The sound like thunder continued to sound at the head of Yanmen City. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The flames erupted from the info and the smoke of gunpowder that burst out of the earth and rose at the same time, mixed with the stumps and broken arms of some unfortunate people.

What is it? This is the power of the thunder god of heaven and earth, and the power of heaven. As the smoke of gunpowder went up, they saw that the few places on the head of the city that had been taken care of by the ball were already in shambles, and the guards who had witnessed their living brothers being easily torn apart in an instant just now couldn't help but think so. Although they had their own bed crossbows capable of firing bursting arrows, and knew how powerful the explosions were, they had never thought of the things they were using against them as the same weapons as bursting arrows. In extreme fear, they were shocked by the strength of this power, but they instinctively attributed such things to the first-class witchcraft.

Seeing that there were few people standing in the corner of the huge city under the opponent's blow, and even the city wall itself burst out of a gap in the explosion just now, Hao Zhao, who escaped with the intuition of the generals to avoid danger, couldn't help but blush, shook his body with a gray head, and asked in a deep voice: "What the hell is this!" Could it really be Li Sheng's demon law. ”

"That's not a demon." Liu Jin, who saw the opportunity earlier and dodged faster than Hao Zhao, was now a little more unlucky than Hao Zhao, who was just disgraced: a piece of shrapnel that flew from nowhere was deeply inserted into his thigh, so that he could only lean there and endure the pain to answer Hao Zhao's question.

"What is that not a demon law?" Hao Zhao suddenly heard someone answer him and immediately ran away, he saw Liu Jin's appearance that was a little more embarrassed than himself, and immediately said with relief: "Don't say more, now that you are injured, what you need is rest." He said that he was about to call for people to send Liu Jin down the city: "It's too dangerous here." ”

"Danger? Where is it not dangerous? But everything is dangerous within three miles of the thing below the city. It's not a demonic law, but it's not something that human beings can resist. Liu Jin was a little moved when he saw that Hao Zhao cared so much about him, but he smiled bitterly and gave Hao Zhao a true answer.

"What the hell is this?" Hearing Liu Jin say this, Hao Zhao knew that Liu Jin knew about the object under the city, but he couldn't care about anything else in his heart, and asked again and again.

"That's artillery, weapons equipped with the Navy. It's just that I never thought that Li Shengjun actually transported this thing here. Looking at the power of this artillery, it seems that it is still a heavy cannon of 2,000 catties, which is specially used for siege. Liu Jin explained, "When I was studying abroad, I saw a fleet in the distance practicing on the beach, so I understood this!" He saw a faintly suspicious look in Hao Zhao's eyes, so he opened his mouth to say what kind of explanation. This is also a half-truth, he has indeed seen this thing before, yes, but at that time, he saw it with Jia Xu in the secret pavilion of Great Wei, not by the sea as he said - he was Jia Xu's disciple, and he didn't tell anyone else.

"Specialized siege weapons? Is it better than a thunderbolt? Hao Zhao seemed to be a little frightened, and asked stupidly.

"Can't you see it?" Liu Jin smiled bitterly.

As he was talking, he saw a cannonball with the "swish" of the city...... The dull sound of cannon fire fell, and countless clods of earth, mixed with red dots and parts that clearly belonged to the human body, flew up, and then fell in all directions....... It was just two shellings, and there were already a few cracks in the wall of Yanmen.

"It's really powerful. If such objects appear, I am afraid that we will not be able to defend the city. Hao Zhao frowned and thought about it, but made a decisive decision: "Give me five thousand fine horses." I'm going to give the other side a surprise attack, so as not to destroy this thing in front of me, I'm afraid that we will eventually abandon the city and flee. Hao Zhao was telling the truth, he didn't want to do this, so naturally he could only work hard. Although he himself did not know whether such efforts would have any effect.

The soldiers and horses were quickly assembled. Just when the cannons outside the city were still firing in waves, the gates of Yanmen City opened in all directions, and 5,000 cavalry came out of each gate.

This is Liu Jin's idea, he feels that the opponent's array has no less than the number of men and horses in his own city, if he only sends 5,000 horsemen, I am afraid that he will return in vain, and the other party can mobilize more cavalry to encircle and intercept his own people.

"If the four doors are opened, the cavalry will attack at the four gates at the same time, so as to attract the attention of the other party. Then he attacked the enemy's artillery positions with a surprise cavalry all the way. Liu Jinxing's duties as the main bookkeeper eagerly suggested to Hao Zhao. This is obviously taking into account Zhao Yunqi's caution, and in this way

"Good!" With Hao Zhao's nod, this matter was decided. So far, there is such a situation.

At that moment, the cavalry poured out, the horse's hooves flew one after another, and the five thousand elite iron horsemen shouted and crashed straight into Zhao Yun's formation. For a moment, smoke and dust were everywhere, blades were flying, and the whole earth trembled with the rumbling sound of horses' hooves. Although the formation set up by Zhao Yun was still two miles away from Yanmen City, almost all the Tang Army soldiers standing in the formation really felt the amazing momentum exuded by those cavalry. It was a murderous aura, a murderous aura that belonged to the true division of a hundred battles.

“…… Sure enough, it's an elite! Zhao Yun sighed. It's emotional, but it's more like a sigh. With the attack of the opponent's cavalry, Zhao Yun looked at the equipment of the opponent's cavalry and quickly confirmed that he had won the battle. Because the situation is already obvious: after the opponent has seen the power of his artillery, he will inevitably rise up the idea that the walls cannot be relied upon. Under such circumstances, if the other side does not want to abandon the city, it will inevitably find a way to kick our artillery away. It is one way to suppress artillery with weapons with ultra-long range, as is to use cavalry to directly assault artillery positions. Since none of the weapons at the moment possessed far more range than artillery, the only way to do this was to assault with cavalry. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just a little too frustrating. As soon as the other side finds that his cavalry has no way to take advantage of our artillery position, then the other side will have no choice but to abandon the city and flee - this is a matter for the other side. As for his own side, all he has to do is defeat the opponent's cavalry. It's not too difficult for me. After all, he used cavalry to deal with cavalry, and the equipment of the cavalry in his hand was much better than that of the other party: the high bridge saddle like a small boat made the cavalry on the horse more stable and his hands more fully liberated; The horseshoe equipped on the hooves of the war horse protects the horse's hooves, so that the war horse has a better ability to adapt to the terrain and has a stronger long-lasting running ability. These are all small things, but these are of great significance to the cavalry, and the key to Li Shengjun's ability to carry out this raid tactic is to have the equipment of these two small things.

"Up!" With the spear in Zhao Yun's hand, a group of men and horses that had already been prepared rushed forward after him. This is Zhao Yun's first sharp charge in several years, but it is for Hao Zhao's superb martial arts. As a general who always wants to break into the Central Plains, he has a certain understanding of the generals on Cao Wei's side, so he has naturally heard of Hao Zhao's prestige. "This is a fierce general!" People probably say that Hao Zhao is like this. Such a legend undoubtedly aroused his curiosity about Hao Zhao. Because Zhao Yun himself is also a fierce general, and he is also the top figure among the fierce generals. After the death of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhang Liao, Tai Shici, and Zhou Tai, there are many fewer fierce generals in the world, although there are still many newcomers rising up in the legends of everyone, but who knows what their abilities are. In the end, Zhao Yun still longs for an opponent, an opponent who can make himself play as well as possible. After hearing about Hao Zhao's prestige, his mind couldn't help but come alive, and he always wanted to weigh a few points to see what Hao Zhao's ability was.

Zhao Yun thought that Hao Zhao, like himself, would lead the team to the front line of the team, so he led the people to rush forward at the moment. But he didn't want to penetrate into the formation, but he never found Hao Zhaoqi's figure. "Could it be that this Hao Zhao is just a vain person?" Zhao Yun has seen a lot of such people, so he naturally became suspicious. He raised his eyes and looked in all directions, and saw that there was a young general in front of him who was charging left and right, and it seemed that it was the commander of this team, and his heart was suddenly overjoyed. He wanted to get the news about Hao Zhao from this person, so he immediately rode forward, approached the young general, and only shouted in the usual voice: "Come and see the gun." After that, he gently raised his hand and stabbed out a shot, passing the sharp path in his hand through the gap in the young general's armor, and picked him up in the ensuing provocation, and then grabbed it tightly in his hand.

Zhao Yunnian is more than fifty years old, but the arm strength in his hand is still full, although the young general is wearing heavy armor and his body is quite heavy, but in his hands it is still like nothing. He lifted it up immediately, shook the white whiskers under his chin, met the other party's eyes full of fear, and asked a little mockingly: "Boy, tell me where Hao Zhao is?" ”

"That guy is in the back!" The young general, who had been frightened, replied with trembling words.

"That guy?" Zhao Yun was slightly stunned, and then understood that the person this young general was talking about was Hao Zhao. A sneer swept from the corner of his mouth again, and he threw the young general to the ground heavily, ordered his left and right to tie him up, built his helmet with the tail of his gun, and said, "Since you are Hao Zhao's subordinate, you should maintain due respect for your main general no matter what. Your identity as a descendant of the Xiahou family may be a bit of a show-off in other places, but it is not even a fart in the army. Kong has a good martial arts, but he doesn't even have the courage to fight to the death. Xiahou Yuan has descendants like you, it's really bad for eight lifetimes. Saying that, Zhao Yun rode forward again, but he ignored the man. In his eyes, the man was insignificant.

At this moment, Hao Zhao followed Liu Jin's plan to launch a surprise attack on Zhao Yun's artillery position, and the plan had reached the second step. After getting the cavalry of four or five thousand people out of the city to face the Tang army, Hao Zhao took it for granted that the stalemate between the two sides had become a stalemate, and it was time to attack. So he attacked, passed through the open city gate, and protruded from the west gate in a swarm, and rushed straight towards Zhao Yun's artillery position with his men and horses like a whirlwind. At this time, Zhao Yun's artillery was still hitting the cannonballs like the head of Yanmen in waves, even if there was no one there for a long time.

The route of attack chosen by Hao Zhao was straightforward, although the distance was not long, but it was to pass through the cavalry killing formation that had become a melee. Although this is also a helpless thing, it is not taken to heart by Hao Zhao, in his thoughts, even if his cavalry cannot defeat Zhao Yun's cavalry in a surprise attack, at least it can put pressure on Zhao Yun's cavalry to form a stalemate to a certain extent. In this state, either side is able to overwhelm the other when it receives reinforcements. For this point, the enemy on the opposite side may not be able to see clearly because of eye level, but Hao Zhao, who had expected this for a long time, could think about this clearly. Hao Zhao thinks that this is his advantage, and he is now going to use this advantage to completely defeat the enemy on the opposite side, and only in this way can he take this opportunity to take advantage of the situation to enter their artillery formation and destroy their artillery when chasing and killing the enemy's rout.

That's a good idea. But now he encountered a different situation: the scuffle outside the West Gate was actually over? After passing through the thin battlefield, Hao Zhao clearly felt the pressure coming. Of course, the battle outside the West Gate is not over, but the actual situation is not much different from the end. Xiahou Zhen, the partial general in charge of the West Gate, was captured by Zhao Yun, and the men and horses under his command naturally fell into the dilemma of having no leader. In such a predicament, how could they cope with the surprise attack of the Tang cavalry, which was already superior to them. Under the flat stroke of the new saber, it is really a blade that passes through the flat armor and blood comes out of it. Zhao Yun's cavalry was just three pieces of equipment, and they were clearly like adults beating children when they fought the Cao Wei cavalry, which was also considered elite. For a time, Cao Wei's iron cavalry was killed and torn apart, most of the resistance died, and those who could run also ran seventy-seven or eighty-eight, and only some were still entangled with Tang Qi, and that's it.

The situation would become so bad in less than a cup of tea, this is something that Hao Zhao would never have imagined. When he really appeared in front of him, Hao Zhao even wondered if his eyes were hallucinating. "This ...... It's not real. He couldn't believe what he saw, but his eyes, his nose, his ears, his perception were clearly and audible reminders of the facts, and what appeared to him was the facts.

There is no way! Hao Zhao couldn't stop the reins of the war horse under him, and he couldn't stop the excitement of the iron horse behind him, so he could only continue to rush out of it. Fight, he had to do it anyway. This is also the last battle he has clearly set, if he wins, he can naturally defend according to the Yanmen, if he loses, he can only fight a bloody way from here.

"Win or lose, in one fell swoop." Hao Zhao whispered to himself. At this moment, the momentum of his whole body is restrained, and the whole person is like a sword in a box with authority, and the powerful power is hidden in it, just waiting for the moment of the final explosion.

"Kill!" With Hao Zhao's roar. This group of Wei iron cavalry out of the city collided with the cavalry of Zhao Yunbu of the Tang Army again. This time is another good kill. Because the people on Cao Wei's side saw the tragic situation in front of their comrades, they were somewhat awe-inspiring in their hearts, and they knew that they were very strong in the opponent, but they were much less careless than their comrades at the moment, and the swords, guns, and halberds in their hands were naturally more cautious. This time, the two sides are together, but it is really a chess opponent who will meet a good talent, and it is difficult to solve.

To be honest, the cavalry trained by Cao Wei, especially the Bingzhou cavalry and Youzhou cavalry in the north, was not below the cavalry of the Tang army. Perhaps the cavalry of the Tang Army worked much more on the saddle and horseshoe, horseshoe and other equipment than Cao Wei, so that the soldiers could fight more "comfortably", but when it comes to the foundation of soldiers' combat, once Cao Wei's cavalry is on fire and exerts its own strength, and the cavalry of the Tang Army does not use more advanced cavalry and archery tactics, the battle between the two will be like now, completely stuck in a state of stalemate. Perhaps, at first, this stalemate was what Hao Zhao wanted to see. But over time, the superiority of the Don Army in equipment was manifested. The two sides were only entangled for less than a quarter of an hour, and the people on Cao Wei's side were a little tired, while Li Tang's combat power was still very stable.

"This ...... What exactly causes it? Hao Zhao just glanced at it, and then he already understood: "...... It is the mats on the horse's back, the ropes on the horse's side, and the iron palms on the horse's feet...... These things will certainly give the cavalry better control of their horses, and thus reduce the burden on the rider in terms of horse control. That's all good stuff. We have our own, but we just don't do it that finely. ”

Obviously, these are all things that I need to learn from, but I can't think deeply about it on this battlefield. After keenly perceiving that his own soldiers had gradually fallen into disadvantage, and it was difficult to defeat the other party with the soldiers' combat, even Hao Zhao, who knew in his heart that he was not Zhao Yun's opponent, had to strengthen his courage to kill Zhao Yun. “…… Win or lose, I have to show my courage. Hao Zhao thought so, and the spear in his hand kept stabbing out, frantically harvesting the lives of the enemy in front of him.

It is not very difficult to realize the conflict between king and king and general in a melee, because there are their own banners behind the main generals of both sides. If you want to stab the opponent's generals under the horse in the middle of the army, you just need to look at the opponent's banner and kill the generals. As long as your martial arts are strong, you can naturally kill all the way to the opponent. This is especially true in such small-scale melees.

Everything unfolded in an instant, when Hao Zhao came to Zhao Yun, and after a simple report under his name, a fight, which can be said to determine the ownership of the entire Yanmen County, began. Hao Zhao couldn't dodge, he couldn't give up his defensive territory without any effort. And it is impossible for Zhao Yun to retreat, he and Hao Zhao are not familiar with each other, and they are fighting for their own masters, so naturally there is no possibility of sacrificing their wisdom.

The bright silver spear shook rapidly, and the Zhangba spear that reflected the sunlight and radiated a little bit of stars shook out one beautiful spear flower after another under Zhao Yun's grasp. "It's just beautiful. It's like a dance. "If it weren't on the battlefield, if it wasn't in it, if it wasn't for the people who were watching from a distance, I was afraid that Hao Zhao would also be intoxicated by it. There is nothing to say about this, the pursuit of beautiful things is human nature. However, when this superficial beauty actually hides a deadly force, and this deadly power is still aimed at oneself, this beauty makes people have a headache. Obviously, Hao Zhao is experiencing such a situation at the moment. When Zhao Yun's spear flowers bloomed one by one, his expression was solemn, although the spear in his hand continued to take Zhao Yun's spear from left to right, but the reluctance in it was obvious at a glance.

Although Hao Zhao bears the reputation of a fierce general, he is still not Zhao Yun's opponent. This is not only understood by Hao Zhao, but also by Zhao Yun, and even by other bystanders.

"It looks like I can't win." Although his own general has not yet been truly defeated, his decline is so obvious that his soldiers under him have talked about it. Which of these elite cavalry is not a person with high martial arts, even if he does not have the level of Hao Zhao and Zhao Yun, he still has some vision. After witnessing all this and understanding the gap between themselves and the other party, those of them who have no strength but lack the courage to fight to the end are getting weaker and weaker. Hao Zhao had not yet completely lost the battle against Zhao Yun, but the battle between Wei Qi and Tang Qi quickly slipped into defeat.

"No more." This is something that Hao Zhao whispered in his heart. As a general, he really sees and listens to all directions, and he knows very well what his own soldiers and the other party's soldiers are fighting. After knowing everything in his chest, he finally confirmed one thing, that is, he was not the opponent of Zhao Yun's side after all, and he had to retreat.

"Alas...... It seems that the reputation of the first defeated general of Great Wei is to be borne by me. After using a few false tricks to force Zhao Yun back, Hao Zhao, who turned his horse and left, couldn't help but think bitterly. But there was no way around it: the power of the artillery made it difficult to defend the city; The equipment of stirrups, saddles, horseshoes, and new sabers allowed Li Shengjun's cavalry to steadily overwhelm his own cavalry. "We're fighting an opponent who's never been stronger than ever. In the face of the opponent's new tactics and new equipment, if we don't think of a way to deal with it, it will be difficult for us to win the duel with them. Hao Zhao understood this, and also understood what his most important task at the moment was - to go back, have a round with his own people, and tell them everything here, so that they could get ready.

"Rush!" Hao Zhao roared, turned around and rushed back with his own men. Although there were already faint and heavy iron cavalry of the Tang Army blocking the road behind them, and from time to time there were inaccurate shells falling there, Hao Zhao, who was already thinking of breaking through, had no choice. He and his spearmen shook their spears, which were always sharp, or brandished their swords like snowflakes, slashing and destroying all those who dared to stand in their way. Things have come to the point where blood has already heated up the blood in everyone's heart. If they will be afraid of going forward, then breaking through backwards has become a stage for them to show their enthusiasm. Maybe Zhao Yun has always killed smoothly, so that when Hao Zhao was changing the formation at the moment, they were still faintly careless. And on the battlefield, carelessness often means destruction. As Hao Zhao rushed desperately with the iron cavalry, Zhao Yun's careless cavalry couldn't stop them at all. It was just a charge, and the formation that was blocked behind was chiseled. Hao Zhao led his own team to return to Yanmen City and re-fall the heavy city gates.

"Yanmen City can't hold it anymore! It is very likely that we will not be able to hold the city in the face of such an attack for a long time to come. There is nothing to be ashamed of this. In fact, I'm very happy with your performance. Under this thunderous heavenly might, you did not panic and did not flee, which in itself is a rare thing. I admire you and hope that you will continue to be brave. As soon as he returned to the city, Hao Zhao gathered his subordinates and mobilized them to break through the siege: "Now we have to leave this Yanmen." This is not an escape, but a necessary tactical act in order to preserve strength and achieve a final victory in battle. The enemy on the other side is so strong that we can't defeat them even with all our might. In such a situation, it is not necessary to continue to hold on, it is just an act of sending to death. I know that you are not afraid of death, but there is something more important than death right now. We must tell our comrades and our court about what we have encountered the enemy, and what we are thinking about in response. I firmly believe that the final victory will be ours. ”

"Oh......" Hao Zhao's mouth still has a certain ability, obviously he can't beat Zhao Yun, and he can't hold the Yanmen Gate so he has to let the city go, just like that, he seems a little wise and upright. Although Hao Zhao himself knew these things, and several of his bright-headed strategists knew it, the soldiers under him did not know it, and when he made a loud noise here, the morale of the entire team was raised for him. Then, under the guard of these high-spirited soldiers, he ordered the east gate to be opened again, and with his own soldiers, he broke through to the place where the enemy was surrounded by mere mediocre. Although there were also tens of thousands of soldiers of the Tang Army guarding there, Zhao Yun was no longer there, and most of the defenders were infantry, and under Hao Zhao's assault, he couldn't hold his position at all, so Hao Zhao escaped at once.

Hao Zhao got out of the encirclement of the Tang army through a chaotic battle, let the city go, and went straight to Yuanping with cavalry from east to south. At that time, the men and horses led by Zhao Yun were all in Yanmen, and they were bent on accepting the city and stabilizing the people, and did not send people to chase and intercept him, but also let him escape more smoothly. After that, Hao Zhao repaired a little in Jiuyuan, and while sending people to inform Xu Huang of Zhongshan and Zhang Jaw of Daijun of the situation with fast horses, so that they could pay attention to the enemy coming from the north, on the other hand, he taught people to Luoyang the report of the defeat and his own deployment ideas for the entire northern war situation, and secretly Chen to the front of Cao Rui, the emperor of Wei: Cao Rui wanted to attack the grassland first, so he prepared a large number of cavalry in the north. Now it was broken by Li Sheng's first move and had to go on defense. The cavalry is not suitable for defense, in order to reverse this, Cao Wei's army must make corresponding changes, and the general strategy that Hao Zhao thought of was aimed at the current defense.