Chapter 535: burst arrow
The continuous attack on Puyang for several days was futile. No matter how you called it, the opponent would just guard the city and leave, and the city had been specially fortified a lot. To forcibly capture it, you would have to pay at least a dozen times more than the opponent. It was only possible to take down the casualties, so when they learned that Lü Bu had led a hundred thousand troops across the Yellow River, the people of the Northern Alliance began to look a little nervous, and they retreated more than 30 miles and returned to their camp.
Although the Northern Alliance claims to have an army of 800,000 troops, the number is actually a bit exaggerated. In fact, there are only 100,000 of them. It is impossible for the horsemen who were forcibly recruited to participate in the battle.
Moreover, the major princes in the alliance also have their own ghosts. Compared with the original crusade against the Dong alliance, it is much looser. Although it is said that the leader of the alliance was acquired by Cao Cao, the one who really listened to his dispatch was his headquarters of more than 100,000 It's just a man and a horse. Others guard him like a thief. As long as it is unfavorable to him, he will never listen to him.
That's why it appeared. I heard that Lu Bu led a hundred thousand troops across the Yellow River and immediately retreated. They were really afraid of being charged by Lu Bu's cavalry, and the alliance would fall apart. , Now Lu Bu is different from the past, and it is not easy to deal with thieves and thieves.
Originally, in their speculation, after receiving the news from the north and the south, Lu Bu's response should be to withdraw the garrison in Puyang City and choose to patrol the various ferries of the Yellow River. Their main force should go south to assess the problem of Jingzhou. Yes. But this thief, Lu Bu, just played his cards out of line, leaving Jingzhou alone, but he just ran over to prepare to protect the Xuzhou army's base north of the Yellow River...
"This thief, Lu Bu, is getting more and more arrogant. He wants to block Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang's coalition with only Gao Shun behind?" Cao Cao said rather unhappily.
"Now that Lu Bu has already achieved the general trend, he really has the qualifications to be arrogant. I should first think about how to deal with that fellow. This time, perhaps it is not just a matter of protecting Puyang!" Liu Bei was also extremely jealous of Lu Bu.
"Maybe we can divide our troops and go south, so that Lu Bu can take care of one thing and lose another!" Guo Jia put forward a suggestion!
"It's really good to divide the army, but who can resist Lu?" The division of the army will inevitably require some people to stay and entangle Lu Bu's army.
"...My men and horses can stay to fight against Lu, but the princes need to lend me some armour and horses, money, grain and other supplies!" When everyone was hesitating, Liu Bei stood up directly, he was going to get the benefits first and said , if you can't beat Lu Bu, you can hang on to him for a while, and then of course the money and rations for those soldiers and horses are your own, so you can just go to develop outside the gate...
"Xuande is really righteous, my department will support you with 5,000 cavalry and 50,000 stone of grain..." Ma Teng and Liu Bei have a pretty good relationship, so he was the first to make a bold offer.
"My army will send 5,000 soldiers and 30,000 stones of food and grass!" Yuan Shang also expressed his opinion. He nominally inherited Yuan Shao's position, so his strength is quite large.
"My army sent 6,000 soldiers and 40,000 stones of food and grass..." Yuan Tan, as Yuan Shao's eldest son, was robbed of his inheritance by his brother. own wealth.
Then every prince in the alliance, out of face, more or less sent some soldiers or money, even Cao Cao was no exception. Among them, Gongsun Kang from Liaodong gave the most soldiers, but there was no money at all, because he himself Still lacking food.
Everyone is not a fool, of course they can see some of Liu Bei's careful thinking, he can't resist Lu Bu hard, but as long as he entangles Lu Bu for a period of time, then the major princes can bring their subordinates to Xuzhou and Yuzhou to the south. It's quite rich there now!
As a result, Liu Bei was stunned, and he gathered more than 100,000 troops in just half a day. Although most of these armors were some miscellaneous soldiers cleaned up by the major princes, as long as they found a place to stay In this place, it is still a group of elite soldiers after good training.
Lv Bu's bravery cannot be matched by one person. This is already the consensus of everyone. At that time, Liu Guan Zhang of Hulao Pass fought Lv Bu to a tie. Later in the battle of Puyang, Cao Jun's Xu Chu, Dian Wei, Xiahou Xi, Xiahou Yuan, Li Dian , Le Jin six members will fight together Lu Bu, only barely defeated. Later, Lu Bu became more and more brave, so this time Liu Bei was prepared to do it well, he just went to harass Lu Bu's camp and ran away immediately. You can develop with peace of mind and hide from afar.
The day returned to Cao Cao, the leader of the alliance. This time, Liu Bei did not take the initiative to fight for it, and Liu Xie was completely resigned to his fate, and he became a puppet with peace of mind. It is much stronger to starve to death in the midst of hunger and cold...
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As night fell, there were still more than 30 miles away from Puyang. Li Yunfei did not rush there, because according to the report of the spies, the coalition forces had already withdrawn from their camp, and there were some abnormal situations in the coalition camp, and they were now under investigation. , so Li Yunfei decided to set up camp first, figure out things before making a decision.
"Everyone should be careful when unloading, and handle it with care. The contents here can't be hit too hard!" Thirty-six instructed dozens of people to unload some very long boxes from the carriage.
The box is not heavy, only 35 kilograms, but it is 1.6 meters long, and what is inside is a very powerful firearm, called the burst arrow, which Li Yunfei only made in the last three months. The secret weapon is quite powerful. It can be re-launched with a crossbow. Of course, because the arrow is a lot heavier, the maximum range is less than 1,000 meters, but it is still possible to shoot more than 500 meters.
In fact, the current bed crossbow is not only installed at the head of the city. It can also be used in field battles after being slightly improved by Li Yunfei. Usually it can be disassembled into parts and carried by six cavalry soldiers. When it is used, it can be quickly assembled into a bed in one minute. Crossbow, now with this explosive arrow, this crossbow soldier has directly turned into a heavy artillery unit.
Since the last assassination incident, Li Yunfei has been preparing a new secret weapon. Although their own crossbow arrows are powerful, as long as the opponent gets some thick large wooden shields, they can block the crossbow arrow attacks. Even if it is a bed crossbow installed at the front of the city, as long as the enemy prepares early and gets some thick shields installed on the cart, it can still block the arrows fired by the bed crossbow.
However, with this bursting arrow, it is completely different. The arrow is cast from pig iron, with a diameter of 4 cm, an inner space of about 3 cm in diameter, and a length of about 20 cm. It can hold 200 grams of gunpowder. After the arrow hits something, as long as the impact force exceeds At a certain level, it will explode, and its power is almost equivalent to that of an offensive grenade. It can explode hundreds of fragments. After the explosion, people and animals within three or four meters will not die or be seriously injured. Blast to shreds with just one arrow...
"General, be careful, what is here is that precious glassware?" Xiao Qiaoshu asked curiously, looking at the soldiers in the distance who were carefully unloading the goods.
"Of course not. Why bring glass to fight? This is a very powerful secret weapon."
"So we have a secret weapon again!"
"Of course, if you don't have some secret weapons, there will really be some trouble against the coalition army that has been prepared for a long time. I heard that when they went south this time, almost every soldier is equipped with a thick large wooden shield. Let us The power of the crossbowmen is greatly reduced!"
"Oh, I see, there must be a very special rocket in here!" Xiao Qiao guessed at once that the fire attack would be used to deal with the wooden shield formation.
"Well, you're still pretty smart, but you've only guessed half right, guess what!" This little Joe is really smart. If there is no gunpowder, he can only use rockets to deal with it. Of course, the effect will be much worse.
"Thank you General for your praise... Since this has something to do with fire, if the final guess is correct, but how did the pyrotechnic powder make the arrows?" Xiao Qiao analyzed it carefully, recalling the time when the distress signal was sent out. , fireworks.
Li Yunfei was a little surprised by this little girl's complete guess. It seems that this Xiao Qiao is also a beauty with both beauty and wisdom. Besides, the beauties around her, apart from the cute little girl, are the others. All of them seem to be very smart, and even suspect that the trainer is just wise and foolish.
"General, did the last general guess right!" Seeing that Li Yunfei didn't speak for a long time, he asked again.
"You guessed it right, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com Xiao Qiao is really smart, but your self-proclaimed sentence at the end sounds really weird, why don't you change your name?"
"Well, General Wanfu, the slave family is polite." Xiao Qiao gave a charming Wanfu gift. She was wearing a military uniform, and she had an indescribable charm.
"...beautiful looks like jade, and the country's attractiveness... Xiao Qiao, why are you so beautiful!" Li Yunfei helped Xiao Qiao and praised him a lot. Now that Xiao Qiao was by his side, of course, he praised him fiercely, girls. I like sweet talk.
The effect was really good. After being greatly praised by Li Yunfei, she was so excited that her face was like a peach blossom, adding a bit of beauty. The pink and tender face could be squeezed out of water, and even her body was involuntarily approaching. In Li Yunfei's arms.
"It's really tiring after a day's journey, let's rest first!" He said that, he directly picked up the person and entered the new army tent... Of course, he just hugged the person to rest.
Now we are camping in the wild, or on the eve of the war. Attacks may happen at any time, but we can't mess around. If we get tired, it will be a big trouble if half the enemy comes to sneak attack. But sleeping with a tender and beautiful woman in my arms is quite comfortable, a little excited, and my spirit is too good to fall asleep, so I talk about the past and the future...