Volume 3 Chapter 84 Hold on to help

Chrysanthemum Harbor, a battle is going on that I don't know what to say. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The sound of killing under the city shook the sky, and it seemed that it was full of momentum, but it was not difficult for people who really had a heart to find that when these nomadic cavalry attacked, they often rushed to a place more than 100 steps below the city and began to shoot with their bows, shooting arrows one after another at the top of the city. Supposedly this was the right thing to do, but the actual result was that only a few of the arrows hit the city walls, and most of them landed in the corners.

Well, even if the cavalry is no longer suitable for attacking the city, the attack carried out by these nomadic cavalry is really too perfunctory, anyway, it is like a horse watching the flowers under the city, running under the city, aimlessly putting a few arrows, and then going back to the business. As for why such a situation has arisen...... Hmph, just take a look at the ground within a hundred paces of the city wall.

There are pits and valleys, all of which are corpses. There are human corpses, and there are horse corpses. Of course, this is just a very common picture on the battlefield, but if you look at the number of arrows stuck in these corpses, you can't help but shudder. To exaggerate a little, he was really shot as a hedgehog.

Let's keep it simple. In fact, the battle of Chrysanthemum Harbor is almost a replica of the battle of Juyong Pass. But! Some of the city-guarding equipment on Juyong Pass was later supported by Lu Ren, and the number was relatively limited, and the number of arrows was also limited, so it failed to achieve a real high density and high coverage. The shortcomings in this regard were made up for by the much taller and stronger walls of Juyongguan than Chrysanthemum Port.

On the other hand, Chrysanthemum Port, although as a seaside town, the city wall is not as tall and strong as Juyongguan, but you have to know that this is an important bridgehead that Lu Ren is preparing to use to take the western Liaoning region, and at the beginning, it has been determined that it is to fight a tough battle, so the relevant equipment and materials are very well prepared.

It can even be said that if the number of bows and crossbows on Juyong Pass is one, then the number of bows and crossbows in Chrysanthemum Harbor must be at least six, and there is no need to worry about the number of arrows. As long as the nomadic cavalry dared to come, they would be greeted by a rain of arrows comparable to a torrential rain in June. In fact, in the previous few tough battles, the dense and terrifying rain of arrows shot from the city wall of Chrysanthemum Harbor had caused great psychological fear to the many nomadic cavalry under the command of Bu Dugen. Because of this, when Budugen ordered the siege of the city, these nomadic cavalry just ran over and pretended, and no one wanted to really rush over, and then become another corpse within a hundred steps of the city wall.

In fact, at this time, Budugen also knew that he had gnawed a hard bone, but because of many factors, he had to continue to gnaw. How to say that? At this time, Budugen is like a boss who has taken in a group of younger brothers and promised to take the younger brothers to make a fortune together. But if this wealth is not paid, but it is beaten back by someone, then who will believe in his ability as a boss in the future? How many people will continue to follow him? A boss who can't make a fortune with his younger brothers, no one will be willing to follow him, let alone grow his power in the future.

What's more, in this chrysanthemum port, there is also the existence of Tuoba jade. If Budugen is based on force, leading his younger brothers to use these forces to seek wealth, then Tuoba Yu is directly using wealth to collect his subordinates, who is more suitable between the two? This is a bit difficult to say, after all, the nomads of the north all worship force.

But there is one thing, the force in Tuoba Yu's hands is definitely not bad, and it is definitely richer than Bu Dugen, and the only thing that suffers is that she is a girl. Therefore, whether it is the previous Kebineng or the current step, they have made enough articles on this article and pulled people. Think about it, generally speaking, martial ethnic groups tend to respect males, so what's the matter with following a delicate girl? However, the force that Tuoba Yu has always shown still makes many tribes ashamed.

To put it simply, Tuoba Yu's influence on the Xianbei tribes in the western Liaoning region has been increasing, and Tuoba Yu is playing the economic card according to Lu Ren's instructions, in other words, he is fundamentally solving the survival problem of the Xianbei tribe at that time. Although I haven't seen any big effect in a short period of time, as long as anyone with a little brain understands that following Tuoba Yu can make a small life better, and following Budugen to loot like this is really a bit of a feeling that there is no last meal.

Therefore, the current battle is no longer just as simple as looting and counter-looting, what is hidden in the depths is the power struggle between Budugen and Tuoba Yu. Whoever wins the battle will be able to get the support of more tribes, and the power will naturally become bigger and bigger, while the loser will probably never turn over...... Hehe, this is actually just for Budugen, Tuoba Yu really can't do it, so he will retreat to Yizhou, and then he can make a comeback with the support of Lu Ren. But if that happens, it will take a lot of time.

There is another one, that is, last year's harsh winter was too difficult, resulting in the early winter of this year, too many tribes are afraid that this winter this year will be very sad, so Budugen also has another hand of preparation, that is, if Chrysanthemum Port can't be taken, no matter what, you have to grab a batch of Chrysanthemum Harbor's fleet this winter, so that at least there are more supplies, and the retreat is good to explain to various tribes.

The distance between the main city of Chrysanthemum Port and the wharf is about 10 Han li in the Yizhou style. After Zhao Yu and Lu Lingqi took over Chrysanthemum Port, as veterans of Yizhou's urban defense construction, they had already taken into account that the defense direction of Chrysanthemum Port was completely different from that of Yizhou, and it was necessary to carry out adjustment and strengthening.

Let's take Keelung as an example, Keelung's main defensive direction is the sea surface, that is, the sea offensive scheduled for Sun Quan to cross the sea. Under this premise, it is further assumed that Sun Wu's army has captured Keelung Wharf, then the Yizhou army at this time needs a distance to carry out tactical buffer. To put it bluntly, the Yizhou Army can use the distance of about ten Han li to form a battle formation, and then use the military formation combat method that the Yizhou soldiers are good at to attack the Sun Wu army that has just landed and has not yet gained a firm foothold and the military formation has not yet been completed.

Therefore, in terms of the art of war and tactics, the ten-mile buffer zone between Keelung City and the dock is conducive to Yizhou's defense, but the situation in Chrysanthemum Port is just the opposite. The main defense surface of Chrysanthemum Harbor is not the sea, but an attack from the ground, so wouldn't leaving a distance of ten miles to help the enemy from the ground leave a buffer zone?

Therefore, in the later time, Lu Lingqi and Zhao Yu lengthened the city wall of Chrysanthemum Port to the direction of the wharf by more than seven miles. If converted to the modern metric system, the distance between the main city of Chrysanthemum Port and the wharf is less than a kilometer.

How much distance can you have in a kilometer? To put it bluntly, it is not enough for thousands of people to line up and set up troops. The Chrysanthemum Port side mainly had to face the nomadic cavalry, and this kilometer distance was not enough for the Wuhu cavalry's war horses to sprint. On the other hand, at this time, the Chrysanthemum Port was already equipped with more than 200 artillery pieces, which were deployed at the heads of the walls of the Chrysanthemum Harbor. With the firing range of about 500 paces of the Yizhou artillery at that time, coupled with the trebuchet and various types of crossbows, if the side facing the pier of Chrysanthemum Harbor was fired together, it could completely cover all the locations in this kilometer.

In addition, on both sides of the sea surface of the wharf, the warships of Yizhou have corresponding combat positions, and the crossbows and trebuchets on the warships, as well as the gunboats that Lu Ren replenished to Chrysanthemum Harbor, can carry out supporting medium and long-range attacks on the two flanks of the wharf. The most amazing thing is that the nomadic cavalry at that time had nothing to do with these ships. One or two hundred paces of sea, the nomadic cavalry from the steppe and desert could not cross it at all. To put it funnily, only these warships fight the nomadic cavalry, but the nomadic cavalry can only stare at these warships, which is really called "looking at the sea and sighing......

In the blink of an eye, there has been a fierce battle here in Chrysanthemum Harbor for three days. Under the city and in front of the port, Budugen's army didn't know how many corpses were thrown down, but Budugen's Xianbei soldiers were overwhelming, plus Budugen's mentality, so Budugen didn't take the casualties of his own side in the battle of Chrysanthemum Harbor at all, and desperately urged the army to attack the city with all his might.

The defenders of Chrysanthemum Harbor were only a little more than 10,000, commanded by Lu Lingqi and Murong Ziying; On the naval side, there were 40 warships, all of which were commanded by Zhao Yu, and the navy had less than 5,000 personnel. Therefore, it is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of troops. At present, relying on city defense and all kinds of sharp weapons, they can still have the upper hand somewhat, but in the face of Budugen's endless crowd tactics, although the fight is relatively easy, if they continue to fight like this, Lu Lingqi and Zhao Yu will also be a little unbearable.

At this moment, the battlefield of Chrysanthemum Harbor has already been a killing sound, and batch after batch of Xianbei cavalry are frantically flocking to the main city and dock of Chrysanthemum Harbor like a torrent. The city head of Chrysanthemum Harbor is already full of cannons, and one after another cannonballs exploded in the formation of the Xianbei cavalry, bringing up dust and mist in the sky, and at the same time taking the lives of many Xianbei cavalrymen.

And on the sea, Zhao Yu is directing the battle here in the cabin:

"What's going on? Why don't you gun emplacements fire guns!? ā€

"Rain girl, the cannon has overheated the chamber of the cannon, and this kind of gunpowder will ignite directly when it is filled in!"

"Is there a way to deal with it?"

"Yes! Pour cold water over the barrel to help the barrel cool faster! We've already sent people to get water after we go to Hong Kong. ā€

After a while, Zhao Yu saw many soldiers using carts to pull large and small barrels of seawater, and then poured water on the cannon body with scoops or spoons. As soon as the seawater is poured on the cannon, bursts of mist will rise, which shows how much the cannon has been overheated under the continuous fire. Look at the soldiers who are in a hurry to get water from the sea after pouring the water they brought, but the cooling of the cannon body is still not in place, and this efficiency is too low.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Yu suddenly had an idea, and hurriedly called the general to give such and such an order, and the general led the troops away. After a while, the dock is used for fire-fighting levers...... It is a man-powered pneumatic and hydraulic water intake device, and the distance between these water dragons is limited, so it is divided into several groups to relay. After a few relays, there was enough water for cooling in the pools of several gun emplacements at the dock.

The barrel of the cannon was cooled down, and finally it continued to exert its power. It's just that at this time, if you look closely at the dozens of guns here at the dock, you will find that there is an extra layer of misty white crystal on the cannons...... Everyone knows what you get when you evaporate the seawater.

Zhao Yu also had brain cramps, stretched out his finger and scratched it on the cannon body before putting it in his mouth, and then spat it out fiercely. Raising his eyes again to look at the Xianbei cavalry who were still desperately rushing to the dock, Zhao Yu drew his sword and pointed at the enemy, and shouted angrily: "Brothers, hit hard!" We are not afraid of many of them! ā€

In terms of troops, the defenders of Chrysanthemum Port are only a quarter of the 50,000 troops brought by Bu Gengen, and if it is a battlefield battle, the Yizhou soldiers will definitely suffer a big loss. According to Lu Lingqi and Zhao Yu's ideas, now the only way to rely on the city defense of Chrysanthemum Harbor and all kinds of sharp weapons and Budugen to drag on for a while, and then find an opportunity to break the enemy. If it's really just blindly defending, I'm afraid Chrysanthemum Port will be lost.

The rain of arrows, falling rocks, and cannonballs kept falling frantically towards the Xianbei army, taking away the lives of batches of Xianbei cavalry. It's like an artillery, and under the premise of cooperating with a flowering bullet, this thing not only has an amazing range of lethality, but also its huge sound can easily make the Xianbei cavalry's mount frightened and out of control. In addition, the firing range was one to two times farther than that of the weapons at that time, and it was often the Xianbei cavalry's war horses that had not had time to gallop before the shells had already blossomed in the Xianbei array, thus disrupting the military formation layout of the Xianbei army.

To tell the truth, if it weren't for Lu Ren's preparations, the hundreds of artillery pieces that Zhao Yu sent to Chrysanthemum Port in advance repeatedly disrupted Xianbei's formation, and then were swarmed by Xianbei cavalry, Chrysanthemum Port might have been lost long ago. However, there is still a problem, that is, the ammunition of artillery is limited. Chrysanthemum Harbor fought fiercely for several days, and each artillery gun had to knock out hundreds of rounds of ammunition every day, so was such a huge consumption a joke? During the year, Lu Ren sent relatively sufficient ammunition from Yizhou, but he couldn't withstand such a large consumption.

In a word, up to now, Chrysanthemum Harbor has been fighting fiercely for five days in a row, and the situation in the port town is fine, but the ammunition depot has been half emptied. And this is also a helpless thing, these nomadic cavalry under the repeated urging of Budugen, and under the influence of greed for money, food and military supplies in Chrysanthemum Port, desperately attacked, and Chrysanthemum Harbor could only rely on artillery fire to suppress the impact of the Xianbei cavalry. In case the head of the wall is lost

After a while, Zhao Yu saw many soldiers using carts to pull large and small barrels of seawater, and then poured water on the cannon body with scoops or spoons. As soon as the seawater is poured on the cannon, bursts of mist will rise, which shows how much the cannon has been overheated under the continuous fire. Look at the soldiers who are in a hurry to get water from the sea after pouring the water they brought, but the cooling of the cannon body is still not in place, and this efficiency is too low.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Yu suddenly had an idea, and hurriedly called the general to give such and such an order, and the general led the troops away. After a while, the dock is used for fire-fighting levers...... It is a man-powered pneumatic and hydraulic water intake device, and the distance between these water dragons is limited, so it is divided into several groups to relay. After a few relays, there was enough water for cooling in the pools of several gun emplacements at the dock.

The barrel of the cannon was cooled down, and finally it continued to exert its power. It's just that at this time, if you look closely at the dozens of guns here at the dock, you will find that there is an extra layer of misty white crystal on the cannons...... Everyone knows what you get when you evaporate the seawater.

Zhao Yu also had brain cramps, stretched out his finger and scratched it on the cannon body before putting it in his mouth, and then spat it out fiercely. Raising his eyes again to look at the Xianbei cavalry who were still desperately rushing to the dock, Zhao Yu drew his sword and pointed at the enemy, and shouted angrily: "Brothers, hit hard!" We are not afraid of many of them! ā€

In terms of troops, the defenders of Chrysanthemum Port are only a quarter of the 50,000 troops brought by Bu Gengen, and if it is a battlefield battle, the Yizhou soldiers will definitely suffer a big loss. According to Lu Lingqi and Zhao Yu's ideas, now the only way to rely on the city defense of Chrysanthemum Harbor and all kinds of sharp weapons and Budugen to drag on for a while, and then find an opportunity to break the enemy. If it's really just blindly defending, I'm afraid Chrysanthemum Port will be lost.

The rain of arrows, falling rocks, and cannonballs kept falling frantically towards the Xianbei army, taking away the lives of batches of Xianbei cavalry. It's like an artillery, and under the premise of cooperating with a flowering bullet, this thing not only has an amazing range of lethality, but also its huge sound can easily make the Xianbei cavalry's mount frightened and out of control. In addition, the firing range was one to two times farther than that of the weapons at that time, and it was often the Xianbei cavalry's war horses that had not had time to gallop before the shells had already blossomed in the Xianbei array, thus disrupting the military formation layout of the Xianbei army.

To tell the truth, if it weren't for Lu Ren's preparations, the hundreds of artillery pieces that Zhao Yu sent to Chrysanthemum Port in advance repeatedly disrupted Xianbei's formation, and then were swarmed by Xianbei cavalry, Chrysanthemum Port might have been lost long ago. However, there is still a problem, that is, the ammunition of artillery is limited. Chrysanthemum Harbor fought fiercely for several days, and each artillery gun had to knock out hundreds of rounds of ammunition every day, so was such a huge consumption a joke? During the year, Lu Ren sent relatively sufficient ammunition from Yizhou, but he couldn't withstand such a large consumption.

In a word, up to now, Chrysanthemum Harbor has been fighting fiercely for five days in a row, and the situation in the port town is fine, but the ammunition depot has been half emptied. And this is also a helpless thing, these nomadic cavalry under the repeated urging of Budugen, and under the influence of greed for money, food and military supplies in Chrysanthemum Port, desperately attacked, and Chrysanthemum Harbor could only rely on artillery fire to suppress the impact of the Xianbei cavalry. In case the wall head is lost (to be continued.) )

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