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On a high ground, Xiao Ming and Li Chu Yuanfeng chatted lightly.

Li Chuyuan's forehead was sweating slightly, and he didn't dare to breathe, although he knew that Xiao Ming's purpose was to achieve the unification of the Great Yu Kingdom, but he had just cooperated with the Sima Clan, and when he turned around, he destroyed the Sima Clan, and some of the changes were too fast.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, maybe he was really not suitable for conspiracy, and he could only be played to death in front of Xiao Ming.

"The Sima clan has long had the heart of treason, and the ministers have the heart to get rid of it, and now they are really happy." Li Chuyuan was smiling, bitter in his heart, in his opinion, Xiao Ming and Sima Hao were not good people, and how could he be?

It's just a matter of winning and losing.

Xiao Ming nodded slightly, "Don't forget what else you have to do next, I will fulfill my promise to you." ”

The current situation in the Chu State is complicated, in addition to some people who support the Sima family, there are also a group of people who support Li Chuyuan, but the strength of this group of people is obviously not comparable to the Sima family.

But it doesn't matter, as his heart grows, Xiao Ming has seen through a lot of problems, and if he wants to build an immortal empire, he must pay equal attention to grace and might, killing and mercy together.

Therefore, he no longer had pity for the wealthy clan of the Chu State, and in the case of internal and external troubles, he only used iron-blooded means to bring the Chu State into the management of the imperial court as soon as possible.

And in this way, the enemy who stands in the way of this goal must be completely eliminated.

Because of this, he decided to let Li Chuyuan issue an edict of guilt, officially announcing that he would no longer inherit the prince, ending the Li family's rule over the Chu State for hundreds of years, and handing the Chu State over to the royal rule.

Glancing at Li Chuyuan again, Xiao Ming patted him on the shoulder, in the defection incident a few days ago, Wang Xuan also sent other information.

This information made him feel that the reunification of the Great Chongqing Kingdom was imminent, and he could not drag it out so slowly.

In fact, this is a set of data, according to Wang Xuan's various investigations, he obtained the general population of some countries, including 22 million in the Japanese state, 29 million in Britain, 32 million in France, 44 million in Tsarist Russia, and 120 million in India.

In addition to this, the population of Goryeo is 7.5 million, the population of the Netherlands is 1.9 million, and so on.

This general figure is similar to the contemporary data of the Technospar record, and in fact the population of Europe has exploded as living standards have risen.

But I have to say that these population data put a lot of pressure on Xiao Ming, because the current population of Dayu is only a slight advantage.

Relatively speaking, these countries are all populous countries, especially Tsarist Russia.

Knowing this, Xiao Ming did not dare to take it lightly, the enemy he faced would be a very powerful force if united, and although Europe had often been infighting in history, it had always been very united in dealing with foreign enemies, such as dealing with the Ottoman invasion.

However, dealing with the enemy always requires flexibility, and he has a plan to divide Europe, as well as a plan to deal with another new country.

According to the information obtained by Wang Xuan, the British Sequoia Army had just lost the North American Colonial War, and the American Revolutionary War had begun.

The Netherlands, Spain, France, Tsarist Russia, Denmark, Sweden, and Austria all secretly supported the war of independence in the North American colonies, and the Redwoods were in a difficult situation.

For Xiao Ming, he has no good impression of the United States, which is fighting for independence, but in the context of this era, Britain is the world hegemon.

That's why France, Tsarist Russia and the like will support his colonial independence so much, and according to normal logic, he should support this new country, because then Britain will lose a large piece of territory, after all, it is now Britain who is the world hegemon.

After pondering for a while, Xiao Ming shook his head again, although he has a lot of ideas, but he is beyond the reach of the whip now, and now all he has to do is to strengthen the Great Yu Kingdom.

As for whether the United States is established, he is not very worried, after all, this new country is very weak, and he can bully as much as he wants.

The fierce gunfire continued, followed by the rumbling of cannons.

Xiao Ming continued to look at the current war in Suzhou City.

Tiger soldiers with falcon rifles shoot from the trenches dug outside the city by the merchant council, and the soldiers nimbly run between the obstacles between the trenches and the ground.

And the clumsy Chu army also rigidly moved towards them with flintlock pistols, and this dense formation immediately became the favorite of the artillerymen.

Three hundred and sixty field guns were loaded with flowering shells and directly bombarded the Chu troops advancing in dense formation.

The cannonballs exploded in the pile, and the soldiers of the Chu army rose into the air along with the flying earth, and after the shells were not fired, the array of the Chu army would be missing a large piece.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The artillery seemed to have found an opportunity to vent, they fought more vigorously, and the frequency of artillery fire increased.

At the same time as the shelling, some of the Tiger Ben soldiers formed an array of stragglers, and after firing at the advantage of distance, they quickly dispersed.

Under this ferocious attack, the soldiers of the Chu army finally collapsed, and in just half an hour, the corpses of more than 8,000 Chu soldiers were left in front of Suzhou City.

The most important thing is that these soldiers did not have a chance to shoot until they died, and this desperation made the morale of the Chu army finally collapse.

"Kill!"

Lu Fei shouted, and the soldiers rushed out of the trench and rushed towards the scattered Chu army.

One of the Tiger soldiers took a step and loaded a paper shell bullet into the chamber of the gun, and when he closed the locking structure, the locking structure cut the paper shell bullet to reveal the gunpowder, the trigger was pulled, and the fire cap ignited the gunpowder.

With a "snap", the soldiers of the Chu State fifty meters away fell in response.

Xiao Ming retracted his gaze at this time, this is the advantage of breech rifles over flintlock pistols, before this advantage is lost, he wants to unify the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

In the rain of bullets, the soldiers of the Chu army suffered heavy casualties, and these soldiers of the Chu army and the children of the Hao clan who had been living in their comfort nest cried and fled everywhere, and now they finally understood that war is not more beautiful than anyone's military uniform.

Li Chuyuan followed behind Xiao Ming, and he also saw this scene, and his demeanor suddenly became more and more respectful.

Suzhou is a big city, and connected to Taihu Lake, it can be said that it controls the waterways and land routes in the south of the Yangtze River, relying on Suzhou as the backing, Lin'an is equivalent to being under the threat of the royal army at any time.

"Your Majesty, the soldiers are ready." Niu Ben suddenly said to Xiao Ming at this time, with a hint of fanaticism in his eyes.

Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed, when they were in Jinling City, they set a strategy to stabilize the Chu State, he said: "Confiscate all the property of the wealthy families, get the land to be distributed to the people to cultivate, I want the people of Jiangnan to see what the emperor's grace is!" ”