Chapter 122: Heavy casualties

It is said that Liu Hou was angry and ordered the Second Artillery to bomb the city. It's a pity that the accuracy of the rocket artillery is still a little worse, and the launch distance at this time is also far, and the deviation is even greater when it reaches the destination, almost fifty rockets fell to the ground in advance before they flew to the city wall, and the violent explosion set off a storm of mud and sand outside the city.

About a third of the rockets flew directly through the city wall and into the city, because there were many Wei troops in the city, although this part of the rockets did not hit the target, but the auxiliary vehicle still harvested a lot of lives.

Only a third of the remaining rockets hit the city, but even a third had about fifty, and fifty rockets erupted in a dazzling sea of sparks and smoke on the city.

When the smoke cleared, it was found that the arrow tower with the bed crossbow at the head of the city gate had collapsed, and the city wall in this area was in a mess, not to mention the living, not even a complete person, only the fragments of corpses and fragments of clothing and armor remained.

Everyone was stunned, not only the soldiers of the Wei State, but even the soldiers of the Shu State who were accustomed to seeing firearms, there were many people who had never seen the power of rocket artillery, and they were shocked when they saw this scene of heavenly punishment for the first time.

"Is this a thunderbolt?"

"Oh my God! Legend has it that the little emperor of Shu would summon heavenly thunder, and it was true. This is the discussion of the soldiers of the Wei State.

Contrary to the negative feelings of fear, frustration, and helplessness of the Wei soldiers, the Shu soldiers were full of pride at this time, and they felt excited, inspired, high-spirited, and full of fighting spirit.

The Second Artillery Corps quickly reloaded the rocket artillery and continued to fire, and soon, after two rounds of strikes, two more sections of the city wall were swept away by this kind of heavenly punishment and lightning fire.

"Now Sima Yi is not dead!" Liu Hou punched his fist and hated it.

And the Sima Yi Lao'er in his mouth did not die at all, not only did he not die, but he was also issuing orders one after another in the city unscathed, directing the troops to fill in the positions in time to defend the places that had been bombarded by rockets.

The old and cunning man had a premonition that the situation was not good when the Shu army put out those iron cylinders similar to fire# cannons, and slipped off the city wall in time, retreated to the city about a mile away from the city gate, and set up a temporary command post to hide in it to direct the war.

His caution allowed him to avoid a catastrophe, but now he listened to his subordinates constantly reporting the battle situation back and forth, and he also felt very helpless in his heart, he knew that the firearms of the Shu army were powerful, but he didn't expect it to be so strong that Cheng dù, such a sky-overwhelming, like the power of thunder and fire from the sky, how could mortals resist?

Although the Wei army also cast some fire# cannons, compared with these weapons of the Shu army, they are simply insignificant, and they are not at the same level at all.

The rocket artillery of the Shu army specifically attacked the position of the ten fire # guns on the head of the city, and now the ten fire # guns have been dumb fire, and the bronze fire # guns may not be damaged, but the gunners who operate the fire # guns are basically all reimbursed, and without the gunners, the fire # guns are a thick copper pipe.

What's more, the Shu army has now retreated to more than 2,000 steps away, and even if there are gunners, these fire# cannons on the city can't reach people at all. Why is the range of the Shu army's fire# artillery longer than ours? Could it be that the craftsmen from Shu have something to hide? Could it be that they only produce products with a shorter range than Shu munitions # artillery for the Wei State, and are not willing to produce the most advanced weapons for the Great Wei State?

Sima Yi had a question in his heart, and he decided that he must report the situation to Cao Pi after he went back, so that he could deal with those craftsmen well.

Of course, he didn't know that these were newly developed rocket artillery by the Shu army, and the craftsmen who were sent to Wei and Wu by Xu Jing had never seen this new weapon, let alone let them produce it.

He also didn't know that if he wanted to be invincible, he had to rely on scientific and technological progress. The continuous progress of new technologies and the continuous development of new weapons are a powerful guarantee for the armed forces to continuously win new victories.

After knocking out the ten cannons on the city wall, Liu Hou gave the order to attack. The vulture bone personally led five thousand vine armor soldiers to carry the ladder to the city wall like a tide, and Guan Xing sent two battalions of fire # spearmen to shoot at the city wall at the back, as long as there was a defending Wei army to take the lead, a few shots flew over.

Originally, the defenders on the city wall had been emptied by rocket artillery, but after knowing that the Shu army had begun to attack the city, Sima Yi immediately urgently allocated manpower and ran up the city wall to fill the vacancies, so when the vine armor soldiers ran under the city wall, countless Wei soldiers appeared on the city.

Liu Hou didn't expect Wei Jun's reaction to be so fast, he was worthy of being Sima Yi, and he really lived up to his reputation. He hurriedly transferred two more battalions of fire # spearmen to participate in sniping the defenders at the head of the city. When he landed, the sound of crackling fried beans sounded, not only because the Shu army outside the city was shooting, but also because a fire # gun was also stretched out on the battlement at the head of the city, and it was fired back this way.

"At least five hundred fire# guns." Guo Youzhi observed with a telescope for a while and then said.

Although the fire # spearmen on the city head are much less than the Shu army under the city, and their accuracy is not as good as the Shu army, they rely on the city wall to protect most places of the body, and they are condescending and have a great advantage.

So for a while, the two sides were evenly matched, although the Wei army suffered a lot of casualties, and the casualties on the Shu army's side were also increasing.

When the rattan armor soldiers arrived at the city wall, a lot of sandalwood rolling stones were thrown down on the city wall, and although the rattan armor could defend against the sword, it could not prevent the sandalwood rolling stones thrown from the city wall, and the casualties of the rattan armor soldiers also increased sharply.

When the brave rattan armor soldiers braved the arrows and stones, climbed the ladder and climbed to the top of the city, the Wei army pushed the ladder away from the city wall with an iron hook, and pushed the rattan armor soldiers attached to it to the ground with ladders.

When a few rattan armor soldiers finally landed on the top of the city, and the Wei army was about to be unable to hold it, Liu Hou suddenly saw a lot of black balls emitting black smoke thrown down from the city wall.

"Oh no, it's a thunderbolt!" Liu Hou blurted out, but it was too late, and a dense explosion sounded under the city wall, and countless thunderbolts exploded at the base of the city wall, and the vine armor soldiers fell.

"Hurry up and withdraw the troops!" Liu Hou hurriedly shouted when he saw that the situation was not good.

"Bell, bell, bell!" As the gong of the Shu army sounded, the tide of the vine armor soldiers besieging the city generally retreated. Due to the protection of rattan armor, many of the rattan armor soldiers who were blown up by thunderbolts were wounded but did not die, and were supported by their comrades and retreated into the large array of the Shu army.

The fire#spearmen continued to shoot at the wall, covering the retreat of the vine armor soldiers, and with their suppression, the defenders on the city wall could not take the opportunity to chase the retreating vine armor soldiers with bows and arrows or fire# guns.

"I'm going to you." Liu Hou, who was furious, couldn't help but scold Xu Jing bitterly, if it wasn't for this short-sighted old boy who betrayed state secrets, Wei would not have obtained the manufacturing method of firearms, and the Shu army would not have suffered so many casualties today. And it is conceivable that in the days to come, there will definitely be more casualties in the Shu army, which is all thanks to Xu Jing, who really wants to put Xu Jing Lingchi to death now.

If you want to do it, Liu Hou, who was embarrassed and angry, turned his head to Guo Youzhi: "Draft, Xu Jing colluded with the thief, plotted against the thief, and committed a great crime, so he immediately cut off the city." "Being a feudal dynasty dictator# dictator has this advantage, if you want to kill a person, you don't need any evidence at all, you don't need any trial, you just convict you of a crime casually.

"Send the holy decree to Lingnan quickly and let Fei Yi carry it out." Liu Hou added.

Guo Youzhi bowed down and promised, Xu Jing was extremely evil, Guo Youzhi had also persuaded the little emperor to kill him before, at that time Liu Hou was merciful and let him go, and now the little emperor suffered a loss and regretted killing him, of course Guo Youzhi would not stop him, and hurriedly took the order to draft the holy decree.

However, Liu Hou did not expect that this murder order issued by him in a fit of rage did not work in the end, because when the holy decree arrived in Lingnan, Xu Jinggang died of illness.

The weather in Lingnan is hot, the ground is full of poisonous insects and miasma, Xu Jing because of old age, frustration and loneliness in politics, encountered the harsh environment of Lingnan, he went to Lingnan not long after he fell ill, and finally died.

However, it was said that after Liu Hou collected his troops, he counted the soldiers and horses, and his heart was like a knife, and more than 200 people died in this war # spearmen, and more than 300 were injured. The rattan armor soldiers were even more miserable, the number of casualties reached as many as 500, and no less than 1,500# people were injured.

Even the vulture was smoky and limped back, his foot cut by shrapnel, and the baby's mouth-sized wound was bleeding.

The time of this attack was actually very short, in just one hour, the casualties of the Shu army reached an astonishing 2,500# people, which shows the efficient lethality of firearms. This is also the reason why Liu Hou, who had already pardoned Xu Jing, was furious and wanted to kill him.

Of course, the Wei army was no better there, their casualties reached more than five thousand, of which more than a thousand died and close to two thousand. However, the Wei army did not have such a complete medical system as the Shu army, and did not have such good medical conditions.

Most of the injured people in the Shu army can save their lives, except for a few who will die because they are too seriously injured, and a few who can save their lives, but because they are disabled, they eventually have to quit the army, and most of the wounded soldiers can quickly recover and return to the team.

On the contrary, more than half of their wounded soldiers# will eventually die due to the deterioration of their injuries, and the main cause of death is of course wound infection, especially from lead # bullets or shrapnel # films, the wounds are difficult to heal, and many wounded soldiers die in extreme pain. No more than 1,000 of these wounded soldiers will eventually return to the team.

Liu Hou returned to the military tent and summoned all the strategists and generals to discuss the next step.

The emperor convened a meeting of his ministers, under normal circumstances, it was not a very important matter, and no one dared to disturb it, but the soldiers still came to report, saying that there was an urgent military situation, and Liu Hou knew that this military situation must be very important and urgent.

Liu Hou asked the herald outside the door to come in, and after the herald came in to salute, he reported an astonishing piece of news to Liu Hou:

It turned out that early this morning, the people of the fifth scout team went all the way west to reconnoitre, and they found a large group of men and horses thirty miles away from the camp, judging from the banner, it should be the people of the Wei State, and the main general was surnamed Cao, and the number was estimated to be about 50,000.