The billowing smoke towered into the sky, covering half of the sky! Puyang guard Gao Lan's expression changed drastically, and beacons appeared in more than one place in the direction of the Yellow River. It was obvious that Daqian had launched a full-scale attack! Changshoujin and Baima Ferry in the East County were both destroyed. Da Gan attacks!
An hour later, a fast horse rushed into Puyang!
"Report, General Hebei Lei Gong's subordinates led the army to storm Baima Ferry. More than half of the camp at the ferry has been captured. Colonel Ma Yan is asking for support!"
"How many people from Da Gan's army have come? If Ma Yan didn't have a battalion, how could he not be able to hold on for even half a day!" Gao Lan said sternly.
Under normal circumstances, as long as they guard the ferry, it is difficult for the soldiers on the boat to cross the river. A battalion of 5,000 people is enough to withstand the army for two or three days. Crossing the river is an extremely difficult task, whether in ancient times or modern times. Therefore, in ancient times, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River Only then can it become a natural hazard.
But like now, they came to ask for help in less than half a day, which means that Ma Yan couldn't hold on for even an hour. How could this not make Gao Lan angry? If all the soldiers under his command were as greedy for life and fear of death as Ma Yan, this battle would be a disaster. No need to fight.
Tan Ma said in fear: "There are too many artillery pieces from Da Gan Army. Hundreds of them are bombarding our camp. We can't resist it at all! The captain saw that too many brothers died, so he had no choice but to withdraw from Da Gan Army's artillery attack." Within the scope, find a way to stick to it!”
Gao Lan was surprised and said: "Dagan moved the artillery onto the upper boat?"
The manufacturing technology of artillery is really a matter of thinking, and there is no technical difficulty at all, especially for early artillery. Bronze cannons can shoot farther than iron cannons, are more powerful, and have better effects. If bronze was not used to cast money during this period, Not many kings or even emperors could withstand such an act of raising money to build cannons, and there was no such thing as iron cannons.
The Chinese civilization has been playing with bronze for thousands of years and can cast large cauldrons weighing tens of thousands of kilograms, so it is not difficult at all to cast bronze cannons weighing several thousand kilograms.
Yuan Shao and the others also made artillery, but their technology was not as good as that of Da Qian. One artillery weighed two thousand kilograms and was made entirely of bronze. The bronze alone was equivalent to more than 200,000 yuan melted down. Adding the cost of casting, Yuan Shao wanted to It costs 500,000 yuan to cast an artillery piece. Yuan Shao's resources were used to raise troops and build forts. There was no money to cast artillery pieces. Yuan Shao only cast 50 artillery pieces on an experimental basis, but he could not bear the consumption. Such profligate behavior was stopped, and these artillery pieces were placed on the walls of Luoyang by Yuan Shao!
That's why Gao Lan was surprised that Da Gan moved the cannon onto the ship. If it had sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars, it would have been thrown into the water.
Tan Ma nodded and said: "Yes, Daqian's big ships are very big. They are all lined up sideways, and the sides of the ships are all equipped with artillery. Each ship has more than 10 cannons. It is because of these hundreds of guns The artillery was attacking our camp fiercely, and we couldn't resist it!"
"How fucking rich! Thunder Lord is not afraid of losing his life if the ship sinks!"
Now Gao Lan finally understood why Baima Ferry couldn't even hold it for half a day.
The bombardment of hundreds of artillery pieces was just a way of using money to attack people. How could the wooden fence of Baima Ferry withstand so many artillery pieces?
"Let Ma Yan retreat! If you continue to stay at Baima Ferry, you are just looking for death!"
Daqian had already carried their artillery on the boats, and anyone approaching the Yellow River would become a target for Daqian! The soldiers at Baima Ferry could only retreat to avoid the range of the artillery.
At the same time, Gao Lan was very envious of Da Qianjun's wealth. Yuan Shao did not have the skills to cast cannons, but he did not have the money to cast cannons. He finally cast 50 of them, but all of them were placed in Luoyang City. As a guard on the front line, he But there is not a single cannon. If he had dozens of cannons here, he wouldn't have made Lei Gong so arrogant!
He only needs to sink a battleship on the shore, which will cost Lei Gong dozens of artillery pieces. This is tens of millions of dollars. He believes that even if Lei Gong were richer, he would be heartbroken to death.
But it happened that he didn't have a single artillery piece in his hand, while Lei Gongguang had hundreds of artillery pieces in one direction of Baima. The 300,000-strong army probably had thousands of artillery pieces. The financial resources of the two sides were completely different. difference.
It shouldn't be like this. How could Lei Gong, a man with a mud-legged background, be richer than his lord!
At this moment, a fast horse rushed into Puyang from the direction of Changshoujin!
"General, Changshoujin is attacked by the enemy. My master will ask the general for support!"
Gao Lan didn't think so, but asked: "Can Changshoujin still hold on?"
"There are too many enemy artillery pieces, which have completely enveloped our camp. My general has already withdrawn from the camp, but the enemy is coming fiercely. The general is worried that it will be difficult to withstand the attack of the large army, so I ask for support!"
"How many members of the Daqian army attacked Changshoujin?" Gao Lan asked.
"I don't know, but the video showing the people coming off the building boat alone showed tens of thousands of troops, commanded by Huang Long of the Daqian Army!"
"Let Lu Kuang retreat all the way to Puyang! Then think of a way to stop the Daqian Army!" Gao Lan frowned and leaned over to look at the map, but he had no choice. Now he could only withdraw from the south bank of the Yellow River and avoid the artillery attack range of the Daqian Army.
Judging from the current situation, the total number of troops attacking Dongjun in these two groups is not 100,000 but 80,000. Lei Gong really thinks that he, a small general, can actually gather so many troops to attack. Dongjun has thousands of cannons alone.
Lei Gong wouldn't bring all his artillery to Dongjun, right? Gao Lan was also shocked by his thoughts!
He touched the Puyang city wall, which he personally led people to build. At the same time, he also knew that it would be the guarantee of his future life, so he built it extremely carefully. He carefully inspected every brick of the city wall. I really don’t know. Can it withstand the bombardment of thousands of artillery pieces?
The camps along the Yellow River are all within the attack range of Daqian's naval guns. Obviously they cannot continue to be stationed. Now they can only rely on Puyang's solid defense to resist the attack of Daqian's army!
Gao Lan could only hope that Puyang City, which had been built for three years, could withstand the attack of Da Qian's army.
At the same time, Gao Lan also sent a detective horse to report the situation encountered in Dongjun to Yuan Shao, who was stationed at the rear!
"Go and tell my lord that Lei Gong has launched a full-line attack. Now Dongjun has to face the bombardment of Lei Gong's 100,000 troops and thousands of artillery pieces. I ask my lord to support you as soon as possible!" Gao Lan asked his detective horse.
Yanzhou, Dingtao, the headquarters of the coalition of princes!
Gao Lan's Tanma quickly conveyed the news about Dongjun to Yuan Shao!
After Yuan Shao learned of this information, he immediately invited Liu Bei and Cao Cao and said bitterly, "The Lei Gong artillery is fierce and numerous. It has destroyed all the ferry camps built by our army on the south bank of the Yellow River. Now our army can no longer prevent them from landing on the land of Yanzhou."
Got it!"
Cao Cao also took the information sent by Fei Ge and said to Yuan Shao with a wry smile: "The situation on my side is similar. The defenders in Liaocheng and Dongwuyang also reported to us that Lei Gong launched a full-line attack on them. Wang Yong and Li Gang
The two artillery pieces are so fierce that the defenders have no power to counterattack. Now they have abandoned the ferry on the south bank of the Yellow River and retreated to Liaocheng and Dongwu Yangcheng. It seems that Lei Gong launched an attack on us on the same day. Now we can only watch.
Then, Lei Gong took control of the entire ferry on the south bank of the Yellow River, watching Lei Gong use transport ships to transport his 300,000 troops to Yanzhou bit by bit."