Volume 4 is in the ascendant Chapter 480: Second Battalion Commander, You Step Back!
"How dare you, Chu bandits, invade the prefectures and counties under the command of the Shu Marquis of the Han Dynasty. Retreat immediately and apologize, otherwise it will be too late to regret!" Wu Jing shouted at Qu Tang Pass.
Huang Zhong's face darkened when he heard this, "The soldiers of the Great Chu have already arrived. It is foolish to resist stubbornly! I am... Huang Zhong, the commander of the 1st Division of Xinye, and I am also known as the rebel general!"
Wu Jing didn't understand what the title of "Commander of the Xinye 1st Division" was, but he guessed that it might be an official position.
"Oh, as expected, Jingchu is a remote and barbaric place, what a mess of official positions there are... Division Commander? What kind of commander is that? Hahahaha... Listen, I am the commander of Qutang Pass, Yu Fu Zhonglang Jiang Wu Jing!"
"Yizhou villains, do you dare to come down and fight?" Huang Zhong shouted.
At this time, Wei Yan came out from the side and said, "Huang... Commander, why use a butcher knife to kill a chicken? I, the deputy commander..."
Before Wei Yan could finish, a young general who was even more stupid and younger than him said, "Wouldn't it be a loss of status for you two officers to fight with such a thief? At last... Ahem, the commander of the Second Battalion of the Second Regiment, Liao Hua, requests to fight!"
Liao Hua, a native of Xiangyang, Jingzhou, passed the military examination at the Naxian Hall and joined the Chu army shortly after the establishment of the Chu State.
At this time, the Xinye 1st Division and the Wancheng 1st Division did not have formal brigades, and both directly had seven or eight regiments under their jurisdiction.
"What kind of leader are you? You are just a fly leader. How dare you fight for death? I... won't fulfill your wish for now! If you are brave, you can come up and fight. Hahaha..." Wu Jing laughed happily.
Go down?
Do you think I'm stupid?
However, at this moment, Huang Zhong put on his armor and took out his cannon. Even the second battalion commander Liao Hua didn't need to do anything, and he directly fired a cannon at Wu Jing!
It is not time to expose the artillery yet, and... given the topography of the Three Gorges, unless a plank road along the mountain is thoroughly repaired, it will be difficult to transport even field artillery, let alone catapults.
However, the Qi Cannon that Huang Zhong loaded himself was not subject to this restriction, and Huang Zhong's original heavy crossbow also looked like a cannon. Anyway, it had been loaded into the battle armor, so he didn't worry about being discovered...
Wu Jing also didn't expect that he could be hit at this distance?
When Huang Zhong put on his armor and pointed the black muzzle of the cannon at him, Wu Jing's heart trembled, but his inner logic made him calm down.
Then... he became completely calm, and serene as water—his entire upper body was evenly spread across the joint, indistinguishable from a personal guard behind him.
Before loading, the Qi cannon had no shrapnel or explosion effect, but simply had impact force. After loading, it was naturally the same, but the impact force was much greater.
Killed Wu Jing instantly!
The guards at the gate were stunned for a moment, not understanding what was going on. What happened? Our commander? He was so big? He was clearly so far beyond the safe distance...
At the same time, Wei Yan also shouted: "Go to the group first! Follow me!"
Wei Yan personally led the Second Regiment, nicknamed "Xiandeng". Following behind Wei Yan, some of them had shields on their arms and were equipped with grappling hooks and ropes, and rushed towards Qutang Pass.
Huang Zhong led a regiment directly under his command, the "Fierce Bow Regiment", and directly activated the combat skill "Fierce Bow". The regiment shot out arrows with the effect of a rain of arrows. The other regiments and the positions were also under the command of their respective regiment commanders and company commanders, and shot with bows and crossbows.
Unfortunately, because the weapon is shot from a low position to a high position and a safety margin must be left, the shorter-range crossbow has no room to be used.
However, the "firepower" was enough. At the critical moment, the defenders, who had already lost their main general and had no intention of fighting, were directly pushed back by the wave of arrows.
In the absence of effective commands and motivation, the scattered defenders simply handed over the wall to others - this was also because they were too negligent before and did not stockpile boulders inside the pass. The money for storing tung oil was also pocketed by the grassroots generals, which made them even less motivated to fight.
The first group to arrive will naturally seize the opportunity!
Because the enemy defenders retreated with no morale, only Qutang Pass itself was playing the role of restricting the armor engine.
Even a newly promoted gilded general - even if he cannot fly to the critical point directly, he can still jump up directly after borrowing the force a few times. And Wei Yan's vanguard group has specially increased the proportion of grassroots gilded generals.
The grassroots generals charging in front can also inspire the morale of the Ji-made soldiers. A group of Ji-made soldiers who were the first to board the group threw the grappling hooks onto the top of the wall, locked them tightly, and quickly climbed up along the wall...
Climbing is, of course, also specially intensively trained!
Before the effect of Huang Zhong's Fierce Bow disappeared, the first group of people had already climbed up the wall.
The rain of arrows from the "Fierce Bow Group" behind finally stopped - after all, Wei Yan and his soldiers were already on the wall, and further shooting would easily lead to accidental injuries!
As for the other groups, they had already stopped their long-range cover...
As for the defenders...they had already lost all morale. Only Wei Yan's vanguard regiment quickly occupied the city wall, and the troops behind them climbed up one after another along the ropes left by the vanguard regiment.
"Liu Zhang is stupid and incompetent. Yizhou is in a state of chaos and the military and civilians are resentful. Now wherever our Great Chu army goes, the people are all excited. Why don't you surrender early?" Wei Yan shouted at the critical moment.
The people in the tents, company commanders, and squad leaders below also spread the word that the King of Chu was merciful and that the Chu State would not kill prisoners, and quickly quelled the last bit of resistance.
After all, they were the defenders of Qu Tang Pass - even if Yizhou Prefecture was in the civilian population, no matter how they blackened the map and discredited the State of Chu, Qu Tang Pass was the boundary between Yizhou and the State of Chu, so how could the generals not have their own judgment?
When facing the Chu army, they dared to surrender...
As for being loyal to the Lord of Shu?
Throughout the entire cold weapon era, except for a very small number of elite troops, or troops united by special sentiments, there was no "loyalty" among the middle and lower levels. Their task was to follow the general who commanded them.
After the city is captured, everyone will get a fortune together. If the general wants to fight to the death, then see if there is a chance to retreat and whether the supervision team is watching closely. If the general wants to defect to the enemy... then follow suit!
Even if one refuses to surrender to the enemy, one must at least be a deputy general or a general with his own troops to be qualified to resist.
It was not until modern times in history that countries began to talk about feelings with ordinary soldiers. Only an army that has formed cohesion and a sense of home and country can be considered a modern army at its core. If it still relies on robbing money, food, and women as its cohesion, then any weapons it holds are "backward."
In this regard, the Chu State undoubtedly achieved modernization earlier than technology.
Moreover, because the State of Chu was far ahead, there was no need to emphasize the concept of home and country. After all, the mission of the State of Chu was to cycle between expansion, development, and expansion.
There was no need to worry about foreign enemies for the time being, nor did it want to expand through enslavement or plunder, so the Chu State would not specifically emphasize the concept of "Chu territory".
The core of the Chu army, in addition to the sense of honor, has always been Bai Xue... No! It is Chu Xue - only this, Bai Tu must emphasize, don't use your own surname!
The Chu School, which is based on the principle of "the benevolent love others" and is constantly improving, emphasizes the identity of the Chu army as the savior of the oppressed all over the world, and also takes this as the core military soul.
In contrast, the Shu army's vulnerability was not only reflected in its combat effectiveness.
Not only the ordinary Shu army, but even Wu Jing himself was not very reliable. If he hadn't been killed by a cannon, he would have surrendered by now...
