When Chang'an City, when they learned that Shi Siming gave up attacking Tongguan and instead led his army north to resist Li Fei, the Tang Dynasty court breathed a sigh of relief.

Suzong Li Heng and Li Fuguo smiled.

"Your Majesty, Shi Siming led 350,000 anti-army troops northwards. With the anti-army in Hebei, the strength is terrifying. No matter how strong Li Fei is, he will never be stronger than Shi Siming. Let Li Fei and Shi Siming fight each other. At that time, they will both suffer. Your Majesty will annihilate these two people in one fell swoop, which will solve all the disasters." Li Fuguo said to Suzong Li Heng.

"Although Li Fei did not explicitly rebel, he was a traitor. He was not willing to die!" Suzong Li Heng wanted to see the scene where Li Fei and Shi Siming suffered both defeats.

Andong, Liaoyang City.

Li Fei was not prepared to wait for Shi Siming to arrive in Youzhou before attacking Hebei.

In fact, Li Fei was ready to send troops to Hebei after destroying the Bohai Kingdom and severely attacking the Uighurs.

On the fifth day after receiving the imperial edict, Li Fei led ten Anton troops, a total of 200,000 troops to fight against Hebei.

When Li Fei's army of 200,000 came out of Shanhaiguan, Shi Siming was crossing the Yellow River. It was not easy to cross the river with 350,000 troops. It was impossible without more than five or six days. Now it has only been halfway through...

It is estimated that Shi Siming will lead the rebel army back to Youzhou City at least eight days later.

There are 60,000 anti-army defenders in Youzhou City. Theoretically, 60,000 defenders can completely block the siege of 200,000 troops for ten days and half a month.

However, that's just theoretically.

"Fire the cannon!" Li Feiheng pointed a knife, and dozens of cannons ignited the fuse.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The muzzle gusts, and the shells are out of the chamber quickly, and they smash the walls of Youzhou City with the sound of slashing through the air.

Where the shells hit, bricks and stones splashed, and terrifying pits were 'exploded', and many cracks were directly cracked in the slightly worse places.

Dozens of shells, only more than 30 anti-army defenders, were truly killed, but the shock and fear brought were unparalleled.

This is a way of attack that I have never heard of or seen before.

Another unlucky anti-soldier was hit directly by a shell, and his whole body was beaten into blood mist. He didn't know where the body was broken and flew to. The other anti-soldiers who saw this scene trembled their feet and collapsed to the ground.

In the past, catapults were the most feared weapon of siege, but the power of cannons was far better than catapults.

Several cannons are specifically aimed at the city gate.

Because of the correct head, no shell hit the city gate in the first round, but two shells hit the city gate in the second round.

Most of the thick copper-covered city gate was instantly smashed, with a large number of broken wood splashing. After the shells blasted through the city gate, several anti-army soldiers behind the city gate hole were killed and some of the broken limbs and broken arms were lying on the ground with blood.

There were originally precedents in Chen and Luoyang City in Chang'an. As the frontier of defense against Li Fei, the anti-army generals guarding the city came up with many ways to deal with the soldiers of the Andong Army who directly exploded the city gate.

For example, a large number of archers were prepared on the city wall and ready to shoot Anton soldiers who rushed to the city gate to put explosives.

Some straw carts were also prepared in the city. Once the city gate was blown open, Li Fei pushed the straw cart into the city gate hole and blocked the city gate hole again.

I was not sure how much effect this method would have. Now that I am better, the Anton Army did not directly use explosives to blow up the city gate, but instead brought a terrifying weapon like cannons. With just one round of bombardment, not only did the anti-army defenders on the city wall be scared to the ground, but the city gate was also blasted open.

The anti-army guards in Youzhou City looked at the city gate that was forcibly smashed by artillery shells and turned pale.

He knew that Youzhou City would definitely not be able to defend it. Even if he guarded the city gate, the city wall would probably be directly collapsed. Li Fei had such a terrifying weapon for siege, which could not be stopped by human power, so why should he fight?

"Kill!" Taking advantage of the fear of the anti-army defenders on the city wall, the city gate was also blasted open, and Li Fei ordered the attack into the city.

"Kill!" Anton soldiers rushed into the city.

The anti-army defenders in the city were about to collapse at once and had no will to resist. The 60,000 anti-army defenders were more likely to be killed or captured during the escape. In just one hour, Li Fei completely occupied Youzhou City.

After capturing Youzhou City, Li Fei ordered his troops to divide into ten routes, each of which was one army, sweeping towards the depths of Hebei.

He wanted to sweep Hebei like lightning while Shi Siming's 350,000 anti-army army had not yet completely crossed the Yellow River.

Cannons are not easy to carry, but each Anton Army carried a large number of crossbows and explosives, which were enough. Cannons were more prepared for field battles.

The anti-army troops in Hebei did not expect that Youzhou City would be lost so quickly. When Andong Iron Cavalry or Andong Modao Army approached the city, they could not defend themselves.

Not every city has a tall and thick city wall like Youzhou City, or Chang'an and Luoyang. Not to mention bombardment by cannons, you can easily blow up the city wall with explosives.

"Swish swish swish swish---"

The divine arm crossbow shot out arrows and suppressed the anti-army defenders on the city wall.

The explosives were tied to the giant arrows used for the bed crossbow. The bed crossbow was pushed forward to a place only dozens of meters away from the city gate, and then the giant arrow shot out.

The giant arrow is nailed to the city wall or the city gate and then explodes.

"Boom!" A violent explosion, the city gate was blown to pieces.

"Kill!" Anton soldiers rushed into the city.

In fact, when the city gate was blown open and even the city wall was blown up directly, the morale of the anti-army defenders in the city instantly collapsed and collapsed.

After every city was attacked by Anton soldiers, it would not take half an hour to resist.

Hebei is vast and has almost no danger to defend. The 200,000 Andong troops were divided into ten routes, taking Youzhou City as the point, forming a semicircle arc to sweep southward, like autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves. The prefectures and counties passed by were either forcibly breached or descended by the wind.

In just four days, Li Fei actually captured ten prefectures and more than forty counties in Hebei, which was really lightning-like.

When Shi Siming's 350,000 rebels crossed the Yellow River, Li Fei had already captured half of Hebei, and the vanguard was approaching Xiangzhou City. When Shi Siming learned the news, he was so shocked that he almost fell directly from the horse's back.

Shi Siming's face looked extremely ugly, gritted his teeth and his hands trembled.

It was just a few days, and Hebei was captured by Li Fei in more than half a day. The shock brought by it was too great and unreal, like a nightmare.

In order to avoid the Xiangzhou City being captured by Li Fei, Shi Siming hurriedly led his army to Xiangzhou.

On the other hand, Li Fei learned from the newspaper that Shi Siming's 350,000 rebels had all crossed the Yellow River and were gathering towards Xiangzhou City. Li Fei also ordered all Andong troops to gather towards Xiangzhou City, preparing to fight Shi Siming in the Xiangzhou area, defeating Shi Siming's main force in one battle and establishing a decisive battle north of the Yellow River.

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