Although the Koreans, Zheng people supported the matter of joining the prince's decision, they were more concerned about expanding their land and territory.

The purpose of entering the Prince's Determination was to maintain the long-term hegemony of Wei and completely weaken the Chu State. This was the long-term strategy of Wei State, but Han and Zheng were not very happy.

If we guide the Eastern Front, Chu State in the prominent area of ​​the Central Plains, the two countries will definitely use all their strength. However, even if the Luyang Luguan defense line is successfully settled, it will not be possible to be stolen from Jin Zheng. This is the core of Chu State, and it involves the interests of many vassals in the Nanyang Basin: they are unwilling to let their fiefdoms be like the Daliang of the Duke of Luyang back then, and be in the shadow of Jin at any time.

If the coalition of princes wants to fight unification, one side must take the lead as the absolute overlord. This time, Wei State played such a role.

Therefore, we had to use artillery to delay the development of the Wei army and give Zheng people a warning first, so as to turn our heads to resist the Wei State's offensive.

At the city, the armored warriors attacking from the reserved counterattack channel had wedged into the inside of the collapsed Zheng army. Although the subsequent Zheng generals wanted to gather the troops, the collapsed Zheng army did not obey orders at all if the enemy was behind them.

More than forty people chased and killed the dispersed Zheng army just to prevent them from gathering again after the trench.

There was a loud drum sound at the top of the city, and smoke was everywhere under the city, and I wonder how many people rushed out.

The Zheng people ran away with their heads in their arms. The generals who were pressing the formation in the back line could not gather at all. The close servants around him could only dissuade him from retreating quickly, otherwise they might be submerged by the defeated army.

He had no choice but to retreat, and the sound of drums on the top of the city changed drastically, and the warriors who were chasing each other stopped and returned near the trench.

Before attacking, there was an order. If you rushed to the trench and did not return, you would close the city gate and not enter the city. Hearing the sound of drums, these soldiers who rushed to the defeated army returned one after another.

Zima, who was watching from a distance, was completely shocked by his own defeat. He only saw the white smoke and rumbling sounds near the city wall. In an instant, more than 800 elite soldiers completely dispersed.

All of this was just a flash of lightning. Zima shook his head, unable to believe what was in front of him, but he could only order to stabilize his position and ask the archer to move forward and prepare to prevent the counter-strike in the city.

At the top of the city, I was sure that the Zheng army's first wave of offensive had been repelled, and immediately ordered the musketeers to gather and transfer.

He was convinced that with Zheng State's organizational ability at this time, it would be impossible to organize a second impact in the short term, and he might also watch the movements of the Wei army.

If the Wei people had a fierce offensive, perhaps the Zheng people might launch an attack, but if the Wei army also retreated, the Zheng people would definitely choose to withdraw their troops. Similarly, if the Zheng people withdraw their troops, the Wei people would not attack fiercely, so they could only go back to discuss countermeasures.

More than 500 people quickly arrived at the east side along the reserved corridor. Because the distance on the city wall was closer and the response was timely, the Wei army had just completed the reorganization and was advancing forward.

The bronze cannons began to fire slowly, mainly aiming at the shield chariots and siege towers in front. Three shield chariots have been destroyed, and a slowly moving siege tower has also been destroyed. This was originally something that required the Mohist "rusher" to do, but was completely replaced by cannons at this time.

Cannons of different caliber can replace Mohist masters, crossbows, blasters, chariots and other cities. Gunpowder thunder can completely replace the "dribbling cart" and the weapon of garrison ants attached to the siege.

Mozi was constrained by the technological level of this era and used tools with clear division of labor to make various plans to defend the city. The emergence of gunpowder made his tactics still effective, only replacing some of the original wooden and bronze instruments.

The main attack direction chosen by the Wei people was the east gate of Niu Lanyi. It can be clearly seen that the gathering direction of the elite Wei people, which has fallen below the point.

According to Mozi, if you want to attack the city, you should not be impatient, but you should slowly plan it.

In addition, an attack should be launched on a wide range of city walls, so that the defenders in the city would be overwhelmed, and then the main elite should be taken out and a little bit of attack was concentrated.

However, Niu Lanyi was too small, and 70,000 people seemed to be able to capture it, but they forgot the battle of the bribery of the State of Yang more than a hundred years ago and the tragic situation of the 13-Nation Alliance's attack for several months.

After the speed of the shelling slowed down, the Wei people gradually adapted to the terrifying iron balls that flew from time to time. Although they were still panicked, they still mustered up the courage to move forward.

However, every time white fireworks roared at the top of the city, the scattering of the Wei people's formation could be clearly seen, and many people would subconsciously avoid the two sides.

It seemed that the Wei people had adapted to the panic and reorganized their formation, but the changes of the Wei people could still be seen.

Because the Wei people's military formation was retreating as a whole and retreating beyond the maximum attack distance of Tiewan, this led to the impact of the Wei people being only divided into waves.

The distance between the archers and elite soldiers who came out from the back was widened, and the time for the Wei people to organize an attack next time would inevitably be extended. At the same time, the requirements for the timing that it seemed that a little more strength could break the city was also higher.

Since the East Gate is the main attack direction of the Wei people, after bringing the five hundred musketeers, the density of the firearms here is enough.

The corridor reserved in the city allows the defenders to complete the mobilization faster. The cannons block the enemy's assembly and can also gain more time.

When Meng Sheng saw Shi coming, he felt relieved and greeted him and said, "Has the people of Zheng retreated?"

Shi nodded and said, "The first siege has been repelled. In a short period of time, the Zheng people will not organize the second siege. As long as the south can be defended, the Wei people will be repelled again this time, and there will be no worries today."

Meng Sheng said with a little admiration: "You have not learned to defend the city with the Giant for a long time, but you can learn the essence. As you said, you can reverse the reason for it."

Shi shook his head and smiled, "Missing. It's just that they have never seen gunpowder and the 'wall' that the giant said. They are too anxious, so they are destined to be unable to conquer."

Meng Sheng thought for a while and asked, "What do you mean?"

As he said, "The Princess Luyang is still there. They don't want to delay time here, nor do they want to choose to siege the city. However, such a city wall, with firearms, and our Mo family, who is good at guarding, how can they attack without two months? Two months? Do they dare to stay here?"

"If we camp safely, we will use Yangdi Tushan to move forward, fill the trenches, and fight in close combat, and then use ants to dig holes to dig holes, and Niu Lanyi's city defense will not be able to defend it. However, they don't have so much time."

"Besides, even if Niu Lan is like this, how dare they attack Luyang? Niu Lan cannot get down and Luyang sieges the city, how could they not worry about the baggage behind them being cut off?"

"So, strategically, they can only attack quickly. But tactically, they are impatient and cannot defeat Niu Lan. They will definitely lose."

Meng Sheng realized the two words "tactics and strategy" and had a little understanding.

While speaking, the sound of cannons sounded again, and a siege tower was hit, and the wood chips were scattered, so the Wei people had to retreat.

The Wei archers had already stepped forward within a hundred steps and were about to shoot at the city wall. The gunner took advantage of the range advantage to constantly harass the Wei army's archers.

The musketeers, crossbowmen and township archers on the city wall were hiding behind the city wall, not impatient, and no one chose to shoot from a distance.

From time to time, someone leaned his head to see the chaos of the Wei people after the iron ball flew out, and his confidence became stronger.

The city guard order can reduce some of the principal and interest. Driven by profit and months of hard training, these people can still be stable.

Looking at the people on the city wall, I thought that these people would definitely not be able to let them fight in the field now, but if you defend the city, you can always use these mobs to withstand the offensive of the Three Kingdoms Alliance.

After several feather arrows, an elite Wei man stood up toward the city gate with a shield chariot.

There were nearly 1,500 people in front of the concave walls on both sides of the city gate. This was already the limit and could not be expanded more.

Because for the siege, the direction of the attack is a straight line, and only a fixed number of soldiers can be deployed.

For the defender, this is a polygonal concave and convex surface, a simple trigonometric function oblique edge, which can arrange nearly twice the defender.

When I was fifty steps closer to the city gate, I ordered that the two gates could not move and had a huge caliber, but because the smelting technology was not up to standard, I could only choose to take the stone-shooting cannon to prepare for bombardment.

When gunpowder first appeared, it took a detour, most of which were large caliber and short-bore stone-shooting cannons, including strange horn cannons, etc.

However, the advantage is that it can be arranged inside the city wall, taking advantage of the high parabola to fix the direction of the city gate.

With two loud bangs, the heavy stone ball flew into the air and rolled and landed towards the Wei people who had already approached the city gate fifty steps.

Even in the air, many Wei people had already collapsed. A stone ball hit a rushing car. Although the gravity acceleration falling from a high place had resistance to consume a lot of gunpowder's power, it was not something that a timber-structured rushing car could withstand.

Seven or eight people flew with flesh and blood, and another stone ball fell on the side. Although it did not hit the person, it also shocked the people next to it.

Meng Sheng had already left the place and headed to the tower at the east gate and took a strange gunpowder weapon from the side.

Outside is a layer of wood frame, which contains about four or five kilograms of gunpowder contained in clay pots. The wood frame protects the fragile clay pots inside and can be thrown out by two people.

More than a hundred elite Wei troops had already rushed to the city gate and were prepared to hit the city gate under the cover of another rusher that was not concentrated.

The Wei army on both sides had also approached the city wall, and was commanding the crossbowmen, archers and musketeers to prepare.

The perfect concave surface ensures that the Wei army in front will be attacked at least on both sides, while the group under the worst city wall will be attacked by cross-fire on three sides.

Meng Sheng lit the gunpowder jar contained in the wooden frame. The two of them shouted together, and after the fuse burned to a certain length, they threw it down with force.

boom……

Thick white smoke came out, purple flames surged, and the high temperature generated by four or five kilograms of gunpowder instantly ignited the wooden, covered with cowhide. More than 20 Wei soldiers ran back with their burning bodies. This terror of fire all over their bodies also triggered panic under the city gate.

Shi was already shouting at the musketeer on the city wall: "Shoot!"

A bang sound shot from the front, side or back towards the Wei army gathered at the city, which had already unfolded. Lead bullets flew around and thick smoke rolled.

The Wei army, which was instantly killed, was no longer able to attack. Within the shooting angle formed by the concave surface, they would be subjected to the shooting of the crossbowmen and the archers when they fled.

In the white smoke, some soldiers guarding the city had already shouted excitedly, especially those musketeers who followed Shi to support the East Gate, who were even more excited. It seemed that it was easy to defend the city.

The copper cannons on the rammed earth platform were still bombarding the subsequent Wei army's assembly ground step by step, causing the Wei army to retreat as a whole, and the distance between them and the soldiers attacking in front was very large.

If all the Mozhe members were here, they could have a counterattack and rush into the enemy formation, but unfortunately they did not.
Chapter completed!