I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 256, Gunpowder Leakage

The situation at Juyongguan is dangerous, connecting Lulong and Jieshi to the east, and Taihang Mountain and Changshan Mountain to the west.It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.It has two passes, the north and the south. The south is called "Nankou" and the north is called "Juyongguan".

Juyongguan is a pass built on the mountain. It was originally a strong fortress of the Han Dynasty. With the rapid expansion of the Tengjia Army on the grassland, Liu Yu, the prefect of Youzhou, was worried that the Tengjia Army would attack Youzhou from the grassland. A solid outer wall was built around the surrounding mountains, forming a sun-shaped defense system.

The outer main city wall is five feet high, and the whole body is built with rocks and blue bricks to guard against the crowbars of the Rattan Army. There will be a prominent watchtower every 20 feet of the city wall. These learning the Star Fort structure of the Rattan Army can do it to the enemy. Attacking from three sides, if there are enough crossbow arrows, even a 10 army will find it difficult to overcome this pass!

After Sun Qing faced the fortress of Juyongguan, after a tentative attack, he found that the defense was too strong, and his rear was unstable, so he left 1 soldiers to defend the defenders, and his remaining 2 troops began to sweep Shanggu counties!So in the case of fierce battles on other fronts, Juyongguan has a bit of leisure!
"Boom, boom, boom!"

A loud sound of war drums awakened Gongsun Zan. He immediately got up, strode out of the house, came to the outer city of Juyongguan, came to Yan Rou and asked, "The Tengjia army is attacking!"

Yan Rou smiled wryly and said: "Our good days are over. Just now when the spies came to report, Lei Gong brought 2 troops to the camp of the Tengjia Army. He should regard us as the breakthrough point of the Yanshan defense line!"

Gongsun Zan looked in front of the city wall, and from the horizon in the distance, a group of figures slowly approached. The silver armor reflected rays of sunlight from time to time, and the soldiers at Juyongguan looked nervously at the soldiers not far away. This time their enemy was Lei Gong, who knew how to use Lei Fa, and the soldiers in Juyongguan were worried that Lei Gong would use Lei Fa to attack them!

Although their Juyongguan is strong, they may not be able to resist Lei Gong's thunder method. Thinking about Yanmen Pass, which is similar to Juyongguan, it has not resisted Lei Gong's thunder method. Although Juyongguan has built a solid outer wall, the soldiers are still worried!
Soon the army of the Tengjia Army approached Juyongguan. Xu Wei divided the 1.5 army in his hands into three parts on the left, middle and right, each with 5000 people.

I saw the battle flags of the Rattan Armor Army fluttering in the wind, the shining swords and long swords were cold and cold, and groups of infantrymen walked in uniform steps, as if they were walking alone. Among the shaking drums, tens of thousands of people Unanimously approaching Juyongguan, the Zhengzhi army is full of murderous intent!
Yan Rou looked at this uniform army and smiled wryly: "I don't know if this is good news. Lei Gong doesn't seem to think highly of us. He only brought 1.5 troops and wanted to conquer our Juyong Pass. The bad news is that this army is extremely elite , even the Modao team, the ace of the Tengjia Army, brought it!"

They have been neighbors with Lei Gong for 4-5 years, so they naturally know the name of Modaoying, the Tengjia Army. It is said that the cavalry of the Xianbei people are like chopping melons and vegetables in front of Modao. Tens of thousands of troops are not the opponents of Modaoying!

Gongsun Zan said angrily, "I can't climb the city wall with the Mo Dao!"

But Yan Rou said even more panicked: "I'm even more worried that Lei Gong doesn't plan to climb the city wall at all!"

When Gongsun Zan heard this, he also looked terrified. If he didn't plan to climb the city wall, he was planning to blow the city wall down with thunder!
But they still don't know what Thunder God is. Yan Gang and the others also suffered two thunder spells in Ban's City, but it may be that Huanglong doesn't have the same powerful magic power as Thunder God, and it didn't cause much damage. Yan Gang and the others The gap that Lei Gong smashed was blocked in front of them, but the Lei Gong in front of them was obviously different!

Gongsun Zan thought for a while and said, "Lei Gong's thunder method can only be effective if it is close to the city wall. At worst, I will lead the troops to fight out. I would rather fight with Lei Gong with swords and spears and die by the sword than be bombed by the inexplicable thunder method." die!"

Yan Rou stopped and said: "Brother Bogui, the situation is not that dangerous yet. We still have two lines of defense in the rear. We will be fooled by Lei Gong if we rush out! Tens of thousands of Xianbei people are not from Modaoying Opponents, it is impossible for us like this to defeat Lei Gong! If we are defeated, Juyongguan will be occupied by Lei Gong, and Youzhou will have no danger to defend, and hundreds of thousands of rattan armor troops will swarm in. Our brothers He has become a sinner in Youzhou!"

Yan Rou thought for a while and said: "Let's first report the situation of Juyongguan to General Zhenbei and ask for support, and we will find a way to guard the time for these few days!"

After Gongsun Zan thought about it, he could only do this. The root of rebellion like Lei Gong is not something that small people like them can solve, so I leave it to General Zhenbei to figure out a solution!
And Xu Wei stood in front of the army and looked at Juyongguan in front of him. The base of the city wall was actually that kind of giant cube, which was impossible to pry. The construction of the city wall was more like a western castle. Such a pass, in this The era should be regarded as the peak defense system, and it is very difficult to break through. If Xu Wei did not have black powder, it is estimated that tens of thousands of people would die to break through. This is still based on the lack of reinforcements!It's a pity that he has 1 catties of black powder in his hand!
Xu Wei's army stopped within one mile of Juyongguan!Then they saw thousands of soldiers holding shovels, shoveling the soil one by one!

Seeing this scene, Gongsun Zan and Yan Rou were startled and said inwardly, "Sure enough, Lei Gong wants to use thunder to blow up Juyongguan"!
This is the method that Lei Gong used to attack Yanmen Pass back then!Although the current Juyongguan is much stronger than the original Yanmen Pass, Gongsun Zan and Yan Rou are not sure that Juyongguan can withstand Lei Gong's thunder!
Thousands of people continued to dig trenches with shovels, and the top layer was covered with wooden boards. The defenders above Juyongguan could not attack the engineers of the Rattan Army, nor could they harass them. Therefore, the soldiers of the Rattan Army dug very fast. It took half a day to dig under the base of the city wall of Juyongguan.

Gongsun Zan and Yan Rou, who were standing on the city wall, seemed to be able to sense that the Tengjia army was constantly beating on the city wall of Juyongguan, and the vibration even transmitted to the city wall!
Gongsun Zan said solemnly: "We can't keep Lei Gong close to the city wall. If he really uses Lei Gong, we might not be able to defend it for a day. I will lead the soldiers out of the city gate and kill Lei Gong and these soldiers!"

Yan Rou worried: "Brother Bogui, how did you come back? Or we should think of other ways!"

Gongsun Zan said with a smile: "You use bows and arrows on the city wall to help cover your brother, and we have already sent a letter to General Zhenbei, just delaying for a few days is enough, when the reinforcements of General Zhenbei arrive, we will rush out The pass eliminates Lei Gong, but I want to see how Lei Gong pretends to be a ghost!"

After speaking, Gongsun Zan ordered 3000 cavalrymen, and asked Yan Rou to open the gate of Juyongguan.

When Xu Wei discovered this situation, he immediately notified the soldiers of the engineering battalion to retreat, and at the same time ordered the Modao battalion to step forward to rescue the engineering soldiers.

The soldiers of the engineering battalion only had shovels and were still in the trenches. It was impossible for them to be the opponents of the Juyongguan defenders!

At this time, 3000 cavalry rushed out, and then Gongsun Zan rushed towards the trench dug by Xu Wei, lifted the wooden planks blocking the trench, and saw that the Tengjia Army had already dug out the base of Juyongguan. The rocks are full of holes, obviously Lei Gong did all of this!Lei Gong's Lei Fa should blast the city wall through these holes!

Gongsun Zan shouted angrily, "Lei Gong! Let's fight head-on!"

Xu Wei smiled and said, "I, the Tengjia Army, have never been afraid to fight head-on!"

Xu Hao said to Duan Yun, the school lieutenant of Modaoying, "Let Modaoying teach Gongsun Zan a lesson!"

Duan Yun gritted his teeth and said, "This subordinate will definitely bring Gongsun Zan's head!"

Gongsun Zan killed a lot in Pingcheng, and several of his relatives died at the hands of Gongsun Zan.

Duan Yun and Duan Peng's people were the first group of herdsmen who took refuge in Xu Wei. After Xu Wei captured the desert, a group of herdsmen who were familiar with the desert situation were needed to become grassroots officials such as village chief instructors.And many of his Duan Yun relatives became the heads of herdsmen villages because they were familiar with the system of the Tengjia Army, and most of his relatives became village heads in the grasslands of Pingcheng County, and died in the hands of Gongsun Zan in the end, so he has great respect for Gongsun Zan has hatred!
Now that the enemy Gongsun Zan can be eliminated, Duan Yun will certainly not miss this opportunity!

Duan Yun shouted: "The Modao camp is out!"

The soldiers of the Modao Battalion walked towards Gongsun Zan's army like a city wall with a blank expression as they watched the enemies advancing forward.
Gongsun Zan looked at the soldiers from the Modao Camp Xu Jin like a forest, uniform, and a heavy evil spirit rushed towards his face.He secretly said in his heart, 'As expected of the ace army of the Rattan Armor Army! '

But he didn't dare to show weakness!Shouted: "Bai Ma Yi Cong, attack!"

Among them, it can no longer be regarded as a white horse righteousness. Gongsun Zan only fled back 1000 cavalry, and the rest of the cavalry were supplemented by Yan Rou. Naturally, it is impossible to have too many white horses, and the combat effectiveness is also much worse, but Gongsun Zan wants to call it that. !

The 3000 soldiers behind him shouted: "Kill, kill, kill!"

On the city wall, Yan Rou even beat drums to cheer for Gongsun Zan and the others!

"Boom, boom, boom!" Intense drums resounded through the sky
Then Gongsun Zan led the 3000 cavalrymen to gallop on horseback!

When they were 50 steps away from Modaoying, 3000 cavalry took out their bows and shot at Modaoying!
"Hey, hey, hey!" The 3000 long arrows rained down on the soldiers of the Modao camp, but facing the solid armor, the power of the riding bow was only enough to tickle them, and did not cause much damage to the soldiers of the Modao camp. harm!

And the soldiers of Modao Camp didn't care about the arrow rain, they continued to move forward until the two sides were about to collide,
Duan Yun gave the order: "Stand still!"

Then he watched Gongsun Zan lead Bai Ma Yi from pulling out his spear and rushing towards them!
Duan Yun shouted: "Cut!"

"Kill!" Thousands of Mo Dao slashed at Gongsun Zan and the others at the same time.

The fighters of the Modao Camp have been training for more than two years, and the slashing action has become an instinctive reaction, allowing them to make a uniform slashing action in an instant!

Gongsun Zan was skilled in martial arts, with his spear resisting Mo Dao, and even killed two soldiers from the Mo Dao camp, but the cavalry around him were not as powerful as Gongsun Zan.Most of them who charged in front of the Modao camp left a trace on the armor of the soldiers of the Modao camp before they were cut into two by the Modao soldiers and horses. Hundreds of Baima Yicong soldiers died in battle!Gongsun Zan's record cannot improve Baima Yicong's fate of being slaughtered!
Duan Yun held up and shouted: "Go forward, chop!"

The Mo Dao warriors advanced, and then used the Mo Dao in their hands to slash and kill all the enemies in front of them. In a flash of the sword, hundreds of Baima Yicong soldiers fell to the ground, even Gongsun Zan's horse was killed by Mo Dao. The knife is seen as two pieces!
The power of Mo Dao shocked Gongsun Zan, he never thought that Bai Ma Yicong would be so vulnerable in front of Mo Dao Ying.This is simply an unprecedented war machine.

Gongsun Zan immediately reacted and said, "Everyone retreat!"

But Duan Yun yelled: "Soldiers of Modaoying, continue to attack!"

"Kill, kill, kill!" The soldiers of Wuqian Modao Battalion obeyed Duan Yun's order and kept beheading the enemies in front of them. Wherever they went, blood flowed into rivers, and the entire army was strangely bright red reflected in the blood of the enemies. It's like an army of death gods emerging from the underworld!
Gongsun Zan's soldiers wanted to escape, but Duan Yun commanded the soldiers of Modao Camp to chase them up. Bai Ma Yicong's escape space was only a few hundred steps, and he couldn't escape far at all. When they were all close to the city wall of Juyongguan.

Yan Rou, who was on the city wall, immediately ordered the archers to shoot arrows to block the attack of the soldiers of the Modao Battalion. The 3000 archers shot tens of thousands of long arrows in a short period of time, achieving the efficiency of the archers of the Tengjia Army. Arrow Rain, Duan Yun is worried that the soldiers will be seriously injured and will retreat!And Gongsun Zan took the opportunity to lead the remaining soldiers into Juyongguan!

A big battle ended here, and the side of the Tengjia army was full of joy, and they won the first battle.

However, the morale of Juyongguan was low, and the Mo Dao frightened them, so that they did not dare to fight against the rattan armor army, for fear that they would also be cut in two by the invincible Mo Dao.

And Gongsun Zan even gave up all his responsibilities, drank unconscious every day, and used this method to escape reality. The Baima Yicong he cultivated so hard has been wiped out by the entire army after two battles. Most of them Everyone has followed him for several years, and he has always regarded Bai Ma Yicong as a brother who shares life and death, but now they are all dead.

Back then, those who faced Mo Dao were his most elite Bai Ma Yi Cong, who was his only confidant, but they all fell under Mo Dao, leaving Gongsun Zan alone. He couldn't accept this reality and completely collapsed up.

But Yan Rou also wanted to appease the 1 army, and had no time to cheer up Gongsun Zan, so he could only watch the former No. [-] general in Youzhou degenerate like this!
On Xu Wei's side, after repelling Gongsun Zan's White Horse Yi Cong, the Tengjia Army can finally blast the fortress of Juyongguan with peace of mind!
For the next few days, the entire Juyongguan was filled with the sound of "boom, boom, boom" every day. Gongsun Zan and Yan Rou watched the strongest city wall of Juyongguan being blasted away by Lei Gong's thunder method, but there was nothing they could do!

Just when the outer wall of Juyongguan was about to collapse, Gongsun Zan seemed to have thought of a way to take revenge on Lei Gong. He took a hammer and walked to the bottom of the city wall that was about to explode. Gongsun Zan was so lucky that he found a red column. Gongsun Zan knew that this should be the secret of Lei Gong Lei Fa. He dug out this column, and then extinguished it. The lead above the cylinder!

At this time, Yan Rou had already found Gongsun Zan under the city wall, and he shouted in panic, "Brother Bogui, run!"

Before the city wall was about to collapse, Yan Rou led the soldiers into the second city wall, but she never thought that Gongsun Zan would be in the most dangerous place!
At this time, Gongsun Zan waved the cylinder in his hand, just about to speak!
"Boom!" A loud noise directly blasted Gongsun Zan into the air!

Yan Rou led a few people to search for Gongsun Zan's figure, but only saw a section of Gongsun Zan's arm, and this arm was holding the red cylinder!

Yan Rou was inexplicably sad, but she still returned to the second city wall with Gongsun Zan's severed hand.

Then I found my own relatives: "You must give this thing to General Zhenbei, and tell the general that this is the Lei Fa that Brother Bogui sacrificed his life to find Lei Gong. Let General Zhenbei decipher the secret, and don't let Bo Gui." Brother Gui's death is worthless!"

The personal guard nodded solemnly, and then marched towards Yuyang under the protection of 100 cavalry!

At this time, after the first and strongest city wall of Juyongguan was blasted, the second and third city walls were even more vulnerable.Being bombed down by Xu Wei in less than a day, Yan Rou didn't want to cause more casualties, so she could only retreat step by step to the military capital and continue to guard against the Tengjia army!
At this time, Huangfu Songzai was also on his way to Juyongguan. He knew that Lei Gong had appeared at Juyongguan, so he immediately led 2 soldiers to Juyongguan, but he was still late. He just got Yanrou's personal guards and gave them to him The personal guard excitedly told him how the black powder was obtained!

Huangfusong was very excited when he heard that this was the secret of Lei Gong and Lei Fa. With this thing, they can break the secret of Lei Gong and Lei Fa, and then they can find a way to deal with Lei Fa.

But when he heard that Gongsun Zan gave his life to get this thing, he sighed a little: "General Gongsun is really a loyal man of the great man, I will definitely report the deeds of General Gongsun to the court!"

Then he continued to advance with the army, and when he heard the news that Juyongguan had been breached by Lei Gong, Huangfusong immediately ordered Xu Rong, who had already arrived in Zhuojun, to lead an army of 10 towards Juyongguan.Huangfusong knew that the battle between them and the Tengjia Army was going to be a decisive battle in the capital city of the army!
On the second day after Juyongguan was breached, Huangfusong led an army of 2 to join Yan Rou, and they shared the defensive capital.

After Xu Wei knew that Huangfusong was facing him, and there were more than 3 troops on the opposite side, he also worried that he was not Huangfusong's opponent, so he immediately asked Duan Peng and Sun Qing to lead troops to support.

Duan Peng and Sun Qing sighed when they knew that their Qu Shuai had broken through Juyongguan, and they were also worried about Xu Wei's safety when Qu Shuai was actually facing Huangfusong's 3-strong army, so they immediately led the army to join Xu Wei's army!

The armies of the two warring parties are constantly gathering in the direction of the military capital, and the number of armies is increasing!

Huangfusong's army became 5 in less than 13 days, and Xu Wei also gathered 5 troops in these 10 days. The battle between the two sides can be said to be on the verge of breaking out!
But what Huangfusong is most concerned about at this time is not the upcoming war at all, but what is this thunder method?
And in the military capital, Huangfusong continued to gather all kinds of talents to analyze the thunder method that Gongsun Zan obtained by sacrificing his life!Among these talents are doctors and alchemists. Of these two professions, one needs to know all kinds of herbs in order to cure diseases and save lives, and the other often makes some strange things to make alchemy.Huangfusong thought that to analyze what Lei Fa was, it needed to rely on their knowledge!

But after all kinds of talents and generals gathered, in the eyes of everyone, Huangfusong asked people to untie the red paper little by little, and then they saw small black particles one by one!
Huangfu Songning said: "This is Lei Gong's thunder method. According to General Yan, this thing will explode after being ignited, and the sound is like thunder! Everyone, look at what these things are made of!"

When everyone heard that this thing was Lei Gong's Lei Fa, they were really taken aback. They were worried that this thing would explode here, but at the same time, they were also curious that this dark and dark thing could be Lei Fa.

A few curious people began to pick up the pellets!

"I can't see what made it, it's so dark, could it be Leifa made of coal from Bingzhou!" It really looks like coal just by looking at it!
But soon someone retorted: "I haven't seen anyone burn coal and be killed. It can't be coal at all!"

Someone else said: "The black substance is not only coal, but also charcoal, and there are a small amount of metal substances and herbs, but the metal should not explode, and the herbs should also burn into coke!"

Xian Yufu said, "Can we crush this to see what substance is in it!"

Everyone knew that this was reasonable, so they crushed one.

One of them tasted it with his thumb, tasted it carefully, and said slowly, "It tastes like sulfur and saltpeter!"

Several other people saw that he tasted it in this way when he had nothing to do, and then continued: "There should be charcoal, and from the taste, charcoal is the main raw material of Leifa, but it still has a little fishy smell. What is it!"

If Xu Wei was here, he would be very surprised. They really found out all the raw materials of black powder with just this few gunpowder particles!
At this time, a Taoist said: "Since we all know the raw materials, let's try it. This is Leifa, don't you want to see it!"

The others laughed and said, "It makes sense!"

These are common things. Sulfur and saltpeter are available in the medical hall, and charcoal is even easier to get!
Several Taoist priests got the raw materials, and then put charcoal on half, and sulfur and saltpeter on the other side, and then these things ground them into powder, and finally wrapped them up!
Then they found a safe place and lit it in front of Huangfusong!
"Boom!" A deep voice sounded, the black powder that several Taoist priests simply knew really exploded, but Huangfusong was disappointed by this power, not to mention blowing up the city walls, even people might not be killed!

Yan Rou even said: "This power is more than a hundred times worse than Lei Gong!"

Huangfu Song even said: "Let's use Lei Gong's verification!"

After speaking, Huangfusong had someone wrap less than 1 tael of black powder, and then let someone ignite it!

"Boom!" There was a thunder, which scared the people present. This power was indeed much stronger than the one just now.

A Taoist priest thought for a while and said, "It should be that the ratio of these three things is wrong, we have to continue to deploy! As long as we are given time, the Lei Fa we can make will not lose much to Lei Gong!"

(End of this chapter)