Hanbo

Chapter 347 Le Shi Dawan (4K)

The next day, the army began to gather and line up.

Huo Shan dressed neatly and stood in the formation and began to give orders:
"Zhao Puonu, I order you to take Ten Thousand Huangzhong and stand three miles outside the south city. If any enemy troops leave the city, destroy them."

"The last general takes orders!"

"Shangguan Jie, I order you to take [-] crowns and feathers and stand three miles away from the northern city. If any enemy troops leave the city, destroy them."

"The last general takes orders!"

After the two got the order, they immediately set off with soldiers and horses. Huo Shan watched the army leave and began to arrange again after the north and south formations were completed.

"Sun Shang, where is the head that was chopped off yesterday, bring it here!"

After a while, the braided head was brought up. Huo Shan looked at it from a distance, waved and shouted:

"Arrange Baiqi Yulin to bring this head and throw it in front of the formation, and lead the translator to accompany him, and tell the enemy army in the city who this is."

"The last general takes orders!"

Baiqi was dressed in red armor, red robes on the back, and the soldiers with red feathers on their heads lined up neatly, carrying their heads upright to the foot of Guishan City.

This heroic demeanor gave the enemy in the city an invincible feeling.

Just after Yulin showed off his might, Huo Shan was about to make arrangements when two riders came running from a distance, one from the south and the other from the north.

"Report to the Governor, Kangju's envoy has come outside the formation."

"Report to the Governor, the envoy of the Da Yue Clan has come outside the formation."

After Huo Shan heard it, he said directly:
"Let them wait for a while outside the formation to see how this Marquis can destroy Guishan City."

Then Huo Shan waved his hand:
"The army advanced to the second mile, and then took the champion gun to the front of the formation."

After a while, the champion cannon was brought to the front, which is a tall wooden structure.

Viewed from the side, it looks like a large soup ladle is placed on an inverted funnel-shaped wooden frame, and there is a rope and a leather pocket on the end of the soup ladle?
The triangular base is in contact with the ground. There are two wooden columns extending upwards on the triangular base, and a thick long wooden stick on a beam with a shaft.

On the end of the stick facing the ground, there is a large wooden box, which contains many gravels, which are counterweights.

The other end of the stick is tied with a rope, and there is an open leather pocket on the rope.

Huo Shan waved his hand again:
"let's start!"

110 tiger and ben heavy cavalry soldiers were ordered to dismount and go, and each was in charge of a champion gun.

There are 11 people, Shichang stands on the left side to command, two soldiers stand beside him, two soldiers stand in front of ten huge stones on the right side, and the remaining six people stand on both sides of the base with three people on each side.

Shi Chang blew his whistle, and then shouted loudly:
"start."

Shi Chang gave an order, and the six soldiers on both sides of the base immediately came behind the champion cannon, grabbed the rope on the wooden stick on the side of the leather pocket, and began to pull it down hard.

As one end of the leather pocket began to slowly lower, the counterweight on the other end began to slowly rise and aimed at Guishan City. After the large box of the counterweight slightly exceeded the crossbeam, it could not be pulled.

Shi Chang blew the whistle again, and the soldiers next to him immediately stepped forward, and took out a wooden stick from under the base, one end connected to the center of the base and the other end free to move.

And there is an iron hook on the free end of this wooden stick, and a rope is tied to the iron hook.

One of the two pulled the rope, and the other immediately stuck the iron hook on the pulled wooden stick.

After this scene was completed, Chief Shi blew his whistle again.

The six soldiers pulling the rope slowly loosened the rope in their hands, and only after confirming that the hook was really hooked did they let go of the rope completely.

Afterwards, the five people retreated with ease, and one of them gathered six ropes together, wrapped them around the rope of the leather bag, and then took out a hemp rope to tie them together.

After they pushed it, two soldiers standing beside the boulder carried a boulder weighing more than two hundred catties to the leather pocket.

Then roll the boulder easily into the leather pocket with a large opening, and then place the boulder in a good position to ensure that it can fly straight ahead.

After all this was done, Chief Shi immediately raised the red flag in his hand and blew his whistle.

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, the champion cannon is ready."

"Beat the drum, sound the trumpet, beat the drum again, and attack the city with huge stones."

After the herald gained strength, he began to issue orders to the herald:
"Drumming once and for all, the boulder sieges the city."

Then the messenger rushed to the whole army, the drum sounded instantly, the command flag began to wave, and the order of the messenger was heard all around.

Accompanied by more and more passionate drums, the soldiers' breathing became heavier and the fighting spirit in their eyes became stronger and stronger.

And just as the sound of the drum was coming to an end, Huo Shan also came to the front of the formation, holding a red flag. The first attack of the champion cannon would naturally be born under his hands.

Huo Shan raised the red flag, swept it from left to right, then raised the red flag flat, and waited silently for it to be blown once. The ten chiefs stared closely at Huo Shan.

And at the moment of drumming, Huo Shan waved the red flag, and the whistles of the ten chiefs blew from left to right immediately, and the soldiers who were pulling the hook rope heard the sound of their own whistles, and immediately pulled the hook.

Without the shackles of the hook, the counterweight immediately fell towards the Guishan City. The counterweight drives the wooden stick, the wooden stick drives the rope, the rope drives the leather pocket, and the leather pocket drives the boulder. The boulder moves forward with a strong sound of breaking through the air Fly high into the sky.

As the whistle blew one by one, boulders flew out one by one from left to right.

When flying over the distance from the front of the formation to Guishan City, and when it was slightly in the middle of Guishan City, the boulder began to fall under the action of gravity, and then directly hit the top of Guishan City.

The moon wall was shattered, and the enemy army behind was smashed into minced meat, and then flew into the city maintaining momentum, smashing into the backup soldiers and horses standing under the inner city wall, which were soldiers on the wall.

Ten huge boulders flew by, and the eyes of the lucky enemy soldiers gradually filled with fear. They couldn't bear the pressure, and their trembling trembled.

But on Huo Shan's side, it was beaming, Sun Shang shouted loudly:

"I report to the governor, none of the ten boulders flew away, and all of them hit the city wall."

"Haha, how many city heads, how many city walls?"

"Back to the governor, six city heads and four city walls."

Huo Shan laughed loudly:

"it is good!"

Then hold the red flag and point directly forward:
"Ten volleys, ready."

After waiting for five breaths, the ten chiefs all blew their whistles, and then Huo Shan waved his red flag:

"put!"

"Three city heads, five city walls, and two flew into the city."

Immediately after the release, the red flag was raised to prepare for the next round. The enemy did not even look at the top of the city, because Sun Shang counted the results of the battle.

"put!"

"Four city heads, three city walls, one flew to the city, and two did not arrive."

Huo Shan waved the red flag backwards:
"Substitution."

The two people who pulled the rope came out, and began to change the people who lifted the boulder.

"put!"

……

After six rounds, sixty boulders flew out. Huo Shan was just about to start the next round, but Sun Shang's excited shout came from beside him:
"The governor, it's broken, the city wall is broken."

Huo Shan was about to draw out his sword immediately for the whole army to attack, when he glanced at it, it was indeed broken, but there was only a gap in the top.

Huo Shan glared at Sun Shang, and Sun Shang also knew that he was not calm, so he shrank his neck.

"Let me point the five planes on the left to the gap, and the five planes on the right remain the same."

"put!"

After another two rounds, Sun Shang shouted again:

"It's broken, Governor, this time it's really broken."

Huo Shan rolled his eyes:
"Okay, okay, I see."

A section of the city wall on the south side of the east city wall has collapsed in its entirety.

"What did I say, Xiao Chenger, ten champion cannons are enough."

Sun Shang nodded again and again, then Huo Shan raised the red flag and shouted loudly:
"Last round, let it go!"

Immediately afterwards, Huo Shan threw the red flag to Sun Shang, drew out the Snake Slaying Sword, pointed at Guishan City and shouted:
"The whole army will attack, not a single mansion will be left in the city, and the people in the city will not commit any crimes. Anyone who offends me will be punished no matter how far away!"

The Habayashi Huben standing at the forefront all drew their champion knives, and the three thousand Habayashi and the two thousand Tiger Ben rushed out first.

"Whoever offends me will be punished no matter how far away!!!"

The [-] Wusun followed closely behind without showing any sign of weakness, and Huo Shan was a little worried whether this small Guishan town could hold the [-] cavalry.

As for whether Wusun soldiers could obey Huo Shan's orders, it should be no problem.

Because on the way here, Huo Shan let them know what would happen if they didn't obey the military orders and regulations.

The cavalry all over the sky rushed towards Guishan City like a wave. Sometimes, breaking a city is as simple as that.

Not to mention this small Guishan city, there are enough champion cannons and boulders, even Chang'an City can't stop him.

The name is Champion Cannon, but it is actually an enhanced version of the catapult, just like the return cannon.

The structure is quite simple, in the final analysis it is a principle of leverage.

But it is not that simple to understand him and create a powerful catapult.

What is the height of the catapult, what is the orientation angle of the counterweight, how to make the shaft on it, what is the length of the stick, what is the length of the rope between the stick and the leather pocket, what is the opening of the leather pocket, and the boulder What shape, how much the boulder weighs, how to place the boulder, etc., are all knowledge.

Give a modern person who has read the book a few glances, as long as he has patience, he can create a similar one.

But in this era, you don't have the national power of a big man, you can't build such a powerful catapult, and you can't even imitate it.

Because your countries in the Western Regions don't have talents in this field!

Even in the previous life, the Huihui cannons used by the Mongols were made by Huihui people and craftsmen, but at this point in time, it was more than 1000 years earlier.

However, there have been catapults for a long time, and there are no such powerful ones.

Speaking of which, the Huihui cannon in the previous life was still from the Huihui people in the Western Regions. I didn't expect that the first battle in this life would be used in the Western Regions.

"Let's go to the north of the city."

After Huo Shan looked at it for a while, he flicked his cloak and turned his horse's head, preparing to go around the Wusun soldiers and horses on both sides and start to retreat.

The distance from the front of the formation to the city is only two miles to the left and right. After more than 2 soldiers and horses rush to the city and disperse, less than half of them will be full.

Huo Shan estimated that most of the [-] Wusun troops would not be able to enter the city until dark.

But Huo Shan wasn't worried. There were no other soldiers around, so he wasn't afraid of being attacked by surprise.

As for his going to the north of the city, he was planning to visit the west of the city to see if the Lord of Dawan and the nobles really wanted to live and die with Dawan.

Huo Shanwei's lack of one of the three is not because he is afraid that they will arouse the heart of mourning soldiers who must die, so they will resist to the death, but to leave a way for the king of Dawan.

Zhao Chongguo in the west is waiting eagerly. The few nobles who killed yesterday did not have much credit. The Lord of Qiuci and Prince Dawan are okay.

As Huo Shan walked, he remembered one thing:

"By the way, Sun Shang, how is Jun Xumi's substitute?"

"It's done, you haven't seen the governor, it can be said that they are exactly the same, probably no one can tell the difference except his wife."

Huo Shan's face immediately turned weird.

Huo Shan couldn't hold back his laughter, and then he sighed:

"Time is fate, I gave him the opportunity to give him a big reward after he made contributions, but his life is not good, and he doesn't know how to call for a fight."

"Then the governor means to find a time?"

"Well, change it!"

"The general will know."

After Huo Shan finished his orders, he wondered if Jun Xumi really made great contributions, would he really let him go?
In the end, he came to the conclusion that he should, or with a high probability, not spare his life, because Jun Xumi is ambitious and capable, and now he knows how to bear it.

But he probably won't use a substitute anymore, he will let Liu Xijun's unborn child be the Lord of Wusun, which is a great gift to Jun Xumi, and it is not a breach of promise.

Coming to the north of the city, Huo Shan found Shangguan Jie:

"Did you come out?"

"Hey, I just came out, and there was a lot of rushing out, and it's still coming out, about 5000 people, and a thousand people went straight to the northwest."

"In the northwest, there are also soldiers and horses over there. It's not a big problem, so why don't you chase after them?"

Shangguan Jie smiled again, looked at Huo Shan expectantly and said:

"Great Governor, you asked me to guard Beicheng. If you didn't let me chase, I wouldn't dare to chase after him!"

Huo Shan looked at him appreciatively:
"good."

After a word of praise, he continued:
"Then go chase, you chase in front, I follow behind, it will be yours or Zhao Chongguo's in the end, it depends on your two abilities."

As soon as Shangguan Jie smiled, Huo Shan continued:

"Xiao Hei, go and inform Zhao Chongguo."

Shangguan Jie immediately looked at Huo Shan with aggrieved expression.

"Look at it, it's you chasing him, you have the upper hand, and Zhao Chongguo is in Zhengxi, it's not fair not to notify."

Shangguan Jie looked up to the sky and sighed.

"If you don't go, people will run away."

Shangguan Jie immediately turned his horse's head and shouted:
"The governor, I'm leaving."

"go Go."

After Shangguan Jie left with his troops, Huo Shan gave another order:

"Send an order to Zhao Puonu, let him lead Huangzhong, clean up the retreating soldiers who escaped from the city, or drive westward, don't let anyone go."

"promise."

Then Huo Shan took a thousand tigers and followed in the footsteps of Shangguan Jie to the northwest.

Early the next morning, the Lord of Dawan was captured 120 miles northwest of Guishan City.

As for the final winner, Zhao Chongguo.

For Huo Shan, the perfect ending was that he, the future governor of the Western Regions, ended the war in the Western Regions.

As for the subsequent Kangju, they had already agreed to Huo Shan's conditions. As for the Dayue Clan, if they dared to fight, Huo Shan would praise them.

"Where is the Lord of Dawan?"

"Back to the governor, in the army, do you bring it?"

Huo Shan looked around, and there happened to be a hill not far away:
"No need, build me a huge stone platform three feet high, one foot wide, and one foot thick on the top of the mountain.

The Marquis wants to strangle Shi Dawan, and tomorrow, he will be sacrificed to heaven. "

(End of this chapter)