Chapter 950: Chengde Artillery Fire
Wolf smoke rose from the border pass, and naturally it couldn't hide from the people in Hebei.
Xun Yu originally came to Hebei to preside over various important affairs in Hebei, and as soon as the wolf smoke rose, he immediately discovered it.
"Enemy attack?" Xun Yu looked at the wolf smoke, and the wolf smoke was divided into many kinds.
The materials are also different, such as Populus euphratica, red willow, Robust hemp, Rhizome, Baici, camel grass, licorice, dry reed, Saxon, etc., which can be used as fuel. The way he burns out is also different.
The rising wolf smoke now is telling everyone in Hebei that the Huns are coming.
"Presumptuous!" Xun Yu was in Youzhou, angry, he really didn't expect this Hun to enter the customs at this time.
"Zuo Xian Wang Maodun, I think you are really impatient!" Xun Yu's temper has also come up, and his brother Xun Cen has fought a lot of battles in Youzhou, Liaodong, and slowly Xun Yu has changed from a scribe in the past to the current mastermind, or more suitable for the position of this assassin. "My lord, will it be rough, this Zuo Xian Wang is not a man, but there are only 100,000 cavalry, how dare he detain the pass?" A military general on the side asked suspiciously, this person's surname is Tian Mingyu.
Originally, he was a general of Gongsun Zhan, but when Gongsun Zhan lost, he disarmed and returned to the field, waiting for Cao Cao to reactivate, and once again came to Youzhou.
He Tian Yu is really well aware of the affairs of the border pass, Zuo Xian Wang Maodun, he didn't shout.
Although he is a hero among the Huns, it is only among the Huns.
100,000 Hun cavalry, it looks like a lot, but it really has to be fought. Cao Cao was not afraid of him at all. As long as 30,000 iron horses. If you enter the border wilderness, you will be able to squint at him Zuo Xianwang.
Soon someone came back.
Looking at the soldiers and horses of King Zuoxian of the Huns, the army of 800,000 entered the pass, even if Mao Dun deliberately increased, there were still 450,000 or 500,000.
"How so!" Tian Yu was also dumbfounded, this Huns, did he give birth to two a day? How did so many people come out at once?
"I don't care where he came from, since he came. Don't even think about going back! "Xun Yu also has 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands in Liaodong, so it's not that he can't fight with Maodun.
Xun Yu also has his own self-confidence, the Han people are good at the art of war, and now is not the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
Although the current Han is also at sunset, he still has the last afterglow.
These 100,000 soldiers. In peacetime, he is a soldier in Tuntian, and in wartime he is a soldier.
"Your Excellency. In this army, the army has not been paid for three months! Tian Yu hesitated for a moment and said to Xun Yu.
"What! Hasn't the grain and grass allocated by Xu Du been sent over yet? Xun Yu asked Tian Yu.
"No!"
How to allocate the army without grain and grass, and the army will not move the grain and grass first, and the soldiers and horses will not be allowed to go to war hungry.
"How much grain and grass is left in the army!" Xun Yu said with a gloomy face.
"Less than half a month!"
"Damn it!" Xun Yu gritted his teeth, half a month, even in Youzhou with him, there is only half a month left, and other places can be imagined, I am afraid that there are only ten days of grain and grass left, how can the Han people resist these peoples on the grassland, one is relying on new weapons, sharp blades, elite armor, and the city.
But if you defend the city, you must have food, and if you don't eat, how can you defend it? Now that the Hun cavalry has entered Guanzhong, Xun Yu can't imagine the cities besieged by the Hun army.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry up and send it to Xu Du with me for eight hundred miles, and let Xu Du allocate grain and grass as soon as possible!" Xun Yu shouted loudly, it is not a trivial matter now, if one is not done well, the whole of Hebei may be fallen. "Yes!" His subordinate Tian Yu is about to leave.
"Wait! Send me another envoy to Yangzhou to inform His Royal Highness the King of Wei that we need reinforcements! "Without food and grass, he Xun Yu can't dispatch soldiers and horses at all, so he can only stick to it and wait for help.
Tian Yu commanded his subordinates, and soon returned, and several war horses galloped out of the post station, and they were in a hurry.
"There is no army with grain and grass, and now the Huns are invading, Xun Yu feels terrible when he thinks about it.
"Tian Yu, you go to the city to help me buy grain and grass from those scholars, buy as much as I want!" Xun Yu continued to instruct Tian Yu that Xu Du would be unreliable for a while, so he could only rely on himself first. But that's just a drop in the bucket.
"My lord, in fact, we can borrow grain and grass from them!" Tian Yu said suddenly.
"Them?"
"Really?" Xun Yu smiled bitterly, not to mention that the two sides are enemies, not to mention, now that Cao Cao has fought to Yangzhou, Hebei is threatened, I'm afraid it's too late for them to be happy.
"My lord, after all, we are all Han Chinese!" Tian Yu pointed in the direction of Liaodong opposite.
"Try it!"
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Yangzhou has Chengde, and this is already the third day.
"Boom, boom!" Wei Yan is really ruthless, the red-clothed battalion has torn off the artillery jacket and tilted the ammunition towards the city.
If it weren't for the cement components used in Chengde, I'm afraid the city gate would have been breached a long time ago, and that's it, there was a wail above the city head.
Under the leadership of Zhang Liao, the wolf rider of Bingzhou was entangled with the tiger and leopard rider.
Countless Xiahou Yuan's soldiers under the city are climbing towards the top of the city.
"Your Highness, let's go!" Liu Ye is really worried, Chengde can be lost, and he Liu Ye can also die, but Liu Mang can't have anything to do.
Once Liu Mang has an accident, then the entire Yangzhou army will really be hopeless.
"Wait!" Liu Mang gritted his teeth at Wei Yan, Wei Yan seemed to be determined to kill Liu Mang, and all the shells of the red-clothed battalion rushed towards the city wall of Chengde without money.
"This Wei Yan is also accurate, can I replenish ammunition from my Chengde City after taking Chengde!" Liu Mang was also annoyed, originally these cannons of the red-clothed battalion were all his Liu Mang's things. Liu Mang planned to use these cannons to entertain Cao Cao. But he didn't expect to be entertained by Cao Cao in turn.
"Your Highness. It's already the third day, and it's going to be too late to wait! Liu Ye said worriedly, even if Chengde was poured with cement, it couldn't withstand the artillery of the first battalion and attacked for three consecutive days.
Cracks are everywhere above the city, corpses are also piled up all over the ground, Chengde originally only had 3,000 defenders, if it weren't for the people vying to help. I'm afraid the city has long been broken.
Now the wolf ride in Bingzhou is not too much of a loss, enough to take Liu Mang away.
"This Wei Yan is immortal, the red-clothed camp is immortal, how can I go!" Liu Mang was reluctant to leave, he wanted to watch Wei Yan's red-clothed battalion be wiped out, the threat was too great.
"Your Highness, Chengde City has me, you can leave quickly!" Liu Ye wanted to replace Liu Mang and stay in Chengde and wait for reinforcements.
"No way!" Liu Mang didn't look down on Liu Ye, if he Liu Mang left, it would inevitably be suspicious for Wei Yan, and it would not be good if he deviated from the trajectory at that time.
"Ziyang. So I'll wait here for another day, just one day. If they don't come again, I'll leave with General Zhang Liao! Liu Mang comforted Liu Ye on the side.
Liu Ye knew that he couldn't convince Liu Mang, so he gritted his teeth, "Okay, just one day!" "After a day's work, this Chengde City can still be defended.
"Kill, kill, kill!" Xiahou Yuan's soldiers and horses began to fight towards the city wall again.
"All the soldiers obey the order and kill the enemy with me!" Liu Mang is now a powerhouse at the peak of God Refining, if it weren't for him, Chengde City would have been an enemy a long time ago.
Now Liu Mang has a war knife in his hand, which can ensure a vacuum, if it weren't for the artillery in Wei Yan under the city, Liu Mang wouldn't dare to joke with his own life, coupled with Liu Ye's dissuasion, Liu Mang plans to go it alone. Charge and kill the enemy camp.
Xiahou Yuan's soldiers and horses are all the elite of the Shenxing Army, although Chengde City is not as good as Xiahou Yuan's soldiers and horses, but it is not weak, plus Chengde makes their home, but also has the responsibility of defending the land, one after the other, Xiahou Yuan can't take much advantage at all.
"Liu Mang, I want to see how long you can last!" Once again, Xiahou Yuan's soldiers and horses were repulsed, and Wei Yan's artillery was once again erected, tilting their anger towards the city.
After these days, the defenders of Chengde City also slowly understood the habits of artillery, once the artillery was erected under the city, the soldiers and horses above the city would retreat from the city wall, and wait for the artillery to end and then go up to the city wall to fight.
Except for the first day, Wei Yan brought a lot of casualties, and the rest of the time was fine.
A burst of artillery was supposed to last for half an hour, but this time it was only a small two teas.
"What's going on?!" Wei Yan also found out and questioned.
"General, in my red-clothed battalion, all artillery ammunition is about to run out of ammunition!" A general of the red-clothed battalion walked in front of Wei Yan and said to Wei Yan.
"Running out of ammo?" Since the attack on Gwangju, Wei Yan has been saving ammunition, but it is still not enough.
"The solid shells have been exhausted, and there are only flowering shells left, flowering shells, and there are less than ten rounds left in each artillery group!"
Artillery is made of ammunition, and if it is a gun without ammunition, what is the difference between a burning stick and a copper stick.
Without the artillery battalion, then his status in Wei Yancao's army can be imagined.
Therefore, it is imperative to become virtuous and Wei Yan. But it's been three days of fighting, but he hasn't taken Chengde, and if he continues like this, his artillery will run out of ammunition, so let those gunners put down their artillery and go to the city wall to fight.
Looking at the defenders of Chengde City who appeared above the city, Wei Yanna gritted his teeth with hatred, but there was no way, as long as you were **, people would hide under the city wall, and wait for you to finish fighting, and then they would continue to come up, anyway, they were the masters who didn't see rabbits and didn't scatter eagles.
So except for the damage caused by Wei Yan on the first day, the rest of the time, this artillery battalion was not so much to help with the siege, but rather for intermission.
Everyone is tired, you can set off a cannon and have fun.
Is there any way to expose the defenders of Chengde City to the flowering bullets.
"Kill, kill, kill!" Wei Yan's soldiers and horses once again attacked the city wall.
Chengde City has also begun to slowly become people.
As soon as the artillery rang out, they shrank their heads, and as soon as Wei Yan's soldiers and horses got on, they all came out again.
Suddenly, Wei Yan thought of a solution.
He walked to Xiahou Yuan's side.
"General Xiahou!" Wei Yan hugged his fist towards Xiahou Yuan.
"Huh?" Xiahou Yuan looked at Wei Yan. Wei Yan is not in the artillery camp now, how can he appear here with him. Xiahou Yuan is now busy watching the offensive above the city. There are no technical characteristics in this storming the city wall, it depends on which of the soldiers and horses has strong perseverance, and which of the soldiers and horses are not afraid of death.
Xiahou Yuan's soldiers and horses are not afraid of death, but they can't die in vain.
"General Xiahou, if it goes on like this, our army will not be able to take Chengde City at all for a while and a half!" Wei Yan opened his mouth and said to Xiahou Yuan.
Xiahou Yuan looked at Chengde City, this is still Wei Yan said, it has been three days. They hadn't even broken through the first line of defense, and none of the cities were in their hands.
"General Xiahou, the shells of my artillery battalion are also insufficient!" Wei Yan continued to speak.
"Huh?" Xiahou Yuan frowned, it was already difficult to fight, and now that he didn't even have such an auxiliary as an artillery battalion, it was even more difficult.
"General Xiahou will change later! Liu Mang: I know! This person must have something behind him! Wei Yan pointed to Liu Mang, who was fighting at the head of the city, and said.
Liu Mang is not a heroic and righteous character, basically a gentleman is not conducive to being under the dangerous wall, and he will inevitably hide if there is danger, but this time he appeared above the city.
Wei Yan couldn't guess, but he wanted to take Chengde City as soon as possible.
"His Royal Highness King Wei is also waiting for us to go back! But this virtuous Yangzhou army is like a shrunken turtle. As soon as the cannon goes off, he will definitely hide. All we want is to lure them out! Wei Yan continued.
"What do you mean?" Xiahou Yuan asked suspiciously.
"Xiahou, please look, now those Yangzhou troops have already appeared on the city wall, as long as I set up artillery and bombard the city."
"You fart!" A thousand people of Xiahou Yuan's army on the side will be unhappy, but his men will charge again above the city, if you give him a round of artillery bombardment at this time, yes, you are right, the Chengde defenders may suffer heavy losses, but can they be spared.
It's a cannonball, and the cannonball doesn't have eyes, so he can't tell which one is friendly and which one is the enemy.
"Humph!" Wei Yanqiang endured his anger, did not care about this thousand generals, but continued to say to Xiahou Yuan, "General Xiahou, only this method can take Chengde City in one fell swoop, you and I originally planned to attack Chengde City for a long time, and fight the enemy by surprise, but now it has become a tug-of-war, this is Yangzhou, it is his Liu Mang's hinterland, this reinforcement may arrive at any time, we must take Chengde City as soon as possible, as long as we take Chengde, get the casting artillery inside, and the technology of cannonballs, this red-clothed battalion can have as much as it wants, And those cements! General Xiahou, didn't you see it? Wei Yan was bewitching Xiahou Yuan on the side.
Artillery! Red-clothed battalion, to tell the truth, he Xiahou Yuan also wants it very much, such a thing, although it is a little heavier, but it is okay if it is pulled by a thousand artillery and a war horse.
This artillery is really a sharp weapon, Xiahou Yuan has never seen artillery to defend the city, but he believes that if these cannons are moved to the city wall, it must also be a city defense artifact.
Put them on the border, on top of some important fortresses, and who else will be able to break through them.
There is also cement, Yangzhou, Yuzhou, which is completely two kinds of cities.
When I was in Yuzhou, I encountered a city that resisted to the end, and Wei Yan's bombardment would solve the problem, because even the city wall had collapsed, could it not solve the problem.
But when I arrived in Yangzhou, I found that the artillery was good, but it could not collapse the city of Yangzhou, and these were all relying on something called cement.
And these two things are all in this Chengde City.
"How many soldiers and horses do you want!" Xiahou Yuan said to Wei Yan.
"General, no!" The thousands of people on the side panicked.
Xiahou Yuan ignored him.
"No more, two thousand people, as long as General Xiahou Yuan, let these two thousand teams attack the city, and those Chengde defenders will lure him out!" Wei Yan said with a smile on his face.
"Did you hear that? Give me two teams of 1,000 to come out! Xiahou Yuan said to his subordinates.
But no one among his subordinates responded, because when they did this, they would be poked in the spine.
After all, when you are a robe, you give up others as bait.
"Since you all don't want to go, then General Wei Yan, you can name it!" Wei Yan ordered two thousand-person teams, and the thousand-person general just now was among them.
"General, please let me go up the wall!" This thousand people will say to Xiahou Yuan.
"Confused, on the battlefield, the necessary sacrifice is for a greater victory, and after dying these robes, what you get is Chengde City. More people can die less! Xiahou Yuan said to this thousand generals.
"General, I understand the truth, but I only know that those individuals are my soldiers, my subordinates, I can't bear to let them die in front of me, and I can't bear to let them die at the hands of their own people! In that case, I might as well go with them!" ”
Xiahou Yuan was also a little unbearable, but there was no way, for the sake of the lord's great cause.
"There you go!" Xiahou Yuan nodded and said.
"Thank you, General!" Saying that, this thousand generals led their men and horses to fight above the city.
"General, I'm going too!" Another thousand people will also take the initiative to ask to go up the city wall.
"Kill, kill, kill!" Above the city, Xiahou Yuan's soldiers and horses were once again strangled with the Chengde defenders.
"Camp Redcoat Calibration!"
"Attention units, blossom bombs!"
One by one, the ammunition was pushed into the artillery, and the direction of the artillery was Chengde City.
"Proofrun!" With a bang, a flowering bullet struck the top of the city.
"Huh?" Liu Mang was attracted by this cannon sound, where is it? (To be continued......)