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On the same day, Yanjing City.

The royal city, which was originally Yacheng in Youzhou City, has now become the royal city of Yanjing. It is equivalent to the imperial city of Chang'an. It contains various central departments of the Qin vassal state and guard troops stationed. In the Zhengshi Hall, a group of important officials have arrived, and many other provincial officials in Beijing attended the meeting.

Li Jing looked at the reply letter from Chengdezhen in his hand, and the words were fierce and he said to him directly. He smiled faintly, with a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his mouth, and said to everyone in the hall: "Everyone, Chengdezhen has officially responded to our ultimatum. They asked us to die and refuse to surrender."

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

"It turns out that I had a little expectation and thought Wang Rong would surrender." Wang Pu shook his head and smiled.

"Ministry of War, there is no need to say more nonsense. I will remember to send someone to my house if I lose one hundred gold coins that I lost to me." The speaker was Pei You, the new right governor of the Central Army of the Five Army Governors' Office. He and Wang Pu are old friends in Duli Town. Their daughters are both Li Jing's women, and their relationship is getting closer and closer. They are the leading figures of the Lanling King faction that are gradually taking shape. Although Pei You has two daughters married Li Jing, they rank low, and the sons they gave birth to are neither legitimate nor eldest. Therefore, Pei You and his daughter finally joined forces with the Wang father.

Nowadays, although there have been gradually a sect of eldest sons and legitimate sons in the Qin vassal, they are not very strict. They are just a rough alliance, and there is no close interest in each other. This is why Li Jing did not do anything even though he knew that they were starting to form factions. First, this is just a prototype of a faction, and Li Jing had no appropriate reason to take action. Secondly, factions are everywhere, as long as they can be controlled properly, sometimes factions are still a great tool for the superiors to balance and maintain their own interests.

At present, the two sects that began to be divided due to the birth of Li Deyu, the eldest son sect, are the original group of people in Duli Town, including Guo Cheng'an and other generals, and Li Dezhao's bachelor's teachers. Most of the bachelor's are standing here.

Although Li Deyu is only over half a year old, he has many supporters. First of all, there are four sisters of the Yu family in the palace, four brothers of the Yu family outside the palace, and three Jiedushi and one Minister of Personnel. In addition, Kang Chenghui, Xin Xi of Xuanwu Town, and a large number of former important officials from the court who joined the Qin vassal halfway, most of them supported Li Deyu.

Li Jing shook his head gently and put away the thoughts in his mind. He glanced at everyone and said, "Chengde will refuse to surrender. This is also expected. Now, three days have passed. Chengdezhen has also publicly refused. Next, it is our turn to continue. If no one has any objections to the original plan, then follow the plan."

Hejian City.

Located in the south of Yingzhou, between the Hutuo River, Zhangshui and the canal, Hejian City has always been an important military fortress for the Qin army in central Hebei after the Qin vassal entered Hebei. Before the Qin army captured Lu Long and Yanjing, it captured Yingzhou and then made every effort to build Hejian City. In the central part of Hebei, it established a powerful fortress under the eyes of the Three Feudals of Hebei. For a long time, Li Jing once stationed 80,000 heavy troops in the three passes of Hejian and Mozhou to prevent and curb the Three Feudals of Hebei.

In the subsequent battles of the Qin army through Cangjing, fighting with the vassals of Hebei, and finally seizing Lulong and Yiwu Town, the existence of the Hejian Fortress firmly restrained the large number of troops of Chengde and Wei Bo for the Qin army. In the early days, although Hejian was in the junction of Hebei, there was the Beigong Capital, the south of Qingji, the water and land junction, and the way to pass through. Since ancient times, Youyan had something to do, but there was no one who did not visit Hejian first. He could not get Hejian in the north, Qing, Ji disaster was not strong, Hejian in the south, and Youping was not deeply troubled, but Hejian in the late Youping was not big at that time. However, after the Qin army captured Hejian, it began to use this as a hub for the entire Hebei region to expand on the basis of the original Hejian City. After years of continuous reinforcement and expansion, Hejian City has now become the real fortress city of the first city in the south of Beijing.

Today's Hejian City is actually composed of four cities. On both sides of the Hutuo River, four cities are built together with rivers. The original city was the south city. Later, the east city on the east bank of the river, the north city on the west bank and the west city. The four cities are not far apart, and each is connected by a city wall in the middle. The four cities form a larger Hejian fortress, and the Weituo River is also included in the city. Water gates are established on both the north and south sections of the rivers.

The four cities were built with bricks and stones, which were extremely strong. The city was six meters high, far exceeding most cities in Hebei. At that time, the construction was made of extremely advanced mausoleum-shaped city walls, as well as inclined walls and city surfaces. The four cities were made of earth walls, three meters high earth walls and rammed earth walls. There was also a 20-meter-wide moat outside the Hejian long wall, connecting the Hutuo water, making the entire Hejian fortress even more a huge island.

This fortress is not only an extremely strong military fortress, but even in peacetime, due to the benefits of the Hutuo River and the Canal, this extremely safe fortress has even become a place where business travelers gather far and near, and a commercial transit center in central Hebei. It is extremely prosperous and prosperous.

Qin Fan built hundreds of warehouses here. Many of the taxes and tributes paid by Hebei and many prefectures and counties south of the Yellow River were traveling north along the canal, first passing through Hejian, and then transported to Yanjing. Especially during the freezing period in winter, the sea transportation was blocked, and Hejian became the most important city on the way south and north. Especially when Chengde and Wei Bo had not been captured, transit here was safe and convenient.

Hejian City has always been regarded as an important logistics transfer station by the Qin army. At one time, countless grains and weapons were sent to Hejian from the south.

In the view of Qin Fan, Hejian City is high and strong. It is of great significance to defend Hejian, so it is not allowed to be lost.

As a military fortress, the four cities of Hejian City were connected and surrounded by a large piece of fertile land in the city. No matter how they were besieged by the enemy, they could not only rely on various commercial goods they usually store, but also plant food in the city. They insisted on long-term combat.

However, since the Qin army occupied Yanjing and successively captured Lulong and Yiwu Towns, the situation of the Qin army in Hebei immediately changed drastically, from its original defense to a situation where it was to press the south from north to south. Hejian's status has declined slightly, but it is still very important.

The Hebei vassal states also wanted to break through Hejian several times and control the first town in the east of central Hebei. However, they returned in vain after several attacks. This time, Chengde Town refused to surrender, and a general suggested to Wang Jingyin that it would be better to lead the people and send troops to attack Hejian. If Hejian could be broken, then the situation in Chengde Town would be much safer.

However, Wang Jingyin refused this proposal without hesitation. Hejian City is not a city that can be easily broken by force. In his opinion, a city like Hejian is not only siege or by breaking from the inside, but also by breaking from the outside, but it is difficult to break from the outside.

Wang Jingyin has been staring at Hejian City. 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 food, grass and equipment for the Qin army to go south will only be issued from here.

There was no response in Hejian City, and they did not have any soldiers to move.

But the troops sent by Wang Jingyin to Raoyang, which was not far away, arrived soon. Wang Jingyin wanted to teach these traitors a lesson. Even though he had already decided in his plan to give up Raoyang and other small towns, if he gave up, he would be unforgivable to surrender to the enemy.

The former county magistrate and the delegation envoy in Raoyang City originally thought that Chengdezhen refused to surrender this time was a foolish decision. In order to avoid sinking the ship with them, they decided to surrender to the Qin army. While sending people to surrender to Hejian City, they hurriedly raised the Qin army's flag. Who knew that the Qin army in Hejian had not arrived yet, but the Chengde army had arrived.

I originally thought they could change to a big ship without any mistakes. Who knew that in the blink of an eye, they had already missed the air and fell into the storm of the sea.

In the view of Wang Shiyuan, who was commanding the siege outside the city, it was only a matter of time before the breaking of Raoyang City.

He heard the sound of twenty neatly arranged "Divine Power and Brave Strike of the City Invincible General's Cannon" on the distant position, and large stone bullets flew to the top of the Raoyang City and smashed on the battlements of the enemy tower. Wang Shiyuan, wearing bright silver armor, couldn't help but sneer.

Although Raoyang is a small city, he must use all his strength to win the lion and rabbit. He is Wang Jingyin's eldest son. This time he led his troops to him, and his father gave him only one order. He beat him hard, and conquer Raoyang City in the most violent and fastest way, and then use the most cruel means to directly slaughter the entire city.

This is to kill the chicken to warn the monkey, and to show the Qin army their strength and determination, and at the same time to restore the decline in military morale caused by the enemy who surrendered to Raoyang.

"Raise the Dragon and Tiger Booming the Sky Thunder General's cannons and shoot it once!" Wang Shizhen sneered.

A lieutenant whispered: "Yanei, we brought one hundred generals of the Thunder Dragon and Wind Tiger Ben. One shot is twenty kilograms of gunpowder, and a scattered shot is two thousand kilograms. We only have five thousand kilograms of gunpowder in total. Is it enough to have ten cannons to fire scattered shots?"

After the Qin army used firearms on the battlefield and the effect was good, the various vassal states began to study the gunpowder. They sent spies to steal, sent people to buy them, developed them themselves, and worked on various methods. All towns basically had gunpowder formulas. In fact, gunpowder formulas could not be made. Before the Qin army had officially used gunpowder, Duli Town had already obtained a gunpowder formula from several Taoists, and was the first to devote themselves to the war with Qingni Town, defeating Qingni Town Army in one fell swoop and knocking down Li Lingfu. Although the gunpowder formulas that the Qin army later took out were stronger than those in Duli Town, they were not much stronger.

Last year, the Qin army in Daibei used thousands of artillery soldiers and used more than 1,000 flying thunder cannons to directly defeat the charge of 30,000 Hu cavalry, which caused great shock to the towns. The research on gunpowder weapons became even more popular. After countless money and manpower were invested, the vassal states, which can now be said to be slightly stronger, have their own firearms. Although there are a variety of firearms in the towns, there are Qin troops using artillery on a large scale, and there are not many obstacles to the development of artillery.

For example, Chengdezhen has developed a kind of divine power that is similar to the Dragon Martial Pili General's cannon, which is as powerful as the Invincible General's Cannon, and is also a large counterweight slaughter.

Moreover, they also imitated a similar projectile cannon based on the Flying Thunder Cannon. Its name is the Dragon-Crown Tiger-Ben Thunder General Cannon. Its name is more powerful than that of the Qin army, but its type is similar. The same twenty-pound gunpowder pack is only a range and accurate head, and the power of the explosion is far worse.

"Can you call a volley of ten cannons? If you ask you to pull out all 100 cannons, you should just pull it out obediently, don't sting your scatter. You're not using your gunpowder to fire a volley of one hundred. Well, there are five thousand kilograms of gunpowder, just shoot it all. Do you plan to take it back?" Wang Shiyuan, as the military envoy of the Chengde Army's yamen, is very clear about this mission. This time he came not really to take back Raoyang City. They came just to show their strength, kill the chicken to warn the monkey, save the morale of the Chengde Army, and show their determination.

He worked hard to bring in a hundred thunders, but it wasn't just for showing off at this time. Damn, he was so busy that he pulled these iron guys over here and did what he did.

Iron cannons. The Qin army's iron cannon firearms have indeed become very powerful in recent years. But can the Qin army not? After all, these weapons are just a test of the craftsmen in a vassal state. When Li Jing first started his home in Liaodong, he could make firearms and cannons from the Fanzi barbarians. Could it be that they could not make a few firearms in a century-old town like the Sanfan tribe in Hebei? If something spreads the fastest, it is undoubtedly weapons. As long as he is willing to invest manpower and financial resources, no matter how powerful the equipment is, it can be copied quickly.

In fact, trenchers have always been called cannons, and have always been powerful weapons in siege. However, this kind of thing was usually made by military craftsmen when siegeing the city. No one, like Li Jing, even set up a special academy to teach how to make these equipment and how to improve the power of these equipment. In the end, standard accessories were even produced, splitting the giant trenchers into parts, and then transporting them to the battlefield to directly assemble them in batches.

Even those artillery are not very great, not much different from a stone caster. They are a little smaller and have not many power improvements. They have advantages, but they also have many disadvantages. They are severely restricted by weather. At the same time, their gunpowder production is troublesome and consumes a lot. They are not as good as stone bombs of stone casters. They can be taken on the spot and cannot be taken out.

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

It’s like super cavalry like armored cavalry, although extremely powerful, it eventually withdraws from the battlefield due to its extremely high price. Only Li Jing, who is always unique, will form a heavy cavalry, and even build more and more.

Li Jing is such a freak. Others don’t need to re-equip the cavalry, but he uses it. Others only use the simplest spear and spear as weapons, but he insists on using a sword and a rifle to equip the army with a rifle. Most of the infantry in other families no longer ride horses, or even donkeys, but the infantry of the Qin army not only ride horses, but also often match double cavalry.

Other vassal troops pay attention to winning by quantity, with simple equipment, not much training, and less food and salary. Anyway, manpower is the cheapest, and you will be recruited after death. However, the Qin army is going to be a professional soldier. Is it worth it to start training since childhood? Before going to the battlefield, I have been trained for several years or even more than ten years, spending countless money, grain and equipment, and finally going to the battlefield, you may die in the first battle. That would be a loss!

But Wang Shiyuan sometimes has to admire Li Jing. Although he is always so unique, he is very different and has a good effect. Li Jing's heavy cavalry shows his might and defeats his opponents again and again. Li Jing's elite troops and horses are very strong, and he can often defeat more with less.

Even the firearms that cost him at a high price, before the Battle of Baishuilu, would have thought that when the huge artillery was concentrated, they would have such great power?

In October, the army of Chengde's army once again delivered 300 newly cast artillery to the army, including twenty god-powered and brave generals who had just started fighting, and one hundred dragon-shing tiger-beating generals who were in the sky and thunder.

In more than a year, Chengdezhen also began to build firearms, mine and refine medicine, and steel to make artillery. Since the Qin army had artillery, they had to have it. Since his father Wang Jingyin took over Chengdezhen, his attitude towards the Qin army was no longer simply hostile, but was hostile, while learning from the Qin army seriously. For example, from the large army with a large number of but lack of combat effectiveness, he selected elite troops and equipped with the best armor and weapons, and trained in the most stringent 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. Now the Chengdezhen army has secretly formed several engineering battalions and artillery battalions.

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

Although Chengde Town has been in a bad situation in recent years and is far less than that of the Qin army, if it really makes up its mind to build hundreds or thousands of cannons, such a thing that seems to be a bit horrible to many generals, is fully capable of Wang Shiyuan's view.

Other towns were still hesitating whether they needed to make such artillery that consumed too much and costly, but Wang Jingyin had already conducted a lot of intelligence collection and research on the use of artillery. He was not afraid of artillery consumption, but he felt that there were too few craftsmen and that it took too long to train gunners. Facing the powerful neighbors in the north, Wang Jingyin always felt that there were many crises. If there were a large number of artillery, they were placed on the city to defend the city and deal with the Qin army that attacked the city, it would be the best. In the battle of Yunzhou, did the Qin army rely on those firearms to fight against the 100,000 Hu people and finally defend Yunzhou?

Wang Jingyin thought that they could not tell the Qin people that the scorched earth tactics of the solid walls and cleared the fields, and the artillery of gathering troops to retreat to important cities and using artillery to deal with the Qin people. Under the scorched earth tactics, the Qin army needed to transport a large amount of food and grass to support the battle in the south. According to the situation he controlled, the biggest weakness of the Qin army now was the shortage of food and grass. As long as the Qin army could not seize food and grass in Chengde Town, the soldiers who went south might need to transport seven stones of food and grass in the rear. Most of the food and grass would be eaten by the grain transporters on the road, and there would be a lot of consumption, losses, losses, etc. As long as the war could enter the stalemate stage, Li Jing, who was still stuck in the battlefield outside the pass, would be difficult to defeat them.
Chapter completed!