On the second day of the fourth month, Xu You led the main force of the Chinese army to arrive outside Cangyuan City along the river, at this time Qi Xiao and Ye Min had not yet arrived at the slipway, and the news of the loss of Xuchang had just reached Mu Fan's ears.

Cangyuan is the state seat of Yuzhou in the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was the place where Cangjie made words, and it was also prosperous as the capital of the kingdom many times, Li Fen of the Jin Dynasty had the famous saying of "Yimen since ancient times, the imperial state", Yimen refers to Cangyuan.

Yuzhou assassin Shi Mufan was anxious, he knew that the 30,000 towns in Yuzhou alone could not resist the various armies of Chu, so he gathered his forces to concentrate on defending Xuchang and Cangyuan.

Mu Fan was not surprised that Xuchang was lost, but what he was surprised was that Xuchang only lasted two days before falling, according to his plan, Xuchang should hold on for at least a month, but he didn't expect it......

There is no doubt that the ability of the southerners to attack and defend the city has always been higher than that of the northerners, but no matter how powerful they are, they should not suddenly open such a big gap. For more than 100 years, the two sides have fought many times, and they know each other's strengths and weaknesses, and the caterpillar becomes a butterfly, which is called having rules to follow, but if it directly becomes a phoenix, why can't you think about it?

According to the tribe that Xuchang fled back, the powerful bed crossbow used by the Chu army to attack the city fired arrows thicker than horse lances, inserted into the city wall in rows, and could be trampled on, if the city wall was not strong enough, these crossbow arrows alone could destroy it, which was simply unheard of.

And the well-trained Chu army is also unprecedented. They have strict military discipline, advance and retreat to a certain degree, each engagement, as little as three people, more than five people, cooperate with each other tacit understanding skillfully, some attack, some defend, mutual life and death, trust, almost no one retreats from the battle, when they see the enemy, their eyes are red, brave as a tiger and wolf, and the Chu army in the impression of many years ago is fundamentally like two people.

In addition, there is their armor, arrows can't be pierced, knives can't be cut, unless they are hammered with a blunt weapon, and even the armor is hammered into mud, it is difficult to kill, their knives are chic, but they are extremely sharp, the spears are even more powerful, piercing into the bones, they can be pulled out effortlessly, the barrel of the gun kills many people in a row and is not easy to break, the bow used has a long range, a fast rate of fire, and high accuracy......

All in all, the Chu army has formed an all-round advantage over the Wei army, whether it is training or equipment, it is no longer the Wuxia Ameng of the past. Mu Fan thought silently for a long time, the only reason why these unimaginable changes occurred in the southerners could only be the newly appointed general Xu You.

Zuo Yan's Cuiyu Army is a descendant created by Xu You, and the Youdu Army of the Mountain Sect is also inseparable from Xu You, and Xu You's own experience is legendary, falling into the lowest trough, but rising like a comet, which is unimaginable in the era of the gate valve - no one can lose the protection of the family, and after being demoted to the common people, they can be re-classified as a scholar clan and stand at the peak of the gate valve again. Perhaps it is this impossibility that has created the strength of today's Chu army.

Standing at the head of the cangyuan, looking at the 100,000 troops outside the city, as well as the hundreds of fighting ships cruising on a number of interconnected inland rivers, the bright armor and swords and guns reflect the sun, and the people who shine can't open their eyes, and the Xu character handsome flag standing on the hill seems to invisibly condense the indescribable majesty and pressure.

Mu Fan was born in the army, good at planning, but negligent in decisiveness, so when he learned that Chu was marching westward, he was confused by his rhetoric, and his plan was to wait and see first, wait for the will of the imperial court, and then decide whether to make peace or war. But the will has not waited, what is waiting for is the Chu army's unconcealed fangs, the southerners are cunning, in the name of borrowing the road, to do the truth, it is too late to adjust the deployment, so they can only decisively give up the periphery, focusing on the defense of Xuchang, Cangyuan and Huatai three cities.

These three cities, from north to south, are on a longitudinal line that runs through the entire Yuzhou, almost blocking the main roads in and out of the Central Plains from the east and south. He planned to concentrate his forces to hold these three cities, and use the tactics of flowering in the center to drag down the Chu army, and crucify them firmly in Yuzhou.

Mu Fan is a very strategic person, in a hurry, he can survive with a broken tail, save people and lose land, exchange space for time, and actively prepare a plan to turn defeat into victory. If it weren't for the fact that Tiangongfang had transformed its research results into actual combat effectiveness in recent years, it might have been really consumed by Mu Fan in Yuzhou. However, this is not destined to be a fair war, and from the beginning of the Thunder Cannon, the technological productivity will gradually dominate the outcome of the war.

"Town Lord, Xu You has sent a messenger, do you want to let him in?"

"Bring him here to meet me!"

After a while, the messenger came to the city, and some of the guards had already drawn their swords and crossed their necks, and said, "Kneel!" Don't you want to see my lord yet? ”

The messenger remained motionless, his face was not afraid, his eyes were as clear as a peaceful lake, and he neither knelt nor answered. The guards were stunned, he had given the envoy a horse as usual, and he couldn't really kill him, and if he wanted to kill him, he had to listen to his intentions, and then the town lord gave an order. But is this person a fool, stiffen his neck, but don't say a word, how to sing this play?

was hesitating whether to put down the knife or continue to threaten, and listened to the envoy say slowly: "I heard that the Lord of Wei reverted to the Zhou ceremony, respected Confucius and Mencius, and regarded himself as a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, could it be that he didn't even understand the simple truth that the two countries were at war and did not kill the envoys?" He said loudly: "The knife and axe are on the neck, which can scare those Yidi who don't know the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, but it can't scare the Yidi who inherit the orthodoxy of China. ”

The guards were intimidated by his awe-inspiring posture, and subconsciously took a step back, and when he woke up, he was annoyed and angry, and the blade pressed an inch into his neck, and said sharply: "Killing you is like killing a pig and a dog, don't you dare to kill yes?" ”

The envoy was silent again, and the guards were not up to or down, and he was stunned again, and he was so angry that he almost chopped down his saber. Fortunately, he didn't wait too long, and the envoy said: "The feet are fierce and inward, and they seem to be majestic, but in fact, they have lost the face of Lord Wei." Mu Thorn Shi, how long do you want to see your ugly state? ”

Mu Fan sighed lightly, waved his hand to signal the guards to retreat, and said: "Guan Langjun's bearing, not like a nobody who can only pass on words, can you report your name, now what is the position of Chu State?" ”

There was another embarrassing pause, and the envoy stood by and said, "In Xia Yu Teng, I will be the general's mansion manager Cao Peng!" ”

"Oh?" Mu Fan understood, this person was slow to speak, and said with a smile: "Li Cao Dian Judicial Prison is considered an important position of the overlord, it seems that Yu Li Cao is very highly regarded by General Xu......

Yu Teng is young and old, and every time he replies to others, he has to consider it, so he seems sluggish, and said: "Teng is useless, General Meng will not give up, and it is really difficult for Cao Peng to deal with it." ”

"Really?"

Mu Fan's words changed sharply, and he said lightly: "Maybe it's because Li Cao is from the Yu family, General Xu's current momentum is comparable to Cao Cao, but he is like duckweed, and he has to win over the gate valve to consolidate his power, so he indiscriminately sends out famous imperial court weapons to leave his foot...... Yes and no? ”

These words have a lot of flavor to sow discord, and if you meet a dumb lord, you can do all the bad things that you can't say about changing generals in battle. Yu Teng put his hands behind his back, and said with a slight smile: "My great Chu has the Holy Son of Heaven in power today, the sun and the moon in the Ming Dynasty, and the four times of the Dao Dynasty, the general is often favored, and he hears about political affairs externally, and conspires internally. On the contrary, it is the general of your country, Yuanguang, who has high merit and covers the master, and the top and bottom are suspicious, I am afraid of the disaster of the wall, Yin Jian is not far away! ”

"Bold Daoyi!"

"Presumptuous!"

"Daoyi has a lot of tongues, you should kill it!"

"I'm coming!"

The armored generals at the head of the city who Yu Teng said changed color, and they couldn't wait for Mu Fan's order to crush him to ashes. Yu Teng said calmly: "I have heard for a long time that Xianbei people call themselves warriors, but I didn't expect that they would only dare to kill the messengers who had no power to restrain the chicken. However, my Chu people are different, your head has 100,000 elite soldiers to take it by force in front of the battle! ”

He was in the enemy camp, killing everywhere, but he was calm as usual, Mu Fan was respectful, stopped everyone, and reprimanded: "The two armies are fighting, and if you don't kill them, do you really want to bring shame on the Lord?" Don't quit yet! ”

The eyes of the crowd were furious, but they didn't dare to disobey the order, so they pressed the handle of the knife and slowly retreated. Mu Fan asked Yu Teng to move to the Assassin's Mansion, and then he was regarded as a messenger, and asked about the intention, Yu Teng said: "The general knows that the Assassin Shi is the pillar of the Northern Dynasty, and he doesn't want to hurt the peace between the two countries by fighting, as long as the Assassin Shi gets out of the way, Da Chu is willing to use 70,000 pieces of cloth as a borrowing capital......"

This price is obviously insincere, Mu Fan smiled: "Why don't I personally give the general 70,000 pieces of cloth and silk, and ask the general to cross the Qin Mountains and cut down Qin, wouldn't it be both?" ”

"The Qinling Mountains are difficult to cross, the boats and cars are tired, and the general only takes the Cangyuan Road! If Skeng gives way, the defenders of the city, their property, grain, grass, and ordnance will be taken away, except for 70,000 horses of cloth, and our army will not take a cent. ”

Where is this excuse? Obviously forcing me to flee for my life. Mu Fan shook his head, his eyes were as resolute as a rock, and said, "Please tell the general, Mu is forgiving!" ”

The negotiation broke down, Yu Teng got up, bowed his hand, and said: "The general has an order, from the time I leave the city, within six hours to conquer the cangyuan, the night is cold, please assassin Shi bring his own bedding, so as not to frostbite when he is imprisoned." ”

Mu Fan laughed and said, "Please also tell Li Cao that with me one day, Cangyuan City will be unbreakable." When our Chinese army comes to help, it will be Xu You who is a prisoner under the stairs! ”

When Yu Teng walked to the door, he said without looking back: "If the assassin Shi is counting on the two thousand cavalry who are ambushed thirty miles away in the southeast, I might as well tell the assassin that the leader of the army is called Lou Diji, and he has been captured by our army last night, and all the two thousand elite horsemen have been captured!" ”

"What?"

Mu Fan was shaken, staring blankly at Yu Teng's back and leaving, speechless for a long time.

Lou Diji, whose hands were tied by iron chains, was also very depressed, and the experience of Qiantang made him feel humiliated, so after returning to China, he dredged up the relationship and left Houguan Cao, and was sent to Ruyang County, Yuzhou to be the lord of war. Just arrived, and before he knew all the maids of the county guard, when he encountered the attack of the Chu army, he was unified by Mu Fan, abandoned Ruyang County, and led his troops to Cangyuan to assist in the defense.

Mu Fan made good use of strange soldiers, knowing that it was self-defeating to be trapped in the lonely city, so he boldly gave Lou 2,000 fine horsemen, in the name of galloping to help the slipway, first to the north, then to the east, and finally hid in Liu Zhuang, thirty miles away in the southeast.

The villagers of Liuzhuang have long been moved into the city, and the location is deserted, there is no river, and it is not on the marching route of the Chu army, and the prepared grain and grass are enough for two thousand people for ten days.

But who would have thought that Xu You had just arrived, and before he even launched an attack, Lou Dijian was already captured. Not to mention that Mu Fan was beaten with a stick, even Lou Di's illness himself was muddy, and he didn't know where the problem was until now.

Last night was as safe as a few days ago, and he went to rest at night, and the sentry post at the entrance of the village did not issue an early warning, and he was shocked to find Qingming in his bedroom in a trance, and the sneak attack was not shameless, shameless was that Qingming also used the mountain ghost obscenely. Lou Dizhi didn't resist much and fell to the ground softly, this is the second time he has been planted in Qingming's hands, at that moment, Lou Diji really wants to ask, are you really not sent by the Great Xianbei God to torture me?

The army without a main general was like a snake without a head, and the cavalry who did not have time to mount the horse was a bird with broken wings, and after a short battle, more than 300 people were killed, and the rest were captured by the expanded 1,000 Zhenhai led by Tang Zhijian.

Mu Fan's preset surprise soldiers became the first wave of victims of the Battle of Canggaku!

Squeak!

The hatch opened, and the five members of the squad came to the top deck of the sea dragon boat with Lou Diji, although he was sealed by Qingming with a secret technique, and he couldn't use his true qi, but after all, he was a little grandmaster, and he still had to give enough respect.

As far as the eye could see, there were all fierce and powerful armor soldiers, and when they saw Lou Di coming over, they all got out of the way, but their eyes were very unkind. changed to other people, being stared at like this, not to mention frightened, at least his legs were weak, but Lou Dizhi was born with the surname Xianbei, and he had been in charge of Jiangdong Foreign Marquis for many years, and he had the bearing to be in danger, Shi Shiran walked through the crowd and came to Xu You's side.

"Dragon Sparrow, meet again!"

Xu You said hello with a smile, and said apologetically: "Now it's right to call the lord of the war, Qingming, don't be rude to the guests, loosen the tie to the lord of the building, and take a seat!" ”

Qingming untied the chains, and the guards brought chairs, and Lou Dizhi sat down safely without saying a word. Xu You didn't think it was a pestle, and said with a smile: "The lord of Lou gave up the good future of Hou Guancao and went to Yuzhou, the land of the four wars, to be a small lord, and his loyalty is commendable." ”

Lu Bozhi next to him sighed and said, "It's a pity that ......"

Lou Diji finally spoke, "What is a pity? ”

"It's a pity that Mu Fan doesn't know the strategy, if he uses the two thousand elite horsemen of the lord to go around to the rear to disturb the supply of our army, wouldn't it be better than nesting in Liu Zhuang and being caught in an urn?"

Lou Diji raised his head and stared at Xu You, he was wearing a moon-white military uniform, no armor, a blue cloth scarf tied with jet-black hair, a jade jue hanging from the leather belt around his waist, his handsome cheeks flashed with a light that was more moist than Yuze, and he sat on the back of the chair casually, as if he had come out of a painting. But he is not only famous in the world, his cultivation is unfathomable, and his power and wisdom are even more extraordinary, otherwise it would not have been possible to climb from a commoner to a high position of a general in just ten years.

There is no such person in the Northern Dynasties, or there is only one in the North and the South!

"Since I have been captured by the general, I want to kill or chop, and I will listen to all the respects, why should I say these useless words of discord and make people laugh?" Lou Diji said coldly: "Mu Tingshi has followed General Yuanguang for many years, offering plans and plans, and he knows everything well, I am afraid that he knows how to strategy far better than you." However, victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, and the defeat of Liu Zhuang is in me, paralyzing carelessness and negligence in prevention, which gives you an opportunity to take advantage of. If it is clear that the chariots and horses are fighting, and there is no need for trickery, how can the southerners be our opponents? As he spoke, he also glanced at Qingming, obviously dissatisfied with being attacked by him twice.

"Really?" Xu You smiled slightly: "So I asked the lord to board the ship as a companion, and see with me how the blood and courage of the southerners are far superior to the northerners!" ”

Lou Diji's heart trembled, and he was forced by the murderous aura emanating from his body, but he didn't dare to refute!

At this moment, someone rushed to announce: "General Yu, Li Cao Peng Yuteng has come out of the water gate and is returning to the front of our army." ”

Xu You nodded and said: "Pass the order, the three armies will prepare, and march forward when they hear the drums, and in six hours, I will celebrate your achievements in the lobby of the Yuzhou Assassin's Mansion!" ”

The generals clasped their fists one after another, and the sound of ironclad collision resounded through the fighting ship, and they all shouted: "No! ”

When Yu Teng returned to him, he said that Mu Fan had refused the peace talks, and said that there were only Wei people who died in battle, and Xu You, who had not surrendered, ordered the fighting boat to drive along the river to 300 meters away from the city wall, got up and stood at the head of the boat, and said, "Bow here!" ”

Qingming handed over the purple jade gold fetal bow, this is the Tiangongfang for Xu You specially developed super strong laminated double reflex composite bow, Tuomu bow back added to the proportion of spring steel, can greatly increase the tension, the arrow used is also a specific deflection, horns and hemp rope tied wire bowstring coated with multiple layers of bio-glue secret material, the cold and heat force is unchanged, the effective range can reach 450 meters away. It's just that most people can't pull it open, and the barely pulled one can't shoot accurately, and the cost is too high, not suitable for maintenance, and basically does not have the value of large-scale promotion.

Xu You stood on the head of the boat, opened his bow and arrows, the Dao heart was mysterious, the surrounding scenery and sounds were suddenly far away, and the only thing reflected in his eyes was the focus of heaven and earth

Syllable!

The arrow went like a meteor, facing the fierce north wind, crossing an almost perfect arc, and was flying towards the Mu character Bai Xu, which stood at the head of the cangyuan city. The defenders at the head of the city laughed loudly, it was really beyond their strength to shoot the flag at such a distance, but in the blink of an eye, the arrows did not fall as powerlessly as they imagined, but faster and faster, and suddenly they all changed color in shock.

At this moment, all eyes were on the birds, and the eyes of countless people held their breath with the trajectory of the arrow. Seeing that he was about to shoot at the flagpole, a master beside Mu Fan was self-assured of the seventh grade, and he rushed to the crown in anger, jumped up in the air, and slashed with a knife, but he misjudged the speed of the arrow, and the knife was cut in the air, and the arrow passed through the chest, and it was inserted into the flagpole with the thickness of his arm.

First there was a click, then a crackling sound, and the rod cracked into irregular turtle lines, and then snapped in the frightened and bewildered eyes of the defenders!

Broken without a fight, big murderer!

The cheers of the Chu army spread for hundreds of miles, and the morale burst to the peak, while the Wei army was dejected, dazed, and had no fighting spirit.

Xu You threw the bow and arrow to Qingming, clapped his hands, turned around and walked back to the chair, and said, "Siege!" ”

More than 100 thunder cannons were placed in the rear, covered with layers of dried cowhide as a camouflage, and as the command flag waved three times to the east, Captain Zhang Jin shouted: "Raise the cannon!" ”

Zuo Yan attacked Xuchang, only using a three-bow bed crossbow, and did not use a thunder cannon, just to maintain the surprise at the moment. As the most secret and core military technology of the Chu army, the Thunder Cannon has always been the object of the highest level of protection of the Sili Mansion and even the later Secret Mansion, so the Wei army is just a rumor, but there is no exact intelligence to verify this, and they do not believe that there are any tools in the world that can break through the strong city, at least for the Wei people, they are obsessed with the powerful cavalry, which is to attack, not to defend themselves according to the city!

The soldiers quickly removed the cowhide, wound the winch, placed the stone cannon, adjusted the angle, and then with Zhang Jin's blade, there was a deafening roar, and the stone cannon larger than the ox fell like a meteor from the sky, and the thunder smashed on the city, and even the earth trembled.

The bed crossbows of various warships, as well as the rain of arrows from the archers, nearly 50,000 people launched an echelon attack on Cangyuan from all directions at the same time, and the black and crushed human heads were like a tide, like a swarm of locusts, cold and ruthlessly devouring all life.

As the Chinese army of the Chu State, known as the pinnacle of combat effectiveness, although the cooperation, obedience and overall military quality are not as good as the Cuiyu Army and the Chifeng Army, but they are all veterans, and they know how to fight the enemy on the premise of avoiding damage, especially this kind of downwind battle with superior troops, but also for the sake of merit to take the lead, playing an invincible momentum and dignity. And after Xu You became a general, he intended to transfer a number of backbones from the Cuiyu Army to enrich the grassroots ranks of the Chinese army, most of whom served as military supervisors at the level of chief and tun chief.

After all, this is a siege war in the era of cold weapons, only by relying on courage and flesh and blood, competing for the ability of both sides to bear death, whoever collapses first will accept cruel defeat.

Therefore, Xu You told Lou to get rid of the disease and let him see that the blood and courage of the southerners are not worse than the northerners!

……

The siege battle has lasted for two full hours, the thunder cannon smashed the city wall due south, revealing a gap four or five zhang wide, and the general Liu Duo led his troops to rush into it first, but was blocked by the Wei soldiers with an iron fence in time, desperately regaining the lost territory.

Liu Duo was also one of the four top gate valve disciples who joined the Western Expedition as a negotiation condition for Xu You and Yu Hao this time, and was quite unruly at first, and the stinky frame of the door valve was sent to the Feng camp by Xu You, tempered under Han Baoqing for three months, and was brainwashed by the Supervision Department every day to attend classes, and after three months, it seemed to be reborn and changed as a person, and then after a number of actual combat exercises, he performed outstandingly, and entered the Tiger Hall for two periods of study, and after graduation, he was awarded the miscellaneous name of the eight-grade general.

This is a humiliation for the top gate valve, sinking into the subordinates, but Liu Duo didn't care, he accepted the thinking logic of the Cuiyu Army, the soldiers are glorified by their military exploits, and the family lineage is just the starting point, not dependent, so he is not afraid of death with a hundred people with swords and shields to break into the city, due to the disconnection of the follow-up and the counterattack of the defenders, he has no choice but to retreat, but there are one and two, he doesn't believe it, the walls are collapsed, how long can the walls of the warehouse last......

The city of Cangyuan is tall, but the war has developed so far, even a fool knows that no matter how tall the city is, it is vulnerable in front of the thunder cannon, and it is impossible to rely on the city defense to hold on. The strength of the Wei army lies in the field battle, but Cangyuan is also known as the water city, the Yellow River, Jishui, Yingshui, Bishui and the Jin River, the Cai River, the Hui River, and the Ming River form a total of 17 water systems, and the other tributaries and small rivers are countless, and the naval army under the command of Mu Fan is actually not weak, and the ships are a total of 320 ships regardless of size, which can be compared with the Chu army, and it is not enough for those huge sea dragon boats to stuff the teeth. If the cavalry went out of the city, it would not be possible to organize a large-scale attack and detour in such a terrain......

Mu Fan suddenly found that he had committed a taboo in the army, the so-called knowing oneself and knowing the enemy, and not being defeated in a hundred battles, but now because he miscalculated the strength of the Chu army, he could not advance, retreat, defend, or attack, and the cangyuan had become a dead place!

What does Hou Guancao eat?

Spending millions of dollars every year, he didn't know anything about the changes in the Chu army, and he didn't even find any news about the siege weapon like the Thunder Cannon.

Mufan decided to break through.

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