If you want to unify the world, you must first pacify the north. If you want to pacify the north, you must first take Hedong.————Master Li Jingyu of the Grand Chen!

In the third year of Shenlong in Dachen, he traveled to Hedong Province.

Wang Rengong, the Marshal of the East and the Governor of the Hedong Province, took advantage of the darkness to lead 10,000 cavalry to sneak into Loufan County, which Liu Wuzhou occupied. This time the target was directly aimed at the Fenyang Palace where Liu Wuzhou was. The general manager Wang Junguo suddenly rushed over with a team of people, "Martin, Liu Wuzhou has already fled to the city, and before nightfall, he left Fenyang Palace and ran to Mayi."

Wang Rengong frowned slightly, ordered the guards to take the map, and immediately watched it on a torch.

"Liu Wuzhou seems to have discovered our whereabouts, but it doesn't matter. When he fled to Mayi on this trip, he must go to Mayi through Loufan Pass and join Song Jingang, Zhen Zhaier and others. General Wang, Yi immediately returned to Yanmen and sent his command to General Yuchi Gong, so that he could lead Yanmen troops to go out of Xixing Pass quickly and set up an ambush in the Sanggan River area north of Loufan Pass. If he beat him up, he would definitely win. After the victory, the people don't have to go north. We will block Liu Wuzhou first.

In this way, he could only retreat to Loufan and escape to Linquan Town in Xi, so as to cross the Yellow River and escape into Longshang. The general led 10,000 troops to set up an ambush in Linquan Town, defeating and capturing Liu Wuzhou in one fell swoop. Also, the people must be careful in their actions, and they cannot let Song Jingang and others in Mayi discover our actions. After capturing Liu Wuzhou, we will immediately raid Song Jingang and fight another beautiful battle. This time, we will recover Hedong in one fell swoop and set off."

"Get orders!" the generals said excitedly.

Since King Chen ascended the throne, the emperor suddenly changed his previous strategy and became conservative. The Hedong camp originally had nearly 100,000 soldiers, but after several rounds of reorganization, there were only 50,000 soldiers left. All 50,000 soldiers were transferred to government soldiers, and half were ordered to be disbanded into farmers and take turns to recuperate. Wang Rengong, the camp of the East Marshal, had only 20,000 troops left, and the remaining half went to farm. There were also more than 50,000 rural soldiers and militia under the provincial commander commander, who had more than 50,000 people. However, he could not mobilize any of these people.

There were only more than 20,000 people, and they could not take the initiative to launch a major battle without the emperor's order because the court did not have enough food and grass to supply them. Wang Rengong had to launch small battles one after another, sending less than 3,000 troops each time. In this way, the Hedong camp finally broke into pieces and eroded the troops of Liu Wuzhou and others little by little. Two years later, Liu Wuzhou finally left only the three counties of Loufan, Mayi and Dingxiang.

After the imperial court finally achieved a bumper harvest in summer and autumn in the third year of Shenlong, the order of expedition that Wang Rengong had been looking forward to was finally delivered. The emperor's decree was passed to Taiyuan two days ago. Wang Rengong was ordered to gather 50,000 troops from Hedong and immediately launched a post-autumn offensive in order to annihilate Liu Wuzhou in one fell swoop and completely recover Hedong.

As soon as he received this order, Wang Rengong ordered the gathering of soldiers from various Yingyang Mansions, and was eager to divide the existing 20,000 troops into two parts. He personally led his own attack on the Fenyang Palace, the palace city of Liu Wuzhou in Loufan, and ordered two generals, Yuchi Gong and Qin Qiong, to take charge of Yanmen Pass.

In the reed marsh on the Sanggan River outside Yanmen Pass, 10,000 soldiers led by Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong were ambushing here. They had been holding on for two years and had not fought happily. Every time they were like bandits, they were shot and shot in the east and west, and even several times they had to be pursued by rebels whose soldiers were several times more than theirs. Don't mention this aggrievance. Fortunately, I finally waited for this day, otherwise everyone would not be able to resist resigning.

"Here, Liu Wuzhou is here. Seeing that the number of people is about 30,000, he came in a hurry, and the army is not in order. The leading one is Liu Wuzhou's banner." The scout reported excitedly.

Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong's eyes were sparkling with a burning fighting spirit, and they stared at the plains by the river. The autumn wind was bleak, and the grass was withered and yellow. The soldiers and horses in the distance appeared in front of them like a black line. The head was the yellow flag of Liu. The two of them looked at it sincerely. When Liu Wuzhou, who had fled all the way, arrived close to the front, drew his sword in his hand. He roared forward and waved his angrily. Chen troops in the reed marsh jumped one after another, and the cavalry horses in the front stood up immediately and galloped away with the cavalry.

There were shouts of killing sounds, and before Liu Wuzhou and his subordinates could react, Chen Jun had already arrived, slashing swords and stabbing arrows. The front army was completely in chaos, and the team behind immediately encountered a rain of arrows shot out from the reed marsh.

For a moment, there were shouts of killing everywhere, and the rumbling drums and horns were heard constantly, as if countless soldiers and horses were coming from all directions.

"Swish!" A huge iron crossbow tied with a bundle of rockets and flew under the huge Liu banner. With a loud bang, the flag-holder and more than ten cavalrymen next to him fell to the ground instantly, leaving a cloud of smoke.

"Fire!" At some point, Liu Wuzhou found that rows of Chen Jun were running out from behind them, and quickly set up several spear formations on their back roads. What's even more fatal was that behind the spear formation, a long row of crossbow chariots had been pulled out. Behind those crossbow chariots, there were many Chen soldiers driving crossbow horses to pull carriages covered by bright red burqas.

From afar, Liu Wuzhou felt a wave of bad luck when he saw these carriages covered in red. He had fought with Chen Jun for several years. According to his understanding of Chen Jun, in ambush battles like today, Chen Jun's most sharp weapon was their fire-shooting thunderbolt chariot, and then the catapult chariot and the crossbowman. But now he saw Chen Jun's arrangement, the crossbowman appeared, and there were many catapult chariots, but there were not many of those kind of fire-shooting thunderbolt chariots. This made him even more afraid of the carriage with red-covered thunderbolt.

Rows of red-clothed carriages finally took their seats behind the Chen army's infantry formation from a distance, and from a distance there were at least hundreds of them.

An officer of Chen Jun lifted it hard, and the first piece of red cloth was lifted, revealing a hideous weapon. The object was dark and shiny, and even had a slight blue light. In the dawn of the morning, it became brighter and brighter.

It was like a huge pillar on the carriage, but the huge and black hole still made Liu Wuzhou, who was holding a thousand-mile mirror in his hand, feel that it was Chen Jun's weapon.

In the rear position of Chen's army, Zhao Ren, the general manager of the Engineering Battalion, excitedly commanded the soldiers to lift the red cloaks on the cannons. This new weapon was named the Shenlong Cannon by the people of the Firearms Bureau, but because the Shenlong Cannons are usually covered with bright red cloaks, engineers prefer to call it the red cannon.

This red-clothed cannon is the latest firearm developed by the imperial court. It weighs 3,000 kilograms of fine steel. The cannon body is ten feet long, the mouth of the muzzle is thicker than the mouth of the bowl, and the cannonball used is even more lead bullets weighing ten kilograms. The range is as high as 2,500 steps. It is definitely called the weapon with the longest range in the world. It is 1,800 steps higher than the previous seven hundred-step crane crossbow, which is almost three and a half times higher.

Moreover, the red-clothed cannon also has special photos and sights, which are very accurate, much more accurate than the catapult car with a range of only more than 200 steps. After the red-clothed cannon was made, it was the first time it was moved to the battlefield. This was the first battle.

At one time, the court directly sent all the 100 red-clothed cannons that had been made to Yanmen. These cannons weighed 3,000 kilograms. The court originally intended to use these cannons on the walls of important cities such as Yanmen and Taiyuan as defensive weapons. However, after seeing the power of the red-clothed cannons in their own test firing, they immediately regarded these cannons as treasures. This time, they moved all the cannons to the battlefield without missing a single one. In order to move these cannons here from Yanmen, the two even ordered the cavalry to use their war horses as crossbows and horses to pull cannons together.

"Reload the shells!" Zhao Ren shouted excitedly.

Hundreds of professional artillery soldiers who graduated from the martial arts lecture hall quickly loaded shells and began to aim.

"Test-fire No. 1!"

Ignite, shoot.

"Roar" The ten-pound lead bullets flew over the soldiers' heads with a huge whistling sound. They landed in the tens of thousands of Liu Wuzhou's army by the river at least two thousand steps away. With a rumbling sound, huge artillery shells penetrated through the dense rebels, took away countless broken limbs and arms, and then smashed a deep pit on the ground, then jumped up again, flew to the high altitude again, quickly hit the nearby rebel group, and jumped up again...

"Dog-Damn, it's a good fight!" Yuchi Jingde's face flushed excitedly. The shot just now was so good. He saw the power of one shot in the Qianli Miles mirror really. At least twenty-three people were killed, not to mention those who had broken hands and feet, especially those who had shot up after the shell landed, which was extremely killing.

"Free launch, ten consecutive shots!" This was the first time Zhao Ren saw the actual combat power of this red-clothed cannon. He was so excited that he even shouted out the orders behind him.

"Scream, roar, roar!~"

One after another, one after another, and a hundred red-clothed cannons fired volleys. This power is unprecedented. Along the Sanggan River line, more than 50,000 Liu Wuzhou's rebels were instantly in the eighteen levels of hell. The range of 2,500 steps was as far as the range of these Chen army cannons was completely within the range of these Chen army cannons.

The Sanggan River is ahead. Although it is the dry season in autumn, the water in the river is still deeper than that of one person. Backwards are the neat long spear formation, the horse-resisting formation, the four-corner nail formation, and the artillery formation that made them frightened. On the other side, there are the archer formation, the crossbow hand formation and the cavalry led by Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong.

There is no way forward and no way backward.

After the first time the red-clothed cannon was launched, the 50,000 rebels who had escaped from Loufan for a night finally collapsed. For many rebels, those whistling shells were not manpower, but the power of ghosts and gods.

Fifty thousand rebels completely collapsed in the ten consecutive shots of the red-clothed cannon. A large number of rebels began to abandon their weapons and lie on the ground and surrender. A large number of them ran around like frightened war horses, like headless flies. The rest, like Liu Wuzhou, who were still unwilling to give up, gathered a few people and were desperately looking for the breakout rebellion.

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