In front of Li Jiajun's formation, more than ten 12-pounder guns, pushed by the officers and men of the artillery battalion, slowly approached the trench in front of the wall of the Daimyo's Mansion, and stopped at a distance of three miles.

In the Daimyo's Mansion, there are bull crossbows with a range of up to two miles, the so-called one inch long and one inch strong, Li Zhongyi did not dare to take it lightly.

In the unlikely event that the bullbow was fired into the dense infantry formation, even if the losses were not large, it would have a great impact on morale.

I think that at the beginning, before the alliance of the Yuanyuan, Xiao Darin, the commander of the Khitan army, was inadvertently shot to death by the crossbow of the Song army.

Unlike the 6-pounder gun, the 12-pounder gun had a maximum range of five miles at an elevation angle, and an effective range of about three miles, which was just outside the threat of the bullbow.

Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei at the head of the city, raised his voice and said loudly: "Why did you offend my Daimyo Mansion for no reason?" ”

This is a scene, and Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, knows that there is no meaning, but he still has to salute first and then soldier.

Surrender? Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, had never thought about this, he had been fighting all his life, although he was a little worried, but he was still sure that if Li Zhongyi wanted to win the Daimyo's Mansion, he had to fill it with the lives of countless soldiers.

In this era, even if he is a famous general, he must have a headache for siege warfare, Li Zhongyi is not an immortal, why is Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, afraid?

Besides, there are tens of thousands of elite Fu family troops in the Daimyo's mansion, 10,000 divine arm crossbows, and dozens of bull crossbows, which can be said to be abundant in weapons and food.

Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, knew in his heart that if it was a field battle, he would probably not be as good as Ma Duo's Li Jiajun, but it should be more than enough to defend the city.

In the opinion of Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, Li Zhongyi really took the situation too big, and only brought tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to attack the Daimyo's mansion, isn't this looking down on people?

Li Zhongyi didn't have as much thought as Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, he knew very well in his heart, as long as the 12-pounder cannon was placed in the established position, it would only be a matter of time before the wall of the Daimyo's Mansion was blasted open.

Unlike Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, Li Zhongyi was worried that in the chaotic army after the city was broken, if Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, made a mistake, some troubles would follow.

Therefore, before the battle, Li Zhongyi issued a strict order to capture Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, and the first merit of the first to ascend alive, both of which are the first merits!

In this era, those who are the first to ascend the city have always been the first to take credit. Li Zhongyi's merit of capturing Fu Yanqing alive is alongside the merit of his first ascension, obviously attaching great importance to the huge political connotation.

Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, is the biological father of the current empress dowager, the grandfather of the little emperor, and the largest warlord of the feudal town in the north.

Based on this, as long as the foundation of the Fu family is seized and Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, is captured, no matter how tough the Empress Dowager Fu is, she has to bow her head.

To put it bluntly, the existence of the Fu family army was actually the last straw for the restoration of the Empress Dowager Fu and the little emperor.

Now, Li Zhongyi has adopted a powerful method of killing three birds with one stone, which not only helped Xi Wang Lao Guning temporarily reduce the military pressure, but also mobilized Yelu Huge's soldiers and horses to concentrate in Youzhou, and also picked up grass to beat rabbits, and the soldiers came to the city of the Daimyo's mansion.

Fu Yanqing looked at the 12-pounder bronze cannon that was approaching the trench step by step, his mood was particularly complicated, in all of Fu Zhaoxin's previous letters, the 12-pounder cannon and the 6-pounder cannon were mentioned as big killers on paper.

Objectively speaking, Fu Yanqing has never seen the power of bronze artillery, but the huge power of the Divine Arm Crossbow is simply outrageous!

It can be seen from this that the legendary 12-pounder bronze cannon, which has a longer range and is ten times more powerful than the Divine Arm Crossbow, is what kind of existence?

In the center of the Li family's military array, Li Zhongyi stood on the command vehicle as always, and in the monoculars, the white beard under the chin of Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, could be described as delicate.

Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, looked much older than when he entered Beijing last time, and he was already a drooping old man with white hair.

It's no wonder that Fu Yanqing is preoccupied, the world is easy to win by Li Zhongyi, the fate of the Empress Dowager Fu, the little emperor and the Fu family is unknown, how can he not be anxious?

Seeing the hoarse shouting of Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, Li Zhongyi pursed his lips, all the soldiers are coming to the city, then let's do it with real swords and guns, and it is useless to continue to fight with mouth cannons.

The commander of the artillery battalion, Li Yongtang, arranged the firing position of the 12-pounder gun in full swing, and after correcting the firing angle, he turned around, raised the small red flag in his hand, and signaled to the direction of the Chinese army: Ready, you can launch anytime and anywhere!

Today's Li Jiajun, since he won Kaifeng City, the configuration level of the monocular has been the lowest deputy commander level, and it has been reduced to an officer at the head level of the capital, and each person has a monocular.

How to say it, Kaifeng City, which is extremely rich in materials and manpower, has provided abundant armament conditions for the Li army, and in layman's terms, the shotgun has been replaced.

In particular, the copper materials used to cast money in Kaifeng City are simply piled up, and Li Zhongyi, who likes to make cannons, is cheap.

In this era, because the country was still in a period of division, whether it was the Northern Han, Khitan, Southern Tang or Western Shu, each country had coins that were manufactured.

The unequal value of the currency has brought a lot of trouble to the trading activities of merchants from various countries.

For example, the common coin of the Great Zhou Dynasty was a small coin of five baht, and the popular coin in the Northern Han Dynasty was a knife coin. What's even more strange is that in the Western Shu Kingdom, what is widely issued is not copper coins, but extremely heavy iron coins with very low currency value.

After Li Zhongyi came to power, he used advanced printing technology to vigorously promote paper money, and minimized the intensity of minting copper coins.

In the history of the Great Celestial Empire, the disadvantages of the money law have always been accompanied by the change of dynasties, the core of which is that the Celestial Empire is not the main production area of copper or silver.

The shortage of raw materials brought about the evil consequences of the money law is: the copper coins issued by the imperial court are often melted down by unscrupulous profiteers and transformed into bronze utensils.

To put it bluntly, the more money the court minted, the worse it lost, and so on, the money law finally broke down.

Once the money law collapses, the hard currency in the hands of the common people, such as grain, silk and other things, will also depreciate.

After a long time, the fart people can't survive anymore, and it is inevitable to rise up!

Therefore, after Li Zhongyi came to power, he vigorously issued paper money with the strong military strength of Li Jiajun and the extremely rich products of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Based on anti-counterfeiting considerations, today's banknotes have been issued to the third generation, so that counterfeiters can never keep up with the speed of development of coinage technology.

"Pass my military order, order Li Yongtang not to care about what Fu Yanqing said, and just open the cannon to destroy the city wall!" Li Zhongyi and Fu Yanqing do not have any friendship that can be put on the table, and in the multiple-choice question of the country's unrivaled master, either Fu Yanqing is destroyed, or Li Zhongyi is defeated and dies, and there is no second way to go.

After Li Yongtang, the commander of the artillery battalion, received the order to launch, he couldn't help but spit excitedly into the palm of his hand, and muttered: "Empress Dowager Fu is unkind to my master, so don't blame Lao Tzu for being unkind to Fu Lao'er. ”