Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Just when all parties were paying attention to the farce of the father-son battle, Chu Xin's mansion in Luoyang City also welcomed an uninvited guest.

This person is none other than the shadow who just escaped from Chang'an City.

When Shadow informed Chu Xin of the current situation in Chang'an City one by one, and named Chu Mo as the man behind all of this, Chu Xin felt a little uneasy.

However, as the war gradually approached, Chu Xin could not spare more energy to pay attention to the other party, so she could only temporarily give up the idea of ​​sending people back to Chang'an to trouble Chu Mo, and let Shadow stay by her side to cooperate with the next steps. fighting.

Although she reduced Li Shimin's 10 troops to nothing in front of Li Chengqian, Chu Xin still knew herself.

Although his own army is equipped with firearms, it was formed relatively late and had previously focused its development on firearms.

Therefore, one's own army is adequate in defense, but insufficient in offense.

Even though he defeated Li Shimin's 10-strong army in the front, he was unable to expand his victory afterwards and could only allow them to flee in all directions. In the end, they might even be regrouped and launch another attack on Luoyang City.

Thinking of this, Chu Xin felt a little headache. If Li Shimin's vitality could not be effectively wiped out, it would not take long for the other party to come back again.

If you want to complete your victory in one battle, you must first capture Li Shimin.

But as the opponent is the commander of an army and the emperor of the dynasty, he is protected by experts and supported by many troops. If you want to kill him, then. . .

Thinking of this, Chu Xin set her sights on the artillery on the city wall.

What if he took advantage of his unpreparedness and killed him directly? . .

Thinking that if he directly kills Li Shimin under the city of Luoyang, and then supports Li Chengqian to become emperor and become his puppet, will he be able to control the Li Tang Dynasty?

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that this plan was feasible. That night, Chu Xin ordered people to move all the artillery onto the city wall. She also ordered Shadow and Shadow to lead half of the shadow guards out of the city and started the deployment directly.

By the next morning, most of the civilian men recruited from the city were even dispatched to cut down all the trees that could be seen outside the city.

If it is really impossible to deal with, it will be burned directly, euphemistically called to prevent Li Shimin from having the materials to build siege equipment.

The people in Luoyang City were quite complaining about this. After all, if they wanted to go out of the city to cut firewood in the future, they would have to travel a long distance.

However, Chu Xin ignored all of this. Li Chengqian even supported Chu Xin's approach and took the initiative to help her clarify and took the whole matter on himself.

She claimed that this war was a righteous act, a battle to save her father and help her eliminate the treacherous villains around her.

Although Li Chengqian continued to promote and build momentum, most people in the city didn't buy it.

After all, the world has just reached peace, and the people are just thinking about recuperating and recuperating, and are not willing to start another war at all.

Although there is a prince coming forward now, it depends on who the enemy is.

If it were those foreigners, the common people would naturally be shouldering the responsibility, but this war was their own family matter, a private matter.

No common people wanted to see the Tang Dynasty being dragged into the shadow of war for their own selfish desires.

Therefore, after the common people heard Li Chengqian's propaganda, they basically scoffed. When recruiting young men to defend the city, they basically hid as much as possible and avoided it as much as possible.

Although Li Chengqian and Chu Xin had a very bad impression in the hearts of the people, Chu Xin had a deep and stable foundation in Luoyang City, and most of the officials in the city were trained by the Chu family.

Therefore, even though the people were very resistant, a large number of young men were still recruited to take charge of logistics support.

As time passed, Li Xiaogong also appeared on the horizon outside Luoyang City in the early morning of the third day when the sun had just risen.

After Chu Xin, who had been paying close attention to Li Xiaogong's actions for a long time, received the news, she just raised the corner of her mouth slightly and directly ordered the city gate to be opened and took the initiative to attack.

When Li Xiaogong saw that the gates of Luoyang City were wide open and the enemy was taking the initiative to attack, he was so eager to achieve success that he immediately ignored Li Shimin's orders and ordered to annihilate all the troops leaving the city without even taking a break.

However, the ideal is full, but the reality gave Li Xiaogong a fatal blow.

When he rushed to the gate of Luoyang City with his 3000 cavalry and 10000 infantry, what faced him was neatly arranged square formations, with black holes in the muzzles of muskets.

Following the commander's order, the soldier who had been waiting for a long time raised the musket in his hand. Without looking, he lit the fuse and fired forward.

Following a burst of neat gunshots, a look of white eyes appeared, and then the lead bullets that came out of the barrel were like the death talisman of the Lord of Hell, shooting into the body of the charging Tang Dynasty sergeant.

As the cavalry in the front row fell, Li Xiaogong took a breath of cold air, but without flinching at all, he commanded the cavalry to charge again.

In his opinion, if the group of "farmers" holding fire sticks on the opposite side were approached by his own army, it would be a devastating massacre.

Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that Chu Xin used the three-stage shooting technique.

As the soldiers in the first row ignited the firecrackers in their hands, they immediately squatted down, while the soldiers in the second row raised the firecrackers that had been loaded in their hands and started firing.

When the soldiers in the second row completed their tasks and squatted down, the soldiers in the third row raised their firecrackers and began to massacre.

Just like this, the cavalry commanded by Li Xiaogong didn't even have a chance to get close, and were shot directly outside the battle line.

Li Xiaogong, who had been paying close attention to the battle ahead, watched all this with eyes wide open. If the deputy generals and guards around him hadn't stopped him, he would have led his men to charge forward.

Although His Majesty the Emperor did not allow him to take the lead in launching an attack, now that the battle had begun and there was no turning back, Li Xiaogong did not want his soldiers to die inexplicably.

So, he immediately changed his tactics and ordered the heavily armored infantry to hold up giant shields to block the front, trying to get close to the enemy.

With the protection of the giant shield and the resistance of the infantry's armor, although there were still some casualties, the situation was indeed much better than before, which gave Li Xiaogong hope of victory.

However, as soon as this hope arose, it turned directly into despair.

After the soldiers approached Chu Xin's square formation about 150 meters and entered the shooting of bows and arrows, Li Xiaogong was about to give the order to release arrows when he suddenly heard a shout from the city wall.

Then, small catapults made a buzzing sound, and then countless sparking thunder-like objects were thrown into the infantry square.