The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 339 Chapter 338
It is an indisputable fact that Cao Hong feigned surrender, and Zhang Yan would have expected that when Cao Hong met Cao Cao, he would tell Cao Cao everything in the city.

Cao Cao has always been smart, so he will definitely not follow the original plan to go to the Xuanwu Gate. The two will definitely negotiate, and Cao Hong will be the internal response inside, and the internal response and external cooperation at other gates.

There are four gates in Yecheng, the Qinglong Gate in the east, the Zhuque Gate in the south, and the Baihu Gate in the west.Among the three city gates, Qinglongmen and Baihumen are the closest to Xuanwumen, while Suzakumen needs to go around Yecheng to get there.

According to common sense, the principle of proximity should be adopted, so the enemy is likely to use Qinglongmen or Baihumen as the entry point instead of the remote Suzakumen.

However, the enemy is Cao Cao, a generation of heroes. Based on Zhang Yan's understanding of Cao Cao, a hero like Cao Cao will definitely take an unusual path.

Then, Cao Cao will definitely use the farther Suzaku Gate as a breakthrough point.Moreover, Suzaku Gate is the farthest from Xuanwu Gate, so Cao Cao must have considered that Zhang Yan was ambushing heavily at Xuanwu Gate, and if he broke into the city from Suzaku Gate, Xuanwu Gate's soldiers and horses would not be able to rescue Suzaku Gate in time.

In addition, the Suzaku Gate was severely damaged when Zhang Yan attacked Yecheng, and the city gate has not yet been repaired. Even if there are soldiers and horses guarding it, without the city gate, it will be easily breached by the enemy.

Therefore, Zhang Yan was sure that Cao Cao would come from Suzaku Gate to cooperate with Cao Hongli.

In fact, Cao Cao just asked Cao Hong directly which city gate to go.But Cao Hong would never say it.Zhang Yan didn't bother to make that effort.

At this time, Jia Xu came in from the outside of the hall, first asked Zhang Yan to salute, and then asked, "Has the regent locked up Cao Hong?"

Zhang Yan nodded and asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

Jia Xu said: "The regent has already learned from Cao Hong which gate Cao Cao will go through?"

Zhang Yan shook his head and said, "You don't need to ask, you know, Cao Cao will definitely go to the Suzaku Gate!"

"How can the regent be so sure?" Jia Xu asked.

Therefore, Zhang Yan expressed all his reasoning.

After hearing this, Jia Xu nodded again and again, and said: "The regent's reasoning is reasonable, but this time our army set up an ambush with only one purpose, and that is to capture and kill Cao Cao. As long as Cao Cao is dead, the situation in Hebei will be easy to control." , the King Regent only needs to sit in the command of Ye City and send out large armies to conquer. Within a few months, Hebei will all surrender to the King Regent. However, the subordinates also want to remind the King Regent that everything needs to be carefully calculated. If we make a wrong calculation this time, all previous efforts will come to naught. The subordinates feel that it is too early for the regent to arrest Cao Hong. We should extend the line a little longer and send someone to closely monitor Cao Hong's every move. What is Cao Hong doing? With abnormal behavior, we can see which door Cao Cao wants to use as a place for internal cooperation and external cooperation."

"I have considered what the military adviser said, but that would be too passive. It is better to control Cao Hong earlier, so that our army can let go and fight! We don't have to be so sneaky."

Jia Xu said: "Since the matter has come to this point, it is useless to say anything. The top priority should be to start the arrangement immediately, and there must be no mistakes. As for the group of soldiers who surrendered, it is better to kill them early, so as not to be killed later. Incidents are born. In addition, the regent no longer has to worry about which gate Cao Cao will go to. We have a large number of soldiers, so it is better to arrange a more stringent defense at each gate. No matter which gate Cao Cao goes, our army will have a chance of winning."

Zhang Yandao: "Well, then according to the military division's intention, kill the surrendered soldiers, deploy 1 troops at the four city gates, and leave [-] troops around the government office. If there is a situation in any city gate, immediately support that city gate. .”

Jia Xu said "Here" and exited the hall.

Afterwards, Zhang Yan began to deploy troops, and Zhao Yun was stationed at Zhuquemen, Xu Chu was stationed at Qinglongmen, Zhang Liao was stationed at Baihumen, Gan Ning was stationed at Xuanwumen, and Gao Shun led 1 people to stay on the square in front of the Fuyamen.

In addition, Zhang Yan and Lu Meng took the surrendered soldiers out of the city in batches, and then secretly killed all the surrendered soldiers and buried them on the spot to avoid future troubles.

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Cao Cao led the army and quickly rushed from Julu County to Wei County. The army had already entered the vicinity of Yecheng. As soon as they reached the Zhang River, one of Cao Jun's servants captured a man and brought him directly in front of Cao Cao. It was the spy who was caught.

When the man saw Cao Cao, he immediately shouted, "Let go of me, I'm not a spy, I'm Wang Lun, the head of the Armament Division."

Cao Cao took a closer look and found that the person standing in front of him was really Wang Lun, the head of the Weapons Division.So Cao Cao asked Wang Lun to untie the rope and asked, "Why are you here?"

Wang Lun knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said, "My lord, I am here to wait for your lord according to the order of Master Bie Jia!"

Cao Cao was surprised and said, "Wen Ruo asked you to wait for me here? That must be telling you something important. Tell me quickly!"

It turned out that after Wang Lun got the thunderbolt, he disassembled it and studied it, and roughly figured out what was filled in the thunderbolt.However, there were no such things in Ye City, so Wang Lun personally reported to Xun Yu and asked to go out of the city to collect raw materials for configuring Thunderbolt bombs.

At that time, Yecheng was under the fierce attack of Zhang Yan's army. Xun Yu felt that Yecheng would be captured sooner or later, so he asked Wang Lun to lead a group of people out of the city, secretly imitating the thunderbolt, and let Wang Lun go out of the city in the Zhanghe River. Waiting for Cao Cao nearby, he gave Cao Cao the imitated thunderbolt to use against Zhang Yan's army.

Before Zhang Yan's army besieged the city, Wang Lun led 300 people to leave Yecheng and hid in a deserted village by the Zhang River. While collecting the raw materials needed to imitate the Thunderbolt, he secretly developed the Thunderbolt.

The materials are available, but there is a small problem in the ratio.Because Wang Lun didn't know the ratio of raw materials, so after dozens of repeated tests, he succeeded in imitating Thunderbolt.

It's just that the thunderbolt is wrapped in an iron ball and filled with gunpowder, but Wang Lun and others couldn't find the iron for a while. Even if they found it, it would take time and effort to smelt and forge it.Therefore, Wang Lun thought of a way to wrap the gunpowder with worn-out cloth. Although the power produced was not as powerful as a real thunderbolt, it could still explode, and the damage was not small.

In front of Cao Cao, Wang Lun explained the reasons why he was here.

After Cao Cao heard this, he hurriedly asked, "What thunderbolt?"

Wang Lun then took out a thing wrapped in a solid cloth from his bosom, offered it to Cao Cao directly, and said, "My lord, this is the thunderbolt!"

Cao Cao had never seen the power of the thunderbolt. When the city of Ye fell and the scouts came to report the news, they mentioned that Zhang Yan's army had a new weapon, and it was very powerful. It was with that weapon that Zhang Yan Only then can Yecheng be captured easily.

At that time, the scouts were talking about a thing called "Fire and Thunder", and did not mention Thunderbolt, but Wang Lun said it was Thunderbolt, not Huolei, so the two people had different names for the same item. , so that Cao Cao was a little confused, and mistakenly thought that this is Huo Lei and Thunderbolt are two different things.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Lun put the imitation thunderbolt on the ground, and then let everyone scatter, the farther the better, and then asked an archer to shoot a flaming arrow at the thunderbolt, After the arrow hit the imitation thunderbolt, the gunpowder wrapped in cloth burned and expanded rapidly as soon as it came into contact with the flames, and then there was a loud "boom", and the cloth bag exploded, and the surrounding area exploded. The soil was blasted into the air, falling everywhere, and the place where the explosion had caused a black pothole, and a pungent smell of gunpowder permeated the air.

Cao Cao stood far away and saw it clearly. At the moment of the explosion just now, the horse Jueying under him was also frightened and ran around. If Cao Cao hadn't held Jueying tightly, he might have He had already overturned from the horseback.

Cao Cao opened his mouth in surprise. He was very curious about this thing called Thunderbolt. Who invented such a powerful weapon.

"My lord, the enemy's thunderbolts are made of iron balls, and the imitations of the subordinates are wrapped in cloth, and when the subordinates imitate, they are afraid that they will not be as powerful as the thunderbolts, so in terms of configuration, they have increased The specific gravity, the powder in the thunderbolt is about one or two, while the imitation thunderbolt bag weighs five or two, the powder is five times that of the thunderbolt. Its power is not inferior to the thunderbolt at all, and it can even exceed the power of the thunderbolt .” Wang Lun introduced.

Cao Cao was full of joy. With this weapon, he would have absolutely no problem capturing Yecheng.So he asked, "How many of these things have you made?"

Wang Lun said: "Because of limited time and extremely difficult to find materials, we have only made less than [-] pieces so far."

Cao Cao laughed and said, "That's enough. With so many weapons like this, it's enough for me to raze Yecheng to the ground."

As soon as the words fell, Cao Cao sent someone to say that Wang Lun and others were temporarily sent to Handan, so that they could continue to make these things in Handan, and asked Xu You and Xun Chen to actively cooperate with Wang Lun to manufacture this new weapon.

Moreover, Cao Cao also gave this weapon a new name, called Thunderbolt Fire Thunder.

At the same time, Cao Cao also had a lot of expectations for Wang Lun, and hoped that Wang Lun could flexibly use the Thunderbolt Fire Thunder to other weapons, preferably long-range launch.

Wang Lun nodded heavily, and immediately asked for more than 450 packs of thunderbolts, and then led his men towards Handan.

Cao Cao sent people to guard the Thunderbolt, Fire and Thunder, and with these secret weapons, he began to go to Yecheng, and he was full of hope for the capture of Yecheng.

"Zhang Yan, this time I will let you die without a place to bury you!" Cao Cao said bitterly while riding Jue Ying.

(End of this chapter)