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Although Yuan Shao's move can be seen clearly by anyone with a discerning eye, on the bright side, Yuan Shao has always saved face, hasn't he? And the "100,000" army drove to Shouchun with great fanfare, and "coincidentally" met with the Gaoshun army stationed in the south of Shouchun, so you can imagine how pitiful the fate of this "100,000" army was. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, there will be no problems with Yuan Shao's safety, as early as when the two armies were fighting, Yuan Shao had already withdrawn from the battlefield far away, and he was better known as commanding the whole army to fight. In fact, Yuan Shao did not issue an order at all

The Yuan army could not be the opponent of the Tianci army, and after more than half an hour of fighting, Yuan Shao ordered the withdrawal of his troops. And the Tianci army didn't pursue the Yuan army for some reason, maybe Gao Shun didn't bother to deal with the shrimp soldiers and crab generals of the Yuan army, but even so, the battle in less than an hour also caused the Yuan army to lose five or six thousand soldiers and horses, most of which were captured by the Tianci army.

Yuan's army withdrew, and it was very clean, it can be said that it had emptied several county towns around Hefei, and the huge team left Huainan and went south to Jiangdong under the angry eyes of Cao's army's remaining troops. And because of this matter, the enmity between Cao Ying and Yuan Shao is really over, no matter whether the Shouchun Battle is won or lost, Cao Ying will never forget the good things that Yuan Shao, the white-eyed wolf, did to him.

In 196 years in China, the Battle of Shouchun in mid-December was unprecedentedly tragic, and the soldiers on both sides were exhausted after more than three months of fighting, and the corpses in Shouchun City were piled up due to the accumulation of corpses, and the smell of corpses covered a hundred miles of land, and it was even rumored that there were some symptoms of plague in the city. Upon discovering this, Cao Ying immediately ordered the corpses of all the soldiers to be burned, and cleared the corpses of the various rivers in the city, narrowly preventing the outbreak of the plague.

But in this matter, the situation in Shouchun City is extremely not optimistic, although Cao Ying is fully prepared, and the food is completely enough to support more than two years, but after all, the physical and mental exhaustion of the soldiers is not something that can be replenished by food. Now almost all the soldiers in Shouchun City are holding on to the top of the city, and the continuous fighting has made the soldiers completely numb.

Cao Ying is not much better, although Cao Ying is the lord of the two Huai, but in order to boost morale, most of the time Cao Ying is fighting on the city tower, as a result, Cao Ying's body and mind are also extremely tired by the battlefield atmosphere, if it is not for a trace of faith to support himself, I am afraid that the city would have surrendered a long time ago.

Cao Ying will not descend, unless it is really a last resort.

And now, the soldiers of the Tianci Army who originally attacked the city under Shouchun City have been waiting for it solemnly, and the artillery that made Cao Ying uneasy has also appeared on the battlefield again, so it seems that the gunpowder transported from the north has been in place.

Cao Jun, who had experienced artillery bombardment, would never want to bear this taste again, the deafening roar, the hot stream coming from the surface, along with the feeling of cutting the flesh with a sharp weapon, made people exude a strong taste of fear from the bottom of their hearts. The artillery has not really been used yet, and the morale of the hundreds of thousands of Cao soldiers in Shouchun City has been infinitely low.

In fact, Liu Tai was also very helpless about the use of artillery.

Although it is said that the combat power of the Tianci Army is extremely strong, the two Huai armies have been cultivated by Cao Ying for several years, and their combat power is not covered. Frontal charge, the Tianci army can definitely defeat the two Huai armies, but if the siege war is blindly attacked, the casualties of the Tianci army will be too heavy.

The advent of artillery avoids this problem.

Artillery can not only inflict a huge blow on the enemy's heart, but also extremely amazing in terms of killing, a piece of artillery, at least two or three people can kill or wound the enemy, as many as five or six people, if it explodes into the pile of people, there are countless counts. And the manufacture of ammunition, because of the monopoly in northern Xinjiang, only needs a fixed mining and mineral production.

According to a rough estimate, a soldier's allowance for minor disability on the battlefield can produce dozens of ammunition

Thermal weapons are the terminators of the battlefield, even the weakest artillery is no exception, so that after the success of the initial battle of ammunition, it is naturally highly valued by Northern Xinjiang, if it is not for Liu Tai has been suppressing the mass production of ammunition, perhaps now the battlefield is already a monopoly of artillery.

Controlling the production of ammunition is not to say that Liu Tai is not considerate of the lives of the soldiers of the God-given army, but that artillery is indeed too bloody on the battlefield of this era. If you deal with foreign tribes, then Liu Tai will definitely not mind, for example, most of the fortresses in the western part of Xizhou today, almost all of them have artillery, if there are foreigners provoking the borderlands, just artillery is enough for them to drink a pot.

But in Huaxia itself, Liu Tai is really unusable for the people of the same race, after all, there is nothing wrong with the soldiers of the enemy army, as the subjects of the enemy monarch, they can only take up arms to resist the conquest of the Tianci army under the power, in essence, they are all simple people, just to survive.

The large-scale bombardment of artillery, although it can speed up the process of Liu Tai's unification of the world, but in the next ten years or even decades, it will be difficult for the Chinese nation to recover its vitality, you must know that the most powerful part of artillery is not to blow up the enemy army to death, to completely annihilate the enemy army, but to blow up the disabled! Let life be worse than death!

Liu Tai was very hesitant, after all, Liu Tai wanted a complete Han Empire, not a broken one. But at the same time, Liu Tai doesn't want to drag it out for too long, you know, now Liu Tai is almost thirty years old, how many thirty years is there for a person? And the way for the empire to conquer the Quartet is also to advance to the Western Regions and Wa Island, how big the outside world is, people in this era are not clear, but Liu Tai understands it very well!

If the local campaign continues to drag on for another five years, or even ten years, Liu Tai will be almost forty people by then, and what ambition does he have to conquer the Quartet? Ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, Liu Tai doesn't want to wait, at least he doesn't want to wait that long!

Huaxia 196, December 18.

The Tianci Army launched another attack on Shouchun City.

But unlike before, the protagonists of this siege are no longer ordinary soldiers, but those artillerymen and artillery of the artillery battalion!

Although Liu Tai hesitated, Liu Tai is not an indecisive person, and he must not be merciful! The earth-shattering roar exploded in all corners of Shouchun City, and this time the bombardment lasted for nearly three hours, and the fifty artillery pieces brought by the army also blew up three guns because of their long-term use.

Although the loss is not small, but the results are proud, according to visual statistics, there are at least about 2,000 Cao soldiers killed and wounded in Shouchun City, this is still a rough estimate, you know, the Tianci army lost only some ammunition and artillery, if it is a frontal siege, if you want the Cao army to lose 2,000, the Tianci army must have at least 300 to 500 elite burials!

(To be continued)