A week later, on March 14 of the fifth year of Hongwu, Lu County, the headquarters of the Huns, Liu Cong was drinking wine in a big gulp, which could be regarded as borrowing wine to drown his sorrows. Originally, he also fantasized about leading the Xiongnu warriors to teach the Han people a good lesson, but who knew that the Great Jin had thrown the Huns off a few streets under Sima Shu's successive reforms.

At this time, it was no longer how he thought about going to the hinterland of the Central Plains to wreak havoc, but how to preserve the only foundation of the Huns. Although his father wanted to find a way to preemptively strike before, he didn't expect that Da Jin would suddenly make a move. Although he was also the commander of the 80,000 cavalry army, he was considered a high-ranking person within the Xiongnu Han Kingdom. However, in the face of the menacing Jin army, he was not happy at all.

"General, the Great Khan has come to ask us to pay attention to the attack of the Jin people. Recently, the Jin people have been making frequent moves, and their attacks are likely to start in the near future! A staff member came in with an urgent report and said.

"Jinren? Alas, the current Jin people are getting stronger and stronger, and perhaps from the beginning we have chosen the wrong path. It's still Murong Diao who is smart, and he took refuge in Dajin early. Now if we want to rely on our power to block the attack of the Great Jin, it is tantamount to a fool's dream. ”

"General, ...... you" The staff looked at Liu Cong dumbfounded, he didn't expect the other party to say such frustrating words, fortunately, he was the only one in the whole room, if he let others hear it, I don't know what kind of turmoil it would cause.

"Rest assured, although we have no hope of victory, I will never surrender on my knees. At present, we have deployed 80,000 infantry on the Shangdang front, which is enough to resist the attack of the Jin. Other than that. We gathered 80,000 Hun cavalry. Once the Jin people launched an attack on Shangdang, the brave Hun cavalry would go straight to their flanks and rear and crush them in one fell swoop! Liu Cong frowned and said, but he didn't look like he was full of confidence.

The staff was also very speechless about this, but he believed that what Liu Cong said was true. Now the cavalry of the Huns is not the opponent of the Great Jin Xiang Army. Over the years, the Great Jin Xiang Army, which was equipped with firearms, dealt with the Huns, and the two sides fought several times in the Taihang Mountain area. Each time it was the Huns who were defeated. The pride of their Huns has long been lost by the Great Jin Xiang Army in the past few years.

"General. I think we should be careful, after all, this time the Jin people are menacing! The staff still reminded. After all, there's nothing wrong with being careful. His fate. It was already tied to the Huns. The words of the Huns are unlucky. He, who is a staff member of the Huns, will not end well.

At this time. Yecheng front. Under the command of Zu Ti, several large armies have entered the position one after another, and they have only waited for tonight. The whole army is about to attack. Once the Huns' defensive line was torn from the front, the follow-up troops immediately followed, taking the opportunity to expand the results. The other 20,000 infantry troops were responsible for defending the flanks, and the 30,000 cavalry were also ready, and after the battle began, they would make a detour and go straight to Wuxiang, cutting off the direct contact between the Hu people in Shangdang and Jinyang in the rear, and creating an opportunity for the troops of the Central Plains Military Region to eat the 80,000 Hun cavalry in Shangdang County in one bite.

In the front-line improvised command headquarters, Captain Yao Gezhong and other middle and senior officers were all unable to sleep. Although it was late at night, everyone did not feel sleepy at all.

"Join the army, there are still a few hours to go, the battle is about to start, and the troops in front are ready, right?" Yao Gezhong turned his head and asked about joining the army beside him.

"Don't worry, sir. We've been preparing for so long, and we're all ready. At the forefront is the elite of 10,000 van troops, and their combat effectiveness is by no means something that the Hu people can resist. With their ability to tear through the Huns' defenses, this time we have to let these Huns know how powerful we are! Joining the army said excitedly. The battlefield is the destination of soldiers. Moreover, such a large-scale war is the time for them to make meritorious achievements.

"MD, these Huns have bullied us a lot in the past few hundred years. At the end of the Han Dynasty, they occupied the northern part of our Bingzhou, and now they control the entire Bingzhou under their iron heels. The last time I went to see His Majesty, His Majesty repeatedly demanded that we must take back these lands. ”

"Not only to grab land, but more importantly, to completely exterminate the Huns, so that they can no longer threaten us!" Yao Gezhong said fiercely. Under Sima Shu's continuous words and deeds, the Great Jin army has always pursued Han nationalism, and all foreign races who are unwilling to sinicize can only completely erase the other party from the flesh.

"My lord is right, the state is ours, how can we let the foreigners take it. Now our Dajin is not so easy to bully. In the next opinion, as long as we win the battle against the Huns this time, we must not only recover the land of Bingzhou, but also recover the land belonging to Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong counties in the northern part of Bingzhou. In the future, we will go on an expedition to the desert, and the Hu people always go south to rob our things, why can't we rob each other in turn? Said the soldier.

"Haha, that's right, that's the truth! This time, we want to let the Northern Hu people know that we are powerful! Yao Ge Zhongjian said with a smile.

The night passed quickly, and it was about to be the fifteenth. On the front line of Yecheng, the soldiers of the Great Jin Dynasty have already been ready for battle. Less than a kilometer away from the Hun line, artillery was already preparing for the bombardment. The Central Plains Theater is equipped with a total of 20 artillery battalions, with a total of 2,600 cannons of various calibers, including 200 155-mm heavy guns. Behind the artillery positions, there were stacks of shells that looked like hills. These shells have been transported by rail and car for some time. After more than two months of preparation, everything is ready to go.

In the morning, as soon as the sky was bright, the Jin army's position flew into the sky with three signal flares, and the war officially broke out.

"Fire!" Zu Ti personally gave the artillery an order to attack.

"Boom! Rumble! "Two thousand six hundred cannons, against the Hun positions in Shangdang County, began a fierce shelling. For a time, the ground shook and the mountains shook, and the Huns' positions were wounded and ablaze, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled. Many Huns lost their lives while still asleep. The Huns, who woke up in a hurry during the shelling, were frightened by the fierce shelling. Their first instinct was to flee to the rear. However, this gave the Great Jin artillery an opportunity to kill and wound them. After the explosion of a flowering shell from a large-caliber heavy artillery, a single shell was often able to kill a large number of Huns.

"Enemy attack! Get ready to fight back! "The Huns, at all levels, began to frequently pacify the panicked soldiers and tried to organize a counterattack. Many ignorant Huns, holding their heads in their hands, hid in the ditch, under the corners, and under the obstacles, hoping that the shells of the Great Jin would not fall on their heads.

Huguan was also within the range of the shelling, and it was surrounded by artillery fire at the first time. Huguan is located in the southeast of Shanxi, there is Baigu Mountain (now known as Laoding Mountain) in the north, there are Shuanglong Mountain in the south, two mountains are sandwiched, the middle is empty, the mountain shape is like a pot, and the mouth of the pot is the pass, and the name Huguan is obtained.

Although Huguan is a Xiongguan, it is also the throat road for Yuzhou to enter the party, but no matter how strong it is, it can not block the artillery fire of the Great Jin, in the face of fierce shelling, it is impossible to hold on, a large number of houses are destroyed when the shelling, the soldiers of the Huns can only hide behind the city wall and cannot raise their heads at all, not to mention that it is good to survive the counterattack.

"Damn the Jin people, they actually launched a sneak attack with artillery, it's really not insidious. And what about our artillery? Counterattack! Fight back now! Liu Cong, who was ordered to command the front line of the party, immediately rushed out of the headquarters at the moment when the shelling began, shouting in disheveled clothes.

The fierceness of the Great Jin artillery was seriously beyond his imagination. He was also a well-informed general, and as soon as he heard the fierce shelling, he knew that hundreds of large-caliber cannons were firing. You must know that even if he now commands all the armies in the territory of the party, all the artillery pieces add up, and there are only a few dozen.

And these cannons are still forced by him to rely on Liu Yuan's favor to come, you must know that the entire Han Kingdom is only two hundred bronze artillery, and these cannons are mainly arranged in Jinyang City. At this point, the cannon was still bought by the big man over the years.

In the face of the fierce artillery bombardment of the Great Jin, the Huns were completely stunned, and the troops on the front line suffered heavy casualties. Some of the walls and fortifications that looked strong before were blown up in scattered pieces. The artillery of the Huns, after a quarter of an hour of artillery fire from the Great Jin Dynasty, began to return fire, and the sound of the artillery was chaotic, apparently in a hurry.

At this time, the Dajin secret spies lurking on the front line of the Shangdang immediately quickly notified the observed Hun artillery positions in Huguan to the Dajin artillery unit.

"105 mm heavy artillery, continue to shell the Huns in the Huguan. 155 mm heavy artillery to suppress enemy artillery! After receiving the report of the secret spy, Zu Ti immediately made adjustments. A large-caliber heavy howitzer immediately adjusted its target and suppressed the artillery of the Huns under the guidance of an empty observation balloon.

With the guidance of secret spies, the artillery of Dajin is very accurate. The Hun artillerymen, who were hurriedly firing, were suddenly blown up by the shells falling from the sky. One cannon after another was blown into pieces, one by one the artillery was blown to pieces, and from time to time the shells piled up on the position were detonated.

The artillery unit, which was pinned on by the Huns, was destroyed by the artillery fire of the Great Jin Dynasty before it could be used for long. Liu Cong looked at the pile of scrap copper and rotten iron on the battlefield and wanted to cry without tears, this is the artillery that took countless hearts of the Huns to build, and it is gone. At this moment, Liu Cong completely lost the confidence to defeat the Jin people. (To be continued......)