Liu Bei was thinking about the impending war. He and Cao Cao were both commanders of the army. Leaving Dingtao City at this time would definitely affect the morale of the army. If their departure caused the morale of the army to collapse and Dingtao City was captured by Lei Gong,
Then this war in the Central Plains will be over.
Liu Bei thought for a while and said, "The war has not started yet, and the outcome is still unknown. Leaving Dingtao for us coaches will easily affect morale. Why don't we, brother Meng De, return to Qingzhou first, command the army to find a way to defeat Li Gang's tribe, and support our central battlefield!"
Cao Cao knew that now was not the time to be polite, so he said to Liu Bei and Yuan Shao: "After my younger brother returns to Qingzhou, he will immediately integrate the army to launch an attack on Li Gang's tribe! Support the Dingtao battle!"
Yuan Shao, however, looked embarrassed. Although Xu You boasted that Dingtao City was indestructible, it seemed that no one in the world could defeat Dingtao City's army. But more than ten years of combat experience told him that all cities in the world would be breached.
, even the seemingly indestructible Dingtao City.
He also wanted to leave, but this battlefield happened to be on his territory. Cao Cao and Liu Bei were both here to support him, so he was embarrassed to ask them to stay. And if all three coaches left, it would be a disaster if they were
Once the coalition soldiers knew about it, there was no need to fight this battle. So at this time, Yuan Shao found that he was the most dangerous one, and he didn't even have an excuse to leave Dingtao City.
So he could only smile and said: "Xuande is right. The war has not started yet. Given the strength of Dingtao, even if Thunder Lord comes, it will be difficult to break through our city. Now Thunder Lord has just attacked our waterway, so we will
If you run away without a fight, you will become a laughing stock for the ages!"
Cao Cao was speechless, he was talking about me!
He was just about to speak, but Guo Jiaxiao came to him and said: "My lord, it is too dangerous for us in Dingtao now, and the current situation has nothing to do with us or not, so let Liu Bei, Yuan Shao and Lei Gong fight.
The most important thing for us now is to return to Qingzhou. If we win this battle, the lord can consolidate the army in Qingzhou to attack Lei Gong and occupy Yanzhou. If the coalition fails, we must return to Qingzhou to defend against Lei Gong's attack on Qingzhou!
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Cao Cao calmed down immediately after hearing Guo Jia's words!
That night, taking advantage of the darkness, he took a small boat and left Dingtao City with his confidants! Then he attacked Changyi, came to Pei County, entered Xuzhou, and finally entered Qingzhou through Xuzhou. It was already half a month later when Cao Cao entered Qingzhou.
Something happened!
And Daqian's attack on Dingtao was launched on the third day after Cao Cao left!
Xu Wei brought all the thousands of artillery pieces he had transported and the artillery pieces in Huang Long's hands to the front line!
When Liu Bei, Yuan Shao, Xu You, Zhang Fei and others knew that Lei Gong started firing the cannon, they all ran to the highest tower of the Dingtao city wall, and then they were stunned to see the scene in front of them!
"How could Lei Gong have so many artillery? Could it be that all the copper coins in the world are in his hands!" Yuan Shao said in horror.
2-3 miles away from the city wall, the artillery of the Daqian army was densely packed one after another, countless. This was the source of Yuan Shao's panic.
It's not that he has never cast artillery, but the price is nothing. Even if the most expensive one is 500,000, casting thousands of artillery is only 500 million. With Yuan Shao's family background, he can really afford this money, but he can't.
With so many copper coins, or if the Han Dynasty's economy lacks so many copper coins, it will collapse. One artillery will cost hundreds of thousands of coins, and thousands of guns will cost hundreds of millions of copper coins. Although this number is not large, it is very important to the Han people.
Economy is extremely important
The Han Dynasty experienced three mutinies, issued orders, and Xu Wei persisted in using wool to absorb the Han Dynasty's copper coins. Now the entire Central Plains is already severely short of money. Deflation has even occurred, and barter has begun to appear in many places (actually the Han Dynasty
There has always been a shortage of money. In this era, silk and linen could be used as money. It can be seen that the Han Dynasty was short of copper coins. It can even be said that it spanned the entire feudal era of the Celestial Dynasty. From the history books, we can find that when the Tang Dynasty lacked money, silk could be used as money.
The Song Dynasty was short of money, and even Jiaozi appeared. Then the Ming Dynasty was short of money, and Zhu Yuanzhang even came up with immoral treasure notes!)
When Yuan Shao calculated the cost of a cannon, he was reluctant to cast a large amount of copper coins to cast the cannon. He would never have thought that Lei Gong would be so violent and cast thousands of cannons in one breath. Lei Gong was not afraid of the economic collapse of his family?
Yuan Shao never imagined that Lei Gong was really not afraid of his family's economic collapse! In fact, there are very few things that copper can be used for in Daqian. The function of weapons was eliminated by steel hundreds of years ago. Bronze mirrors are used as mirrors. Now Daqian has glass.
Mirrors, and bronze mirrors don’t consume much.
The biggest role of copper is to be used as money, but Daqian has its own banknotes, using woolen cloth as the equivalent, and everyone is willing to accept the banknotes discovered by Xu Wei. Therefore, there are very few places where copper can be used in Daqian.
Being used to cast cannons will not affect the local economy at all!
"Can Dingtao carry it?" Liu Bei seemed to be asking Yuan Shao, but also seemed to be talking to himself!
Xu You said to himself in horror: "If you can bear it, you can definitely bear it!"
There are so many artillery pieces, but now no one knows the power of these artillery pieces, so everyone can only cheer themselves up like this.
At this time, under the city wall, on the Daqian Army position, the soldiers arranged the artillery one by one, and placed the ammunition next to the artillery. There were 10 artillerymen busy preparing beside each artillery!
Among the artillery positions, the closest to Dingtao is the 10-pound small cannon, followed by the medium-sized artillery of 30 pounds, and the third is the large 30-pound artillery, and the most powerful cannon with the longest range is the 50-pound cannon!
The war drums kept roaring, shaking the heaven and the earth. In addition to the appearance of artillery troops, 180,000 troops of the Daqian army also spread out in battalion units, covering the battlefield within a radius of 10 miles!
But after the artillery battalion made preparations, Xu Wei stopped the sound of the war drums and horns! For a while, the battlefield was extremely silent, with only the sound of the wind blowing the flags.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Then Xu Weiwei shouted: "Fire!"
After receiving Xu Wei's order, the soldiers standing behind the artillery lit the fuses one by one with the torches in their hands!
"Boom, boom, boom!" The artillery is like thunder, and the huge sonic boom is like a violent hurricane passing through the sky and earth, rushing towards the direction of Dingtao City with a fixed rhythm!
Liu Bei saw this scene and shouted loudly: "All soldiers, escape to a safe place!"
In fact, there was no need for Liu Bei to shout. When they saw the artillery bombardment, the Han soldiers hid in corners where they thought they were safe!
10-jin artillery shells, 20-jin artillery shells, 30-jin artillery shells, thousands of artillery shells of different sizes, with thrilling roars, rushed towards the Dingtao defense fortification!
"Boom, boom, boom!" These cannonballs flew for less than a moment, and like meteors, they hit the low wall in front of Dingtaocheng, Juma, the antlers and the solid camp!
The camps and fortifications of the Han army suffered devastating blows. In front of these shells, whether they were low walls made of bricks and mud or antlers made of solid wood, the horses and horses were all smashed to pieces.
After just one round of bombing, the camp that had been intact just now was tattered by the artillery attack. The gatehouse at the front of Dingtao was directly destroyed by several 50-pound shells and collapsed. Bricks, wood, and gravel were flying all over the sky.
The internal defense facilities have also suffered a devastating blow, and now the entire camp looks like a refugee camp!
Xu Wei, who was using a telescope, saw his results and smiled: "Continue to attack!"
"Boom, boom, boom!" Then a new round of artillery bombing began again!
Yuan Shao, who was on the city tower, said with fear and a little anger: "Use artillery to counterattack Duke Lei. We can't let Duke Lei bombard our camp so unscrupulously!"
Tian Feng stopped him and said: "The artillery of the Daqian Army is outside the range of our army, and our artillery is still difficult to exert its power!"
But Yuan Shao said: "If we don't fight back now, we are afraid that the morale of our army will be completely destroyed by Da Gan's army. Now we have to let the soldiers see that we are capable of counterattacking Lei Gong!"
After hearing Yuan Shao's order, the soldiers on the Dingtao city wall moved 50 artillery pieces along the wooden rail transport path laid on the city wall to the muzzle position!
Then Yuan Shao asked Wenpin: "If the range of the artillery is adjusted to the maximum, can it hit the artillery position of the Daqian Army?"
Wenpin looked puzzled: "Although the range of our artillery can be increased by about 50 steps on the city wall, the artillery of the Daqian Army has already exceeded the distance of 3 miles. It is difficult for our artillery to hit this position!"
Liu Bei asked at this time: "Can we increase the amount of gunpowder to hit the opposite side?"
Wenpin immediately said: "Absolutely not. Although increasing the meter can shoot farther, the life of the artillery will also be affected. The artillery that could have been fired hundreds of times will be scrapped after just a few times.
Measuring will also cause an explosion. If the enemy is not hurt, you will be hurt first! If you really want to attack the artillery position of the Daqian Army, the only way is to push the artillery to the front line and fire at Lei Gong's artillery!"
At this time, the artillery of the Daqian Army only fired three rounds, but the Han soldiers in the camp in front of Dingtao City raised their hands and fled towards the Daqian Army!
Yuan Shao also built several camps in front of Dingtao City. First, he wanted to use these camps to consume Lei Gong's troops, and then he wanted to connect the Sishui River. But now, under the bombardment of Lei Gong's artillery, the front camp has collapsed!
Liu Bei said helplessly: "At first, we should let the soldiers outside the city enter the city wall. It is impossible for a wooden camp to withstand Thunder God's artillery!"
Yuan Shao could only nod helplessly when he saw the fleeing soldiers, so through the wide opening of Dingtao City Gate, soldiers from several camps of the Han Army fled into Dingtao City!
Xu Wei did not pay attention to these fleeing soldiers, nor did he take the opportunity to attack Dingtao City. Instead, he arranged his own steps, smashing the low wall in front of the artillery step by step, and then sent soldiers to fill in the trench bit by bit. , the fortifications built by the Han army in Dingtao were dismantled one by one under Xu Wei's unhurried command.
After 10 days of this, Xu Wei completely demolished the outer defenses of Dingtao City!
Then the artillery of the Daqian Army can directly hit the Dingtao City Wall. Of course, the artillery on the Dingtao City Wall can also counterattack the artillery attack of the Daqian Army!
The power of Daqianjun's artillery was beyond Yuan Shao's imagination. The 10-pound cannon could not help but form a solid city wall, but the giant cannon that could fire 50-pound shells could smash the female wall on the city wall, even the solid wall. The city wall was smashed into pits! Countless blue bricks were smashed by cannonballs!
The protruding horse-faced walls on the city wall, as well as the archery towers made of wood, could not withstand the attack of cannonballs. These towers and archery towers were destroyed one after another and fell down.
Many cannonballs even hit the city directly, which caused huge damage! These 50-pound cannonballs carried huge dynamic potential energy and destroyed anything in front of them, whether it was a cabin or masonry. The small buildings were all vulnerable and turned into ruins under the attack of artillery shells!
"Counterattack! Counterattack!" Wenpin commanded his artillery and shouted loudly!
But Wenpin's counterattack killed at most a few Daganjun soldiers. Instead, he exposed the Han army's running position!
Xu Wei immediately mobilized long-range and powerful 30-pound heavy artillery and 50-pound giant cannon to attack the Han army's artillery positions!
"Boom boom boom!"
When Wenpin found out that he was under fire, he immediately shouted: "Hide the artillery, the artillery will be scattered!" After saying this, Wenpin found a corner to hide himself!
The Han army's artillery immediately found a corner to disperse, while the civilians on the city wall pushed the artillery and left this dangerous place!
"Boom, boom, boom!" But many civilians were still killed and the artillery was destroyed.
After the smoke cleared, Wenpin shouted: "What's the damage?"
A soldier cried: "We lost two artillery pieces, and now there are only three pieces of artillery that are still intact. Seven of our brothers have died. We are almost dead!"
Wenpin had a dark look on his face when he heard this! The artillerymen he brought from Jingzhou to Dingtao were only 500, but now there are only a few dozen left. If it weren't for the city walls, Wenpin's artillerymen would have been gone long ago!
This artillery duel lasted for half a month. Facing the Daqian army's advantage of more than ten times the artillery and range power, Wenpin resisted desperately, but he destroyed less than 7 Han army artillery, and he had 50 in his hand. The artillery is about to be completely destroyed by the army, and the artillerymen have suffered all the casualties. Now they can only find some civilians to open fire. Now even if they open fire, they can only leave it to fate.
The army of the Dingtao Han Dynasty has almost no power to fight back. Now it is bombarded by artillery shells every day. The soldiers are even more frightened because they don't know where they are safe. The furthest artillery fired by the Daqian Army can even cross In the outer city, the buildings inside the city wall were attacked, and the defensive materials piled under the city wall by the Han army suffered a lot of damage!
The gatehouse in the north of Dingtao City suffered the most artillery attacks, especially the most powerful artillery bombardment of the Daqian Army. The 50-pound cannonballs broke open the city wall bit by bit. The thickness and hardness of the Wengcheng wall were far from the same. Compared with the main city wall, in the face of such fierce bombing, the urn city of Dingtao City was shattered into a pile of construction debris!