The power of gunpowder is unimaginable! The soldiers of the Tang Kingdom have never been exposed to gunpowder. When gunpowder exploded around them, the tragic tragedy that looked like the Shura field made every soldier frightened and frightened.

In addition, the Great Sui artillery aimed at the three city gates on the east side of Chang'an City, and the artillery bombed together. Even if the city gate was strong, it would not last long under the attack of the shells and would break into pieces.

When the city gate was blown open, the Tang generals, including Li Xiuning, were confused because in their opinion, with the majesty of Chang'an City, they could block the army of the Great Sui Dynasty. But now? The city gate was bombed in the first confrontation, which was beyond their imagination.

Faced with this situation, Li Xiuning personally led his men to guard the city gate and prepared to be with Chang'an City.

At this moment, in the hearts of the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom, they were afraid of death, but even their princesses were desperate to protect the city. What were they afraid of?

It can be said that Li Xiuning was not afraid of life and death, which allowed the panicked morale to be maintained.

But that's not enough.

The comprehensive attack of the Great Sui Dynasty had begun, crossing the moat through the Hengqiao, and then the Great Sui soldiers began to attack the city, climb the ladder, and cooperated with gunpowder to completely suppress the Tang soldiers.

The soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty screamed and rushed towards the bombed city gate, climbed up the high city wall, and the attacks were like waves.

Among them, Xue Wanche, Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Gong led their troops to the three city gates. It is conceivable that they were fierce. Then they cooperated with the throwing of gunpowder and rushed to the gate and fought hand-to-hand combat with the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom.

At this moment, it is impossible for the Sui Dynasty to withdraw its troops. No matter how many people sacrificed, they must take down Chang'an City!

In this way, the fight became more and more tragic, and more and more soldiers on both sides suffered casualties.

Originally, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were limited and they did not occupy the terrain at this time, so the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were defeated step by step.

After an hour and a half of the battle, the soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty had already invaded Chang'an City.

Li Xiuning was already fighting and was wet all over. She watched the Sui soldiers attacking the city, and the city she regarded as indestructible was broken, and she was still in a daze.

The screams in her ears quickly woke her up, and she knew that she was really defeated.

He only had 150,000 soldiers and could not defend the city at all. Although there were still hundreds of thousands of people here, he was scared by the explosions of gunpowder. He hid at home and no one dared to come out to fight.

Even if they come out to serve the court, they have never been on the battlefield or practiced. If they are asked to fight against the enemy, they will give them a head.

"We're defeated!"

Li Xiuning murmured to himself. After sighing, Li Xiuning immediately ordered the army to evacuate Chang'an City.

Then, Li Xiuning led his troops to flee to the west gate and began to escape from here. As for the other Tang soldiers, they were defeated like mountains and fell. Those who could escape fled, and those who could not escape surrendered.

In this way, the Great Sui Dynasty captured Chang'an City and only took more than two hours to create the fastest siege speed.

Of course, the deaths and injuries of the Great Sui side were also very large, so it was worth it to take over Chang'an City.

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With the loss of Chang'an City, it caused a stir throughout the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yuan, who fled to Liangzhou, heard the news and fainted because of anger. After waking up, he yelled in a rage: "Why did you lose Chang'an City in such a short time? Who can tell me the reason!"

Unfortunately, no one can tell what happened in this battle.

It was not until Li Xiuning came back and told Li Yuan in detail that Li Yuan knew the reason. Li Yuan, who knew the reason, felt as if God was going to destroy the Tang Dynasty, otherwise how could he give such powerful magical weapons to the Sui Dynasty?

The only good news is that Li Xiaogong led his troops back from Kucha.

Then, Li Yuan calculated his troops.

Li Xiaogong had more than 100,000 troops, Li Xiuning had sixty or 70,000 troops, and Li Yuan brought 50,000 troops in Liangzhou, plus less than 300,000 troops.

Even if the Great Sui attacked Chang'an City, some people would have to be killed or injured. Moreover, they still had terrible gunpowder, so they were no match for them at all!

At this moment, Li Yuan was filled with despair.

He called Li Xiaogong and Li Xiuning to discuss how to fight the enemy, but unfortunately they had no way to break the deadlock.

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Yang Shuang was also very happy after receiving the news of breaking through Chang'an City.

Because winning the Chang'an City is of great significance, just like taking the capital of Wei, the next step is to erode step by step. There is no need to make too aggressive progress. It only takes half a year to get the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, Yang Shuang had long known that the remaining troops of the Tang Dynasty were definitely not the opponent of the Sui Dynasty.

At the same time, good news came from the Ministry of Works that the first seaship had been completed after working overtime. Yang Shuang immediately left the palace and watched the launch of the seaship with his own eyes. The ship after launching was very balanced and met the standards of the required seaship.

Next, speed up and build more sea ships.

However, it cannot be built here, so you need to go to the beach. For this reason, Yang Shuang recommended Zhou Yu to Emperor Sui and asked him to supervise the construction of sea ships, and the general person in charge of sea ship navigation in the future will be Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu already knew that in the east of the vast continent of China, there was an undeveloped and strange continent. The sea ship led by Zhou Yu would be the pioneer, leading the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty to explore there and bring back the treasures there.

In the future, when more sea ships are successfully built, more and more people from the Sui Dynasty will go there, even settle there, and label them as provinces of the Sui Dynasty.

In the future, the journey of the Great Sui Dynasty will be in other continents!

These words made Zhou Yu full of motivation and immediately took on this task.

After Zhou Yu packed his bags, he immediately left Kyoto with the craftsmen who built the sea boats to complete their mission.

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There is peace and comfort in Kyoto City.

A very ordinary caravan entered Kyoto City and soon hid.

In the next few days, several caravans entered the city and hid, and finally met in a very secluded barn.

There were more than a hundred people, each full of energy and firm faces, and they were obviously elite veterans.

The leader of this group of people is nothing else, but Zhao Yun and Ma Chao.

It turned out that Shu did not send troops to attack the Great Sui Dynasty, but did not choose to do nothing. They decided to use the beheading action. If Yang Shuang could be killed and the Great Sui Dynasty had no outstanding heirs, then the Great Sui Dynasty's ambitions could be destroyed.

So after Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang decided to let Zhao Yun and Ma Chao come. They were also prepared to not be able to go back and had made up their minds to complete the task even if they fought to the death.

Successfully sneaking into Kyoto is only the first step, and how to assassinate Yang Shuang is the key. Yang Shuang is very cautious now. He has ceremonial guards when he leaves the palace and is protected by elite personal guards. In addition, there are Jinwu guards in Kyoto, so it is not easy to assassinate Yang Shuang successfully.

The primary difficulty before them was how to determine Yang Shuang's whereabouts.

This is the most difficult thing for Zhao Yun and Ma Chao!

Fortunately, before coming, Zhuge Liang had already told them how.

At this time, these people gathered together. After Zhao Yun and Ma Chao ordered things, they let them hide in Kyoto.

Zhao Yun and Ma Chao, with a few confidants, began to investigate secretly.

A few days later, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao were fully prepared according to Zhuge Liang's method.

It was another dark night, the moon was dark and the wind was high.

Zhao Yun and Ma Chao led several confidants to the Qi Prince's Mansion.

In the past few days, they have been investigating Yang Yong of the Qi Palace and found out the escort situation of the Qi Palace.

With the skills of Zhao Yun and Ma Chao, although there were guards in the Qi Palace patrol, they could not find the two. They successfully touched Yang Yong's bedroom where he rested and sneaked in.

At this time, Yang Yong was sleeping with his beloved concubine in his arms. Unconsciously, he was caught in the incense ignited by Zhao Yun and was unconscious.

Then, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao fed Yang Yong poison. This poison could forge death, making Yang Yong seem to have died suddenly. Even if the imperial physician diagnosed, he could not find traces of the poison.

As for Yang Yong's beloved concubine, she was safe and sound.

Then, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao left here.

It turned out that according to Zhuge Liang's plan, if you want to assassinate Yang Shuang, you must lead Yang Shuang out of the palace and know exactly where he is. So Zhuge Liang asked Zhao Yun and Ma Chao to assassinate Yang Yong.

Yang Yong and Yang Shuang are brothers. Yang Yong died suddenly when he was sleeping, and Yang Shuang must come to pay his respects. Furthermore, if Yang Shuang is killed, the Sui Emperor will definitely make Yang Yong the crown prince. Although Yang Yong's ability is not as good as Yang Shuang, he is worse than Liu Chan, so killing Yang Yong is also a way to eliminate future troubles.

It can be said that this is Zhuge Liang's plan to kill two birds with one stone.

The next day, Princess Qi woke up and found that the King of Qi was gone. She was so scared that she immediately asked a doctor for examination, and the examination was taken and she died suddenly.

Princess Qi was heartbroken and fainted.

And the news naturally also came to the palace.

After hearing the news, Emperor Sui was deeply saddened.

He had lost two sons, but he didn't expect to lose another one. The pain of a white-haired man sending a black-haired man is incomprehensible to ordinary people.

Afterwards, Emperor Sui asked Yang Shuang to go there in person.

When Yang Shuang received the news, she felt something was wrong. Yang Yong was in good health. How could he die suddenly? So the first moment he received the news, he asked the chief imperial physician of the Imperial Hospital to go there.

When the Sui Emperor asked Yang Shuang to go to the Qi Palace, Yang Shuang waited for a while, and the chief imperial physician also came back and told Yang Shuang the results of the autopsy.

As a result, no signs of poisoning were found, nor were there any symptoms of homicide. It was because there was a heart problem, so the death was more sudden.

Yang Shuang nodded, thinking that Yang Yong had a sudden heart disease and it was difficult to treat, so it was normal to die suddenly.

Then, Yang Shuang, escorted by his personal guards, went to the Qi Prince's Mansion.

After mourning the body of King Qi and comforting the Princess of Qi, Yang Shuang arranged some trivial matters. After the process was completed, it was almost noon and he returned to the palace.

On the way back to the palace, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and others were secretly ambushed.

More than one hundred assassins rushed out, with great momentum. Although Yang Shuang was protected by his personal guards, the number of personal guards was not as large as that of the assassins, and he was directly surrounded by the assassins.

Moreover, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao were the most ferocious. Each of them had a spear, and they were unstoppable. They directly tore open the protective circle of their personal guards and entered the interior.

Han Qinhu ordered his personal guards to protect Yang Shuang, and then took out gunpowder to defend the enemy. The lit gunpowder was thrown into the assassin's pile, and killed and injured many assassins. But these assassins were like dead soldiers, not afraid at all, and fought desperately to kill them.
To be continued...