Chapter 313: Yanjing Beacon Fire (7)
A cannonball is equal to a piece of leather armor, and a bomb is equal to a piece of chain mail.
Liu Xing came up with the idea of the Shenwu Type II Artillery, the Shenlong Type II Flying Kite, and the "Iron Fist" Type Bazooka made by the Craftsman of the Palace, which had developed to 60,000 people under the leadership of Yelu Bashen.
Although they are all amazingly lethal, they have reached the level where gods and demons are only dead when they meet, and fairies and demons are not afraid when they come. However, in direct proportion to the lethality, whether it is artillery, flying kites, or ammunition fired from bazookas, the cost of which surprises an old marshal like Zhang Suo, who is accustomed to war horses and knives and ironclad flying arrows.
As long as Li Shifu took the flying kite soldiers to bomb Yanjing City for three days, the chain mail on the 30,000 soldiers was turned into bombs and thrown into Yanjing City. The consequences of this are unknown for the time being, but Zhang knows that this is tantamount to throwing away half the money that the richest state capital has been financed and taxed for half a year, and the money from the government, supervision, and commercial offices has been thrown away.
The price paid is too high, and the reward is completely unpredictable.
So no matter how confident Liu Xing is, Zhang is still skeptical.
The old marshal did not know that Liu Xing had seen or heard more than a thousand years, and he did not know that a country on the other side of the sea, which is still a barbaric land thousands of years later, used air raids and ultra-long-range artillery and rockets to bomb a once powerful country in the west.
Even the country's autocratic head, who had always been arrogant in the past, was finally brought to court and killed alive by the empire across the sea.
What Zhang Suo's current vision can see is only the world today, just a new city like Taiyuan Mansion that was quickly prospered by Liu Xing through the migration of landless civilians and foreign merchants. All he could see was places such as Daizhou Mansion and Xinzhou Mansion that were not far from Wutai City.
These state capitals are now only under the supervision of Liu Xing in a few short months, and after the rapid recovery of Sun Yujiang and others' unremitting efforts, the income from taxes and business operations has also skyrocketed at an alarming rate.
And in just a few months, it has exceeded the pre-fall period and the most prosperous period of the Great Song Dynasty. Just one Taiyuan Mansion. After Liu Xing relocated 100,000 households to make up for it, the tax revenue reached half of the total income of Hedong Road during the most prosperous period of the Great Song Dynasty last month.
Although this is the case, Liu Xing is so generous and burns a lot of money to fight Yanjing City, it is inevitable and understandable that Zhang is worried......
Regarding Zhang Suo's worries, Liu Xing smiled indifferently again and said to him: "Zhang Shuai, compared to burning a lot of money. Are you willing to use money to pile up one city after another, or are you willing to let my Great Song soldiers die tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people to recapture a city? ”
Hearing this, Zhang was stunned.
Immediately, he collected his mind and said abruptly: "Yes! Money is something outside the body, and if a person dies, it will be difficult to return. Cough! Your wisdom is not comparable to ours. The old man is really old, old, and can't keep up with your calculations! ”
Can't keep up with Liu Xing's thinking, who can keep up with Liu Xing's endless and ever-changing today, but each of them is a good strategy that can quickly revive a land that has become withered and barren due to war?
I heard that Zhang was old. Zong Ze on the side also sighed lightly: "Alas! Yes, you and I are old, and the future world will definitely be ruled by young people such as you. I'm waiting for such an old horseman, and the auxiliary government is on the right track, and it's time for me to retreat......"
After hearing Zong Ze's words, Liu Xing secretly said in his heart: People are rare in their seventies, and you are already seventy years old. It's time to retire. But for the time being, I can't find a puppet-type sub-assistant who is as prestigious as you, capable of both civil and military affairs, and willing to be obedient, and I must not let you go back to the mountains and forests......
The thought flashed through me. Liu Xing immediately got up and hugged his fist at Zong Ze and said, "Although Huang Zhong is old, he can still help the big-eared thief sweep away Xishu and go north to resist Wei." Why should the old marshal be so self-deprecating, in my opinion, it will never be a problem for you to assist in government for another five or six years. Okay, you and I should move to the Heavenly Academy, Yanjing is destined to return to my Great Song Dynasty, and now it's time for us to have a good deal with Li Qianshun. ”
As soon as these words fell, Liu Xing turned around and left. Soon, he took the two old marshals out of the Taifu Mansion, got into the carriage, and quickly rushed to the Heavenly Council where the six Shangshu and other cabinet members had been waiting......
On the east and west fronts, there are many wars.
This autumn of the Great Song Dynasty is destined to be an eventful autumn.
In the south, there is King Kang, Zhao Gou, who constantly adds to the chaos, and in the west, there is Li Qianshun, who invades by fraud.
But as a person who already thinks he is a pit god, Liu Xing actually doesn't regard Li Qianshun and Zhao Gouzhen as a big trouble at all.
No matter how strong Western Xia is. There are only seven or eight hundred thousand combatable men left. Over the years, the Dangxiang clan has been fighting for many years, and after several internal frictions, it is now long gone.
For Liu Xing, all that was needed to deal with the Tangut people was some ingenuity and a complete baptism strategy to drive them out of the land of the Great Song Dynasty and back to their own barren land of Xiliang.
King Kang is treacherous and changeable, and his IQ itself is a hard wound. Otherwise, how can there be a way to be a king without being loyal, and being virtuous without being virtuous.
The main problem is still the Jurchens, and there are still millions of Jurchens hiding outside the fortress.
As long as they were given a chance to breathe, with the help of the Demon Dao, Liu Xing believed that with the Jurchens' natural greedy wolf nature, they were destined to make a comeback and invade the Central Plains again.
Can't give the Jurchens that chance, didn't they slaughter the Han people when they entered the Central Plains, and wanted the Han people to destroy the country and exterminate the species?
Well, if the heavens destroy me, I will destroy the heavens! This is not just a slogan, as soon as Zhang Suo and Zong Ze entered the Tianshu Pavilion, Liu Xing immediately issued a new order: the envoy officially went to meet with Jiagu Xie Nu, and the young master asked him to formally meet in the Wild Wolf Valley outside Yanmen Pass on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15......
On August 15, Liu Xing chose a day for family reunion to meet Xie Nu.
However, at the same time as this order was issued, there were more than 200,000 Jurchens in Yanjing City who were destined to never be reunited with their families again.
Li Shifu took the 6,000 men and horses of the Flying Kite Independent Association to rush to Xu Heng from Wutai to Yanjing in just three days.
As soon as Xu Heng saw this young general, who was only twenty years old, his heart was happy, and he was given three days at Li Shifu's request to launch the first aerial bombardment in Yanjing City.
More than 1,500 flying kites, under the unified command of Li Shifu, threw piles of bombs from the air into Yanjing City at dawn on the second day after arriving at the Yanjing battlefield.
The thousand-year-old city became even more precarious from the moment the Flying Kite Independence Association attacked. The golden soldiers and their families in the city could only cry and flee in all directions when they saw the flying kites hovering and lingering in the air, constantly dropping bombs one after another. (To be continued......)