Chapter 685 The drunkard doesn’t care about the wine
Play a thousand tunes and then the sound will dawn; watch a thousand swords and then recognize the weapon.
It has been more than five years since Li Chengzhi founded the artillery camp and Li Zhang has been the commander of the artillery camp. He has already become familiar with it and can easily pick it up at his fingertips.
Therefore, Li Zhang knew very well that firing ten cannons at once would flatten the hollow archery tower in just one round. However, to be cautious, he ordered two rounds to be fired.
Therefore, not to mention the arrow tower, in two rounds, most of the east corner of the city wall was torn off. The city wall that was originally four feet high is now less than two feet...
When the smoke and dust cleared, several people felt horrified when they saw broken bricks and dirt all over the ground, as if the city wall had been bitten by a monster.
It is said that hearing is false and seeing is true. Whether it is Liu Fang, Yuan Yuan or Yang Shu, they were only seen in memorials in the past. At most, they were heard from the oral accounts of Cui Yanbo, who had personally been there and witnessed artillery.
Saw it with my own eyes.
But today, I really got to see the true appearance of this thing, which is an eye-opener.
This is the real punishment from heaven. Is it so powerful?
This cannot be resisted by human power...
No wonder the West Sea can fight with one against ten, invincible and invincible?
With only twenty iron bullets, a city wall four feet high and two feet thick can be cut in half in a matter of seconds. What if twenty more bullets were fired?
Even if it cannot be razed to the ground, it is already within reach.
And for example, if the soldiers on the city were not hit by iron bullets and were lucky to survive, how much fighting spirit and morale would they still have?
Anyone who can avoid making his legs weak from fear, and who can refrain from crying for father and mother, can definitely be called a hero. Those who can hold a knife and a gun tightly and grit their teeth to resist are probably less than one out of ten.
In this way, the siege infantry can naturally ascend the city calmly and break through...
Yang Shu was excited and scared at the same time, and felt that the tip of his liver was trembling.
He bit the tip of his tongue, suppressed his excitement and said: "It is not because I have made you ambitious that you can destroy the prestige of the imperial court. You also must not deceive me: If this magical thing is really inexhaustible, you are the tiger and wolf in the West Sea."
Master, how can we be blocked by a mountain?"
Li Chengzhi was shocked: What an old thief, who are you on?
Even if you have doubts in your heart, you can't say them out in front of Liu Fang and Yuan Yuan?
He remained calm and just sneered: "Do you think I am really afraid of Cui Yanbo, Xing Luan, Yuan Yao and Xi Kangsheng? If I have another 100,000 troops in my hands, even Beizhen and Guanzhong will already have all their income.
In the bag, let alone a mere Longshan Mountain?"
If Beizhen and Guanzhong also fall into the hands of Li Chengzhi, what danger can Luo Jing have to defend?
Liu Fang and Yuan Yuan were speechless as their scalps went numb.
Just because the more I think about it, the more I feel that Li Chengzhi is not just lying.
For the Hu people like Rouran, the purpose of fighting is nothing more than to capture the population, livestock, and grain, while also creating chaos and weakening the enemy's strength. Therefore, just grab and leave without any delay.
The West China Sea is completely the opposite.
Although Li Chengzhi did not raise the flag at this time, nor did he declare himself king, his purpose was obvious: to rebel to the end and change the dynasty.
Although we are still robbing, we are robbing not only people and food, but also cities and land. Therefore, we must not only be able to defeat them, but also be able to defend them. This is the top priority.
However, the West Sea is still in its infancy, showing its strength for the first time, but its foundation is too shallow. It is more than enough to attack, but not enough to defend.
To put it bluntly, it means that there is a shortage of soldiers and men. Once the territory is conquered, there will be no one to defend it.
If you think about it this way, it is reasonable for the imperial court to seek peace and Li Chengzhi to follow suit and stop the troops.
That's why Li Liang carried out large-scale construction and city construction, and even used gentle strategies to win over the people.
On the contrary, what Li Chengzhi relies on is nothing more than firearms. If it is true as Yang Shu said, this weapon is no longer sustainable. How dare Xihai attack with only a few hundred thousand troops, making Yuanyuan and others tremble and walk on thin ice?
But Yang Shu didn't think so. He stared at Li Chengzhi closely, as if trying to get a clue from Li Chengzhi's face.
From his understanding, Li Chengzhi was by no means a step-by-step person.
This little thief wants to mess with three people without any reason, not to mention that this time he has taken advantage of the right time, location, and people, so he should not spare others when he has the advantage.
This is just one of them.
Secondly, from a long-term perspective, Li Chengzhi should never have stopped fighting and withdrawing his troops when his morale was at its peak and his momentum was overwhelming.
Since there is no shortage of food, soldiers, firearms, and Cui Yanbo, Xing Luan, Yuan Yao, Xi Kangsheng and the like are regarded as nothing, why not take advantage of the situation to attack Longshan and conquer Guanzhong?
Just conquer, not occupy, just like Rouran, grab and leave.
First, it can annihilate the imperial troops, grab soldiers, soldiers, and grain at the same time, and strengthen the West Sea.
Secondly, another loss in Guanzhong would mean that Luojing's door would be opened wide, and the court would become more chaotic, making mistakes among mistakes.
Regardless of the rest, just how to stabilize the people's hearts in Guanzhong after Li Chengzhi retreated, and where to recruit a large army to guard Guanzhong, I am afraid it will make the Queen Mother and the princes in the court worry about gray hair.
It is also possible that Li Chengzhi retreated to Longxi, and Guanzhong, which had been exploited by the imperial court for a long time, was already overwhelmed. What's more, it is really possible that the people and nobles in Guanzhong actually begged Li Chengzhi to occupy Guanzhong as soon as possible.
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As the saying goes, one thing waxes and the other grows, why wouldn't Li Chengzhi do it?
Therefore, Yang Shu instinctively suspected that this little thief had absolutely no choice but to temporarily suspend his troops.
Including leading Liu Fang and Yuan Yuan to watch the military camp and Cang Cao today, and the artillery, most likely to show the enemy's strength and force the court not to act rashly?
Secretly guessing, and seeing that Li Chengzhi was calm and careful, Yang Shu rolled his eyes and changed the topic.
"It is said that under heavy rewards, there will be dead soldiers. If you have to fight for the rest of your life, and you have already put life and death aside to defend the city, what will you do?"
He pointed to the artillery in front of the formation, and then pointed to the city wall in the distance: "If you change the location and guard the city instead, I will call in all the strong soldiers. If you attack me with artillery, I will order the soldiers to hide behind the city.
If the artillery stops, I will know that you will send troops to the city and then order the soldiers to guard the wall...
You often say: When we meet on a narrow road, the brave will win. It is nothing more than preferring death to surrender and sacrificing oneself for the country. What can you do to me in such a deadlock?"
Would rather die than surrender... How can it be that easy?
Li Chengzhi wanted to reply, "Just a few more rounds will be enough," but when the words came to his lips, he suddenly paused.
This old thief is probably convinced that Xihai has run out of ammunition, and he won't believe it no matter how much he says.
Why do we need Thaksin?
Li Chengzhi has 120% confidence in Yang Shu: Not to mention that he is just suspicious, there is real evidence that proves that Xihai is now a strong man and a weak man, and this old thief will never let out the slightest hint.
It is also possible that he has already received advice from someone since he came to Xihai, and will secretly communicate with Xihai. For example, Li Shao, or his younger brother Yang Jun.
Therefore, it doesn't matter whether Yang Shu believes it or not, as long as Liu Fang and Yuan Yuan believe it.
Li Chengzhi snorted coldly and grinned again: "Words are unfounded, seeing is believing, so let Mr. Yan Rong see it enough..."
How else to know?
Before Liu Fang and Yuan Yuan came to their senses, Li Chengzhi gave several more orders.
The two of them were in a daze and only heard a general outline. It seemed that Li Chengzhi ordered the artillerymen to bombard the brick shed behind the city.
When they first arrived at the city, several people had noticed that there were many brick houses built within a few miles of the fake city, but strangely, only four walls were built, but no roofs were built.
Just because the three of them were obsessed with artillery, their doubts only passed away for a moment and they didn't pay much attention to it. At this time, it seemed that it was a target for artillery practice.
But having seen the power of artillery in just a moment is enough to shock people, so how else can they see it?
Is it possible that there is something more powerful?
Yang Shumeng squinted his eyes and looked downstairs. He saw that the artilleryman seemed to have changed different iron bullets, and he washed and cleaned the cannon chamber again and again, for fear of leaving iron thorns, sparks, etc. in it. He continued to refill the gunpowder.
His movements were much slower, not as cautious as usual.
He became even more interested and asked excitedly: "Is there anything different about this bomb?"
Aren't you pretty good at guessing? Why don't you guess?
Li Chengzhi chuckled and replied with a smile: "It's useless to talk more, just watch!"
Is this little thief still angry?
See, I just said that he is not a generous person...
Cursing in his heart, Yang Shu saw Li Zhang filling in the leads with his own hands. Yang Shu knew that the cannon was about to be fired, so he simply raised his telescope and looked behind the fake city.
Then a burst of cannon fire was heard, and several black dots flashed from the mirror and fell behind the city.
Compared with before, the accuracy was a little worse, only about half of them hit the brick house. The power was even more compromised, only one or two smashed through the brick wall and fell into the house. The rest were bounced to the ground.
That's it?
Just as a similar thought occurred in my mind, several fireballs suddenly exploded in the mirror. I saw one after another, and within three breaths, all ten iron bullets exploded.
The brick building was still standing, and was only slightly shaken by the explosion. Compared with the destruction of half of the city just now, it was nothing to mention.
But both Yang Shu and Yuan Yuan were still shocked, with chills running down their backs.
Fortunately, the brick wall actually caught fire?
It would be fine if it was just a brick wall. What is even more shocking is that there is clearly sand under the wall, and there is not even a stick of firewood or anything else, but it still keeps burning?
Taking a closer look, something like water was sprinkled on the ground, and it ignited when it caught fire. Several people suddenly remembered the legendary "fire oil" that was said to be both divine and evil.
It is said that this thing cannot be extinguished when water is poured on it, and it cannot be destroyed when soil is thrown on it. Everything in the world will burn if touched, just like maggots attached to bones, which will never stop dying.
However, after Li Chengzhi defeated Nanliang in Chencang, this poison disappeared. The imperial court thought that because of the loss of oil-producing places like Jinming, Li Chengzhi had no oil to recover, and this poisonous substance appeared like a flash in the pan.
Later, the oil lake in Jinming County was emptied by Gao Zhao, and even the rockets could no longer be used. The imperial court thought that this oil had disappeared from the world and was no longer a concern.
But never thought that we would see the light of day again today?
But that's all. What frightens a few people is that in the past, Li Chengzhi only attached this object to an arrow and shot it, or kept it in a porcelain jar and threw it. Whether it was a bow or a stone cannon, at most it could only be thrown to
A hundred steps away, the strength is extremely limited.
If you take precautions in advance, just like when Yuan Ji was guarding the clear water, he put a thick shield on the city and prepared many things to extinguish the fire, so that he would not be able to defend himself before it happened.
But now it's better, Li Chengzhi actually shoots with artillery?
We had just boarded the fake city a moment ago, so everyone knew that the city wall was at least two miles away. And looking at the place where the fire was burning, it was almost a mile away from the city wall. If the two were superimposed, wouldn't it be enough to combine them?
The kerosene shot three miles away?
What's more, the oil tank was no longer smashed, but exploded. The brick wall was shaken by the explosion, and it was like a goddess scattering flowers, flying everywhere. No matter how thick the wooden shield was, how could it prevent it?
Unless you hide in the house...right?
An idea just came up, but it was rejected flatly by Yang Shu.
This thing is inherently flammable, even sand, soil, and stone bricks can be ignited, not to mention a house with wood as beams and grass as a roof?
The house is even more likely to burn if touched. If you hide in it, you may die faster.
The purpose of this little thief is to show me, Yang Yanrong: Even if you are hiding behind the city or hiding in the urn city, I, Li Chengzhi, can force you out...
But even Jin Ming had no oil to recover, so where did Li Chengzhi find the kerosene?
Yang Shu's heart moved: "Did you also find an oil lake in Hexi?"
There is no shortage of oil in Hexi. The famous Yumen Oilfield in later generations is only four hundred miles away. It is so close, how could Li Chengzhi not be concerned?
But I just gave it a try and then gave it a try.
Just because the oil in Yumen is buried too deep, even with the power of the West Sea, there is no way to dig out any oil residue.
Of course, he would definitely not tell the truth at this time, but just replied vaguely: "Goodbye, Lord Tingrong!"
I'm just a bird feather. If I were really wise, how could such a treasure be given to you, a little thief?
With firearms in hand, Xihai is already invincible. With such a vicious thing in hand, wouldn't it be even more powerful?
Yang Shu could already imagine how, given time, the Western Sea Army would sweep across the country and march into Luoyang...
He was convinced in his heart, but Yang Shu was still unforgiving. He gritted his teeth and sneered: "Is this all you can do? If you still have some means, just use them to make me give up completely?"
Isn’t this enough for you to give up?
Looking at Liu Fang and Yuan Yuan's faces, they looked as if they were powdered, so white that no trace of blood could be seen.
At a glance, it was obvious that Yang Shu was a tough talker. When he saw his eyes rolling around, Li Chengzhi thought: Is this old thief a drunkard and not interested in drinking?
As the saying goes, being exploited by the imperial court for a long time, Guanzhong has long been miserable. If it were not for the imperial court now using Longshan as its boundary, and having heavy troops in Gaoping Town in the east of Longxi, Guanzhong would have been at war long ago.
Furthermore, the sinicization of the Yuan and Wei Dynasties had only been a few decades, and they still valued Hu and despised Han at heart. Moreover, Li Chengzhi was originally from a clan in Guanzhong, so compared with the imperial court, the clans in Guanzhong had a natural sense of closeness and identification with Li.
Thinking about it this way, the purpose of Yang Shu's trip to the West Sea is worth pondering. There is no lack of intention in this trip to use the sword of the West Sea to kill the power of the imperial court.
It is also more likely that if you want to explore the reality of the Western Sea, you can also make early plans for the Guanzhong gentry...
Forget it, let you see it again!
Li Chengzhi changed his mind and shouted to Li Zhang: "Change to the bombs!"
Li Zhang couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that he was no longer playing with the phosphorus bomb, and quickly asked his soldiers to move the bomb box far away.
No wonder he was afraid, it was just because more than one or two artillerymen were burned to death and crippled by this thing. And it was too vicious and harmful to Tianhe.
Therefore, although there are tens of thousands of them in the arsenal, Li Chengzhi has never used them in war...