I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 268, the artillery fires, Dai County falls
Lv Bu was desperately fighting on Huoshanwu Fort, while Dong Zhuo watched from the sidelines, but found that Lv Bu was still kicked out of Wupu and sighed: "It's only a little bit, unexpectedly, even with Fengxian's bravery, it would be difficult to resist the rattan armor army on Wupu! "

Jia Xu looked at the casualties around and said regretfully: "This time, the Bingzhou Army suffered more than 2000 casualties, and most of the casualties were elite camps. It can be said that the camp was disabled in the first battle. This time it did not capture Wubao, I'm afraid Fengxian and the others dare not fight so fiercely!"

Dong Zhuo felt heartbroken watching the scene of corpses strewn all over the ground under Wubao, and the Bingzhou army was also his confidant, and the trapped camp was the elite among the elite. Dong Zhuo's army of more than 2000 was one of the troops with the highest combat effectiveness. For Dong Zhuo, The casualties of these 2 people made him feel more distressed than the 2 general army. If Dong Zhuo could be exchanged, he would rather die [-] ordinary Han troops!

It took only one day to attack and the loss was so great. If the attack continued for ten days and a half months, 2 to 3 troops would all be filled in this dock!

Dong Zhuo asked: "Wenhe, is there any way to reduce the casualties? Taiyuan County is full of powerful and dangerous passes. If this pass continues, I am afraid that my army of hundreds of thousands will be exhausted by the Tengjia Army!"

Jia Xu observed Huoshanwu Fort and said with a wry smile: "Minister, the star-shaped fort of the Rattan Armored Army is already difficult to conquer, and it is even more powerful when combined with the large number of crossbows of the Rattan Armored Army. If the city wall falls down, there will be two or three times as many soldiers, but Huoshan's terrain makes it impossible for us to take advantage of the large number of people. If we really want to conquer this fortress, we can only spend a long time The crossbow arrows on the Wubao, the morale and morale of the Vine Armor Army, wait until the Vine Armor Army is exhausted before forcibly conquering this Wubao!"

Dong Zhuo sighed and said: "We don't have time, the number of soldiers of the Tengjia Army seems to be endless, I already have no troops to defend this attack by Lei Gong, but I didn't expect that the Tengjia Army could be in Taiyuan County An army of 10 was conscripted, and now this army will appear in front of us at any time, if we cannot capture Fort Huoshanwu within 10 days, we will lose the chance to defeat the Tengjia Army!"

The Tengjia Army had spies in Luoyang City, and Dong Zhuo also had spies in Taiyuan County. The news that Wang Ge and the others recruited the Tengjia Army troops soon spread that Luoyang City was known to Dong Zhuo.Taiyuan County can produce an army of 10, especially the speed is so fast that shocked Dong Zhuo. Although he knew that the strength of this army might not be as good as the elite Central Army in his hands, relying on the geographical advantage for defense, he is afraid that his army will be defeated. Without it, he may not be able to conquer Taiyuan County!
In fact, Dong Zhuo didn’t say anything else. March is coming soon, and the weather here in Huoshan has already started to warm up. Even though Youzhou is farther north than Taiyuan, it’s colder, but it won’t take half a month. The weather in Zhouzhou should also be getting warmer. If Huangfusong can't win by surprise, I'm afraid the defeat is already set!Dong Zhuo can only hope now that Lei Gong is worried that he will conquer Taiyuan County and stop the siege of Huangfusong's army!

Jia Xu thought for a while and said: "President of the country, we can only fight with wheels. We divided the 15 troops into 5 teams to attack day and night, making it difficult for the rattan armor army in Huoshanwu Fort to be repaired. Under such a fierce offensive, if you want to come to Huoshanwu The Rattan Armored Army on the fort can't last long!"

Dong Zhuo thought for a long time, then looked at Huoshanwubao and said, "Just follow the method you said!"

Then Dong Zhuo divided his 15 army into 5 divisions, commanded by Lu Bu, Yang Ding, Li Jue, Hu Zhen, and Zhang Ji, and asked them each to lead an army of 5 to storm Huoshanwu Fort day and night.

Under such an offensive, the entire Fort Huoshanwu would soon be in jeopardy, and Liu Shi kept asking for help from Wang Ge in the rear!
After Wang Ge received Liu Shi's request for help, he also accelerated his march.The vanguard of the army took a rail carriage and entered Huoshanwu Fort in less than 2 days.

Jinyang City is nearly 500 miles away from Huoshanwu Fort, and the army has to march 50 miles a day for 10 days. Dong Zhuo thought that the reinforcements of the Tengjia Army would have to walk for a long time, but he did not expect that the rail carriages of the Tengjia Army could It can make the marching speed exceed 300 miles, and the distance of 500 miles can be achieved in just two days!
It can be said that Dong Zhuo did not expect the rapid transportation capacity of the track, which made him miscalculate!

Dong Zhuo stormed for 5 days, and the casualties exceeded 3 soldiers, but he found that the soldiers in Huoshanwu Fort were fighting more and more. Dong Zhuo finally felt that something was wrong, and he sent spies again to inquire about the intelligence of the Tengjia Army.

Then he learned that Wang Ge, the general of the Tengjia Army, used the orbit of Taiyuan County to immediately send soldiers to Huoshanwu Fort. Now the number of defenders on Huoshanwu Fort has exceeded 1, and there are more and more follow-up reinforcements. This made him realize that he had lost the chance to conquer Taiyuan County!
Dong Zhuo could only look at the sky in the north and secretly said: "Brother Yizhen, I have tried my best, and whether you live or die, you can only rely on yourself!"

In March of the second year of Chuping (191) Youzhou!

The war in Youzhou collapsed much faster than Dong Zhuo expected.

In February, Banshi City, which had resisted the attack of the Fujia Army for more than 3 months, was breached, and it was the newly cast bronze artillery of the Fujia Army who made this contribution!

The bronze cannons cast by Mayi did not go to the hands of Lei Gong, but instead exerted their power in the hands of Huanglong. 50 bronze cannons were transported to Huanglong by sleigh carts using the frozen Sanggan River waterway.

At the beginning, when Huang Long saw these cannons weighing hundreds of catties, he asked with a strange expression, "What is this thing for?"

He saw that all these things were made of bronze, and when he lifted it, he found that the pipe was still intact, and it might weigh several hundred catties!
Then he was surprised and said: "I'm afraid it will cost tens of thousands of dollars for a pipe like this, but it doesn't cost millions of dollars for this pile of pipes. We, the Rattan Armor Army, don't waste money like this! And what I want is black powder. It’s not such a useless thing! Black powder can also blow up the city wall, what am I going to use it for, can I throw it out with a trebuchet and smash it into the city wall! Even a prodigal can’t do such a thing!”

Sun Qing stroked the bronze cannon and smiled, "Brother Huang, you are short-sighted. This cannon is more powerful than a trebuchet! I am no longer the captain of the Stone Cannon Battalion, but a member of the Cannon Battalion. Captain.

When you experience the power of this treasure, you will know that explosives are a fart. Anything that stands in front of the artillery will be destroyed. Find a hidden place and I will show you there! "

Then Huanglong brought Sun Qinghe and a cannon to a hidden valley!

After arriving at the place, Sun Qing ordered his men to place the gunpowder, insert the lead wire, compact the gunpowder, and put in the polished ceramic shells.

As a modern person, Xu Wei naturally knows what kind of shells are more powerful, so the artillery shells are not the round shells, but like modern bullets, one end is pointed and the other end is flat, so that the power of the shells can be better exerted. And the rifling was also made by Xu Wei, and the barrel is not as short as the original one in history, but rather slender. Although this is the first generation of artillery, its power has exceeded the original history for hundreds of years. Kind of like a modern day Napoleonic cannon.

When all preparations were completed, Sun Qing lit the fuse with a torch!

"Boom!" A huge roar startled Huang Long, and then he saw a puff of smoke and dust appearing a mile away, obviously this is where the shell hit!
Then Sun Qing smiled proudly: "Why, this is much more powerful than the trebuchet, and the range is farther!"

But Huang Long said: "Although the shooting range is long, it doesn't seem to have much power. Judging from the smoke and dust, it seems that it is not as good as the trebuchet. The trebuchet can shoot projectiles weighing hundreds of catties, but your projectile is only about 10 catties." It looks like this, its power is just like this, it is not as good as black powder, black powder can blow down even city walls!"

Sun Qing said angrily: "Brother Huang, you don't know how to use treasures! Although the projectiles of the trebuchet are heavy, their power may not be comparable to that of my artillery. I admit that the black powder is powerful for blowing up the city wall, but it needs to be blown up once. It costs hundreds of thousands of catties, brother, you have used thousands of catties of gunpowder and you haven’t blown up the walls of Ban’s City, and the black gunpowder still needs to be buried under the city walls to spend a lot of time.”

"My cannon needs 1 catty of black powder for one shot. If you fire it hundreds of times, you will smash any city walls. If you don't believe me, let's use Ban's City to verify it. If the cannon is not as good as a trebuchet Why did Shuai Qu develop a cannon! Not to mention that the cannon is more than ten times more expensive than a trebuchet!"

After thinking about it, Huang Long felt that it made sense, so on the second day after the artillery arrived, he led the army to Banshi City again, and placed 50 artillery pieces in front of Banshi City.

And Sun Qing pointed these cannons at the Banshi City Wall that had been blasted by Huanglong and the others. Because of the winter, Yan Gang filled it with stones and wood and watered it. Finally, an ice wall formed here, so that the two gaps Instead, it became the strongest place in Ban's City!
At this time, the appearance of Ban's City is not good. After Huanglong did not blow up the city wall, it has been attacking Ban's City with trebuchets. The huge stones weighing hundreds of catties have smashed the entire city wall into pits, but wait until winter. After the arrival, Yan Gang kept pouring water on the city wall and using ice to resist the attack of the trebuchets. Now the whole city wall has become crystal clear. Huanglong found that it was difficult to break through Ban's City in winter, so he had to stop attacking and wait for the winter to end before attacking. !

Huanglong's actions aroused the vigilance of Yan Gang in Ban's City. After entering winter, both sides tacitly stopped the fighting. Today, Huanglong's formation made him feel strange. He also saw artillery, but he didn't know about these artillery pieces. What is it for!
But Huanglong mobilized 3 troops to prepare for the attack under the city wall, which was obviously not a good thing. He ordered his men to climb up the city wall and prepare for defense!

After the artillery position was set up, Sun Qing ordered his artillerymen to prepare for the launch, when everything was ready!
Sun Qing shouted: "Fire!"

"Boom boom boom!"

Bronze cannons continued to emit bursts of roaring sounds, and each 10 catties shot towards Ban's city wall at a speed several times the supersonic speed!

"Boom boom boom!" One after another shells hit the wall of Ban's city, and the frozen wall of Ban's city began to drop ice!
The soldiers on the city wall were stunned by this scene!

"This is such a weapon again!" Yan Gang panicked for a while, and the new weapons in the rattan armor army appeared one after another, and they were all so powerful that even Yan Gang was a little scared. When he heard the roaring sound, he could only faint Jojo thought that this weapon had something to do with gunpowder, but knew nothing else.

He wanted to fight back, but found that this weapon was placed farther than the trebuchet. There was no weapon with such a long range in Ban's City, so he could only be beaten passively!
"Fire!" Sun Qing continued to shout after seeing the power of the artillery!

"Boom boom boom!" Fifty stone bullets were fired again, this time directly hitting Ban Shichen's outer wall!The bricks of the city wall were smashed into powder by shells!
"fire!"

"Boom boom boom!"

As Sun Qing continued to issue orders, not only after the artillery shot at the gap in Banshi City, the ice layer was smashed, the bricks were smashed, the female wall was broken, and the soldiers hit by the artillery shells turned into a mass of flesh and blood. Under the attack, the gap in Ban's City is getting bigger and bigger.

"The Rattan Armor Army has Lei Gong's help, our city wall is about to collapse!" the defenders of Ban's City shouted in panic. At this time, they had already collapsed, and they were running around the city wall one by one.

Yan Gang still wanted to control the army, he shouted: "This is not Lei Gong, it is gunpowder, everyone, don't panic, don't panic!"

But it was useless at all. The defenders of Ban's City were already nervous under Huanglong's attack, but now they were bombed by artillery, and they were immediately broken.

Under Sun Qing's order, the Artillery Battalion bombarded Ban's City continuously. The soldiers guarding Ban's City had never seen such a weapon before.

Huanglong was overjoyed when he saw this scene, and immediately commanded the army to attack Banshi City. Banshi City, which had resisted Huanglong for 3 months, had no ability to resist the attack of the Tengjia Army. Finally, Huanglong took the opportunity to break through Banshi City!
The 1.5 defenders of Ban's City were all wiped out, and the captain Yan Gang died in battle!
Then Huanglong took advantage of the freezing of the Sanggan River, used the Sanggan River as the road, and used the bronze artillery on the sleigh cart to quickly conquer Beipingyi, Sushi, Pingshu, Dong'anyang, Sanggan, Dangcheng, Dai County, the entire Dai County fell.

After Dai County was captured, the Tengjia Army opened up the Sanggan River grain road, and no longer had to detour thousands of miles to transport grain and grass from the grassland, but directly used sledges to transport grain and grass all the way from the Sanggan River. Among Xu Wei's troops, Huanglong was even more Lead the army and join Xu Wei!
The Huanglong army suddenly rushed to Guangyang County and joined Lei Gong, which shocked the entire Han army. Huangfusong and others did not expect that an unknown Huanglong could conquer the fortified Banshi City in winter. The defense line of Yanshan in Youzhou was almost broken by the Tengjia army. If it weren't for Huangfusong's 20 troops, the entire Youzhou would have fallen.

(End of this chapter)