Chapter 750 Hiding firearms in the ground, people and horses will die when they encounter them!
Once this person comes out of the rhythm of "living away from the world", he will inevitably be nostalgic for the flowers and plants in the world and not want to go back!
Cao Cao was like this. He lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests for five years. He refreshed his mind with the Taikang Qi, and his headaches stopped for a long time. Therefore... Cao Cao was not in a hurry to go back, so he lived in Xiangyang City, Jingzhou.
now.
The kitchen in the pavilion was steaming with heat, and Diao Chan was busy. Lu Bu walked in slowly, and stood in the heat. Diao Chan heard that he was in Jingzhou, and came by carriage not far away for hundreds of miles.
I never thought...Cao Cao would be there too.
This made Diao Chan feel excited for a while. After all... Cao Cao's love was known to everyone in the entire Wei Dynasty... Fortunately, Lu Bu was here, otherwise, it would be really hard to explain clearly.
When Diao Chan saw Lu Bu, she smiled bitterly and said, "Husband, I have stewed chicken soup, mutton and soup cakes. Husband, please bring them in to Duke Cao!"
Lu Bu knew what Diao Chan was thinking, so he took the dishes... and entered the house alone.
Speaking of which, Lu Buben was very worried about Diao Chan. After all... he had been overseas for a long time, Wei Wu's legacy, and the fact that Cao Cao was a good wife... was no secret!
Of course...Cao Yu...
Who could not be moved by such a young, handsome and mighty King of Wei?
But... precisely because of Cao Yu, Lu Bu felt relieved.
Lingju is Cao Yu's sister, and Lu Lingqi is Cao Yu's noble concubine. So... Diao Chan is half of Cao Yu's mother-in-law. Cao Cao is a good wife, so she can't take half of her son's mother-in-law. This is a bit too much.
…
Lu Bu felt that he had played a big game of chess... a very wise and powerful game.
"Mr. Cao..."
Lu Bu entered the room with chicken soup, mutton and soup cakes. Cao Cao was looking at the map on the table. When he saw Lu Bu, he quickly put away the map and said, "Feng is here first, sit down!"
There is a table, two people sitting on their knees...
When the servants poured wine for Cao Cao and Lu Bu, Cao Cao sighed: "As this man gets older, he likes to miss the past. There are not many people from the past who can enjoy a drink together."
Lu Bu raised the wine bottle and said, "I think back on the Baimen Tower back then. If Cao Gong hadn't spared my life, Lu Bu would have turned into a withered skeleton now. This glass of wine should be dedicated to Cao Gong!"
Cao Cao also raised the wine bottle, but shook his head, "I respect you first, I drink this wine alone, but we must make it clear that it is my son Cao Yu who saved you. If it weren't for my son, Liu Bei's sentence of punishment
The words from my heart... Gu may really lose his mind and do stupid things. If so, how can the current Yamatai Kingdom be returned to the Wei Dynasty? Who will bring Goguryeo into the territory on behalf of the Wei Dynasty! "
Speaking of which...
Lu Bu drank the wine bottle in one gulp. In addition to being grateful to Cao Yu, he felt even more resentful towards Liu Bei.
"Have you not seen what happened to Ding Jianyang and Dong Zhuo..." He murmured this sentence, and then said coldly: "The words of that big-eared thief almost killed me, and I will never forget it... If there is a chance, Bu will definitely kill me..."
This big-eared thief was torn into pieces!"
Lu Bu gritted his teeth...
Cao Cao, on the other hand, took the ladle of wine from the attendant and refilled the wine for Lu Bu... He softly chanted: "If this is not an opportunity, is it here?"
As he spoke, Cao Cao unfolded the map again... pointing in the direction of Yiling City.
this…
Lu Bu did not drink. He stared at Yiling City with his eyes. "Liu Bei sent out 250,000 troops to invade Yiling, but His Majesty moved away the people of Yiling City. It was like a solid wall to clear the country...Bu has never been able to figure it out.
The Wei army has so many soldiers and horses. Not to mention 250,000, even one million can be obtained, so why bother to fortify the wall and clear the country? Wouldn't it be more domineering to simply defeat the invading enemy with the force of the enemy? "
Lu Bu put aside the doubts in his heart.
Cao Cao narrowed his eyes, "Yu'er is a benevolent and filial master after all, not a domineering one..."
"Benevolence and filial piety are used to govern the country, and hegemony is used to unify." Lu Bu put forward a different opinion. "Perhaps... after incorporating Bashu into the territory of the Wei Dynasty, what the Wei Dynasty needs more is the leader of benevolence and filial piety, but now..."
"Wrong!" Cao Cao shook his head slightly, "Yu'er's benevolence and filial piety are for his countrymen, not for his enemies, and not for Liu Bei... Yu'er just wants to save the Wei people from harm!"
this…
Lu Bu was a little hesitant. As the saying goes, one general can make thousands of bones wither... How can one rule the world without being damaged?
at this time…
"Report... Jiangxia Governor Pang Tong has arrived!"
Governor of Jiangxia?
Lu Bu was stunned, "Jiangxia is an important place for transporting grain, grass and baggage in Yiling City. Pang Tong is very important as the governor of Jiangxia? Why did he come to Xiangyang?"
Cao Cao smiled and did not answer Lu Bu. He raised his hand and said, "Let him in!"
After a while, Pang Tong walked in and saw Cao Cao... He bowed his hands and saluted, but when he saw Lu Bu, he also saluted...
"Tell me about it? How is Yu'er's plan?" Cao Cao asked.
"Now Liu Bei's army has all entered the preset location, and they are just waiting for this evening..." Pang Tong answered truthfully.
Lu Bu couldn't understand...
It was Liu Bei's army of 250,000 that was clearly surrounding Yiling City? How come... Liu Bei's army entered the preset location again?
What is a default location?
Seeing Lu Bu's confused expression, Cao Cao smiled and explained: "Fengxian has been in Yamatai Kingdom. You don't know what kind of manufacturing drawing Yu'er has drawn, right?"
Cao Cao stood up slowly with a smile. He took out a blueprint from his arms and handed it to Lu Bu...
"This is a mine..."
Lu Bu took it, and the drawing showed that this object called a mine had a stone shell on the outside and gunpowder inside... It was a group of mines that placed a transmission mechanism in the casing and used a controllable fuse... to control the explosion.
Of course... with the rapid development of "technology" in the Wei Dynasty in recent years, firearms... Lu Bu is no stranger. Even when he attacked Goguryeo from Yamatai Kingdom, he also used firearms... and equipped the ships with artillery, but...
This kind of thing has a stone shell on the outside and gunpowder on the inside...What is this?
Thunder on the ground?
"This... can also explode?"
Lu Bu asked curiously.
"I don't know either!" Cao Cao turned his attention to Pang Tong.
Pang Tong understood and quickly explained: "It can explode naturally!"
Cao Cao continued to ask, "How powerful is it?"
This... Pang Tong rolled his eyes, "One piece would be powerful enough to blow the house we are in into pieces..."
"..."
This metaphor…
strange.
Before Lu Bu could react, Cao Cao asked in surprise: "Say it again!"
Pang Tong seemed to realize that it seemed inappropriate to use this house as a metaphor.
But he was outspoken... He still said: "My lord, the Supreme Emperor and Marquis Wen are in this room. As long as this mine detonates, I am afraid that overnight... we will be gone! In fact, as long as the people staying in this room,
No one can withstand... the explosion of this mine will most likely be wiped out in ashes!"
Actually...it's not accurate to say it's a landmine.
What Lu Yu drew was a large amount of gunpowder added to the stone shell...
This is an invention adopted in the early Ming Dynasty...
"The Chronicles of the Ming Dynasty: King Yan's Rise of the Army" records that during the Battle of Baigouhe in the second year of Jianwen (1400), "firearms were hidden in the ground, and when men and horses encountered them, they were almost dead!"
Of course, this is version 1.0, invented in the first year of the Armistice.
Up to now, after improvements by Liu Ye, Zhuge Jun, Ma Jun and others, it has reached the second phase of version 3.3. Not only has the power become stronger, but it can also form a mine array and control the fuse through a line buried in the tunnel, achieving
big Bang!
This result surprised Lu Yu!
Never underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, they just lacked a direction...a guide!
But Lu Bu...
Pfft..." This time... all the sip of wine he just swallowed came out.
Wine mist flew into the sky... Then he covered his heart and coughed desperately.
While coughing, he said: "You mean, Liu Bei has already arrived at the explosion site?"
"That's right!" Pang Tong was quite confident, "Actually, there aren't many landmines buried, just over a thousand...you can only pull the fuse, and these mines lose their weight barrier, and they will explode continuously in an instant, causing landslides and ground cracks.
, the earth trembled and the mountains shook..."
This time... not only Lu Bu, but also Cao Cao's expression was stunned.
Not one...a thousand...
Although Pang Tong’s metaphor is inappropriate, if a thousand bombs exploded at the same time, wouldn’t it be... wouldn’t it be the entire government office of Xiangyang City...
No... the whole of Xiangyang is gone?
He couldn't help but shudder. Although Yu'er had mentioned "landmines" before, but...how powerful it was, Cao Cao thought it was like artillery...but now...
"Gudong..."
He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Then Liu Bei..."
"No!" Before Cao Cao could finish speaking, Lu Bu stood up suddenly, "I have to go to Yiling..."
"Fengxian?" Cao Cao shouted quickly.
But... Lu Bu has decided to go. "If I don't go now, I'm afraid the ashes of this big-eared thief will not be found! How will Bu kill his enemy at that time?"
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At the foot of Yiling City...the siege battle one day came to an end.
After many days of continuous siege, both sides suffered damage to each other.
As the Shu army besieged the city on all sides, blocking all the passages in Yiling, and more trebuchets were set up, the balance of the battlefield gradually tilted towards the Shu army.
at this time…
In the main tent of the Shu army, a group of generals were in full force.
Zhang Bao cupped his hands and said: "If it is as your Majesty said, Lu Xun was timid before fighting. He knew that he was no match for your Majesty. Yiling City is now at the end of its war effort, and I will be confident that we can capture Yiling within three days!"
Guan Xing also took a step forward, "If we let the last general be the vanguard, the last general will have the confidence to capture Yiling within two days!"
How could Zhang Bao give up his position as commander of the army? "Tomorrow, if I don't capture Yiling tomorrow, I will give up the vanguard to you!"
Completely different from Guan Yu and Zhang Fei’s brothers Gong, Xiao Guan and Zhang secretly screamed...
One is to avenge his father, the other is to make achievements...
Only Sun Qian felt something was wrong, "Your Majesty, this Cao Wei is so abnormal. There has been no reinforcements for so many days. Could it be that... they want to abandon Yiling? Or... they have some other plan."
"What are you afraid of?" Guan Xing said loudly: "Then Cao Yu is in Hanzhong, not Jingzhou. My father just wanted to support Jingzhou personally, so he made a huge strategic mistake. Before that, my father had always suppressed Cao Wei.
Fighting! In my opinion, except for Cao Yu, the entire Cao Wei has nothing to worry about. This time His Majesty has dispatched 250,000 troops to work together, why should Cao Wei worry about it? After Yiling is captured, the next step is Jingzhou
, when the time comes, we can capture Xiangyang, cross the river with Cao Wei, and conquer the land south of Jingnan and east of the Yangtze River. We will accomplish great things! We can also comfort my father's spirit in heaven!"
Guan Xing's words are so powerful that they can't help but make people's hearts surge.
Five years, in order to get out of Bashu, Guan Xing, Zhang Bao... too many people are too eager!
Some people among the civil and military people secretly said...
But at this time...
A scout from outside stumbled in: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty... found... something strange... under the camp!"
Liu Bei was stunned when he heard...
Guan Xing's preaching also came to an abrupt end...
Everyone in the entire Chinese army tent looks at me, I look at you...
Liu Bei asked: "What's weird?"
"Today, the logistics army was ordered to dig a well... but they never thought that they would dig a tunnel underground..."
"Is it a tunnel?" Liu Bei's eyes narrowed, but his expression softened a lot. If it is just a tunnel, then...it's nothing to worry about. "It turns out that Lu Xun's son wants to use this tunnel to sneak attack our army. Our army can use it to his advantage. It's the best!"
"
Hearing Liu Bei’s words…
The scout hurriedly said: "It's probably not a sneak attack in the tunnel, but... there is something buried in the tunnel. It is an iron object. There is a layer on it... There is something wrapped in it, and there are thin wires connecting it. We are looking for it.
Even the craftsmen don’t know what this is?”
this…
Liu Bei's eyes narrowed, "Ask me again, let all the craftsmen in the army take a look and make sure you understand what this is!"
"Here...here..." the scout agreed and planned to pass the message.
Never thought...
at this time.
A loud bang exploded, and because it was very close to the Chinese army's tent, the sound caused Liu Bei to temporarily become deaf...
He subconsciously looked outside the account...
However, they saw that the camp where the explosion was heard suddenly turned into a pile of ruins... Countless Shu troops were shattered to pieces due to the explosion, and their remains fell from the sky... making a "dongdong" sound... it was horrifying to watch.
At the same time, the remaining sparks from the explosion swayed from above his head, and the hot iron filings and the cold wind whipped up by the war fell on Liu Bei at the same time.
"This is…"
Before Liu Bei could speak...
——Boom, boom, boom!
The roar resounded again, and the entire military camp... was filled with scenes of flames exploding, shrill screams erupted from the crowd, and the frightened crowd flew out in all directions like exploding fragments.
Immediately afterwards, the swarms of military tents and trebuchets were shaking and letting out waves of feeble groans... as if amidst the explosions, they would suddenly fall in the next breath.
"——Boom!!"
Starting from the periphery of the camp, wherever there was an explosion, waves of blazing flames swept across, accompanied by earth-shattering loud noises. Thick smoke rose into the sky like an overwhelming sandstorm, accompanied by scarlet flames that bloomed coquettishly...
The explosions became more frequent and deafening...
Fire and thick smoke soared into the sky...
The air was filled with a suffocating pungent smell... and the entire Shu army camp was in chaos for a while!
All the Shu troops could no longer hold on to their positions. They fled in all directions, crying... wailing, and in the explosion... they were blown into the sky, causing a loud cry...
"Ahem..."
After a while, Liu Bei coughed violently.
The surrounding Zhang Bao and Guan Xing quickly protected him, and they shouted hysterically: "Protect, protect... the enemy is attacking... the enemy is attacking!"
yes…
Is it an enemy attack?
But where is the enemy?
In addition to the continuous roar of explosions, in addition to the clouds of black smoke constantly rising from the Shu army camp, in addition to the debris and debris flying around like sharp swords...