The last three kingdoms

Chapter 1065 Forcibly crossing the Yellow River ([-])

Everyone knows the sharpness of the Shu army's firearms. In order to defend against the Shu army's firearm attacks, the Jin army has actually done some research, but the weapon is too powerful, and the Jin army can't find a restraint weapon.However, some generals of the Jin army also found through research that the firearms of the Shu army were basically thrown by manpower, or were buried in advance and then detonated. That is to say, firearms have a shortcoming in range. Restrain it in terms of range, and prevent the Shu army from having the opportunity to use firearms to attack, so that the threat of Shu army firearms can be greatly reduced.

Soon, some corresponding tactical tactics were also researched, that is, to use long-range attack weapons as much as possible, such as bows and arrows, bed crossbows, catapults, etc., to curb the chance of the Shu army using firearms.

For this reason, the Jin military also specially summoned some generals to conduct actual combat drills and exercises, and specially conducted targeted studies to improve the actual combat capabilities of frontline generals.Zhu Zhen, governor of Xiaopingjin Pass, is one of them.

Therefore, Zhu Zhen still has some experience in dealing with the Shu army's firearms. When he received the news of the Shu army crossing the river to attack, he immediately rushed to the front line of the Yellow River embankment and ordered the archers and crossbowmen to The bed ballistas and catapults were fully fired, and they mercilessly attacked all Shu army ships that entered the range.

The ships used by the Shu army were not warships, but mostly civilian fishing boats, merchant ships, and ferries. The strength is enough to withstand several blows from catapults and bed crossbows, but ordinary civilian ships cannot withstand the attack of such heavy weapons at all, almost to the point of falling apart with one blow.

Zhu Zhen couldn't help laughing proudly when he saw that the Jin army's long-range shooting was quite fruitful, but he also had a little regret, that is, the Jin army did not have enough catapults and bed crossbows for coastal defense. Although the Jin army sank many Shu army ships, there were still many fish that slipped through the net and rushed over.These escaped fish can only be dealt with by relying on the dense arrows on the shore, but compared with heavy weapons such as catapults and bed crossbows, the lethality of ordinary crossbows is greatly reduced, and it is difficult to achieve a single blow. degree of destruction.

The Jin army also tried to use rockets to attack. The so-called rockets are wrapped with oil-soaked cloth strips on the arrow shafts, ignited and shot out.Such rockets are deadly against wooden structures, and are theoretically most effective against ships.

However, the Shu army obviously took precautions. They soaked the ships with water or spread a layer of fine sand in the cabins, so that even if the rockets hit the ships, they would not cause fires.

The first wave of the Shu army's attack was considerably contained. Basically, most of the ships did not approach dozens of steps away, which is the distance that firearms can be thrown, so the Jin army's defense line was not hit at all. The arrows shot over were just scratching the itch of the shore fortifications with copper walls and iron walls, and did not cause any real damage at all.

The victory in the first battle greatly boosted Zhu Zhen's confidence. Although the defenders at Xiaopingjin Pass are seriously insufficient, the solid defense here seems to be enough to make up for the lack of troops. It has already been reported to Shangfeng that Mengjin Pass is not too far from Xiaopingjin Pass. After the imperial court makes arrangements, it will only take half a day at most for the reinforcements to arrive.

Zhu Zhen's report quickly received a response from the imperial court. Sima Yan personally ordered to mobilize the defenders of Mengjin Pass to immediately return to Xiaopingjin Pass, and the order to Zhu Zhen was to defend Xiaopingjin Pass at all costs.

For Zhu Zhen, all he had to do was to stick to it for half a day, waiting for reinforcements to arrive.Seeing the rising sun, Zhu Zhen longed for it to rise to the top of his head immediately. At noon, the reinforcements from Mengjin Pass would arrive, and that would be the moment of victory.

But the Shu army could not let him get what he wanted. After the first wave of attack was frustrated, Liu Yin immediately sent a warship equipped with a small catapult.

In order to accommodate the catapults, these warships are much larger than those fishing boats and merchant ships, and they have initially possessed the scale of warships, all of which were newly built by craftsmen invited by the Shu army during this period.

At this time on the Yellow River, dozens of such warships lined up, surrounded by many fishing boats and merchant ships, slowly approaching the south bank, as if they stood out from the crowd.

Zhu Zhen felt a little uneasy, and he probably guessed the extraordinaryness of these big ships. Zhu Zhen ordered the Jin army's catapults and bed crossbows to ignore those small ships and concentrate all their firepower to destroy these large ships.

However, these big ships of the Shu army are very ghostly. They stopped outside the range of the Jin army's catapults and bed crossbows. Not far in front of the warships fell into the river one after another, and those warships were unscathed.

Although he failed to sink these warships, he managed to block them in the middle of the river. As long as they were not allowed to get close to the pass city, Zhu Zhen had nothing to worry about.

But at the next moment, Zhu Zhen's face changed suddenly. Those warships were moored in the middle of the river, but suddenly they fired balls emitting green smoke. Amidst the astonishment of the Jin army, those balls were already scattered one after another. It landed on Guancheng.

"Booming" explosions sounded one after another, and the entire Guancheng was plunged into a sea of ​​flames. The gunpowder bombs used by the Shu army this time were larger than the bamboo tube grenades, and the gunpowder filling volume was five times that of the grenade, so the power of the explosion It is also several times larger than a grenade.

The Jin army was suddenly attacked, and it seemed to be in a state of distress. Where the gunpowder bomb exploded, limbs and arms flew across the country. Many soldiers were blown to blood and flesh, and the screams were endless. The entire Xiaopingjin Pass was in chaos.

The warships of the Shu army fired gunpowder shells continuously, almost hitting one by one. The catapults and bed crossbows that the Jin army relied on to maintain the line of defense were turned into scrap iron and rotten wood in the artillery fire. Even the bricks and stones on the Guancheng embankment were destroyed. It was blown to pieces and shattered.

The power of the Shu army's firearms was fully revealed at this moment. No matter how strong the defense line was, it was just a paper tiger in front of it, and it could only be swept away.

The situation that was originally evenly matched was reversed in an instant. Such a blow was almost devastating to Zhu Zhen.

(End of this chapter)