Of course, the fleeing barbarian soldiers were only in this small section of the battle line. Although it cannot be said that they were not afraid of the artillery fire by other soldiers of the Daqian Army, they were already used to it. They knew that although this thing was powerful, it could not hit the target. In that case, the best thing to do is to cross the range of the artillery as early as possible. As long as you get closer, the artillery will not be able to hit you at all.
When Yu Jin saw a small number of soldiers from Daqian's army fleeing, he roared: "Come on, chop these enemies to death!"
Under Yu Jin's order, a group of Han soldiers rushed out from behind the ice wall, and they quickly caught up with the barbarian soldiers. At this time, these barbarian soldiers did not even think of continuing to resist, but dropped their weapons and raised their hands. .
In their opinion, these are the warriors of the gods, and it is impossible for them to defeat these warriors of the gods.
Wang Lei just watched the elites he trained being captured by Cao Cao's generals, and he went crazy and said: "What a bunch of ignorant savages!"
Fortunately, most of the soldiers escaped and only a small number were actually caught.
Wang Lei said helplessly: "It seems that we need to fire more shots at them in the future to give them more knowledge!"
Xiongba asked in horror: "What kind of weapon is this? Is it a Han people's artifact?"
When Wang Lei fought against these barbarians in the desert, he rarely used artillery, because he basically attacked in winter. As long as he surrounded a tribe, the battle would be resolved quickly. He basically did not use powerful weapons like artillery, and The artillery couldn't keep up with the sled team.
Wang Lei said loudly: "It's just gunpowder. We have more troops, but it's difficult to use them on the ice. You tribesmen are really useless. You surrendered like this. I will support you for three years at a loss."
After Xiong Ba heard that Da Gan's side had more gunpowder weapons, he immediately settled down. Unknown weapons were the most terrifying. Since his side also had such weapons, there was no need to be afraid anymore.
He said: "My subordinates encountered this kind of weapon for the first time, and no one understood it. After the general showed them a few times, everyone will no longer be afraid!"
At this time, the shocked barbarian soldiers who had fled back to the north bank were staggering and sitting under the embankment. Many of them wanted to bury their bodies in the ground and did not dare to look towards the south bank. They were in extremely embarrassed condition.
Wang Lei saw this scene and said: "Let them stand up quickly, resting like this in this winter will kill them!"
"All of you, use your artillery to hit the ice and blast the ice!" After Yu Jin won a small victory, he commanded the artillery on the city walls to start counterattack.
This is bullying Wang Lei. All the artillery is on the north bank. After all, although the Yellow River is frozen now, Wang Lei does not dare to put these artillery on the ice. If the ice breaks, people will die.
Originally, he wanted to build a stronghold on the south bank, transport the artillery there, and expand the results little by little, but he did not expect that Yu Jin would smash the ice in advance. The artillery hit the ice one after another, and holes appeared one after another. and cracks. Although the ice has not been broken yet, it has frightened the soldiers of the Daqian Army. If the ice is broken by artillery, then they will be completely ruined. The captains of the battalions who led the army to attack Seeing this scene, the people who commanded them kept retreating!
When Wang Lei saw this scene, he could only say to his messenger: "Ming Jin retreats!"
"Dang, Dang, Dang!" Half a day later, the battle finally ended with Wang Lei retreating.
At this time, Cao Cao's army at the rear had already organized, and news came from the front that Yu Jin had won a small victory.
This made Cao Cao overjoyed: "I can rest assured that Wen Ze is here!"
Then he began to lead an army of 100,000 to Beihai County and handed over the entire Yellow River defense line to Yu Jin.
Jizhou, Dagan Army Camp.
After today's small defeat, Wang Lei asked the captain of the artillery battalion to lead these barbarian soldiers to adapt to the artillery, see the power of the artillery, and let them surrender directly without encountering the bombardment of the artillery.
Not long after, a soldier came to report: "General, Cao Cao's envoy came to see you?"
"Send him over?" Wang Lei was also very surprised. What was Cao Cao going to do when he sent the envoy this time? Was it to surrender? But it was too fast. He had not even crossed the Yellow River.
It didn't take long for Guo Jia to arrive at Wang Lei's Chinese army tent!
When he saw Wang Lei, he immediately said: "My lord wants to negotiate peace with Duke Lei, and he asked the commander to send me to Jixian!"
"Peace!" Wang Lei was stunned at first, and then laughed loudly: "Now our army of 500,000 troops is besieging Cao Cao, and Fan Xian's 100,000 troops are about to capture Qingzhou. At this moment when the troops are approaching the city, do you think you have any chance? Do you want to negotiate peace terms? Surrender is your only way out!"
Guo Jiadan said calmly: "General, don't be too confident. We still have more than 200,000 troops and more than 4 million people support us. If we really fight to the end, we still don't know who will win!"
These words made Wang Lei laugh out loud and said: "You nobles and nobles like to talk like this. I believe you say there are more than 4 million people in Qingzhou and Xuzhou, and I also believe you say Cao Cao has an army of 200,000."
"Then you said that these people will help Cao Cao fight to the end. This is a joke. You usually don't treat the people as human beings, but when you are in danger, you hope that the people will save you. Why!
Why do people have to sacrifice their lives for wealthy nobles like you?
What benefits did you give them?
Even if Cao Cao gives them 100 acres of land now, it is not because Cao Cao and the noble families are out of kindness and want to give them this land to survive. It is just because we are here. If Cao Cao and the noble families do not give the people these lands, they will not be able to survive. Got down."
"Do you think the people in Qingzhou and Xuzhou don't know this? The people are the eyes. They know that our army is the one who really helps them. Why do they want to help Cao Cao fight to the death with the noble clans?"
"So the only people who are really willing to fight us to the death are Cao Cao and the powerful noble families in Qingzhou and Xuzhou. Can you, men, women, old and young, add up to 100,000 people? Only 10,000 people can really go to the battlefield. It can’t be surpassed!”
Then Wang Lei continued: "There is one more thing I forgot to mention. The wealthy nobles from Qingzhou came to Hebei a year ago. They were not even willing to die for Cao Cao. Your so-called 200,000 army is simply a joke. "
When Guo Jia heard this, he felt helpless in his heart. Even a reckless man like Wang Lei had such a deep understanding of Cao Cao's situation, let alone Lei Gong. This peace negotiation would be difficult.
Guo Jia took a deep breath and said: "Although the soldiers of Qingzhou cannot fight to the death, as long as we defend step by step, I think we can still bring hundreds of thousands of casualties to Daqian! Therefore, negotiating a peace is beneficial to both sides, Qingzhou The soldiers in Xuzhou are also Han people, and the soldiers in the Daqian army are also Han people. We are all from the same tribe. Why should we kill each other? If this war continues, it will not end without hundreds of thousands of people dying. I know that Lei Gong has always been in power. The life and death of us wealthy nobles.
But he doesn’t care about the people at the bottom either?
These people are all innocent, and after we negotiate a peace, these people can all survive!"
Da Qian has always valued the people, so Guo Jia's words made Wang Lei silent. He thought for a while and said: "The two armies are fighting, and if you don't kill the envoy, it is not up to me to decide whether we can negotiate a peace. I can only send you to Ji." Go to the state."
Hearing this, Guo Jia was relieved. This was considered to have achieved his basic purpose, and then he asked in a low voice: "Since we and both sides are planning to negotiate peace, can the general stop the war first, so that both sides can benefit from it?" It can reduce losses! It’s good for both of us!”
Wang Lei sneered and said: "No! This is only good for Cao Cao. Now that Cao Cao is at a disadvantage, of course we have to beat up the drowned dog. Why don't we wait until Cao Cao is ready before hitting your strong fortress? We are not so stupid!"
Guo Jia had no choice but to say goodbye.
Then Wang Lei sent a letter to Xu Wei with the news of Cao Cao's peace negotiation. At the same time, he sent a group of soldiers to take Guo Jia on a Jizhou rail carriage and galloped all the way to Jixian. At the speed of the rail carriage, it would take less than 5 seconds. Guo Jia can arrive in Jixian in 3 days.
The war on both sides of the Yellow River is still going on, and even Wang Lei is fighting more urgently. He understands that Cao Cao said he was negotiating for peace, but in fact he wanted to surrender. Cao Cao was planning to surrender. If the peace negotiation was successful, he would not even fight at the Yellow River. If so, then his army of more than 300,000 has become a joke. He himself has become the biggest joke.
"Brothers, follow me to the front and see who is the first to cross the Yellow River today." Wang Lei shouted.
Countless soldiers from the Daqian army charged forward, and Yu Jin commanded the army to fight to the death with the Jizhou army. The fierce fighting was deafening.
"The artillery battalion attacks and breaks the ice of the Yellow River!" Yu Jin said angrily! He has finally found the best tactic to deal with Daqian. As long as the ice of the Yellow River breaks, Wang Lei will have to retreat!
"Boom, boom, boom!" The artillery pieces hit the ice of the Yellow River fiercely, and countless cracks sounded again.
At this time, the commander at the front shouted loudly, "Retreat!"
But half a day later, the cold wind continued to freeze the ice, and the entire army of soldiers rushed forward again.
Yu Jin's artillery had started firing again, and the two sides were at odds with each other for several days. Soon the other side of the Yellow River could no longer fire anymore. Because Yu Jin discovered that if he continued to fire like this, he would run out of gunpowder!
Wang Lei was overjoyed: "Yu Jin's gunpowder is about to be used up. He has no ability to stop us this time."
Wang Lei looked around, waved his hand and said: "Tell Xiongba, Kirby Neng, and Su Li to speed up the crossing of the river. We must open a stronghold on the south bank and transport our artillery up there."
"General, the Qingzhou Army is holding back a fierce force and is bombarded by artillery. You should wait here for the time being." One of his subordinates immediately stopped him when he saw that Xia Wanglei was still going forward and went to the front line of the battlefield.
"What are you afraid of? Cao Cao's Qingzhou soldiers are completely vulnerable. I'm going to the front line to command the army!"
Wang Lei's men were invincible, but Yu Jin was unable to counterattack without the artillery, and could not stop the massive army like a tidal wave.
On this day, Wang Lei divided his army into ten groups and attacked Jin's defense line. These attacks were like waves hitting the front line, and Cao Cao's soldiers could not resist them at all.
Under the leadership of Xiong Ba, the barbarian soldiers captured five ice wall defense lines in succession and quickly occupied a territory on the south bank. Wang Lei was so happy that he immediately ordered the soldiers of the artillery battalion to put the artillery squad on sleds and transport them to the south bank. Soon there were hundreds of artillery pieces in each one. Artillery positions were deployed.
"fire!"
"Boom, boom, boom!" The cannonballs were shot out one after another, hitting the ice wall in front of them, smashing the ice wall into pieces and in tatters. The soldiers of the Qingzhou Army on the opposite side kept retreating, trying to escape from the range of the artillery. outside.
When Xiongba and the others saw that their artillery was actually several times more powerful than the opponent's, they all roared with joy, and their morale even increased several times.
Yu Jin said angrily: "Counterattack, counterattack! We can't let them continue to expand their territory on the south bank!"
Although the number of artillery and explosives on Cao Cao's side is small now, it does not mean that they do not have long-range attack weapons. In fact, Cao Cao knew that it would be difficult for him to catch up with Xu Wei in terms of gunpowder weapons, so he thought of other ways to make up for this weakness. Gathering everyone After thinking about it, he found the traditional weapons of the Han Dynasty, such as three-bow crossbows, crossbows, etc. Although they were not as powerful as artillery, their range was not much worse than artillery, and they could effectively counterattack the artillery of the Han army.
So on the opposite side of the artillery attack, he had already arranged hundreds of ballistae to prepare for counterattack. Each ballistae had its mouth wide open, and rows of long guns were tied with explosives and were ready to fire. Hundreds of large ballistae were lined up in a row. , aiming at Daqian's artillery position, preparing to launch a thunderous strike.
"Launch!" Yu Jin roared!
"Hush, rest, rest!"
Yu Jin's ballista started firing, and the spears covered the sky like locusts.
"Dodge!"
"Boom, boom, boom!" The long gun was fired into the artillery camp, a violent explosion occurred, and the entire artillery camp was filled with smoke.
The captain of the artillery battalion stood up for a long time, immediately checked the condition of the artillery, and then quickly breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the long guns could not carry much gunpowder, so these artillery were not destroyed. But the soldiers of the artillery battalion fell all around!
Seeing this scene, the artillery battalion captain said angrily: "How many people are still alive!"
"Me, me, me!" Many soldiers from the artillery battalion stood up again.
The captain said angrily: "Counterattack, blow them up and smash them to pieces!"
The artillerymen acted quickly, and hundreds of artillery pieces were ready for action again!
"fire!"
"Boom boom boom!"
Yu Jin's ballista battalion was instantly covered by cannonballs, and countless ballistae were smashed into a pile of sawdust by the cannonballs!
Xiong Ba, Kirby Neng, and Su Li led their men to the front, and immediately formed an airtight crowd under the ice wall. These people continued to climb the ice wall, and the scene was spectacular.
Wang Lei took two steps forward and saw the artillery battalion that suffered heavy losses. He had a murderous intent on his face, raised his arms high, and shouted wildly: "Brothers, avenge the blood of our dead brothers and enter Qingzhou!"
"Kill!" Countless Daqian Army soldiers shouted wildly!
"Boom, boom, boom!" Daqian's artillery kept firing, and Yu Jin's defense line was constantly being conquered! He could no longer stop Wang Lei from occupying a stronghold in Qingzhou!