The last three kingdoms

Chapter 1069 Xiaopingjin Falls

The siege battle was very fierce. The Shu army used as many firearms as possible. The light bombing vehicles equipped on the warships were not fixed on the ships. Wheels were installed on the bottom of them, so they could be easily carried out. After moving, after the warship docked, these dozens of catapults were pushed off the warship, entered Xiaopingjin Pass from the ferry, and were soon thrown into the battle to attack the inner city.

After the bombing vehicle that showed great power in the battle of crossing the river landed at this moment, its power did not decrease. Because its range was relatively far, beyond the range of any long-range weapon, any bow and arrow bed crossbow catapult could not cause damage to it, so these bombing vehicles Shi is almost invincible.

Moreover, its attack power is powerful, with four times more charge than the bamboo grenade, which almost makes it a terrible and destructive weapon. Although the inner city wall of Xiaopingjin Pass is made of stone, stronger gunpowder cannot Destroy it, but it is impossible for the buildings on the top of the city to be built with stones. Those wooden gates and buildings were instantly reduced to a pile of ruins under the bombardment of gunpowder.

More importantly, those Jin soldiers guarding the city are all flesh and blood. Even if they wear armor and armor, it is impossible to block the shock wave and splashing shrapnel after the explosion of gunpowder. , people within a few feet are either killed or injured.

The dense defensive formation of the Jin army made the power of the gunpowder bullets more vivid. Generally, the passages on the city walls are not too wide. Even in a big city like Luoyang Chang'an, it is only five or six feet wide at most, which can accommodate four horses. Parallelism is already the limit. In general prefectures and counties, it is not bad to be able to run two horses. As for some small cities, the passages on the city walls are narrow and can only accommodate one rider at most. Such a narrow location, It is conceivable how crowded so many Jin soldiers were.

Gunpowder bombs exploded continuously on the pass city, and the Jin army guarding the pass was wailing, with heavy casualties.

Not to mention how powerful the gunpowder weapons invented by Liu Yin are. Compared with the modern weapons of later generations, these firearms of Liu Yin can only be regarded as kindergarten level at best, but compared with the weapons of later generations, their killing efficiency must be low. Not bad, even far greater than the weapons of later generations.

The most fundamental reason is that people in this era know nothing about firearms. When firearms strike, they don’t know how to deal with them. Many people just stand there in a daze, at a loss, and some people try to think Escape, but it is not easy to escape in a dense crowd. Many people trampled on each other and were in chaos.

Although the Shu army has used firearms many times, the opponent has not yet gained more experience and lessons from it. To deal with gunpowder weapons, you must first disperse and conceal them. The killing radius of a gunpowder weapon is often only one to two feet Moreover, the farther you are from the explosion point, the less damage you will receive. As long as the Jin army can effectively disperse and hide, the lethality of the Shu army's gunpowder weapons will naturally be greatly reduced.

But in this era, whether it is offense or defense, strict formations are emphasized. If they are scattered and concealed, how can this battle be fought?
This in itself is a contradictory matter. To deal with ordinary sieges, the Jin army must maintain a tight defensive formation and use crowd tactics to block the Shu army's attack, but to deal with firearm attacks, they must be dispersed. And hiding and dodging, such a strong conflict made not only the soldiers of the Jin army, but even the leading generals of the Jin army at a loss, not knowing how to deal with it.

"Quick retreat!" Seeing this situation, Jiang Jun immediately ordered the troops defending the city to disperse and move most of the Jin army to the city to avoid the firearms of the Shu army.

But when the Jin army fled down the city wall as if fleeing, the firearm attack of the Shu army suddenly stopped, and the Wudang flying army who had been waiting under the city for a long time rushed up in a lightning-fast way. He was in a mess, and hurriedly ordered the Jin soldiers who had just left the city to go back to the city to prevent the attack of the Shu army.

When the Jin army's troops had just entered the city tower, a new round of firearm attacks began again, and the dense gunpowder bombs instantly covered the inner city walls.

So the Jin army began to rush to the dungeon again. After several tosses, not only the Jin army suffered heavy casualties, but also the Jin army's energy was exhausted, their morale was low, and they were exhausted.

Zhang Le saw the opportunity, and led the Wudang Flying Army to rush up in one go.

Although the walls of the inner city are much higher than the walls of the outer city, for the Wudang Flying Army, no matter how high the height is, they don't pay attention to it. They fight in the mountains all the year round, and they climb up and down. With their special skills, they can walk on many steep and towering peaks as if they are on the ground. Naturally, the city walls like Xiaopingjin Pass will not be taken seriously.

Numerous ladders were erected. The sergeants of the Wudang Flying Army walked like flying and moved like the wind. Other troops climbed the ladder with both hands and feet. They supported the ladder with their hands and climbed up step by step. .

However, when the soldiers of Wudang Feijun climbed the ladder, they did not hold the ladder with both hands at all, and stepped on the horizontal bar with both feet, "噗噐噐", their bodies were like flying, and in the blink of an eye, the soldiers of Wudang Feijun had already He stepped on more than a dozen crossbars in succession.

There are also many soldiers who don't need to climb the ladder at all. They throw flying claws high towards the city wall. Lost to soldiers climbing ladders.

The Jin soldiers were running back and forth between the city and the city, and they were so tired that they couldn't breathe. Many people couldn't walk anymore. They thought that they had to go down after going up to the city anyway, so they might as well stay at the city's base instead of going up. It saves tossing back and forth, and it is still life-threatening. If one is unlucky, the firearms of the Shu army will fall on the top of the head and explode, and there will be no bones left.

Relatively speaking, it is safer to stay under the city, at least the firearms of the Shu army cannot shoot here.

But they didn't expect that this time the Shu army's attack on the city was not a false move, but a real move. Before many people had time to climb the city, the Wudang Flying Army had already rushed to the top of the city.

At this time, it is very difficult for the Jin army to stop the offensive of the Shu army. The entire city has been almost razed by the Shu army. Except for the corpses all over the ground, there are not many Jin troops. Therefore, when the flying army rushed up, there were almost no defensive forces on the inner city of Xiaopingjin Pass, and Xiaopingjin Pass fell quickly.

(End of this chapter)