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- Chapter 423: The Zhen Family¡¯s War Power
"Yunchang, there is a handwritten letter from my lord. It is very literary]. (It only takes a genius 3 seconds to remember it)" In Beihai City, Qingzhou, Sun Guan held a letter in his hand and handed it to Guan Yu.
Guan Yu has been on guard against Yanzhou for so many years and has rarely mobilized troops. Now that he has received a personal letter from Zhen Yao, it is a secret letter related to the conquest of Cao Cao. He is extremely excited and finally has the opportunity to conquer the battlefield again.
"Zhongtai, I'll leave it to you for the food and fodder matter." Guan Yu wished he could rush to the military camp now and order all the soldiers to march into Yanzhou. However, there were still many unprepared matters for the expedition, and the date ordered by the Lord was not yet arrived, so he could only deal with it first. Sun Guan asked.
After being dormant for many years, in order to be able to support a big event one day, Sun Guan smiled, nodded and said: "Don't worry, Chang Yun. Although Qingzhou is not as good as Ji and Yi now, it can provide 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command. But it¡¯s more than enough.¡±
Guan Yu nodded silently and no longer stayed in the Zhou Mu Mansion. Since he was about to go on an expedition, he, the Qingzhou general, had more things to do.
At this moment, not only Guan Yu, but also Xuzhou, Taishi Ci, Zang Ba, etc. also received the message. It's just that the message to Zang Ba asked him to focus on protecting Xuzhou, while Taishi Ci saw the right time to send troops to Yuzhou.
The war machine in Zhen Yao's hand was still running at full strength, and half of the soldiers and horses in the Han Dynasty's prefectures had been deployed. Zhen Yao himself also led Wuji's soldiers southward. The accompanying generals included Xu Huang, Zhao Yun, and Yan Rou, as well as many counselors. Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Xu You, and Fazheng were all taken by Zhen Yao, leaving only Chen Lin, Chen Deng, and others. People are stationed at Wuji.
There must be an excuse to send troops. An unprovoked conquest will obviously not be supported by the world. Zhen Yao, who has led troops to fight for decades, naturally knows this very well. But compared to these, he knew better that as long as he wanted to fight someone, the reason for sending troops was definitely not a problem.
With 50,000 soldiers heading south, Zhen Yao did not detour to Sili and then enter Jingzhou, but entered directly from Yanzhou East County. With so many soldiers and horses entering the country, how could Cao Cao sit still? He immediately transferred the soldiers and horses from Chenliu territory in Yanzhou to the north to prevent Zhen Yao.
In this way, Cao Cao fell into the trap set by Zhen Yao. In other words, this was also a conspiracy, and Cao Cao had to send troops to protect him. When Chen Liu, Cao Hong, and his troops were about to face Zhen Yao, Zhen Yao's opportunity came.
If he scolded Cao Hong in the name of the emperor and asked him to retreat quickly, the latter would naturally not agree. This would be provoking the emperor, and Zhen Yao would not have any objections to those who provoked the emperor.
"Cao Zilian, do you dare to go out to fight?" Following Zhen Yao's order, Yan Rou led eight thousand soldiers and horses to stay and confront Cao Hong. When Zhen Yao turned around with his soldiers and horses and went straight to Jiyin, he also came Call for formation outside Cao Hong's camp.
Cao Hong also has nearly ten thousand soldiers under his command, but he cannot act rashly. After all, Zhen Yao's purpose has been exposed now. The troops are sent out this time for the land of Yan and Yu. As the only army outside Changyi City in Yanzhou, Cao Hong will Every move must be carefully considered.
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There were only a few thousand defenders in Jiyin, and they were just decorations in front of Zhen Yao's tens of thousands of troops. In just two days, the entire Jiyin County was captured by Zhen Yao. Afterwards, the army advanced eastwards and approached Changyi.
At the same time, Zhang Liao's troops who were about to cross the river to capture Xiangyang suddenly turned back, leaving only Zhang Xiu and five thousand soldiers. He and Zhang Fei led their troops to the northeast and faced Yingchuan. Cao Ren's army.
Zhang Liao and others mobilized their troops, and Guan Yu and Taishi Ci also mobilized their troops one after another. The former went out of Qi State and penetrated Mount Tai and Jibei, while the latter led his soldiers to pass through Pengcheng and surprise Pei State.
Troops and horses from all directions were mobilized, and emergency letters from Yan and Yu were increasing day by day, but Cao Cao did not make any changes to change the current predicament. In the final analysis, his power was still too far behind Zhen Yao, and his available soldiers were not even half as many as Zhen Yao's.
When the soldiers came to Changyi City, Zhen Yao and Cao Cao looked at each other, but this was not to reminisce about the past. Wuji's soldiers and horses lined up quietly behind Zhen Yao. Cao Cao's eyes flashed with inexplicable envy on the top of the city. Unfortunately, these soldiers and horses were not his. *.
"Brother Meng De, do you know that it is difficult to support a single tree?" Zhen Yao stopped his horse outside the city, raised his head and asked with a smile: "Wouldn't it be wonderful if Meng De could abandon his weapons, return to the same level as Yao, and achieve a reputation as a capable minister?" Zai?"
If Cao Cao could be persuaded so easily, he would not be Cao Cao. Looking at Zhen Yao's confident and smiling 'old face', he couldn't help but shake his head and said: "Bo Gao is too confident. He has used as many as 200,000 troops this time." , how can it last long?¡±
"If this were not the case, how could Meng De be defeated?" Zhen Yao didn't think what would happen if he sent so many soldiers and horses to attack Cao Cao.?No, on the contrary, if you don't use all your strength, you may not be able to defeat Cao Mengde.
Throughout the seventh month, Zhen Yao showed the war blade in his hand to all the people of the Han Dynasty. The troops were mobilized in early July and arrived in Yanzhou on July 6th. Two days later, they captured Jiyin.
In mid-July, Zhang Liao, Taishi Ci, Guan Yu and others mobilized troops one after another. In addition to Zhang Liaoshang's confrontation with Cao Ren, Taishi Ci had already captured Pei State, and Guan Yu had also captured Lu State and Mount Tai.
In late July, Chen Liu, Cao Hong, and Yingchuan Cao Ren allied with the Chen State, while Zhang Liao, Zhang Fei, and Yan Rou also joined forces to capture Runan and Liang State while containing the two generals of the Cao family. In this way, Zhen Yao and his generals seemed to have surrounded Changyi.
The speed of the generals under Zhen Yao was so fast that before the princes of the Han Dynasty could react, they had rewritten the pattern of the Central Plains again. Cao Cao also tried to break out of the siege, but unfortunately outside the city were all the elite troops of the Zhen family, and there were Guo Jia and Jia Xu as conspirators. Even Cheng Yu and Xun Yu made repeated strategies, but they were all resolved by Zhen Yao one by one.
However, Jingzhou Liu Pan was relieved about this matter. After all, Zhen Yao did not attack Jingzhou with heavy troops, otherwise he would have nothing to do with the enemy. As for Cao Cao, let him die. The relationship between the two is not good anyway.
Perhaps it was because Liu Pan did not have that fate that he was secretly happy because Zhen Yao did not attack Jingzhou. However, Changsha was captured in two days, and the news of Huang Zhong's defeat and retreat to Jiangling reached Xiangyang City.
The three counties of Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang have fallen into the hands of Sun Quan, and it seems that Wuling cannot be saved. Hanshou City has few soldiers and horses, and there are no reinforcements around. It is no wonder that he opened the city to beg for surrender.
Seeing that Zhen Yao was about to take control of the North and the Central Plains, Sun Quan was also a little anxious. He did not expect his soldiers to go north to compete with Zhen Yao, but he still had to have some momentum. ~If he can conquer Jingzhou and occupy the land of Jingyang, he and Zhen Yao can be regarded as dividing the north and south of the Han Dynasty. This is Sun Quan's current thinking.
"Guan Yu, Taishi Ci, see you, my lord." In the Zhen family camp outside Changyi City, the two generals who had been guarding the outside all year round finally met their lord. The three ministers were all a little frightened and emotional. It is difficult to meet them now. ah.
The two generals not only came by themselves, but also brought with them 28,000 Qingzhou soldiers and 45,000 Xuzhou soldiers respectively. In addition to the nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses Zhen Yao himself brought from Wuji, the total was nearly 120,000. Too many.
With 120,000 soldiers and horses, the name "Two Hundred Thousand" Army was Zhen Yao's banner to support himself. Just hearing this number made many Cao family soldiers who had heard the rumors tremble with fear. No matter how they fought this battle, even counting both fists and feet together would not be enough.
There are not many soldiers who have this idea. However, in the face of Zhen Yao's strength, Cao Cao has no fixed method. Seeing that the city has been besieged for a month, a lot of the food and grass stored in it have been emptied.
Since the troops of Taishi Ci and Guan Yu were brought in, Zhen Yao also began to intensify his siege efforts, and many new gadgets were tested one by one, including the most common thermal weapon offensive in later generations.
There was a loud "bang", and many soldiers defending the city were frightened and squatted down with their heads in their hands, but no one was injured after the sound. This is the 'grenade' of the late Han Dynasty. It has almost no lethality. The only thing it has is a thunderous sound.
In fact, as early as the period of Emperor Huanling, something similar to the ¡®landmine¡¯ of later generations appeared. It's just that the effect is hundreds of times worse than the native guns and cannons of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
And it was also by chance that Zhen Yao found some skilled craftsmen who could tinker with the 'buried stones'. After so many years of experiments, the power of gunpowder has still not improved, but its usage has increased a lot.
¡°The ¡®buried stones¡¯ that could only be buried underground, waiting for people to step on them, have become ¡®throwing stones¡¯ that can be launched with a trebuchet and hit the city head with a ¡®bang bang¡¯ sound. Of course, this 'stone' is not that stone, so Zhen Yao named it 'Zhen Shi Lei Throwing'.
"If this thing could be more powerful, Cao Mengde would no longer be able to rely on it." Zhen Yao looked at the ancient version of the 'grenade' that kept sounding at the top of the city in the distance, and shook his head with regret.
"My lord, if this thing really exists, how can there be any benefit to the city? Aren't all the passes empty?" Even Guo Jia is not optimistic about this kind of thing. Because ¡®it¡¯ is too advanced, so advanced that when people just look at it, they will feel a sense of fear.
"That's true." Zhen Yao shook his head and smiled. When you get something, you must give something. Think about it carefully, the situation at the end of the Han Dynasty is really not suitable for the emergence of thermal weapons. Once they appear, the changes caused may directly lead to disintegration.
Except for the grenades that Zhen Yao took out and showed off as a means to boost morale, all the good things that Wuji Inner City has built in recent years were also on stage. A well enough to support a hundred men firing sharp arrows, and a bunch of large and small crossbows, soon appeared on the battlefield.
Generally speaking, the bed crossbow was not invented by the inner city craftsmen. Long before the Chu and Han Dynasties, the State of Qin had this high-tech product in its hands. But the bed crossbow at that time was very difficult to use. A bed crossbow required at least four strong men to control it. Moreover, the firing frequency was extremely slow and the range was not very long.
The bed crossbow in Zhen Yao's hand is completely different from the bed crossbow at that time. Although it still requires two people to control it flexibly, both the rate of fire and the range have been greatly improved.
This is the result of the improvement of smelting technology and Zhen Yao's strong support for equipment research and development. For these things, Zhen Yao invested an unimaginable amount of money. Perhaps in one day, these craftsmen could spend all the annual consumption of an ordinary family of five, and then they would ask Zhen Yao for money.
"Swish, swish, swish", the powerful crossbows attacked. Although the soldiers at the top of the city were guarded by large shields, they still could not stop the sharp arrows weighing four or five kilograms. The arrow blade penetrated the iron shield, and the huge momentum allowed 'it' to pierce the soldier holding the shield. After that, it continued to move forward with the inertia of the soldier, until it hit the wall and stopped.
"My lord, the wood beast is ready." And if these are removed, the most ornamental wood beast is the wood beast that can "breath fire".
With a wave of Zhen Yao's hand, the cross was shaped like a giant tiger, its mouth opened wide, and the 'monster' wrapped in animal skin was pushed out. This thing is the most difficult treasure to make in the inner city of Wuji.
"What is that?" Because the fighting spirit of his soldiers was low and their morale was weak, Cao Cao had to guard the city in person. Only in this way could his soldiers continue to fight without running away when they saw something new.
"Huh!" Soon, Cao Cao knew what it was. The cross-shaped wooden beast was slowly pushed forward by the soldiers. When it was only half a foot away from the city, tongues of fire spurted out from the monster's mouth and went directly to the foundation stone and the city. Iron gate.
"This, this" Changyi City is more than two feet high, but Cao Cao, standing at the top of the city, can still feel the heat coming from below. That's fire, Zhen Yao, he can create such a fire-breathing monster.
Cao Cao was frightened, not to mention the soldiers around him. Youdao was ruthless to water and fire. People in ancient times were in awe of these two substances. How terrifying would it be if someone could control a fire-breathing monster now?
Although the flames did not reach the top of the city, and actually could not reach that high, the soldiers' eyes would unconsciously show a look of awe. Morale, which was already low, is now even worse.
"I knew it would have such an effect. Hehe, the wooden beast really has some uses." Zhen Yao stood in the formation and watched the battle ahead. The expressions of the enemy soldiers had been fully expressed by their actions. The soldiers retreated one after another, and the city Most of the territory was given away.
In fact, wooden beasts are just like grenades, they are just a showpiece. In terms of lethality, I am afraid that a group of soldiers with bent bows and arrows will be more effective than them. But these things can do things that ordinary soldiers cannot do.
With two parallel sprays, the wooden beast's head suddenly tilted upwards. This incident once again frightened the defenders into panic, fearing that the monster would spray a stream of flames on themselves.
The Changyi city guards have now become frightened birds. Even the slightest movement can scare them. In fact, if you look carefully, the angle at which the wooden beast raises its head is far from enough to spray towards the top of the city.
"Bah" was another series of fire-breathing. Although the soldiers controlled the wooden beast and tried their best to raise their heads, the flames still could only reach the waist of the city wall, and the flames could not go up at all.
"Okay, let them push the wooden beast back, don't damage it." The deterrence goal has been achieved, even much better than expected. Seeing that his soldiers, led by generals Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, and Xu Huang, were firmly occupying the upper hand of the city, Zhen Yao began to feel sorry for his treasures.
You must know that a wood beast is not cheap, and it is not unlimited in use. Every time it breathes fire, it consumes and damages the internal parts. Even if it sprays too much, the phosphorite and sulfuric acid inside may explode directly.
This is all money. The material cost of building one is at least a thousand taels of gold. Zhen Yao has not yet calculated the other labor costs and maintenance costs. It's good to have these high-tech products in hand, but with Zhen Yao's current wealth, it's impossible to supply them endlessly, so if you lose one, you'll lose one, so you must use it carefully.
When the wooden beasts successfully evacuated the battlefield under the protection of soldiers, craftsmen who came with the army immediately disassembled them and checked the fuel and parts. If they were replaced, they were replaced, and if they were not replaced, they were wiped clean.
"Then, what kind of weapon is it?" Although the wooden beast has left the battlefield, the dark city wall is still telling people the story of what happened here. Cao Cao looked at Zhen Yao standing in the formation in the distance with lingering fear, and asked coldly: "Why is it so powerful?"
As expected of CaoDamn, I figured it out so quickly. Although Cheng Yu knew clearly that this was a siege equipment, he couldn't give a rough idea. He could only shake his head and said, "If Zi Yang is here, he might be able to recognize it or even imitate it."
"Zi Yang," Cao Cao frowned. Liu Ye is not in the city now, so how should he deal with Zhen Yao who has such weapons? If he sends the fire-breathing giant beast just now, will his soldiers still have the confidence to fight again? Cao Cao now longs for a military order to transfer Liu Ye back from Cao Ren. Unfortunately, let alone the soldiers currently besieging the city, even if there is no Wuji troops to besiege the city, it will take a while to send the order. How can Liu Ye come back in time.
As a master of weapons manufacturing under Cao Cao, Liu Ye was very familiar with all kinds of weapons from ancient times to the present, and he also presented many useful weapons to Cao Cao. It is a pity that Cao Cao is not like Zhen Yao. He does not have so much money to spend on this aspect, and he is not too optimistic about these strange skills. The Cao family's technological level is naturally lower than Zhen Yao's.
"My lord, one of the cross-shaped wooden beasts has been damaged. It was just in the back camp and almost exploded." Cao Cao sighed long and short on the top of the city. In the military formation outside the city, a craftsman hurriedly walked to Zhen Yao and said.
"Why did it break up?" Zhen Yao stared at the words, as if to say, if you don't give an explanation, you don't want to live.
The craftsman wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Apart from Zhen Yao, craftsmen like him knew the value of wooden beasts best. He immediately bowed and said: "My lord, there have been experiments on wooden beasts in the past, but they have never really been on the battlefield. The damaged one was probably caused by the fire-breathing time being too long. With experience in the future, it should be fine."
When the master said this, Zhen Yao understood that it was the first time for his soldiers to control such a big thing on the battlefield. They would inevitably be excited or abnormal. If they cause a loss, it would be a loss. They would also pay for their inexperience.
With this thought in mind, Zhen Yao waved his hand for the craftsman to retreat. After all, he was still on the battlefield. Although this was a central formation, it could not be said that it was definitely safe.
And at this moment, Liu Ye, who Cao Cao was talking about, felt equally uncomfortable. Not only Liu Ziyang, but also the generals Cao Ren and Cao Hong, as well as tens of millions of soldiers, will all face the dilemma of insufficient food and grass.
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