Chapter 535: Burst Arrow
The attack on Puyang for several days in a row was in vain, no matter how the battle was called, the other party was guarding the city and not coming out, and the city was specially reinforced a lot, to forcibly capture, at least more than ten times the casualties of the other party could be taken, so when they learned that Lu Bu had led an army of 100,000 to cross the Yellow River, the people of the Northern Alliance began to look a little nervous, and directly retreated more than 30 miles back to their camp.
Although the Northern Alliance claims to have an army of 800,000, in fact, the number is still a bit exaggerated, in fact, there are more than 100,000 of them, and it is impossible for the horsemen and people who have been forcibly requisitioned to participate in the battle.
And the major princes in the alliance also have their own ghosts, and they are much looser than the original crusade against the Dong Alliance, although it is said that the leader of the alliance was obtained by Cao Cao, but the people who really listen to him are only more than 100,000 people in his headquarters, and others are like thieves to prevent him, as long as it is unfavorable to himself, he will never listen to his dispatch.
That's why it appeared, I heard that Lu Bu led an army of 100,000 to cross the Yellow River, and immediately retreated, they were really afraid that Lu Bu's cavalry would charge, and the alliance would fall apart.
Originally, in their speculation, after receiving the news from the north and the south, Lu Bu's reaction should be to withdraw the garrison in Puyang City and choose to patrol and deploy at various crossings of the Yellow River, and their main force should go south to assess the problem of Jingzhou. But this thief Lu Bu just didn't play his cards according to common sense, and he left Jingzhou alone, but he insisted on running over and preparing to keep the base of the Xuzhou Army north of the Yellow River......
"This thief Lu Bu is really getting more and more arrogant, and he actually left only Gao Shun and his men, just wanting to block the coalition of Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang?" Cao Cao said rather unhappily.
"Now that Lu Bu has become a big trend, he does have the qualifications to be arrogant, let's think about how to deal with that guy first, this time may not be just a matter of Bao Puyang!" Liu Bei is also extremely jealous of Lu Bu.
"Maybe our other departments can divide their troops and go south a few ways, so that Lu Bu can take care of one thing and lose the other!" Guo Jia made a suggestion!
"It's really good to divide the troops, but who can resist Lu?" Dividing the troops to the south will inevitably require a part of the men and horses to stay behind to entangle Lu Bu's army.
“…… Our men and horses can stay to resist Lu, but the princes have to lend me some armor and horses, money and food and other supplies! When everyone was hesitating, Liu Bei stood up directly, he was going to get the benefits first, he was saying, if he couldn't beat Lu Bu, just pester him for a while, and then the soldiers, horses, money, and food under him would of course be their own, and then they would simply go to the outside of the gate to develop......
"Xuande is really righteous, my department supports you with 5,000 cavalry, 50,000 stone of grain and grass......" The relationship between Ma Teng and Liu Bei is not bad, so it is a very bold first offer.
"Our department has 5,000 armored soldiers and 30,000 stones of grain and grass!" Yuan Shang also expressed his position, he nominally inherited Yuan Shao's position, so his strength is still quite large.
"Our department sent 6,000 armor soldiers, 40,000 stone of grain and grass......" Yuan Tan, as Yuan Shao's eldest son, was robbed of his inheritance by his brother, and he has always been very unhappy in his heart, so he is angry, just to let everyone know that he is wealthy.
Then every prince in the alliance was more or less out of some soldiers or money and food for the sake of face, even Cao Cao was no exception, among which Gongsun Kang from Liaodong gave the most soldiers, but there was no money and food at all, because he himself was still short of food.
Everyone is not stupid, of course, they all see that Liu Bei is a little cautious, he will not be able to resist Lu Bu, but as long as he entangles Lu Bu for a while, then the major princes can take their subordinates south to Xuzhou and Yuzhou, where they are now quite rich!
So Liu Bei was stunned to scrape together, and in just half a day, he made up more than 100,000 people, although most of these armor were some miscellaneous soldiers cleaned up by the major princes, but as long as they found a place to settle down, they were still a group of elite soldiers after good training.
Lu Bu's courage is not invincible, this is already everyone's consensus, Liu Guan Zhang Zhan Lu Bu of the Tiger Prison Pass fought a draw, and later in the Battle of Puyang, Cao Jun's Xu Chu, Dian Wei, Xiahou Xi, Xiahou Yuan, Li Dian, and Le Jin will fight Lu Bu together, and they will barely win. Later, Lu Bu became more and more brave, so this time Liu Bei was ready to calculate it early, just to attack Lu Bu's camp and then run away, if he didn't chase him, then he would attack again, and it would be considered benevolent and righteous to harass three times, and then he could take a group of people to hide far away and develop with peace of mind.
The Son of Heaven once again returned to Cao Cao, the leader of the alliance, this time Liu Bei did not take the initiative to fight, and Liu Xie was completely resigned to his fate, and became a puppet with peace of mind, and no longer had any other thoughts, it is better to be a puppet than to starve to death in hunger and cold......
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When night fell, there were still more than 30 miles away from Puyang, and Li Yunfei did not rush over, because according to the report of the spies, the coalition forces had already withdrawn from their camp, and there were some abnormal situations in the camp of the coalition army, and now they were stepping up detection, so Li Yunfei decided to set up camp first and figure out the matter before making a decision.
"Everyone be careful to unload, handle it gently, and don't get too hard to hit the stuff here!" Thirty-six commanded dozens of men to unload some very long boxes from the wagon.
The box does not weigh 35 kilograms, but it is 1.6 meters long, and the contents inside are a very powerful firearm, called the burst arrow, which is a secret weapon that Li Yunfei has only come up with in the past three months, and the power is quite huge, and it can be re-fired with a bed crossbow, of course, because the arrow is a lot heavier, the maximum range can not hit more than 1,000 meters, but it is still possible to shoot more than 500 meters.
In fact, the current bed crossbow is not only installed at the head of the city, it can also be used in field battles after being slightly improved by Li Yunfei, and it can be disassembled into parts by six cavalry in peacetime, and it can be quickly assembled into a bed crossbow within a minute when used.
Since the last assassination, Li Yunfei has begun to prepare a new secret weapon. Although your own crossbow arrows are powerful, as long as the opponent gets some thick wooden shields, you can block the crossbow arrow attack. Even if it is a bed crossbow installed at the head of the city, as long as the enemy prepares in advance and gets some thick shields mounted on the cart, it can still block the arrows fired by the bed crossbow.
But with this burst arrow is completely different, the arrow is cast from pig iron, 4 cm in diameter, the diameter of the internal space is about 3 cm, about 20 cm long, can hold 200 grams of gunpowder, after the arrow hits something, as long as the impact force exceeds a certain degree will explode, the power is almost the same as the offensive grenade, can explode hundreds of fragments, after the explosion within three or four meters of people and animals are not dead and seriously injured, what kind of wooden shield, car shield can not stop the burst arrow, as long as one arrow can be blown into pieces......
"General, be so careful, it's the precious glassware here?" Looking at the careful unloading of the soldiers in the distance, Xiao Qiaoshu asked curiously.
"Of course not, why do you bring glass to the war, this is a very powerful secret weapon."
"So we have a secret weapon again!"
"Of course, if you don't have some secret weapons, there will really be some trouble dealing with the alliance army that has been prepared for a long time. I heard that when they went south this time, almost every soldier was equipped with a thick wooden shield, which greatly reduced the power of our crossbowmen! ”
"Oh, I see, this must be a very special rocket!" Xiao Qiao immediately guessed that he would use fire attack to deal with the wooden shield array.
"Well, you're pretty smart, but you're only half right, guess again!" This little Qiao is really smart, if there is no gunpowder, he can only use rockets to deal with it, of course, the effect will be much worse.
"Thank you, General, for the compliment...... Since this is related to fire, if the last general guessed correctly, but how did the pyrotechnics make arrows? Xiao Qiao carefully analyzed it and recalled the fireworks set off when the distress signal was launched.
It was completely guessed correctly by this little girl, but it made Li Yunfei a little surprised, it seems that this little Qiao is also a beauty with both beauty and wisdom, how to say how the beauties around her, except for the cute girl in Xiaobu, the others seem to be quite smart, and even suspect that the trainer is just pretending to be stupid.
"General, did the last general guess correctly!" Seeing that Li Yunfei didn't speak for a long time, he asked again.
"That's right, Xiao Qiao is really smart, but your self-proclaimed sentence sounds really weird, why don't you change your name?"
"Well, General Wanfu, the slave family is polite." Xiao Qiao made a charming blessing ceremony, and she was wearing a military uniform, and she had an indescribable charm.
“…… The face is like jade, and the country is full of people...... Little Joe, why are you so beautiful! Li Yunfei picked up Xiao Qiao and praised him greatly, now that Xiao Qiao is by his side, of course, he praises him fiercely, and the girls like to talk sweetly.
The effect is really good, after being greatly praised by Li Yunfei, her face is like a peach blossom in an extremely excited mood, adding a bit of beauty, her pink and tender little face can pinch out the water, and even her body involuntarily approached Li Yunfei's arms.
"It's really tiring after a day's journey, let's rest first!" As he spoke, he directly picked up the person and entered the tent of the new army...... Of course, it's just a rest with people in your arms.
Now it's camping in the wilderness, or on the eve of the big war, and the attack may happen at any time, but you can't mess around, in case you are tired, and then the half-enemy comes to sneak attack, it will be very troublesome. However, it is still very comfortable to sleep with a tender beauty like water, a little excited, and the spirit is too good to sleep, so I talk about the past and the future......