Chapter 157: The First Battle of the Three Artillery Units

At this time, the city was guarded by Hong Hao, the governor of Minzhou, who was very happy to learn that the emperor had sent reinforcements, but only 5,000 people came when he saw it, and his expression could not hide his loss.

Hong Hao didn't know Li Yaoji, a thin scholar who wore an ordinary robe and a strange ...... Heads? She was followed by a beautiful and cold woman.

Who is this who fights a war, is he here to join in the fun?

But.

"Li Jungong, Chief Cheng, as long as we surround them for another half a month, their grain and grass will run out, and they will have to surrender."

Li Yaojian frowned, "In this way, if their 100,000 or so soldiers and horses are broken, we will also suffer heavy losses." ”

"The fortifications must be built now, and only when the fortifications are built, they will not be afraid to fight to the death."

Li Yaowei looked at the battlefield map and pondered for a moment, "Transfer all the troops to the east, west, and north." ”

"Huh? This? Wouldn't it be for them to break through our Yile County? ”

"The siege of the teacher must be que." Cheng Zhijie understood Li Yaojie's tactics, "Listen to Li Jungong, just do it." ”

"This?" Hong Hao thought that Tuyuhun and the party were really worried about Yile County, and he didn't understand Li Yaoji's approach, so he hesitated.

Li Yaowei said lightly: "Governor Hongdu, Your Majesty sent me here to take over the command of this war, please cooperate." ”

"Yes......" Hong Hao said helplessly, going out to give orders.

"Prepare mines, catapults, oh no, artillery trucks ready." After Hong Hao went to implement the arrangement, Li Yaowei also gave an order to the Third Artillery Force.

The Third Artillery Corps carefully transported the mines outside the city, dug pits, buried mines, and camouflaged them, and even the lead was sprinkled with a shallow layer of sand.

The catapults were also ready, and the huge ammunition was also ready, just waiting for the 100,000-strong army of Tuyuhun and the party to be driven over.

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Half a day later, the ground shook, and the black crowd was overwhelming, and there was no end in sight. The Tang army surrounded three sides and attacked fiercely in the north, and the generals of Tuyuhun and Dangxiang found that the Yile County guards in the south were very weak, so they commanded the army to move south.

"They're coming!" The soldiers guarding the city in Yile County were a little scared, Hong Hao was also worried, seeing Li Yaoji, who was immovable, he had already scolded in his heart, and wanted to ask him several times, but he didn't ask.

"Li Jungong." Seeing Tuyuhun and the party's army getting closer and closer, Hong Hao couldn't hold his breath after all.

"It's time to light mines." The enemy army is about to enter the city, Gu Nan, the general of the Third Artillery Corps, said.

"Let's do it."

Gu Nan gave the order, and the soldiers under the city gate lit the leads, and dozens of leads were quickly shortened with fire and black smoke.

"What's that?" On the city wall, the soldiers of Yile County couldn't understand it, "Fire attack?" ”

Tuyuhun and the soldiers of the party saw the fast-burning lead, and were a little strange, "It's not like a fire attack, there is no oil, continue to march." ”

As their army hurried to the minefield, the lead burned to the mouth of the mine.

"Bang bang bang!" The mines buried in the ground detonated one after another, and the huge sound made Tuyuhun and the horses of the party army squirm one after another, and the flames that rushed to the sky, swept the air waves around them, directly blowing them away, and the fragments of bronze shells or iron pieces sprinkled in the gunpowder cut their bodies.

"Ahh

Tuyuhun and the soldiers of the Dangxiang Army were killed and injured one after another, and some of them had their arms and thighs blown off, and the screams resounded through the sky.

This scene made the soldiers guarding the city in Yile County scream again and again, and Hong Hao was even more dumbfounded, what the hell is this?

"Gun carriage fire." Li Yaowei didn't give them a chance to breathe, and the catapult's huge unicorn arm flicked, ignited the cannonball, and was thrown into the enemy formation, followed by one big explosion after another.

"Gunpowder arrows fired."

If mines and catapults are large-scale strikes, then bows and arrows tied to small bombs are precision strikes, and those enemies who are lucky enough to survive are completely helpless in the face of arrows flying like meteors, even if there is a shield that is not killed by the arrows, they are injured and killed by explosives.

"We'll come too." Qian Ersheng and Xie Yunfei, who were helping to throw cannonballs with catapults, picked up bows and arrows, lit bombs on torches, and shot them into the enemy formation.

"Lady, have you ever heard of a sentence?"

"What?"

"Explosion is art."

Fifth Yao shook her head, she was not a person from the twenty-first century, so she naturally didn't understand.

Li Yaoyu smiled, did not explain, and continued to look at the human purgatory under the city.

The enemy retreated frantically, and while retreating, he hid in the east, but under the terrible lethality of the bombs, he could not hide.

In the past, when watching war movies, those people could hide from the ground when they encountered a grenade, but in fact, the lethality of the bomb comes from the fact that the shell fragments carry huge kinetic energy after the explosion, piercing the people they encounter alive.

A bomb exploded at a low altitude, and almost no one survived below.

"Haha, Jungong, I've shot many!" Xie Yunfei was not afraid at all, but was very excited.

"Yes, shoot well." Li Yaoyu patted him on the shoulder.

"Haha, I'm going to shoot this group of enemies!"

The soldiers defending the city in Yile County were all dumbfounded when they saw the tragic situation of the enemy. I was so shocked that I couldn't speak, what kind of weapon is this? Why is the lethality so terrifying?

Hong Hao looked at Li Yaowei again, his expression was full of fear and admiration.

The 100,000 army, half of the dead and wounded, and the remaining half, fled back in panic, and then were dumpled by the army of the Tang Dynasty, resisted for a while, and then surrendered, they didn't have the courage to fight, and the shadow left on them by the bomb just now was too great.

Li Yaowei was very satisfied, and the Third Artillery Corps achieved such a complete and hearty victory in its first departure.

Cheng Zhijie, who also saw the terrifying power of the bomb for the first time, was also stunned and did not come back to his senses.

"Send someone to destroy the traces." Li Yaojian ordered.

The horror of the bomb, Li Yaojie didn't want to be used on the Tang army, so as soon as the war ended, Li Yaojie asked people to take back all the mines or bombs that had not exploded, and the gunpowder scattered on the ground was collected in large piles, and all the scattered ones were swept away in a pile and set on fire.

Holding these 40,000 captives, Hong Hao asked Li Yaoji, "Li Jungong, what should we do with these captives?" ”

"Temporarily taken as a slave and rebuilt Yile County, I will go back to report to Your Majesty, and wait for the holy will."

Cheng Zhijie looked at this scene and was a little skeptical about life, what is he here for?

Xie Yunfei was very excited, "Lord Jungong, it's so exciting, it's a pity that they ran away, I haven't enjoyed it yet." ”

Li Yaoyu glanced at him speechlessly. Seeing that Hong Hao was arranging for people to deal with prisoners of war in full swing, Li Yaowei asked Gu Nan: "How many bombs are left?" ”

Gu Nan asked people to count, "There are still a few left, there are more than a dozen bombs left, and there are still a few hundred rockets left." ”

Li Yaoyu frowned and thought for a while, "This place is not far from Tuyuhun, right?" ”

"Not far away, passing through Taozhou is Tuguhun."

Li Yaowei looked at the sky and smiled evilly, "Come and don't be rude, give them some gifts." ”

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(End of chapter)