Chapter 152: Who Will Make Your Heart a Sea of Fire?

Stray vectors whistling from the sky, but more just deterrence, the rebels in the Prince’s strong suppression, in the end, did not have the courage to aimed at the head of the city showered horror arrows. In this way, the pressure faced by the forbidden army guarding the palace is suddenly much smaller, what they need to face, just the problem of contact warfare. At this time, although the sound of killing under the imperial city was earth-shattering, it didn’t cause any loss to the forbidden army, instead, the forbidden army stationed in the direction of Taiping Square was facing the greatest danger.

However, at the main gate of the palace, the rebels are many and powerful, at this time thousands of rebels under the city divided into three columns, turned into a front and back of the three black lines pressed over, is really palpitating.

The muffled sound from the four corners of the imperial city kept ringing, every sound, always will drive the crowd heartstrings also for a move, the whole imperial city are to tremble on a tremor, the powerful recoil on behalf of the strong crossbow defending the city.

The huge crossbow arrows that pierced through the air like black light mercilessly pierced into the formation of the rebels, striking out countless puffs of blood that exploded, and coating the ground with sticky mud. However, there were only four defending crossbows, especially in the front square where there were only two on the left and right, so how many people could be killed? The triple waves of the rebels remained unhindered as they quickly rushed under the Imperial City.

The main target of the defending crossbow is still in the rebels used to attack the city on top of the ordnance, especially used to impact the heavy palace gate used on top of the sharp-pointed heavy car. These cars on top of the top of the cowhide made of fire front, the front end is cut into sharp giant wood, its own weight is large, once the high-speed push up, the impact of the palace door is self-evident.

A crossbow arrow accurately hit a battering ram, the sharp tip of the arrow easily tore through the hard cowhide which looked very sturdy, and ruthlessly crashed on top of the battering ram. Although the rammed car is sturdy, can not be broken by a huge crossbow, but the powerful impact of the crossbow itself, still let the rammed car jumped up, like a beetle on the ground felt the vibration of the earth, and then a tragic flip, will be next to the car of the rebel soldiers crushed to death, can no longer move.

Three columns of rebel onslaught formation, sandwiched between a dozen heavy and murderous battering rams, the siege just began, two city crossbows desperately firing, managed to eliminate three of them. However, the crossbows were too slow to load, and the rebels’ onslaught came very fast, but in a flash, most of the battering rams had already crossed the firing line of the crossbows and approached the three main gates of the palace.

Rebels shouted in unison to kill, bravely pushed the battering ram rushed over!

Only hearing the loud, tooth-achingly loud sounds, the battering ram finally succeeded in crashing into the thick palace gates. The main door of the Qing Palace was extremely sturdy, but under such a horrible impact, it still shook violently, the door pivot creaked, seemingly about to disintegrate, and the four huge bolts arranged from top to bottom were even more deformed by the impact!

However, the thick bolt finally resisted this powerful impact, the door pivot at the creaking sound also gradually subsided, the main door of the palace in addition to being knocked out of a large nest, was knocked down more than a dozen copper nails, everything is unharmed.

At least in this onslaught, the gate of the Qing Dynasty Palace, still seems as impregnable as ever.

However, the rebels didn’t have a different expression, and in the stern shouts of their superiors, they pulled the first wave of battering rams away from the palace gates in an oddly fast manner, while several battering rams in the second wave had already passed through the sparse bows and arrows of the forbidden troops at the city’s head, escaping the powerful but old man-like crossbows of the city guards that only moved once in half a day, and crashed fiercely into the palace gates!

Another loud ringing sound, the palace gate this time finally suffered an unrecoverable damage, the whole gate began to tremble, giving people a shaky feeling, as if it might collapse at any time.

The forbidden elite guarding the back of the palace gate on standby held their horses and calmly watched this scene, although their faces were calm, the anxiety that flashed in their eyes revealed their true mood.

On the other hand, the rebel soldiers who were risking their lives to launch a strong attack through a thick door saw the hope of the imperial city being breached at this moment, and their morale soared, roaring loudly and charging up again.

The third wave of attacking troops arrived, and the rebels threw down hundreds of corpses under the relentless blows of arrows, crossbows, boulders and rolling logs from the forbidden troops at the top of the city, finally succeeding in making the palace gates withstand a third onslaught.

With a muffled click, dust and smoke flew up, like a kraft paper bag wrapped in smoke being slapped through by the bad double palms of an urchin!

As the dust and smoke fell a little and the view was a little quieter, the countless rebels in the square looked at the thick palace gate in the center of the imperial city, which was smashed open with an enormous opening, and could not help but cheer in unison!

However, the closest to the imperial city of the group of attacking elite, but too late to send out what cheers, and even their face of exuberant joy, immediately were stunned and angry instead, because they see clearly, although the palace door was knocked open a great mouth, revealing the inside of the thick stubble, however, the whole palace door did not collapse signs.

The ground was covered with golden brass nails, and after that broken hole, it was actually thick stone and soil, and not a single gap could be seen at all!

The people in the palace had actually blocked the palace gate, had they not thought of leaving a way out for themselves? At this moment, what was the difference between the palace and a large grave?

A rebel colonel bellowed furiously, and with the attacking soldiers beside him, he drilled into that opening, although there was little room, but even if they dug, they would still dig this gate open, military orders were like a mountain, and the soldiers of the Kingdom of Qing had never been cowards who feared death on the battlefield.

However, a black lance, from the only gap above those stone soil, like lightning like stabbed out, a shot stabbed that colonel’s throat, blood burst!

Below the imperial city, those in the long palace gate hole piled positively full of rockery rubble ten paces behind, three hundred forbidden army calmly and nervously watched any movement in the palace gate hole, their chief officer has already led a small team, into the intervening, at this time occupies such an advantageous terrain, there is no reason to let the rebels so easily attacked in.

Above the imperial city, the great prince indifferently looked at the foot of the rebel army wave of stronger than a wave of attack, raised his right arm, swung down fiercely. The soldiers beside him led the order, quickly waved the yellow flag in their hands, along the line directly in front of the imperial city, hundreds of forbidden troops at the city head acted simultaneously, lifting the sacks under their feet, carefully tearing them open, and then sprinkled them towards the head of the rebels below who were no longer in the crossbow shooting boundary!

The yellowish powder, like a not-so-clean snow, fell down one after another, instantly wrapping the over a thousand rebels closest to the palace.

The rebel general was shocked, thinking it was poison from the Inspectorate, and ordered his subordinates to stay alert.

It was not poison powder. The three tofu factories that weren’t Fan Xian’s didn’t have the capacity to produce this much poison. All of this yellow powder was crude gunpowder that had been snatched in from the lowest level of that square building under Fan Xian’s orders before the forbidden army had been gathered into the palace in the early hours of the morning.

The imperial city has never made preparations to meet a strong military force to attack the city, so there is no hot oil in this room, and there is not too many things that can be burned, if it is not for the Supervisory Committee, Fan Xian, on their side, today’s battle to defend the city, I am afraid that the battle will be carried out abnormally miserable.

The Grand Prince glanced at Fan Xian, who had been calmly watching the rebel center camp in the distance, and gently nodded.

“Release!”

The face of the close colonel who had been following the Grand Imperial Prince was filled with a fierce look as he shouted out an order to all the forbidden troops above the Imperial City.

The imperial city, which had previously been sparsely showered with arrows, suddenly erupted with the densest rain of arrows since the siege, and all of these arrows carried a reddish glow, just like the unlucky color that Qin Heng’s No. 1 fierce general had seen before his death under the Gate of Zhengyang.

The rockets shot down to the city in an instant, without any need for accuracy, just into the powder.

The sky was beautiful, the autumn sun had risen, the weather was warming up, the morning wind had gone, and the powder that had been sprinkled by those powders was not dispersed by the wind, much less blown back up to the city, as Fan Xian had feared, but rather formed a large mist that enveloped the more than 1,000 rebels at the bottom of the city. Looking at the beautiful morning scene at the riverbank Willow Tee, one could only see the shadows and figures that were beginning to panic inside.

Rocket into the fog, instantly with an extremely terrible speed burned up, countless fire head flourish burning, quickly connected to a large sea of fire, like a fire dragon stretched across the imperial city below, but also like a piece of the golden sun shining under the calm lake, gradually rising waves, gradually turbulent, bright to the extreme, hot to the extreme, actually will be in the sky that the round of the sun’s splendor is also obscured down.

And these people in the fog? They howled miserably, burned, and turned into countless poor firemen, desperately trying to run out of the fog. Yet how could such a large-scale burning be borne by such ordinary beings?

Countless firemen ran wildly through the square, their miserable howls reaching the sky, and the scene looked exceptionally terrifying!

None of the burning rebel soldiers were able to run back to their camps, most of them turned into charred black corpses under the palace city, and some of the burning firemen only had time to run to the square before they fell to the ground with a bang, convulsing with the remaining embers and rising smoke on their bodies.

What a sad sight this was.

The rebel camp before the distant street building was in a panic, even the Qing army, which was known for its strict military discipline, still felt fear at this moment, no one had expected that the forbidden soldiers guarding the city would still have such horrifying means.

The Crown Prince’s face was filled with iron, while Master Qin looked up at the Imperial City with a face filled with indifference and slowly said, “Such a poisonous tactic, only Fan Xian could have done it.”

The charred smell on the square stimulated everyone’s mind, even the forbidden soldiers on the imperial city felt a hint of trepidation and helplessness, looking at those horrific scenes downstairs, some of them even had white lips, thinking to themselves that those charred and blackened corpses, could it be that they were all killed by themselves?

After this devastating blow, the first wave of rebels that entered the Imperial City returned to their camps miserably, however there were not many people left to return to their camps. The Imperial City was finally narrowly defended, but the rebels did not come back for a second round of attack.

Obviously, both those defending the city and those attacking the city were shocked by this round of unusually bloody and horrifying fire mist, and they all needed some time to digest it and stabilize their military mind. While the originator of this horrific fire attack, Fan Xian’s face was unusually calm as he looked at the rebel camp in the distance, pursing his lips and not saying a word.

The Grand Prince, however, saw Fan Xian’s right hand hanging by his sleeve trembling slightly, and the blood in his eyes was getting denser and denser.

The Grand Prince also did not expect that these powdered gunpowder from the Inspectorate would play such a horrifying role, looking at the scene under his eyes, he, who had experienced the sands and blood and fire of the Western Regions for a long time, did not produce any emotions that he should not have, but still felt shocked, if these powdered gunpowder could be used in this way, what kind of changes should happen to the wars in the world in the future?

“Today is luck.” Fan Xian didn’t look back at him and said softly, “There’s no wind or rain today in order to have such a good effect.”

Then he slowly lowered his head. Ever since taking control of the inner treasury, he had always been extremely attentive to the joint development work of the C Fang and the three divisions, but deep down he also understood why his own mother, Ye Qingmei, had worked extremely hard on other ordnance and livelihoods back then, but had strictly forbidden the utilization of gunpowder in this world.

Even in the capital city to save Sean, the monitoring institute also only provides a car gunpowder, this world for the utilization of gunpowder is still that kind of poor, even than the previous life when homemade firecrackers workshop are not as good.

Fan Xian is the only one in this world who knows that the wood shavings and foam flying around in the sky can cause a big explosion, not to mention the powder of gunpowder. Fan Xian couldn’t help but worry a bit about whether this scene today would open Pandora’s box for this continent. But after a split second, he immediately relieved himself, the Inner Treasury’s steel process was not up to scratch, and there was no need to worry about the advent of the age of hot weapons. And as he said to the Grand Prince, today’s defense of the city a fire has played such a big effect, the main thing is that the heavens are beautiful, their own luck is as strong as ever.

As for the tragic scene in front of him, in fact, Fan Xian also felt palpitations since he was young, he had seen countless corpses, and killed countless people with his own hands, but when he saw so many charred and blackened corpses appearing in front of him with his own eyes, he still felt a burst of desire to vomit.

This was the battlefield, the real battlefield.

And because of this, Fan Xian was even more determined to win, if one came to a world with some sort of meditative mission, he believed that his mission was that agreement between him and Haitang, and if he wanted to reach that agreement, he had to survive today.

To kill with a knife is to kill, to kill with a gun is to kill, and to burn …… to death with gunpowder is also to kill, except that it is more horrible and ugly, and there is no big difference.

This conspiracy rebellion after all belongs to the civil war, the two sides of the warring parties are the elite troops of Qing, and that scene just now made too many people feel cold. The rebels went back to their camps to lick their wounds, ready to attack again with a vengeful grudge, while the forbidden soldiers on the city’s head had some complicated expressions on their faces, and many of them no longer even dared to look at the little Lord Fan who stood indifferently on the city’s head in a black coat.

The smell of scorching, the remaining residual fire was still burning in front of the palace, the vermilion palace wall, the green city bricks at the head of the wall, were all scorched, it looked as if this beautiful and solemn palace had been viciously cut out with knives with countless scars.

The Grand Prince looked at the scene in front of him, slowly swept a glance at the forbidden troops on the city wall, and said to the four directions in a calm and firm voice: ”This is war! Remember, those under the city are rebels! If we allow them to storm the palace, my Great Qing Dynasty will fall into darkness from here on out, the people will never see the light of day, and you will be crushed into pieces!”

“What is under the city? It is the enemy.” The Grand Prince snapped, “You are all generals who followed me and came back from the west, what did we work so hard to fight against the Hu people on the grasslands for? All for the sake of the Kingdom of Qing, and those enemies want to destroy the very foundation of the Kingdom of Qing, they are no different from those barbaric Hu people! They are just beasts!”

“I order you all, from this moment on, you must treat these rebels as if they were hu people!”

“All for the sake of the Kingdom of Qing! His Majesty is watching you from heaven!”

Not exactly hot-blooded words, but these words coming from the mouth of the commander-in-chief had a surprisingly calming effect. The eyes of the forbidden soldiers at the city’s head gradually brightened up, no longer resuming their previous bleakness and bewilderment.

“For the sake of the Kingdom of Qing!”

Everyone on the Imperial City shouted, even the Third Prince standing beside Fan Xian was no exception, only the eyes of the Empress Dowager, who was being held in a deadly grip by Fan Xian, flashed with a trace of faint mockery and misery.

Right at this moment, a burst of heavy footsteps traveled up to the city, and a group of eunuchs, under the custody of officials from the Supervisory Yuan, carried three black coffins with great difficulty up to the city. The coffins were placed heavily on the city wall, emitting several muffled sounds.

Everyone looked at the three coffins in surprise.

Fan Xian gently held the third prince’s hand and stood behind the grand prince, saying softly to the surrounding soldiers of the forbidden army, ministers, and ministries of the Supervisory Court, “We are his majesty’s subjects, and we are following his majesty’s posthumous edict to stop those rebellious plots, and we will not take a single step back regardless of whether it succeeds or fails.”

The Grand Prince’s face was solemn as he continued with Fan Xian’s words, “There are three coffins here, one for me and one for Chengping and Anzhi. If the palace is broken, the three of us will die here, and we will be considered to be doing our filial duty to our father and loyalty to the Kingdom of Qing.”

He glanced at the crowd, then slowly said, “Deadly defense of the palace city, do you all have confidence?”

Even the dog-blooded trick of carrying a coffin into battle was brought out by Fan Xian, so how could the generals defending the city not have their blood boiling, and in unison, they shouted, “Yes!”

Fan Xian held Li Chengping’s hand and said in a harmonious voice, “Are you afraid?”

The third prince thought about it and shook his head vigorously, “Not afraid! Father’s son, will not be afraid!”

“Good.” Fan Xian smiled and looked at him, not saying anything else, just thinking that if the change didn’t happen, and this palace really broke, he would have to bring the oldest three to the end of the world, just hoping that this kid wouldn’t scold himself at that time.

The rebels in the distance began to gather again, the morale that was suppressed by Fan Xian’s poisonous plan seemed to be successfully converted into resentment towards the palace. Most of Qing’s armies had been in the battlefield for a long time, and this ability to mobilize their soldiers was no worse than anyone else. The eyes of the rebel soldiers looking at the palace began to be filled with a naked murderous aura.

A sea of fire looked terrifying, but in reality, it did not cause much damage to the rebels. Fan Xian looked at the scene in front of him and couldn’t help but tremble slightly, secretly thinking that if he had miscalculated, the next steps would only result in the deaths of many people on his side.

He knew that he was completely incapable of military affairs, so from start to finish, he did not offer any advice on the Grand Prince’s deployment of troops, but rather calmly acted as a bystander and helper.

At this moment, however, he was about to make an unusually bold proposal.

“How many forbidden troops do we still have on hand?”

“Two thousand seven hundred, basically no losses.”

Fan Xian listened sideways as the sounds of the killing in the band of Taiping Fang also diminished, frowned slightly, and said, “Do you think we can hold out?”

The Great Prince’s sword brows were already coated with a layer of fury, and he said directly, “Even if father himself leads the troops, he can’t hold it.”

The corner of his lips suddenly flashed a hint of self-deprecating flavor: “The disparity between the enemy and us is too great, if the Western Conquest Army had not been disbanded by Father, if I were allowed to lead …… no, even if I only led one third of the Western Conquest Army, I would dare to engage in a duel with the rebels under the city.”

The eldest prince took a deep breath, “But you don’t worry, to lose will not be defeated that badly …… These generals and soldiers under my command have eaten the meat of the Hu people on the grasslands and drank the blood of the Hu people …… The Qin family, hmm, the old man Hasn’t personally led an army for twenty years, and the soldiers of the Kyoto guard division are even lazier to the extreme, the only thing is the Dingzhou army ……”

Fan Xian intercepted, “Just now, in that round of offense and defense, I noticed a problem.”

“What problem?”

Fan Xian came over to the Grand Prince’s ear and whispered.

“What are you thinking?” A cold aura shot through the pupils of the Grand Prince’s eyes.

“I’m thinking about gambling ……,” Fan Xian lowered his head and said quietly, “We don’t have any more cards in our hands, and if we stay up like this, we’ll end up dead.”

The Grand Prince frowned and said, “Warfare is not child’s play, what you’re saying is ridiculous.”

Fan Xian smiled bitterly, “Indeed it is absurd, it’s just that I really can’t think of any chance to turn the tide.”

He glanced back at the three coffins shining with black light, his gaze gradually resolute. Yes, he still retained his bottom card, but without seeing everyone’s bottom card clearly, he wouldn’t use it no matter what.

After a moment of silence, the Grand Prince suddenly said, “How do you want to bet?”

“Dig up the mountain rocks at the palace gate.” Fan Xian raised his face and looked across the charred, slightly warm air of the square at Ye Chong, the commander of the Dingzhou Army, who was whispering something with the Second Prince at the side, his gaze slightly condensed, “We’re always ready to charge out and give ourselves a chance …….”

Then he smiled gently, “And give the world a surprise.”

At that exact moment, Ye Chong, who was having a secret discussion with the second prince, seemed to have sensed the gaze from the imperial city, raised his head, and looked back in an unusually calm and indifferent manner.