Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 77 Massacre
For a time, everyone was stunned.

Not only the Guanzhong Allied Forces were stunned, but even the soldiers of Cao Jun who fired the cannons were also stunned by the scene of hundreds of artillery firing.

Behind the gunboat, countless Cao soldiers opened their mouths in surprise after seeing the damage caused by the artillery.

The soldiers of the Guanzhong Allied Forces on both sides of the strait were shocked by such an attack, and countless people were so frightened that their legs trembled after seeing the tragic situation of the people hit by the shells.

Only one round of shelling caused great disturbances in the Guanzhong Allied Army formation. If there were no military officers who tried their best to suppress it, it is estimated that many people turned around and ran away.

At the same time, the cavalry and horses behind the army were frightened by the loud sound of the artillery, and many horses ran around uncontrollably, which caused great confusion among the Guanzhong coalition forces on both sides of the Weihe River.

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom !
Soon, the second round of shelling came, and suddenly, the sound of shelling continued for a while.

In this round of shelling, many shells were replaced with shotgun shells. Suddenly, countless shells slammed towards both sides of the bank like hail.

The first round of shelling was filled with solid shells, mainly to deal with the navy in Guanzhong. Since the navy in Guanzhong did not come, during the second round of shelling, all the gunboats were replaced with shotgun shells with a wider range of damage. .

There are hundreds of small grape-like iron beads in each shotgun. In close combat, dozens of enemies can be knocked down with one shot.

More than 200 artillery pieces fired shotgun shells at the same time, and tens of thousands of iron beads rushed towards the enemy like hail and rain.

Under the watchful eyes of many people, as soon as the cannon fires, the enemies in front of the cannon will be knocked down like wheat.

In just a few minutes, the front row of the military formations on both sides of the strait was swept away by artillery, leaving behind a lot of corpses. At least thousands of people were killed or injured in this round of shelling.

Such casualties are difficult to achieve in later generations, because no one would line up in such a dense formation to let hundreds of artillery shells bombard them at close range.

Under such circumstances, the second round of bombardment by more than a dozen gunboats has not yet been completed, and the tens of thousands of Guanzhong troops on both sides are in chaos.

At this time, the soldiers in Guanzhong couldn't care about anything anymore, and almost all of them ran away desperately, even the generals of the army were no exception.

It's too scary, Cao Jun's weapons are too scary, it's impossible for people to stop them.

At this moment, no one dared to stand on both sides of the bank to be bombarded by gunboats.

However, tens of thousands of troops gathered together, and they could not retreat immediately if they wanted to.

The shelling is still going on, and when the distance of the shotgun is not enough, the artillerymen will immediately switch to solid shells to attack.

One kilometer away on the Tongguan City Wall, when Ma Chao, Han Sui and others saw this scene, everyone was horrified.

"This, this, what kind of weapon is this?" Seeing this scene, Ma Chao stuttered in horror.

"It's over, it's over..." Han Sui's eyes were a little dull when he saw the situation in front of him.

Next, he could already imagine that without the resistance of the troops on both sides of the strait, Cao Cao's army could easily go ashore.

As long as Cao Cao's army is allowed to go ashore, the rear of Tongguan will be switched.

"No, you can't let Cao Jun cross the strait."

"What are we going to do?" Someone asked anxiously.

"After Cao's army lands, I will lead the army to fight out. As long as we are entangled with Cao's army and believe in that kind of weapon, we will not dare to attack casually. We must wipe out Cao's army on the shore." Ma Chao said to everyone.

Although it was also the first time for him to see artillery, this did not prevent him from thinking of ways to deal with Cao Jun.

On the other side, in the Yellow River, Cao Cao also saw the shelling in the Wei River through the telescope.

"Good! Good! Good! Great!"

Seeing the Guanzhong Allied Forces being bombarded and defeated, Cao Cao shouted "Hello" several times excitedly.

"Hahaha! This artillery is really powerful." Cao Cao laughed.

Not only Cao Cao was happy, but everyone else who watched the battle with Cao Cao was very happy.

"This gun boat is really powerful. With this gun boat, the army behind can go ashore calmly." Someone said.

"Don't be blindly optimistic, just look at the situation." There were also people who remained very calm.

In the Weihe River, the bombardment continued. On the south bank of the Weihe River, there was a narrow strip about 600 meters wide, and behind it was a mountain range.

In order to avoid shell attacks, many Guanzhong soldiers ran behind the mountains.

However, more people fled in the direction of Tongguan. They thought that as long as they ran to Tongguan, they would be safe.

"Open the city gate and let them in."

Ma Chao and others saw that Cao Jun could not send troops to catch up for a while, so they asked people to open the city gate and let the scattered soldiers enter the city.

At the same time, in the city, tens of thousands of troops have also begun to gather, and they will fight out when Cao Jun's soldiers come ashore.

Half an hour later, most of the Guanzhong army fled the 500-meter-long flat land on the south bank of the Weihe River, either over the mountains to a place where artillery shells could not attack, or entered Tongguan City.

At this time, the sound of the artillery firing on the gunboat gradually became thinner, and finally stopped.

"General, shall we log in?"

Some subordinates asked Yue Fei.

"Don't worry, wait a little longer." Yue Fei replied.

At this time, there were no Guanzhong troops left on the south bank of the Weihe River. Logically speaking, it was the best time to go ashore at this time. Unexpectedly, Yue Fei wanted to wait.

"Why hasn't Yue Pengju gone ashore yet?"

On the upstairs boat, Cao Cao asked with some doubts.

"I don't know, maybe I'm still preparing." Someone replied.

Time runs out quickly, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 10 10 minutes, [-] [-] minutes.

After half an hour, the artillery cooled down.

Boom boom boom boom boom!

The roar of the artillery sounded, and the gunboat fired again.

As the gunboat fired, hundreds of shells quickly shot towards the target.

Following the parabola of the shell, everyone could see that the target of the bombardment was Tongguan City, which was one kilometer away.

Many shells hit the city wall of Tongguan, but more shells crossed the wall and smashed into the city.

"No, hurry down the city wall."

Seeing such a situation, Ma Chao, Han Sui and others who were monitoring Cao Jun's movements on the city wall were scared to death. No one thought that the weapon that made a loud noise could hit so far.

Ma Chao, Han Sui and others ran down the city wall in embarrassment to avoid the shell attack, but the Guanzhong soldiers in the city were not so lucky.

Especially at this time, the [-] cavalry gathered on the streets of the city were originally planning to rush out of the city to kill the enemy after Cao Jun landed.

Unexpectedly, they gathered here but were attacked by shells.

Suddenly, there was chaos in the city.

"Hurry up, come and hide under the city wall here."

Soon Ma Chao and others in the city discovered that the artillery shells had dead ends, and within a distance of 600 meters from the west city wall, they would not be hit by the artillery shells, because the artillery shells that could hit here were all blocked by the city wall.

"All ships obey the order and start to dock."

At this time, Yue Fei finally gave the order to land.

PS: Some people say why the Guanzhong Allied Forces don’t use rockets to burn ships. I want to say that you must have been misled by watching too many TV dramas.

You often see on TV that the ancient army ignites the kindling (oiled cloth) tied to the arrow and shoots at the enemy, and then burns houses and ships, right?
But what I'm going to tell you is that this kind of rocket is not useful at all, and there is no way to ignite anything.

First of all, after the rocket wraps the firelighter, due to the increase in weight and the increase in the contact area with the air, its attack distance and penetration will be greatly reduced.

Second, when rockets are flying fast, the flames tend to go out.

Moreover, the enemy is not a fool, won't he put out the flames when he sees the rocket coming?
Therefore, it is not realistic to burn ships by rockets.

(End of this chapter)