Chapter 121: Lose before you get out of the school

When Liu Hou looked up under Guo Youzhi's warning, he saw several "sizzling" sparks burning fire # cannon fuses on the city wall, Liu Hou reacted quickly, and immediately turned over and dismounted and ran backwards when he saw this situation.

Why not run away on horseback and turn over and dismount on foot? Could it be that Liu Hou walked faster than he rode a horse? The answer is no, the reason why Liu Hou got off the horse and walked was because many people were crowded in a pile at this time, the horses were huge, and it was inconvenient to turn around, and if he wanted to turn the horse's head and run, it would be slower.

Liu Hou: "Oops! With a shout, he immediately dismounted, and then ran into the group of soldiers behind, although the soldiers were lined up in a dense formation, but there was always an arm's length between the two people, and this distance was enough for him to squeeze through obliquely.

When Liu Hou ran back less than ten steps, there were already ten black dots in the sky whistle flying towards this side, and a total of ten artillery pieces were secretly set up on the head of the Wei army, and at this time they were all aimed at this side for a salvo.

Guo Youzhi's reaction was no slower than Liu Hou's, and he also made the most correct choice - turn over and dismount and run backwards. It's just that he didn't forget to protect the emperor while running, he ran behind Liu Hou, planning to use his own flesh and blood to block the cannonball for the little emperor in case there was really a cannonball.

However, I have only heard of using the body to block bullets, and whether the body of this scholar who has not practiced iron cloth shirt can block cannonballs remains to be verified.

Bu Qi's reaction was not slow, he forcibly pulled the horse's head around, so that he even led the horse sideways, blocking the passage where Liu Hou escaped, in case there was really a cannonball that could hit Liu Hou, then it would inevitably hit Bu Qi or his horse first, then Guo Youzhi, and finally Liu Hou.

The slowest to react was Deng Zhi, he did not follow Liu Hou to experience the war, and his knowledge of firearms was far inferior to that of Guo and Bu, he obviously didn't understand what was going on, and he still rode on the horse and didn't move.

In fact, in this era when the accuracy of fire # guns and fire # guns are relatively poor, it is difficult for even the aiming person to grasp the accurate landing point of the cannon # bullet and the gun # bullet.

Ten small black dots in the sky magnified dramatically, and soon whistled and smashed into the crowd. Five of them are solid bullets, plowing out five blood paths in the crowd, each solid bullet can penetrate several Shu soldiers, fortunately in the field, the ground is muddy, so that the bouncing ability of the solid bullet is greatly weakened, otherwise there are more than so few deaths.

The most terrifying thing was the five flowering bombs, five concentric circles exploded among the soldiers of the Hong Army, and five huge blood flowers bloomed, and more than a dozen Shu troops fell in each blood flower.

Liu Hou looked back at the sky while running, he lay on the ground when the cannon # shell was about to arrive, Guo Youzhi pounced on him, to block shrapnel for him, and on Guo Youzhi's body, two rattan armor soldiers pounced, Liu Hou was pressed to the bottom, almost crushed to the ground.

Fortunately, as soon as the explosion passed, everyone quickly got up, which kept Liu Hou from breathless, these people were well-trained, and knew that it was time for the enemy's artillery to reload, and this was a good opportunity to continue to escape at this time interval.

Liu Hou was unlucky, and finally brought 100,000 horses to come out of the Wei State to show off his might, but before he could exert his might, he was set on fire by ten fires # cannons. But Liu Hou was also lucky, Wei Guo just got the manufacturing method of the fire # cannon not long ago, although the craftsmen were directly from the Shu State, but some of the basic equipment of the manufacturing industry was lacking, making the precision and accuracy of this batch of just produced fire # guns worse than the artillery of the Shu army.

In addition, the artillery of Wei was also new to the fire # artillery not long ago, and the ammunition of Wei was also very scarce, Cao Pi was not willing to take out how many ammunition # medicine for them to practice, these artillery and the long-trained and actual combat artillery of Shu are not the same.

These two factors combined to make the accuracy of these ten shells very poor, although Sima Yi ordered all ten cannons to be fired at Liu Hou, but this round of shelling did not plow a single solid bullet to Liu Hou.

Even the nearest flowering bullet was ten paces away from him, which made Liu Hou's group not much damage: the top two rattan armor soldiers had several pieces of shrapnel embedded in the vine armor, and the foot of one of the vine armor soldiers who was not covered by the rattan armor was scratched a little by a shrapnel, but it did not have much effect on his movements.

Guo Youzhi was caught in the middle and did not suffer any damage, and Liu Hou was not injured at all except that he was almost suffocated, but the ears of these people were ringing, which was certain.

After Liu Hou got up, he was supported by Guo Youzhi and continued to run back desperately, and a bunch of soldiers consciously blocked behind the little emperor and followed back. The human wall is rapidly thickening, and now it is really plowed by a solid bullet, and it is definitely impossible to plow through such a thick human wall.

Of course, if a flowering bullet hits here, the number of casualties is estimated to be staggering, after all, the crowd is too dense.

Buqi was not as lucky as Liu Hou, a few pieces of shrapnel hit the war horse under his crotch, the war horse was in pain, and raised his front hooves while neighing, and he was caught off guard by Bu Qi.

Fortunately, Buqi belongs to the kind of general who is both civil and military, and has many years of military career, he made the right choice again in such an urgent situation, and as soon as he landed, he quickly rolled out of the range of the horse's trampling, avoiding the fate of the cup that was trampled by the startled horse.

However, he was stepped on by two soldiers one after another, after all, in an emergency, even if the Shu army was well-trained, the scene was inevitably a little chaotic. Fortunately, he was stepped on, not by a horse, and although the step was also trampled on very painfully, the injury was not serious.

The worst is Deng Zhi, his war horse was hit by a solid bullet in the back half, half of the horse's butt was directly cut off, he was driven by inertia, flew into the air, turned and somersaulted for three and a half weeks, completed the difficult action that Guo Jingjing was difficult to complete, and then landed sideways.

Fortunately, there was a bunch of soldiers at the place where he landed, and these soldiers subconsciously reached out to catch him when they saw a man falling from the sky, and after he knocked down three soldiers horizontally, he finally saved his life, but there was a slight concussion, plus internal injuries, plus a dislocated arm, and multiple soft tissue contusions, so that he could only lie in bed for the next ten days.

Liu Hou managed to escape three thousand meters away from the city wall before the Wei army#cannon was reloaded#. This place has been out of the range of the fire # artillery, and because of the distance, from the city wall, the people have become very small, and the artillery operating the fire # gun cannot be aimed at all, and this place has completely escaped the threat of the Wei artillery.

The second round of artillery bombardment of the Wei army confirmed the maximum range of their fire# guns, and in the second round of shelling, the Wei artillery obviously increased the elevation angle of their fire# guns, so that the ten fire# guns could reach the farthest point of their range, which was about a little more than two kilometers. Liu Hou, who had just gained a firm foothold, was finally relieved to see this result.

However, his current image is very wolf, and it is best described as throwing away his armor. Liu Hou, who felt that he had lost face, was ashamed and angry, in addition to being angry, he was also very heartbroken, because these two rounds of shelling by the Wei army caused a lot of casualties to the Shu army.

The first round of shelling caused dozens of casualties, and the second round of shelling was very long, and the kinetic energy of the shells of artillery # had been almost consumed, so the damage caused by solid shells was greatly reduced.

In addition, the Shu generals were trained to deal with shelling, and after the first round of shelling, they dispersed quickly and orderly, so that the situation of killing and injuring many people with one shell due to the crowd was too dense.

In addition, after the first round of shelling, most people reacted, and before the second round of artillery # shells landed, everyone lay on the ground, holding their heads with their hands, covering their ears, and opening their mouths, making standard shelling protection actions, which also effectively reduced the casualties caused by the flowering shells, so the second round of shelling only caused more than a dozen casualties.

Although the two rounds of shelling did not exceed 100 casualties in total, it was enough for Liu Hou to feel heartache for half a day, most of these people were Liu Hou's personal guards, the elite of the Hong army, and a few were Liu Hou's staff officers, messengers, secretaries and other personnel.

Liu Hou, who was embarrassed and angry, immediately issued an order to counterattack Xiangyang City. Generals such as Vulture Bone, Guan Xing, and Zhang Bao were all in their respective units, waiting for Liu Hou's order, and once they received the order to attack, they would command their subordinates to fight.

Liu Hou's first order was also an artillery bombardment, and the order was given to the Second Artillery Corps, at this time the Hong Army had a total of two rocket artillery battalions, each battalion with 81 "Dongfeng No. 1" single-barrel rocket launchers. This is all the rocket artillery produced by the "Ministry of Industry" during this time.

Although rocket artillery is much easier to manufacture than the big # cannon, this ease is also relative, and it is quite good to be able to make more than a hundred in a few months.

Two battalions of 162 "Dongfeng-1" rocket launchers were erected 2,500 meters away from the city gate, all of which were pointed diagonally into the sky. The Wei army on the city wall is not very real because it is far away, but it can still be roughly seen that this is an iron cylinder, and their fire # cannon on the city wall is the same as a circle of iron cylinders, so they all thought that this was the artillery of the Shu army.

Wei Jun, who had just seen the terrible power of the fire # cannon, was frightened and pale, his own side just now was only ten fire # cannon salvo is so powerful, the Shu army and their little emperor wolf rushed to the pig, and now the Shu army has taken out more than ten times the fire # cannon of its own side, how terrifying it should be?

They will soon see how horrible this scene is, and of course, this hellish scene is the last scene that many people stay in their minds.

The artillery of the Shu army first test-fired a rocket, which was used to measure the distance and determine the Zhuyuan. The first rocket landed about fifty meters from the city walls. According to the landing point of the first rocket, after the second rocket artillery adjusted Zhu Yuan, another one was test-fired, but this one still did not hit the city wall, so it was adjusted again and tested again.

The third successfully hit the city wall, and the violent explosion caused five or six Wei casualties. Just when the Wei army thought that the artillery of the Shu army was nothing more than that, they adjusted the remaining 158 "Dongfeng Type 1" of Zhuyuan according to the test shells. Finally all of them were lit #fire#cord, "whoosh ......"

Within a minute, 158 rockets erupted from their tails and flew into the sky, rushing towards the defenders on the city walls with lightning speed.