Chapter 622: Lost in Praise
Xu Huang led the vanguard to the high slope.
Zhang He looked at them, led the rear army, and then followed, facing the enemy and killing them.
When they walked up the high slope, they found that the Shuzhong soldiers led by Gao Xiang were running in a mess and fled to the south in a chaotic manner, they chased and killed for a while, killed some backward Shu soldiers, and stopped, started to clean up the high slope, and waited for Yang Zhao in the rear to come up.
Liu Bei's first line of defense was so easily defeated by Yang Zhao.
They then went all the way down the slope, and the second line of defense soon appeared, but after a while, it was also breached.
The other defense lines in the Bao Slope Road could not prevent Yang Zhao at all, and they drove straight all the way, through the mouth of the South Valley, and entered the Kei Valley, these two places, there were also Liu Bei's defense lines, but without exception, all of them were broken.
The army led by Yang Zhao went all the way to the praise of Hanzhong.
Just outside the city of Baozhong.
A large army is coming to the city.
The guard in Baozhong was Gao Xiang, who had just fled back, and the other guard was Lei Tong, a general who had surrendered to Liu Bei.
Seeing that the soldiers were approaching the city, they hurriedly laid down defenses, and at the same time asked people to send the news here to Liu Bei, who was still in Nanzheng, they all looked nervously at Yang Zhao's army outside the city, a little afraid of Yang Zhao's strong attack.
Especially Gao Xiang, who had seen the power of Yang Zhao's artillery, now felt a lot of pressure and wanted to abandon the city and run away.
Yang Zhao came to the city, looked up lightly, and said, "Siege the city!" ”
When they were in Mibuya, they were pretty much rested.
This time, the soldiers are under the city, there is no need to rest, anyway, the siege is all artillery, and there is no need to climb the ladder.
"Defense!"
When Lei Tong saw Yang Zhao's army moving, he shouted, "Bring our trebuchets up." ”
He also tried to use a trebuchet to fight back against Yang Zhao, but Gao Xiang shook his head and said: "It's useless, our trebuchet can't hit Yang Zhao's people at all." ”
As soon as these words fell, the cannon rang out.
As it turned out, Gao Xiang was right.
Artillery shells, at great distances, landed on the gates, knocking down the wooden gates, revealing the stones that blocked the gates.
This way of dealing with artillery is no stranger to them.
Especially in the face of Yang Zhao's attack, they can only use this method to defend, in front of artillery, under the cover of firepower, all their defenses are very weak and useless.
"Is it really that strong?"
It was the first time Lei Tong saw the power of artillery, and he was shocked on the spot.
It's really that strong!
Gao Xiang's face turned pale.
Next, they don't know what to do.
The artillery was far beyond the range of their long-range weapons, and they could only look at the artillery outside and continue to bombard the city gates.
"Another stone blocking the door."
Yang Zhao smiled helplessly: "It seems that apart from this, they have no other way to prevent our artillery." ”
Tian Feng said: "The power of our artillery is so strong, all other methods are in vain. ”
Yang Zhao nodded and said, "Then continue to bombard and continue to attack the city!" ”
Rumble!
After receiving the order, the gunners reloaded the shells and bombarded the walls with great ferocity.
This time it was ten artillery pieces, and at the same time bombarded the city gate blocked by stones, so that the entire city tower shook, and the stones blocking the gate fell one after another, and a hole was blown out.
Seeing this, Yang Zhao ordered to continue the bombardment.
Others dug up some dirt, built a platform, set up mortars, and a volley of shells into the city.
The cannonball crossed the city wall and exploded behind the city wall, and the Shu soldiers behind were blown up, and the sound of wailing continued to echo.
Lei Tong and they were stunned, Yang Zhao's firearm was too explosive.
Too strong to be matched.
Rumble......
At this moment, another burst of cannon fire appeared.
"General, the gates have been pierced."
A soldier ran over eagerly and said.
Lei Tong was shocked: "What? ”
Gao Xiang shouted: "We can't defend it anymore, let's run quickly and go back to Nanzheng." ”
They didn't know what to do, but they also knew that in this case, Baozhong would definitely not be able to hold on, and there was no other way but to retreat.
"Retreat."
Lei Tong gritted his teeth and said: "Come two thousand people, after the city gate is broken, the others will leave with me!" ”
They walked quickly down the tower, and they were about to run away.
He also ran decisively.
After all, the gap between the two sides is too big, and if you don't run, you will wait for death.
"My lord, there is a hole in the city gate."
Outside the city, Xu Huang came back and said.
Yang Zhao nodded and said, "Keep opening!" ”
Zhuge Liang reminded: "Lord, the people in the city, when they notice that the city gate is broken, they should not dare to defend it, and they may be preparing to escape." ”
"Zilong!"
Yang Zhao looked back and said, "You go and intercept for a while, take 20,000 people, follow the cavalry, and cooperate with Zilong to intercept and kill." ”
"Yes!"
They responded in unison, and soon walked out of the formation.
Then, another loud bang echoed.
The city gate was completely bombed open, and Xu Huang led his troops to kill it first.
Behind the city gate, more than 2,000 people who were left behind and cut off could not be stopped at all, and they were quickly killed and penetrated, and the entire city was controlled by them in this way.
Lei Tong and Gao Xiang ran out of the city gate on the south side.
However, not long after they had run, the sound of horses' hooves, thundering, approached them.
"It's not good, Yang Zhao's cavalry is here!"
Gao Xiang exclaimed.
Lei Tong looked back, only to see the cavalry rushing to kill, the horse's hooves stepped on the ground, making a loud sound, and raising smoke and dust in the sky, and was killed in front of him in the blink of an eye.
How strong Yang Zhao's cavalry was, how much they had heard of it.
At this time, when you see the cavalry coming, the first thing you can think of is not to resist, but to escape.
Run as fast as you can.
However, the speed of the person was far inferior to the war horse, and Zhao Yun quickly killed the close-quarters, and the heavy cavalry still rampage, breaking through the fleeing Shu army.
Zhao Yun quickly killed Gao Xiang's side.
Gao Xiang felt that the aura of danger was enveloping him, and he instinctively raised his spear to block it, but the gun in his hand was knocked away by Zhao Yun's silver gun with a collision, and then Zhao Yun's silver gun was picked up and penetrated Gao Xiang's chest.
Gao Xiang's corpse was thrown high and then fell.
Seeing that Gao Xiang was dead, the morale of the other Shu soldiers around him plummeted, and they fled indiscriminately, and the military formation, which had no one to command, was in chaos.
When Lei Tong saw a photo, Zhao Yun was able to kill Gao Xiang, run faster, and then let the soldiers block behind him to avoid being chased by Zhao Yun, but Zhao Yun rushed to kill for a while, and the infantry led by Zhang He also followed.
Zhang He quickly launched an encirclement and surrounded all the soldiers of the Shu army and killed them.
Zhao Yun killed Gao Xiang, and then went to hunt down Lei Tong.
Seeing this, Lei Tong ran faster and walked into the mountain forest in front of him.
Jungle warfare is the weak point of cavalry.
Zhao Yun didn't dare to chase in, Zhang He sent two thousand infantry, deep into the mountains and forests, and pursued for a while, Lei Tong found an opportunity at this time, knocked the infantry back, and did not dare to stay any longer, quickly ran away, and fled back to Nanzheng.