Tian Fan secretly swore in his heart that if someone said that Jiang Yiqu was a waste now, he would definitely cut off that person's head, and he did it himself, using the Double Moon Sword at his waist!

A guy who fled back to Dong'anping in a panic with only a few hundred guards five days ago, and regained high morale of the remnants of the army whose morale was extremely low in a short period of time, and with the help of less than 3,000 left-behind soldiers and a few thousand people sent by Yuan Tan, he successfully resisted the three attacks of the White Tiger Legion that had just won a big victory and was in high morale, do you dare to say that he is a waste? So what has become of Lao Tzu?

Although the injury on Lu Bu's arm prevented him from leading the team to attack the city, Tian Fan was afraid that something would happen to him and did not send him, although in the first round of siege, Shi Lu, Shi Hua and several other young generals successfully landed in the city, and Dong'anping was almost broken, but Jiang Yiqu led the guards to provide emergency support, and finally succeeded in defending the city. In the next two rounds of siege, those people went through the panic period of the first war, and the cooperation with the defenders became more and more tacit, and the Xuzhou army simply failed to climb the city.

Fortunately, no one said this, so Tian Fan didn't have to kill anyone.

Gao Shun looked at Tian Fan, who was pale, and said, "Governor, the soldiers are exhausted today, and their morale is not high, and there is no hope of capturing the city, so let's withdraw first." ”

Tian Fan nodded and said, "Hmm! Well, that's all there is to it. ”

Lu Bu tore off the strip of cloth hanging from his shoulder, and said hatefully: "Boguang, tomorrow the Japanese will personally lead the team to attack the city, so I don't believe that this small place in the east will not be able to be attacked safely." ”

Tian Fan looked at the emotional Lu Bu and knew that he couldn't stop it tomorrow. He said: "You can attack the city tomorrow, but ......" He turned his head to look in the direction of Zishui, frowned, and said, "But we have to find a way to kill those nasty flies in Zishui first." Otherwise, we have the advantage of forces, but we will not be able to start it at all, and this battle will not be fought! ”

Lu Bu was stunned when he heard this, and roared angrily: "These bastards are cowards, they will only shrink into the water, and they have the ability to go ashore to fight with Ben General!" If Lao Tzu is forced to be in a hurry, tomorrow Lao Tzu will lead people to cut down wood to make rafts, and enter Zishui to fight with them. ”

Everyone was speechless, what he said, in a war, it is natural to use his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, people obviously have a naval army, why not use it?

Tian Fan frowned and shook his head, and said, "Don't be angry, you are not good at water warfare, it is useless to go." And...... Most of the soldiers are landlubbers, and when they enter the water, they become soft-footed shrimps, which are in the hands of others. Well, let's go back and discuss it carefully, no matter what, we must break the cooperation of the two armies in Jiang Yiqu City and Zishui, otherwise this battle will not be fought! ”

Zhang Liao nodded and said, "What the Metropolitan Governor said is extremely true, this matter is the top priority. ”

Jiang Yiqu's good intentions in training the navy in Zishui were rewarded, and in Zishui, there were more than 200 small boats passing through, each boat had a few few, and more than a dozen archers, and were equipped with strong crossbows, and the range could be covered from 100 paces to more than 300 paces at the farthest. Some of the larger ships even had bed crossbows with a range of up to five hundred paces.

The west city wall of Dong'anping is close to Zishui, which is connected to Zishui through the water gate, and it cannot be attacked at all, and the Xuzhou army can only attack the east, south and north. At that time, the guy who designed Dong'anping, I don't know if he was a lack of heart or what, designed the city to be 430 steps from east to west, 650 steps from north to south, and the overall appearance was rectangular. Attacking the city from the north and south, no matter what, it is impossible to escape the fate of being attacked by bows and arrows in Zishui. Of course, if the soldiers carried the oar, they could resist all the feathered arrows except for the bed crossbow, but how could they attack the city with the oar? Coupled with the dense arrow towers on the city, the soldiers attacking the city will be attacked by the feather arrows from the side and above, as long as you think about it, you know that such a siege battle Tian Fan can't afford to fight.

Therefore, in order to reduce losses, Tian Fan could only choose to attack the city in the west of the city. However, the problem came again, Jiang Yiqu left a few soldiers in the south and north of the city, and arranged most of the soldiers in the west of the city......

Before meeting Dong'anping, Tian Fan and the others did not have an intuitive understanding of such a city, although they knew that Jiang Yiqu had trained the navy, they did not think that they could play much of a role, and they thought that there would not be much loss if they captured the city. But now that I look at it, everyone is dumbfounded. With the psychology of luck, Tian Fan ordered the soldiers to try to attack the city, but the first siege was almost successful, which gave him the illusion that the city was nothing more than that, and it could be taken by attacking the city again. As a result, after three successive sieges of the city, Tian Fan not only failed to capture the city, but paid the price of more than 2,000 casualties.

He couldn't be blamed for this, for the first time he tried to siege the city, everyone was deceived by a victory that seemed to be within easy reach. They all thought that Jiang Yiqu was affected by the defeat a few days ago, and the morale of the army was low, so the combat strength was not high.

Returning to the Chinese army's tent with the generals and strategists, Tian Fan frowned and looked at Zhuge Liang and the others, and said, "Yuanren, filial piety, do you have a way?" ”

Lu Bu and the other generals looked at the five people with hope, eagerly hoping that they could come up with a solution.

The five of them glanced at each other, shook his head in shame, and said, "The Metropolitan Governor, his subordinates are incompetent!" ”

Tian Fan waved his hand irritably and said, "I don't blame you, I can't think of a way in a short time, it's not that you are incompetent." Didn't Pontus come up with a solution? ”

At this time, Tian Fan saw that Mi Fang seemed to have something to say, and said, "Zifang, have something to say!" ”

Everyone turned their heads to look at Mi Fang.

Mi Fang originally served as the deputy of Wuda in the ballista battalion, but later Liu Bei saw that the ballista battalion was powerful, so he divided the ballista battalion into three, Liu Bei, Tian Fan, and Guan Yu each part. Mi Fang is Tian Fan's uncle, and he entered the ballista camp after Tian Fan's recommendation, no matter which angle he considers, he will naturally choose Tian Fan, so he entered the White Tiger Legion. Now his ballista battalion has 200 chariots and more than 2,000 soldiers, and in the entire White Tiger Legion, he can be regarded as a powerful figure who is not light or heavy, so he is qualified to participate in the deliberations of the generals.

Mi Fang clenched his fists and said: "Grand Dudu, at the end of today, I will have watched the combat strength of the enemy's naval army in Zishui, and the last general will find that except for one or two bed crossbows equipped on more than forty larger ships, the rest of the ships only have strong crossbows and bows and arrows. Our crossbow battalion was able to resist all the remaining arrows except for the bed crossbow, and the installation of the bed crossbow was only time-consuming and laborious, and as long as we could withstand the loss of the first round of the opponent's bed crossbow, we could force a distance of 300 to 250 paces from the opponent. At that time, we used ballistas to fire stone bullets or oil bombs, which should have solved them! ”

Mi Fang's crossbow battalion is not the previous crossbow battalion, and it has long been replaced by shotguns. The chariot was changed to a new generation, which was specially designed by the Tian family workshop for the ballista battalion, and Ma Jun, who had not fully recovered from his injuries at that time, also participated in the design. The wheels and spokes have been widened to make them more durable and can also be used on less difficult roads. The bottom of the car is equipped with a spring plate made of mild steel, so that the car has enough cushioning, and the impact of bumps in high-speed galloping on shooting is greatly reduced.

More importantly, the car is no longer the previous flat plate, and a 270-degree dome is installed, made of hard wood, and its shape is very similar to the anti-aircraft gun emplacements on modern warships, in addition to effectively protecting the operating soldiers, it does not affect the firing range. It's just a bit bad that when the ballista rotates, the wood shell also rotates, because without a modern transmission system, the ballista will rotate heavily. However, this problem is being solved, and the gears made of steel have been successfully tested, and now it is necessary to research a more costly process and then design a gear set suitable for ballistas.

In addition, the soldiers in charge of driving also have a certain amount of protection, in addition to wearing a heavy armor, there are shields up to half a foot thick under the necks on both sides of the body, and the thickness of the shield is the same as that of the canopy. Horses are also armoured, and although they do not have full-body iron armor in order to reduce their counterweights, they can also effectively protect against the accumulation of ordinary feather arrows.

The reason why the car was made into such a pervert was because Liu Bei had realized how rare an excellent ballista shooter was. Training a ballista is easy, not much more difficult than a crossbowman, but a good ballista must be able to shoot at a target at a distance of 200 paces on a high-speed chariot, which is difficult. At present, among the more than 1,000 ballistas in the whole army, only more than 200 can be 70% sure. These people are all treasures, it doesn't matter if the chariot is damaged, it can be rebuilt anyway, and the loss of a qualified ballista is enough to distress people.

When Lu Bu heard this, he immediately clenched his fists excitedly and said, "Then what are you waiting for?" ”

Tian Fan said: "Zifang, are you sure?" ”

Mi Fang nodded firmly and said, "Yes!" ”

Tian Fan bowed his head slightly and said, "Okay, tomorrow I will fight, and I will allow you to go into battle with the ballista battalion!" ”

The next day, the weather was gloomy, and Zhuge Liang and Pang Tongzhi thought that there was rain in the afternoon!

The army gathered in the south of the city, the army was neat, the flags were fluttering, and the crowd was crowded. When Jiang Yiqu at the head of the city saw it, he couldn't help but sigh, yesterday's battle did not dampen the morale of the White Tiger Legion.

Tian Fan gave an order, the war drums sounded in unison, and Mi Fang shouted violently with all the strength of his body: "Kill!" ”

Under the shouts of the coachmen, the fifty chariots of the crossbow battalion slowly accelerated, lined up in two rows of long snake formations, and rushed diagonally towards the city wall.

There were still three hundred steps away from the city wall, and there was a loud shout on the city wall, dozens of bed crossbows fired in a volley, only to hear a loud "boom", and more than 100 huge crossbow arrows were shot. The arrow was like a meteor catching the moon, and in just one round, it hit three chariots. The power of the bed crossbow was infinite, and the attack power was amazing, and the wooden shell on the chariot was suddenly shot through, and several inhuman screams came out of the chariot.

There were still two hundred and fifty paces to go, and in the front chariot with a red flag, there was a loud roar, and the chariot slowly turned, and the entire convoy slowly turned with him. Fifty paces later, the direction of the chariot was parallel to the south wall of the city, and a high-pitched cry from the chariot at the head of the chariot was, "Intermittent shot, target arrow tower, two vehicles and one for one, fire!" ”

Two rows of chariots, the one on the left, listened to the order and immediately lit the installed fire oil bombs. With a loud shout from the ballistamen, that is, the commander, the ballista guns in groups of two fired fire bombs at the turret.

In the arrow tower on the city wall, another group of bed crossbows had already begun to fire, and another round of one hundred and ten crossbow arrows was fired, this round had a better effect, five chariots were shot, three of them were on fire, and no one could survive, and the other two were shot at the horses, and the carriage suddenly stopped.

Tian Fan looked at it and twitched in his heart, this has only been a few minutes? Eight tanks have already lost their combat power, it's so distressing!

Fortunately, their results were not bad, and the fire oil bombs fired from the chariot ignited half of the arrow towers, and there were bursts of miserable screams from the city.

Generals Lu Bu, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Pang De, Yang Wei, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and others couldn't help but applaud excitedly one by one. They knew that as long as the arrow tower on the south wall of Dong'anping was killed, and the threat to the ballista battalion in the two directions of the city and Zishui was removed, the battle would be easy to fight.

At this time, Mi Fang on the side ordered, and the remaining one hundred and fifty chariots slowly accelerated, killing them along the trajectory left by the fifty chariots in front. The tactics are the same, the chariots are divided into two rows, one row attacks the arrow towers on the city, and strives to set all the arrow towers on fire, and the other row attacks the warships in the water!

Suddenly, Tian Fan saw that the flames of the arrow tower on fire on the head of the city had become smaller, and his heart tightened, but at this time, the ballista battalion had already entered the range of three hundred steps of the city wall, and it was too late to ring gold.

Tian Fan thought for a while in his heart.

Sure enough, the bed crossbow at the head of the city was fired again!

War is a source of wisdom, and when a sharp weapon appears, it will not be long before the way to deal with it will appear. The ballista cannon played a miraculous role in the battle to destroy the Yuan Technique, but now it is no longer as good as it was then. Even if Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao have a bad relationship, they are brothers. After his death, his friend took refuge in Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao learned of the existence of the ballista, and asked the soldiers to study the way to crack it, so the method of using sand to extinguish the fire appeared.

At this time, the fifty chariots that had set off earlier had already rushed back, and the captain at the head proudly told Tian Fan that they had sunk a total of ten small boats. Mi Fang said excitedly: "Metropolitan Governor, the results are good, how about we attack again?" ”

Tian Fan asked, "Why are there only ten ships?" ”

The lieutenant blushed and said uneasily: "Governor, we are galloping southward, and the enemy's boat is heading north, and because it is smooth, it is very fast, so our hit rate is much lower. With that, he fell to one knee and said, "Please punish most of them!" ”

Tian Fan shook his head and said expressionlessly: "Let's see the situation first!" ”

When the one hundred and fifty chariots returned from the battle, Mi Fang couldn't get excited anymore.

In this battle, the ballista battalion lost seventeen chariots, of which eleven exploded and burned to ashes on the battlefield, four horses were shot, the horses died, the vehicles were left on the battlefield, the soldiers lit the chariots and ran back, and two horses were shot by ordinary crossbow arrows, the horses were frightened and out of control, and they went directly into the water, and the soldiers didn't even have time to ignite the chariots and burn the ballistas. The rest lightly injured more than a dozen chariots, but fortunately, there was no damage to the personnel, and the chariots could be repaired. After the First World War, the loss of the ballista battalion was close to 10%, the ballista men died thirteen and the injured fifteen, Mi Fang was so distressed that she almost wanted to commit suicide.

Compared with the results, the results were unsatisfactory, and all the arrow towers on the head of the southern city were set on fire, but except for the two that were not extinguished, the rest were successfully extinguished. Half of the arrow towers did not shoot out the bed crossbow, and Tian Fan understood that the bed crossbow there had been reduced to ashes in the fire. Annihilated twenty-six enemy ships, three of which were large ships that could fire bed crossbows, and twenty-three small ships that could only fire bows and arrows and strong crossbows.

Twenty-six ships were also a loss of about 10% for Jiang Yiqu, but he was not distressed. Tian Fan can't do it, since the ballista battalion was formed, there has not been such a big loss, how can he be embarrassed?

Lu Bu gritted his teeth and said, "Grand Dudu, if we lose half of the ballista battalion, we will be able to completely destroy all the arrow towers in Nancheng, and then the battle will be easy to fight!" ”

Tian Fan looked at him, shook his head slowly, and said, "The loss is too great, this kind of tactic is not advisable, let's find another way!" Fengxian, remember, our White Tiger Legion doesn't make loss-making deals, never! ”