Huang Long followed the tactics mentioned by Fuyun and ordered the soldiers of the two battalions to approach Puyang 200 steps away. At the same time, he asked the soldiers of the artillery battalion to push hundreds of flying thunder cannons to a distance of 150 steps from Puyang. Because of the safety of the artillery battalion soldiers among them, Huang Long also ordered a troop of thousands of soldiers to protect the artillery with iron shields!
And Gao Lan found that the soldiers of the Daqian Army were so close to Puyang, and he did not dare to let the soldiers go down the city wall. The Daqian Army was so close, and he could use the ladder to climb the Puyang City Wall with a single charge. If he really let the soldiers go down the city wall, I'm afraid it will be too late to get to the city wall!
Gao Lan hesitated and said: "Huanglong didn't even risk the lives of his own soldiers. He didn't send his own artillery to kill his own soldiers?"
After all, the original artillery can only hit an approximate location. The accuracy is too difficult to master. Especially when there is a problem with the gunpowder, it may hit a place more than a hundred steps away from the city wall. In other words, Huanglong pushed the army so close to the city wall. , it is also dangerous to join the army in large numbers!
But when Gao Lan saw the advancing artillery clearly, he was shocked and said: "Flying thunder cannon!"
Then he quickly fled to the rear! Although the artillery was dangerous to Gao Lan, as long as he was not particularly unlucky to be hit, it was only powerful, not to mention that he could hide in the blind spot of the artillery.
But the flying thunder cannon is completely different. Even if it doesn't hit, as long as it's within ten steps of the cannonball, it will still be fatal. Even if it's 20 steps away, it will be severely damaged.
In Gao Lan's opinion, flying thunder cannons are the real power used to kill soldiers.
"Puff puff!"
The shells of the flying thunder cannon hit Puyang City in a huge arc!
"Boom, boom, boom!" The Puyang city wall looked like it had been bombarded by meteorites. A large number of soldiers were overturned by the huge air wave before they understood what was going on. A large number of soldiers fell directly off the city wall, and those who were close to the flying thunder cannon The soldiers were also killed by the shells! For a time, the walls of Puyang were filled with smoke, and Han soldiers fell to the ground and groaned everywhere!
The power of this wave of thunder cannons directly shocked Yuan Shao's soldiers, and everyone fled the city wall one after another!
Gao Lan, who was the first to escape, found the soldiers of the trebuchet battalion and shouted: "Counterattack, use explosives to counterattack the Daqian army. We can't let the flying thunder cannons of the Daqian army continue to get closer to the city wall!"
After being bombarded by a flying cannon, Gao Lan immediately thought of counterattack. At this time, the only weapon in Puyang City that could counterattack the flying thunder cannon was the trebuchet, so he immediately came to the trebuchet camp and directed the soldiers to counterattack.
Yuan Shao couldn't afford Gao Lan artillery, but he was still willing to give Gao Lan something like trebuchets, which were about to be eliminated. There were 100 trebuchets in Puyang City, but the longest attack distance of these trebuchets was only 300 steps. Far inferior to Daqian's artillery, these trebuchets were naturally useless. Gao Lan was worried that these trebuchets would be bombed by artillery, so he placed the trebuchets in a hidden place and prepared to wait for Daqian's army to attack the city. It's time to put these trebuchets into action, but now Daqian's flying thunder cannon is 150 steps closer to the city wall, which is within the range of the trebuchets!
Then Gao Lan pointed out the range of the Daqian Thunder Cannon, and the artilleryman placed giant grenades one after another! Then he cut off the fixed ropes!
"Hush, rest, rest!"
Hundreds of grenades weighing several kilograms were thrown!
"Boom, boom, boom!" All these grenades exploded. Although their accuracy was not high, there were too many of them. They not only killed dozens of Daqian soldiers, but also injured several artillery soldiers and damaged a flying thunder cannon. !
Huang Long saw this and shouted loudly: "Artillery battalion, destroy the enemy's trebuchet!"
Lieutenant Zhou Fu of the artillery battalion immediately mobilized the artillery in his hands!
Then he quickly calculated the range of the Han army's attack that he had just seen!
Then he adjusted the muzzle so that the location of the Han's trebuchet was completely within the attack range of his own artillery!
Then Zhou Fu loudly ordered: "Fire!"
"Peng Peng Peng!"
"Boom boom boom!"
The range of the thunder cannon is not as far as that of the trebuchet, but the range of the trebuchet is not as far as that of the artillery, but after their position is exposed, the result is already conceivable!
Zhou Fulian continuously ordered the artillery battalion to bombard the location of the trebuchet battalion, and Yuan Shao's trebuchet battalion continued to throw grenades to counterattack the thunder artillery battalion.
In the end, the trebuchet battalion threw 4 rounds of grenades, killing thousands of soldiers and destroying 13 thunder cannons. However, they suffered 10 rounds of shelling from the artillery battalion. More than half of the soldiers of the trebuchet battalion were injured and killed. Puyang Cheng's stoning All aircraft were destroyed by artillery!
Since then, the only counterattack weapon in Puyang City has been destroyed, and Gao Lan can no longer stop the thunder cannon from bombing the city wall! After Gao Lan saw that all Puyang's trebuchets were destroyed, he knew that Puyang could no longer defend it! In the following war, we will have to find ways to save our lives.
The war horses galloped on the land of Dongjun, and tens of thousands of cavalry marched in several groups. There were long dragons along the way for several days. Soon Duan Peng saw a dock appearing in front of the army!
Duan Peng reined in his horse and came to the front of the small town and shouted: "My heavenly soldiers have arrived, but I still haven't opened the city gate to surrender!"
Originally, his cavalry was used to attack Yuan Shao's infantry in the wild, but Duan Peng had already crossed Puyang City for hundreds of miles, but except for catching a few probing horses, he did not encounter the established Han army at all. He had no choice but to attack the Wubao in front of him!
But the answer to Duan Peng is that he keeps growing arrows!
Then the defenders on the city wall shouted: "Rebellious ministers and traitors dare to call themselves heavenly soldiers. I, the King of Han Dynasty, are here, so please retreat quickly!"
Duan Peng said angrily: "Get on the flying thunder cannon!"
Compared with bulky artillery, thunder cannons are light and easy to carry, so each cavalry battalion in Daqian carries 10 thunder cannons to attack fortresses!
So Duan Peng ordered 50 flying thunder cannons to appear in front of the fortress!
"fire!"
"Puff puff!"
"Boom boom boom!"
A blast of bombing directly knocked the people of Wubao in front of them off their feet! Then some soldiers directly placed explosive bags at the gate of Wubao!
There was a loud "boom"!
The city gate of Wubao was blown open with a huge gap!
Duan Peng continued to shout: "Attack the city!"
The fort called Xiancheng was flooded by tens of thousands of cavalry!
After capturing the Han army in Wubao, Duan Peng looked unhappy. After questioning the prisoners, he finally knew why he didn't see the Han army along the way. It turned out that Yuan Shao stationed his army in Dingtao after knowing that they were attacking Yanzhou.
After establishing a line of defense, he would naturally not be able to find the Han army near Puyang! And it was about 300 miles from Puyang to Dingtao. He really didn't dare to let his cavalry go deep into Dingtao without logistics.
Only by pulling out the cities on the road from Puyang to Dingtao can we go deep into Dingtao, but attacking cities is not what his cavalry is good at! If every city along the way uses flying thunder cannons and explosives like today
When attacking a city, the gunpowder in his hand will be quickly consumed!
Dongjun, Cangting Ferry.
After Wang Yong led his army to conquer Cangting Ferry, he immediately led his army to surround Dong'a City, which was not far from the ferry. Dong'a City was built on a tributary of the Yellow River. It was tall and solid, and was surrounded by a wide moat.
After walking 200 steps, I am willing to exceed the shooting range of the thunder cannon! Although artillery can also attack Dong'a City, the important cities in Yanzhou are now all masonry structures. Even modern artillery can withstand it, let alone
It's a big bronze cannon.
Wang Yong fired with bronze cannons for a long time and found that there was no result, so he stopped such wasteful behavior! Then he could only use the old siege method. He first asked the soldiers to find a way to cut off the moat of Dong'a City, and at the same time dispatched engineering projects
The battalion built a large number of pontoon bridges and ladders for siege!
When everything was ready, Wang Yong launched a full-scale attack, hoping to conquer Dongjun in one battle.
However, under the command of Xiahou Dun in Dongjun, the soldiers of Dong'a City defended extremely tenaciously. They used trebuchets, grenades and dense arrow arrays to defeat Daqian's army, making it difficult for them to get close to the city wall.
Wang Yong's one-day attack not only failed to get close to the city wall, but also caused thousands of casualties! This made Wang Yong sober up and knew that attacking Dong'a City would outweigh the gains and losses, so he found information about Dong'a City!
"The garrison in Dong'a City was originally only 3,000, but after our army began to gather, Yuan Shao was worried, so the garrison was increased to 10,000. Then after Cao Cao reinforced Yanzhou, the number of troops in the city increased to 20,000
The guard is Xiahou Dun, Cao Cao's clan brother!" Wang Yong joined the army and told the information about Dong'a City.
Wang Yong said awkwardly: "This Xiahou Dun is not famous at all, but he didn't expect that Cao Cao still has capable people in his hands because he is so experienced in defending the city! Do you have any information about him?"
Joining the army and finding information about Xiahou Dun said: "Xiahou Dun is the successor of Xiahou Ying, the imperial servant of the Western Han Dynasty. He has a brother named Xiahou Yuan, who is now stationed in Gaotang. Xiahou Dun was very skilled in martial arts. When he was fourteen years old, someone insulted his master, so he killed that person.
Later, when Cao Cao launched an army to attack Dong Zhuo, Xiahou Dun led his family's private soldiers to follow Cao Cao in east and west expeditions. Later, he was the governor of Taishan County. He was building canals and ponds to irrigate farmland, and helped Cao Cao create tens of thousands of field soldiers in Taishan County.
It can be said that he is the number one general in Cao Cao's hands!
Wang Yong heard Xiahou Dun's intelligence and appreciated it: "There are too many Han generals who can fight these days, but there are really not many generals who can farm! It's a pity that he is a Han general! If he is willing to surrender, he can go to Liaodong.
"Reclamation"
Then Wang Yong asked strangely: "Cao Cao is so generous that he actually helps Yuan Shao defend the city?"
Joining the army smiled and said: "After we conquered Dongping Kingdom and Jibei Kingdom, there is Cao Cao's Taishan County. Cao Cao still understands!"
Wang Yong asked: "Since the Han generals have stationed so many troops in Dong'a, and there should not be many defenders in places like Gucheng and Fan County, I ordered Duan Yun and the others to conquer these two places first and find a way to capture the city in the northeast of Yanzhou and wait for Ji.
Both Bei Kingdom and Dongping Kingdom have been captured, and Dong'a City will be captured by us sooner or later!"
Joining the army thought for a while and said: "We can gather together with General Li Gang, and we can attack one Han army's city with our strength, and then find a way to attack the next one! After all, this is a city garrisoned by 20,000 people. With our current strength, it is very
It’s difficult to break through in a short time!”
An army of 200,000 attacked Yanzhou. Although there were four groups of troops, the distance between each group of troops was not far. For example, after Li Gang captured Liaocheng, he quickly crossed the river and prepared to attack Chiping. Now the distance between the two armies is not more than 200 miles. It is completely
Can be brought together to form a more powerful fighting force!
Wang Yong thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he gave up the idea of quickly capturing Dong'a City. Instead, he dug out the moat of Dong'a City step by step, and then filled in the dry moat step by step!
At the same time, Chiping City, not far away from Wang Yong, was under continuous artillery fire. It looked crumbling and might be captured at any time!
It turns out that Chiping City is a city built along the Yellow River, with the Yellow River as its moat, and the city wall was built tall and strong by Yuan Shao. At first, Yuan Shao had high hopes for Chiping City, thinking it was enough to stop a hundred thousand troops!
But when he built Chiping City, he obviously did not consider that the natural danger of the Yellow River would become his biggest shortcoming. After Li Gang discovered that Chiping City was close to the Yellow River, he used naval cannons to continuously bombard Chiping City. Compared with the bronze weapons used by the army,
Run, the naval guns used by the navy are far greater than the bronze guns used by the army in terms of range and power. And the flying thunder cannons can also be placed on ships.
So the defenders of Chiping City suffered a disaster. The Daqian army bombed for a long time, causing thousands of casualties. The defenders were so frightened that they did not dare to climb the city wall! The one who supported Chiping City was Cao Cao's cousin Cao Ren. He saw
The artillery of the Daqian Army was so powerful that after discussing with Yuan Shao's subordinate Jiang Ji, they fled directly to Jibei Kingdom. They planned to join the defenders of Jibei and slowly retreat to Taishan County, relying on the geographical advantages of Taishan to resist Thunder God's attack.
attack!
It can be said that Cao Ren and the others were lucky. Li Gang and the others had not successfully landed yet, and the cavalry had not yet entered Yanzhou, so they were not pursued by the cavalry when they retreated!
Li Gang was also lucky enough to conquer Chiping City in less than a day. Then Li Gang sent out his cavalry to pursue Cao Ren and the others, while he led the main army to continue south to attack Linyi City!
Two things! It has been 10 days since the Daqian Army launched a full-scale attack. In the camp of the alliance of princes in Dingtao, they received a large amount of news about the Daqian Army. They were horrified to find that this battle was completely different from what they expected. Lei Gong
The cavalry did not become the protagonist, but the artillery, which they did not expect at all, became the home of this battle.
The defenders on the four battlefields in Yanzhou all reported to them that the fierce Lei Gong artillery could not resist it! When Lei Gong's cavalry began to enter Yanzhou, the news on the entire battlefield was completely blocked, and their scouting horses could not break through the Dagan cavalry battlefield. With the blockade, they naturally don't know the current situation on the battlefield. It can be said that the only thing they know now is that Yang Feng's troops who are attacking Chenliu County are still attacking in the direction of Luoyang City!
As for Gao Lan in Puyang, Xiahou Dun in Dong'a has lost all news for more than two days, and there is news in Chiping City, but it is not good news. Cao Ren said that Dagan's artillery can be on the ship, and now Lei Gong is commanding it. The ship is approaching Chiping City. He has no way to resist the attack of Daqian artillery. Now he has retreated towards the direction of Jibei Kingdom!
It can be said that in the past few days, Yuan Shao and the others have received bad news. Yanzhou's front line is completely collapsing!