I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 330, Flying Thunder Cannon
Xiahoudun, who received Cao Cao's order, could only advance cautiously in Bohai County a little bit, and at the same time spread the scout horses around the army to closely monitor the movement around him!But although they were not ambushed by the Tengjia Army, they did not find the people in Jizhou. Such a strange state has always made Xiahou Dun very disturbed!
On the way to Nanpi City, Xiahou Dun looked at the surrounding fields and sighed softly: "The land in Jizhou is too flat, and you can see a little undulating mountains in the Central Plains. Jizhou is completely a large plain without any ups and downs. What terrain do we use to fight the iron cavalry of the Rattan Armored Army!"

Cao Ren complained: "The Tengjia army is besieging Nanpi with more than [-] people, and the people of Jizhou are running to the Central Plains. I really don't know what Mengde thinks, and let them rush up. There are not enough rattan armor for us." The army fought!"

Xiahou Dun said: "Jizhou is probably going to be occupied by the Tengjia Army. We will face Lei Gong in Qingzhou in the future. Meng De probably wants us to see the combat effectiveness of the Tengjia Army. He knows what he is doing, and at the same time he wants to delay it The time for the Tengjia army to occupy Jizhou, or hundreds of thousands of Tengjia troops rushing into Qingzhou, we will be finished!"

But at this moment Cao Ren looked into the distance in surprise!

"What are you looking at?" Then Xiahou Dun followed Cao Ren's gaze and looked into the distance, and saw a puff of smoke gradually rising in the distance. Xiahou Dun is also a veteran of many battles, so he naturally knew that it was the smoke and dust caused by the marching army. Judging from the speed, it should be the cavalry of the Rattan Armored Army!

He shouted loudly: "Put WISCO vehicles, baggage vehicles, chariots, and antlers on the outermost periphery, and form a dense defensive formation with the army!"

Then he found his personal guard and said: "Go to Meng De, and tell Meng De the news that the cavalry army of the Rattan Armored Army is attacking us. This time, the Rattan Armored Army has tens of thousands of cavalrymen. Let Meng De pay attention!"

The guards got the order and immediately rode towards Pingyuan County!
Song Yi lightly kicked the horse's belly, watched the Han army not far away constantly changing defensive formations, and sneered: "I didn't expect that there are still fools who dare to come to Jizhou to support! It's just that the number is a little less!"

Song Yi is also a veteran who has been fighting for decades. From the size of this formation, it can be seen that the enemy does not exceed [-] people. For the current Jizhou battlefield, even defeating them is not a big contribution!
This can be regarded as Cao Cao's bad luck. After the land was divided, the people of Jizhou instantly became supporters of the Tengjia Army. As soon as they entered Jizhou, they were discovered by the people of Jizhou. Then the people of Jizhou reported layer by layer, and the Qingzhou Army came to support Jizhou The news reached Wang Guojun, and Wang Guojun naturally passed the news to Li Gang immediately.At the same time, arrange for the retreat of the people who are close to the Qingzhou Army, because the Han army has the habit of massacring people, especially the people who have taken refuge in the Tengjia Army, and they will kill them by mistake, so they will not let them go.

The Wang Guojun did not dare to let the people of Jizhou appear within the sight of the Qingzhou Army!Immediately organized the people to withdraw from the investigation range of the Qingzhou Army, which is why Xiahou Dun didn't see a single person in Jizhou. Before they arrived, the people had already been organized by the Kingdom Army and fled to other counties!
At this time, Li Gang was commanding the army to engage in a fierce offensive and defensive battle with Ju Yi. After knowing that the Qingzhou Army was coming to support Ju Yi, he sent Song Yi to lead 3 cavalry to repel Cao Cao's army!
"Woo, woo, woo" the horns of the attack resounded across the field, and the Qingzhou army was even a little panicked!
The 3 iron cavalry galloped on their horses, and under Song Yi's command, they formed an offensive conical array.

Song Yi charged forward and said loudly: "Don't let any one of this Han army go!"

The cavalry behind Song Yi also shouted loudly: "Kill, kill, kill!"

Cao Ren widened his eyes in surprise and said, "Where did the cavalry of the Tengjia Army come from? Why didn't our scouts find them!"

Xiahou Dun said loudly: "Now is not the time to talk about this. Let's defend ourselves and fight for the night that we can hold on, and then escape here in the dark!"

The best news for Xiahou Dun is that it is now afternoon, as long as they persist for 2 hours, it will be dark, and they still have a chance to escape!
The vanguard of Xiahou Dun was the elite that Cao Cao had trained for more than 2 years. Although they were exhausted and even a little afraid of the cavalry of the Tengjia Army, they had rich combat experience and knew that fleeing now was simply seeking their own death. Only by maintaining the formation of the army can there be a chance of survival!
So under the command of Xiahou Dun, Cao Ren, Li Dian, and Yu Jin, a diamond-shaped spear defense phalanx was quickly arranged!The outermost periphery is even more covered, all kinds of chariots, WISCO vehicles, and baggage vehicles are used to slow down the impact of the cavalry!

When Song Yi's cavalry rushed over, they couldn't find a breakthrough in this well-defended formation, so he shouted: "Shoot the enemy with a bow and arrow!"

The 3 cavalry took out their bows to shoot arrows at Xiahou Dun's army!
"Shhhhhh!" 3 long arrows shot at the Qingzhou army like a torrential rain!

Seeing this scene, Xiahou Dun shouted loudly: "Raise the shield!"

Cao Cao knew that for his army, the cavalry of the Rattan Armored Army was the most dangerous enemy, so his army brought enough weapons and equipment to deal with the cavalry, such as spears, giant shields, WISCO carts, chariots, and even He also specially rehearsed the battle formation against cavalry, and he used it today!
The soldiers of the Qingzhou Army raised their shields one after another to form a huge shield wall!

"Tuk tuk tuk!" The long arrows of the rattan armor army were blocked by shields one after another, without causing many casualties!

Song Yi ordered his 3 cavalry to keep shooting around Xiahoudun's army, but neither killed many Qingzhou troops, nor broke through the Qingzhou army's formation!Even Xiahoudun continued to command the crossbowmen in the army to fight back. After all, the power of riding a bow was not as good as that of a crossbow. Xiahoudun's counterattack caused a lot of casualties to the Tengjia army!Of course, the Qingzhou Army suffered more casualties, but they were injured but not chaotic, and the army can continue to persevere.

Of course, it is also possible for Song Yi to forcefully rush into the battle, but the casualties would be too great, and Song Yi didn't want a victory with huge casualties.

So Song Yi said loudly: "The Artillery Tunnel blows up the enemy's army for me!"

Song Yi also has 10 cannons in his hands, but his cannons are not bronze cannons weighing hundreds of thousands of catties, but flying thunder cannons that often appear in anti-Japanese novels, weighing only a few tens of catties. Class into the category of mortars!
Although the flying thunder cannon has a short range and is easy to explode, it has many advantages. It is powerful, easy to manufacture, and most importantly, light in weight. Thunder cannons, 2 flying mine cannons can be transported with only 10 war horses.

It can be said that Feilei Cannon is naturally suitable for fighting with cavalry, and it is even more invincible when used to break through the enemy's army formation. After the enemy's army formation is broken, all that is left to the enemy is the ruthless killing of the saber!It can be said that cavalry and flying thunder cannons are the golden partners of this era.

As Song Yi's order was issued, dozens of war horses stayed outside the 100-step bow and arrow range of Xiahou Dun's army, and thousands of cavalry guarded around the artillery station!

I saw the soldiers of the Tengjia Army unloading the iron bucket-like thing from the horse, and then facing them, the Qingzhou Army's formation began to get busy!
Xiahou Dun was baffled by everything, because he had never seen this kind of weapon before. He kept thinking about what these tin buckets were for, but a flash of lightning flashed in his mind, and he said in surprise: "Cannon, this It's the cannon of the Fujiko Army!"

As Lei Gong defeated Huang Fusong, the number one general of the Han Dynasty, the power of the artillery was also mythologized by the Han army. According to legend, this is Lei Gong's magic weapon, and when it is used, it is lightning and thunder. No matter how the army can only die in front of Lei Gong's magic weapon.

Of course, a general like Xiahoudun naturally knows that this is not Lei Gong's magical weapon at all, but a new type of weapon. The court has even obtained gunpowder from the Tengjia Army. The Tengjia Army had this kind of weapon, and even the imperial court was studying it, but he didn't get the gunpowder formula, and he didn't even know what the artillery looked like, so Xiahou Dun regarded the Feilei Cannon as an artillery!
But Xiahou Dun thought of it too late, and he didn't know how to face the Feilei Cannon. After all, he had never seen the power of the Feilei Cannon, and he still had a little luck in his heart. He didn't think the artillery was as powerful as everyone said!

After the Feilei cannon was placed, the artillery put in the gunpowder for propulsion and placed it, and then the 20-jin black powder shell wrapped in a round cake!Put it in the muzzle!
When all this is done!

Song Yi said loudly: "Let go!"

Artillery lit the fuse!

"Boom, bang, bang!"

The shells of the Feilei Cannon drew a huge curve and fell into the formation of the Qingzhou Army!

"Boom boom boom!"

The power of ten 10-jin black powder shells shook the sky and the earth. The soldiers who were within 20 feet of the shells were all killed, and the soldiers within 3 feet were also dizzy from the shock of the shells and fell to the ground.

More importantly, the powerful power of the Flying Thunder Cannon is like an artifact to ordinary soldiers, and their enemies use artifacts to kill people.This simply shattered the three views of the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army!
The sound of the roaring shells smashed into their hearts like a giant hammer, and the fear of Lei Gong suddenly overwhelmed the reason of the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army. Just want to escape from the battlefield, Li Leigong's artifact is getting better and better!
So the Qingzhou Army, which had just returned to the strict military formation, collapsed in an instant, and the surrounding soldiers fled towards Qingzhou one by one!

Xiahou Dun drew out his long sword and shouted loudly: "Don't run, running away now is seeking your own death, push the WISCO truck to the front, and don't mess up the formation of the various ministries, otherwise we will die!"

Even though Xiahoudun killed people and established his prestige, he still couldn't prevent the army from being defeated!

But at this time, no one paid any attention to him as a vanguard general. The power of the flying thunder cannon broke their morale.

At this time, Cao Ren found Xiahou Dun and shouted, "Yuan Rang, run quickly, if you don't run, we won't be able to escape!"

After finishing speaking, regardless of Xiahou Dun's thoughts, he slapped Xiahou Dun's horse with the saber in his hand, and the horse ran back in pain!

Song Yi saw that he had destroyed the morale of the enemy with a round of shelling and said with a smile: "Speed ​​up, don't let any Qingzhou army go!"

At this time, there is no need to attack with flying thunder cannons. The Qingzhou army is already a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. Now as long as his cavalry charge up, they can wipe out this army!
Song Yi commanded 3 cavalry to outflank and completely surrounded the Qingzhou Army. Seeing that they could not escape, the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army raised their hands and surrendered!

Pingyuan County, Gaotang City!
Cao Cao just got the news from Xiahou Dun's personal guard that the Tengjia Army led tens of thousands of cavalry to Pingyuan County!
Cui Jun panicked and said to Cao Cao: "Meng De, we have to leave Pingyuan County, if we don't run away, we won't be able to run away!"

Cao Cao wanted to wait for news from Xiahoudun and the others, but he didn't expect Xiahoudun to lead the rout directly to Gaotang City!Kneeling in front of Cao Cao, he said, "Meng De, I have let you down. The 5000 vanguard army has been completely wiped out by the Tengjia Army, and the cavalry of the Tengjia Army is now attacking Pingyuan County!"

Cao Cao was taken aback and said, "What's the matter, you guys lost so quickly?"

Cao Cao had expected Xiahoudun's defeat. After all, the enemy was several times more than Xiahoudun's and they were cavalry, so Cao Cao had the upper hand. However, Cao Cao did not expect to lose so quickly!

Xiahou Dun could only tell Cao Cao about the battle, focusing on the power of the Tengjia Army's artillery!

Cao Cao had only heard of artillery, but had never seen it before, so he could only look at Cui Jun!
Cui Jun was also surprised and said: "Although Lei Gong has cannons, a cannon weighs a thousand catties. How could Lei Gong let the cannons fight with the cavalry?"

But Xiahou Dun said: "The cannon of the Tengjia Army is like an iron cylinder, only weighing a few dozen catties. I saw that one horse of the Tengjia Army can transport two cannons!"

Cui Jun was taken aback and said: "Did Lei Gong develop a new type of artillery again!"

Cao Cao said helplessly: "It should be. There is no one in the world who knows more about artillery than Lei Gong. If he develops a new type of artillery, it will make sense!"

Cao Cao looked at Cui Jun and asked, "Brother Zhouping, the Jizhou army has been fighting against Lei Gong for several years. I wonder if you understand how artillery is made?"

Cui Jun said: "The cannon just came out not long ago, we haven't made it yet, but we have already figured out the formula of the gunpowder, and its power is no less than that of Lei Gong's gunpowder!"

Cao Cao was overjoyed when he heard the words, this is a treasure, Cui Jun must not let him leave!

Xiahou Dun said anxiously: "Meng De, the Tengjia Army has artillery to break through the formation, and cavalry to chase down the routs. We must flee back to Qingzhou as soon as possible. If we don't escape, we will not be able to escape!"

Cao Cao is also a decisive person. The loss of 5000 people let Cao Cao know that his subordinates are far from the opponents of the Tengjia Army. After knowing the answer, Cao Cao decisively stopped the loss!
He knew that the cavalry marched fast, even though it was dark now, he ordered the army to march overnight, cross the Yellow River from Pingyuan County and flee to Gaotang County not far away!But Song Yi led the cavalry to Gaotang County after repairing [-], only to find that Cao Cao had already fled!
Song Yi said angrily: "This Cao Cao ran so fast that I couldn't even catch up with my four legs!"

But he did not continue to pursue Cao Cao's army, but led the army to break through all the county towns in Pingyuan County, and completely captured Pingyuan County on the north bank of the Yellow River!

(End of this chapter)