Chapter 229 What kind of bicycle do you want?
When the envoys sent by Li Qiande were chopped into pieces and fed to dogs, Li Changjie was borrowing gold and silver in Shenglong City
Now, you have all seen how ruthless the young emperor of the Song Dynasty is. He really killed people and massacred cities. From Qiyuan City to Fuliangjiangbei, there is no one left alive. These are not arranged by me to deceive you, right?
I also know that there must be some of you who want to be used as dogs to lead the way for the little emperor of Song Dynasty, but look at it, why does the little emperor of Song Dynasty need you to be dogs? Being dog meat is almost enough!
Don't think my words are unpleasant. Anyway, the facts are right in front of you, and you can't help but not believe them.
Now our Majesty has sent envoys to negotiate a peace. If the peace negotiation is successful, will we have to offer gold, silver and jewels to make the young emperor of Song Dynasty withdraw his troops?
But after these few battles with the Song Dynasty, the national treasury is really empty and can run away from mice. Do you, the sages and gentry of the country, have to express your gratitude?
If, what I am talking about is if, if this peace negotiation fails, based on the murderous nature of the little emperor, does our Thang Long City have to rely on our Dai Viet soldiers to defend the city?
But as the old saying goes, the emperor still needs hungry soldiers!
Therefore, all the noble gentry in Thang Long City, since you want to be protected by the Dai Viet soldiers, you have to spend gold, gold and silver. At least you can't let the soldiers go hungry to fight, right?
Of course, if you rural sages and gentry can persuade the people in your area to actively donate, then this matter is not without discussion. For example, the people's money will be accepted by the court, but as for your money, it can be Nine points are divided into accounts. If the court takes nine points, it will give you one point.
Anyway, that’s what it means, and that’s what the situation is, either choose life or money, there is no other option.
Then Li Changjie borrowed a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry from Thang Long City.
However, when Li Changjie hurried back to report to Li Qiande, Li Qiande showed no excitement at all, and even his face looked as ugly as if he had eaten a lot of fresh dog feces.
After being silent for a long time, Li Qiande finally said: "The envoy has not returned yet, and the young emperor of Song Dynasty is still bombarding the south bank of the Furiang River with that new weapon. The defenders can no longer hold on. If this continues, the Furiang River will Sooner or later it will be lost, and then Thang Long City will have no danger to fall back on."
"Bombard the south bank of the Furian River?"
Li Changjie doubted: "That shouldn't be the case. Whether it was under Yongzhou City or outside Qiyuan City before, or even last night, although the new weapons of the Song Army were powerful, their range was only average, barely better than that of bows and arrows. Stronger.
The Furiang River is about 40 feet wide and the terrain on the south bank is higher. It would be possible for the Song army to use eight oxen crossbows or divine arm bows to shoot at the south bank, but what kind of new weapons?"
Li Qiande said: "Forty feet? What about forty feet? According to the reports from the soldiers on the front line of Furiang River, the new weapons of the Song Army have a range of more than 100 feet, and the Fuliang River cannot stop them at all."
"More than a hundred feet?"
Li Changjie asked in disbelief. After receiving Li Qiande's affirmative answer, he stood stunned on the spot as if he had been struck by lightning.
The power of that new weapon is already extremely terrifying. If you add the range of more than a hundred feet, doesn't it mean that the Song Army can easily suppress the defenders on the south bank?
Once the defenders are suppressed, it means that even if the Song army has no boats, they can send people to swim to the south bank. If the south bank is completely lost...
There are also some warships on the south bank that are intended to be used in water battles with the Song army!
The south bank is completely lost. If the Song army gets enough warships, they can transport their new weapons to the south bank. Then the undefendable Thang Long City will fall under the siege of the Song army.
If the Song army used that new weapon to bombard the walls of Thang Long City again...
Thinking of this, Li Changjie couldn't stop the cold sweat on his forehead.
"Wei Chen will order people to destroy the warship now!"
After coming back to his senses, Li Changjie immediately bowed to Li Qiande and said: "No matter what, those warships on the south bank cannot fall into the hands of the Song army!"
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After all, they had little experience. Even though they had been bombarded by artillery outside Yongzhou City and Qiyuan City before, the monkeys still underestimated the power of artillery.
According to the news reported to Li Qiande by the defenders on the south bank of the Fuliang River, the range of the Song Army's artillery was probably about a hundred feet.
However, in fact, the range of the red cannon that Zhao Huan created is more than 300 feet. If the shooting accuracy is not considered and only the range coverage is pursued, the range is even more than 500 feet!
This is like the flower growers of later generations who always want to hide something good. When all kinds of gossip are flying around, they will show off the slightly better things until they can no longer hide them. Use the good stuff to show off your muscles.
Zhao Huan inevitably inherited this fine inheritance and spread this tradition to the entire Song Dynasty military.
After all, the ancestors have said that soldiers are also deceitful. The red cannon with a range of 500 feet is first disguised as having a range of only more than 100 feet. When necessary, it can accurately strike within the range of 300 feet. When necessary, When you are desperate, you can also perform a covering strike at a range of 500 feet.
So the monkeys on the south bank of the Furian River were in bad luck.
First, the artillery that suddenly increased its range was blown to pieces, and then the Forbidden Army came over on the boat that was originally the monkey envoy.
As soon as these killers approached the monkey warships on the south bank, they frantically shot the monkeys with crossbows. When they were too busy, they even threw palm mines wildly, so that the monkey navy on the south bank of the Furiang River did not respond at all. He came here and died.
"Isn't there a boat here?"
Having been run against by Yang Zaixing and the cultivators before, Zhao Huan, who had already been holding back his anger, suddenly became arrogant again.
"It doesn't matter if we don't have a boat. Aren't there monkeys who can build it for us?"
Looking at the hundreds of warships brought back from the south bank of the Furiang River, Zhao Huan immediately said with a smile: "In my opinion, I am afraid that before noon, all the hundreds of warships from Monkey should be owned by the Song Dynasty. .”
"It would be good if we can get at most two hundred ships."
Chashou, the old master among the seed masters, said: "Wei Chen has seen it, and there are probably more than four hundred monkey warships.
In addition to the ones that were destroyed last night, there are about three hundred and fifty ships. Now our army's artillery is firing, and those killers have thrown many palm mines. Weichen estimates that we will have to destroy another hundred and fifty ships no matter what. ship.
In addition, the monkeys will definitely not be willing to have their warships taken away, and will sink some more when the time comes, so Wei Chen thinks it would be good to get back two hundred ships."
Chapter completed!