No matter how rugged the mountain road is, no matter how fierce the shooting is, it cannot stop the rushing cars from being dragged under the mountain pass one after another, and the bombardment of the 15-pound cannon only broke the stone barrier, but the bombardment of the 45-pound siege artillery will collapse all the soil and rocks of the mountain pass. The stone barrier, which had lost its support, collapsed with a bang in a few shots, and the falling rocks rolled down the mountain road until they rushed to the front of the car.

The muzzle of the cannon turned slightly, and then aimed at the giant crossbows on both sides of the mountain pass, and the sawdust flew over the cannon, and the invincible giant crossbow in the eyes of Qin pawn instantly turned into a pile of broken wood, which was first bombarded into the sky by forty-five catties of cannons, and then fell by the wind, and was in a mess.

Shen Qing, the commander of the artillery battalion, stood on the mountainside around the corner, they couldn't see the artillery pawns in the rushing car, but they could imagine those forty-five pound cannons tense up like fierce beasts, with beast burrs on their backs, it spewed flames and gunpowder smoke in its roar, and the shells it spit out shattered the defense system of the Qin army in the mountain pass and collapsed.

Behind the beasts, the cannons were constantly moving forward with the ropes of the horses dragged by the horses, and each time the cannon was dragged forward, the more roaring beasts were, and the more cannonballs were fired. Unfortunately, the width of the col is limited, and even if one cannon is placed at an interval of three meters in violation of the artillery code, it is difficult to place more than ten guns in the col.

If only the col could be as wide as the battlefield, he thought to himself. Shen Qing beside him also had a similar thought, but he didn't just think about it in his heart, he said it.

"If the two armies fight in formation, our artillery will also come forward like this, and quickly attack the enemy's formation after being put in column, and the Qin people will be defeated." Inadvertently, Shen Qing said the most important and basic tactical principle of field artillery in the era of line infantry: approach, rapid fire.

According to this principle of tactics, since the advent of artillery, artillery as an auxiliary force for hundreds of years finally gained independence; According to this tactical principle, the order of battle will be completely reversed, and the infantry, who had advanced to within a hundred paces and then charged at a gallop, would have to stand firmly behind the artillery, and it would no longer be them who would charge, but the artillery.

Artillery charges, placed in columns close to enemy positions, quickly and violently bombarded, the task of infantry and cavalry was only to protect the flanks of artillery. The infantry is no longer the center of the battle, the artillery is. It is for this reason that in the Battle of Friedland, the first time such artillery tactics were used, the Russian officers who witnessed the French artillery referred to the enemy's artillery as a 'terrifying artillery battery.' ’

This 'terrible artillery battery' consisted of only thirty-six mules and horses, thirty of which were divided into two artillery batteries, and the remaining six were used as reserves. The two artillery batteries continued to advance and fire rapidly, killing more than 4,000 Russian troops in 20 minutes, and breaking through the complete and heavy battle line of the Russian army, completing the breakthrough in the center, causing the collapse of the Russian army.

Xiong Jing felt that the general of the artillery could no longer be concurrently served by the public loser, so he raised his position and became the general of the artillery pawn. Since he was promoted from the bottom, he was naturally familiar with artillery and gunnery. He felt that Shen Qing's words were reasonable, if the battle was fought like this, then what army formation in the world could not be defeated? But on second thought, the artillery guards kept advancing and bombarding fiercely, what were the foot soldiers doing? The infantry generals would certainly oppose the artillery in such a fight.

Thinking about the opposition of the infantry generals, Shen Qing next to him didn't stand firm for a while, and actually rolled down the hillside. The hill is not high, and rolling down is just a bruise. He pouted and didn't look at Shen Qing again, and continued to watch the artillery array a mile away.

Under the bombardment of eight 45-pound guns, the mountain pass and both sides of the mountain pass have long been in disarray, stone barriers, giant crossbows, these were either hurriedly withdrawn by the Qin army, or were crushed by artillery shells, the smoke of gunpowder was originally dispersed around the rushing car, with the intensification of the shelling, the south wind blew, and the mountain pass was also full of gunsmoke. It was hazy at first, but in the end it couldn't be seen clearly.

The siege brigade soldiers who were waiting in the rear of the rushing car were conspicuous, they carried a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, and the bright red military uniforms of their subordinates were ready to rush up to the mountain pass to fight the Qin people at any time. In addition, this is the military flag of the word 'land' fluttering in the mountain col, this military flag is also standing behind the rushing car, it is not covered by gunsmoke, the wind blows to the north, and the flag also floats to the north.

Lu Gao, who commanded the battle, did not let the soldiers wait for a long time, and soon he gave the order for the artillery to be fired. This is not a gun warp in front of the car, but an artillery warp around the corner. The guns were five or six hundred steps away from the mountain pass, and they were not in the carts, but in the shallow pits dug in advance. As soon as these guns were fired, the shells crossed the pass and landed behind the pass.

Not to mention that the smoke covered the mountain pass, that is, the smoke did not cover the mountain pass, and the Chu army in the col could not see the situation on the top of the mountain. There is no way to do it, although there is a strict calculation, and if you can't see the landing point, this is still a blind fight. For this reason, the shelling of the charging car in front of it stopped for a while, and the artillery around the corner was still roaring, and several able scouts were sent up.

It is not flat ground, it is still a back attack, the line of sight is limited, and the range of damage of the artillery is also limited. Lu Gao was more worried that the Qin army would retreat a little and no longer build a fortress in the mountain pass, but build a fortress in the place behind the mountain pass where its own artillery could not reach. In that case, even if the soldiers rushed up, they would be driven down by the Qin army. It's impossible to cover the workers again and pour a concrete pillar at the mountain pass, right?

After all the artillery in the charging car stopped firing, the scouts got into a thick gunsmoke, which was like the skirt of a witch, constantly moving north under the blowing of the south wind, and the place covered by the skirt was only gray-white smoke, and the place where the skirt moved away was a clear mountain road, yellowish grass and trees, gravel, and the corpses of the Qin people. The speed of the scout was obviously faster than the hem of the skirt, and when the skirt moved to the mountain pass and was eventually blown away by the wind, everyone saw only the back of the last scout.

Lu Gao looked at the mountain pass on tiptoe, wondering what was on the top of the mountain, and just as he was about to look through, a bright red flag suddenly flashed at the mountain pass. Before Lu Gao could react, Chu Shu in front of him was already shouting: "Long live!" Hooray...... "They rushed forward without waiting for their orders.

"The Qin people retreated on their own?!" Lantian Dao Pass, the news that the Chu army pulled out the mountain pass reached the shogunate, and Xiong Jing couldn't believe it.

"Yes, yes." Zhuang is not authentic. He was not on the battlefield, he did not know the situation of the battle, and could only imagine it according to the description in the news. "Our artillery fire is very fierce, and the Qin people are invincible. Behind the mountain pass is a depression, before the Qin people attacked me with water, the mountains and rivers are accumulating in this depression, and it is not possible to build fortifications here. And the Qin people don't know how our army dragged the siege artillery up the mountain......"

The mountain pass is the best place to garrison, and after leaving the mountain pass is a puddle, which is muddy and cannot be garrisoned. If you give up the mountain pass, you can only retreat to the east-west peak of Yuanhu Mountain, and only then can you stop the advance of the Chu army.

Analyzing Qin Jun's psychology and looking at the terrain behind the mountain pass, such thoughts would indeed arise, but Xiong Jing was a little uneasy.

The Qin people have exhausted the mountains and rivers, this is confirmed news, since the mountains and rivers have been exhausted, then why not defend inch by inch? If Xiong Jing was Zhao Zheng, he would order his soldiers to defend the mountain pass, and if they could not defend the mountain pass, then retreat to the rear of the mountain pass to avoid enemy artillery fire, and when the enemy rushed up, he would pounce on it and beat the enemy back. The mountain pass is the mountain ridge, and the soldiers are hiding behind the mountain ridge, even if the Chu army has a flowering bomb, the damage will be very small, why don't the Qin people defend it?!

"What's the message?" Looking at the sand table without speaking for a while, Xiong Jing asked Nao Xin. Many of the decisions of the Chu army rely on the information provided by Zhibisi, and if there is any question that is confused, it can only ask Zhibisi.

"Your Majesty, there is no message of the army of Mengtian." Nao Xin said.

"Forty-five catties of artillery power can open the mountain, and the Qin people are afraid of artillery like tigers, and it is common sense to retreat." Zhuang has no tunnel, "then the mountain pass is abandoned, and then there is still the Yuanhu Mountain, the Qin people are stationed here, and our army is also ......"

"Mandarin Crane Mountain?" Xiong Jing shook his head with a smile, he pointed to a place on the sand table and said, "What if our army does not attack the Yuanhu Mountain Ridge to the north, but climbs over this low ridge to the west?" ”

Behind the pass is a depression where several mountain passes converge. Further north along these cols, there is the east-west ridge of Yuanhu Mountain. This ridge is dozens of miles long, dividing the south and north of the mountain. But it should not be forgotten that no matter how long the ridge grows and rises to the west, the waterfront will gradually slow down until it disappears.

The Chu army can climb over the ridge of Yuanhu Mountain, go down the mountain from the vicinity of the old Daoyi, and come to the bank of the water, and the Chu army can also go directly to the west without crossing the ridge of Yuanhu Mountain, and can also find the way down the mountain along the gradually low mountain, so that if you go down, it will be the Shuangshi Town of later generations. This location is also behind the Shenzhou Mountain Stream, and once you return to it, the obstacles on the water no longer exist.

Abandoning such a vital place of life and death, Meng Tian is really dizzy!

"The minister thinks that ......" Zhuang Wudi, who understood Xiong Jing's thoughts, still prudently persuaded him, "In this way, even if there is a road, there are huge stones and big chapters blocking it, and it is better to attack the Yuanhu Mountain Ridge quickly." ”

"I'm at the top of the mountain, not at the bottom." Xiong Jing felt that this might be really Meng Tian's head, otherwise it would be impossible to make such a big mistake. "The boulder can be dragged away by the Fu Yao horse, and the big chapter can be broken by forty-five catties of cannons, what is the obstacle?"

"If the Qin people hit me, what if?" Zhuang Wudi also seemed to be dizzy, and asked again.

"I wanted to attack Qin, but if I don't attack Qin and the Qin people attack me, what else?" Xiong Jing glared at him.

"So you should increase the troops in Yuanhu Mountain." Zhuang Wudi came back to his senses. Originally, it was to compete with the Qin army for the Yuanhu Mountain Ridge, but now it is going west without fighting for the mountains, going straight to the bank of the water, and of course it is necessary to increase the troops. Because of the lack of attack on the mountain, the additional troops were much less - the siege brigade attacked the top of Yuanhu Mountain, and the rest of the Qin troops who blocked the Chu army from climbing the mountain also withdrew.

Xiong Jing is talking about finding a road from the mountain pass to the west to the bank of the water, in fact, you don't need to go from the mountain pass, from the foot of the mountain to the west of the three-way pass more than ten miles to the top of the mountain, you can also find a way to the west. It is not under the ridge of Yuanhu Mountain, where the Qin army retreated, and it is more than ten miles away from the ridge of Yuanhu Mountain. As long as there is a Chu army at the mountain pass to contain the Qin army on the ridge, it is believed that the workers will soon be able to find a way in that direction.

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