Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 440 Set up an altar to worship the heavens and ask God for help (fourth more)

Chapter 444 Set up an altar to sacrifice to heaven and ask God for help
These students are related to his success or failure in weakening the elite of the gentry in the future. Everyone is a treasure, how could Ran Ming be willing to let them sacrifice?

Ran Ming tried his best to persuade them to go back.

Just after dawn the next day, the Xifu army launched a four-sided attack.The soldiers of Xifu launched a frenzied attack on Qiming Academy like a tide.

Huan Wen issued a huge reward before the battle: "The first person to break into the academy will be promoted to three ranks, and will be rewarded with a thousand gold!"

The wages of avarice is death.

The reward offered by Huan Wen made the Xifu soldiers crazy.With red eyes, they yelled again and again, and launched the bloodiest battle against the enemy.

The nest carts of the Xifu army were the first to be dispatched. There were as many as a hundred nest carts on all sides, pulled by the cattle, slowly approaching the courtyard wall. These nest carts could have as many as a thousand archers. The rain was so oppressive that academicians and soldiers could not raise their heads at all.

Seeing that there was no news about Ge Hong's gunpowder, Ran Ming became anxious.

"Your Highness, going on like this is not an option!" Xue Tao said: "The general thinks that it is better to send daredevils to launch a counterattack and destroy these nest cars, otherwise the academy may not be able to last for an hour!"

Ran Ming shouted angrily: "Damn it, it's not enough. The eight-ox crossbow is stringed up, and the nest cart will be bombarded fiercely by Gu!"

Although the eight-ox crossbow is wound using a lever, it is a big guy weighing more than 1000 catties.If it is on flat ground, it can push and run, and can move quickly.However, the walls of the academy are not real city walls. The walls of cities like Luoyang, Chang'an, and Yecheng are all five or six feet thick, but the walls of the academy are only one foot and six feet long. Can't make a turn.

Once the eight-ox crossbow is exposed, it will be fatally retaliated by the Jin army's catapults!
It is impossible for Ran Ming not to think of this situation, but he has no choice.

The academy soldiers hoisted the eight-ox crossbow cart to the courtyard wall with pulleys. As the huge eight-ox crossbow cart slowly entered the position, the eight-ox crossbowmen put the giant crossbow arrows that were more than six feet long and about five inches thick into the ground. In the arrow slot, the two men worked together to wind the crossbow with a lever.

"The ballista is ready! Request to launch!"

Ran Ming said coldly, "Let go!"

As the academy's order flag was waved down fiercely, the big wooden hammer in the crossbowman's hand hit the machine bracket fiercely, and a hundred giant crossbow arrows flew towards the huge nest cart with the sound of death.

As the name suggests, the eight-ox crossbow is a giant crossbow that requires the pulling force of eight oxen to be wound. This is one of the main equipments of the Tang Dynasty frontier army defending the city.This kind of six-foot giant arrow can shoot at a distance of [-] steps at the farthest. The thick wood of the bowl can be pierced by an arrow, and the rammed earth city wall can be shot into three feet.It is even more powerful than the sniper rifles of later generations!

These one hundred giant crossbows were fired so suddenly, none of the Xifu soldiers thought that the Academy had such sharp weapons!The tall nest cart was hit by several giant crossbows, and instantly turned into a pile of useless rotten wood. A general of the Xifu army was hit by a giant crossbow. The solid armor on his body did not save his life. One of the arrows was shot in two.

The appearance of this accident made the Xifu soldiers turn pale with fright.

Before they had time to react, the extremely fast eight-ox crossbow started firing a second wave.The targets of these crossbow bolts were also the nest carts, and the same heavy nest carts had no time to move. They were like dead targets, and they were continuously named by the eight bull crossbows.

In a short while, nearly half of the hundreds of Xifu army nest carts were destroyed by the eight-ox crossbow, and the soldiers of the remaining nest carts also fled the hanging baskets in panic.

Huan Wen was furious, and roared: "What about the catapults, give me a hard bang on the catapults, let me smash these bed crossbows!"

The good times didn't last long, and the Jin army's catapults began to speak.There was no way that the eight-ox crossbows that could move in a short period of time were hit by stone bullets and turned into a pile of garbage.

Those academy crossbowmen were not afraid of catapults at all, they were still shooting tenaciously at the risk of being crushed to death by stone bullets at any time.

This long-range weapon battle in the era of cold weapons started hastily and ended more abruptly.

With the absolute advantage of the Xifu army to win.

The catapults of the Xifu army kept firing stone bombs within two quarters of an hour, and finally destroyed all the 2000 ballistas on the wall of the academy.But Huan Wen couldn't laugh.In this short half-hour battle, the Xifu army suffered nearly [-] casualties, and what was even worse was that their morale suffered a setback.

On the other hand, the Academy suffered serious losses.One hundred ballistas were all destroyed, two hundred crossbowmen, 170 and eight were killed, and the rest were all wounded.Ordinary soldiers also died more than a hundred people.

Now Ran Ming has less than 800 people around him!
At this moment, Tong Qingyun, a young boy beside Ge Hong, ran over and said, "Your Highness, Master has refined Fuhuo Pill!"

"What?" Ran Ming was overjoyed, excitedly said: "Our reinforcements are here, with Fuhuo Pill in hand, who in the world is a lone opponent!"

Huan Wen was originally full of confidence. He thought that the elite troops of the Xifu Army could easily attack Qiming Academy and capture Ran Min, Ran Ming and his son.However from the beginning.The strong resistance from the academy was beyond his imagination.Not only the will to resist is tenacious, but also the academy's defensive methods emerge in endlessly, such as the fire attack method that cannot be extinguished with water, the boiling golden juice, and the giant crossbow that can directly destroy even a Pangchao chariot, these various resistance methods, Let the elite troops of the Xifu Army suffer enough.Now more than [-] people have been killed or injured.

The number of people killed in Xifu was not too many, only 800 people, and the wounded were more damaging to morale than the dead.Looking at the battalion full of wounded soldiers with missing arms and legs, Huan Wen felt very uncomfortable.

Huan Wen started his career by relying on military exploits. At the beginning of the Battle of Pingshu, which lasted one and a half months, the casualties of Huanwen's troops were only 9000 to [-].But now, a small academy has killed more than [-] of his elites.How could this not make Huan Wen's heart ache?
However, no matter how heartbroken Huan Wen was, he had to grit his teeth and persevere until the end of the battle.Facing the generals of the Xifu Army.With a gloomy face, Huan Wen issued a death order: "Before midnight tonight, all Qiming Academy must be occupied, otherwise all military law will be carried out. The order will be passed on to the army. If no one hears the drums, everything will be cut. Kill all the villages, slack in the face of the enemy, cut all the troops, stop all the troops, and cut all the songs!"

Before the attacking troops set off, Huan Wen said earnestly to the attacking generals: "Everyone, Ran Min and Ran Ming and his son are the key to whether we can regain the Central Plains. If Ran Min and Ran Ming and his son are captured in this battle, the generals of Wei will have no leader. Since the war collapsed, we can easily regain the homeland of the Central Plains in one fell swoop, and make great achievements in the world! But once Ran Min escapes back to the Wei Kingdom, we will not be able to regain the Central Plains, but will be retaliated by Ran Min madly. Wealth will be at stake!"

Ran Min is the soul of the Wei State, and also the soul of the Wei Army. As long as he is alive, with the current military power of the Wei State, it is difficult to guarantee that the State of Wei can be defeated even if all the troops from all over the world are assembled.Ran Min is not as stupid as it is written in history, at least he has far-reaching strategic vision and extremely high strategic and tactical attainments in the military.Under the leadership of Ran Min, Wei Guo's army can completely block ten with one, and look down on everything.

If Ran Min continues to develop, he will definitely go north and south to unify the world.If Ran Min were allowed to unify the world, Huan Wen's dream of being an emperor would be completely shattered.

Deng Xia, the Tiger General of the Xifu Army, said: "Don't worry, General. Sun Tzu said: put your death on the ground and you will be born again. I will issue a military order here. If the Academy cannot be conquered today, the whole army will be beheaded from the end of the day!"

"If Yingyuan (Deng Xia's name) made the first contribution in this campaign!" Huan Wen said with a smile: "This Taiwei will go to the imperial court, and for Yingyuan, please make Pingnan General."

Deng Xia's father was Deng Yue, who was General Pingnan in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.General Pingnan is the third grade military officer.Belonging to the senior generals among the military attaches.After Deng Yue's death, Deng Yue's military post was deprived.Now hearing that Huan Wen actually wanted to invite him to be named General Pingnan, Deng Xia was as excited as a chicken.

Deng Xia led his troops to take the lead in the attack, which surprised Ran Ming. He thought that the Ba Niu Nu would stop the Xifu army from attacking for a long time.In the end, with only two sticks of incense, the Xifu army launched another attack.

Ran Ming asked Xue Tao to resist with all his strength, and he went to Ge Hong's Danlu to get Fuhuo Pill.According to Ran Ming's wishes, Ge Hong used a lot of materials to refine a hundred catties of Fuhuo Pill.Looking at these volt fire pills, they actually look like granular black gunpowder.Facing the one hundred catties of black powder, Ran Ming's dog bit the hedgehog, and it was difficult for him to bite.In later generations, he had never used black powder, and he didn't know how powerful this hundred catties of black powder could be.

Moreover, time was running out, and the Xifu army was attacking more and more fiercely, so Ran Ming didn't have time to test the power of gunpowder.In desperation, Ran Ming asked people to find a large water tank, mixed gunpowder with iron sand, stones and other materials, and after compaction, a fuse was drawn out.The fuze is also made of paper and stuffed with gunpowder.

No one, including Ran Ming, knows the power of this oversized soil bomb.

Although there is a hundred catties of black powder, Ran Ming has no idea whether he can save this critical situation.In later generations, I have seen the car bombs in Iraq on TV, the kind of TNT explosives, in fact, not many people can be killed at one time.How to use this hundred catties of black powder to exert its greatest power.

Ran Ming pondered for a long time, and suddenly remembered the great prosperity of the Eastern Jin Dynasty's metaphysics. If black gunpowder is used together with pretending to be a ghost, it may be able to scare away the enemy.Thinking of this, Ran Ming hurried to Danlu to find Ge Hong.It is suggested that Ge Hong set up altars on the squares of the first entrance and the second entrance of the academy.

Ge Hong asked very puzzled: "What do you want the poor Taoist to do?"

Ran Ming: "The fairy also knows that the Fuhuo Pill will make a thunderous sound when it encounters a fire, so I plan to let the fairy go on stage to cast spells, and when the Xifu soldiers rush into the square in front of the gate, I will have someone light the Fuhuo Pill. In this way From now on, the Xifu army will think that the thunder was invited by the fairy, and they will be afraid of the fairy, so they will be defeated without a fight!"

(End of this chapter)