The Lord will be wounded, and the battle will not be fought. So Zhang Liao hurriedly led his troops to withdraw from Huainan overnight, and by the time dawn, Zhang Liao had already rushed to the Huaibei area.

Lu Bu left, which further established the news that everyone thought that it was the Son of Heaven Yuan Shu who was angry and had ordered the thunder god to kill Lu Bu, and for a while, the morale of Liu Bei and Cao Cao's army and horses dropped.

Cao Cao heard his son Cao Pi say that it seems that this kind of thing is called a cannon, and it fires cannonballs. The warships in Xuzhou were also equipped with this kind of cannon, so the combat effectiveness was amazing, so Cao Cao was busy promoting to the soldiers that this thing was not the wrath of the gods, it was a cannon, but how could the people believe it?

Cao Cao ordered people to attack the city, and the soldiers ran to attack the city with low morale, and before they arrived at the city, Ji Ling let people fire cannons, and after a few loud noises, dozens of corpses fell outside the city, and the soldiers hurriedly turned their heads and ran away.

When he attacked again, Ji Ling's gunners had already replaced the cannon ammunition, and the barrel of the cannon had cooled down, and after a few rounds of artillery fire, the soldiers were scared away again.

Moreover, this soldier does not know the power of the cannon, as long as he does not know how to lie down as soon as it sounds, he only knows to run away quickly, and it is easier to be hit by ironclad when he stands, so he is seriously damaged. After seeing the power of the cannon, Yuan Shu was even more confident. I still have five big car bombs, play with myself, and don't blow them up!

The first confrontation between the cold weapon and the ** crushed the opponent psychologically. All fought to Shouchun, Cao Cao retreated not far away, under the city of Shouchun, Cao Cao was attacking the city every day, Yuan Shu used artillery to fight back every day, the war lasted until October, and finally Cao Cao's grain and grass were not enough, so he took the opportunity to kill the transport officer, and then continued to urge the soldiers to attack the city.

Finally, at the end of October, Cao Cao's soldiers ran out of food, and many soldiers were discouraged, and more and more soldiers began to flee. Seeing that Shouchun could not be attacked for a long time, Liu Bei also withdrew his troops, and finally after losing nearly 4,000 soldiers and horses, Cao Cao had to start withdrawing his troops.

Seeing that Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Lu Bu had repelled the combined forces, Yuan Shu was so happy, in order to celebrate that the majesty of his son of heaven could not be challenged, Yuan Shu was stunned and asked Ji Ling to celebrate with more than 40 cannons day and night.

Hearing a cannon shot, the frightened Cao Cao's army ran away. After firing the cannons for a day and a night, the result was that all the shells of the five major ships that they had bought were discharged, and what was even more tragic was that many cannons directly blew up the hall because the barrels were too hot, blowing up the city walls in many places, and killing many innocent soldiers.

In October, the sky has entered autumn, and there is some autumn charm in the north. This is the best time to fight, lukewarm, after the grain and grass are full, Tao Ying and Yuan Shu will take revenge together. The first target was Danyang Sun Ce, who offended many princes by expanding his territory after occupying the south.

Yuan Shu issued an edict to crusade against Sun Ce, and the first person to respond to Yuan Shu was Yuzhang Liu Xuan. Sun Ce drove him from Qu'a all the way to Yuzhang County, where birds don't, how could he not hold a grudge?

After Liu Miao responded, Huiji Wang Lang also quickly responded to Yuan Shu's order. After Sun Ce captured Wu Junyouquan, he repeatedly used troops against Wang Lang, and in the past two months, he captured nearly three cities of Wang Lang. In the past, Wang Lang was afraid of Yuan Shu's power, so he let him. Now that Yuan Shu is the first to get up and beat him, why don't you take advantage of the situation to get back the lost city?

Tao Ying's envoy also quickly rushed from Suzhou to Danyang, and then Sun Ce issued a war letter, if Sun Ce did not obediently return Youquan and Qu A to Suzhou County, he would send troops to attack him.

Originally, Zhou Yu thought that the combined forces of Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei would capture Huiji, but he didn't want Yuan Shu to be so powerful, he actually defeated the combined army of the three, and even killed and ate Lu Bu's mount, and then injured Lu Bu!

When Lu Bu and the others withdrew, Sun Ce knew that he would definitely become the target of everyone, so Sun Ce hurriedly sent envoys to resolve the opponents one by one. Zhou Yu offered advice and first compromised with Tao Ying, because Tao Ying said a three-year truce. And it's only been a year, and he won't easily break his oath, although he wants to take two cities of himself.

Qu'a is a big city, Youquan is a small city, and if you want to survive now, you can't manage so much. One less enemy will be one less danger, so Sun Ce sent an envoy to negotiate peace with Tao Ying, promising to return the two cities of Qu'a and Youquan to Suzhou, and the two armies will negotiate peace and trade.

As a condition for returning the city, Zhou Yu even suggested buying a few Taoling cannons to test the power to see if it was really as the soldiers said. If that's the case, then try to study the cannon yourself and equip it in your own city. So in October, Sun Ce took the lead in planning the invincible two cities of Taoying, and then purchased four Taoling cannons from Suzhou.

At this time, Tao Ying raised the price to 700 taels of silver, and sold a total of 2,800 taels of silver to Sun Ce. After selling him four Taoling cannons, he was sold seven boxes of explosives. After obtaining the Taoling cannon and explosives, Sun Ce and others began to study the cannon.

The trainees of the artillery academy demonstrated the operation, and then the cannon accurately knocked down the target in the distance. Sun Ce was surprised when he saw it, no wonder Lu Bu would be injured by the explosion.

At this time, the first generation of bombs was not very powerful, and the first generation of gunpowder was typical of the bombs that were particularly large and not far away. And his main lethality is that after the explosion, the doped copper nails inside will definitely collapse and hurt people. Although explosives are very expensive, Zhou Yu still asked people to take one apart for study.

Zhou Yu and the others studied for many days and didn't know what it was made of, and asked the artilleryman, but the artilleryman didn't know, he was only responsible for operating the cannon and teaching others how to use it.

The cannon is made of copper, which is very simple in structure, and there are also iron cannons, but the price is different.

Tao Ying's non-dispatch of troops relieved Sun Ce's pressure. Sun Ce asked Zhou Yu to march north to fight Yuan Shu, and the two sides fought a water battle on the Yangtze River. After nearly half a month of fighting, the two sides suffered mutual damage.

In the end, Zhou Yu suddenly thought of a method, that is, to build a tall building ship, and then load the Taoling cannon on the warship to shoot at the enemy ship. In ancient times, the warships were all made of wood, and although the recoil of the Taoling cannon was particularly large, if it was not far away, it could still blow up the enemy ship!

So Sun Ce loaded a Taoling cannon in the front of a building ship, and then when the enemy ship arrived, when it was in the range of the Taoling gun, a cannon hit it, and directly smashed into the enemy's building ship.

In the building boat, there is nowhere to run if you want to!

After knowing the benefits of this cannon, Sun Ce even loaded the remaining three cannons on the building ship, and then sent envoys to Suzhou to customize nearly ten first-generation Taoling cannons and equip them on his own battleship.

The steam engine battleship in the north had not yet been invented, and the Taoling cannon had not yet been installed on the battleship, but Sun Ce in the south took the lead in opening the southern battleship in the artillery era. And in order to be able to defeat the opponent more effectively, Sun Ce even proposed to ask the Xuzhou Firearms Manufacturing Corporation to produce an ammunition that can blow up the enemy ship and make the enemy ship burn quickly.