The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

"Can you say that again?"

Ruxukou.

Zhu Ran already had his hand on the hilt of the sword.

At this moment, his expression seemed to be neither smiling nor crying.

"You mean, so many Jiangdong navy troops are gone?"

"General!"

In front of Zhu Ran, several soldiers were kneeling, all wet.

"It's a divine punishment!"

"There's smoke! The Han army has summoned the gods! There's thunder! There's fire breathing!"

"General! Is the destiny really in Jiangdong? Aren't we really going against the will of heaven now?"

"..."

nonsense!

Crazy talk!

lie!

Stupid!

Where did this god come from!
Zhu Ran drew out a sharp blade and stabbed to death a Jiangdong soldier who was already talking incoherently!

"Ridiculous! You can't even speak clearly!"

"My Jiangdong navy is invincible in the world, and we didn't encounter any fire attack, so how could we be completely wiped out?"

After Zhu Ran killed the man, he looked at the second soldier.

“You say it!!”

But until the third and fourth person, no one could tell the truth.

Among them, there was also a lieutenant who came from an aristocratic family and had received higher education...

"The soldiers of the Han army had green faces and fangs! Thick smoke was coming out of their bodies! Their arms were thicker than their thighs, and they threw iron bullets directly at us."

"If it weren't for the gods, who could throw something so heavy?"

This is the clearest explanation. At least we know the existence of the iron bullet.

But Zhu Ran still didn't believe it.

It was not until a soldier brought the heavy iron bullet to Zhu Ran that Zhu Ran opened his mouth and hesitated to speak...

Do not!
There are no immortal gods.

It must be a kind of weapon of the Han army!
A weapon that is more advanced than the Thunderbolt Chariot and Zhuge Crossbow, and can deliver such a heavy iron bullet two hundred steps away...

but……

Zhu Ran wanted to cry.

Because compared to the answer he came up with himself, he even hoped that the Han army really had help from gods!
The help from the gods cannot be stable.

But military equipment... can be mass-produced!
Especially when he saw the iron bullets fired by the Han army, Zhu Ran realized how big the gap between the Han and Jiangdong was! !

Although Jiangdong has many iron mines, its large-scale iron wrought technology is not actually outstanding.

Until now, there are still a small number of people in remote areas who do not have iron tools to plow the fields and can only use easily worn copper tools or even wooden tools to do the farming.

Sometimes, in order to forge weapons for fighting against the imperial court, some farm tools had to be melted down to make weapons.

But the imperial court was wealthy enough to forge iron into such bullets and throw them out to attack...

The gap in national strength between the two sides has made Zhu Ran feel desperate.

This is a despair even more powerless than losing a war.

The gap in the war can be made up by various methods.

But the gap in national strength...

"Report!"

Just when Zhu Ran lost confidence, more bad news came!
"General! Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's warships are moving, and are heading towards Ruxukou at a rapid speed!"

Zhu Ran clenched his fists: "Defend the city!"

"General, why don't you send out the navy to intercept..."

"nonsense!"

Zhu Ran threw the iron bullet in his hand heavily to the ground, smashing the bricks and stones below into pieces.

"What kind of ship can withstand such an attack!"

"Hold on! The only thing we can rely on now is the city wall of Ruxukou!"

"Here!"

When Sun Ce and Zhou Yu arrived at Ruxukou, they sent envoys again to persuade Zhu Ran. But this time, Zhu Ran was too lazy to even respond...

"Let's attack the city."

Zhou Yu asked Sun Ce to give up the last bit of distracting thoughts.

"Zhu Ran probably won't dare to send his navy here now. If that's the case, bring the ship closer."

Sun Ce glanced at Ruxukou and sighed heavily -

"it is good!"

When attacking Liaodong that year, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu led a fleet to attack Sanshanpu from the sea.

And it was during that battle that the two learned an extremely critical tactic——

Water and land coordination!

And according to the current equipment, it can also be renamed——

Infantry and artillery coordination!

Sun Ce led his soldiers to the shore and formed a battle array.

Upon seeing this, Zhu Ran immediately sent soldiers out of the city to stop them.

Preventing the enemy from gaining a foothold under the city and minimizing the attacker's offensive space are statements that cannot be refuted in any military book.

But the next moment, countless artillery shells appeared above the heads of Jiangdong soldiers!
Perhaps it does not have the invincible destructive power and impact force in water battles.

But the moment this weapon, which had never been shown to the world before, appeared, the outcome of the war was already determined!

Zhu Ran didn't expect that the range of the ship's artillery could reach this distance!

Seeing that the range from the river could almost reach the city gate, Zhu Ran's face suddenly changed -

"not good!!!"

"boom!"

It seemed like a response to Zhu Ran.

The gunpowder that Zhu Ran had buried at the city gate was hit by the artillery shells and exploded with a loud bang!
Zhu Ran's mind was blank at this moment.

He suddenly thought of what Sun Quan and Gu Yong said when they developed gunpowder -

"The emperor invented gunpowder, but he is ultimately immoral and unworthy of mastering such a powerful weapon, so we in Jiangdong got it!"

While planning the Battle of Jingzhou, the two were even more excited, thinking that the gunpowder developed by the emperor would eventually make the emperor swallow a bitter fruit!

But when a loud noise came from the city gate, Zhu Ran's mind was messed up by the roar of the explosion.

"Lord Wu, the one who will have to bear this bitter fruit is probably not the emperor, but us!"

Everything around me slowed down.

After experiencing the loud noise, Zhu Ran's consciousness began to become blurred.

Just in a trance, he seemed to see soldiers wearing Yanhan armor rushing in, and he subconsciously raised the sword in his hand and placed it across his neck.

"Yi Feng, stop your hands!"

Sun Ce led the charge and rushed into the house with a spear in hand.

Seeing that Zhu Ran was about to commit suicide, Sun Ce immediately took out his bow and arrow, aimed at Zhu Ran's palm and shot!

The arrow pierced the back of Zhu Ran's palm, and at the same time, the sharp sword loosened due to the pain in his lower back and fell to the ground.

"Yi Feng is so stupid! You are so young, why would you want to do such a thing!"

Zhu Ran recognized Sun Ce's voice and immediately replied, "Be loyal to your duty! That is the moral code of human nature!"

"Fuck your mother's fart!"

Sun Ce cursed loudly.

"The one your father Zhu Zhi was loyal to at the beginning was also my father!"

"Even you were under my command at the beginning!"

"If you are truly loyal to the Sun Clan, why don't you surrender to me, Sun Bofu?"

"Or are you loyal to those aristocratic families in Jiangdong?"

Sun Ce's voice was deafening, but Zhu Ran remained emotional.

Just as Sun Ce was about to fail in holding Zhu Ran down, a sound of breaking through the air suddenly was heard!

As Sun Ce stared in amazement, Zhou Yu silently put down the wooden board in his hand.

"It doesn't matter."

"Hitting someone is like playing the piano, both are meant to make them quiet down."

"Zhu Ran has been hit so hard today that his consciousness is no longer clear... Let's wait until he wakes up!" (End of this chapter)