I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 437, total defeat

Huanglong ordered the soldiers of the two battalions to approach Puyang 150 paces according to the tactics Fu Yun said, and at the same time let the soldiers of the Artillery Battalion push hundreds of flying thunder cannons to a distance of [-] paces from Puyang, because the soldiers of the Artillery Battalion were safe. Huanglong also let thousands of soldiers wear iron shields to protect the artillery soldiers!
But Gao Lan found that the soldiers of the Dagan Army were so close to Puyang that they didn't dare to let the soldiers go down the city wall. The Dagan Army was so close that they could climb up the city wall of Puyang with a ladder. If he really let the soldiers go down the city wall, I'm afraid it's too late to go up the city wall!
Gao Lan hesitated and said, "Huang Long didn't even want the lives of his own soldiers. He didn't send his own artillery to blow up his own soldiers?"

After all, it is the original cannon, which can only hit a rough position, and the accuracy is too difficult to grasp, especially when there is a problem with the gunpowder, it may hit a place more than a hundred steps away from the city wall, which means that Huanglong pushed the army so close to the city wall , The big army is also in danger!

But after Gao Lan saw the advancing artillery clearly, he said in amazement: "Fei Lei Cannon!"

Then he quickly fled to the rear by himself!Although the artillery was dangerous to Gao Lan, as long as he was not particularly unlucky and was hit, it would be so powerful, not to mention that he could hide in the blind corner of the artillery.

But the Feilei Cannon was completely different. Even if it missed, as long as it was within ten steps of the shell, it would still be fatal, and even if it was within 20 steps, it would be severely damaged.

In Gao Lan's view, the flying thunder cannon is the real power to kill soldiers.

"Puff puff!"

The shells of the Feilei Cannon hit Puyang City across a huge arc!

"Boom, boom, boom!" The walls of Puyang City were bombed by meteorites, and a large number of soldiers were overturned by the huge air waves before they understood what was going on. Soldiers were also killed by shells!For a while, gunpowder smoke filled the walls of Puyang City, and Han soldiers fell to the ground and groaned everywhere!
And the power of this wave of flying thunder cannons directly frightened Yuan Shao's soldiers, and everyone fled the city wall one after another!

And Gao Lan, who was the first to escape, found the soldiers of the Catapult Battalion and shouted: "Counterattack, use explosives to fight back against the Dagan Army, and don't let the Dagan Army's flying thunder cannons continue to approach the city wall!"

After being bombarded by the flying thunder cannon, Gao Lan immediately thought of fighting back. At this time, the only weapon in Puyang City that could counter the flying thunder cannon was the trebuchet, so he immediately went to the camp of the trebuchet and commanded the soldiers to fight back.

Yuan Shao couldn't afford Gao Lan's artillery, but he was willing to give it to Gao Lan, which is about to be eliminated. There are 100 trebuchets in Puyangcheng, but the longest attack distance of these trebuchets is only 300 steps. Far lower than Dagan's artillery, these trebuchets are naturally useless. Gao Lan was worried that these trebuchets would be bombed by artillery, so he put the trebuchets in a hidden place and prepared to wait for the Dagan army to attack the city. It's time to let these trebuchets play their role, but now Dagan's flying thunder cannon is 150 steps closer to the city wall, which is within the range of the trebuchet!
Then Gao Lan pointed out the range of the Dagan Feilei Cannon, and the artillerymen placed the giant grenades one by one!Then cut off the fixed rope!
"Shhhhhh!"

Hundreds of grenades weighing several kilograms were thrown out!
"Boom, boom, boom!" All these grenades exploded. Although their accuracy was not high, there were too many of them. They not only killed dozens of soldiers, but also wounded several artillery soldiers and damaged a flying mine cannon. !

Seeing this scene, Huang Long shouted loudly: "Artillery Battalion, destroy the enemy's catapults!"

Zhou Fu, the captain of the Artillery Battalion, immediately mobilized the artillery in his hand!

Then quickly calculate the range of the Han army's attack that I just saw!

Then adjust the muzzle to cover the location of the big man's trebuchet within the attack range of his own artillery!

Then Zhou Fu ordered loudly: "Fire!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Boom boom boom!"

The range of the flying thunder cannon is not as far as that of the trebuchet, but the range of the trebuchet is not as far as that of the artillery, but after their positions are exposed, the result is already conceivable!

Zhou Fulian continued to order the Artillery Battalion to bomb the location of the Catapult Battalion, and the dead of Yuan Shao's Catapult Battalion also kept throwing grenades to counterattack the Feilei Pao Battalion.

In the end, the trebuchet battalion threw 4 rounds of grenades, killing thousands of soldiers and destroying 13 flying thunder cannons. They were bombarded by the artillery battalion for 10 rounds. More than half of the soldiers in the trebuchet battalion were killed or injured. The machines were all destroyed by artillery!

Since then, the only weapon that can fight back in Puyang City has been destroyed, and Gao Lan can no longer stop the Feilei Cannon from bombing the city wall!After Gao Lan saw that Puyang's trebuchets were all destroyed, he knew that Puyang could no longer hold it!In the following battles, we must find a way to save our lives.

War horses were galloping on the land of Dongjun, and tens of thousands of cavalry marched in several teams, causing several days of long earth dragons along the way, and soon Duan Peng saw a Wubao appearing in front of the army!

Duan Peng reined in his horse and came to the front of the small city, shouting, "I've arrived, and I haven't opened the city gate to surrender!"

Originally, his cavalry was used to attack Yuan Shao's infantry in the field, but Duan Peng had already crossed Puyang City for hundreds of miles, but he had never encountered the Han army that had always been formed except for capturing a few probing horses.He had no choice but to attack the Wubao in front of him!
But the answer to Duan Peng was the long arrow!
Then the defenders on the city wall shouted: "Rebellious ministers and thieves dare to call themselves heavenly soldiers. My master of the Han Dynasty is next, so retreat quickly!"

Duan Peng said angrily: "Flying Thunder Cannon!"

Compared with the bulky artillery, the Flying Thunder Cannon is light and easy to carry, so every cavalry battalion in Dagan carries 10 Flying Thunder Cannons to attack the fortifications!
So Duan Peng ordered 50 flying thunder cannons to appear in front of the fortress!

"fire!"

"Puff puff!"

"Boom boom boom!"

With one bombing, the Wubao people in front of the direct bombing were turned on their backs!Then some soldiers directly placed explosives on the gate of Wubao!
A loud bang!
The gate of Wubao was blasted open a huge gap!

Duan Peng continued to shout: "Siege!"

This Wubao called Xiancheng was submerged by tens of thousands of cavalry!
After capturing the Han army in Wubao, Duan Peng looked unlucky. By asking the prisoners, he finally knew why he didn't see the Han army on the way. It turned out that Yuan Shao stationed the army in Dingtao after he knew they were attacking Yanzhou. With the first line of defense established, it is naturally impossible for him to find the Han army near Puyang!And it is about 300 miles from Puyang to Dingtao. He really didn't dare to let his cavalry go deep into Dingtao without logistics. Going deep into Dingtao, but siege is not what his cavalry is good at!If every city along the way uses thunder cannons and explosions to attack the city like today, the gunpowder in his hand will be exhausted soon!

Dongjun, Cangting Ferry.

After Wang Yong led his army to conquer Cangting Ferry, he immediately led his army to surround Dong'a City, which is not far from the ferry. Dong'a City was built on a tributary of the Yellow River. After 200 steps, I am willing to go beyond the shooting range of the Feilei Cannon!Although artillery can also attack Dong'e City, the important cities in Yanzhou are all masonry structures, and even modern artillery can withstand it, let alone big bronze cannons.

Wang Yong fired with a bronze cannon for a long time and found that there was no result, so he stopped such wasteful behavior!Then he could only use the old-fashioned siege method. He first asked the soldiers to build a way to dig through the moat of Dong'a City, and at the same time dispatched an engineering battalion to build a large number of pontoon bridges and ladders for siege!
When everything was ready, Wang Yong launched a full-scale attack, wanting to conquer Dongjun in a single battle.

However, under the command of Xiahou Dun in Dongjun, the soldiers of Dong'e City were extremely tenacious. They used trebuchets, grenades and dense arrow formations to make it difficult for the large army to get close to the city wall.

Wang Yong's fierce attack for one day not only failed to get close to the city wall, but also caused thousands of casualties!This made Wang Yong wake up, knowing that he could attack Dong'e City, the gain was not worth the loss, so he found information about Dong'e City!

"Originally there were only 1 defenders in Dong'e City, but after our army began to gather, Yuan Shao was worried, so he increased the defenders to 2, and after Cao Cao reinforced Yanzhou, the number of troops in the city increased to [-]. The guard is Xiahou Dun, Cao Cao's clan brother!" Wang Yong's soldier told the information about Dong'a City.

Wang Yong said in embarrassment: "This Xiahou Dun is not well-known at all, but he didn't expect that Cao Cao still has capable people in his hands with such a veteran experience in defending the city! Do you have any information about him?"

Joining the army found Xiahou Dun's information and said: "Xiahou Dun is the descendant of Xia Houying, the eunuch of the Western Han Dynasty. He has a brother named Xia Houyuan, who is now stationed in Gaotang. Xiahou Dun is very skilled in martial arts. When he was fourteen years old, someone humiliated his teacher, so he killed him. Later, when Cao Cao raised troops to attack Dong Zhuo, Xiahou Dun led his family's private soldiers to follow Cao Cao to conquer the east and west. Behind him, the governor of Taishan County, he was building canals and ponds to irrigate the farmland, and helped Cao Cao get tens of thousands of field soldiers in Taishan County. Said to be the number one general in Cao Cao's hands!

Wang Yong appreciated Xiahou Dun's intelligence and said: "There are too many big Han generals who can fight these days, but there are really not many generals who can farm! It's a pity that it is a Han general! If he is willing to surrender, he can get it to Liaodong. Reclamation"

Then Wang Yong wondered: "Cao Cao is so generous to help Yuan Shao defend the city?"

Joining the army smiled and said: "After we conquered Dongping and Jibei, Cao Cao's Taishan County is behind. Cao Cao still understands!"

Wang Yong asked: "Since the Han generals stationed so many troops in Dong'e, there should not be many defenders in Gucheng and Fanxian County. I ordered Duan Yun and the others to conquer these two places first and find a way to capture the city in the northeast of Yanzhou. Both Beiguo and Dongpingguo have been conquered, and sooner or later Dong'a City will be conquered by us!"

Joining the army thought for a while and said: "We can join General Li Gang, and we can attack one city of the Han army by hitting the ground, and then find a way to attack the next one! After all, this is a city with 2 people stationed. With our current strength, it is very difficult It is difficult to break through in a short time!"

An army of 20 attacked Yanzhou. Although there were four groups of troops, the distance between each group of troops was not far away. Like Li Gang, after conquering Liaocheng, he quickly crossed the river to attack Chiping. Now the distance between the two armies does not exceed two hundred miles. Merge together to form a more powerful combat force!
Wang Yong thought about it and found it reasonable, so he gave up the idea of ​​quickly capturing Dong'a City, but dug up the moat of Dong'a City step by step, and then filled the dry moat step by step!
At the same time, Chiping City, which is not far from Wang Yong, is suffering from heavy artillery fire. It looks like it is crumbling, and it may be captured at any time!

It turns out that Chiping City is a city built along the Yellow River. The Yellow River is its moat, and the city wall was built tall and strong by Yuan Shao. At the beginning, Yuan Shao had high hopes for Chiping City, thinking that it would be enough to stop a large army of [-]!

But the construction of Chiping City obviously did not think that the natural danger of the Yellow River would become his biggest shortcoming. After Li Gang discovered that Chiping City was close to the Yellow River, he used naval guns to bombard Chiping City continuously. Run, the naval guns used by the navy are far greater than the bronze guns used by the army in terms of range and power.The Flying Thunder Cannon can also be placed on the ship.

As a result, the defenders of Chiping City suffered disaster. The Dagan army bombed for a long time, not to mention thousands of casualties, and the defenders were so scared that they dared not climb the city wall!Supporting Chiping City was Cao Cao's cousin Cao Ren. Seeing how powerful the cannons of the Dagan Army were, he discussed with Yuan Shao's subordinate Jiang Ji and fled directly to Jibei Kingdom. They planned to join the defenders of Jibei. Slowly retreat to Taishan County, relying on the geographical advantages of Mount Tai to resist Lei Gong's attack!
It can be considered that Cao Ren and the others were lucky. Li Gang and the others had not successfully landed yet, and the cavalry had not yet entered Yanzhou, so they were not chased by the cavalry when they retreated!

Fortunately, Li Gang took less than a day to conquer Chiping City, and then Li Gang sent out cavalry to pursue Cao Ren and the others, while he himself led the main force to continue southward to attack Linyi City!

The words are divided into two ends!It has been 10 days since the Dagan army launched a full-scale attack. In the camp of the coalition of princes in Dingtao, they received news from a large number of Dagan troops. They discovered with horror that this battle was completely different from what they expected. Instead of becoming the protagonist, the artillery they had never thought of became the home of this battle.

The defenders of the four battlefields in Yanzhou reported to them that the Leigong artillery was fierce and could not be resisted!And when Lei Gong's cavalry began to enter Yanzhou, the news of the entire battlefield was completely blocked. Their scouting horses could not break through the blockade of the Dagan cavalry battlefield. Naturally, they did not know the current situation on the battlefield. The Yang Feng tribe who attacked Chenliu County are still attacking in the direction of Luoyang City!
As for Gao Lan in Puyang, Xiahou Dun in Dong'e has completely lost news for more than two days, and there is news in Chiping City, but it is not good news. Cao Ren said that the artillery of Dagan can be on the ship, and now Lei Gong is in command. The ship was approaching Chiping City, and he had no way to resist the attack of Dagan artillery. Now he has withdrawn to the direction of Jibei Kingdom!

It can be said that in the past few days, Yuan Shao and the others have received bad news, and the front line in Yanzhou is completely collapsing!
(End of this chapter)