Hundreds of huge stone bullets flew in the sky, roaring and drawing violent parabolas, with a forceful force that was enough to make people crush them to pieces, hitting the fortifications of the Guandu Caojun camp, which was already full of holes.

The bluestone weighing more than 200 kilograms fell from the sky with terrifying power. Where the stone bomb landed, the fences, whistle towers, arrow towers, and horses in Caojun camps were all crushed, walls, shooting platforms, sheep horses

The walls, traps and trench earthworks all collapsed. Occasionally, a few stone bullets hit the group of Cao's soldiers, and countless blood and flesh splashed, and countless screams and shrill screams were heard.

The unyielding and unyielding stone bullets also flew out of Cao's camp, and they also roared towards Yuan Shao's army's Xiangyang artillery position. Although Yuan Shao's army, who had suffered heavy losses, had learned the skills and no longer put the Xiangyang artillery in vain.

The blocked wilderness was used in a concentrated manner, which stretched the stone-throwing position very long. The distance between each Xiangyang cannon was very wide. However, after a round of stone rain fell, three or four Yuan Shao's Xiangyang cannons were still smashed.

After shattering, more than 20 Yuan Shao's soldiers who could not escape were smashed to pieces, and the wounded were twice as many.

This is an extremely rare weapon throwing battle. Both the offense and defense used a large number of counterweight lever catapults to bombard the opponent's positions. Yuan Shao's goal of throwing stones was mainly to destroy the defense previously built by Cao's army.

Fortifications, Cao's army's purpose of throwing stones was to destroy the opponent's throwing weapons. In the ten-day stone-tower battle, the two armies successively used thousands of stone-tower weapons beyond the era, and the casualties and wounded artillery artillery soldiers also exceeded 5,000.

The two armies lost more than 700 stone-cat weapons. They were both defeated and exhausted.

At the same time, in order to destroy Yuan Shao's army's stone-treating weapons as soon as possible and protect the battalion defense fortifications that depend on as much as possible, Cao's army not only risked their lives to repair and strengthen the battalion defense fortifications, but also sent suicide squads to raid Yuan Shao's stone-treating positions six times.

The Yuan Shao army, who protected the stone-treated position, launched a round of bloody battles. Countless soldiers of the two armies were stained with blood for this, and countless soldiers of the two armies died heroically for this, with many casualties and heavy losses.

The Cao army, which had all the elite troops, was significantly better in combat. In addition, it had paid attention to the operation and training of Xiangyang artillery a long time ago, and it fought more accurately and faster than Yuan Shao's army, so the Cao army was both in terms of casualties and losses of Xiangyang artillery.

The losses of Yuan Shao's army reached more than one to two, but Yuan Sangong was still very cost-effective and had a strong foundation. In addition to being quite dissatisfied with the greed and fear of death and clumsy of the soldiers in his own army, Yuan Sangong was still

Very satisfied with the Xiangyang cannon tactics against bombing.

There are two reasons why the bad-tempered Grand Duke Yuan San satisfied the Xiangyang cannon counterattack tactics. One is that it can destroy the annoying fortifications in front of Cao's army camp, and the other is that it can force Cao's army to leave the fortification protection and take the initiative to attack. Fight against the strong Yuan Shao army

Human life is consumed, so let alone the loss ratio of two to one. Even if it is a loss ratio of three to one, the three to one will continue this tactic without hesitation. Therefore, even if Ju Su suggests that you only need to confront each other, there is no need to

He spent so much life, money and food to fight against Cao's army. Xu You also suggested that he split his troops to attack Xuchang and raid Cao's retreat. Yuan Sangong didn't listen to any of them. He just kept building Xiangyang cannons and fighting against Cao's boss, and he was stubborn as if he was stubborn.

If you don’t defeat Boss Cao head-on, it will not be consistent with your identity as the three ministers of the fourth generation.

This will naturally make the boss Cao, who has a small capital and a weak profit, and he will sooner or later be beaten and will die. He will not be able to resist Yuan Sangong, whose arms are thicker than his thighs, so he will not only strive to build Xiangyang cannons and

The three Duke of Yuan was unable to find a solution to the outside world. He could only bite the bullet and fight with the three Duke of Yuan, and do his best to delay his defeat, struggling and waiting for a turnaround.

To be precise, it is a possible turning point.

It was finally dark, and after losing more than 80 weakened Xiangyang cannons, the Grand Duke of Yuan finally ordered the end of the tenth day of the Xiangyang cannon war, leading the team back to the camp with its head held high like a victorious rooster.

After leaving, Cao's soldiers who had been fighting for a day collapsed on the devastated battlefield, gasping for breath. The old and weak soldiers and civilians who served as auxiliary work in war took on the aftermath.

Either rescue the wounded, or carry stone bullets of corpses and collect all available weapons and materials. More people are repairing fortifications, filling the fences that were smashed by stone bullets, and tamping the walls that were smashed and collapsed.

Dig up the collapsed trench trap and repair this crumbling fortification line. I don’t know how long it will last.

The moans of the wounded echoed in the camp, and the atmosphere of despair also enveloped the hearts of every Cao army soldier. In the whispers, countless Cao army soldiers were already questioning. How long should the self-army last like this? Or the self-army is like this.

How long can I last? Seeing the soldiers' dejected look, although Cao was still encouraging the soldiers to serve as a defender, his heart was already crying and bleeding.

"Draw the ground and guard it, and strangle it and cannot advance. If the situation is exhausted, there will be changes. When this is strange, you must not lose it!" Recalling the words in Xun Yu's letter, Cao, who has always been optimistic, is also the boss who has always been optimistic.

Wei Ran couldn't help but sigh, "Mr. Wen Ruo said it easy and made sense, but it was too difficult to do it."

After sighing, Boss Cao shook his head, took another deep breath, trying to drive the pessimism out of his mind, and then turned to Xun You who was accompanying him and asked: "Gongda, we sent a messenger to contact the pottery thief, but

Any news?”

"Return to Prime Minister, no." Xun You shook his head helplessly.

"It's been thirteen days, so it's time for me to come back? Is something wrong on the road?" Boss Cao was a little worried, and quickly laughed: "It must have been stopped, otherwise, Yuan Shao's husband wouldn't have been against us every day."

If we fight for the Pili chariot, we must have divided our troops to cut off our food routes and encouraged our army to cut off our food."

"Prime Minister, please stop." Xun You looked around nervously and whispered: "Please don't mention the word "free of food". Our army is difficult to replenish supplies. There have been rumors of food cuts in the army. If soldiers heard the Prime Minister's words, they might only have arisen.

More rumors. It is becoming more and more shaking the morale of the army."

"What Gongda said is very true, I have received the teachings."

Boss Cao nodded and humbly accepted Xun You's mistake. At this moment, a messenger finally rushed to report that the messenger sent to contact Deputy Director Tao had returned to Guandu camp. Boss Cao heard it.

He was very happy and quickly led Xun You and others to hurried back to the central army tent and summoned the self-army messenger who had just returned from Changyi. After the messenger greeted Boss Cao, he immediately took out two letter bags and put his hands on the top of his head.

, said respectfully: "Report to the Prime Minister, this was the villain who ordered the villain to bring it back to the Prime Minister. Tao Envoy also said that as long as the Prime Minister reads the letter, he will understand everything."

Boss Cao didn't say anything, and got off the seat and took two letter bags in person. After opening one, he only looked at the letter in the letter. Boss Cao was stunned and said in confusion: "Flying Musket's gun medicine."

Formula and manufacturing method? What is the use of this pottery thief giving me? Yuan Shaojun has seen the flying musket for a long time. It is no longer possible to achieve a surprising victory on the battlefield?"

As he said something strange, Boss Cao quickly opened another letter bag sealed with fire paint in his hand, took out the white silk from the bag to watch. However, after only one glance, Boss Cao was stunned again and even put the

The mouth was so open that two eggs could be stuffed into it. Xun You, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu and others on the side saw that something was wrong, so they hurried over to read the letter with Boss Cao, but they saw that the piece of snow-white silk with a ruler was written crookedly.

Two big words - Wuchao!

"What does this place name mean when Tao Thief writes it?"

Xun You said in surprise, Guo Jia and Cheng Yu next to him also looked at each other, not understanding what the medicine was sold in Deputy Director Tao. However, Boss Cao quickly woke up and immediately rushed to the map hanging in the tent, and began to look for Wu on the map.

The location of the nest was soon discovered that Wuchao was located forty miles behind Yuan Shao’s army camp. It is also located in the north of Wuchaoze in the territory of Lanzao County. Yuan Shao’s army arranged a military camp at that location, but this military camp is actually made.

What's the use, but because it's a bit rumored from Guandu, the road was blocked by four Yuan Shao's army camps, and the scouts of Cao's army have not yet discovered it, so the marking is still blank.

"Why are there four Yuan Shao's army guarding the road? Is it a coincidence? Or is it Yuan Shao paying special attention to this Wuchao village?" Several treacherous strategists under the command of Cao also discovered that something was wrong. After a little change, Guo Jia and Xun You

He also realized at the same time as Cheng Yu's three bad species, "The pottery thieves sent our army to fly muskets and also gave us some advice on the place name of Wuchao? Could it be that Wuchao is Yuan Shao's place to store grain?!"

"Send a scout to investigate now!" Boss Cao gritted his teeth and ordered: "At any cost, we must find out for me, what is the purpose of the Yuan Shao army camp in Wuchao?! Besides, immediately

According to the recipe provided by the pottery thief, we will make flying muskets overnight, the more the better!”

"No." Xun You and others agreed, and then Cheng Yu reminded him worriedly: "Prime Minister, even if Wuchao is really a place where Yuan Shao's grain storage is, it may not be so easy to capture, right? Especially on the way to attack Wuchao,

There are four Yuan Shao's army intercepting the villages. Whether it is trying to escape or forcibly break through, it is definitely not that easy."

Boss Cao frowned again, but he quickly stretched back and said, "It doesn't matter, be prepared first, the opportunity is only for those who are prepared. If you are not prepared, it will be too late to prepare when the opportunity comes.

.”

Cheng Yu nodded and no longer persuaded Boss Cao to do useless work. At the same time, Cheng Yu was also a little confused and said, "Strange, even our army, who was close to us, did not know the situation of Wuchao. The pottery thieves were hundreds of miles apart from Wuchao.

How did you know?”

"There must be a traitor." Boss Cao waved his hand arbitrarily and said, "Although the Tao thief turned his face with Yuan Shao, his family affection with Yuan Shang, Liu and others is still there. He must have taken the opportunity to take the opportunity when he had a good relationship with Yuan Shao before.

Yuan Shao's team arranged a large number of traitors, and it was not difficult to find out about this military event. In short, I have to thank the pottery thieves this time. If Wuchao is really the place where Yuan Shao's common men store grain, then what the pottery thieves gave to me will be

It will be the best opportunity for our army to turn defeat into victory, the only chance!"

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Boss Cao should really thank Deputy Director Tao, who has a noble character, because at the same time, another letter from Deputy Director Tao, who has a noble character, happened to be sent to the Grand Duke of Yuan San - this one

The letter should have been delivered to the Grand Duke Yuan San in the morning. Unfortunately, the Grand Duke Yuan San was busy supervising the soldiers to attack Cao's camp with weakened Xiangyang cannons. The news was delivered to the current chief staff officer of Yuan Shaojun, Mr. Guo Tu, and Deputy Director Tao.

Mr. Guo Tu, who had a deep resentment, would not let the Tao Army messenger get his wish easily, and ordered the Tao Army messenger to be taken down on the spot. Until the Grand Duke of Yuan Sandang returned to the camp, he was still scolding several generals for not being able to cover the Xiangyang artillery position.

When it was bad, he presented the letter from Deputy Director Tao to the Sangong of Dayuan.

This time, Mr. Guo Tu obviously made a mistake in his wishful thinking. He opened the letter and saw the enhanced Xiangyang cannon drawings sent by Deputy Director Tao. He also saw the letter with a respectful and humble tone. He was in a bad mood.

Yuan Sangong immediately turned his anger into joy, slapped the table and said with a smile: "Okay! I didn't expect that the Pili car could be improved to this point, and the farthest drop is 400 steps and the heaviest can be thrown into a stone bullet of 300 kilograms. You don't have to be afraid of it this time.

Cao Zhe's thunder car was bombed together!"

In a very happy mood, the three Duke of Yuan Yuan ordered Chen Lin to send the drawings to the construction site to be processed quickly. He also asked Guo Tu happily: "Tao Yinglai Shu admits his mistake and apologizes, saying that I only need to send an envoy to hold the emperor.

The blood edict was sent to Changyi, asking him to distinguish the authenticity, and then he immediately brought troops westward to Guandu to help me attack Cao's thief. What did Mr. Gongze think?"

"Lord, do you think the Tao thief is sincerely apologizing?" Mr. Guo Tu smiled and sneered: "The Tao thief sent a letter to present a gift. It is obvious that the Tao thief has discovered that the Cao thief will be defeated. Our army will win to avoid our army.

After winning, he turned his fingers to Xuzhou. Then he quickly came to flatter his lord. His intentions were so sinister and despicable that he was a hundred times better than Cao thief!"

The face of the Grand Duke Yuan three lengthened again and he snorted: "Shameless little thief, it's really hateful!"

"Yes." Mr. Guo Tu took the opportunity to say, "Only in this way, the lord should behead the messenger of the Taoist thief to show his intention of breaking up the friendship. Then, when the thief of Cao is defeated, the lord can move his troops eastward with justification.

Xuzhou has abundant money and food."

The Grand Duke Yuan San was quite conscientious. Considering that his son-in-law had begged for mercy and surrendered, he gave him a gift in urgent need. It would be a bit too much for him to kill his messenger. In addition, it was too late, Da Yuan San was already exhausted.

So the Grand Duke of Yuan shook his head and said, "The envoy cannot be killed first, so he can only be detained temporarily. I will make a decision after I think carefully." Guo Tu repeatedly advised the envoy Grand Duke of Yuan but still refused to listen, in order to avoid angering the moody Grand Duke of Yuan and the unpredictable Grand Duke of Yuan but was unwilling to do so.

Mr. Guo Tu had no choice but to shut his mouth obediently.

Because the generals and soldiers were very tired after ten consecutive days, the same exhausted Duke Yuan San did not continue to launch the Xiangyang artillery battle. Instead, he let the team rest for a day and focused on improving the

In the construction of the Pili chariot, due to sufficient materials, the first improved Xiangyang cannon was completed the next afternoon. Yuan Sangong was very happy when he heard the news and quickly led his civil and military personnel to the construction site to inspect the actual objects.

The gunner fires the gun.

After two cannons, something that made Yuan Shaojun ecstatic happened. The newly improved Pili chariot could indeed throw a three hundred kilogram stone bomb four hundred steps away, and the throwing distance was one further than the original Pili chariot.

More than a hundred steps, the stone bullets dropped were also heavy by hundreds of kilograms, and their power naturally increased greatly. Seeing this scene, the three grand Duke of Yuan was of course laughing and ordered the construction of 300 aircraft on the spot. The important officials of Yuan Shao's army also went to the scene.

Yuan San Gong reconciled, and then naturally, there were people who could not ask curiously: "Lord, where did this new thunderbolt car come from? Why have we never heard of it before?"

"This matter is a long story, and I just want to ask everyone's opinions." The three-president Yuan in a good mood waved his hand and shouted, "Let's go, we all go to the big tent to have a banquet. The origin of this thunderbolt cannon, I

I drink and talk with you. Today is rare. All officials must not return without getting drunk!"

Guo Tu, Xin Ping, Xu You, He Mao, Han Xun and other flatterers cheered loudly. General Ju Suze, the general of the army, looked worried and reminded him: "Lord, the enemy is in front of you, please drink with ease. You must not

To make drinking too much and mislead things, we also need to make night camp prevention arrangements."

The Grand Duke of Yuan Sanshi's smile froze, and soon he snorted heavily: "Then let Mr. Ju Su make arrangements for all the things to be done tonight. If Mr. Ju Su is unwilling to celebrate with me, Cao's thief will be broken, you can do it yourself after the arrangements.

Go back to the tent to rest, don’t have to come to see me in the big tent.”

Guo Tu, Xu You and others looked at Ju Su gloatingly, but Ju Su was not willing to be outdone and bowed and said, "Su is really not good at drinking, so he won't go to the big tent to bother his lord, but he just dares to ask his lord, our army will pass tonight.

Why is the command? It is better to send people to spread to the various camps."

"The pass command tonight?" The Grand Duke of Yuan San thought for a moment and immediately waved his hand and said, "The Pili Car broke through the turtle shell of Cao thief! I have a new Pili Car, and it is easy to break through Guandu. I will use this sentence tonight's Pili Car
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