Chapter 229 Bombarding the Imperial Capital

The tense atmosphere began to spread in Wuyang City, the imperial capital, and all the people immersed in the prosperity of industry and commerce suddenly discovered that they were so fragile.

"Fight the false emperor Xia Guang!"

"Fight against Xia Guang..."

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A resounding slogan echoed around Wuyang City, and the big Wuyang City was surrounded by troops from all directions.

In the east is the army led by the crown prince, the second prince, and Xia Shu, known as one hundred thousand.

To the northwest is the team led by First Prince and Xia Xu, claiming 200,000.

To the southeast is the Kong family. The head of the Kong family, Kong Donglai, the governor of Nanyang County, personally led the team, claiming to be 150,000.

To the southwest is the army led by the governor of Songzhou County and Gao Bin, known as one hundred thousand.

Only in the west is the Wang family's own army, which protects the connection between Guangling County and the imperial capital Wuyang City, and also cuts off the enemy's encirclement in this direction.

In Wuyang City, Shangguan Guang personally led 200,000 soldiers to defend the city.

However, Taiwei Fu Minghui had already withdrawn from the battle and led more than 10,000 supplementary Imperial Forest Army to station at the imperial tomb five hundred miles away. In name, he was protecting the imperial tomb, which was regarded as maintaining neutrality. But everyone is trying to win over this force, including the eldest prince. After all, the Imperial Forest Army is an elite army, and Fu Minghui himself is also an excellent general.

The tense situation was on the verge of breaking out, and the entire Daxia Kingdom was only under the control of the Li family, and Anyang County and Kaiping County stood still.

High in the sky, there are a few Nascent Soul stage masters sent by surrounding countries to investigate and observe the fighting situation here. Even these masters in the Nascent Soul stage have many generals and commanders.

For example, the state of Jin sent its commander-in-chief, Li Lisong, who was in the early Yuanying period, over here. Li Lisong is now standing at an altitude of a thousand meters to observe the war below.

Since the public sale of arms in Anyang and the spread of industrial and commercial slogans, some outstanding commanders and generals have been keenly aware that the war situation in the future will change.

It's just that all the people observing from high altitude have used invisibility spells, and if they don't observe carefully and look for it, they can't find it.

Li Lisong just stepped on the flying sword like this, quietly observed below, and even started to use the jade slips to record all the situations. Burning jade slips is a tiring task for the Foundation Establishment Stage, but for the Nascent Soul Stage, it is a piece of cake.

The first thing Li Lisong observed was that in the middle of all the teams, there was a forest of steel—that was the munitions purchased from Anyang and the gunpowder weapons they made.

Don't underestimate the wisdom of others. Although we don't have enough industrial system to produce artillery like Anyang, it is enough to produce primitive artillery. These primitive cannons use iron balls or even iron sand as the means of attack, and their lethality is also not to be underestimated—much stronger than the lowest level of bows and arrows; the only thing is that the attack distance is very short.

The besieging army has ammunition, and the defenders of Wuyang City also have it! As an arms dealer, Li Xian is very 'fair', everyone buys the same. By controlling arms, Li Xian indirectly controlled the war.

In addition to artillery, there are ballistas (attacking side), ballista (defensive side) and the like. Because of bearings, springs, standardized steel, and the "industrial wires" sold by Anyang, bows and crossbows have undergone tremendous changes.

Today's crossbows are larger and more numerous than in the past.

Li Lisong looked at Wuyang City and the largest crossbow bed on the city wall, and he also took a deep breath. What kind of ballista is that? It has 12 bow arms, with three upper and lower layers; the bow arms are nearly three feet long when unfolded. The components include steel cables, springs, pulleys, etc. In addition, all the places on the crossbow bed that can depict formations are attached to them with formations made of industrial wires, which are weird and beautiful, exuding a luster like a poisonous snake.

Hanging on the crossbow bed are ten "crossbows" seven inches in thickness and one foot in length, which are almost steel pillars.

Also, there are quite a few dark cannon muzzles on the city wall, which look extremely hideous, as if they are windows leading to hell.

"Is this the so-called power of industry!" Li Lisong frowned. The war has not yet started, but Li Lisong has already felt the difference: this will definitely be a new war that subverts the previous war model!

The tense atmosphere was deadlocked, but Li Lisong was not in a hurry, and just observed slowly and carefully. Li Lisong understood very well that there were already many conflicts in Daxia, which had been dragged on for fifteen years, and there was only one excuse left. But now, the excuse is right in front of him, it's no wonder if he doesn't fight.

Sure enough, the scolding voices of their respective soldiers and officers soon came from below, and gradually the noise became louder and louder. It didn't take long for the general (Shangguan Guang) who defended the city wall and the generals of the surrounding local government forces (the governor) to start a dialogue.

They are all old-fashioned dialogues. One says you are unrighteous and we are teachers of justice; the other says you are rebellious and treasonous.

The two sides quarreled until their faces were red and their necks were thick, but neither could convince the other.

Seeing that it was evening, finally the crown prince, second prince, and Xia Xu couldn't bear it anymore: The throne should belong to him, but now he grows wings and flies away. This is absolutely not allowed. The crown prince issued an order: Crusade against the benevolent and unrighteous third prince Xia Guang, and punish the rebellious ministers and thieves Wang Chuan and Shangguan Guang.

The crossbow beds and earthen artillery were useless for the time being. Yuan Zhao personally sat in command of 50 large and small artillery and began to adjust the angle. For the first attack, be precise and hit the enemy's confidence.

Seeing that the prince made a move, the defender immediately panicked.

Shangguan Guang gave an order: "Launch! Don't let the rebels attack on their own initiative!"

With an order, the ballista that was prepared first buzzed and trembled, and one after another "steel pillars" flew out suddenly.

In the sky, Li Lisong, the commander-in-chief of the Jin Kingdom's Central Army, narrowed his eyes. He saw that the steel pillar, which weighed at least 14 people, burst out at a speed that Jindan stage masters could hardly catch. Kilometers away, "smashing" towards the artillery camp of the Luliang County position.

What about Yuan Zhao? Not in a hurry, seeing the opponent initiate an attack, he smiled instead: "You guys attacked first, we counterattacked passively."

As the giant crossbow flew over, several golden core stage masters and a large number of foundation-building stage young masters suddenly shot out, spells, talismans, magic weapons, etc. combined to block the huge crossbow.

Boom! With a sound of shock, the two gold elixir masters were knocked away by the giant crossbow. This powerful crossbow lost its brute force and knocked two masters into the air. But the crossbow itself was just ordinary steel after all, so it was stopped, twisted like a twist, and fell to the ground.

But the rest of the Golden Core Stage and Foundation Establishment stage masters were also uncomfortable. Such a violent impact almost shattered their magic weapons, and their true essence was shaken. As the saying goes, one strength breaks one hundred ingenuity, pure brute force reaches the limit, and it can still hurt the golden core stage master; everything has a limit.

But during this delay, 50 cannons of different sizes finally adjusted their posture and showed their power!

From the perspective of Li Lisong in the sky above, he saw a shock wave spread out and a cloud of smoke exploded. Some warheads in the smoke rushed out at a speed several times that of the crossbow, flying a distance of one kilometer in the blink of an eye, and hitting the city wall. This speed was almost impossible for Li Lisong in the Nascent Soul Stage to catch it.

Boom... Boom...

There was a violent explosion; because of the relatively high distance, Li Lisong heard the sound of firing and shell explosion almost at the same time. Fifty shells exploded at the same time, and the city wall shook for a while; the defensive formation on the surface of the city wall fluctuated like ripples.

"The explosion power of the largest shell exceeds the full strength of the average Jindan master in the late stage. And there are many, many shells like this!" Lin Lisong narrowed his eyes, "The situation of the war has really changed. Soldiers are no longer close From a distance confrontation, it was a long-range attack at the beginning!"

This is the first wave of confrontation between the two sides, but this first wave of confrontation has not stopped since the beginning. The ballista continued to fire, and the artillery on the Wuyang city wall also began to show off its power. Large and small shells fell into the queue of Luliang County soldiers ahead. There was a roar, and hundreds of soldiers were torn apart.

After that, the two sides continued to fight, there was no siege battle, no city wall defense battle, and there was only long-range artillery attack! Don't do anything else, let's bombard for a while before talking.

"No wonder Anyang City wants to demolish the city walls, no wonder Anyang City doesn't build walls after expansion! That's how it is!" Lin Lisong's eyes flickered, but his heart was already turbulent—the war situation has changed so completely! And changes in the war situation will inevitably lead to a new division of forces in Yingzhou; of course, this is a long-term topic, and there is no rush right now.

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