Chapter 950 Chengde Artillery Fire(1/2)
Smoke rose from the border, so naturally I couldn't hide it from the people in Hebei.
Xun Yu originally came to Hebei to take charge of various important matters in Hebei. As soon as the wolf smoke rose, he immediately discovered it.
"Enemy attack?" Xun Yu looked at the wolf smoke, which was divided into many kinds.
The materials are also different, such as poplar, red willow, robose, splendens, white ts, camel grass, licorice, dry reeds, saxony, etc., which can be used as fuel. The appearance of it burns is also different.
The rising wolf smoke now is telling the people in Hebei that the Huns are coming.
"Random!" Xun Yu was in Youzhou, furious. He really didn't expect that the Huns would enter the pass at this time.
"Zuo Xianwang Maodun, I think you are really impatient!" Xun Yu's temper also rose, and he fought many wars with his brother Xun Cen in Youzhou, Liaodong. Gradually, Xun Yu has changed from a scholar in the past to the current leader, or is more adaptable to the position of governor. "Sir, will you be too rough? The Zuo Xianwang Maodun has only 100,000 cavalry, how dare he detain the pass?" A general next to him asked in confusion. The man's surname was Tian and his name was Yu.
Originally, he was a general of Gongsun Zan, but later when Gongsun Zan lost, he was discharged from his army and returned to the field. He waited for Cao Cao to re-activate it and came to Youzhou again.
Tian Yu was really familiar with border affairs. Zuo Xian Wang Maodun, he had called out.
Although he was considered a hero among the Huns, he was only among the Huns.
There were a lot of 100,000 Hun cavalry, but if they really wanted to fight, Cao Cao was not afraid of him at all. As long as he had 30,000 cavalry, he could narrow him to the borderland.
Someone soon sent back the information.
Looking at the soldiers of the Zuoxian King of the Huns, the army of 800,000 was entered, even if Maodun deliberately increased the number, there were still 400,000 or 500,000.
"How could it be!" Tian Yu was also stunned. Did this Huns have two children a day? Why did so many people suddenly appear?
"I don't care where others came from. Since he has come, don't think about going back!" Xun Yu also had 100,000 soldiers in his hands. It's not that he can't fight Maodun.
Xun Yu also had his own confidence. The Han people were good at military tactics. Now it was not during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. At that time, because of the continuous battles and the gentry exploited the people, the talents in China were withered, the soldiers and horses were ridiculed, and the horses were put into the warehouse.
Although the current great man is setting sun, he still has the last look.
These 100,000 soldiers were usually military farming soldiers, but were war soldiers during war.
"Sir, this army has not paid any military pay for three months!" Tian Yu hesitated for a while and said to Xun Yu.
"What! Haven't the food and grass allocated in Xudu been sent here yet?" Xun Yu asked Tian Yu.
"No!"
How to allocate a large army without food and grass? Before the army moves, we can't let the soldiers go to war with hunger.
"How much food and grass are left in the army!" Xun Yu said with a gloomy face.
"It's less than half a month's cost!"
"Damn it!" Xun Yu gritted his teeth. Half a month, and there was only half a month left in Youzhou. You can imagine other places. I'm afraid there are only about ten days of food and grass left. How did the Han people resist these ethnic groups on the grassland? One was relying on new weapons, sharp blades, elite armor, and the city.
But you must have food to defend the city, but there is no food. How to defend it? Now the Hun cavalry has even entered Guanzhong, and Xun Yu dared not imagine those cities surrounded by the Hun army.
"Hurry, hurry up. Come and send me eight hundred miles to Xudu to hurry up and let Xudu allocate food and grass as soon as possible!" Xun Yu shouted loudly. It's no longer a trivial matter now. If one is not done well, the whole of Hebei may be trapped. "Yes!" Tian Yu, the subordinate, was about to leave.
"Wait! Send me another envoy to Yangzhou and inform His Highness of the King of Wei. We need reinforcements!" Without food and supplies, Xun Yu could not send out his troops at all, so he could only hold on to the rescue.
Tian Yu ordered his subordinates and came back soon. Several war horses galloped out of the post station, and tens of thousands of them were in a hurry.
"The army without food and grass, and the current invasion of the Huns, Xun Yu feels terrible when he thinks about it.
"Tian Yu, go to the city to help me buy food and grass from the gentry, and buy as much as I can!" Xun Yu continued to instruct Tian Yu. Xu Du was unreliable for a while, so he could only rely on himself first. But these are just drops of the bucket.
"Sir, we can actually borrow food and grass from them!" Tian Yu said suddenly.
"them?"
"Is it really possible?" Xun Yu smiled bitterly, not to mention that both sides were enemies, not to mention that Cao Cao had already attacked Yangzhou and Hebei was threatened. I'm afraid they would not be too late to be happy.
"Sir, after all, we are all Han people!" Tian Yu pointed to the direction opposite Liaodong.
"Try it!"
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Yangzhou has great virtues, and this is already the third day.
"Boom boom boom boom!" Wei Yan was really merciless. The red clothing camp pulled open the cannon suit and tilted the ammunition hard towards the top of the city.
If Cheng De had not used cement components, the city gate would have been broken long ago. That's it, there were still wailing above the city.
The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, led by Zhang Liao, was entangled with the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.
Countless Xiahou Yuan's soldiers under the city were climbing towards the top of the city.
"Your Highness, let's go!" Liu Ye was really worried. Cheng De could be lost, and Liu Ye could die, but Liu Mang couldn't have any trouble.
Once something happens to Liu Mang, the entire Yangzhou army will be completely helpless.
"Wait a little longer!" Liu Mang gritted his teeth at Wei Yan. Wei Yan seemed to be determined to kill Liu Mang. All the shells from the Red Clothing Camp rushed towards Cheng De's city wall for no money.
"Wei Yan is also sure. Can you replenish ammunition from my Chengde City after taking down Chengde?" Liu Mang was also angry. Originally, these cannons from the Red Clothing Camp were all his things from Liu Mang. Liu Mang planned to use these cannons to entertain Cao Cao, but he did not expect that Cao Cao would entertain himself in turn.
"Your Highness, this is already the third day, and it will be too late to wait!" Liu Ye said worriedly. Even if Cheng De was poured with cement, he could not withstand the first battalion's artillery for three consecutive days.
There were cracks on the top of the city and corpses were piled up all over the ground. Chengde originally had only three thousand defenders. If the people had not been for helping, the city would have been destroyed long ago.
The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry is not too much now. It is enough to take Liu Mang away.
"Which Wei Yan is not dead and the red-clothing camp is not destroyed, how can I leave?" Liu Mang was unwilling to leave. He wanted to watch Wei Yan's red-clothing camp be eliminated, and the threat was too great.
"Your Highness. Just have me in Chengde City. You can leave quickly!" Liu Ye wanted to stay in Chengde instead of Liu Mang to wait for reinforcements.
"No!" Liu Mang looked down on Liu Ye. If Liu Mang left, Wei Yan would inevitably become suspicious. If he deviated from the trajectory at that time, it would be bad.
"Zi Yang, I'll wait here for another day, and only one day. If they don't come, I will leave with General Zhang Liao!" Liu Mang comforted Liu Ye next to him and said.
Liu Ye knew that he could not convince Liu Mang anymore, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, just one day!" In one day's effort, Chengde City could still be defended.
"Kill, kill, kill!" Xiahou Yuan's soldiers began to fight towards the city wall again.
"All the soldiers followed my orders to kill the enemy!" Liu Mang is now a strong man at the peak of God Refining. If it weren't for him, there would be a lot of enemies in Chengde City.
Now Liu Mang's sword can guarantee a vacuum. If it weren't for the artillery at Wei Yan's place under the city, Liu Mang would not dare to joke about his life. In addition to Liu Ye's dissuasion, Liu Mang planned to fight for the enemy camp alone.
Xiahou Yuan's soldiers were all elite soldiers of the Divine Martial Army. Although Chengde City was not as weak as Xiahou Yuan's soldiers, they were not weak. In addition, Chengde's family had the responsibility of defending the territory. Xiahou Yuan could not take much advantage at all.
"I want to see when you can persevere!" Xiahou Yuan's troops were repelled again, and Wei Yan's artillery was once again raised and their anger was tilted towards the top of the city.
After fighting these days, the defenders of Chengde City gradually understood the habits of artillery. Once the cannons were set off from the city, the soldiers and horses above the city would retreat from the city wall and wait for the cannons to end before fighting on the city wall.
Except for Wei Yan's death and death on the first day, the rest of the time was fine.
A cannon was supposed to last for half an hour, but this time it only took two cups of tea.
"What's going on?!" Wei Yan also found out and questioned.
"General, in my red-clothing camp, the ammunition is almost insufficient!" A general from the red-clothing camp walked to Wei Yan and said to Wei Yan.
"There is insufficient ammunition?" Wei Yan has been saving ammunition since the attack on Guangzhou, but it is still not enough now.
"The solid bullets have been exhausted, and only the flowering bullets are left. The flowering bullets are left, and there are less than ten shots left in each gun group!"
Cannons use ammunition. If they do not have ammunition, what is the difference between them and a fire stick and a copper stick.
Without the artillery battalion, then his status among Wei Yan and Cao's army can be imagined.
So Cheng De and Wei Yan were determined to win. But after three days of fighting, Cheng De was not taken down. If this continues, his cannons will be out of ammunition. Could it be that those gunners will put down their cannons and go up to the city wall to fight?
Looking at the defenders of Chengde City who showed their heads above the city, Wei Yan was so angry that he gritted his teeth, but there was nothing he could do. As long as you were rushing, they would hide under the city wall and wait for you to finish the fight and continue to come up. Anyway, they would just be the master who would not show up the rabbit or show off the eagle.
So apart from the damage caused by Wei Yan on the first day, the rest of the time, this artillery battalion is not so much aiding the siege, but rather a halftime break.
Everyone is tired, please have a fun.
Is there any way to expose the defenders of Chengde City to the Flowering Bullets?
"Kill, kill, kill!" Wei Yan's soldiers attacked the city wall again.
People are gradually starting to appear above Chengde City.
As soon as the cannon fired, they shrank their heads, and as soon as Wei Yan's troops got on, they all came out again.
Suddenly Wei Yan thought of a solution.
He walked to Xiahou Yuan's side.
"General Xiahou!" Wei Yan clasped his fists at Xiahou Yuan.
"Huh?" Xiahou Yuan looked at Wei Yan. How could Wei Yan appear here if he was not in the artillery camp now? Xiahou Yuan is now busy watching the offensive above the city. This strong attack on the city wall has no skills and characteristics. It depends on which army and horses have strong perseverance and which army and horses are not afraid of death.
Xiahou Yuan’s soldiers are not afraid of death, but they cannot die in vain.
"General Xiahou, if we continue like this, our army will not be able to take Chengde City for a while!" Wei Yan said to Xiahou Yuan.
Xiahou Yuan looked at Chengde City, and it was Wei Yan's words. It's been three days since they fought, and they had not even broken through the first line of defense. No city was in their hands.
"General Xiahou, my artillery battalion's shells are not enough!" Wei Yan continued to speak.
"Huh?" Xiahou Yuan frowned. It was already very difficult to fight, but now there is no such auxiliary as the artillery battalion, so it is even more difficult.
"General Xiahou's Chi Ze changed! I know Liu Mang! This person must have some help!" Wei Yan pointed to Liu Mang fighting on the city wall.
Liu Mang is not a heroic person. He is basically a gentleman who is not conducive to a dangerous wall. He will inevitably hide in danger. However, this time he appeared on the top of the city.
Wei Yan couldn't guess, but he wanted to take down Chengde City as soon as possible.
To be continued...