It is not easy to accurately shoot an enemy general from two hundred paces away.

Sun Jiushi was actually not sure, but he wanted to give it a try.

Loading, raising the gun, aiming, the movements were skillful and steady. Sun Jiushi's hand was born to hold a gun. He aimed the gun for a long time, but his hand still didn't tremble at all. His whole body quickly became one with the gun in his hand, and he continued to breathe.

It also gradually became long and gentle, like a leopard hiding in the depths of the jungle that has locked onto its prey, quietly waiting for the opportunity to strike a fatal blow.

The gunfire from the Marksman Battalion was still coming one after another. The defenders on the city did not dare to show their heads. They were still in deep fear. They were especially afraid of the strange weapons in the hands of the Anxi Army soldiers, as if they were given by God.

A magical weapon of the Anxi Army can kill a person instantly with a loud bang, leaving no time to defend. With such a magical weapon in hand, how can the city be defended?

Sun Jiushi's breathing had become one with the gun in his hand. He stared at the middle-aged general on the tower and exhaled for a long time. At the same time, his finger pulled the trigger.

There was a loud bang, and the garrison general on the tower suddenly flipped over and fell heavily to the ground.

The guards beside him were shocked and hurriedly blocked the front with their bodies, then quickly formed a human wall and carried the general off the tower.

Sun Jiushi put down his gun and sighed regretfully.

The shot just now hit, but it didn't hit the general's vitals. It only hurt his shoulder blade and couldn't kill him.

Seeing that his achievements were gone like a cooked duck, Sun Jiushi was so angry that he stomped his feet and hit his right hand a few times with his left hand. Thinking about it, he was not relieved. He raised his hand and was about to slap himself when he noticed that the soldiers of the Sharpshooting Battalion beside him were waving.

The commander-in-chief of Lingqi all looked at him blankly.

Sun Jiushi gave up the idea of ​​​​slapping himself, glared and said angrily: "What are you looking at! Fire your guns well, I can put down my words in front of the father-in-law, capture Shangzhou City, my marksman battalion has scheduled the first victory, who will do it today?"

Don’t blame the ruthless military law for losing my face.”

There was also a bow and arrow formation and a shield formation in front of the Marksman Battalion. Sun Jiushi squinted his eyes and looked at it, and said: "I ordered the Shield Formation to advance another twenty steps, and the Marksman Battalion also followed suit. If you have a shield in hand, you will be afraid."

What's more, the closer you are to the city wall, the more accurate the marksmanship will be."

The general hurriedly went down to deliver the order. Sun Jiushi looked at the towering city wall and sighed with regret.

I don’t know the identity of the guard who was shot and wounded. I turned around and asked my father-in-law shamelessly, does the shot and wound count as credit? Even if the credit is smaller, it is better than nothing.

What Sun Jiushi didn't expect was that the person he shot was Li Lijie, the defender of Shangzhou City, and the shot he shot had a great impact on the defenders of Shangzhou City.

The morale of the defenders, who were originally beaten by the sharpshooting battalion and did not dare to stand up, was already extremely low. As a result, the defenders were also shot and injured. Li Lijie was unconscious when he was shot. The guards carried him away from the tower, which was equivalent to the Shangzhou defenders.

More than half of the army's command system collapsed, and upon seeing this, the morale of the defenders became even lower.

Sun Jiushi may not be a qualified general, but he is definitely a blessed general. The kind who was kissed fiercely by a bull-headed horse face when he was born.

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After attacking the city for more than an hour, Gu Qing squinted at the status of the defenders on the city wall. He saw that they no longer dared to take the lead, and only a few rebel flags were left flying in the wind at the top of the city. So he turned to Chang Zhong and said: "That's almost it.

You can order the soldiers to climb the city wall, and order the bows and arrows and the marksman battalion to remotely cover the soldiers climbing the city wall."

The rumbling war drums beat rapidly, and the soldiers of the Anxi Army, who were standing in the center and were already eager to try, carried ladders one after another and slammed them towards the city wall like a tide.

The ladder was set up on the moat. Under the protection of the shield, the soldiers crossed the moat. The lieutenant general took the lead and climbed up the ladder, holding a horizontal knife in his mouth and climbing step by step towards the city wall.

The defenders at the top of the city were so frightened that they no longer cared about being afraid of the strange weapons of the Marksman Battalion. They risked their lives by sticking their heads out from behind the arrow stacks, holding stones and rolling logs and smashing them towards the ladder. Countless Anxi troops climbed up the city wall.

The soldiers screamed and fell down.

A ladder was pushed down, and soon another ladder was hung up on the city wall unyieldingly. The soldiers of the Anxi Army climbed up one after another. They had knives in their mouths, and their eyes flashed with extreme anger and murderous intent. The military camp was simple and honest.

At this moment, the soldiers have turned into crazy beasts, rushing towards their prey hungrily, waiting for the moment to choose and devour them.

Under the city wall, under Sun Jiushi's scolding, the soldiers of the sharpshooting battalion accelerated the speed of loading projectiles, and rows of bullets were fired at the city wall. Although most of them missed, there were also a few iron bullets that hit the defenders. The important thing is

, there is basically no free time in the three-stage shooting of the Marksman Battalion, and the guns are fired one after another.

The defenders at the top of the city had to deal with the ladders attacking the city, and at the same time, they also had to guard against the shooting of the sharpshooting battalion under the city wall. It often happened that several people were hit one after another by arrows at a certain place, which became a blank area. Anxi

The army almost climbed to the top of the city several times, but the defenders scrambled to fill the gaps again.

Gu Qing said nothing and pursed his lips, watching the fierce siege battle in the distance.

In fact, he has never advocated the idea of ​​storming the city. The price paid was too high, and today he had no choice. However, today the Sharpshooter Battalion played a great role in the siege, deeply frightening the defenders, and the price of storming the city was high.

It didn't seem that big. Gu Qing saw it almost succeed several times with his own eyes, and he suddenly felt confident.

The rhythm of the war drums is getting faster and faster. This is the drum sound that boosts the morale of the army. More and more soldiers are climbing under the city wall, and the murderous intention is getting stronger and stronger. The soldiers are working hard without caring about life and death. They only have this place in their eyes at the moment.

city.

Gu Qing stared at the city wall unblinkingly, his eyelids twitched, and he suddenly shouted: "Send someone to the city wall to issue an order. The first person to climb to the top of the city will be rewarded with a hundred guan, and he will be a general of the Jin Dynasty!"

One of the bodyguards galloped towards the city wall on horseback, waving the command flag and hoarsely conveying Gu Qing's reward order in front of the formation.

The next moment, the soldiers of the Anxi Army attacked the city at a much faster and more intense pace. Countless soldiers bravely climbed onto the ladder and climbed towards the top of the city like crazy, while the defenders at the top of the city became increasingly fierce.

Crazy, they knew what would happen to them after the city was broken. Gu Qing mentioned in his surrender letter that they would not accept surrender after the city was broken.

The two sides were fighting fiercely. Gu Qing looked up at the sky and pursed his lips tighter.

The sun was setting in the west and it was approaching sunset. Gu Qing had said that Shangzhou City should be captured before sunset. He must do what he said.

At this moment, the war suddenly took a turn for the better.

The Sharpshooter Battalion killed several defenders behind an arrow stack. The other defenders were too distraught to dare to come forward. A soldier from the Anxi Army took advantage of the emptiness at the top of the city and suddenly jumped onto the top of the city from a ladder.

As soon as he hit the ground and raised his hand, he slashed with a knife, and then swept across with a knife. Several defenders were immediately knocked down by him. Taking advantage of this opportunity, several Anxi Army soldiers jumped off the ladder. They blocked the ladder with their bodies and fought hard.

The ground and the defenders were in a life-and-death struggle.

After a short delay, more and more soldiers of the Anxi Army jumped up from the ladder to the top of the city, and finally they succeeded in occupying a corner of the city, while the soldiers of the Anxi Army behind them kept jumping down from the ladder.

After nearly three hours of siege, Shangzhou City was finally torn open by the soldiers who sacrificed their lives.

The sound of the war drums became even louder. After the soldiers of the Anxi Army who had climbed to the top of the city fought desperately for a while, a general also climbed up and gave a stern order to form a formation. After the formation was instantly formed, amidst the general's orders, the soldiers of the Anxi Army

Advance step by step, and the defenders retreat step by step.

As more and more Anxi troops climbed up the city wall, the morale of the defenders gradually collapsed.

I don't know who suddenly dropped his weapons. Ignoring the sharp scoldings of the defending generals, he threw down his weapons and ran towards the city wall.

Once there was one, there were two, and then, the second, and the third, weapons were thrown down one after another. The defenders could no longer organize a decent resistance, and they were defeated like a mountain.

The main attack of the Anxi Army was on the south wall. Gu Qing deliberately opened a gap outside the west gate of Shangzhou City. All the defenders ran towards the west gate like crazy. The generals and ordinary sergeants lost the fighting spirit to resist.

They just want to survive at this moment.

The rebel flags were thrown off the city wall, and the Anxi army's flags stood high on the top of the city. Countless soldiers stood on the top of the city cheering and howling in the direction of the Chinese army.

Gu Qing stood in the middle of the army with a smile on his face.

Shangzhou City is defeated.

Next, Gu Qing will focus on the entire Guanzhong and the north outside Guanzhong.

Plan for one area first, and then plan for the overall situation.

"Send an order to eliminate the remaining enemies in the city and clean up the battlefield. Order Shen Tian to lead five thousand soldiers and horses out of the city to pursue the enemy, and attack front and back with Ma Sui ambushing outside the city to annihilate all the rebels." Gu Qing ordered.

Shangzhou is not too important geographically and is not a battleground for military strategists, so Shi Siming only left three thousand rebels to defend the city.

But the location of Shangzhou is very important for regaining the entire Guanzhong.

Tongguan and Luoyang are adjacent to Shangzhou, and they are only more than a hundred miles away from Chang'an City. From the rebel's point of view, the Anxi Army's recapture of Shangzhou is equivalent to embedding a nail in the rebel territory. If it cannot be pulled out,

, and waited for this nail to kill them.

Before deciding on the strategy of advancing north, Gu Qing had a clear understanding of the overall situation. He knew where to attack first and where to attack later.

When the Anxi Army's flag was planted on the Shangzhou City Tower, it happened to be sunset.

The blood-red sunset slowly sank into the horizon, leaving the last trace of afterglow on the earth.

Gu Qing walked into the city under the bloody setting sun. After entering the city, Gu Qing's brows suddenly wrinkled.

There were casualties everywhere. The ground was covered with the corpses of rebels, as well as the corpses of many civilians. There were burned buildings everywhere in the city, as well as mourning and crying civilians and children.

This city, which was once the closest to the capital, has been ruined by the rebels and looks like a ghost town in hell.

"These beasts deserve to die!" Chang Zhong gritted his teeth and said angrily.

Gu Qing said calmly: "Now you should know why I don't want to take rebel prisoners, right? These beasts don't deserve to live."

Not long after entering the city, a personal guard hurried over, stood in front of Gu Qing and said: "My lord, someone is coming from Kucha City."

Gu Qing was stunned: "Who is coming?"

"People from Kangding Shuang."

Gu Qing gritted his teeth and said: "This bastard finally found me? If his money and food hadn't been delayed, why would I have paid such a heavy price to support the soldiers."

Chang Zhong said in confusion: "What heavy price did the Lord pay?"
Chapter completed!