Simultaneous travel: I am a talented person in all the worlds

Chapter 465 Qin Army's Gunpowder and Gundam
How can you defeat an old Deng Xiaoping who completely overwhelms you in all aspects of hard power, including troop numbers, soldier quality, command ability, and battlefield experience?

The answer is: No solution.

Above the sky, the clouds are like cotton wool.

The mechanical blue phoenix fluttered its wings and hovered high in the sky. The cold wind was biting, making Qin Shi Mo Yu's robes flutter.

He stood with his hands behind his back on the bird's back, looking down at the city of Puyang, which was stained with blood and fire.

"In order to ensure that Zhu Hai's 'coffin-carrying' plan can be carried out swiftly and decisively, sweeping across the entire Hanoi Commandery and paving the way for the subsequent attack on Luoyang, all of Wei's elite troops, including the Wei Wuzu, have been deployed there."

"Subsequently, in order to contain the flank forces of Qin generals Yang Duanhe and Zhang Tang, another 50,000 Wei troops were drawn from Daliang and given to Zhao Tuo."

Mo Yu has practically emptied Wei's coffers.

Currently, the only troops he can truly deploy are a thousand elite border cavalry, the fifty thousand garrison troops commanded by Gongsun Yu in Puyang City, and the one hundred thousand miscellaneous allied troops camped outside the city.

150,000 versus 180,000.

The difference doesn't seem significant.

They were only about 30,000 fewer troops than Meng Ao.

But the Qin army under Meng Ao was a fierce and powerful force that swept across the six kingdoms and struck fear into the hearts of the six states east of the mountains. It was a truly battle-hardened army!

Apart from the 1,000 elite border cavalry, Qin Shi Mo Yu's 150,000-strong army could only be described as barely meeting the threshold of a "regular army".

The two are completely incomparable!
The same applies to military equipment.

He possessed advanced weaponry, and on a small scale, he was even stronger than the Qin army.

But he really couldn't produce weapons worth hundreds of thousands.

In other words, in a head-on battle involving hundreds of thousands of troops, the allied forces would inevitably be defeated.

This is why, since the start of the war, Qin Shi Mo Yu has consistently tried to avoid a large-scale direct confrontation with Meng Ao.

It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that I can’t.

Large-scale battles will only result in a swift and inevitable defeat.

Even if we add the 200,000 troops under Pang Nuan, Li Yuan, Bai Yifei, and others whom he dispatched, and combine them into a force of 350,000 to confront Meng Ao head-on, the outcome will still be the same.

This is the fundamental reason why the six states never formed an alliance again after Ying Zheng ascended the throne.

If you gather all the players and still can't beat the whales who are cheating and spending money, then what's the point of forming an alliance?!
The battle begins.

The Qin army began its attack.

Qin Shi Moyu snapped out of his thoughts and focused his gaze on the battlefield below.

The battle was far more brutal than anyone could have imagined.

More than twenty giant catapults lined up behind the Qin army formation, roaring continuously at a fixed frequency.

"Boom——! Boom——! Boom——!"

The raging fireballs shot out in deadly arcs, crashing down on the walls of Puyang and exploding violently!

The broken stone fragments, carrying burning oil, erupted like lava, covering an area of ​​several feet in radius.

Some of the city's guards were killed on the spot by flying stone fragments, while others were covered in burning oil and screamed in agony.

But the greatest threat of this thing is not its killing power, but the flames that spread out on the ground and burn fiercely.

The entire area was left undefended by the guards until the flames died down, resulting in a gap in the area's defenses.

A captain organized his soldiers to try to extinguish the fire with water, but the fire was not affected at all.

"This is... a white phosphorus incendiary bomb, isn't it?"

Qin Shi Moyu's lips twitched. "If you do this, you'll be in a military court! Oh, there are no military courts in this era, then it's fine."

At least in the world of Qin, gunpowder had already appeared and was used by the Qin army for military purposes.
This is why he cherishes this world so much; the scientific research in the Qin Dynasty world has a high starting point and is developing extremely fast!

The battlefield of Puyang.

Under the terrifying suppression of white phosphorus incendiary bombs, the Qin army's ground forces began to advance steadily.

Squads of Qin soldiers, shields raised high and crossbows gleaming with metallic light, steadily advanced into attack range under the cover of a hail of arrows.

"Whoosh—! Whoosh—! Whoosh—!"

The sound of bowstrings vibrating filled the air as giant crossbow bolts, each the size of a spear, were fired and embedded themselves firmly into the thick city walls!

The terrifying force caused the tip of the crossbow bolt to tremble incessantly.

Round after round.

The countless crossbow bolts pierced the wall three inches deep, creating a winding "staircase" that could be climbed on the vertical wall!
However, all of this wasn't the worst part. What truly made Qin Shi Moyu, high in the sky, twitch was that the Qin army actually had "Gundams"!

A colossal creature, over two meters tall and five meters long, forged entirely from refined iron, resembling a rhinoceros with a single horn.

This mechanical behemoth has a smooth and thick shell, impervious to arrows, water, and fire.

Under the combined control of Qin Mo's disciples, it was like a heavily armored tank, stubbornly withstanding the rain of arrows and rolling stones poured down from the city wall in a savage and unreasonable manner.

With a series of crisp clanging sounds, relying on its unparalleled weight and power, it smashed to pieces all the barricades and antlers blocking its path! It carved a path straight to the city gate through the battlefield!

"Boom——!!!"

With a loud bang, the unicorn mechanical beast slammed headfirst into the city gate!
The entire southern city wall trembled violently!
The menacing horn, comparable to a giant siege spike, was deeply embedded in the iron-clad city gate, which was several feet thick.

The mechanical unicorn struggled to retreat, pulling out its horn and bringing with it countless splinters of wood and stones.

On the city wall, Gongsun Yu's hair was disheveled, his eyes were bloodshot, and his face showed lingering fear.

Fortunately, he was prepared to die from the very beginning and sealed off the four city gates from the inside with huge stones and mud early on.

Otherwise, just a few more blows and Puyang City would fall in no time!

The military equipment of the Qin state was absolutely a super-level, dimensional-reducing blow to other countries in that era.

High above, even Qin Shi Moyu was somewhat silent at this moment.

Although Qin Mo's mechanical arts technique was something he had already deduced quite accurately from various clues when he was still learning the craft in the Mo Family Mechanical City.

But when he actually witnessed the terrifying scene of this main Qin army unleashing its full firepower...

No, this isn't even their true limit.

Based on his deduction of Qin ink technology, this was far from the most advanced war equipment of the Qin state.

"Gunpowder, crossbows, tanks... The equipment level of this Qin army is so high that even if they were directly taken to the battlefield of World War I, they would probably be able to fight!" Qin Shi Moyu was speechless.

He suddenly realized that his previous evaluation of Gongsun Yu might have been a bit too harsh.

Given Puyang's meager military equipment, the fact that it could withstand such a saturation attack for so long is truly beyond reproach.

Even under such a comprehensive and multi-dimensional offensive by the Qin army, they were able to maintain their position, and the defending troops on the city walls did not show any signs of large-scale collapse.

Gongsun Yu has truly earned his reputation as a renowned general.

In the original story, the city was breached after only one day of fighting. That wasn't because of his abilities, but simply because the technological gap in weaponry was too great.

Qin Shi Moyu's gaze shifted from the fierce battlefield of Puyang City to the Qin army camp stretching for dozens of miles outside the city.

The 180,000 Qin troops did not launch a full-scale attack on the city.

It could even be said that only a small portion of them were actually involved in the siege.

A larger portion of the main force remained hidden at various key points within the camp, tenaciously guarding the various warehouses and supplies.

At the same time, they kept a close watch on the allied forces also camped outside the city, thus restraining each other.

Another part, meticulously positioned in the rear, mainly consisted of chariots and elite cavalry, clearly aimed at the elusive elite cavalry on the frontier.

Qin Shi Moyu even spotted several well-hidden mechanical beasts.

If he hadn't been highly skilled in mechanical arts and hadn't had a thorough understanding of mechanical beasts, he really wouldn't have discovered these "surprises" prepared specifically for him.

"That old fellow Meng Ao is truly meticulous; he doesn't give us the slightest chance."

Decapitation strike? Surprise attack? Cut off their supply lines?

Meng Ao anticipated all possible ways to break the deadlock and responded to each one in the most prudent and effective manner.

Qin Shimo felt a throbbing pain in his temples, and he scratched his hair in frustration.

"I can't possibly... actually launch a few heavy aerial bombs and blow up their supply depots one by one, can I?"

If he really dares to do that, the world's technology tree can forget about developing normally; it will become deformed in no time.

However, setting aside these unconventional methods that involve blatantly overturning the table and openly using cheat codes, he truly couldn't handle this seemingly unsolvable deadlock.

no way.

Qin Shimo sighed deeply, a bitter smile mixed with helplessness and mockery appearing on his face.

"It seems we have no choice but to resort to our trump card."

Shake people!

(End of this chapter)