The arrogance of Da Gan's army made the Han generals extremely angry. Zhang Ren said angrily: "General, we will also take out our artillery to fight back!"
This time Liu Bei brought all the artillery in Yizhou to the battlefield, so that he would have an early advantage in firepower. In addition, Wei Yan destroyed a batch of Liu Shi's gunpowder inventory, so Zhang Ren has not yet experienced the power of large-scale artillery. powerful.
But Liu Bei understood it very well, so he shook his head and rejected Zhang Ren's suggestion! Because he knew very well that they couldn't compete with Da Gan in a competition with artillery, and the artillery in his hand could only be used in key places!
And Liu Bei was really foresighted in this regard. Xu Wei brought hundreds of cannons and a large amount of black powder. The firepower was more than 10 times stronger than Liu Bei's Han army.
And all this is thanks to Liu Bei's good friend Cao Cao. After he came to Crab Island, in addition to logs, he also developed sulfur ore, a specialty product. Thanks to Cao Cao's efforts, the amount of black powder in Daqian increased several times, so the Han army was I took more shells!
After half a day, the fierce artillery attack finally ended. Without the roar of artillery, there was even a bit of silence on the battlefield!
"Kill!" Han Sui commanded his army to attack the Han army's position! This time it would be impossible if he did not fight hard. Lei Gong was watching him with his own eyes. If there was another problem, he would not be able to stay in Daqian any longer!
Yang Qiu held his shield high, brandished his sword, and led his own bodyguards, commanding thousands of people to attack the position that had just been bombed.
Wei Yan ran and shouted: "Get up, everyone. The enemy is coming. Shoot all the crossbows in your hands!"
Upon hearing Wei Yan's order, thousands of strong archers stood up one by one, took their bows and arrows and shot at the enemies below. The long arrows roared out, and a rain of arrows drowned Yang Qiu and others!
Yang Qiu and others held up their shields to protect their heads tightly, letting the rain of arrows hit their armors and bounce off them, and then shouted hoarsely: "Keep charging at me!"
Da Qian's army has been fully armored, and there is silk inner armor inside. Except for a few heavy arrows, it is difficult for ordinary bows and arrows to break through the armor of Da Qian's army. Therefore, the lethality of Wei Yan's arrow rain is limited, and there are only a few The unlucky guy was shot in the face and fell to the ground!
"Keep shooting!" Wei Yan asked his soldiers to fire three waves of arrows in succession, but the results were in vain and were not enough to affect the attack of the Daqian army.
Seeing that Yang Qiu and the others were about to attack the position, Wei Yan loudly ordered again: "Throw away the sleepers!"
Under Wei Yan's order, the Han soldiers, in groups of three or two, lifted up the whole log and threw it under the position!
When Wei Yan built these trenches, he chose a place with steep mountains, so that it would be difficult for the large army to attack the trenches. Because of the steep slope, these sleepers were extremely fast. When Yang Qiu saw this, he shouted: "Everyone avoid! "
But when the soldiers saw these colliding sleepers, they ran away one by one! Yang Qiu himself escaped by jumping left and right, but ordinary soldiers could only escape by rolling and crawling! So did those who were hit by the sleepers. Vomiting blood and falling to the ground!
Under this wave of attack, Xiliang's soldiers retreated like a tide. They abandoned their helmets and armor and fled in panic. From a distance, the Daqian army seemed to have been attacked by a huge attack, and all the retreating troops There was no order and chaos, and the soldiers all fled. Even Yang Qiu, who was brave, could only retreat. This wave of attacks was collapsed by Wei Yan's sleepers!
Zhang Baiqi saw this scene and said helplessly: "In power, it seems that the trenches of the Han army have great restrictions on our attacking team and our artillery. They have not caused much casualties at all!"
Xu Wei saw these trenches and said: "If we want to deal with the trenches, we can only rely on the mortars in our hands! Give the mortar battalion to Han Sui!"
Xu Wei is still very lucky that Liu Bei has not yet evolved to dig tunnels and reverse slope fortifications, otherwise his artillery would be almost useless!
Han Sui was extremely happy to get hundreds of mortars, and said to the mortar battalion captain: "I am going to blow up these trenches, I am going to blow them all to death!"
After receiving the order, the mortar battalion captain first set up the artillery position, then calculated the distance between the artillery position and the trench, and adjusted the angle of the mortar!
But his behavior was discovered by Wei Yan. Just kidding, he lost so miserably at Yangping Pass because Liu Shi's mortars had no way to stop them and could be fired directly into the trench, causing even greater damage!
"Artillery station, shoot down the enemy's mortars!" Wei Yan shouted!
After hearing Wei Yan's order, the soldiers behind the trench took off the wooden boards on the artillery, pushed the artillery out of the trench, and then adjusted the muzzle of the artillery to face the hundreds of artillery pieces of the Daqian Army's mortar battalion!
Han Sui was frightened when he saw the big man's artillery and ran straight to the rear!
At that time, the mortar commander said: "The enemy only has ten artillery pieces. The number is only one-tenth of ours, and the shooting frequency is even less than ours! Zhao Hao, you take 10 mortars forward 50 steps
, knock out the enemy’s artillery!”
"promise!"
Mortar battalion commander Zhao Hao led his group of 100 people and 10 artillery pieces to advance continuously, and then reset the trajectory within 50 steps!
"shooting!"
"Boom, boom, boom!" Hundreds of mortars were fired, and the projectiles drew a huge arc and shot towards the Han army's trenches!
"fire!"
Ten artillery pieces of the Han army also fired at the same time.
For a time, the entire battlefield was filled with gunfire and gunfire.
In this artillery battle, the Han army's artillery killed more than a dozen Daqian soldiers, and five mortars were damaged. Two of the Han army's artillery were also destroyed by Daqian's mortars!
In this way, the two sides continued to compete in willpower. In the end, Daqianjun's mortar battalion completely destroyed Wei Yan's artillery at the cost of dozens of casualties!
But Liu Bei, who was observing the battle situation from the rear of the battlefield, naturally knew the importance of artillery to Wei Yan and the others, and quickly supplied Wei Yan with 10 more artillery pieces. Wei Yan also learned his lesson, and the 10 artillery pieces were not arranged together, but scattered.
They were arranged in hidden corners of the trenches and blind spots for shooting. Wei Yan even dug special firing holes for the artillery and laid wooden rails. The artillery was arranged on the wooden rails. After each firing, they immediately retreated to the anti-gun holes to reduce the number of guns.
The loss of artillery will greatly reduce the power of the artillery, but it can effectively protect one's own artillery!
This chapter is not over yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading! The Daqian Army has also changed the formation of the artillery battalion. Seventy percent of the artillery battalions currently in action are mortars and 30% are 10-pound cannons. And these ten-pound guns with long range
Jinpao is a mortar specially used to protect one's own side!
Now as long as Wei Yan's artillery appears, he will immediately face an attack of more than ten times the artillery. In this situation where his own life is not guaranteed, the accuracy of Han's artillery plummets, and the hit rate drops to the point where it is completely up to God. For your sake!
Without the restraint of the Han army's artillery, Daqian's mortar battalion began to exert its power, and the casualties of Wei Yan's soldiers continued to increase. After resisting for a month, Wei Yan's soldiers finally could not bear the casualties and broke through under Yang Qiu's attack. After breaking the first line of defense, Wei Yan led the remaining soldiers to flee to the rear!
April, Hanzhong County, Micangshan Campground!
Daqian's attack was not limited to Han Sui's area, but attacked hundreds of miles along the entire Micangshan defense line.
News from various battlefields quickly spread to the Micangshan camp. The Daqian army's offensive was like a tide. Wei Yan could still hold the frontal battlefield, but the camps in many places had fallen, making the atmosphere in the Micangshan camp increasingly tense. .
Fortunately, after April, the rainy season arrived. Such weather was not only unsuitable for attacking, but also unsuitable for going up the mountain. Therefore, during this period, Daqian withdrew from the trenches they had conquered, and instead camped the army on the plains.
The retreat of the Daqian Army slightly eased the tense atmosphere of the war. Some soldiers even vaguely believed that if they could repel the Daqian Army this time, they would be able to repel the Daqian Army next time. The morale of the army was slightly improved. promote.
In the Chinese army's tent! Liu Bei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Chen Dao, Wenpin, Zhang Ren and others sat around to discuss the current situation.
Zhao Yun was the first to speak: "Judging from the battle situation during this period, even if we occupy the Hanzhong terrain, the soldiers of the Daqian Army are superior to us in terms of equipment and combat effectiveness. Now our army and Daqian Army are superior to us. Gan's battle loss ratio is 2 to 1. In the past two months, our casualties have exceeded 20,000, while Dagan's casualties have only been about 10,000. This is still a defensive operation. We are on the plains. Our army cannot be The opponent of the Da Gan Army! The only good news for us now is that during the rainy season, we can rest for a while and restore the morale of the army!"
But Huang Zhong said: "The arrival of the rainy season has advantages and disadvantages for us. Although the battle with the Daqian Army can be temporarily ended, we are resting in the mountains with poor conditions, while most of the soldiers of the Daqian Army are in Nanzheng Rest, how can rest on the mountain be the same as rest in the city! If this situation continues, it will obviously be detrimental to us!"
But Liu Bei said: "We can overcome this disadvantage. No matter how bad the mountain is, it is better than letting the soldiers resist the enemy's artillery!"
For Liu Bei, the situation in Hanzhong was now moving in the direction he had planned. Although the Daqian army attacked fiercely, it could not penetrate the defense line he had established. Hundreds of thousands of troops were blocked in the mountains of Hanzhong, unable to advance or retreat. , which reduced military pressure on Nanyang County and Yangzhou.
There are hundreds of miles of mountain roads between Hanzhong and Shuzhong. It doesn't matter even if his defense line here is broken by the Daqian army. He can also build a second line of defense in the rear, or even a third line of defense. Yizhou has nothing. There are many mountains, which is completely different from the flat plains of the Central Plains. The terrain is everywhere where one man can't pass and ten thousand men can't cross it. The plank road of several hundred miles is a dead end.
Chen Dao was embarrassed and said: "Da Qian's army is already more elite than us. If it rests better than us, it will be difficult to fight in the following battles. Will the general also let our soldiers go to the rear in batches to rest, even in Baishui?" It's better to be closed than to be on a mountain like this, and the current weather means that the artillery of Ganjun's army cannot be used, so it is impossible for them to attack our army now!"
Liu Bei thought for a while and felt that even for the battle ahead, he had to find a way to rest the soldiers, so he said, "Zilong will arrange the rest!"
Zhao Yun came out and said: "The last general takes orders!"
Then Liu Bei said to the generals: "At this moment, the two sides are about to enter a difficult confrontation, a war of attrition. What we are competing for is everyone's endurance. I believe that our soldiers will not lose to the soldiers of the Daqian Army in this regard. If we can grit our teeth and hold on. After this most difficult and painful period, we will defeat the Daqian army sooner or later, and victory will belong to us. Hanzhong is the place where the Han Dynasty flourished. Emperor Gaozu set out from Hanzhong and then unified the world! Emperor Gaozu’s spirit is in heaven. Will watch us revive the Han Dynasty from here!"
Liu Bei's words made the generals excited. They could see that Da Qian's army had the power to dominate the world, and those who still insisted on confronting Da Qian's army were those who were loyal to the Han Dynasty. Like Liu Bei, they did not want to see what had happened. The powerful Han Dynasty perished like this, and I want to let the Han Dynasty continue.
Liu Bei continued: "We cannot continue to be idle during this period. Instead, we must find ways to start looking for places to build a second line of defense, prepare to build camps and corresponding fortifications, deepen our defense depth, and ensure that we There is enough time to accumulate supplies, recruit soldiers, and accumulate sufficient money, food, weapons, and powerful troops for the upcoming confrontation, attrition war, and possible counterattack.
One thing we have to admit is that even if we have a geographical advantage, it is still the Daqian Army that has the upper hand on the battlefield. We can only rely on the hundreds of miles of Micang Mountain to gradually digest the morale of the Daqian Army!"
After Liu Bei and the generals discussed for a while, based on the results of more than two months of battles, they agreed that they would defend the mountains and fight for every inch of land, and engage in a confrontation and attrition war with the Daqian Army. They would use the terrain of the mountains to weaken the Daqian Army's artillery superiority, and only then would the cavalry superiority be achieved. This is the only way for them to defeat the Daqian Army.
The words are divided into two parts. Liu Bei is thinking of ways to win the battle of Hanzhong, and Xu Wei and the others are also thinking of ways to defeat Liu Bei and others!
Zhang Baiqi was the first to speak: "In power, the current Battle of Hanzhong has turned into a war of attrition. Although we can defeat Liu Bei by attacking by force, the gain is not worth the loss for us!"
In the past two months, there have been tens of thousands of soldiers casualties. Zhang Baiqi is very distressed. Now Dagan is short of manpower everywhere, but Hanzhong has tens of thousands of soldiers dead on the battlefield. This is extremely uneconomical for Dagan. thing!
"Instead of wasting our soldiers in the mountains of Hanzhong, we should think of ways to attack from other directions. We can attack Nanyang County in Jingzhou and Yangzhou. These places can fully take advantage of the cavalry and artillery of our army. , This is much better than the bad war we fought in Hanzhong!"
Counting from last year, the Battle of Hanzhong has been fought for half a year. Although the Daqian army killed a large number of Han troops, Liu Bei's willpower is still firm, and there is no sign that Liu Bei wants to retreat. Now Hanzhong has been in the rainy season for several months. They were unable to fight, and it also gave Liu Bei a chance to recuperate. After the rainy season decreases, how much the Han army's combat effectiveness will be restored, so Zhang Baiqi and the others want to attack in another direction!