flstandardbreds Chapter 142 Gunpowder is coming
Chapter 142 Gunpowder is coming
Xie Beiyu was standing on the city wall at this time, with his fists clenched, his eyes vicious, and his heart full of hatred and unwillingness.
It was Xie Beiheng who killed my father.
It was also because of Xie Beiheng that the father and son were never able to meet each other in this life.
When he left Dayue Capital, he was already injured and was chased all the way by the assassins sent by Xie Beiheng. When he escaped back to Beirong, his father had already gone to war.
He wanted to rush to the border immediately to help his father, but he had no name, no official position, and no job at the time, so even if he went to the front line, he could not lead the troops to fight.
So he went to ask his uncle, the emperor, for help, hoping that his uncle would issue an edict to declare and restore his status as the legitimate son of the General of the Southern Expedition. However, his uncle refused, saying that the world must not be allowed to know that his mother, a princess of a country, became the concubine of a general of an enemy country. If so, people would question his bloodline, unless he announced to the outside world that he was the child born to his father and another woman.
His mother was still imprisoned in Dayue, so how could he agree to recognize another woman as his mother?
In the end, he had no choice but to perform a drama of rescuing the emperor with his uncle. Because of his meritorious service in rescuing the emperor, he was conferred the title of the third-rank General of Annan.
But just when he thought he could rush to the front to see his father immediately, he suddenly received the news that his father had died in the battlefield. He had waited for twenty-two years, but now, father and son were separated by death.
The hatred for his father's murder was irreconcilable, so he immediately rushed to the border to avenge his father, but he didn't expect that the idiot Lu Yuanzhou came up to him again and questioned and harassed him in every way.
So he didn't reach the border until last night. However, Beirong had lost two cities in succession and its military strength was less than 100,000.
All this is because of Xie Beiheng!
National hatred, family hatred, new hatred and old hatred!!
Xie Beiyu looked at the densely packed Zhenbei Army rushing up the city with ladders and immediately shouted orders, "Shoot arrows, throw stones!"
Today, he not only has to defend this city, but in the future, he will also have to kill Xie Beiheng with his own hands!
However, the Zhenbei Army fighting in the front were wearing military helmets and bulletproof vests. Facing the rolling stones and dense arrows, they seemed not to see them. They lowered their heads, endured the pain and continued to charge forward bravely.
Seeing this, Xie Beiyu immediately remembered the secret guards wearing golden soft armor on Longhua Mountain that day, but he did not expect that there would be such a large number of Zhenbei Army.
He was so angry that he almost bit his teeth off.
Seeing that the Zhenbei Army was about to charge, Xie Beiyu immediately changed his tactics.
"Fire attack!"
"Someone, light the fire, and roll the fireball!!"
Although the Zhenbei Army was wearing armor and had little exposed clothing that made them less susceptible to fire, it could not be completely avoided.
Soon, several Zhenbei Army soldiers who were burned by the fire rolled down from the ladders, spitting blood and falling to the ground.
Seeing this, Xie Beiheng's face changed drastically. Without any hesitation, he immediately asked Xie Qinchuan to retreat.
The army is now out of gunpowder, and there are 100,000 Northern Rong troops in the city. It is almost impossible to capture it in one go.
The purpose of this siege was to find out the strength of the new Marshal of Beirong and to make plans for the next battle after breaking the city. Of course, if we can really capture the city this time, it would be the best, and the army can continue to march north, but if not, it would be fine to blow up the city gate when the gunpowder arrives.
If there were no gunpowder, the number of casualties in such a siege would have been very small. But now that we have weapons that can attack a city without losing a single soldier, we must not let any soldier sacrifice in vain.
Although Xie Qinchuan was filled with resentment and wished to tear Xie Beiyu into pieces immediately, he also knew that now was not the right time. Every soldier in the Zhenbei Army was a brother who had followed him through thick and thin, and he could not bear to see his brothers make unnecessary sacrifices.
He immediately ordered: "Withdraw!"
Xie Beiyu watched Xie Qinchuan and Xie Beiheng retreat with their army, and he did not feel a bit of relaxation or joy in his heart. On the contrary, he felt unprecedented worry.
He had heard a long time ago that Dayue had developed an extremely powerful weapon. The gates of Ganda City, Suba City, and even the previously occupied Suning City were blown up by this weapon. A city gate weighed a thousand pounds. What kind of weapon could be so terrifying?
However, he had also heard that this weapon needed to be ignited with fire in order to explode.
Everything that needs fire to function is naturally afraid of water...
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That night.
Zhenbei Army Camp.
Except for the patrolling soldiers, all the soldiers in the army had fallen asleep, and there was silence under the dim firelight.
A Xue Cang guard came hurriedly to Xie Beiheng's tent with a night vision telescope in his hand.
"General, I have discovered something unusual."
Xie Beiheng suddenly opened his eyes and sat up quickly, "Come in."
Xue Cangwei entered the tent and immediately reported, "General, I, your subordinates, are following your orders to observe the situation at the Wulan City gate. Just half an hour ago, you discovered that the Northern Rong army was digging a tunnel beneath Wulan City."
"At first I thought they were digging a trap, but I didn't expect they would dig outside the city walls as well."
Trap-buckets, which involve digging deep pits under a city wall and inserting arrows or stakes into them as traps, are a common tactic used in defending a city, but they can never be dug beyond the city walls.
Digging a tunnel at the city gate?
Xie Beiheng's dark eyes narrowed slightly.
The Beirong are the ones defending the city, and now they don’t even have a hundred thousand troops. They don’t dare to go out of the city gate to face the enemy head-on. What’s the point of digging tunnels?
Just thought of this...
Suddenly, a light flashed in his mind, and Xie Beiheng's eyes widened suddenly.
This Xie Beiyu really cannot be underestimated at all.
"go!"
After saying that, he immediately strode out of the tent, brought a team of personal guards, and rode fast to the vicinity of Ulan City. Then he used his lightness skills to meet up with the Xue Cang guards hiding under the city.
Xie Beiheng looked towards the city gate. It was pitch black and he could not see anything. Perhaps in order to hide the people digging pits under the city, there was only a faint fire on the city wall.
Xie Beiheng immediately put on the night vision binoculars, and his vision suddenly became clear. He saw that a long tunnel had appeared under the city gate, extending to the left side of the city gate and heading towards the mountain.
"Is there a water source on the mountain?" Xie Beiheng asked quickly.
The Xue Cang Guard beside him nodded immediately, "Yes, General, I went up the mountain to investigate and found a lake not far away at the foot of the mountain."
Xie Beiheng's eyes darkened.
As expected, Xie Beiyu wanted to divert water to the foot of the city to prevent the Zhenbei Army from using gunpowder to blow up the city gate.
Xie Beiheng immediately ordered, "Don't leave any Beirong troops who leave the city tonight alive!"
"Fill the tunnel back for this general!"
"Divert the lake water from the foot of the mountain to another place!"
"Until the lake water is diverted elsewhere, keep a close eye on the city gates. Kill every Beirong soldier who leaves the city!"
Upon receiving the order, Xue Cangwei and the royal guards all put on night vision binoculars and quickly ran towards the city gate.
Perhaps because they were worried that the plan would be exposed, Beirong did not dare to send out too many soldiers. In addition, with the help of night vision binoculars, all the Beirong troops leaving the city were soon killed one by one.
Including those who hid silently in the trees and bushes, they never knew until their death why the Zhenbei Army discovered them even though it was so dark.
Then, the second night, the third night...
Every night, the Beirong army would leave the city, intending to dig tunnels to divert water again, but every time they just pulled the rope to descend from the city, they would be shot and killed by the hidden Xue Cang guards.
Xie Beiyu was furious. He really couldn't understand why the Zhenbei Army could always discover it.
Until the fifth day.
Xu Chong excitedly came to Xie Beiheng's tent and said, "General, the gunpowder has been delivered."
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