Chapter 41: Divine Weapons

"They're finally here."

Yuan Shao breathed a sigh of relief, he was looking forward to the stars and the moon in Tai'an City, and he had been looking forward to Liu Bei for a long time.

Obviously, this is not a good thing, after all, this kind of decisive battle is to decide life and death, and now Yuan Shao's own forces are not superior.

So I don't know what he's looking forward to now.

Maybe it's because he's been tortured for too long, so he loses the mood to keep waiting.

If it all came to an end, then he wouldn't need to dwell on it for too long. So instead of waiting there, it's better to face the dangerous challenges head-on.

Liu Bei's army was pressing towards Tai'an City, and there was a feeling that black clouds were about to destroy the city.

That kind of scale, that kind of momentum, Yuan Shao secretly had a plan in his heart, which was a certain improvement compared with the army brought by Liu Bei when the princes were discussing the Dong Huimeng.

It seems that the destiny is indeed in Liu.

Every time they met, Yuan Shao was able to see visible progress in Liu Bei, and a terrifying level of escalation in his power.

But in essence, what is even more terrifying is that Liu Bei's room for improvement is still very broad, because the resourceful generals around him will be prosecuted, and under the leadership of Chen Chen, the number of capable people around him is also expanding.

How can this kind of force, which is strong in reality and has a promising future, not be afraid?

Liu Bei's army lined up outside the city of Tai'an, several groups of troops were still lined up in an orderly manner, Liu Bei's pro-army led by Liu Bei sat in the middle of the army, with the sound of uniform footsteps, Liu Beijun's military formation separated from it, giving way to a road.

A large and unpretentious carriage was revealed.

The size of this carriage was much larger than the usual visible carriages. Although the carriage was not luxuriously decorated, its rough exterior showed the arrogance of his master.

The curtain of the carriage was lifted slightly, and several figures came out of the carriage, and finally Liu Bei slowly appeared.

Now Liu Bei looks quite high-spirited, although he has traveled a long way, but his whole person looks very energetic, and his hairstyle is flowing and comfortable.

After all, he's here to reap a win.

"I didn't think that the meeting with Yuan Benchu would be like today, I thought that he was the fourth and third dukes at the beginning, and he was high-spirited, but he was the pride of the sky at that time."

Liu Bei is now pretending to be a big-tailed wolf.

"But who knew he would be like this."

But to be honest, what Liu Bei is saying now is really what he is talking about.

Although he has the name of having a relative of the Han family, in fact, compared with Yuan Shao, Liu Bei is really self-made, and Yuan Shao has so many resources backed by the mountains? The Yuan family's power is all over the sky? But now the situation has been reversed, which is really emotional.

Liu Bei led the generals and the conspiracy to the front of the battle with the pro-army? Look at Yuan Shao.

This distance? Shouting louder is audible.

"Brother Benchu, don't come unharmed!"

Liu Bei shouted from afar. How loud is his voice? Resounded in the sky, did he call him seriously? Yuan Shao on the city wall also heard it very clearly.

Originally, Yuan Shao still wanted to scold Liu Bei in front of the battle? After all, he let himself fold a son.

But now that Liu Bei has no deterrence or scolding, but uses an attitude of greeting old friends, a good-faced person like Yuan Shao will naturally not speak disrespectfully.

"Brother Xuande is still in style."

If you lose, you can't lose the battle, and you can't let the momentum go.

Yuan Shao has always done a good job in terms of generosity towards the enemy.

"Didn't you think about it? Meet the virtuous brothers? It's the scene today. ”

Yuan Shao smiled, he felt that this would be the only way to show his demeanor.

"I didn't think about it."

Liu Bei answered honestly, and he didn't get scared, nor did he jump off the carriage.

Maybe this is Liu Bei's own charm, he is extremely real? But he also knows how to behave correctly when it matters.

"Brother Ben is also the source of great ambition, why do we brothers fight for this? Why don't we release our suspicions and put down the sword? How about creating a great cause together? ”

If you can directly subdue Yuan Jun without fighting, then the improvement of your own power is not small? Liu Bei naturally would not forget this matter before the war.

Even if he knew Yuan Shao's character? It's impossible to say yes at all? He'll give it a try, too.

"Brother Xuande laughed, since Brother Xian knows my character, then why bother to ask this sentence? I also hope that my brother will promise me one thing. ”

Yuan Shao shouted at the top of his voice.

"Brother Ben, it's okay to say it's okay."

"No matter which side of us loses, don't embarrass each other's families?"

Yuan Shao's idea was actually unreasonable, he still cared about his family very much, and he knew that he actually made this request, if Liu Bei won, then he would lose without regrets.

Because as we all know, Liu Bei doesn't have any family.

"Okay."

Liu Bei agreed very happily, it was not that he didn't know that he didn't have any family, but with his character himself, he wouldn't do anything to the relatives of the defeated after the war.

Therefore, Yuan Shaoti's request was not a difficult thing for him.

"In that case, let's fight."

The last thing on his mind was over, Yuan Shaotan relaxed frankly, and he shouted at Liu Bei, announcing the beginning of this war, the last decisive battle.

"Let's go, let's go back to the Chinese army."

Liu Bei waved his hand and walked back with the staff behind him.

This time, what they wanted was to let Yuan Shao and them see what it means to be an advanced science and technology army.

For a long time, everyone's definition of a divine weapon has been based on a single individual weapon.

But what Chen Chen wants now is to let everyone know that large divine weapons are sometimes the overlord of war.

A small craftsman found in Xihe County before was quite talented in designing institutions and developing small instruments, and this little craftsman was still Chen Chen's own family, named Chen Ke.

Later, Chen Chen gave Chen Ke a lot of advice, and also gave him a lot of inspiration, and even directly started to draw drawings for him, although it was only a rough idea, but it also gave Chen Ke a direction.

Chen Ke lived up to Chen Chen's high hopes and successfully developed various miniature instruments, which may have reached the level of several hundred to one.

These include, but are not limited to, artillery carriages that shoot stones like slingshots, siege engines with horses built-in, and replica crossbows with feet wound.

Chen Ke also made a fake gunpowder that could have sparks and a sense of bursting according to the elixir materials provided by Chen Chen.

Although the combat power and damage of this gunpowder are not as strong as the real gunpowder, after all, there are no saltpeter and other things mixed in a good proportion, and it is more than enough to be a mini version of black powder.

This gunpowder is contained in a thin iron egg, and then some scratches are made on the skin of the iron egg, and when it is fired, it will burst open when it collides, and the iron egg will explode into countless small pieces of iron, killing and injuring the enemy.

Some of the things were not used in the previous wars, after all, to be honest, these are still the development of the experimental stage.

Moreover, there are still many problems in the realization process from small models to real objects, such as the elastic belt in the gun truck uses a lot of cow tendons, which still cannot solve the problem of insufficient elasticity.

And if the Burst Iron Egg is not operated properly, it is very likely that it will burst in your own camp before it is launched.

As for the Divine Arm Crossbow, which is wound with the feet, it performs slightly worse on the quasi-head.

But no matter what the shortcomings of these things are, they dig into the battlefield, and that is a terrifying and dazzling existence.

Yuan Shao at the head of the city watched in a daze as Liu Beijun slowly rolled out a series of chaotic strange things.

"Zhong Qian, what do you think they are doing here? Is it here to perform acrobatics? ”

Yuan Shao was stunned and asked Wen Chou beside him.

He didn't mock Liu Bei and them, but he really couldn't understand Liu Bei, what they were going to do when they came up with these things mixed with wood and iron.

Could it be that when the decisive battle was announced, shouldn't Liu Beijun start preparing to attack the city, build ladders, and push the siege towers or something?

Why do you come up with so many weird things?

Just when Yuan Shao was stunned, Liu Bei was already standing on a temporary high platform, observing the dynamics of some of his own scientific and technological troops.

Chen Chen led a bunch of experimenters, and after repeated debugging and sorting, these artifacts could barely come in handy on the battlefield.

But because they hadn't appeared before, the enemy must have been unprepared for them, so even if their power is weakened, as long as they get closer, won't the effect be the same?

It goes without saying which arrow is more lethal with the Divine Arm Crossbow at a distance of 500 paces or an arrow shot with the Divine Arm Crossbow at a distance of 300 paces.

"Let's go!"

With Liu Bei's order, the new version of the siege vehicle with horses built-in, covered with cowhide wooden frame, and wrapped in iron quickly drove towards the city wall of Tai'an City.

The archers on the city walls were naturally no strangers to this siege vehicle.

What they were unfamiliar with was that outside the siege engine, there were no soldiers pushing the siege vehicle forward.

The car was moving swiftly towards the city walls like a cowhide tortoise.

When the bow and arrow landed on the shell of the car, it could only make a sound and no damage could be done, and the new version of the siege vehicle maintained its speed and continued to march towards the city walls.

At the same time, when the foot crossbow army formation of the god-mimicking arm crossbow moved to a position about three hundred steps away from the city wall of Tai'an City, they also began their offensive.

Bows and arrows the size of a baby's arm were placed on the crossbow, and the posture of the crossbow formation was also quite interesting, with two soldiers carrying the crossbow as a support, while the other soldier was holding the bow and arrow with his hand, winding it with his foot, and pulling the bowstring of the crossbow away, and then as soon as he let go, the crossbow arrow was shot out and went straight to the head of the city wall.

The impact was terrifying.

"Why can they move the bed crossbow to the field?"

Yuan Shao avoided the side under the protection of Wen Chou, looking at the crossbow arrows whizzing past the city, his expression was sluggish.

In his understanding, a bed crossbow of this scale should only be fixed on the city wall, and because of the angle problem, top-down is the best choice, but Liu Bei and they launched from the bottom up.

But that's not the worst of it.

Before Yuan Shao could wait for Wen Chou's answer, a new offensive had already begun.

"Boom!"

"Smack!"

The sound like thunder descending from the sky suddenly appeared, but there was no cloud in the sky, how could there be a thunderbolt on a sunny day?

And the thunderclap doesn't stop.

Yuan Shao could also hear the wails of his own soldiers.

What kind of spell is this? To such an extent?

Could it be that there really a demon in Liu Bei's army came to the world?

A series of questions popped up in Yuan Shao's mind, but now was obviously not the time for him to think about them.

"Zhong Qian, it seems that those utensils outside the city are the cause of these strange scenes."

Yuan Shao took a deep breath, and he immediately made a decision and understood the problem.

"You can lead the troops out of the city and destroy those tools?"

There was also the Taihang Black Cavalry led by Zhang Fei on the opposite side, but Yuan Shao observed carefully, he didn't want Wen Chou to rush directly into the opponent's formation and destroy those artifacts.

"I've looked closely, most of their artifacts are made of wood, you don't need to rush into battle, you just shoot rockets at their artifacts and let them ignite on their own."

Yuan Shao thought about it in his mind again, and the kind of thunderclap sound he had just heard ruled out some obvious discomfort, and he quickly locked on to the location of the gun carriage.

"The sound of the thunderclap just now must have been cracked at the sight of fire or stones. If you look at the gun trucks outside the city, if they can hit them with one arrow, maybe they can destroy themselves. ”

Yuan Shao is really not an ordinary person, he quickly thought of coping strategies, and these strategies are really practical.

"No."

Wen Chou agreed, as a general, he had no reason to be afraid, even if he hadn't seen many of these things.

But since he received this order, then he must destroy them, even in the face of Zhang Fei, he will win.

"Babble!"

With the dull sound of the city gate opening, Liu Bei was surprised to see Wen Chou rushing out of the city with a group of cavalry.

"Yuan Benchu even dared to let the general go out of the city and rush into battle? It is worthy of him, and he is indeed courageous. ”

Liu Bei approved.

Chen Chen, beside him, pondered for a moment.

Yuan Shao's choice is very correct, in fact, although Liu Bei now seems to be powerful, but in fact, the movement of these artifacts is quite problematic.

If the Yuan army went out of the city to fight, then they would not be able to use these technologies to cause as much damage as they wanted, and they would have to go up.

"It's fine, who of the sons of our army are afraid of war?"

Liu Bei is arrogant.

"Look at them, sir, they probably hate your artifacts a little bit now, and you almost gave them a chance to play."

This is also true, Chen Chen knocked his head.

How can anyone be a soldier who doesn't like to fight?

Fighting, killing the enemy, sealing the marquis, and worshipping the prime minister.

Isn't this what every soldier is pursuing?

"If he wants to fight, I will fight."

Liu Bei waved his hand.

"Sir, you asked people to remove these artifacts and let Yide lead his troops to rush him!"

Chen Chen nodded, and as soon as the order arrived, the Taihang Black Rider over there had already rushed out of the formation.