After being reprimanded by Yuan Ji and considering his status in the Yuan family, no one dared to refute, and Xu You and the others also calmed down.
After discussing for a while, these counselors decided that Tian Feng and Jushu would stay, and the others would follow Liu Bei and others to escape back to Yuzhou, and integrate the Yuan clan's forces in Yuzhou to continue to resist Lei Gong!
Tian Feng and Jushu stayed in Dingtao City to help Zhang Fei unite the troops who stayed here, and tried their best to delay Lei Gong's occupation of Yanzhou and buy time to establish a second line of defense.
That night, Liu Bei, Lu Bu, Yuan Tan and others led the remaining 15,000 cavalry to escape from Dingtao City through the south gate, crossed Surabaya, and fled to Yuzhou!
The news was quickly spread to the Chinese army's tent by Tan Ma. The senior generals of the Daqian Army burst into laughter when they heard the news. Deserters appeared in Dingtao, and it was obvious that it was difficult for them to support them any longer.
Song Yi smiled and said: "Liu Bei and Yuan Shao should be among the cavalry who escaped, because there should be infantry in Dingtao City now, and it is impossible for them to escape from the encirclement and suppression of our cavalry."
Huang Long also said happily: "If Liu Bei and Yuan Shao are really captured this time, even if most of the Han coalition forces have collapsed, can we take the opportunity to conquer places like Yuzhou, Xuzhou and Jingzhou? Unfortunately, more than a month ago, Cao Cao Escape, otherwise we capture all the three major princes of the Han Dynasty, and there will no longer be any force in the world that can resist my army, and our progress in unifying the world will be accelerated!"
Xu Wei doesn't think it would be a good thing to unify the world too quickly.
Just like the Western Han Dynasty, after the Qin Dynasty unified and wiped out the nobles of the six countries, and then experienced the cruel war at the end of Qin, most of the nobles who had inherited the family for thousands of years were completely swept into the garbage dump of history. Therefore, in the Han Only at the beginning will there be a large number of civilian ministers.
Liu Xiu, the son of the plane, settled the world too quickly, but the remnants left over from the Western Han Dynasty were not cleaned up, so the entire Eastern Han government looked like a lame regime. Even at its most prosperous, it was far inferior. The Han Dynasty refers only to its military capabilities. The Eastern Han Dynasty government could maintain at most tens of thousands of cavalry for expeditions into the desert. They could not even maintain their dominance in the Western Regions! Let alone arrest the powerful to guard their tombs.
It can only be said that the Eastern Han Dynasty had good national fortunes. What the Western Han Dynasty had to face was the Huns, who had unified the military strength of the entire grassland and reached its peak. They first experienced 60 years of dormancy, and then experienced nearly a hundred years of conquest. Even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty The tough monarch did not defeat the Huns, but almost beat the Han to pieces.
By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Huns had become corrupt and divided. They were defeated by tens of thousands of people under Dou Xian. The main enemy they faced during most of the Eastern Han Dynasty was actually a divided Qiang people. By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a Qiang people finally appeared. Tan Shihuai, the overlord of the grassland, died unexpectedly just as he was about to take action against the Eastern Han Dynasty.
From these deeds, it can be seen that the national fortune of the Eastern Han Dynasty was not generally good. It may be that Liu Xiu, the son of destiny, protected the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the entire 200 years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no enemy that could be defeated. Even the Western Regions said they wanted to After giving up, a powerful male Ban Chao appeared from the sky and led 36 people to cut down all the countries in the Western Regions. These countries were so frightened that they did not dare to break away from the Han Dynasty and maintained the Han Dynasty's rule in the Western Regions for decades!
But because of such a comfortable life, the military force of the Eastern Han Dynasty plummeted. In the entire Eastern Han Dynasty, armies of more than 100,000 people rarely went to war. Most of them were tens of thousands. A few thousand people were more than one level worse than the Western Han Dynasty government!
Xu Wei wanted to completely sweep out the powerful noble families of the Han Dynasty, but the unification process was too fast. Naturally, the remaining noble families in the Central Plains would not be swept away as cleanly as Jizhou and Bingzhou.
Moreover, now that the senior generals and officials of the Daqian Army have the goal of unifying the world, they can suppress their own desires, and everyone can use their strength in one place! But if the whole world is really unified by the Daqian Army, Xu Wei wants to fight His goal is to transform into the subordinate he once was.
Just like what the movie and TV series said: "After fighting for so many years, you can't just enjoy it!"
Now that the world has been unified, I'm afraid many people will start to have the idea of enjoying themselves! By then, they may not even agree with Xu Wei's action of vigorously cleaning up the noble families. After all, they will become the new noble families at the beginning of the new dynasty. For They would naturally find ways to overturn such an unfriendly law. Just like the Western Han Dynasty's policy of migrating powerful people, it has been implemented for hundreds of years and has not come to an end.
Jia Xu thought for a while and said: "The government can send cavalry to pursue Liu Bei and others. It would be great if we catch up. Even if we don't catch up, we can take advantage of the small number of troops in Yuzhou and occupy the entire Yuzhou. In this way, our army can attack again. By going down to Xuzhou, we can completely surround the grassland of Qingzhou, and at the same time complete the three-sided siege of Sili."
"Liu Bei's support for this alliance of princes was very strong, and he sent nearly 200,000 troops. As long as we wipe out the 200,000 troops in Jingzhou, Liu Bei will not be able to recover for three to five years, so when we attack Sili and When we were in Qingzhou, he had no way to help Cao Cao and the others. And after we occupy the Central Plains, even if Liu Bei unites the entire Jiangnan, he cannot be our opponent in Daqian County!"
Wan Lang said excitedly: "With this defeat, we have broken the great man's backbone. If we capture Liu Bei and Yuan Shao, maybe we can unify the entire world in three to five years!"
With this temptation, everyone said fiercely: "We can't let Liu Bei and Yuan Shao escape!
Xu Wei immediately ordered Duan Peng to lead all the cavalry to pursue the escaping Liu Bei and others!
The next day, the Daqian Army launched a full-scale attack on Dingtao City. After all, the commander of Dingtao escaped. Everyone thought that this would be a great way to conquer Dingtao in one go!
Hundreds of thunder cannons of the Daqian Army were placed 100 steps below Dingtao, intending to use the powerful power of the thunder cannons to destroy the morale of the Han army!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhang Fei at the top of the city immediately discovered this move of Da Ganjun!
He shouted nervously: "The ballistae is aimed at the thunder cannons of the Daqian Army. We can't let them fire!"
If the Daqian army were to open fire, I'm afraid not many people on the city wall would be able to stand up! Although the flying thunder cannons were difficult to break through the city wall, more than 10 artillery pieces were able to clear out the soldiers on the city wall. Only the shells rushed up to the city wall. 10 steps, no humans or animals left!
"Boom, boom, boom!" The Han army's ballistae fired a large amount of explosives, knocking people off their backs when the flying thunder artillery bombardment near the city wall caused heavy casualties!
Huang Long never thought that Dingtao City still had the power to fight back, and it caused heavy losses to the precious artillery. He cursed angrily and roared loudly, "Send the order, all artillery, bombard the Dingtao city wall. I want the city wall to be destroyed." Not even a mouse can survive up there!”
After all, Huanglong's order was very difficult. It required adjusting the angle of the artillery. It couldn't go too far or in. It had to hit just a few feet on the city wall!
But it seems that the artillery of the Daqian Army, although it is the most backward bronze gun, has very advanced ballistic elements. The exhaustive method is used to mark out the shooting range of the artillery from every angle. As long as the shells and black powder are both After setting the standard, according to this ballistic theory, the hit difference of each cannonball will not exceed 3 feet. For the original bronze cannon, this accuracy is equivalent to that of a perfect archer.
So when Huang Long's order was issued, all the artillerymen began to adjust the angles of the artillery, calculate the points, and then fire one by one with the 2-3 ground battles on the city wall as the target!
"Peng Peng Peng!"
"Boom boom boom!"
Thousands of artillery fired continuously. These shells either hit outside the city wall or hit inside the city wall. Less than 30% of them hit the city wall, and not even one of them hit the ground on the city wall, but only in this Chengdu. , but there are also hundreds of cannonballs hitting the ground of the city wall. Each such cannonball will definitely set off a bloody storm on the city wall. There are ruins and broken arms everywhere on the city wall, and rivers of blood are left behind on the city wall. The ballistae on the city wall suffered a devastating blow, and dozens of ballistae and bed crossbows were damaged to varying degrees.
The more important thing is that the soldiers could not withstand such an attack. After only half an hour of shelling, the morale of the soldiers on the city wall collapsed, and they fled from the city wall one after another!
Zhang Fei and Tian Feng were shocked and hurriedly ordered the ballistas to be withdrawn behind. At the same time, a new battalion of soldiers went up the city wall, and the Han army whose morale had collapsed was replaced by them to restore their morale!
But this rotation by Zhang Fei and others had little effect. The second round of attacks by the Daqian Army was coming in an instant. The Han soldiers who had just climbed onto the city wall were once again bombarded by artillery. On this narrow city wall, the soldiers had no place to hide. They were hiding, and many shells were hitting them to pieces like bowling balls! The entire city wall was like Shura hell! Everyone was in extreme fear, and they were running wildly under the bombardment. In less than an hour, a person who had just climbed onto the city wall The soldiers of the battalion were defeated again. The soldiers fled this hell in fear and did not even dare to look at the city wall!
However, the city wall still needed to be guarded. Zhang Fei and Tian Feng continued to insist and took turns sending their own soldiers to defend the city. On this day, the morale of the entire six battalions was shattered and they did not dare to climb the city wall, and the city wall was littered with corpses. The blood stained the entire city wall red, and even the civilians did not dare to climb the city wall to clean up the corpses!
The offensive of the Daqian Army did not end until dark. Looking at the city wall covered with corpses, Zhang Fei and Tian Feng were extremely desperate. They were trying to figure out how to continue to hold on!
Jushou said firmly: "We can no longer defend like this. Six battalions collapsed today. If we continue to fight like this, we can only hold on for four days at most, and we may not even be able to hold on for four days. Look at these frightened soldiers. We are afraid that if we continue to force them to climb the city wall, they will kill us and remind Lei Gong!"
"Then what should we do? Surrender to Thunder Lord now?"
Jushou said: "Place the soldiers at the base of the city wall. It is impossible for the artillery to hit here!"
"But what to do with the city wall? With these few steps to climb the city wall, I'm afraid that before our army can climb the city wall, the army will already occupy the city wall. By then, we will not be defeated. Our soldiers will not be able to compare with those at the beginning. Ju Yi's soldiers, the first ones to enter the camp, can still engage in street fighting with Lei Gong. If we engage in street fighting, I'm afraid most of the soldiers will surrender to Lei Gong. After all, Lei Gong treats ordinary soldiers well, and they will not fight for us!" Zhang Fei said!
Jushu said: "Build ladders on the city wall, and the soldiers used these ladders to climb the city wall. The Daqian army had to run hundreds of steps further than us. With the ladders, we should be able to climb the city wall faster than the Daqian army. , as long as we quickly climb the city wall, we can block the attack of the Daqian army on the city wall!"
Zhang Fei's eyes lit up and he said: "This is a good idea!"
So he ordered the soldiers and civilians in the city to make ladders all night, and even the sleepers used for defense were all used up. In one night, the Han army made 1,300 ladders and erected them in Dingtao City!
So during the second day's attack, Huang Long discovered that there were not many soldiers on the Dingtao city wall!
He immediately reported to Xu Weihui: "In power, the Han army is afraid of being beaten by us. Now they don't dare to defend on the city wall!"
Thinking of yesterday's attack, Xu Wei really didn't think that soldiers in the feudal era could withstand such artillery bombardment. It was natural to be afraid!
Xu Wei smiled and said: "Capture the Dingtao city wall and completely occupy Dingtao city!"
Huang Long replied loudly: "No!"
Then tens of thousands of soldiers charged towards the city wall under his command!
But what Huang Long never expected was that when the soldiers of the Daqian Army approached the city wall, tens of thousands of Han troops suddenly appeared. They smashed the cannonballs fired by the Daqian Army and the huge rocks and bricks on the city wall at the Daqian Army. At the same time, the Han army's archers attacked the Daqian soldiers from three sides. The attacking Daqian soldiers were quickly defeated!
This scene shocked all the officers and soldiers of Daqian Army. They did not understand that the Han army climbed onto the city wall so quickly and launched an attack on them!
Xu Wei was also surprised by the rapid action of the Han army. He couldn't figure it out at first, but through the telescope he found that the Han army did not appear from the steps of the city wall, but appeared on the city wall almost at an even density at the same time. Xu Wei thought about it. After a while, I realized that this was probably the Han army using the ladders used to attack the city to defend the city!
Then he told Huang Long about this discovery and said: "There are many talented people in the Han Alliance Army, and they have come up with such methods. We must give up our luck and want to conquer the city in a few days, but we must attack it in one go." Little by little, the defensive willpower of the Han army was broken down!"
"The army was stationed 200 steps away from Dingtaocheng, with flying thunder cannons following behind. They used soldiers to lure the Han army onto the city wall, and then used flying thunder cannons to kill the Han troops. I don't believe that they can rely on these ladders. You can also quickly escape down the city wall. As long as the casualties of the Han army in Dingtao exceed 30%, the morale of the soldiers in the city will definitely collapse!"
After Huanglong got the new tactics, he immediately used them on the Dingtao defenders. Sure enough, even Jushou had no good solution this time. This time the Daqian army combined infantry and artillery so well that they used infantry to lure their soldiers onto the city wall, and then used Light and fast thunder cannons kill their soldiers!
Zhang Fei and the others resisted for less than 10 days, and the outer city of Dingtao fell completely!