Now, the Son of Heaven has pinned all his hopes on Tianlei, hoping to make Tianlei and complete the Jedi turnaround.

In his opinion, the southwest army can win more with less, all the way from the southwest to the city of the capital, relying on the thunder, as long as the imperial court can also make the thunder, even if it can't win in a short time, it can also use the thunder to calmly defend the capital, and then create a large-scale thunder to repel the rebels in the southwest.

Later, they entered the southwest and swept away these southwest rebels in one go.

In fact, his idea is very problematic.

First of all, Li Xin was able to break through like a bamboo, and it took a few months to fight from the southwest to the capital, and the thunder was only part of the reason, and more importantly, the kind of thunder that could be used as a cannonball for the catapult, as well as the use of firearms summarized in the southwest over the years.

And even if the imperial court really made the thunder now, it is a little too late in time, there are craftsmen who specialize in making thunder in the southwest, and some have been making it for more than ten years, the technology is mature, since the ninth year of Taikang, the southwest is slowly stockpiling the thunder, and now so many years have passed, the number of firearms in the southwest has reached an astonishing number.

This is also the reason why Mu Ying was able to bombard indiscriminately along the way.

Another is that the quality of gunpowder in the southwest is also better than that of the capital, even if the capital rushes to work overnight, the thunder that can be produced in one or two months is limited, and there is a sharp weapon such as a catapult, it is difficult to stand on the city wall, once the southwest army breaks through the city gate and enters the capital, the two sides are short-handed, the court side does not have the exclusive grenadiers of the southwest army, and there is no way to deal with firearms such as firearms, and the overall situation still has a great disadvantage.

Now, for the Southwest Army, the question is not whether the imperial court has firearms, but how to break through the more than 200,000 forbidden troops stationed in Gyeonggi, you must know that this is the most elite central forbidden army in the Great Jin Dynasty, only with the 100,000 people of the Southwest Army, if they collide head-on without firearms, they may be scattered by the forbidden army at once, even if the Southwest Army has firearms, it needs to deal with it with all its might.

Sometimes the army of cold weapons used to the extreme is much more powerful than the army that is still in the stage of primary hot weapons.

This is also part of the reason why firearms were used on a large scale in the Song Dynasty and were still used until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

After Li Xin was stationed in Luzhou, he began to transfer the Hanzhou Army with the Ningzhou Army, and the Ningzhou Army stationed in Gaocheng slowly marched into Luzhou City to take over the work of the Hanzhou Army.

And the Hanzhou army, which had been fighting for several months, could finally rest and rest, Li Xin personally ordered to collect the livestock to be slaughtered in Luzhou, so that these soldiers could have a good meal of meat.

Li Shuo led the Ningzhou army, part of which was camped outside the city, and the other part was stationed in Luzhou, taking over the garrison of the city wall.

And Li Shuo himself, in the night, rushed to Li Xin's residence to report military affairs to Li Xin.

"General, the Ningzhou army has basically arrived, and there are some follow-ups, and it is expected that tomorrow afternoon, all of them will arrive in Luzhou."

At this time, Li Xin was reading a book in the study, and when he heard this, he looked up at Li Shuo and said, "Sit down and talk." ”

Li Shuo bowed his head respectfully, found a chair in Li Xin's study, and sat down.

General Li still stared at the old book in his hand, and said lightly: "In the past few months, the Ningzhou army has followed behind Mu Ying to recruit new troops, I haven't asked about the process, now that Luzhou City has been captured by Mu Ying, how many people are there in your Ningzhou army now?" ”

"Go back to the general."

Li Shuo lowered his head and clenched his fists, and said in a deep voice: "The last general led 40,000 Ningzhou troops out of Xiangyang, and now there are about 75,000 people in the main battle, and there are 30,000 or 40,000 available people, but some of these people are local van troops, some are ordinary people, and some are homeless, most of them have never fought or been soldiers, and their combat strength is worrying. ”

Speaking of this, Li Shuo paused and said silently: "These people, if they die, they will die." ”

Li Xin put down the scroll in his hand, looked at Li Shuo seriously, and said with a smile: "You are very different from more than ten years ago. ”

In the second year of Taikang, Li Xin led his troops to the west and attacked Jincheng, at that time, it was this Li Shuo in front of him, afraid that Jincheng would be ruined, and that the Southwest Army would be wiped out, so in order to take care of the overall situation, he sent the abolished prince Ji Yu to Li Xin.

If it weren't for him, Li Xin's expedition to the west would never have been so smooth.

At that time, Li Xinli felt that his cheap younger brother was a bit of a virgin, but now more than ten years have passed, Li Shuo himself has been in charge for many years, and his mind is very different from the young man at the beginning, and he has even begun to treat some unimportant subordinates as cannon fodder.

Li Shuo bowed his head slightly, and said: "People will grow up, and the younger brother is not much different from more than ten years ago, more than ten years ago, if the army had a chance of two or three percent, I would also stand on the side of the army and fight to the end with my brother, but more than ten years ago, the army really didn't have a chance at all......

Li Shuo was silent for a while, his voice a little low.

"More than ten years ago, my brother's westward expedition was like a bamboo, and Mianzhu City was also quickly broken by my brother, at that time, the younger brother really thought that there was a pure yang real person by his brother's side to help him, and it wasn't until a few years ago that the younger brother figured it out......"

Speaking of this, he looked up at Li Xin and said meaningfully: "It turns out that more than ten years ago, when my brother was a teenager, he already had a firearm......

Later, the Son of Taikang also made the pure Yang real person a god, and now there are many pure Yang real people shrines among the people, and most of the people in the world from high-ranking officials and nobles to small people believe that there is such a real person.

It wasn't until the thunder in the southwest was exposed to everyone that some people figured out what was going on when the city gate of Mianzhu exploded inexplicably.

When some people think of this, they will feel a chill down their backs, and they will feel that Jing'anhou, who was only ten years old at that time, was so deep in the city.

Regarding this matter, Li Xin was too lazy to explain it to others, after all, at this time, he told others that his idea at that time was to bring gunpowder into the coffin, and no one would believe it.

So he laughed at himself and said, "Whatever you think, it's just that I've been planning for more than ten years." ”

The two brothers skipped this topic, Li Xin's face became serious, and he said in a deep voice: "The Hanzhou army has been advancing eastward, and it is already tired, I have communicated with Mu Ying, from today onwards, the Hanzhou army will begin to rest, and your Ningzhou army will be the main attack." ”

"Is there a problem?"

Li Shuo stood up from the chair, half-knelt in front of Li Xin, and said in a deep voice: "The last general, follow the order of the general!" ”

Li Xin nodded and said: "The remaining heavenly thunder, firearms and firearms of the Hanzhou Army still have some firearms, I will let Mu Ying hand them over to you, and the firearms battalion of the Hanzhou Army can also be lent to you for use, but your Ningzhou Army must fight more beautifully, otherwise there will be people in the Hanzhou Army who are not convinced." ”

"If Brother Mu doesn't say it, his heart will not be happy."

"You have to let them have nothing to say."

Li Shuo's face was solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "The general is so sincere, how can the last general live up to it?" ”