Wanyan Chizha nodded clearly: "I understand, I may survive if you fight, but you will definitely die if you retreat. Since Your Majesty is ready to fight the big dragon fish to the death, I can only lead the soldiers with my old and broken body.
Fight to the death to defend the country."
"Uncle Wang can understand my difficulties. Today's Daikin is no longer the Daikin before the founding of the country, let alone the Daikin not long after the founding of the country.
It is Dajin that has survived on this land for hundreds of years.
There are too many things here that the money cannot part with and the people cannot part with.
For now, let’s talk about the current battle situation.”
"Yes, Your Majesty, please come this way."
Wanyan Chiezha led the Queen towards his desk and pushed the stacks of documents in front of the Queen.
"This is the battle report on Jianzhou, Kanzhou and Jizhou in the past few days.
The offensive of Dalong's soldiers and horses was very fierce. As far as Jianzhou was guarded by the old minister, Dalong did not stop attacking the city every day. Now, more than 10,000 soldiers and horses have been killed and injured under Wangxing Gate on the south city wall.
There are those from us and there are those from Dalong.
However, our casualties were more than those of Dalong. Although Dalong was the one attacking the city, their artillery was too powerful and the soldiers were unable to stop the enemy.
Seventy percent of the soldiers were lost to the dragon's artillery.
In today's battle, seventeen artillery pieces were blown up. In addition to the one hundred and forty artillery pieces we had in Jianzhou a few days ago, there are only forty-nine pieces left.
As long as the sound of the cannons here is fired, Dalong's artillery shells will bombard the artillery on the city wall desperately, and a few of them will be lost every day.
On the other hand, our artillery can only blow up their siege vehicles and infantry. If we want to counterattack their artillery, we are really powerless.
Their artillery fire range is only about 70 or 80 steps longer than ours. This short distance of 70 or 80 steps is like a natural chasm blocking our artillery.
There is simply no way to get over the past.”
Wanyan Chizha said through gritted teeth, taking out a document and handing it to the Queen with a feeling of resentment that iron could not be transformed into steel.
"Not only Jianzhou, which is guarded by veterans, but also the other two cities, can only wait helplessly to be bombarded by artillery shells.
Yunyang, the familiar opponents of these veterans, changed their past military habits, and all learned the same thing as Liu Mingzhi, using artillery, catapults, and crossbows to first suppress our soldiers from showing up, and then quickly attack the city with infantry.
, making our soldiers tired of fighting the enemy.
To put it bluntly, the soldiers were scared of being bombed."
While listening to Wanyan Chiezha's complaints, the Queen flipped through the battle report he handed over.
"Did the dragon enemy forces in the other two cities use sharp weapons like infantry cannons?"
Wanyan Chizha shook his head hastily: "No, of course not, otherwise I wouldn't be able to hold on today.
Although their explosive shells caused great damage to the brothers, their power was not as powerful as that of the artillery tested in the swamps outside the capital city.
Otherwise, the walls of our Jianzhou City would have been bombarded long ago and there would be no foothold left.
The artillery used by the dragon enemy forces in the remaining two cities is also the same as the artillery outside the city."
The Queen gently closed the document she had read: "Isn't there any way to deal with the Dragon Artillery? It's not even possible to find experts to attack their artillery positions at night and blow up these artillery pieces with our newly made fire bombs.
?"
"Alas, it won't work. The method your Majesty mentioned was tried by someone a few days ago.
There are layers of defense and countless experts, but the experts sent can't get close to their artillery positions."
The Queen hesitated for a moment: "Isn't it okay even if you are half a step into the innate realm?"
"Your Majesty, we have it, and so do they.
The artillery is so powerful that General Dalong naturally attaches great importance to it.
Among the experts sent by the old minister, there were several half-step innate experts who were not even close to a hundred steps away from the artillery before they were fought by the experts guarding the artillery by the dragon, and then they were shot into hedgehogs by the arrow array."
The Queen looked at Wanyan Zhizha's helpless expression and suddenly ran out of ideas.
He wandered around gently in front of Wanyan Chizha, wondering if there was any good way to help Uncle Wang fight against the enemy.
After a long time, Queen Mu Ran looked at Wanyan Chiezha: "Uncle Wang, you just said that Dalong soldiers used sharpshooters to shoot Lei Zhenzi onto the city wall a few days ago, and cooperated with artillery to attack the city? Is that right?"
"Yes, it is indeed so."
The Queen's eyes lit up. A few months ago in the Liu Mansion in the capital, a strange weapon appeared in the "Essence of Weapons" that the daughter had been shamelessly asked to choose weapons.
The queen forcibly suppressed the excitement in her heart.
"Uncle Wang, they can tie thunder bombs to arrow clusters and shoot at the city wall. We can also tie our fire bombs to arrow clusters.
You can even bundle many fire bombs together and mount them on the crossbow bolts.
Wherever the dragon has more soldiers and horses, shoot there.
With the bed crossbowman's strength, this shouldn't be difficult.
The stones of the catapult can also be replaced by fire bombs bundled together.
Wouldn't this be the same as Dalong's flower bomb?
The only difference is that it is not fired from a cannon barrel."
Wanyan Chizha's eyes became brighter and brighter as he listened to what the Queen said. When the Queen finished speaking, her old eyes were as bright as a titanium alloy dog's eyes.
"Yes, it's so simple to put yourself in someone else's shoes, why didn't I think of it! I obviously saw Dalong tying Lei Zhenzi to the arrow, so why didn't I think of our fire bomb!
Your Majesty is still wise!"
Listening to Wan Yan's compliments, the Queen smiled bitterly.
"How can I be a saint? I just had a flash of inspiration. I recalled a pattern in a book and suddenly got inspiration."
"Is it that book Liu Mingzhi asked His Majesty to read again?"
The Queen nodded helplessly: "Other than that heartless man, who else can make fun of something like gunpowder? I can't understand now what kind of thoughts he has towards me.
By handing such a powerful and simple weapon to Dalong's military department, I was afraid that General Dajin would make matters worse, but he chose not to do so.
For a moment, I didn’t know whether to feel lucky or sad.”
Wanyan Chizha stroked his beard and pondered for a moment: "If you go by what Your Majesty said, it just confirms our previous guesses that Liu Mingzhi is not as heartfelt to the Dalong Court as he seems.
Yet his behavior is truly puzzling.
You may say that he is disloyal. He has an elite army of 300,000 people, but he has no rebellion or disobedience.
You could say he was loyal, and he was always on guard against Dalong's court. He was not so loyal that if the king wanted his ministers to die, they would have to die.
The veteran is fifty-seven and thinks he is well-versed in the world, but he can't help but be confused by Liu Mingzhi's behavior.
This is a person who cannot be treated with common sense!"
"Uncle Wang, let's put these aside for now. I plan to send a letter to Yue'er and ask her to order the Ministry of War to expedite the production of a large number of fire bombs. However, this will delay the casting of the artillery.
What do you think of this?"
"Old minister, I have no objection. Explosive bombs have always been a problem for our artillery. Now it is most appropriate to use fire bombs to replace artillery.
It’s not impossible to even use this to sneak attack Dalong’s artillery position.”
"I don't understand these things. It all depends on your command, Uncle Wang. I will send a message to Yue'er immediately. Do you have the four treasures of the study here?"
"Yes, I will personally grind the ink for Your Majesty."
After the two queens finished sending letters, they discussed the plan to defend the city.
But most of the time it was Wan Yan Chi Zha who was talking, and the Queen was listening and would mention her own thoughts from time to time.
It would be best to be recognized by Uncle Wang. If he is not recognized, he can only leave it alone.
In the middle of the night, Wanyan Chizha arranged for the Queen to stay in a civilian courtyard within the city wall, climbed the city wall again, and summoned his generals to discuss matters.