In March of the second year of the Great Wu Xingtong, Song Zhi, the general of Wu Jun Zhennan, led troops to Pingwu County and attacked Jiameng Pass. The www.biquge.info Jiameng guard Xie Shou received Xie Hui's request, and led 20,000 Tang soldiers to the south, defending the city, trying to deal with Song Zhi's attack with a bed crossbow. But he didn't want Song Zhi to move forward in a straight line with an iron plate vertical car wrapped in steel skin, and use musketeers instead of archers to protect the two wings of the queue.

At that time, the sky was slightly bright, the sun was rising in the east, Jia Mengguan was waiting in the northeast, and Song Zhi was preparing in the southwest. He ordered someone to calculate the angle of sunlight projection, and used the power of the reflection of the sunlight by the iron shield car wrapped in steel armor to reflect a dazzling piece of sunlight to the head of Jiameng Pass.

The defenders of Jiameng Pass suddenly turned white in front of them, and they couldn't see the situation under the city at all. Song Zhi took the opportunity to move forward, and under the cover of the musketeers, set up an artillery bombardment position a hundred paces in front of the pass, and bombarded the Jiameng Pass with flying thunder cannons.

For a while, the thunder roared when Jia Meng closed, the smoke was billowing out, and the brick walls made of blue bricks wrapped in loess were blown down one by one. I only knew that I was arming at the head of the city, thinking that I could use the bed crossbow to fight the Wu army's Xie Shou Department from a distance, and suffered heavy losses.

But Xie Shou is still a person with some ability after all, although he suffered this blow to the head and his head was a little dizzy, but he still tried his best to gather the remaining troops, withdrew them behind the wall, and retained the most basic structure of the troops. This is quite rare, if it is an ordinary person, even those generals in Li Qin's army who have been trained by Li Qin, I am afraid that it will be difficult to do this.

However, under Song Zhi's indiscriminate bombardment, it was difficult for him to understand this.

The shelling lasted two hours. In this kind of apocalyptic shelling, the soldiers on the Jiameng Pass are simply living like years. If it weren't for the effective organization of Xie Shou, I was afraid that the defenders of Jiameng Pass would have to switch and surrender and dedicate the checkpoint to the Wu army. Now, although they haven't made it, the morale is really not much better.

Xie Shou himself doubted how long he could hold out in such a shelling.

"Maybe I won't be able to take it after a while." Xie Shou said to himself, he was also sad and about to go crazy.

However, there is finally an end to the shelling. With a sharp whistle sounding, the shelling on Song Zhi's side finally stopped. Xie Shou, who had been subjected to a round, reacted instinctively: "Go to the city wall and block the attack of the Wu army!" ”

The soldiers went up in twos and threes, and under the shouts of their respective commanders, they reactivated the equipment in the warehouse, and set up defenses on the already ruined city, waiting for Song Zhi's attack. However, Song Zhi did not launch an attack on Jiameng Pass, but sent people to the pass to persuade him to surrender.

The people who persuaded him to surrender would fall to Chengdu, and Xie Hui fled north, and the ordinary soldiers who guarded the gate did not know that the news was publicized. He directly threatened the people in the city: "Surrender quickly!" After surrendering, you can return to Chengdu to reunite with your families. Xie Hui himself has escaped, do you still have to die for him? If you don't surrender, we will continue to bombard you with heavy artillery until the castle falls! ”

"What? Chengdu fell, Xie Hui fled? "The people who closed the door were shocked when they heard the news.

After thinking about all the rumors not long ago and the fact that the Tang army was moving south, they also believed a little. Now they're not going to do it. Originally, they defended here to defend Chengdu, but now that Chengdu has been conquered, what else are they defending. Li Qin is a bad guy who doesn't follow the rules - the people in Jia Mengguan are all Xie Hui's subordinates, and the propaganda they have been receiving has always been like this.

Because of this propaganda, they had hatred and horror towards Li Qin's troops in their hearts, but when things came to this point, it was panic that prevailed.

Xie Shou still wanted to hold on for a while, and he thought he could hold on, but his subordinates, those local soldiers whose families were in Bashu, were unwilling.

That night, Jia Mengguan launched a mutiny, and Xie Shou's nephew Xie Jun directly arrested Xie Shou, and together with Wan who went south to support, Tang Jun and Jia Mengguan were sent to Song Zhi. Song Zhijing settled in the general mansion of Jiamengguan Town, and sent someone to quickly inform Li Qin, who was still in Chengdu, of the news of the capture of Jiamengguan.

Li Qin was overjoyed. With the arrival of Jia Mengguan, Chengdu's four stoppers are generally stable. Although there is still Hanzhong to take, Li Qin confirmed that now is not the time.

He received news that Li Tang had appointed Li Xiaogong as the ambassador of Shannan Province to sit in Hanzhong and rebuild the defense line in the south of Li Tang. Lee Hyo-kung is a fierce man. In history, he made his fortune by comforting the ambassador of Shannan Province, took Bashu, and then used Bashu as the base to slightly Jingxiang, and made good contributions to Li Tang to pacify the southern heroes.

Li Qin's current general, Li Jing was a general under Li Xiaogong at that time, and he was appreciated by Li Xiaogong and made his fortune. Li Tang let Li Xiaogong be in Hanzhong, and naturally he also had a plan to take Hanzhong as the foundation and counterattack Bashu.

"It's a good idea, but since Bashu has fallen into my hands, how can I let it be taken by you?" Li Qin pondered.

For Bashu, his positioning is a rear supply base, rather than a front-line expedition base. Bashu is mountainous, the road is difficult to travel, and now Li Qin occupies the entire south, naturally not as hard as Zhuge Liang in the past, so he can only go north along the Bashu Ancient Road.

At that time, Li Qin transferred Chen Ling to Bashu, sat in Pingwu, built the defense line of Jiameng Pass, connected Jiameng Pass, Jianmen Pass, and Yinping into a system, and then dispatched Cen Wenwen to sit in Chengdu to carry out various construction and transportation.

First of all, it is to further rectify the roads in the Bashu area, and widen and strengthen them with the original official roads as the main vein, so as to connect all parts of Bashu. In this way, the initial formation of Jiangling, Yiling waterway, Yiling to Ba County land route, Ba County to Chengdu water and land parallel transportation system. In Li Qin's view, the road is like a human blood vessel meridian, the road is general, the circulation of materials is convenient, and all work can be carried out in an orderly manner.

After completing the construction of the road from east to west, Li Qin immediately planned the land of Bashu, and he dug salt wells in Ziyang County to boil refined salt;

In Chengdu, mulberry fields are planted, wasteland is reclaimed, fish ponds are dug and rice is planted, and on this basis, grain processing, Shu brocade fine weaving and other industries are developed;

In Luchuan, Li Qin ordered people to build a wine cellar workshop there to make fine wine.

Brewing wine with grain was a kind of extravagant and wasteful behavior at that time, but Li Qin couldn't manage a lot, and he was not short of food. There is a lot of food in his personal space;

These are all support and upgrading of the original industry, and Li Qin himself, after carrying out these plans, ordered people to escort the captured Tang soldiers to the south of Yuewang County, where a new steel plant was built - stationed in Huichuan County, a mixed Miaoyi area in the south of Yuewang County, and separated Yanyuan, Huichuan, Kequan County, Dingdi Town, as well as Yanbian, Miyi, Huidong and other places from Yuewang County, and set up a new Huatie County jurisdiction, Huatie County belonged to the Panzhihua area of later generations, and Li Qin wanted to establish a steel industry in the southwest here.

Panzhihua iron ore is a vanadium titanomagnetite that is relatively difficult to smelt. If it were according to the normal rules of technology tree climbing, Li Qin should not encounter such a problem at the moment. But this is just a general situation, with the support of relevant tools and technologies in personal space, Li Qin's development cannot be predicted by normal circumstances.

So, with the support of a large number of modern tools and techniques, Li Qin stayed in Huichuan for three months, where he dug up the first ore of Huatie and smelted a steel ingot belonging to Huatie.

Huatie's steel mill was built, although the output of this steel mill is very small, the annual output is only half of that of the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant, but it is the largest steel mill in the southwest after all.

The initial construction has been completed, and various workshops using steel production have been set up. Li Qin did not expect Huatie's steel mills to supply the outside world in a short time, and his order to Chen Laomou, who was in charge of Huatie, was to take root in the local area and expand production.

"Increase production capacity, build new steel furnaces, expand the scale of steel plants, and supply related plants. Your next task is to produce, expand, and reproduce. I give you four years, and I hope that after four years, you will be able to expand the scale of the steel mill to the level of 10 billion catties per year. Li Qin put forward his own demand goal.

"How? Can it be achieved? He asked them with a smile.

"I think there should be no problem." Chen Laomou thought for a moment and answered in the affirmative. Four years, which is already a long time for the development of "modern" industry.

After the completion of Huatie County's affairs, Li Qin returned to Chengdu, and returned to Jiangning from Chengdu to the east.

This is already August of the second year of the Great Wu Xingtong, and half of the years have passed, and the situation in the world has undergone great changes.

The Wagang Army, which was originally considered to be the overlord of the Central Plains, completely disappeared. Li Mi himself brought a few cronies into Guanzhong to join Li Tang, and the generals under his command surrendered one by one under Wang Shichong's wooing.

For a time, Wang Shichong's prestige was greatly enhanced, and he successively obtained a large number of counties south of the Yellow River and east of Luoyang;

And just as he drew his sword and looked around, his original ally Li Tang stabbed him hard in the back: Li Tang launched a surprise attack on him, with Li Shimin as the commander and marched east to Luoyang. In this battle, Li Tang used his newly formed firearms unit.

In fact, in April of the second year of the reign of Great Wu, Li Shimin returned to Chang'an from Bashu and proposed to Tang Emperor Li Yuan to form a new firearms army.

Li Yuan agreed. At that moment, Li Tang entangled all his forces, looted the skilled craftsmen in his territory, and created 2,000 muskets and 50 artillery pieces in just three months.

Although Li Tang's muskets and cannons were a little cumbersome because of the poor craftsmanship, these bulky muskets and cannons brought painful memories to Wang Shichong on the battlefield under the control of soldiers composed of martial arts practitioners.

Under the planning of Li Shimin and the generals of Tiance Mansion, Wang Shichong was defeated again and again, and the originally expanded forces were beaten back to their original form. By the time Li Qin returned to Jiangning, Li Shimin was preparing to attack Luoyang in one go.

"Luoyang is not easy to fight!" When Li Qin heard such news, he muttered in a low voice.

This is the case in Henan in the Central Plains.

Hebei is still the place where Dou Jiande, Luo Yi, Liu Zhouwu, and Liang Dushi fought in all directions;

In addition, the eastern part of the Central Plains, the Xuzhou line in the East China Sea, and even most of Qingxu fell into the hands of Li Qin with the plans of Kou Zhong, Shen Luoyan and others.

At this point, Li Qin's forces went up the coast, basically owning most of the territory around the canal south of the Yellow River. Not to mention two-thirds of the world, at least one-half of it has already belonged to Dawu.

"Half of the world belongs to Wu, and I can be regarded as mastering the general trend of the world." In the small palace in Jiangning, Li Qin laughed hesitantly.