Chapter 32: Ultra-long-range shelling

After repelling the coalition forces, Zhao Yun did not stop, but directly killed Dangxian, and he was defeated in a few days.

He then continued to attack the Yanzhou region, and soon connected Xiayi, Yuxian, and Suiyang. It looks like Liang Guojun is going to be defeated. Fortunately, Liu Bei organized manpower to resist in time, and after Zhao Yun conquered Gushu County and Meng County, he formed a blockade line in the area of Bo County and Ningling, which finally prevented Zhao Yun from further attacking.

As Huang Zhong personally came to Xiangxian with a large army and began to live in Suiyang, even Cao Cao had to transfer back the army that went north and went to Tiger Prison Pass to prevent Fang Yun's army from entering Yanzhou, let alone Liu Bei.

On the Tongguan side, the 20,000 army was dragged by Fang Yunjun. The general Fan Chou, as well as Xu Huang and Zhou Cang, who were sent later, directly confronted Wei Yan and Guan Yu. The two sides were inseparable in Tongguan, but Liu Bei didn't expect that the rear was even more on fire!

Not to mention that Zhao Yun continued to attack Liangguo County under his rule, and said that another general surnamed Zhao, Zhao Li, suddenly attacked Shansang County, and defeated Shansang County in less than half a day. At the same time, he further attacked, and on the third day, with the help of Peng Cheng, who was stationed in Qian County, he attacked Chengfu County, and the next day he attacked Sishan County.

Even, after attacking Sishan County, he further killed the Song Kingdom, Xinyang and Yilu County. If he continues to be beaten like this, I am afraid that one-third of Yuzhou will fall into Fang Yun's hands!

Cao Cao's side was no better, the troops led by Han Meng resisted fiercely on the Jizhou border, and Cao Cao did not have a qualified naval army, which made it a serious problem for them to cross the river. But just the Yellow River. For Cao Cao, it was like a moat.

The army that attacked the Tiger Prison Pass. The face has just been built. When the wall was as tall as the Tiger Prison before, I knew that the situation would not be better. He tried to attack for a few days, but he didn't want to defend Huo Jun, but he was extremely good at defending, and the weapons of war were not unused, but they were not of much use.

Among them, Zhang Xiujun led 5,000 elite cavalry into Yanzhou early, wantonly destroying local villages, towns and counties, burning crops in the fields, or slaughtering those local tycoons. Now the whole Yanzhou can be said to be full of mourning. Cao Cao's subordinate Wu family members were more or less affected, and even a few were already dead except for himself.

Faced with such a situation, Cao Cao also had to lead his army back to defense, but he didn't want Han Meng to take the opportunity to follow him, relying on Fang Yun's river boat troops to quickly land, directly threatening Linyi and Dong'e. Cao Cao had no choice but to leave 10,000 soldiers to resist, but he wanted to encircle and suppress Zhang Xiujun, who was fighting alone.

That moment. Cao Cao, or Liu Bei. He finally understood a truth, that is, Fang Yun's power had swelled too much, and the large territory also meant that the resources he could mobilize and the manpower he recruited were far superior to them.

Now more than fifty percent of the young and strong people in Yanzhou and Yuzhou have been recruited into the army by them, and the remaining fifty percent are not requisitioned by them, otherwise how to cultivate will become a problem. And these young people have more or less family backgrounds behind them, and they can't be so casual.

Wider space, more time to recuperate, and more population and resources have now become the common aspirations of Liu Bei and Cao Cao. Obviously, Fang Yun is a hard bone, so he should find a soft persimmon to eat first!

Before they knew it, they had looked elsewhere. The two families also began to resolve their initial grievances because of the same hatred and begging, and they quickly cooperated between them, and various sharing was further deepened.

No one knew that this was an opportunity for a new form of government. Even, with the death of Yuan Shu, the new regime finally came into being, of course, these are all later words.

And shifted their attention to Danyang County, Yangzhou, and after Sun Cejun and Yuan Shujun were assembled, they quickly killed Hushu County. In their opinion, a small city like Hushu can be easily built without much effort.

Not to mention, they have invested a lot of combat power and weapons of war this time!

The army slowly advanced to the Hushu area, and it was still ten miles away from the county seat. Originally, this distance could be reached in one day, but when the troops were really dispatched, they found that Fang Yunjun was not so easy to serve.

That night, their camp was directly touched by a few Wudang flying soldiers, and a large number of Molotov cocktails were immediately dropped. These ceramic jars, which were loaded with special fuel, fell into the camp and were filled with flames, which they spent almost a night trying to extinguish.

But they didn't want to, and the next morning, the second group of cavalry came at the gun, shooting rockets at their camp. Sun Ce was so angry that he shouted at that time, and directly took the former personal guard cavalry and killed it.

However, others plunged headlong into the jungle, but they didn't fight them, but it was Zhang He who transferred the Flying Wing Battalion. These guys who specialize in kite flying, really play swimming, and it is definitely torturing the dead. Either you can outspeed the other party, or you will have to spend all day in fear of their shooting, and it will be depressing to think about.

The other party obviously did not intend to engage Sun Yuan's coalition army head-on, but used the method of Ranger harassment to boil the eagle. Fortunately, Sun Ce is not a vegetarian, so he has stepped up his patrols, and he has also adopted the method of camping near the river, and the method of flooding and burying the soil has blocked all these messy methods.

It took more than a day to advance five miles, and I was afraid that they would all become a disgrace to the marching world.

"General, the lake is in front of you, and there are no woods or hills around, so you can march directly!" The scouts finally had good news, at least not to worry about the damn harassment.

Just as they were about to march further, something fell from the sky, and they looked very uneasy, especially as they fell, and their size became larger and larger, which made people even more uneasy.

"It's a stone bomb, everyone hurry up and disperse!" Sun Ce roared loudly and quickly beat his horse and ran.

It's just that he screamed a little slower, and these stone bullets fell directly into the coalition ranks, a few smashed a huge pothole, and more directly rolled out of a bloody road. I don't know how this kind of stone projectile, which is at least the size of an electric tricycle, is fired, and what is even more incomprehensible is why these stone bullets can shoot so far!

You know, even the scouts didn't notice the existence of the stone machine, which means that the stone projectiles were fired almost from behind the lake. You know, between the two places, there are five miles apart!

Converted to modern times, it is about two kilometers away, but the other party directly threw the stone projectile, and actually smashed it directly into their team, hitting it squarely. Could it be that Fang Jun's gunner, or clairvoyance?

In fact, Fang Yun collected natural crystals a long time ago, and then after a series of manual polishing and experiments, he finally made a batch of telescopes recently. Part of this batch of monoculars was delivered to Zhang He.

This time, I was able to shoot at such an ultra-long distance, mainly with the help of telescopes and some ranging skills. It's just that I didn't expect the gunner's skills to be really good, and he actually hit the opponent's forward position directly at the first shot.

"Go on, the enemy is already advancing towards us, calculate the amount of advance and prepare for the next wave of shooting!" Zhang He was on the city wall, and the rangefinder who operated the gunner was making the final range measurement and reporting the enemy situation to the gunner.

These heavy trebuchets, an improved version of the Xiangyang Cannon, were capable of dropping larger stones, but at the expense of firing range, making the effective firing range only five miles away. But if you change to a smaller stone projectile, you can even shoot seven to ten miles.

Paired with telescopes, these heavy trebuchets are the city's nemesis. However, it turns out that it can also be very effective in defending against the enemy forces that form the battle array, especially after replacing it with larger stone bullets.

Just like just now, those enemy positions were directly plowed over, and Ji Ling, the general of Yuan Shufang, was directly smashed into pulp by a stone bullet in the wave of attacks just now. It can be said that among the many historical generals, his death can be regarded as the most aggrieved.

didn't even be able to give full play to the combat effectiveness of his super-first-class generals, so he just got a bento casually.

Sun Cejun was no better, his deputy general Chen Wu was also killed in this wave of attacks, and his younger brother Sun Lang was grazed by a stone bullet, which directly crushed one of his arms and legs, and the person was completely abolished. The key is that in the absence of anti-inflammatory drugs, no one knows if he will die of an infected wound......

Just when Sun Ce was regrouping his team, he didn't want the other party to throw a large number of stone bullets again, and smashed them directly. Now Sun Ce already knows that he is afraid that this mode of intensive marching in the future will be eliminated by history.

Unless, they plan to continue to 'deliver food' to Fang Jun.

"Retreat, retreat immediately!" Sun Ce gritted his teeth, this time it can be said that he was defeated in vain, but he was helpless.

Until you don't have a weapon that can also perform ultra-long-range strikes, or until you find a way to practice a scattered march, you can't just go into battle, otherwise you will enter the attack range of these heavy weapons at any time. But the real problem was that he was very curious, how could the other party confirm their location when they were so far apart?

You know, if there is no cooperation with this, such a long distance, being able to hit their side is already God's favor. Others may think it's luck, but Sun Ce can be sure that there is definitely some kind of special means in the other party's hands. He must understand that he has the opportunity and even take it, otherwise, he is destined to remain on the passive side in the future.

And with Sun Ce's retreat, this so-called decisive battle came to an end...... (To be continued......)

PS: The two armies are in a straight line, and with the improvement of manufacturing technology, the catapult can change direction by rotating left and right by the winch, and there is no need to constantly disassemble and assemble according to the enemy's position. The most important thing is the cooperation of the telescope, which is much easier to smash, and there is nothing surprising about such a result.