"Since the reinforcements arrived in Tugi Province last month, why did Usari send a request for help at this time?" In the National Teacher's Mansion, Yuan Zhang stared fiercely at the messenger sent by Usari and asked. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Lord Qi Guoshi, as soon as the enemy army arrives at the Luo Shiji battalion, the general will send messengers one after another, villains... The villain is already in the tenth wave to deliver the letter. The messenger with a fresh knife on his arm endured the pain and replied, "It's just that there are thieves and bandits all the way from the camp to here, intercepting and killing us everywhere, the villain has more than 20 people on this trip, and after a series of death battles, only the villain can escape alive, presumably the previous messengers have been... They are all dead on the road. ”

Shi Huaiyi and others put their main energy on cutting off the connection between Yuan Zhang and Usari after burning the grain and grass that supplied Usari's camp, and it was not easy for these small groups of men and horses to break through their encirclement, so the news of the arrival of reinforcements only now reached Yuan Zhang's ears, looking at the wounded appearance of the envoy under the hall, Yuan Zhang knew that he had done his best, so after a few words of reassurance, he let him go down for treatment and rest.

"Now there are 60,000 soldiers and horses under Luo Shiji's command, and then Li You's brigade should also arrive, I think they plan to attack Henan Road first to reduce the pressure on the side, and then lead the troops to attack the capital." Yuan Zhang looked at the map and expressed his judgment to Yuwen Yisheng and them, "In your opinion, how should we deal with it now?" ”

"Usari will never be Luo Shiji's opponent, for today's plan, we must first find a way to rescue him, whether it is to send reinforcements to resist the enemy outside Henan Province or temporarily retreat to preserve strength, we must make a decision as soon as possible, if we wait for Li You to lead a large group of men and horses to arrive, I am afraid it will be too late." Yuwen Yisheng said with a stern face.

"Count the days, maybe Luo Shiji has already begun to attack Usari's camp, my northern army is not good at defending the city, I'm afraid he won't last long." Chen Jing'an was also worried.

According to his comparison of each other's strength, Yuan Zhang knew very well that Usari's defeat was only a matter of time, but if reinforcements were sent, less would not be used, and if there were more, those thieves in Henan Province would lose control, and the consequences would be equally unimaginable; And if Usari is allowed to retreat, Arub may not be able to explain it, you must know that since the Mobei army went south, even if there were one or two defeats, it was only a setback in the attack, and there was never a time to flee from the wind; For a moment, Yuan Zhang fell into a dilemma.

Yuan Zhang had a hard time there, but Luo Shiji's side was very easy, after annihilating the elite of Pu Suqi and Xue Haomu's sneak attack, Usari no longer dared to send people out, so he could generously push all the cannons down in front of the formation, and constantly fired shells at the camp in the north, beating the wall they had worked so hard to build.

Usari had nothing to do about it, sending troops to attack was to send him to death, and now he was afraid that he would not be able to find a general who still had the courage to leave the camp; If you don't send people out, you can only wait to be beaten, neither trebuchets nor heavy crossbows can pose much threat to the well-protected cannons, Usari concentrated all the trebuchets and bed crossbows in the camp, and only destroyed several artillery positions of the Jiazhou army, and the cannons did not suffer much damage, those gunners of the Jiazhou army carried away the wounded soldiers, and quickly built a suitable gun emplacement in another place, and continued to fire shells at them, raining shells towards the trebuchets and bed crossbows, After a while, most of the damage was damaged, and the rest did not dare to fire again, so they could only move to the back and hide.

Luo Shiji did not rush to launch a fierce attack, and took advantage of the situation to defeat the Beiyu camp, because according to Li You's plan, Usari was only a turtle in the urn and could not escape anyway, so taking this opportunity to attract Yuan Zhang's reinforcements and eliminate the Beiyu's troops in Henan Province on a larger scale, so as to alleviate the obstacles for the restoration of Henan Province is the key.

Therefore, in the next period of time, Luo Shiji took advantage of this rare opportunity to experiment with the various roles of artillery on the battlefield, and worked out a variety of artillery attack plans with the General Staff, and obtained a series of extremely useful data through statistical analysis, which will be sent to Li You, Gu Jiangzi and Sima Cuo and others, and then will be used in the research and development and production of the next batch of cannons, so as to create more practical cannons for the Jiazhou Army.

At the same time, Luo Shiji is also thinking about the role of artillery, guns and grenades and other new weapons in tactics, since ancient times, most of the soldiers have studied the combat in the era of cold weapons, after he saw the power of guns and cannons, he has faintly felt in his heart, maybe the art of war will also usher in earth-shaking changes, if anyone can take the first step on this road, after all, it will become a sage and soldier saint sought after by later generations of soldiers.

For Luo Shiji, who still retains a bit of bookishness, it is even more important than winning one or two battles; Therefore, he hoped more and more that Li You could arrive as soon as possible, because he faintly realized in his heart that since Li You attached great importance to these weapons from the beginning, he must have more mature ideas on how to use them, and Luo Shiji looked forward to exchanging and learning from Li You earlier.

After more than ten days, Li You finally led tens of thousands of troops to arrive at Luo Shiji's camp, counting the reinforcements brought by Li You this time, the total number of troops here has exceeded 100,000, and the total number of troops in the Qin Shixin camp on the other side has also increased to 60,000, and in the two battlefield directions, the Jiazhou army has formed an advantage over the Northern Yuan army.

"General Luo really has the talent of a famous general, these cannons and firecrackers have just appeared, General Luo is aware of their prospects, and his long-term vision is also one of the best among many famous generals in the world." As soon as he communicated with Luo Shiji for a while, Li You sincerely admired that although Luo Shiji's views were still quite immature, he had already realized the trend of hot weapons replacing cold weapons, which was much better than other generals.

"If it weren't for Lord Taiwei's previous training in martial arts, Luo would definitely not have thought of this." Before these hot weapons were equipped in the army, Li You summoned the main generals in the army to train them in relevant knowledge, and it was precisely because of this training and the progress of this war that Luo Shiji had a lot of gains.

"After all, it's a bit shallow on paper, let's continue to wait until Yuan Zhang's reinforcements arrive, and then see the true power of these weapons." Li You said confidently.