Chapter 2955

King Wei's face looked a little cold: "Yes, although I didn't see it clearly, my intuition told King Gu that he had been planning something before. It was not until this visit that he seemed to have temporarily changed his mind and had to be on guard. Especially when he was with Jiang Zhan, the leader of the Western Alliance of Martial Arts, will also be a stumbling block between us and Taihua in the future."

Sima Ru thought deeply: "It is impossible to get rid of him for the time being, and it cannot be done, but we must try to suppress him."

King Wei nodded: "Your previous plan was very good. Try your best. If it doesn't work, don't force it."

Sima Ru responded: "One last thing, do you want to send troops to help Xia fight against Qin?"

King Wei snorted softly: "I want it, but Zhang Yi doesn't want it and I don't dare to ask for it."

Sima Ru smiled: "What about another way, food, grass and weapons?"

King Wei nodded: "You asked me not to mention Man'er, but I have to mention it now. Man'er is very rich. Think about how to get some of it, and don't plan to touch the treasury."

Sima Ru sighed: "You don't want to touch the treasury, it's obviously to weaken the barbarians, my king... At this time, can't you put aside the dispute between your sons and your daughters?"

King Wei snorted: "The girl is outgoing! Who told her to be Jiang Fan's woman!"

Sima Ru shook his head, turned around and walked away slowly holding the box.

And not long after he left, a woman walked out of the inner room, it was Shangguan Wanru.

"Husband, since Wei has decided to fight for hegemony, you should inform Man'er."

King Wei shook his head: "Her place is Northern Xinjiang. Whether it is because of her relationship with Jiang Fan or because it is resisting barbarians, Qin will not choose to march from there. Don't worry about it for the time being."

Shangguan Wanru sighed: "Man'er... will be in trouble after all..."

King Wei said flatly: "Family, country and the world! Doesn't she follow the empress as a role model? Let's see how she chooses!"

Shangguan Wanru sighed quietly and was speechless.

"Madam, go, return to her, and repay your every word and deed to this king!"

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The world was in turmoil because of Qin's dispatch of troops.

And during this short period of time, shocking news came. Linhuai Pass, known as one of the four major fortresses, was broken.

It only took one day.

The Qin State showed a suffocating siege capability. It is said that the Qin Army used twenty steel giants called red cannons and bombarded them continuously for an hour. They forcibly destroyed the west gate. Thirty thousand defenders resisted desperately. But they were annihilated by Gao Qi in one day. Linhuai Pass, which the Xia Kingdom regarded as the most important gateway in the southern half of the country to resist Qin, changed hands.

During this period, except for some reinforcements that had been assembled since the discovery of Qin's army, no other large armies had yet arrived.

After breaking through Linhuai Pass, the Qin army became even more powerful. With the blessing of the red cannon, almost no city can hold on. After five consecutive attacks on five cities in five days, Huaizhou's general army did not know whether it was because they were anxious or confused. They actually led the army to intercept them head-on. In the end, they did not even have to fight against the Qin army. They were completely stunned by three rounds of long-range attacks. Qin The army's 24-shot crossbow with explosive effect and an army called the Musketeers performed a miraculous feat, allowing the opponent to leave eight thousand corpses behind. Only the general soldier fled back in embarrassment holding a severed arm.

Naturally, the Qin army took advantage of the victory and pursued them, and they attacked four more cities in five days.

In the nine battles in Huaizhou, the Qin army created a miraculous record of zero casualties. It was not until they began to capture Lincheng that they suffered any battle losses.

Lincheng is a super fortified city with a wall thickness of more than ten feet and a height of more than twenty feet. There is also a moat twenty feet wide outside the city. Unfortunately, although the Qin army suffered battle damage here, it did not restrain the Qin army's footsteps. .

However, the red cannon used to attack Lin City was not the red cannon, but another thing called the Vulcan Bomb. The Qin army fired more than 10,000 fire bombs at the city wall. After the object exploded, the flames were blazing and lasted for a long time. The Xia army burned countless people to death and was unable to garrison the city. They could only wait for the Qin army to build a bridge to cross the city. After crossing the moat, ten steel siege bridges were assembled outside the city wall as if they were in an uninhabited area. As soon as the fire was extinguished, the Qin army swarmed up along the siege bridge. The Xia army endured the blazing heat with tiles tied to their feet. When they climbed up the city wall, the archers rained thousands of arrows, but the Qin army's shields were strong and easily defeated the city wall defense.

At the same time, the city gate was broken. The Xia army wanted to defend the city gate, but was suppressed by the Qin army's vanguard battalion, which fired a series of crossbows. Sima Duo, Qin's strongest vanguard, took the lead and entered the city. Soon, the entire city was completely plunged into flames of war.

In addition to the 30,000 regular troops stationed in Lincheng, there were also 10,000 Xia Kingdom's most elite Bai Ling troops that Zhang Yi had mobilized in advance. Unfortunately, the weapons and equipment were very different. Except for 8,000 of the 40,000 troops who fled from the north gate, the rest had to fight. was destroyed, but Qin only lost a few thousand people.

When news of this battle situation spread, it shocked everyone everywhere, and everyone gasped when they heard about it.

Fortunately, at this time, a large part of the reinforcements mobilized by Zhang Yi had arrived and blocked the Qin army in Huaizhou, the last strong city in Huaizhou.

Huaicheng is not large in scale, but because it is backed by mountains and built entirely of boulders, it is very strong. Even the Qin army's red cannons could not break it.

There is also a special army among the Xia army. After the Four Kingdoms conquered Qin, the King of Xia invested heavily in the bow camp built to imitate the Qin State's heavy crossbow camp. This army uses giant crossbows, which can fire large arrows in succession. The range is very terrifying. With the blessing of 100,000 crossbow arrows, the Qin army cannot get close for the time being.

But at this time, Gaoqi once again sent out the artillery battalion. A thousand small steel cannons sprayed 8,000 shells in half a cup of tea, a terrifying covering strike. Xia Jun suffered heavy casualties at first, but he quickly found experience and learned to use various bunkers to avoid explosions. Of course, the heavy crossbow battalion suffered the heaviest losses, with 80% of the crossbow beds destroyed.

Without the protection of the bed crossbow, the Qin army finally launched a siege.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, under the escort of a team of personal soldiers, Lu Qinghou abandoned the reinforcements and arrived at the battlefield first.

Because of his arrival, the Qin army's pace began to be hindered.

Gao Qi discovered that Lu Qinghou had conducted in-depth research on Qin's war weapons. Although he could not confront them head-on, he could effectively formulate countermeasures to reduce casualties and still deal with them.

This is indeed the case. Lu Qinghou was too concerned about Jiang Fan. He had long ago begun to collect information on each type of war weapon that Jiang Fan had used and formulated corresponding strategies.

However, even he could only try to reduce the damage and try to deal with them. Although some of the Xia army had experience in the battle of Muzhou, most of the soldiers were still in the dark until they really faced the terrifying Lishan war weapons. They realized that they could not resist at all. Let's just say that the cold weapons surpassed several levels, but what the hell are these hot weapons?

Many senior officials only truly understood how terrifying Jiang Da Yao's transformation of the Qin army was. I also recalled how right it was for Lu Qinghou to reform the army drastically as soon as he took office and regard Qin as the first imaginary enemy.

Unfortunately, at that time, they always lacked sufficient knowledge. As the saying goes, you don't know how hard the wall is until you hit it. They once laughed at Lu Qinghou for being young but not strong enough. Isn't it just improving the armament? Who can be scared? Jin State has also updated its armaments for many rounds, but it was almost beaten into Moling by us. Now, blind arrogance and empiricism have finally made them suffer a great deal, especially the feeling of helplessness that makes people collapse.

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