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On the same day, Yanjing City.

The royal city, that is, the tooth city of the original Youzhou City, has now become the royal city of Yanjing, which is equivalent to the imperial city of Chang'an, which concentrates the various central departments of the Qin domain and garrisons the guards. In the yamen of the government hall, a group of important ministers had already arrived, and even many foreign provincial officials in Beijing attended the meeting as observers.

Li Jing looked at the reply letter from Chengdezhen in his hand, which was fiercely worded and said no to him directly. He smiled faintly, with a hint of sarcasm on the corner of his mouth, and said to the people in the hall: "Everyone, Chengdezhen has officially responded to our ultimatum, they let us die and refuse to surrender. ”

Although he was scolded by Chengdezhen, no one in the hall was angry, as if this was expected.

"I still had a little expectation, thinking that Wang Rong would surrender." Wang Pu shook his head and smiled.

"Wang Bingbu, there is no need to talk nonsense, remember to send someone to my house if you lose my hundred dragon gold coins." It was Pei You, the new governor of the Fifth Army, who was the new Governor of the Fifth Army, and he and Wang Pu were also old friends of Duli Town, and their daughters were Li Jing's women, and their relationship became closer and closer. He is the leader of the Lanling King faction that is gradually taking shape. Although Pei You had two daughters married to Li Jing, they were ranked lower, and the sons born were neither grandchildren nor elders, so Pei You and his daughter united with Wang's father.

Nowadays, although it is said that there are gradually primogenital factions and sister-in-law factions in the Qin Domain. But it's not very tight. Just a rough union. There is no close relationship of interests between them. This is also the reason why Li Jing didn't take any action even if he knew that they were starting to form a faction. First, this is just a rudimentary form of a faction, and Li Jing has no suitable reason to make a move. Second, factions are everywhere, as long as they can be properly controlled, sometimes factions are still balanced for those in power. An excellent tool to maintain your own interests.

At present, the two factions that began to be separated because of Li Deyu's birth, the eldest son faction, the main characters are Wang Pu, Wang Gai, Pei You and other people from Duli Town, including some generals such as Guo Chengan, and Li Dezhao's bachelors and teachers, most of the bachelors are standing here.

Although Li Deyu is only a little more than half a year old, he also has a lot of supporters, first of all, there are four Yu sisters in the palace, and four Yu brothers outside the palace. The Yu family has three sections to make a secretary of the book, plus Kang Chengzhi of Yicheng Town. Xin Yan of Xuanwu Town, as well as a large number of former court officials such as Cui Anqian, Zhang Zimian, Du Xian, etc., who joined the Qin Domain halfway, most of them supported Li Deyu.

Li Jing shook his head slightly, putting those thoughts in his mind away. He glanced at everyone and said, "Chengde will refuse to surrender, which is also expected. Now, three days have passed, and Chengdezhen has openly refused, and then, it is our turn to continue. If there is no objection to the original plan, then follow the plan. ”

Rivertown.

Located in the south of Yingzhou, between the Hutuo River, Zhangshui and the canal, Hejian City has always been an important military fortress of the Qin army in central Hebei after the Qin domain entered Hebei. Earlier, when the Qin army had not captured Lulong Yanjing, it was to capture Yingzhou, and then go all out to build Hejian City, and in the middle of Hebei, under the noses of the three feudal clans of Hebei, a powerful fortress was established. For a long time, Li Jing once stationed 80,000 heavy troops in Hejian and Mozhou Sanguan to prevent and contain the three feudatories of Hebei.

In the subsequent series of battles in which the Qin army marched south through Cangjing, fought with the Hebei feudal domains, and finally captured Lulong and Yiwu Town, the existence of the Hejian fortress firmly restrained the Qin army from a large number of troops in Chengde and Wei Bo. In the early days, although the river was in Hebei Province, there was a north Gongjing division, and the south was adjacent to Qingji. Since ancient times, there has been something wrong with Youyan, and there is no one who does not map the river first. The north is not allowed between the rivers, the disasters of Qing and Hebei are not strong, the south is not allowed between the rivers, and the trouble of seclusion is not deep, but the city between the rivers is not big at that time. However, after the Qin army captured Hejian, it began to use this place as the hub of the entire Jingluo Hebei, and continued to expand on the basis of the original Hejian City, and after several years of continuous reinforcement and expansion, today's Hejian City has become the fortress city of the first city in southern Beijing.

Today's Riverside City is actually composed of four castle clusters. On both sides of the Hutuo River, four cities were built between the river, the original city was the south city, and later the east city on the east bank of the river was newly built, and the north city and west city on the west bank. The four cities were not far from each other, and were connected by walls in between, and the four cities formed a larger fortress between the rivers, and included the section of the river in the city, and on the north and south sections of the river, water gates were built.

The four cities are built with bricks and stones, extremely solid, the city is six zhang high, far more than most of the cities in Hebei, and the construction at that time adopted the extremely advanced mausoleum-shaped city wall, as well as the inclined angle of the wall, the city surface. Connecting the four cities is the earthen wall, the three-zhang three-high earth wall is made of rammed earth, and there is a moat twenty zhang wide outside the large long wall between the whole river, which connects the Hutuo water, making the entire river fortress more like a huge island.

This fortress is not only a strong military fortress, even in times of peace, because of the advantages of the traffic of the Hutuo River, close to the Zhangshui River and the canal, this incomparably safe fortress has even become a place where business travelers from near and far gather, and has become a commercial transit center in the middle of Hebei, which is extremely prosperous and prosperous.

The Qin clan built hundreds of warehouses here, and many of the taxes and tributes paid by many prefectures and counties south of Hebei and the Yellow River traveled north along the canal, first through the river, and then transported to Yanjing. Especially during the ice period in winter, the sea is not passable, and the river has become one of the most important cities on the way from south to north. Especially when Chengde and Weibo have not been captured, it is safe and convenient to transit here.

Hejian City has always been regarded as an important logistics transit point by the Qin army, and countless grains and ordnance were all continuously sent into Hejian from the south.

In the official opinion of the Qin Domain. The city between the rivers is high and strong. It was firmly nailed to the connecting passage of the two large areas outside the Qin domain and south of the Yellow River. Defending the river is significant, so there is no room for error.

And as a military fortress, the four cities of Hejian City are connected, and a large piece of fertile land is encircled in the city, even if they are besieged by the enemy, they can not only rely on all kinds of commercial goods stored in peacetime, but even grow food in the city, and persist in long-term warfare.

However, since the Qin army occupied Yanjing. After taking Lulong and Yiwu Towns successively, the situation of the Qin army in Hebei immediately changed greatly, from the original defense to the situation of pressing the south from the north. The status of the river has decreased slightly, but it is still very important.

The town of Hebei also tried to break through Hejian several times and control the first town in the east of central Hebei, but several attacks were in vain. This time, Chengde Town refused to surrender, and some generals proposed to Wang Jingyin that it was better to send troops to attack Hejian first. If you can break the river. Then the situation in Chengde Town is much safer.

However, this proposal was rejected by Wang Jingyin without hesitation. Rivertown. It was not a city that could be easily attacked by force. In his opinion, a city like Hejian is difficult to break through from the outside except for besieging it, or by attacking it from the inside.

Wang Jingyin has been keeping an eye on Hejian City, and if the Qin army sends troops south, they will inevitably come out of Hejian City. Because Hejian City is a huge logistics base, the logistics grain and grass equipment for the Qin army's southward march will only be sent from here.

The city between the rivers has not yet reacted, and they have not sent a single soldier.

But the soldiers and horses sent by Wang Jingyin to Raoyang, which was not far away, soon arrived, and Wang Jingyin wanted to teach these traitors a good lesson, even if he had already decided to give up Raoyang and other small cities in his plan, but giving up and giving up, it would be unforgivable to surrender to the enemy.

The former county commander and regimental envoy in Raoyang City originally thought that Chengde Town's refusal to surrender this time was a stupid decision, and in order to avoid sinking the ship with them, they decided to surrender to the Qin army. One side sent people to surrender to Hejian City, and the other side hurriedly erected the banner of the Qin army. Who knows that the Qin army in the river has not yet come, but the Chengde army has already arrived.

I thought they could change to a big boat, foolproof. Who knew that in the blink of an eye, they had already stepped into the air and fell into the stormy water.

Wang Shiyuan, who was standing outside the city and commanding the siege, seemed to have broken Raoyang City only a matter of time or night.

There was a roar in his ears, and the twenty neatly arranged 'Divine Mighty and Brave Siege Invincible General Cannon' on the distant position roared one after another, and one after another the big stone projectiles flew towards the head of Raoyang City and smashed on the battlements of the enemy tower. Wang Shiyuan, who was dressed in bright silver armor, couldn't help but show a sneer on his lips.

Although Raoyang is a small city, the lion and rabbit must use all their strength. He is the eldest son of Wang Jingyin, and this time he led the troops to come, and his father gave him only one order. Fight, fight hard, use the most fierce and fastest way to capture Raoyang City, and then use the most cruel means to directly slaughter the whole city.

This is to set an example to the Qin army, and it is also to show their strength and determination to the Qin army, and at the same time to restore the decline in military morale caused by Raoyang's surrender to the enemy.

"Bring up the dragon and tiger and the thunder general's cannons, and fire a salvo!" Wang Shizhen sneered.

A lieutenant whispered: "Yanei, we have brought a hundred guns of the Thunder Dragon and Tiger Ben, and one cannon is twenty catties of gunpowder, and one salvo is two thousand catties, and we only have a total of five thousand catties of gunpowder." Isn't it enough to have a salvo of ten guns? ”

After the Qin army used firearms on the battlefield and the effect was good, the feudal towns began to study this gunpowder. Send spies to steal, send people to buy, develop their own, all kinds of methods, and each town basically has a gunpowder formula. In fact, the gunpowder formula can't be made, when the Qin army didn't officially use gunpowder, Duli Town had already obtained a gunpowder formula from several Taoist priests, and was the first to invest in the war with Qingni Town, defeating the Qingni Town Army in one fell swoop and knocking down Li Lingfu. Although the gunpowder formula that Qin Jun later took out was stronger than that in Duli Town, it was not much stronger.

Last year, after the Qin army directly defeated the charge of 30,000 Hu cavalry with thousands of artillery and more than 1,000 flying thunder cannons in Daibei, it caused great shock in the towns. The research of gunpowder weapons has become more popular, after countless money and manpower have been invested, it can now be said that the slightly stronger feudal towns have their own firearms, although the firearms of the towns are varied, but there is a large-scale use of artillery by the Qin army, and there is not much obstacle to the development of artillery.

For example, Chengde Town has developed a kind of invincible general who is almost as powerful as the Longwu Thunderbolt General Cannon. They are all large counterweight catapults.

And they also imitated a similar projectile cannon based on the Flying Thunder Cannon. That is, the dragon and the tiger are bombarded with the thunder of the general's cannon. The name is more powerful than Qin Jun's, but the type is about the same, the same twenty catties of gunpowder pack, but the range and accuracy and the power of the explosion are far worse.

"Ten cannons can be called a salvo by the fuck? If you want to pull all the 100 cannons out of the gun, you will obediently pull them out, don't fucking pick at the rope, fuck, it's not with your gunpowder. Give Lao Tzu a volley, a hundred volleys. Well, isn't there 5,000 catties of gunpowder, just shoot it out, do you still plan to bring it back again? "Wang Shiyuan, as a well-known soldier and horse envoy in the Chengde Army, is very clear about this mission. This time they didn't really come to recapture Raoyang City, they just came to show their strength, kill chickens and make an example, save the morale of the German army, and show their determination.

He worked hard to bring in a hundred thunderbolts, but it wasn't just to show off at this time. Fuck. Buckle the rope, then what is he doing with so much effort to pull these iron guys over?

Iron cannon only. The Qin army's iron artillery firearms have indeed been imposing in recent years. But will the Qin army become a German army? In the final analysis, these ordnance were merely a test of the craftsmanship of a feudal town. Li Jing's home in the land of Liaodong was that he could make firearms and artillery from those Fanzi barbarians, could it be that they couldn't make a few firearms in a century-old town like the three feudal clans in Hebei? If there is anything that spreads the fastest, there is no doubt that it must be ordnance, as long as you are willing to invest human and financial resources, no matter how powerful the equipment is, it can be quickly imitated.

In fact, catapults, also known as cannons, have always been a powerful weapon in siege. It's just that this kind of thing, in the past, was usually during the siege of the city, so that the craftsmen of the army were built from local materials, and no one has ever been like Li Jing, and he has also set up a special academy to teach how to make these equipment, how to improve the power of these equipment, and even finally came up with standard accessories, dismantling the giant trebuchet into parts, and then transporting it to the battlefield and directly assembling it in batches.

Even those artillery, in fact, there is nothing great, not much different from a catapult, a little smaller, not much more powerful, there are advantages, but there are also a lot of disadvantages, limited by the weather, at the same time its gunpowder production troubles, huge consumption, not as good as catapults of catapults, desirable on the spot, inexhaustible.

No matter what the era, war is not fought for the most advanced equipment, but for the cheapest and easiest to produce.

For example, this kind of super cavalry equipped with armor and cavalry, although it is extremely powerful, but it finally withdrew from the battlefield due to its incomparably high price. Only Li Jing, who is always different, will form a heavy cavalry, and even build more and more.

Li Jing is such a freak, others don't need heavy cavalry, he uses it. Others only use the simplest spears and spears as weapons, but he has to use Mo knives and prismatic spears to equip the army. Most of the infantry of other people's families no longer ride horses, and even donkeys do not ride anymore, but the infantry of the Qin army not only rides horses, but also often rides with two horses.

The troops of other feudal towns paid attention to winning by quantity, with simple equipment, not much training, and less food. Anyway, manpower is the cheapest, and if you die, you can recruit again. Only Qin Jun wants to engage in some kind of professional soldiers, starting training from a young age, is it worth it? Before going to the battlefield, he had been trained for several years or even more than ten years, spent countless money, food and equipment, and when he went to the battlefield at the least, he might die in the first battle. That's a loss!

But Wang Shiyuan sometimes has to admire Li Jing, although he is always so maverick, but many times he is so different, and the effect is really good. Li Jing's heavy cavalry showed their majesty again and again and defeated their opponents. Li Jing's soldiers and horses are elite and have high morale, and they often can always defeat more with less.

Even those firearms that he had paid a lot of, before the Battle of Baishuiluo, who would have thought that the artillery that consumed a huge amount of money would have such great power when it was concentrated?

In October, the military craftsman battalion of the Chengde army once again delivered 300 newly cast cannons to the army, including 20 invincible general cannons that had just been put into battle, and 100 cannons of the dragon and tiger and the thunder general.

For more than a year, Chengde Town also began to make firearms, open mines and refine medicines, and make steel and artillery. Since the Qin army has artillery, they must also have it. Since his father Wang Jingyin mastered Chengde Town, his attitude towards the Qin army is no longer simply hostile, but hostile while learning from the Qin army seriously. For example, from the large number of but little combat effectiveness, select the elite, equipped with the best armor weapons, and train them in the strictest way, in order to train an elite like the Qin army. For example, the Qin army was equipped with a large number of artillery, and even established separate artillery and engineers, and now the Chengde army has also secretly formed several engineer battalions and artillery battalions.

Chengde Town lives in Hebei, in the original three old towns of Hebei, Chengde Town occupies the center of Hebei, has the most fertile plain, and connects Hedong Taiyuan, Hebei north and south, is relatively wealthy.

Although Chengdezhen has been in a bad situation in recent years, far less wealthy than the Qin army, if he really makes up his mind to build hundreds or thousands of cannons, this kind of thing that is somewhat appalling in the eyes of many generals is completely capable in Wang Shiyuan's opinion.

Other towns are still hesitating to make this kind of artillery that is too expensive and too costly, but Wang Jingyin has already conducted a lot of intelligence collection and research on the use of artillery. He was not afraid of the high consumption of artillery, but he felt that there were too few craftsmen and that the training of gunners was too long. Faced with a strong neighbor to the north, Wang Jingyin always felt that there was a lot of danger. If there is a large number of artillery, it is best to defend the city and use it to deal with the besieging Qin army. In the First Battle of Yunzhou, didn't the Qin army rely on those firearms, with 10,000 people against 100,000 Hu people, and finally held Yunzhou?

The scorched earth tactics of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, coupled with the gathering of troops and horses to retreat to important cities and use artillery against the artillery of the Qin people, Wang Jingyin thought that they could say nothing to the Qin people. Under the scorched earth tactics, the Qin army marched south, and it was necessary to transport a large amount of grain and grass to support the operation. According to the situation under his control, the biggest weakness of the Qin army now is the lack of grain and grass. As long as the Qin army can't get grain and grass in Chengde Town, then their soldiers who go south eat a stone of grain and grass, and the rear may need to transport seven stones of grain and grass, and most of the grain and grass will be eaten by the people who transport the grain on the way, and there will be a lot of consumption, loss, and loss. As long as the war can enter the stalemate stage, Li Jing, who is still trapped in the battlefield outside the Guanguan with one foot, will be absolutely difficult to defeat them.

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