Chapter 1353: Han Banner Under Heaven (Forty-Three) 4 Clouds Move (Three)

The battle for Tianjiaping Fortress reached a fever pitch in a very short time. Gou Xin was born in a famous family, a military family, and he made the most correct decision. Not long after the Han army launched the attack, he knew the situation he was facing. If he let the opponent continue to fight like this, soon, the city wall he wanted to rely on would be completely destroyed by the opponent, and it would also cause a serious blow to his soldiers. The only chance of winning was to fight with the opponent and make the opponent's most powerful weapons unable to play their power. After sending a team of soldiers to try to kill the opponent's engineers and successfully attract the opponent, he immediately abandoned the soldiers who left the city, closed the city gates, and used bows and crossbows on the city, or used catapults to throw broken stone bombs to kill the enemy. Once the opponent retreated, he immediately sent soldiers to pursue, thereby attracting the opponent back, and repeatedly killing.

Although Jiang Fu had fought many battles, it was the first time for him, as a battalion commander, to command such a battle. After being hooked by the "Pig" novel "www"huzud", he suffered a lot in the continuous attacks. However, this also stimulated the blood in Jiang Fu's bones.

Seeing that his subordinates killed all the Qin soldiers who rushed out of the city, the covering shooting on the city also made his subordinates lie down under the city, and Jiang Fu's eyes were red.

"Cannon, three rounds of volleys. Guard platoon, follow me." He shouted loudly.

Amid the roar of the artillery, Jiang Fu jumped out of the position with a big knife in his hand, and ran forward wildly. The shells were flying above his head, and Jiang Fu was running wildly on the ground. With the sound of a loud bang, the rubble on the top of the city was splashed, and another wall was smashed down. Jiang Fu had already rushed to the bottom of the city.

"Ladder!" He roared.

With a bang, a ladder stood up and leaned against the gap in the wall that was blown open. Jiang Fu held the knife in his mouth, and climbed up quickly with his hands and feet.

Two push rods on the city wall held the top of the ladder, trying their best to push the ladder away. The Han army below the city held the ladder tightly, and the Qin army leaned out. Arrows rained down on the soldiers below. At such a distance, even if they were wearing armor, they could not resist the attack of arrows. Several soldiers were shot like hedgehogs, and blood soaked their armor and flowed all the way to the ground along their bodies. But as long as they had a breath, these soldiers held the ladder tightly with both hands. Use the weight of your body to hang on the ladder to prevent the ladder from being pushed away.

The second round of artillery fire, the landing point is still in the same position just now, and the ladder that was pushed away fell back with a bang. The broken arms and limbs of the Qin soldiers on the top of the city were flying. Jiang Fu had climbed to the top of the ladder, and his head appeared from the gap, and he saw it at first sight. Dozens of Qin soldiers were getting up from the ground, roaring and rushing towards his position.

Jiang Fu himself was also shocked by the explosion of the artillery just now. His head was buzzing, and his hands and feet were sore for a while. He climbed up the city wall with great effort. He took out a grenade from his arms, lit the fuse with a pile of fire still burning beside him, and waited for a moment.

He threw the grenade out.

With a roar, more than a dozen Qin soldiers who rushed up to block the gap fell into a pool of blood.

After rolling from the wall to the inside, Jiang Fu finally recovered some strength. With a roar, he rushed towards the Qin soldiers in front of him with a knife. Behind him, one Han soldier after another climbed up. Behind him, dozens of Han soldiers gathered in a blink of an eye.

Seeing that the city wall was breached, Gou Xin was shocked. The attack and defense of the city wall, as long as one point was breached, if the loophole was not quickly blocked, even a thousand-mile long dike could collapse in an ant hole.

"Follow me, kill the Han dogs." He shouted loudly and rushed towards Jiang Fu. Behind him, hundreds of Qin soldiers rushed over shouting. They were all veterans and knew the priorities.

The third round of artillery fire started again. This time, the bullets hit dozens of meters on both sides of the wall that had just been broken through. In the roar, Gou Xin felt dizzy, his legs softened, and he fell to the ground. He turned his head back with difficulty. The shell just now fell into the crowd of Qin soldiers behind him, causing huge casualties. The rotating, hot fireball took away countless lives in an instant.

The Qin soldiers on the city were stunned by such an attack. In a moment of stunnedness, more Han soldiers had already rushed onto the city wall.

Jiang Fu turned his head and looked at the artillery position that was still filled with smoke. He praised loudly: "You are so awesome! If this shot had missed, I would have gone to see the King of Hell. I will ask for your credit later."

Getting up from the ground, the residual power of the explosion still made him dizzy, but he still rushed towards the nearest Qin soldier.

"Kill!" Jiang Fu roared: "Brother Crab, look at your brother to avenge you!"

The city was in chaos, and the city gates were blown open by the Han army engineers below the city. More Han soldiers poured in. Gou Xin looked at his fortress in despair. From the beginning of the war to now, less than an hour had passed, and the Tianjiaping Fortress, which once seemed impregnable, was about to fall.

"General, hurry up, or you can't leave!" His personal soldiers dragged the distraught Gou Xin away.

The battle started in the early morning, and before noon, the battlefield had returned to calm. The Tianjiaping Fortress was in a state of disrepair, with gaps and broken walls everywhere, which was shocking. The soldiers began to clean up the battlefield, but Jiang Fu walked up to the artillery, stroked the still warm gun barrel, and murmured: "With you, the future battles will be very different."

The emergence of artillery has indeed made the attack and defense of the city no longer a natural barrier.

In Lubin City, messengers rushed into Xu Yahua's general's office one after another. The Han army began to enter this morning. At noon, the first bad news came. The Tianjiaping Fortress was lost. If Tianjiaping was lost, Xiyangping and Huangshiping would definitely not be able to be defended. Sure enough, less than half an hour after Tianjiaping was lost, the other two fortresses were also lost. The Third Division of the 20th Army of the Han Army was passing through the war zone and quickly rushed towards Lubin.

"Half a day, half a day, the three fortresses guarded by 5,000 soldiers were all lost." Xu Yahua supported his hands on the edge of the sand table, looking at the miniature model of the defense zone of the Lubin Fortress in front of him. After taking away the three small cities of Tianjiaping, Xiyangping, and Huangshiping, there was no more defense before the Lubin Fortress area.

"General Xu, the number of soldiers escaping from the front is increasing. Currently, there are about 1,500 soldiers. I found the officers among them. They all mentioned that the Han army has a new weapon. The city wall cannot resist this weapon at all. Once it explodes, a large piece will collapse." Deputy General Qian Shouyi said worriedly.

"New weapon?" Xu Yahua turned his head. In recent years, the new things of the Han Kingdom have been introduced without any investigation. He was already a little numb, but the Qin army officers in the three places mentioned this weapon at the same time, which was a little unusual.

Qian Shouyi took out a few pieces of paper and placed them in front of Xu Yahua. "According to the descriptions of those officers and some soldiers, I drew a rough appearance of this thing. It must be driven by gunpowder. When it explodes, it will produce a lot of smoke and send an iron ball of about ten pounds to the city, causing a lot of casualties to our city walls and soldiers."

Looking at the things on the picture, Xu Yahua sighed slightly. "Have you sent an emergency call to Hangu Pass?"

"The messenger left early in the morning, and now the second wave has also left. I didn't expect that we couldn't even hold Tianjiaping for a day." Qian Shouyi sighed, and the worry in his eyes was very obvious. Although Lubin City is taller and more solid than the later built Tianjiaping and other fortresses, can it really be defended?

"Defending is definitely difficult." Xu Yahua looked at the sand table, "The opponent has such a siege weapon. If we don't retreat, we can only passively take the beating."

"What does the general mean?"

"The Han army certainly can't think that we are not busy reinforcing the city walls and preparing for defense, but going the other way and attacking to seek a field battle. Shouyi, you take 5,000 people to attack, and I will give you all the 2,000 cavalry in my headquarters. We must kill the opponent's prestige. The Han army is strong, but we Qin people are not easy to mess with. There is attack before there is defense." Xu Yahua looked at Qian Shouyi with a sharp look.

"I obey your order." Qian Shouyi responded loudly, turned around and strode out.

At Hangu Pass, several groups of messengers arrived almost one after another. The first letter Lu Chao saw was about the Han army launching an attack, but the second one was about the loss of Tianjiaping and other places, and the Lubin Fortress area had been exposed to the attack of the Han army.

"It came so fast." Lu Chao said in a lost voice. It had not been two days since Gao Yuan arrived in Jinyang, and the Han army's attack had already begun, which caught Lu Chao off guard.

If Lubin fell, Hangu Pass would face the opponent directly, which Lu Chao did not want to see, but if he wanted reinforcements, his focus was not here at the moment. Xianyang and other places in Qin had already started to prepare closely. If he transferred troops to Lubin at this time, the previous preparations would most likely be wasted.

Gao Yuan, what do you want to do? Are you really going to fight with me at Hangu Pass? Lu Chao took a deep breath. He dared to do this because he was sure that Gao Yuan must be thinking of taking advantage of the situation, and he wanted to take advantage of Gao Yuan's intention to take advantage of the situation and fight for a chance of survival.

But the attack and march of the Han army were too fast.

"General, another envoy from Lubin has arrived." A guard rushed in and shouted.

"What? Didn't Lubin fall?" Lu Chao said in a lost voice.

"No, no, General Xu won the victory in Lubin and defeated the 3rd Division of the 20th Army of the Han Army. Now the Han Army has recovered." The guard shouted happily. (To be continued.)