Don’t think that Cao Cao wrote a poem without a penis for thousands of miles, but think that Cao’s army is so benevolent and kind.
Don’t think that Fei Qian governs Guanzhong and gives benefits to the people, but thinks that the Fei army is so righteous and kind.
Fight, no righteous battle.
Perhaps Cao Cao and Fei Qian personally would have some mercy on the people, but for the entire Cao army and Fei army, mercy on the people was not their primary purpose.
Victory is.
However, for Cao Jun, there is a very important issue in front of him.
gunpowder.
The Cao army was very unacceptable to the use of gunpowder. Whether it was the Cao army generals or the Cao army soldiers, they were still in the classical military combat mode and did not respond much to the change in gunpowder.
With a loud bang, a stream of white smoke emerged in front of him, and the mud and small stones were flying everywhere. As far as ten or twenty steps away, the Cao army behind stopped one after another to avoid being injured by stones or fragments, and a small chaos in the queue.
After Zhu Ling used a yellow crossbow to harass her, she seemed to have opened a node of the technology tree, and she became more and more useful.
As long as this thing has ammunition, it is indeed easy to use, especially in terms of the destruction effect of the Cao army array, which is quite good.
After filling the trenches and destroying the fortifications in the early stage, Cao's army also tried to attack the city walls of Hangu Pass. Then Zhu Ling suppressed a burst of tincture oil and gunpowder, and the subsequent gunpowder grenades continued to suppress and break, causing Cao Hong's attack to collapse and be in great pain.
You should know that Cao's army dominated the Central Plains with infantry...
China has also regarded infantry as the hero since ancient times.
Well, this is not very accurate. Instead, it should be said that in most dynasties in China, especially the farming tradition in the Central Plains, infantry, especially heavy infantry.
This is not a spontaneous choice of evolution by soldiers, but because the political position of the landlord class in the Central Plains was determined. Because the Chinese landlord class in the Central Plains must like the kind of farmers who have been settled for a long time, cannot change their household registration at will, and are best not to move around for the rest of their lives, not be promoted, and have been planted on the same land for generations, so it is inevitable that these farmers will not be willing to raise any war horses, chariots, and run around.
Moreover, the Central Plains are relatively close. Even if there are common disputes, you can reach it at most by crossing a river area. If you don’t have a horse in Longxi and Longyou area and want to cross the gullies, it’s really called looking at the mountain and running to death.
Therefore, the countries that emerged in the areas of Longyou Guanzhong and the ruling class that focused on Longyou Guanzhong will inevitably attach importance to war horses innately and form a suppression force on the Central Plains without war horses.
This is what the military says is above and below, and uses high to hit low, rather than simply referring to the high ground on the terrain.
Because the northern part of Longyou Guanzhong and other areas are combined with pastoral farming, once a powerful political group is formed, it will pose a threat to the Central Plains, which makes the feudal dynasty in the Central Plains of China try to suppress Longyou Guanzhong and other places whenever they have time, or lure them to abolish their martial arts. This has caused the feudal dynasty to be corrupt and weak in the middle and late period of martial arts, and then usher in the next round of foreign invasions...
Just like what Cao Cao did now, he wanted to suppress a wave of Guanzhong when he seized the opportunity, but what he and the Cao army did not expect was that even though Fei Qian took away a large number of Guanzhong cavalry, they had to face the challenges of new technologies and new tactics because they took away a large number of Guanzhong cavalry, which reduced the threat from cavalry, but they still had to face the challenges of new technologies and new tactics.
Just like from bronze to black iron, there are not only qualitative changes but also quantitative changes.
The same is true from classical to gunpowder.
The generals of Guanzhong did not know how to use gunpowder from the beginning. Even if Fei Qian had demonstrated several times, most of these generals were based on the examples. Whether they broke through the city gate or exploded rocks, they were unable to break out of Fei Qian's previous examples. Only in Hangu, Zhu Ling had his own personal innovation, a brand new tactical breakthrough in gunpowder.
The Great Yellow Crossbow was originally used to snipe the enemy leader from a long range.
This is also very interesting. It can also be said to be the predecessor of the beheading tactic, but the Han Dynasty did not continue to click. Perhaps it was a legacy of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period? However, Zhu Ling now uses the big yellow crossbow as a means to disrupt the Cao army's array, which is extremely useful.
No matter what kind of infantry battle formation is, it must be gathered in combat before it can reflect the role of the battle formation. However, once it is gathered, it will be given the key care of the Great Yellow Crossbow.
Once they are "taken care", the Cao army's battle formation will involuntarily become in chaos...
The loud sounds of gunpowder and the pungent smoke are all incomparable to ordinary swords and guns, or crossbows and guns.
Just like if the sound effect is turned off in a horror movie, it looks quite ridiculous. One plus one is often greater than two.
If it weren't for the fact that the grenade's lead wire was not long enough, and there was no time to build a workshop to renovate the grenade on the spot, Zhu Ling wanted to tie the grenade to the crossbow gun of the crossbow cart on the city.
Facing crossbow arrows, even crossbow chariots or stone castings, the elite infantry of the Cao army can stand without changing their faces, but when faced with this grenade projected by the fixed point of the yellow crossbow, they are a little unacceptable.
Fei Qian has not yet mixed with various chemical substances in gunpowder, nor has he asked craftsmen to conduct research on this aspect. One is that this technology will be opened sooner or later, and the early technology has little effect in improving lethality and destructive power. Another aspect is that it is still mainly focused on improving the power of gunpowder itself and accelerating the upgrading of basic technologies.
Purification technology, smelting technology, forging technology, assembly technology, no matter which technology is upgraded, it will bring new changes to gunpowder weapons.
And this small change also made Cao Hong helpless now.
From the beginning to the moment when I was angry, to the moment when I am silent.
Cao Hong himself is a heavy infantryman.
Behind him are the elite troops he brought out personally.
These elite soldiers are also Cao Hong's minions and tentacles, and are also the confidence to rule the army.
Cao Cao's plan was to capture Hangu Pass as soon as possible, then advance the battle situation to the Guanzhong area, and then use Hedong as bait to pull and mobilize the Guanzhong defenders, and then seize Guanzhong in one fell swoop, drive Feiqin's power out of the Guanzhong area, and cut off the connection between Feiqin's north and south. In this way, even if Feiqin brought the army back from the Western Regions, he could only fight with Cao Cao in Guanxi. Once Cao Cao could defend Guanzhong, even if Feiqin still had territory in the north of Longyou, Sichuan and Shu, it could be said that the situation was gone and he was powerless to turn the world back.
Therefore, the core focus of Cao's army's strategy is Guanzhong.
But whether it was Cao Cao or Cao Hong, when he was doing strategic planning and tactical arrangements, he never thought that gunpowder could be used like this and could be so much...
It turns out that gunpowder is not used to break the door and the wall!
Zhu Ling used a yellow crossbow and grenade to drag Cao Hong out of Hangu Pass for nearly ten days. Then, even if Cao Hong advanced to Hangu Pass, he was dissatisfied with this tactic and did not go up or down.
Ordinary soldiers and laborers should be sent to the scene. They are not the opponents of the defenders, and they are beaten in just a few strokes. Apart from consuming some of the defenders' physical strength and equipment, they have no practical effect. However, once the Cao army organizes elite soldiers to start a formation to prepare for attack, they will be taken care of by Zhu Ling with a big yellow crossbow. Then, even the elite soldiers on the Cao army cannot withstand such enthusiastic greetings. The queues are bombed in a concentrated manner and the queues are dispersed, and they cannot form an effective attack on the defenders...
Cao's army was aggressive at the beginning, but in front of such a small grenade, he fell to eat shit.
Cao Hong had no good way to deal with this, and he didn't know how many grenades were hoarded in Hangu Pass. The lack of these key information made Cao Hong unable to decide whether to use militia to speed up the consumption of the defenders' physical strength or to sacrifice his elites to make a one-time bet.
Cao Hong looked back and felt a little anxious.
His original plan to attack Hangu Pass was within ten days, but now it seems that he may not be able to defeat him in twenty days.
If Hangu Pass cannot be successfully conquered, it will not be threatened by Shaanxi County, Shaanxi and Tianjin, and many subsequent deployments will be difficult to carry out.
The cavalry of the Hussars were too flexible. If they could not cut off their connections and force them into a small area and let them come and go freely, they would never win.
Cao Cao's large-scale expedition from the south to the north did not mean that he could turn it around as much as he wanted. It was a major military strategy. From the initial preparation to the unification of internal thoughts, he did not know how much energy he spent. Then he also needed to allocate money and grain to various regions, and then he was conscripted for labor transportation. Once this battle could not achieve a decisive victory, then the next time he wanted to organize such a large-scale battle, the guys from Jizhou, Yuzhou and other prefectures and counties would definitely not be so easy to talk to.
Cao Hong agreed with Cao Cao's strategy and knew that the process of implementing this strategy was not easy.
Before going to war, Cao Cao had almost talked to all the main generals to gather all his combat power. Moreover, after Cao Cao sent troops, he also had various political compromises in the rear, which was to get the support of the gentry and powerful people. Otherwise, where would so many labor-fighting animals come from?
Now Cao Hong can only hope that Fei Qian is not well prepared or makes a mistake in his judgment. It is best to think that the Hanoi area that Cao's army intends to leave is a gap, and he wants to attack Yecheng again...
After all, Taishici's tactics were so famous back then that someone would inevitably want to do it again.
Cao Cao left the main force in the Heluo area in order to make sure that if there were really cavalry under Fei Qian's command rushing out and want to attack Yecheng to surround Wei and rescue Zhao, then Cao Cao could immediately trap him in the Hanoi area. It is obvious that the number of cavalry in the Guanzhong area cannot be too many after Fei Qian set out to fight against the Western Regions. There is a great possibility that it is the final mobile force. If it can be trapped or even defeated this mobile force, then Cao's army will naturally be much easier.
Cao Hong looked up at the sky and ordered: "Another regular soldiers come up! Divide them into two rows, blow them up in front and back, and continue to go up... Let people take off some labor clothes and put them outside the armor... Before the sunset today, we must attack the city wall!"
The reason why he attacked the city wall instead of Hangu was because Cao Hong didn't know how much gunpowder and oil there was in Hangu Pass.
Therefore, whether it is labor or regular soldiers, after Cao Hong issued this order, it means that there is a high chance of death.
And war means death.
After following Cao Cao for so many years, Cao Hong was already numb about death. Even the casualties of Cao's soldiers could not move Cao Hong, let alone those untouchables to work.
Cao Hong’s plan is to force and live a life-threatening manner.
Hangu Pass is not important, the important thing is Tongguan.
The Cao army understood this point, and the Fei army also knew this point. The reason why it did not retreat was the habit of causing trouble for the two sides of the war. Even if it was an unimportant territory, it could not be easily seized by the opponent.
Cao Hong didn't believe that there were endless gunpowder and irritation oil in Hangu Pass, and it would be a day to use it!
There is nothing wrong with this.
When night came, Hangu Pass dumped turbulent oil and forced the attacking Cao army to retreat, ending the day's offensive and defensive battle.
The flames were raging, devouring combustible objects such as the cloud ladder van abandoned under the pass, and also devouring the wreckage of soldiers on both sides of the pass.
"Prepare to retreat...I said, I'll leave tonight..."
Zhu Ling sighed, shook his sore arms, and put down the blood-stained sword in his hand.
Even with the blessing of grenades, there were still two or three waves of Cao's soldiers who almost stood firm on the city wall today. If Zhu Ling hadn't led the people to kill these Cao's soldiers back, the Hangu defenders' front would have collapsed.
It’s not that Zhu Ling’s subordinates are so unbearable, but that Zhu Ling’s soldiers are few, so there is relatively no room for replacement or rest.
Linghu Hua couldn't hold the knife either, so he threw the blood-stained sword, and sat on the steps and gasped, "I was still thinking... If I didn't leave again, would I tie you up and leave, or would I die here with you..."
Although Linghu Hua was a civil servant, civil servants in the Han Dynasty could also use swords to chop people, which was not very similar to civil servants who killed people with saliva in later feudal dynasties.
Even elite soldiers have their energy to run out.
Now most of the guards are exhausted, but fortunately, Zhu Ling and others knew that they could retreat at any time, so there was no problem with their morale.
Zhu Ling laughed loudly, then patted Linghu Hua on the shoulder, "You go and arrange the personnel first, throw them away if you can't take them away, and then use all the turtle oil... I'll leave a gift for the old thieves and the others..."
With gunpowder, tinea oil seems to be less popular.
During the war, Bai Xuejia didn't know that every person was fond of the new and old.
Linghu Hua also forced himself to stand up after hearing this, "Okay, there must be a beginning and a end..."
Zhu Ling nodded and looked at the flames that were still burning outside the city, "Comeone brought down all the crossbows that could not be moved from the city, throwing them into the fire!"
Of course, it is impossible to leave any armaments for the opponent when retreating. Isn’t that a capital enemy?
At the same time, there was fire quarantine, and Cao's army could not come up.
Some soldiers responded and began to demolish the house.
Zhu Ling called a few soldiers, turned around and went down the city wall, and headed to the urn at Hangu Pass.
"Put half of the stone strips blocking the city gate..." Zhu Ling pointed to the city wall that was originally blocked with stones and sand.
Originally, in order to prevent Cao's army from using gunpowder to bomb the city gate, the city gate was blocked with stones and sand after Cao's army arrived. Now, in order to get Cao's army out of the pit, they have to open it again, and they can't be completely scattered, otherwise it might seem a bit unreal.
Although most of the soldiers under Zhu Ling were very tired, they were about to withdraw, so they forced themselves to grit their teeth and pull off the stones and other things, and then dragged them to the city.
Zhu Ling went to the middle of Hangu Urn City and watched several grenadiers digging stone slabs on the ground.
After Zhu Ling casts Feiqian, this Hangu Pass has been stationed here most of the time. He has some emotions. Now that he is about to evacuate, he can't help but feel a little sad.
Because I was reluctant to let go, I felt uncomfortable. Because I was uncomfortable, Zhu Ling tried every means to make things difficult for Cao Jun. The main point was that I was unhappy and would not make you happy. But this was the idea that made Zhu Ling have many more tricks.
Below the stone slab that was opened was a newly dug hole. The grenadier carefully placed more than ten tied grenades in the hole. There were two sets of leads used for triggering, which were respectively contained in two opened bamboo hollow cylinders, extended to the other side, and also wax sealed. As long as the wax mouth needs to be lit in the end, it can be ignited.
There is only one set of leads made, and on the other side, we are also preparing to dig a few such holes, and then connected by inducing drugs...
This was originally a method to open a mountain.
Of course, such tricks may be disdainful to the leverage, indicating that this is what demonstrates his ability and experience, but for the current man, it is like the difference between vacuum tubes and transistors. After doing it, someone suddenly realized that this could be done...
Nowadays, in the Feiqian Realm, whether in the Qinling Mountains or in Sichuan and Shu, when repairing mountain roads, gunpowder is used to open mountains. With more openings, the dosage of gunpowder will naturally increase, and the experience of using it is also enriched, unlike when I first used gunpowder.
Thinking about the purpose of blowing up the mountain rocks, Fei Qian didn't know how much gunpowder he wanted, so he used the whole bucket. Now, looking for an experienced grenade can roughly estimate how much gunpowder he wanted to blow up...
"What a pity," Zhu Ling shook his head and sighed, "It's just that I used it too hard... or...
Zhu Ling looked around the surroundings, and in fact, there were some holes in the inner city wall of Hangu Pass...
Unfortunately, after Zhu Ling happened to create the Great Yellow Crossbow, he consumed a lot of stored gunpowder and grenades, so that the amount of "gifts" that can be left as a "gift" is much less than what he planned before.
Zhu Ling turned around and looked at another direction. There was the direction of the checkpoint of the Dahe Tide Flat, and then recruited a soldier and gave such instructions...
There are gains and losses, and this is probably the case.
Cao Hong stared at the burning flames under Hangu Pass and frowned.
Something is wrong.
This flame burned for too long!
Although tinder oil does have the characteristics of burning whatever it is, it will always be extinguished after burning combustible materials. But it is still burning now, which means that either the defenders are constantly adding tinder oil or adding combustible materials...
Whether it is tincture oil or combustible materials, Cao's army has not attacked now. Isn't it just a waste of fire?
Why do you need to burn it?
"No, this guy is going to escape!"
Cao Hong slapped heavily.
Although Hangu Pass can be surrounded by the soil plateau and mudflats washed out by the river. But mudflats are not easy to walk, and even if the water level drops in winter, there are also signs above the mudflats. If they are hit by a rolling stone, they can't even fight back.
Cao Hong originally thought that he would consume the number and physical strength of the Hangu Pass as much as possible. In order to defend Hangu Pass, Zhu Ling might rotate soldiers to assist in defense at the place of the checkpoint, or misappropriate the troops there. No matter which one it was, it would mean that the checkpoint would be relaxed, and then he could find the flaws and attack Hangu Pass in one fell swoop. However, Cao Hong didn't expect that when the duck in the pot was 70% or 80% ripe, the duck actually flew up and was about to fly!
Where can this be done?
Chapter completed!