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- "All troops, be prepared. The Chu army is going to bombard the city with gunpowder. Give them some color to see." Xianyu Fu raised his sword and shouted, very confident.
As soon as the order was given, the Chu army's war drums were heard rising to the sky from the hillside to the city.
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The drums rumbled like thunder, and thousands of flags fluttered, forming a surging red ocean.
The nerves of the 80,000 Chu soldiers suddenly became tense, and they all clenched their swords and guns, their fighting spirit burning like fire.
Yan Liang was calm. He looked at the city for a moment, then raised his whip and shouted: "All troops, attack!"
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The drum battle suddenly became tense, and the huge command flag danced like the wind at the center of the army.
The emperor's decree has been issued. At the front army station, Huang Zhong shouted loudly and pointed his sword forward. Forty thousand soldiers who had captured the city burst out in a formation as if the sky was shattering and the earth was shattering.
This steel army, holding large shields high, attacked the enemy city upwards, covering the mountains and approaching the front line of the south city of Liangkou.
On the top of the city, Xian Yufu sneered and shouted in a mocking tone: "The whole army has begun to fight back. Teach these Chu thieves a lesson and let them know how powerful this general is."
The war drums of the Han army suddenly sounded.
On the mountain city, the Han army's crossbowmen, who had been prepared long ago, fired arrows upon hearing the order. Thousands of arrows flew towards the Chu army like locusts.
The Chu army had been prepared for a long time. They raised their large shields high to form an airtight dome and bounced away the arrows that came like rain.
Seeing that the arrow shot was ineffective, Xian Yufu shouted again: "Put down wood and stones for me to kill the enemy thieves."
At the same time as the arrow fell, the rest of the Han army on the top of the city fell. He quickly pushed large pieces of wood and round boulders down the city wall.
The trees and boulders, using their commanding position, roared down the hillside toward the Chu army's formation.
"The enemy has a tree. Be careful to avoid it!" Huang Zhong saw the situation and shouted urgently.
While shouting, hundreds of trees and boulders came crashing down towards the Chu army with a powerful falling force.
The Chu army¡¯s suicide squad at the front quickly inserted the lower end of the shield deeply into the ground as a barrier, while the soldiers at the rear had already prepared wooden pillars to resist the shield. A group of seven or eight people fought hard to push forward.
Boom boom boom!
The huge rocks and trees flying down hit the shield wall one after another. Although their power and momentum were great, they were temporarily constructed by the Chu army. Blocked it abruptly.
The Chu army was well prepared. The first wave of stone and wood attacks by the Han army did not have much effect, killing only a few hundred Chu soldiers.
Although weapons such as wood and boulders are powerful, they are inconvenient to throw. After the Han army dropped a wave, the second round of throwing required a short gap.
The Chu army took advantage of this short time to climb up quickly, just in time for the second round of rocks and wood bombardment by the Han army. Form a shield wall again.
After such back and forth, the well-prepared Chu army withstood the Han army's counterattack, and finally climbed up the hillside and rushed to the bottom of the south city of Liangkou.
As soon as the trapped army pressed against the city wall, more than 5,000 crossbowmen, using the cover of large shields, quickly suppressed the Han army on the mountain city with firepower.
The tens of thousands of soldiers who boarded the city took the opportunity to erect ladders and began to storm the enemy city.
At this point, Xian Yufu had no choice but to run back and forth along the line of the city wall, commanding his elite Han troops and stubbornly blocking the Chu army from ascending the city.
The Han army began to wildly fire arrows at the city, threw rocks and trees wildly, and desperately countered the Chu army's attack on the city.
Yan Liangyuan looked at the offensive on the city and nodded slightly: "This Xian Yufu is indeed an experienced general. Although he is not a famous general, he is somewhat capable."
To be recognized by Yan Liang, Xian Yufu is indeed quite capable.
And the 10,000 Han troops under his command were all elite troops who had followed Liu Bei for a long time. Their combat effectiveness was far better than the vulnerable Goguryeo people, and even more comparable to the Chu army.
With such an extremely powerful army, coupled with the terrain advantage of Liangkou City, even though the Chu army has five times the siege force, judging from the current battlefield situation, it cannot gain the upper hand.
However, the Chu army¡¯s battle plan was not to rely on hand-to-hand combat to forcefully break Liangkou City.
Just when Huang Zhong was commanding the army to attack the city, veteran general Zhang Rendu commanded another special army. Under the cover of a large shield, they began to dig holes under the Liangkou city wall.
This is a common tactic of the Chu army. They use the siege as a cover to dig holes under the enemy city, and then put gunpowder barrels into the holes.If the fire goes down, a gap can be easily blasted out of the enemy city.
All the Chu army¡¯s seemingly fierce attacks were actually designed to cover up resistance.
Not long after half an hour, the Chu army¡¯s five-color flag was waved below the enemy city, which was a signal that the hole had been dug.
Yan Liang did not hesitate, raised his whip, and Jiang Wei led seven hundred tiger guards in the forest, protecting more than ten gunpowder barrels, and rushed towards the mountain city.
Xian Yufu could clearly see everything that happened in the Chu army. When he saw the Chu army guarding more than a dozen wooden barrels and approaching the mountain city, he knew that the Chu army was going to use gunpowder to blow up the city.
"Hmph, Yan Thief, I knew you would do it again. I have been waiting for you for a long time." It¡¯s time for the thief to show off his power.¡±
After the order was passed, new changes soon occurred on the top of Liangkou City. Hundreds of Han soldiers shouted slogans and pushed giant trees onto the top of the city.
Countless Chu troops under the city all saw this scene. The soldiers were surprised, but they also felt that the giant tree pushed out of the enemy city seemed familiar.
On the hillside, Yan Liang also saw what happened in the city. His heroic face was not surprised at all, but showed a sneer, as if the changes in the enemy city were what he expected.
"Your Majesty, it's a water dragon cannon. That's our water dragon cannon!" Zhou Cang pointed at the enemy city and shouted in surprise.
Yan Liang smiled contemptuously: "Liu Bei, the wolf, has suffered a lot from the water dragon cannon. It seems that he has been thinking about it for many years, and finally he has achieved some results."
Those giant trees at the top of the city are indeed the water dragon cannon, the weapon of the Chu army in water warfare.
In fact, the production process of the water dragon cannon is not complicated, and it is far from comparable to precision weapons such as ballistas and repeating crossbows. Moreover, because of its huge size, the water dragon cannon is not easy to conceal when manufacturing it. If the enemy is interested, he will spend time on intelligence reconnaissance and imitate it over time. It's not that difficult.
In Liu Bei¡¯s two crucial defeats in the Battle of Liyang and the Battle of Yecheng, the water dragon cannon played a vital role.
Liu suffered enough from the water dragon cannon. After escaping to Goguryeo, he learned from the painful experience. He spent a lot of effort in research over the years and finally successfully imitated the water dragon cannon for him.
As soon as the water dragon cannon came out, Xian Yufu became even more proud. He pointed his sword downward and shouted loudly: "All water dragon cannons, aim at the powder barrels of the Chu army and shoot hard."
Chichichichi~~
Nearly thirty water dragon cannons were fired almost at the same time, from different directions, towards the location of Jiang Wei's gunpowder troops on the hillside.
Facing the flying water cannons, Jiang Wei and the hundreds of Tiger Guards were completely unprepared. In an instant, they were caught in the torrential water splash. Most of them were knocked to the ground, and some were even thrown directly to the ground. Go down the hill.
People were still like this, and the dozens of powder barrels were soaked in an instant and were no longer of use.
Seeing the Chu army's discomfiture, Xian Yufu sneered proudly: "Yan thief, although your gunpowder is powerful, if it is soaked in water, I will see how you can ignite it."
It turns out that over the years, in order to resist Yan Liang's conquests, Liu Bei had been closely monitoring every move of the Chu army.
When Liu Bei heard that the Chu army used gunpowder to blow open the city of Huguan, he was greatly shocked. He was afraid that the Chu army would attack Goguryeo in the future and use gunpowder to destroy its strong mountain city.
In order to deal with this threat, Liu Bei sent agents to investigate. Although they did not find out how to make gunpowder, they learned that the gunpowder must be ignited by fire in order to explode.
Based on this information, Liu Bei and his ministers analyzed it and concluded that the gunpowder was afraid of water, so they decided to use water dragon cannons to break the Chu army's gunpowder tactics.
Today, Xian Yufu finally put this carefully researched tactic into practice, and it was successful. It's no wonder that he couldn't be prouder and excited.
"Your Majesty, our gunpowder is all wet, I'm afraid we can't blow up the city anymore." Zhou Cang shouted.
Yan Liang only nodded slightly: "The enemy has been prepared for a long time. It is useless to attack by force. Please withdraw your troops at the expense of gold."
Dang Dang Dang~~
The golden sound rang urgently, and the order to withdraw troops spread throughout the fields.
On the front line of the enemy city, generals Huang Zhong and Zhang Ren, although unwilling, did not dare to disobey the holy will and immediately ordered the troops to retreat.
Although the Chu army's attack was thwarted, they, the elites in the world, did not see any chaos at all. They retreated in an orderly manner, not giving even the slightest opportunity to the enemies in Liangkou City.
The 40,000 to 50,000 siege troops retreated in small numbers, and soon exited the range of the enemy's arrows.On the top of the city, when the Han army saw that the Chu army had been forced back, they were all excited. They waved their swords and guns and showed off their power to the retreating Chu army, as if they were finally proud and proud.
Xian Yufu was even more elated and laughed loudly: "Yan thief, Yan thief, you dominate the world and claim to be invincible, but you never thought that you would be defeated by me, Xian Yufu, today, haha~~"
When Xian Yufu and his Han army were proud, the Chu army had retreated.
Jiang Wei, who was soaked all over, rode up to Yan Liang, fell to the ground and said in shame: "I am incompetent and did not destroy the enemy city. Please punish me."
"The Han army has been prepared for a long time. This battle is not your fault. There is no need to blame yourself. Get up." Yan Liang said magnanimously.
Jiang Wei then stood up, looked at the buckets of wet gunpowder, and sighed: "These dozen buckets of gunpowder have consumed a lot of national power. It's a pity that they were ruined by the enemy."
¡°You open the powder keg first and take a look before it¡¯s too late.¡± A sly smile appeared at the corner of Yan Liang¡¯s mouth.
Jiang Wei was startled, wondering what Yan Liang meant, and hurriedly ordered the powder barrels to be opened.
When Jiang Wei saw the open gunpowder barrel clearly, his originally sad face was filled with surprise. - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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