I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 458 Yuan Shao collapses

Liu Bei, Yuan Shao and others watched helplessly as the defensive camps and fortifications outside Dingtao City were completely demolished by the army.

All the defensive facilities on the Dingtao City Wall were reduced to dust under the roar of the artillery. The soldiers of Dingtao City faced such a terrible shelling. Yes, the shelling for nearly a month has completely destroyed his self-confidence.

Now the soldiers in Dingtao City are hiding in the corners of the streets, looking at the dense and thunderous artillery in the sky, each of them has a dull expression, like a walking dead, and the emotion of failure enveloped the whole city!

Yuan Shao looked at Dingtao City, which was full of ruins, tears flowed down his face, and all his hard work for many years was completely destroyed.

Such a strong city can't resist Lei Gong's attack. Facing the roar of artillery, what army and city in the world can resist Lei Gong's attack!

Yuan Shao thought of the declining city of Chang'an and the desolate city of Luoyang. These two cities may not be stronger than Dingtao. There are hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in such a strong Dingtao city, but facing Lei Gong's artillery is still as white as white. Like paper, it will break if you poke it.

In other words, Chang'an City and Luoyang City will be destroyed by Lei Gong's artillery just like Dingtao City today!

Thinking of this, Yuan Shao felt extremely painful. He could see that his entire territory in the Central Plains was quickly swallowed up by Thunder God. Chang'an City and Luoyang City were completely destroyed by Thunder God's artillery.

The family of the Yuan clan was uprooted by Thunder God, and exiled to the desert desert to beg for life as a slave!The foundation of the fourth generation and the third father was destroyed in his hands.

All this made Yuan Shao unbearable, and suddenly felt that his eyes were pitch black, and he fell to the ground vomiting blood.

Tian Feng beside Yuan Shao hugged him and said, "My lord, my lord, what's wrong with you!"

Yuan Shao's other counselors were also at a loss when they saw this scene.

Liu Bei was surprised and said, "Brother Benchu!"

But at this time, Zhang Fei pulled Liu Bei and said, "Brother, you can't hesitate any longer. Before Lei Gong has surrounded the city, you should flee from the south gate to Jingzhou. If you stay in Dingtao now, you will die!"

Liu Bei worried: "How can Yuan Shao leave as a brother in this state!"

Jian Yongdao: "It is because of the current situation that we have to leave. If there is a chance of winning, we will not persuade you to leave Xuande, but now we have no chance of winning. If you choose Xuande, you will stay in Dingtao City. Lei Gong took advantage of the situation to attack Yuzhou and Jiangnan, the court has no soldiers and no good generals, what should the court do, who else in the world can stop him, do you want to see Lei Gong win the whole world in this one battle!"

Zhang Fei said: "Now that Yuan Shao has fallen, the morale of the soldiers is low. Brother thinks that the city wall we rely on can resist Lei Gong's attack! It's impossible. Dingtao's fall is only a matter of time."

"It is enough to have my younger brother here now. After my elder brother returns to Jingzhou, he must immediately rectify the army to prevent Lei Gong from taking advantage of the situation to seize the entire Central Plains. Now the imperial court cannot do without elder brother!"

Liu Bei is also a veteran who has experienced many battles. He naturally knows that the current Dingtao City is not a problem of lack of troops, but that it cannot withstand Lei Gong's artillery.

Liu Bei has already made up his mind that this time when he returns to Jingzhou, he will go all out to manufacture artillery, as much as he can, otherwise Xiangyang City on the banks of the Yangtze River will be in danger.

Liu Bei wanted to cry, but he moved his capital to Xiangyang because of the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain of Xiangyang. Who knew that the appearance of artillery completely changed all this. Xiangyang City by the river was easily besieged by Lei Gong's naval guns. The Yangtze River is not Surabaya, and any warship can accommodate it.

Although there are many Jingzhou naval divisions and they have rich combat experience, but in the face of the new artillery warfare, most of the warships that Liu Bei spent a lot of money on have been scrapped, and the warships that cannot be equipped with artillery cannot be the warships of the Dagan Army. opponent.

But Liu Bei asked, "What should you do, third brother?"

Zhang Fei smiled confidently: "Your little brother is capable, big brother, you are still worried that I won't be able to escape this Dingtao City, little brother will try to kill and injure the main army to delay time, and give big brother you time to integrate the army!"

Liu Bei thought of Zhang Fei's skill as an enemy of ten thousand enemies. Without him being a drag here, retreating among ten thousand armies is still easy to do.

After Liu Bei figured it out, he found Yuan Shao's counselor Tian Feng and the others and said: "The battle situation is dangerous now. If Bei wants to go back to Jingzhou to build a second line of defense, I will hand over the defense of Dingtao City to my third brother. It is obvious that I want to leave You can also go with me, so that Xiansi can integrate Yuzhou's forces and build a second line of defense to prevent Lei Gong from expanding his victories!"

Obviously Liu Bei has admitted the failure of the Central Plains War, and now they are going to stop the loss. After Liu Bei saw Yuan Tan, he suddenly thought that he could let Yuan Tan go to Yuzhou, integrate the power of Yuzhou, and help him buy a few more years to build Jiangnan.

From this battle in the Central Plains, Liu Bei figured it out. The flat Central Plains is not suitable for fighting with Lei Gong at all. It will only waste his elite soldiers in vain. What can really weaken Lei Gong's power is the Jiangnan with dense water networks.

Although Lei Gong made the artillery, the Dagan army still has an advantage in the navy, but the naval superiority of the Dagan army is based on the artillery, but he can also manufacture the artillery, and Liu Bei is confident that it will be in two or three years. The number of artillery catches up with the main army.

But he knew that in terms of the number of cavalry, the coalition forces would never be able to catch up with Dagan, so Liu Bei knew that no matter how hard they tried in the Central Plains, they would still be annexed by Lei Gong little by little. .

Yuan Tan was a little moved, now everyone can see that Dingtao City can't be defended, and staying here can only be a dead end. Of course he also wants to run, but his father Yuan Shao is seriously ill in Dingtao City. As the Son of Man, I am ashamed to suggest running away at this time.But now that Liu Bei proposed it, it would be much better. He escaped from Dingtao City in the name of establishing a second line of defense. No one would say that he was greedy for life and afraid of death, and left Yuan Shao in Dingtao City regardless of the relationship between father and son.

But at this time, Xu You said angrily: "You want to leave the original like this, why don't you take the original with you if you want to escape!"

Everyone else was ashamed, after all, leaving Dingtao City at this time felt like a deserter.

But Zhang Fei was not used to him and said: "If you want to escape, you can also take Yuan Shao along to escape, and see if Yuan Shao dies first by your hands or by the hands of the Dagan Army!"

Yuan Ji, who had been seldom speaking, scolded angrily: "You think we, with hundreds of thousands of people crowded here, can find a chance to turn defeat into victory! The purpose of escaping now is to preserve our strength, so that Lei Gong will not break through Yuzhou, Xuzhou and even Sili in one go. It's easy, but we all die here, what will happen to the big man's world! How can we just give it up to Lei Gong! Xiansi is still so young, you want to see him buried with Dingtao City!"

(End of this chapter)