The Weapons Division is located in the northeast corner of Yecheng, is a place specifically responsible for smelting weapons, and the person in charge is called the master, surnamed Wang, and is a famous blacksmith in Jizhou.

After Yuan Shao took charge of Jizhou, he vigorously expanded his armaments and recruited a group of skilled craftsmen, one of whom was Wang Blacksmith.

The reason why Blacksmith Wang was able to serve as the head of the Weapons Department was because he had a good daughter, and his daughter was taken by Yuan Shao and accepted as a concubine.

However, Wang Blacksmith was conscientious and devoted himself to the work of the Weapons Division, and more than half of the weapons and armor in the Hebei army were manufactured under his supervision.

The Ordnance Division is only a place for research and development of weapons, armor, and equipment, and is not engaged in smelting, and the place where weapons are really smelted is in Wu'an County.

Wu'an County produces iron, and its iron ore resources are extremely rich, so Yuan Shao took local materials and established a large smelting workshop on the edge of the iron mine in Wu'an County, which was responsible for the production of weapons.

The Ordnance Division is only a functional place for the management of weapons, armor, and equipment.

Cao Hong hurried to the Weapons Division, and as soon as he arrived at the door, he shouted at the people in the Weapons Division: "Let the Lord of the Wang Division come to see me quickly!" ”

When Master Wang learned of Cao Hong's arrival, he hurried out, and before he could salute, Cao Hong directly threw him a black round iron ball.

Master Wang hurriedly stretched out his hand to catch the thing, and his hand was so heavy that he almost fell off his hand and fell to the ground.

Cao Hong didn't talk nonsense, and said straight to the point: "This is the enemy's new weapon, don't drive your lord to know that you are good at studying armor, so I specially asked me to bring it to you for research and research." If you can make a copy of it. Don't drive, the lord must play. I will give you a heavy reward, and I will give you an official rank! ”

Master Wang took a closer look at the black iron ball, then clenched his fists and said to Cao Hong: "Please ask the general to say goodbye to Lord Jia, I will definitely study it as soon as possible." Once the imitation is successful, someone will be sent to say goodbye to the driver. ”

Cao Hong asked, "How long will it take?" ”

The master of the king said with a sad face: "The subordinates do their best!" ”

Cao Hong said: "Okay, as soon as there is news, immediately send someone to inform me and Master Don't drive." Oh yes. Remember that this thing can't be contaminated with a single bit of fire, otherwise, you'll be blown to pieces by this thing, and you won't even be able to find a slag. ”

As soon as Master Wang heard this, he asked suspiciously, "So powerful?" ”

Cao Hong nodded heavily, then turned his horse's head and headed towards the Vermilion Bird Gate.

Seeing that Cao Hong was gone, Master Wang immediately returned to the Ordnance Division with the Thunderbolt, and then played with it carefully, and found that there was only a small gap in the entire Thunderbolt. That's the hole in the lead.

So, Master Wang pulled out the lead. A small black hole was revealed, and the master shook it vigorously, and found that there was a rustling sound in it, so he turned the small hole head down, and as a result, black powder flowed out of the iron ball, and there was a pungent smell.

"This is ......" Master Wang was very surprised, poured out all the black powder in the entire iron ball, placed it on the table in front of him, and piled it into a small pile, it seemed, there were about one or two.

Among them, among these black powders, there are some white and yellow powders, and the yellow powder is supposed to be made of grinding sulfur, but he does not know what the white powder is.

So, Master Wang found a few old colleagues from the Weapons Division and asked them to come and see what this white powder was......

At the Suzaku Gate in Yecheng, Zhang Yan had already launched a fierce attack, and the trebuchets outside the city, under the command of Gao Shun, jumped over the city wall one by one with huge stones and smashed into the walls and towers of the urn city.

On the walls of the city of Wengcheng, there were dense archers, and a huge stone smashed over, which could directly burst the brains of one of them, and blood splattered everywhere.

The boulder also hit the tower, smashing a large hole in the houses on the tower, and the city wall was seriously injured, and the stone chips were flying everywhere.

For a time, the archers on the walls of the city of Wengcheng suffered a fierce blow and took refuge one after another.

At the same time, seeing Zhang Yan, who had a certain effect, he immediately let the two teams of archers divide into two wings, climbed the wall of the Vermilion Bird Gate, and then shot with bows and arrows, and Xu Chu led more than a dozen strong men with strong skills, desperately rushed to the gate of the urn city, Xu Chu was carrying a sack, walking like flying, only a moment of effort, Xu Chu came to the city gate of the urn city, and then opened the sack, poured out all the thunderbolts in the sack, and gathered at the city gate.

At this time, Xu Chu asked the soldiers to retreat, and he took the fire breaker, and after lighting a few thunderbolts one after another, he quickly ran away, for fear that he would be blown up by the thunderbolts.

However, at this moment, a gap suddenly opened in the gate of the Urn City, and a soldier peeked out of the crack in the door, staring intently at Zhang Yan who was riding a dark cloud stepping snow horse in the Suzaku Gate, and suddenly, a strange smile appeared on the soldier's face.

Immediately afterwards, the soldier's hands were exposed, and he was carrying a large wooden barrel in his hand, only to see that he lifted the large wooden barrel upside down, and the water filled with it immediately flowed out and poured directly on the pile of thunderbolts that Xu Chu had lit.

The original burning thunderbolt fuses were immediately extinguished after being poured with cold water, and all the fuses were stained with water, and they had become relatively damp, and even if they were to be lit again, they would have failed.

After the lead of the thunderbolt was extinguished, several soldiers came out of the urn city and kicked all the thunderbolts into the city gate with lightning speed, and then the city gate was closed again.

With a "bang", the city gate was completely closed, and Zhang Yan's jihua once again failed.

At this time, on the gate of the urn city, Xun Yu showed his face from behind the female wall, and looked down at Zhang Yan who was hiding in the door of the Vermilion Bird Gate, with a faint smile on his face, as if he was laughing at Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan saw Xun Yu's face laughing at him, he hated him so much that the roots of his teeth itched, and he was so angry that he had an idea and immediately launched an attack.

Under the cover of catapults and archers, Zhang Yan led the cavalry to rush directly to the gate of the urn city, and then let people throw the thunderbolts directly over and fill the city gate.

At this time, the city gate was opened, and Cao Hong led the cavalry out of the city gate, and Cao Hong himself, seeing that Zhang Yan was close at hand, lifted the reins of the horse, and the war horse jumped up and killed Zhang Yan.

Although Gan Ning was wounded, Xiao Yong was alive, and when he saw Cao Hong killing Zhang Yan, he rode his horse and rushed over, brandishing the steel knife in his hand, intercepting Cao Hong, and Cao Hong fought fiercely.

The rest of the soldiers were not as lucky as Cao Hong, as soon as they went out, they turned over on their backs, especially the war horses under the seats, which screamed again and again, and fell to the ground with a bang.

Many cavalrymen were pressed by the horses that fell to the ground with their arms and legs, and they couldn't pull it out, and then looked at the thunderbolt, and suddenly felt deceived, where is the thunderbolt, it is obviously thistle.

"Kill!" Zhang Yan had already expected that the enemy would try to prevent him from blowing up the city gate, so he deliberately calculated that it was not a thunderbolt that he had just thrown people into the ground, but an iron thistle, which was specially sprinkled on the ground to pierce people's feet, and was a defensive weapon.

Zhang Yan took the lead, brandished his saber, and rushed over, he bypassed Cao Hong and Gan Ning, jumped directly over the cavalry who fell at the city gate, and his hooves fell directly on the flat ground, and at the same time waved his saber to slash the soldiers who stabbed at him.

The cavalry behind Zhang Yan was on a rampage, trampling on the road to the city gate of the city very savagely, and the people and horses who had just died were trampled by iron hooves.

Zhang Yan smoothly led the army into the urn city, excited, the saber kept waving, arbitrarily harvesting the heads of the resisters, and the cavalry under his subordinates were as fierce as tigers, majestic, and only a moment to seize the gate of the urn city.

Cao Hong and Gan Ning fought for several rounds, and suddenly turned around to see that the gate of the urn city had been breached, Cao Hong was very worried about Xun Yu's safety, so he simply stabbed out a few shots, and after forcing Gan Ning away, he turned his horse's head, pulled his legs and ran, and stabbed the rest of the cavalry to death with a spear.

Where Gan Ning is willing to give up, he also chases after him, Cao Hong is in front, Gan Ning is behind, the two of you chase me, and soon blend into the crowded crowd.

The urn city was breached, and Xun Yu, who was located on the tower of the urn city, could no longer be calm, hurriedly ordered a retreat, and continued to retreat to the city, preparing to start a fierce street battle with Zhang Yan.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Boom ......"

A series of explosions sounded from three different directions, Xun Yu suddenly frowned, and secretly thought, "Could it be that the enemy army has launched a full-scale attack?" Four gates attacking together? ”

Xun Yulai didn't think about it in a hurry, so he had to withdraw the army first and then make plans.

Cao Hong rode his horse in the encirclement of the Han army, where the spear went, probed his throat to take his life, stunned to kill a piece of heaven and earth, with his personal force, he killed a bloody road, saw Xun Yu withdraw, he fled all the way to the north.

The Vermilion Bird Gate and the Urn City were lost one after another, and the whole process was less than an hour, which made Xun Yu and Cao Hong very annoyed, how did they deal with the arrival of Cao Cao's reinforcements?

In the process of escaping, Xun Yu and Cao Hong cleverly bumped into each other again, and Cao Hong asked in surprise: "Don't drive adults, what should I do now?" ”

"The enemy is attacking fiercely, we are not opponents, we should do our best to preserve our strength now, and when the reinforcements led by the lord arrive, we can take a counteroffensive." Xun Yu said to Cao Hong as he retreated towards the city.

Cao Hong felt that what Xun Yu said was very reasonable, so he ordered all his subordinates to retreat to the city and prepare for street fighting! (To be continued......)