Chapter 1093

It's just dawn! Qu Zhisheng immediately convened Gaochang officials.

"How is Gaochang City damaged?" asked Qu Zhisheng with a gloomy face.

"Back to the king, the northwest wind was strong last night, hundreds of houses were burned in Gaochang City, thousands of Gaochang people had no fixed homes, and six palaces were damaged." a Gaochang official reported heavily.

Spring itself is extremely dry. After the gunpowder was ignited, it was taken advantage of by the northwest wind, and the fire spread to many houses.

"Tang Jun really deceived people so much that he set fire in Gaochang City maliciously!" a Gaochang general said angrily. They didn't check for a moment, but they were thrown gunpowder by the Tang army with a stone throwing machine, which ignited many houses.

However, the catapult is just enough. What makes Gaochang headache is the vacated hot-air balloon. It can not only monitor the whole Gaochang City, but also set fire in Gaochang city. Even the Gaochang palace was attacked by it. People always think that the Gaochang city wall can protect them. Now with the hot-air balloon, the Tang army can ignore the protection of the Gaochang city wall and attack the city unscrupulously.

"Report!"

Suddenly, a soldier hurried to the palace and said with a panic on his face: "tell the Tang Dynasty that this is the letter of surrender that the Tang army shot into the city. If Gaochang refuses to surrender, the Tang army will burn Gaochang city."

"Burn Gaochang city!" in an instant, everyone in the Gaochang palace was embarrassed. Now the weapons guarding the city wall of Gaochang have been destroyed, and the city can be set on fire by the Tang army. Gaochang's situation has fallen greatly into the disadvantage.

For a moment, the whole Gaochang palace was in a low atmosphere, all staring at Qu Zhisheng.

Qu Zhisheng clenched his teeth and said, "it's a delusion of the Tang Dynasty to force Gaochang to surrender. There is still a deep ditch outside Gaochang City, and Gaochang city wall up to five feet is protected. As long as the Tang army can't attack the city, Gaochang city will always be safe. As long as we can hold on until the arrival of Gaoxi Turkic aid army, Gaochang can still be preserved."

"What about the hot-air balloons in the sky? If they set fire every day, I'm afraid it won't be long before Gaochang city will be burned out." all officials, civil and military, frowned and said that the threat of Datang is not targeted. As long as there are hot-air balloons, Datang can set fire in Gaochang City unscrupulously. Gaochang has a dry climate and is very easy to cause fire, Datang's move really hit Gaochang's death.

"Tell every family to prepare water tanks and be ready to put out the fire at any time." Qu Zhisheng said firmly. Although a hot-air balloon is a threat, it is impossible to make Gaochang yield just by this.

"Yes!" a group of Gaochang officials nodded. At the moment, Gaochang has not reached the end of its poverty. Although the officials were frightened, they did not have much intention of surrender in their hearts.

Outside Gaochang.

The generals of the Tang Dynasty looked at the thick smoke still floating from time to time in Gaochang City, and then looked at the huge hot-air balloon above their heads. They couldn't help but feel a burst of awe. No matter which general encountered this kind of weapon that could only be beaten passively but could not fight back, I'm afraid they all felt a burst of weakness.

"Fortunately, the hot-air balloon belongs to us," the generals said fortunately. As a friendly army, Tang Jun was naturally very satisfied with the damage caused by the hot-air balloon.

"The fire in Gaochang city has been put out!" Xue Rengui Lang said when he saw the flag from the hot-air balloon.

Hou Junji's face changed. Looking at Gaochang city without any movement, he said coldly, "it seems that Qu Zhisheng doesn't see the coffin and doesn't shed tears. Come and fill the cutting with earth."

With the order of Hou Junji, the soldiers of the Tang army pushed the already prepared unicycles, and the mud fell into the deep ditch outside Gaochang city.

The large-scale action of the Tang army naturally alerted the Gaochang garrison guarding the city, and began to shoot bows and arrows at the Tang army officers and soldiers pushing carts. However, these wheelbarrows were protected by iron plates. In addition, most of the Tang army's large garrison weapons were destroyed, which could not prevent the Tang army from filling the trench.

It even attracted the counterattack of Tang Jun. under the guidance of hot-air balloons, a series of stone catapults attacked Gaochang city. For a moment, Gaochang garrison was immediately killed and seriously injured, and was no longer able to stop Tang Jun from filling the earth.

Under the surveillance of the hot-air balloon and under the protection of the catapult, the unicycle transported the soil quickly. Gaochang city had high hopes to resist the trench dug by the Tang army. It was filled up for several miles in a day. So far, there was no obstacle to the attack of the Tang army.

When Gaochang guards saw the flat city, their faces changed greatly. So far, there was only the last barrier between Tang Jun and Gaochang City, which was Gaochang city as high as five feet.

What Gaochang didn't know was that in the earth filling trench of the Tang army, hundreds of firearm supervisors were also carrying out geotechnical work and were secretly digging a tunnel leading to the bottom of Gaochang city.

"This is the way that Mo Jijiu said Gaochang city can be broken at one blow. It is to dig a tunnel under Gaochang city to lead to Gaochang city. If so, don't bother. Gaochang city is built after Chang'an city. Every hundred steps, there will be buried water tanks wrapped in cow leather, and special personnel will be sent to monitor. Once the tunnel is found, water will be poured into the tunnel or toxic smoke will be released. Then When the time comes, everyone in the tunnel will die. Unless it is a tunnel dug in advance, using the tunnel to capture the city can only be a dead end. "Hou Junji was disappointed when he saw the action of the firearm supervisor, and his heart felt like being cheated.

At that time, mojiazi boasted that Gaochang city would be destroyed at one blow. He thought that mojiazi could really blow up the city wall with gunpowder. In the first World War of Tiancheng, mojiazi could only blow up the city gate, or kill and injure soldiers on the city wall, but the city wall of Tiancheng was undamaged. Although the power of gunpowder was good, it was thousands of miles away from the effect he wanted.

"Mo sacrificing wine, if you can't break Gaochang City, why do you boast? If Gaochang doesn't surrender, how many soldiers and men's lives will Datang have to sacrifice to break Gaochang city." Xin liaoer accused.

Other generals also frowned one after another. They had great hope for the firearms prison. However, the behavior of mojiazi digging tunnels disappointed them. Looking at the history of war, we know that few people in history rely on digging tunnels to break into the city. It can be said that this is a failed tactic.

Merton heard the accusations of the generals, but he was not angry. Instead, he said in a loud voice, "if this tunnel doesn't lead to the city, but just under the city wall?"

"Under the city wall, what should I do to invade the city?" Hou Junji was stunned. If he only reached under the city wall, the defenders in the city naturally had no way, but how could the soldiers invade the city?

Merton proudly said, "the firearms Regulatory Commission will put tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder under the Gaochang city wall. With one blow, the city wall will collapse. Naturally, the Tang army can easily attack the city."

"Collapse the city wall and attack the city!"

The generals couldn't help breathing. Since ancient times, the city wall is the most powerful defense weapon in the world. If the gunpowder of the firearm prison can collapse the city wall, the situation of the world war will change immediately, and the Mohist school will change the offensive and defensive trend of the world again.

What's more surprising is that these methods to change the mode of war are actually changed by using the abandoned tunnel tactics, and the mojiazi turns corruption into magic again.