Three Kingdoms: Wolong's brother-in-law, tricking Liu Bei into seizing Jingzhou

"Dodge...dodge the bullet!"

Li Dian, who had been standing tall and proud, finally couldn't hold on any longer at the moment before the huge rock hit him. He let out a loud cry and shrank back down.

Even the commander-in-chief was scared, let alone these soldiers.

Along the city line, the Qin soldiers were terrified and instinctively crouched down and hid behind the battlements to avoid the incoming stone bullets.

"Boom boom boom!"

Stone bombs filled the sky and fell to the ground with a loud bang.

With loud noises coming one after another, the towers were smashed, the battlements were shattered, and the city walls were cracked...

Dust and fog rose into the sky, covering the entire city wall, as if the end of the world had come.

Amid the loud noise of the bombardment, there were wails and screams. Those were the sounds of the Qin soldiers hiding behind the battlements, and both their bodies and the battlements were blown to pieces.

Li Dian huddled under the battlements, holding his head in his hands with his eyes tightly closed, begging himself not to be so unlucky to be hit by the boulder.

He is lucky.

The loud noise of the sky collapsing ended, and the first round of Hanwei cannon bombardment finally came to an end.

When Li Dian breathed a sigh of relief, he stood up tremblingly, straightened his neck and looked around, and then he took a breath of cold air.

The entire city wall has been completely changed.

Half of the city wall behind him collapsed, and the remaining half had seven or eight large holes in it.

The walls were cracked everywhere and there were countless collapsed parts.

The battlements were even more vulnerable and were completely unable to protect the Qin soldiers hiding behind them. Hundreds of them were smashed to pieces along with the battlements.

The rubble-covered city wall was littered with corpses. The soldiers who were lucky enough not to be crushed to death all had broken arms and legs, and were lying in the rubble, wailing in pain.

"Is this...is this the power of the Hanwei Cannon?"

Li Dian gasped, turned around in shock, and looked towards the Han army position with disbelief and horror.

Han army formation outside the city.

The Han soldiers who witnessed the power of the Hanwei cannon for the first time were also stunned and speechless.

"Is this... this the siege weapon that Prime Minister Xiao made? It's so powerful?"

"This Prime Minister Xiao is truly a god..."

Looking at the devastated Puban Pass, Hao Zhao, who saw the Hanwei Cannon for the first time, couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

Zhao Yun took a quick look at the enemy's situation, but was not satisfied. He shouted:

"It seems that one round of bombardment is not enough. Pass the order down, continue to reload and bombard!"

"Aim at the right side of the tower and blast a gap for me!"

The infantrymen operating the cannons quickly reloaded their ammunition, calibrated their positions, and aimed them toward the right side of the tower.

The Hanwei cannon fired again.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Hundreds of huge stones rose into the air, passed through Chang'an, and blasted towards the city wall of Puban Pass again.

"Boom boom boom!"

The roar of the sky collapsing and the earth splitting sounded again, dust rose into the sky, and the earth shook.

Countless Qin soldiers were smashed into pieces like paper by the huge rocks, and their screams rang out again on the top of the city walls.

"Crack-"

With a loud bang, a section of the already crumbling city wall on the right side of the tower finally collapsed under the bombardment of huge rocks.

Hundreds of Qin soldiers had no time to retreat from the city wall and fell down one after another. They were either killed or crushed to pieces by the collapsed earth and rocks.

The Qin soldiers were so frightened that they huddled in a corner with their heads in their hands, closing their eyes and begging themselves not to be hit by the huge rocks.

Even the main general Li Dian was in a state of panic at this moment. He squatted with his head in his hands behind a battlement that had not yet been blown up.

The roar of the sky finally died down, and the second round of bombardment ended.

When Li Dian staggered to his feet and looked around, his body froze again.

On the right side of the tower, a section of the city wall more than three meters wide had collapsed and turned into ruins!
Puban Pass was broken!
Li Dian swallowed his saliva, suddenly woke up and shouted:

"Quick, carry soil and stones, and seal the gap for me, quick, quick——"

The Qin soldiers woke up from their panic and, at the command of their generals, rushed down the city walls, trying frantically to re-seal the collapsed gap.

outside the city.

Thunderous cheers were heard from within the Han army.

Seeing the enemy city collapse, the morale of the 40,000 Han soldiers was greatly boosted and their fighting spirit was burning.

"The Hanwei Cannon is truly a divine weapon!"

Zhao Yun laughed and pointed his Dragon Gallbladder Spear forward:
"Han soldiers, did you see that the wall of Puban Pass has been destroyed by our Hanwei cannons?"

"All troops, charge in through the gap and follow me to destroy Puban Pass!"

Zhao Yun squeezed his horse's belly, and the man and his horse galloped out in front.

The drums of attack soon sounded.

Forty thousand Han soldiers broke out of the formation like wild horses breaking free from their reins, and rushed towards the right side of Puban Pass like a tide.

While the Qin army was still in a panic, carrying soil and stones, the Han army's infantry and cavalry had already rushed to their front.

"It's too late, quickly form a formation and seal the gap!"

Li Dian had no choice but to give up repairing the city wall and shouted with his sword.

The Qin soldiers hurriedly threw away their tools, picked up their weapons again, and hastily formed a formation at the gap, trying to block the attack of the Han army with their flesh and blood.

One hundred steps, fifty steps, thirty steps...

In a blink of an eye, the surging tide of Han troops, carrying with them soaring fighting spirit, surged over the ruins and slammed into the Qin army's line.

The sound of armor breaking, weapons colliding, horses neighing, soldiers screaming...

In an instant, everyone's eardrums were filled with the sound of bloody fighting.

Under normal circumstances, with the elite Qin army, it would be no problem to stop the Han army's attack in such a narrow gap. But the key is that the current situation is not normal.

The Han army's crossing of the river on ice caught the Qin army off guard. The fear of the killing power of the Han cannon also frightened the Qin soldiers.

At this time, the morale of the Qin army had already hit rock bottom.

In addition, the Han army used the White Horse Volunteers to lead the way, and with the added bonus of the powerful impact of the Iron Cavalry, the combined combat power of infantry and cavalry increased dramatically.

With one force rising while the other fell, how could the Qin army resist?

With one blow, the Qin army's line, which stretched for several feet wide, was beaten into pieces.

The collapse begins.

Once the battle line was in disarray, the morale of the Qin soldiers was low, and their remaining fighting will immediately collapsed, and they fled towards the interior of the country one after another.

The Han army was unstoppable, like a rising flood that overflowed a dam, and in a blink of an eye it passed over the gap and ruins and poured into the city.

"Don't retreat, fight to the death and resist the enemy—"

Li Dian wielded his weapon and chopped down the Han soldiers who rushed forward, shouting at his soldiers angrily and anxiously.

He is extremely anxious.

No one in the entire city knew better than him what the fall of Puban Pass meant.

That means that a big hole will be torn in the Qin's defense line here, which means that hundreds of thousands of Han troops will be able to enter the Guanzhong Plain unimpeded.

That was the Guanzhong Plain, flat and with no strategic locations to defend. Given the weak national strength of the Qin State, how could Cao Cao stop the Han army's infantry and cavalry, which outnumbered them by several times?

Can't stop it...

If we can’t stop them, Chang’an can’t be defended. If Chang’an is lost, the Qin State will perish!

Didn't Li Dian become the number one culprit for the demise of the Qin State?

How could he be worthy of Cao Cao's trust in him and the relationship between the monarch and his subject for more than ten years?

"My fellow men of the Qin Empire, we swear to fight the enemy to the death. Puban Pass must not be lost!"

"No retreat, no retreat!"

Li Dian let out a mournful cry, and waved the long sword in his hand wildly, chopping down several Han soldiers.

His roar seemed to briefly boost the morale of the Qin army, and the retreating line began to stabilize.

Just this roar also attracted Zhao Yun's attention.

Zhao Yun, who was swinging his spear and killing indiscriminately, looked up and saw the Qin general swinging his sword and killing indiscriminately under the "Li" flag.

It must be Li Dian without a doubt!

Zhao Yun's eyes were bloodshot, as if he was not seeing the enemy general, but the credit that had rolled into the bowl for him.

"Zhao Yun is here!"

"Li Dian, die!"

With a thunderous roar like a tiger, Zhao Yun mounted his horse and brandished his spear, rushing towards Li Dian.

The Longdan Spear in his hand danced wildly, creating countless spear shadows and streams of light, which stabbed all the Qin soldiers blocking the way to the ground like grass.

No one can stop him, his momentum is like a killing god.

In an instant, Zhao Yun cut through a bloody path and stood in front of Li Dian's horse like a silver god of war.

"Zhao Yun?"

Li Dian cried out in surprise, and a hint of surprise flashed in his sad and angry eyes.

Zhao Yun at this time was no longer the Zhao Yun of the past. His achievements in capturing Yuan Shang and Cao Zhi had already made him famous throughout the world.

Li Dian had naturally also heard of Zhao Yun's name and knew that the commander of the Han army's White Horse Volunteers was a fierce general.

However, although he had heard of Zhao Yun's name, he did not know how strong Zhao Yun's martial arts were.

"Han dog, I'll kill you!"

After a moment of surprise, Li Dian's face twisted into a state of disfigurement, and he swung the long sword in his hand towards Zhao Yun with full anger.

When the sword was still halfway through, Zhao Yun's Dragon Gallbladder Spear stabbed out like lightning, and it was launched later but arrived first and hit the middle.

"puff!"

A shot hit Li Dian right in the chest.

Li Dian's long sword was suspended in the air, his body was as solid as iron, and his face was frozen in a moment of shock and horror, as if he had seen a ghost.

"I can't even... use one of your moves..."

Before he could utter his last words of horror, Zhao Yun's Dragon Gallbladder Spear was quickly retracted.

A bloody hole suddenly appeared in the chest, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

Li Dian let out a scream, and his huge body fell off his horse with a bang, dying.

Another move to kill the enemy!
Zhao Yun cut off Li Dian's head and held it in his hand. He pointed the bloody spear at the Qin soldiers and shouted:
"I am Zhao Zilong from Changshan. Who among you wants to follow this thief Li Dian to hell? Come forward and receive your death!"

The sound was like thunder, making everyone's scalp tingle.

The Qin soldiers looked in the direction of the sound, and when they saw the head of their commander, their remaining fighting spirit immediately collapsed.

Zhao Yun's power as a god of war frightened them to the point of trembling with fear.

escape!
At this moment, this word was the only thing left in the minds of the Qin soldiers.

As a result, the 15,000 Qin troops, like frightened birds, threw away their weapons and armor and fled towards Puban Pass and the west gate.

The Qin army's defense line collapsed across the board.

Forty thousand Han infantry and cavalry rushed into the city and rushed to various key points in the city.

Before noon, countless flags with Chinese characters on them had been raised high above the gates of Puban Pass.

The four Han generals Zhao Yun, Ling Tong, Huo Jun and Hao Zhao gathered on the west city tower, looking down at the vast Guanzhong Plain in front of them, and they laughed out loud.

"Hurry to Tongguan to report the victory to His Majesty!"

"Puban Pass has been conquered!" (End of this chapter)