Why did these Tang army artillery stop and start preparing to shoot at 800 steps away? Can their artillery be so far?

Could it be that the Tang army stopped at such a long distance without aiming and raiding it?

Hao Xiaozhong was so crazy because he didn't know that the accurate range of the Tang army artillery could actually reach one thousand steps. The reason why he was two hundred steps ahead of the situation is because considering the Jiujiang City, the bottom of the city wall is specially raised compared to the surrounding terrain. Therefore, the Tang army gunners had to consider the elevation angle and projectile degree, so that the Tang army would further advance the distance of these artillery to more effectively defeat the city wall.

Just as Hao Xiaozhong was suspicious, they heard from a distance that there were faint shouts from the Tang army formation.

"preparation!"

"put!"

Hao Xiaozhong saw from a distance that a man in front of the Tang army's artillery formation, a man with an officer-like appearance waved his red flag in his hand. At the same time, he shouted loudly. The steel heavy dragon-strike guns with a caliber of 180 doors with a huge caliber and a 32-pound shell were fired immediately.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

...

In the continuous sound of huge cannons that shook the eardrums, the guns of 180 heavy dragon storms immediately floated with bloody red flames, and a dazzling golden flame flashed. In the thick and pungent white smoke, 180 huge black iron bombs weighing 32 kilograms, with the sound of death, hit the southern wall of Jiujiang City hard.

Amid the dull and heavy impact, these 100 black 32-pound iron bullets seemed to have eyes, and in a uniform distribution state, hit the entire southern city wall hard.

On the right side of the southern wall of Jiujiang City, nearly a hundred large holes appeared instantly. At the edge of each hole, the thick and broken lines were as dense as spider webs, spreading unscrupulously to the surround. Large pieces of bricks of the city wall splashed and cracked, and a piece of dust filled the fog. The entire southern wall was trembling violently like having asthma.

On the south wall, a large number of soldiers from Hao Xiaozhong's troops who were shaking their ears, eyes, nostrils and mouths were bleeding from their ears, eyes, nostrils and mouths were all shocked, and their eyes were covered by choking dust. The city wall under their feet was shaking violently. Nearly a hundred soldiers of the left army who were unstable were even more like broken leaves blowing from the wind. They screamed and fell off the city wall, and then fell into meat pie.

The Tang army's fierce heavy artillery fire this time caused the southern wall of Jiujiang City to fall into a considerable chaos.
Chapter completed!