Destiny Only Han

Chapter 554 Liu Bang: Bai Dengshan cannons boom!

Under the hills, the Huns did not take advantage of the momentum to launch an attack immediately, but stayed in place for a short rest, adjusted their formation, and recovered their physical fitness.

In order to ambush Liu Bang, they hid in the snow-capped mountains around the valley one day in advance, chewing snowballs when they were thirsty, and chewing dried meat or milk dregs when they were hungry.

Even though it was the twelfth lunar month and the bitter cold, the Huns did not light a fire to keep warm in order not to expose themselves. In addition, they were not good at running because of their bow legs developed by riding horses. Therefore, after running for hundreds of meters, they could not do it at all. Immediately look up and attack the mountain.

While the Huns around were panting heavily, and the white air filled the air like thick fog, King Lan stood on a tree stump, staring at the Han army building the camp in the distance with cold wolf eyes.

During the last battle of Mayi, he followed Maodun, and witnessed the whole process of Maodun from ecstasy, to shock, to great sorrow when the galloping horse formation charged.

Therefore, he learned the lesson from last time and did not let the Huns around him use their best cavalry charge tactics.

The Han army only has more than [-] people, but they have [-] soldiers here, [-] of the most elite fighters of the Huns!
King Lan remembered that the Han merchants who came to the Huns to do business said that there was a general named Sun Wu in the Central Plains. He had a famous saying, which is called ten times to encircle him, five times to attack him, and times to fight him...

So at this moment, he has five times the military strength of the emperor of Han, so the advantage is naturally with him!

It's just that the Han army responded quickly, and all quickly gathered on the hills to build camps, which prevented the Huns from deploying all their troops.

However, King Lan did not lack military literacy. On the one hand, he ordered the Huns around him to prepare for an attack, but on the other hand, he sent thousands of brave Hun warriors to the road from Pingcheng to Mayi, dug the mountain road, and took advantage of the terrain. Stop the reinforcements that may come at any time.

After all, it was the emperor of Han who was surrounded by them, and the beacon smoke had already soared into the sky, and the surrounding Han troops would surely rush towards here like crazy!
Therefore, this battle must be fast!

They must cut off the head of the Han emperor before the Han reinforcements arrive!
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On the hills, facing Xia Houying's endless yin and yang, Liu Bang finally couldn't bear it.

He sat up abruptly, patted the dust on his buttocks, and raised his head: "Fuck you! Come on, Naigong will show you something good!"

Seeing that Liu Bang was a little angry, Xia Houying naturally didn't dare to push Lai Lai anymore, so he picked up a shield and silently followed behind him towards the car formation in the distance.

Out of the corner of Liu Bang's eye, he saw the shield in Xia Houying's hand. Although there was no expression on his face, he still felt warm in his heart.

Perhaps, this is the brother.

He spares no effort when he sprays you with vulgar words, but at critical moments, he will protect you with his life without hesitation...

And there are many such brothers in Liu Bang!

So the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and the aggrieved feeling caused by the Huns' ambush dissipated. He pointed to the four-pounder cavalry gun that had been uncovered in the distance, and said with a smile: "Look, that's a new weapon I invented. , has the ability to open mountains and crack rocks!"

Xia Houying looked in the direction of his fingers, and saw an iron pillar about seven feet long, with a thick bowl mouth and thick front and back. He scratched his head, full of doubts: "What is this? A battering ram ?"

"Pfft..." Liu Bang spat out, wanting to explain to Xia Houying, pretending to be coercive by the way, but he didn't know much, so after thinking about it, he explained:
"Do you still remember the iron stick that made a loud noise that my second child used during the wax festival last time?"

The third child...Xia Houying silently corrected her, and nodded slightly: "Of course I remember, I almost fell to my death..."

Well, that day Liu Ying robbed him of a hare and fired a shot very close to him, so his horse was startled, and he ran for seven or eight miles before gradually calming down...

Liu Bang ignored Xia Houying's accusation, and said proudly:

"This is the enhanced version of that iron rod! Not only is it louder, but its lethality cannot be underestimated! As far as... I know, there is a version 2.0 that is longer and thicker than this one. inside!"

Xia Houying looked at Liu Bang suspiciously, and then at the four-pound cannon in the distance. His eyes inadvertently saw a special mark on the cannon, and his expression became confident.

That is the mark of Shangxian Hall, to be precise, it is the mark of Liu Ying herself.

Therefore, Xia Houying recalled Liu Bang's pretentiousness just now, and a touch of contempt rose in her heart.

It's his son stealing his father, his father stealing his son, shameless...

However, Xia Houying's expression management has always been very good. Even if he saw through something, he didn't show his face at all. He just followed Liu Bang, walked to the four-pounder gun and looked left and right, his eyes full of curiosity.

These four-pound guns belonged to the cannon, which is a type of flat-fire gun.

Well, this is not another type of artillery that Liu Ying doesn't want to make, but the manufacturing process is immature, coupled with the need for fast movement, small-caliber artillery is naturally the first choice.

Of course, Liu Ying is also making those eight-pound guns and twelve-pound guns, but the quality control is still unstable, so they are not suitable for Liu Bang to use...

The artillery specifications imitated by Liu Ying are the French artillery system improved by Lieutenant General Jean-Baptiste de Gribeauval during the Napoleonic Wars.

Gribeauval was born in a family of magistrates in Amiens, France, and joined the French artillery at the age of 17. At that time, the "Seven Years' War" broke out, and the French army allied with its old rival Austria to fight against Prussia and Great Britain.

From 1757, Gribeauval was seconded to serve in the Austrian army as a lieutenant colonel of the French artillery. The cavalry', the Frederick the Great of the 'European model army'.

Well, the education system in many countries is based on the invention and improvement of Frederick the Great in Prussia. It is a cramming education and large-scale literacy, which lays the foundation for the revitalization of the country and facilitates the rapid cultivation of suitable high-quality students. manpower.

Therefore, after fighting against such a high-quality opponent for five years, combined with the advanced experience of the Prussian and Austrian armies, after Griboval returned to China, he greatly reduced the weight of the artillery on the premise of ensuring the power and effective range as much as possible. The field cannons are unified into three calibers: twelve-pound, eight-pound, and four-pound.

Among them, the four-pounder gun currently used by Liu Bang is about 1.6 meters long and only weighs more than 280 kilograms. It is equivalent to the weights and measures still used by the people in the Han Dynasty, which is less than seven feet and weighs more than 100 kilograms.

Although the weight of the four-pound cannon is not large, its maximum range is more than one kilometer. Compared with the large trebuchet, which can only throw a distance of more than 300 meters, the improvement is not a star. The important thing is that the rate of fire of this cannon can reach up to three Shots, and the ability to switch shotguns as needed!
This is why Liu Bang dared to go to Pingcheng with only more than 1 troops!
Although he felt a little ashamed to be surrounded by the Huns, he still felt extremely excited when he thought of the spring thunder that was waiting to appear and break the mountains and rocks!

This kind of excitement even surpassed the moment when he married Lu Zhi and met Qi Ji...

After all, men are still teenagers until they die. When they are not dominated by hormones, they still like this kind of silly, big, black and thick tube...

When Liu Bang showed a sweet smile on his face, and even caressed the black cannon pervertedly, the Huns under the hills finally finished their repairs, and stared at the Han army camp high up with red eyes.

In an instant, the horn sounded desolately and fiercely, and the Huns sent a signal for a full-scale attack!
Based on the experience of the last battle with the Han army, King Lan ordered the Hun warriors at the front to hold up a large shield with both hands. In order to restrain the crossbow arrows of the Han army, the edges of the shield were not only reinforced with precious iron sheets, but also covered with foot coverings. Three layers of thick cowhide!
Therefore, the weight of a single-sided shield has reached an astonishing 30 kilograms, and only those fighters with the strongest physical strength in the tribe can hold it for a long time to launch a charge.

And behind this group of wrestlers are the most vigorous horse herdsmen, holding a horse pole more than five meters long in their hands, and charging behind the wrestlers with their heads lowered.

Their task is to put a horse pole on the chariot of the Han army, and then use brute force to break the chariot or drag the entire chariot to open a gap for the Hun warriors who charged later.

After all, the Han army is well-equipped and wears thick armor. If they are allowed to stand on top of the chariot and attack condescendingly, then the Huns are equivalent to attacking the city, and their numerical advantage will be greatly weakened.

Therefore, King Lan thought of using this stupid method to break through the Han army's defense line, so that the Xiongnu warriors could fight face-to-face with the Han army!
The Huns are especially good at this kind of bad battle!

Each of them is good at wrestling, which is a skill developed from wrestling sheep when they were young and wrestling cattle when they grew up!

Therefore, under Liu Bang's order, more than 40 artillery pieces arranged around the Han army camp opened fire one after another.

boom!
The cannon roared, the earth shook, and the God of War uttered its first roar in this world!

White smoke billowed, and the fired shells flew by at a speed that could not be detected by the naked eye. The places they passed were like the Red Sea separated by Moses. There were gaps in the Huns who were charging.

Cracks full of flesh and blood fragments!

However, among the tens of thousands of red-eyed Huns who came like a tide, this powerful shelling was just a wave rolled up on the top of the tide, and the traces were easily wiped out.

So, facing the Huns who were either fearless or ignorant, Liu Bang remembered the operation guide that Liu Ying had said before, and decisively issued an order to replace the shells.

shrapnel.

"Find a place with a lot of people to fight, but it's nothing, shoot all the shells out!"

(End of this chapter)