Although Liu Bei wanted to take advantage of Cao Cao's new mourning to go south, Guan Yu had different opinions. He said: "It is unjust to attack someone while he is mourning!"
It is an unethical act to take advantage of the fact that someone else's monarch has just died and send troops to attack.
Liu Bei disapproved and said: "If we don't attack now, we will never have another chance in the future!"
Guan Yu added: "Even if we can win in the field, those strong cities built by Cao Jun will not be easy to deal with."
With the spread of Shinrikyo throughout India, artillery technology also spread to various places, and princes were able to cast their own cannons. Even if the technology was relatively backward and the cannons were too heavy, they could be mounted on city walls as fortresses.
Cannon use. In this era, defense has been greatly strengthened, while offensive methods have been weakened a lot.
If we really want to fight, unless we have absolute superiority in troops and firepower, otherwise we can only waste it slowly.
However, Liu Bei was very confident. He said to Guan Yu: "If you get the right way, you will get a lot of help, but if you don't get the right way, you will get little help. Cao Cao has been fighting in the east and west for many years, and he has already made enemies with the princes. Now that I raise my arms, there will be a lot of people who respond!"
A month later, the replies from Lu Bu, Xu Wen and other northern princes arrived. None of them were willing to send troops to fight. First, siege warfare was really terrible, consuming countless money and food, and killing and injuring countless soldiers;
The native Indians are really easy to rule. They don't have to worry about it, they will collect the taxes and send them to them.
No one is as stubborn as the Chinese. If they are squeezed too hard, they will run away immediately, or simply turn into bandits. Even if the people here die, they want to die under the sword of their masters. After arriving here, whether it is Lu Bu,
It's still Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Quan. The combat effectiveness of their armies is getting worse day by day.
With so many locals to exploit, who would be willing to fight tooth and nail? Even with the harsh military laws of Cao Cao's army, he could not control his soldiers from fleeing in droves. In the end, Cao Cao had no choice but to use
There are many gentle methods, otherwise all the people under his command will run away.
This is why Cao Cao asked Cao Ang not to think about revenge when he was dying. This land seems to have a kind of magic. No matter how cruel your army is, it will be corrupted quickly after coming here. Sun Ce only brought one
Thousands of people were left behind and defeated, and many of them were family members of the army. They could fight less than 5,000, and then they sent Cao's army back.
Hearing that the princes on all sides did not want to fight and only wanted to live a small life guarding their own one-third of an acre of land, Liu Bei said angrily: "I don't want you to go to war, you are all short-sighted!"
The absence of others could not stop Liu Bei's determination to send troops. He mobilized an army of 50,000 men and marched toward the south in a mighty manner. Among the 50,000 men, only 4,000 Han people could really fight.
The rest of the army are local indigenous people, and although their combat effectiveness is not negative, it is also questionable.
Sure enough, after the army had only traveled a hundred miles, tens of thousands of people had fled somewhere. In the eyes of the Han people, many of these Asans looked the same. There was no household registration here, so I thought
No one can be found to settle the accounts after the fall. Like the previous conquerors on this land, the Chinese have become the new ruling class, completely separated from the untouchables and lower castes below.
In the eyes of the indigenous people, fighting is a matter for the upper class, and they are not willing to get involved. Moreover, there is also the problem of language barriers. Even if they want to establish grassroots organizations like in China, they cannot do it.
Before the battle with Cao's army, there were only a little over 20,000 troops left in the army. If they continued to move forward, I'm afraid the number of troops would be further reduced. This is no longer what it was twenty years ago, and there was no use in large numbers.
The flesh and blood body is just a living target in front of the cannon.
When Cao Cao was first resurrected, he captured many natives to attack the city. As a result, those people fled without a trace as soon as they heard the roar of the cannon. Now Liu Bei also encountered the same problem. The locals were very docile, but they also
Too docile, they all love peace and don't like war, and they can't understand Liu Bei's ideal of "ruling the country and bringing peace to the world".
On the horseback, Liu Bei's complexion turned pale. He put his hand on his forehead and sighed: "I don't want military discipline to be ruined like this!"
Guan Yu advised: "Barbarians are always very strange. Those barbarians on the northern grasslands are not afraid of death, and the barbarians here are like chickens and dogs. We might as well withdraw our troops temporarily and wait until the number of Chinese increases.
It’s not too late to send out troops to attack.”
Liu Bei sighed, shook his head, and said: "I am only five or six years younger than Cao Cao. Now that he is dead, how long can I live? If I don't take this opportunity to conquer the south, I'm afraid I will die again.
There’s no chance.”
Guan Yu said: "Even if our generation cannot do it, there will still be another generation!"
Liu Bei smiled bitterly and said: "Since we came here, the soldiers have become arrogant and arrogant. From now on, I'm afraid it will be even worse. When all of us are gone, no one will have the dream of unifying the world."
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Isn't it? It's so comfortable to be the master at home. I bully Ah San at ordinary times and snatch a few women back when I'm bored. Isn't this a wonderful life? Who would want to go to the battlefield to fight?
Guan Yu was speechless, because he also knew the following situation clearly. Moreover, he also owned millions of acres of land, established more than a dozen manors, and had many wives, concubines, and children at home. Even he was like this, so how could he do it?
How about restraining the people below?
If it weren't for his loyalty to Liu Bei, he wouldn't have wanted to go out to fight. The fortress was equipped with cannons, which magnified the defender's advantage several times. Whoever launched the attack would suffer. This lesson gained with blood and tears made most
people have become peace lovers.
Liu Bei took Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and continued to lead the troops. The number of troops under his command continued to decrease. When they arrived at Cao Jun's fortress, he had only over 10,000 troops. The soldiers set up camps, dug trenches, and set up artillery forts in an orderly manner.
They were making preparations to attack the city.
The soldiers were all trained and had combat experience. They were already very skilled at doing these things, but it was obvious that they were not very enthusiastic about fighting. It took five or six days to do this.
After being prepared, the cannon was dragged to the emplacement and fired one after another.
Liu Beijun's twelve-pound Napoleon cannons were all purchased from China. Their power and accuracy are amazing. But after so many years, there have been many more ways to deal with artillery attacks. The city walls have been built very much.
It is low, and there are several trenches and earthen ramparts outside. Although the cannons fired loudly, they did not cause much damage.
But when the infantry began to charge, the defenders would poke their heads out and use matchlock guns and tiger squat cannons to teach Liu Beijun how to behave.
The pushed-out Tiger Crouching Cannon could fire at a rate of four rounds per minute. More than a dozen infantry cannons fired at the same time, knocking down the attacking infantry in pieces. Then the musketeers stood up and fired a salvo at the enemy.
.Long flames shot out, and white smoke immediately enveloped a large area.
The attackers also dragged up the infantry artillery, and the two sides opened fire at each other across several trenches. The fight was lively. After a while, the indigenous troops sent to charge had been beaten to pieces. Although they had undergone rigorous training,
, there are also Han people who serve as low-level military officers, but it is really difficult for them to charge with artillery.
Iron balls and lead bullets flew everywhere, and people screamed and fell to the ground from time to time. Because the defenders had parapets and earthen ramparts as cover, they were able to take advantage of the enemy's shots, and their casualties were only one-third of Liu Bei's army. After half an hour of fighting,
, the battlefield was shrouded in thick white smoke, and it was impossible to see where the people were.
Only the flames when the fire is fired can show that there are still people in that place.
The fight reached this level, and shooting from a distance of one hundred and eighty steps had no effect. Under the loud shouts of the officers, the soldiers quickly advanced with muskets and long spears in their hands, and launched an attack on the defenders.
Fierce attack.
"boom!"
The cannons on the fortress continued to sound, and the loaded shotguns sprayed out, knocking down many people. The cannons deployed on both sides were aimed at the enemies rushing out of the smoke, and fired shells desperately towards the center. The shotshells were lethal, so you could fire them casually.
One shot can knock down many people.
After losing hundreds of people, Liu Bei's army crossed several trenches and rushed to Cao Jun's position. The musketeers fired a volley. After knocking down more than a dozen enemies, they threw away their muskets and drew their swords.
, roared and rushed forward. Not to be outdone, the defenders also responded in kind.
Hundreds of defenders also fired volleys at Liu Bei's army, then retreated to the rear and left the hand-to-hand combat to the spearmen. The armies of both sides fought desperately on the parapets, on the earthen ramparts, and in the trenches. From time to time, some people
He screamed and fell to the ground. In this era, steel armor has become very common, and elite soldiers in the army are equipped with it.
But even if you wear steel armor, you can't stop bullets and artillery shells. Soldiers from both sides are fighting together, and there are musketeers and artillerymen in the rear desperately firing projectiles. Because they are all equipped with steel armor, they can only rely on hand-to-hand combat.
It is difficult to cause much damage. The main output still depends on cannons and muskets.
In this regard, the defenders had an absolute advantage. The fierce battle only lasted for more than ten minutes, and Liu Bei's army had already suffered heavy casualties and lost a lot of morale. They threw away the artillery that they had pushed up and abandoned the troops on the ground.
The comrades who were wailing on the ground retreated in embarrassment.
The cannon on the fortress roared again, killing dozens more people.
After just one attack, Liu Bei's army lost five to six hundred men. If people died at this rate, Liu Bei would not have many men left in his hands in just six days. During the charge and retreat, the defenders would be attacked.
It hits hard, but it can't cause much damage to the enemy.
Today's battle once again proved that without three times the firepower advantage and five times the manpower advantage, don't even think about attacking the enemy's fortress. Looking at his own soldiers retreating in embarrassment, Liu Bei's body on horseback began to tremble.
.He suddenly felt a little dizzy, shook a little, and suddenly fell down.
