Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3215 Different colors of flowers

Judging from the results, Xiahou Dun made a very serious mistake by abandoning the small military camp outside Jinyang and directly retreating to the city.

But the problem is that Xiahou Dun does not have that many soldiers to dispatch, and Jinyang City is not completely on the same page as Xiahou Dun. The more soldiers deployed on the outside, it means that the city's strength is dispersed. In order to ensure the core of defense With the strength, Xiahou Dun gave up the small military strongholds on the outside and allowed Huang Cheng to advance to the city.

This strategy, without artillery, would undoubtedly be correct.

The emergence of artillery completely destroyed the old war model...

The artillery that continuously spit out flames and roared finally stopped.

But it seemed that the terrifying roar was still echoing throughout the entire battlefield.

Smoke filled the entire battlefield, and the city wall on the front was in tatters, like a clay statue of a god, its inner weakness exposed by the wind and rain.

After several rounds of shelling, the barrel of the artillery was extremely hot. Even if water was used to cool it down, the temperature in the barrel could not be reduced to a safe level, so the shelling could only be stopped.

"check carefully! Be careful of burns! 』

The great craftsman shouted loudly. Even he knew that others might not be able to hear him, but he still shouted at the loudest voice and waved his arms.

Every launch is the best opportunity to collect and organize actual artillery combat data.

The soldiers poured water on the cannons, and thick white smoke suddenly rose.

The handle covered with water was pushed into the barrel of the cannon, making a sizzling sound.

The craftsman stepped forward, wearing thick gloves and holding an iron ruler, to measure the changes in the artillery after continuous firing, and to check whether the muzzle and chamber were deformed, and whether the iron hoop on the gun body was loose or broken...

Every hussar soldier passing by the artillery position could not help but pay attention to these craftsmen and artillerymen. For these hussars soldiers who did not understand the operation of gunpowder artillery, these craftsman artillerymen were magical. They brought the thunder from the sky to The human world, and can be mastered and used!

But immediately these hussars focused their attention on their front...

Artillery has opened a path of blood and fire for them, and now they need to use the steel in their hands to widen it, occupy it, and gain the final victory!

"Beep--beep!" 』

Short copper whistles sounded one after another.

More than a thousand hussars have entered the preliminary position, pushing forward the siege equipment and attacking one by one.

The top of the city was in a mess. The originally well-displayed garrison array had been torn to pieces by artillery. Now it was like a clay pot full of cracks, ready to burst and collapse at any time.

Those flags standing at the top of the city have long been lost.

The originally neat battlements were now very few intact. They were either shattered or collapsed in the violent vibrations.

Naturally, the most severe collapse was the gate tower in front of the cannon.

The two-story wooden gate tower was so damaged that it could not withstand a few rounds of artillery fire. It was completely flattened. Only the crooked pillars seemed to still express a trace of his own stubbornness.

At this moment, except for the casualties, the city wall in front of the entire artillery attack was empty. Even though there were some soldiers of Cao's army who were not injured by luck, they huddled on the ground holding their heads, trembling and still controlled by fear.

The accuracy of current artillery is still a headache, but the deterrence is enough to make people fearful.

The city wall of Jinyang did show the excellent quality of Chinese architecture under several rounds of artillery. It did not collapse directly like the city wall of Shanshan King City, but the tremors under the continuous roar, the groaning and cracking of the city wall also This left Xiahou, who had no experience in facing artillery, at a loss.

Of course, what's more important is that Xiahou Dun's direct retreat caused most of Cao's soldiers on the front wall to also retreat down.

It's easy to react in hindsight, but nothing is easy when it comes to taking the lead.

If Xiahou Dun was asked to choose again, he would never stand under the city gate...

No, Xiahou Dun would even develop more targeted tactics and not arrange so many Cao soldiers on the front.

Unfortunately, there is no if.

It's not that Xiahou Dun doesn't want to hold on, but when the city gate tower collapses, if he doesn't leave, he will die, or at least be partially disabled, so what can he do?

But Xiahou Dun's move had a huge impact on Cao Jun's military system, which had a strict hierarchy and clear distinctions between upper and lower classes.

Strictly speaking, didn't Cao Jun know the importance of defending Jinyang?

The army is out there and cannot be defeated in the field, so isn't it just left to defend in the fortified city?

But the truth is the same, but...

Cao Jun, who was a soldier just to earn a living, could hardly have the soil to survive and grow as a fearless man who could protect his family and country.

They may be elites, and their whole body configuration is similar to that of ordinary hussars, and they also have good armors and weapons, but their fighting will has never been high.

Except when looting places...

Therefore, when Xiahou Dun moved, the whole army was shaken. Just like an automatic rally point in the game, once Xiahou retreats, the rest of Cao's army will automatically follow.

Historically, Cao Ba Shi was still in a full health state - although he did not really have eighty, he had at least 300,000 troops on hand. In the Battle of Chibi, even if part of the battleships were burned, Other warships and soldiers on land were in relatively safe positions at least in the early stages of the fire, but when Lao Cao moved...

The same is true for Liu Bei, and there is no need to say more about Sun Shiwan.

Because the normal battle rhythm is relatively slow, these shortcomings are covered up and not exposed. Once an emergency and extreme situation like the current one occurs, this shortcoming will be exposed.

The Cao army on the front wall could not bear the humiliation of the artillery, and their morale collapsed and they retreated. However, there were still Cao soldiers on the side wall. They were not directly harmed, but they did not dare to attack because there was no order from Xiahou Dun, so they had enough troops. The reason for not filling the spot...

Even they all knew that the front wall was empty and the hussars would rush up at any time.

"Ahhh!" They're coming up! It’s coming up! 』

It was not until the hussar soldiers had rushed to the bottom of the city that Cao Jun's soldiers screamed in terror on the side walls.

Some soldiers of Cao's army fired some arrows from both sides, but because of the smoke and dust, they could not be said to be accurate at all. Except for being unlucky enough to be injured by a flowing arrow, its lethality is basically zero.

The ladder truck flipped over and hung the ladder on the dilapidated city wall.

Amidst the short brass whistle, the hussars climbed up.

On the front city wall, broken bricks and tiles were everywhere, and dead and injured soldiers were scattered everywhere.

There are no standing soldiers of Cao's army...

Because the process of connection and cooperation had been repeated many times before the battle, the hussars rushed up the city wall much faster than Cao Jun expected.

Cao Jun's rhythm collapsed.

As the hussars mounted the city wall, Cao's soldiers on both sides could only fight back passively.

Under the smoke and dust, the two sides fought together.

When one soldier falls, another one comes up to replace him.

The frontal city wall was almost lost, which was equivalent to the loss of the geographical advantage that Cao's army had. The two sides stood on the same position. What they competed for was fighting will and fighting skills. In this aspect, Xiahou Dun's central command system was temporarily lost. , which caused Cao's soldiers to suffer a great loss. Not only did they fail to suppress the hussars who came to the city, but they were expanded to the area on top of the city.

But then Xiahou Dun resumed command, driving a large number of Jinyang people as the vanguard, and regained the unfavorable situation for Cao's army...

This point exploits the conscience of the hussar soldiers.

Although the hussars had a certain advantage in the early stage, they were soft on the people of Jinyang and could not withstand the counterattack of Cao's soldiers. Finally, one of Cao's soldiers broke through the line maintained by the hussars. Although this Cao soldier was killed quickly, the formation of the hussars was destroyed and the entire front was continuously compressed.

The hussar soldiers were angry and anxious, yelling at the Jinyang people not to come up and to stay aside. However, the power of fear had a significantly greater effect on the Jinyang people. A few simple roars could not stop these Jinyang people. The people regained their sanity. When Cao Jun saw that driving the people of Jinyang was effective, he drove the people up more and more crazily, trying to squeeze the space of the hussars in this way, thereby driving the hussars down the city wall.

The hussars must first capture the city gate and allow subsequent troops to enter the city through the gate. This is the fastest way to invest troops and is also their first combat goal.

At this time, the smoke and dust had slowly dissipated, and the two sides could see each other more clearly.

The hussar soldiers at the front used their shields to press down the crying and begging Jinyang people, trying their best to prevent themselves from hurting these Jinyang people, while behind these people, Cao's army punched, kicked and slashed with knives. The people of Jinyang were forced to come forward by stabbing them with spears.

The hussar soldiers shouted, trying to get these Jinyang people to resist Cao's army.

After all, they have already invaded, why do these Jinyang people still dare not resist?

In fact, strictly speaking, it is not that the ancient Chinese people did not like to resist, but because once the Chinese people resisted, the consequences would be too terrible. Therefore, the ruling class continued to suppress and castrate the Chinese people's ability to resist. Over time...

After all, as early as when white people were still being enslaved and receiving all kinds of unequal treatment, there were already people in China shouting, "Princes, generals, and ministers should have their own kind." The key is that they really did it!

Therefore, for the ruling class, stability is the only factor to maintain rule.

The rulers of the superstructure of any feudal dynasty are very wary of people's "resistance", so they not only do everything possible to prevent "resistance incidents" or "gathering incidents" from happening on the physical level, but also on the spiritual level. The continuous suppression of the poor has also led to some very strange situations, such as "distribution based on trouble", "stability overrides everything", "correct results", "delayed justice", etc., as well as various spiritual opium and spiritual opium that fill the poor class. Nipple fun, in fact, the harmful effects of these things are well known to the ruling class, and they will not stop them...

What kind of ruler is determined by the ideological and political policies that govern the country and the people who are affected by these ideological and political policies.

Therefore, under the current situation, when facing oppression, the people of Jinyang did not resist Cao Jun. This is the "merit" of the Han Dynasty who had been granted monarchy by heaven for three to four hundred years and governed the country with loyalty and filial piety.

"Meritors" forged with bloody courage and ignorance.

Nearly half of the array of hussar soldiers has been overwhelmed by these Jinyang people, and the subsequent soldiers of Cao's army are pouring up from the corridor and the side of the city wall. If the problem at hand cannot be solved, then the frontal artillery bombardment will be impossible. It might be ruined!

"Grenade!" "Suddenly in the hussar array, someone shouted, "Grenade! 』

The team leader who was maintaining the military line was stunned for a moment, and then he realized what was going on. He shouted and threw a grenade from behind the shield towards the rear of the crowd of Jinyang people.

Just as the emergence of bows and arrows helped Yanhuang defeat Chi You, the powerful leader of the Ax Gang in close combat, the current use of grenades in Jinyang has once again crossed the ladder of straight-line combat with cold weapons and stood higher in curved strikes. above dimensions.

If it were in the previous battle mode, the hussar soldiers would have been helpless against the Cao soldiers hiding behind the Jinyang crowd.

Although the projectile of the bow and arrow can be regarded as a curved attack, it is actually still guided by a straight line of sight. If the field of view cannot be seen, the shooting effect will be very poor. And another very important point is that projectiles often require a certain scale. Without dozens or twenty bows and arrows, the effect of projectiles is almost negligible, but grenades are different. Even if there is only one, it can shock. People's hearts.

The soldiers of Cao's army were very arrogant and drove wildly behind the human wall. After all, human shields were also shields, and they were quite useful at certain times. But soon they saw black dots coming from the sky, which exploded in the blink of an eye. , Cao Jun's soldiers hiding behind the human wall suddenly fell to the ground, rolling and screaming on the ground.

Some Cao Jun soldiers in the distance had to avoid the wounded soldiers rolling and screaming on the ground, which temporarily caused a distance between these civilians and Cao Jun soldiers. As they were going up, another grenade fell. They were immediately frightened out of their wits, screaming and holding their heads to hide. Only after the grenade exploded did they realize that they were completely out of touch with the people of Jinyang.

Those Jinyang people who were forced to serve as human shields were already under the arrangement of the hussar soldiers, either holding their heads at the edge of the city wall and waiting for orders, or retreating to the ruins of the city gate tower to take shelter, while the next group of Jinyang people Not caught yet...

Cao's soldiers lost the cover of the human wall, and their formation was originally in chaos, unable to withstand the impact of the wolf-like hussars. More than a dozen hussars formed two lines, and they cooperated to quickly defeat the chaotic Cao's soldiers. After paying the price of two or three casualties, they occupied the high point of the city corridor and suppressed Cao's soldiers below the city.

The loss of the high point caused Cao's soldiers to lose their defensive support.

The hussars who arrived later lined up on the inner wall of the city, shooting at Cao's soldiers below the city. From time to time, they also threw grenades at places where a large number of Cao's soldiers gathered, making it impossible for Cao's soldiers to assemble smoothly, let alone form an army. Valid array.

Under the repeated attacks, the people of Jinyang who were captured also took the opportunity to flee into the streets and alleys of the city to avoid the military disaster.

After controlling a section of the corridor, the hussar soldiers began to attack the city gate along the corridor. Cao's soldiers originally had twenty or thirty people resisting in the city gate, but they collapsed instantly under two or three grenades.

Even though Cao Jun was wearing iron armor, he was unable to withstand direct and indirect damage from grenades in a small space like a doorway.

Cao Jun was completely suppressed...

Although Cao's army has the advantage of defending the city, it would normally cause greater trouble and damage to the attackers. Unfortunately, Xiahou Dun has no experience in front-on combat with artillery. He is accustomed to being on the front line, This was originally a move to motivate Cao's soldiers, but instead it became an important reason for his complete defeat.

After Xiahou Dun's soldiers retreated, there were not many Cao Jun soldiers on the front. Cao Jun, who had been supplemented by backup, could not withstand the continuous and intensive attacks. The dead Cao Jun soldiers were piled up on the city wall, and their blood was stained on the masonry corridors of the city wall. flowing up.

When the number of hussars attacking the city wall reached a certain number, a qualitative change finally occurred.

Cao's troops coming with support from both sides could no longer put pressure on the attacking hussars, and Cao's troops who arrived sporadically and failed to form an effective formation often had to face the attacks of three or four already formed hussars, so these Cao's troops The soldiers will be killed quickly, and then the next batch of Cao Jun soldiers will not be able to stand for long...

More and more hussars appeared on the city wall, automatically forming a small formation of three, or a group of five, to expand the victory on both sides of the city wall. The final blow to Cao's army's morale was the hussars. Cao Jun, who finally used grenades to clear the doorway, while resisting Cao Jun's counterattack, cleared the horses and stones that were jammed in the doorway, and successfully opened the city gate!

When Huang Cheng saw this, he was overjoyed and ordered the cavalry to dispatch to seize key areas in the city.

Seeing the hussars roaring away, the leader of Baishiqiang scratched his head and ears in anxiety.

"General, what about me?" The leader of Baishi Qiang looked at Huang Cheng expectantly, "I want to join the attack too!" I also want! 』

"Hmm..." Huang Cheng obviously didn't want the leader of the Baishi Qiang to come to grab food at this time, but he couldn't refuse directly and coldly. After thinking about it for a while, he said, "I have a very important task for you..."

The leader of Bai Shiqiang straightened his back and slapped his chest like a monkey, "Don't worry, general, I promise to complete the mission!" I will send people into the city and take the head of that dog thief! 』

"Ahem..." Huang Cheng waved his hands repeatedly, "No...not this..."

If Bai Shiqiang was really allowed to rush into the city, it would probably be bad.

These barbarian cavalrymen of Baishi Qiang have not received orthodox training, so there is no problem in fighting in waves. However, if they want to fight in narrow streets and alleys like this in the city, without skilled combat skills and tacit cooperation, Huang Cheng is almost certain These guys will become a drag on their own troops, which will be detrimental to their own offense.

"I'm not letting you enter the city... your people can't enter the city..." Huang Cheng pondered, "The important task I'm talking about is that you can intercept the fleeing Cao troops outside the city... Yes, this is very important. As for things, your men and horses carry less weight, can run faster, and are more flexible, so such an important task can only be left to you... Do you have confidence? ! 』

Anyway, it would be a good thing to let these Baishi Qiang wander around the periphery and catch some fleeing Cao soldiers. It would be better than letting them into the city to cause trouble.

Bai Shiqiang suddenly stared, but under Huang Cheng's gaze, he couldn't help but grinned awkwardly, and then reluctantly responded, "No problem!" General, absolutely no problem! It's all up to me! 』