Today's offensive is a general offensive in the actual sense, and the supreme commander of the general offensive is Liao Shanhe.

Outside the north gate of Chengdu, the military formation of the Han army is like a sea of red, and there is no end in sight.

At the forefront of the Han army's formation, there were more than 100 six-pounder guns, with blue-yellow barrels, pointing straight to the city wall of the north gate of Chengdu.

It is still the old rule, the artillery army is under the command of Li Yongtang, and he is still responsible for the full command of the enemy.

There is no way, it is too difficult to train a qualified sharpshooter. A sharpshooter not only needs to be educated, but more importantly, he must have a good foundation in mathematics.

In this day and age, it is not easy for people who can use addition and subtraction proficiently. Not to mention, calculate the parabola, calculate the deviation of the trajectory, calculate the effect of the wind direction on the trajectory.

Of course, Li Yongtang also trained a sharpshooter, and when the battle was about to be fought, each of these people commanded an artillery piece to bombard the city gate hole.

As far as Li Yongtang knows, the northern, western, southern, and eastern gates of Chengdu City are all protected by the urn city.

That is, even if the cannonballs bombarded the outer city gates, the army did not dare to rush into the urn city to find death.

Then, the plan for attacking Chengdu obviously needs to be adjusted.

According to the attack plan drawn up by Li Yongtang, first concentrate a large number of sharpshooters and blast open the door of the urn city.

Then, all the artillery was concentrated, divided into six groups of twenty guns, and pushed up in turn, bombarding the same position on the city wall until it collapsed.

Completely accurate bombardment, apparently impossible things. However, it is still possible to control the landing point of the shell within a certain margin of error.

In fact, with Li Yongtang's rich experience in bombardment, he knew very well that with so many artillery bombardments, it was only a matter of time before the city wall collapsed.

If you're lucky, you can collapse in a few hours. If you're unlucky, it's three days at most.

If the city wall can't be destroyed within three days, Li Yongtang can simply find a piece of tofu and kill him, and it won't be interesting to live.

Li Zhongyi rode on the back of the "Little Blood Kill" and silently watched every move of the artillery through the monoculars.

Artillery, although it is an epoch-making weapon. However, this time to attack Shu, because the Shu Road was particularly difficult, Li Zhongyi only brought a 6-pounder cannon, instead of a real siege weapon - a 12-pounder cannon.

The main thing is a 12-pounder gun, which is too heavy, a cannon weighs about a ton, and even if it is carried on the road, it is difficult to transport it to the city of Chengdu in time.

Therefore, Li Zhongyi would rather carry more than a hundred light 6-pounder guns than heavy 12-pounder guns.

In addition, in the Ordnance Supervision Artillery Workshop, the 24-pound heavy artillery is also being developed in an orderly manner.

In the future, when the naval division landed in Annam, a large war ship was loaded with dozens, even hundreds, of 24-pounder guns, which was simply invincible at sea.

In this era of condoms, as long as it is a time of peace, the population will double every twenty years, and it will not be transferred by anyone's will.

The population explosion has led to insufficient land distribution and insufficient food to eat, which has always been a great hidden danger.

If we want to completely break the deadlock of the cycle of chaos in less than 300 years, in addition to adopting an extremely strict national policy of suppressing land annexation, it is more important to open up overseas grain production bases.

Others certainly don't know, but Li Zhongyi knows it in his heart, just south of the Han Dynasty, the narrow and long Cochin, the fertile Siam and the simple Khmer folk customs, these are all treasures that can be harvested three times a year casually.

Don't look at the territory of the Han Dynasty today, in fact, the Jiangnan, Jinghu and Liangguang regions have not been fully developed, and the arable land area of the whole country is not large.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the grain output in Guanzhong has been like Wang Xiaoer's New Year, and it is not as good as a year. Otherwise, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han and Later Zhou in the north would not abandon Chang'an, or set the capital in Luoyang, or set the capital in Kaifeng.

The Indochina Peninsula is a small country in size, but its grain production is surprisingly high.

The people of this era, affected by the inherent geographical environment, did not know an astonishing fact: landing in Annam and other places by sea was actually the quickest and least costly means of conquest by force.

Coincidentally, Li Zhongyi has the largest and most powerful sailor force in the world today.

At the beginning, when he was conquering Goryeo, Li Zhongyi borrowed the power of the sailor to wipe out the opposition in Goryeo in one fell swoop, turning Goryeo into a colony under the actual control of the Central Plains Empire.

The Goryeo Kingdom was just a springboard for attacking the Wa Kingdom, and in terms of economic and strategic value, it was far inferior to the abundant Annam Kingdom.

As long as the main grain producing areas are mastered, the entire Han Empire will have enough capital to feed a larger population. With a larger population, we can continue to expand our territory overseas in a real way. vertex

The ensuing change is that the cycle of chaos control of the dynastic cyclical rate will no longer work because of the introduction of super living water.

Li Zhongyi is not the supreme commander of the former enemy, he is qualified to sit on the horse and desert, while Liao Shanhe is nervously deploying all the preparations before the general attack.

"Ladies and gentlemen, when you enter the city, you must not use cocktails. Otherwise, what a huge loss would it be if such a prosperous Chengdu city was destroyed in the hands of you and me? Liao Shanhe was still a little uneasy after all, and repeatedly reminded the senior generals who participated in the general attack.

War is the continuation of politics, and politics is the continuation of the economy, and in the final analysis, fighting a war requires calculating costs.

The Han army traveled thousands of miles to the city of Chengdu, but all they got was a ruin, even if Liao Shanhe agreed, Li Zhongyi would never agree.

Song Yunxiang smiled slightly, under the influence of His Majesty the Emperor, all the senior generals in the entire Han army system have learned to be careful and calculating.

When he was in the northwest, Song Yunxiang often calculated the details of the troops to mediate the internal strife in the grassland, especially the time and strength of the troops.

It's too early to go, the barbarians have scattered and fled, who is looking for the military expenses of the troops?

It's not okay to go late, the barbarians have already decided the winner and cleaned the battlefield. With Song Yunxiang's experience, the barbarians have already grabbed the loot, and if they want to force them to pull it out, they can only rely on the knife to speak.

The so-called success of one general and ten thousand bones is completely untenable in the Han army. This dynasty is extremely martial, and the status of the military ministers is unprecedentedly high.

Subsequently, the cost of raising soldiers in the imperial court has also remained high. If it was, tens of thousands of soldiers were lost in World War I, and the finances of the imperial court would collapse immediately. Under the anger of His Majesty the Emperor, the head of the defeated general will never be saved.

Therefore, in the Han army, any general who only considers personal gains and losses, and does not care about the casualties of the soldiers, will definitely not end well.

However, Song Yunxiang is not in charge of financial management, and he still missed a little. Since the unification of Jiangnan, the financial revenue capacity of the Han Empire has risen in a straight line, at least more than half of what it used to be.

After pacifying the rich Shu Kingdom, the financial revenue capacity of the imperial court will increase by at least one-third.

In other words, today's Han Empire is different from the past, and its financial affordability has also been greatly enhanced.

Long before going into battle, detailed battle plans were distributed to all participating units.

Liao Shanhe convened a small meeting to emphasize one point: the tragedy of burning Chengdu must be prevented.

After Liao Shanhe's side dispersed, Li Zhongyi simply got off the horse and sat on the pony.

There is no way, in order to strengthen the momentum and put on an image, the silver helmet and silver armor on Li Zhongyi's body are too heavy, so heavy that he has begun to breathe.

"Zhengqing, you say, will Meng Chang go out of the city and surrender?" After Li Zhongyi took a sip of warm tea, he asked Li Anguo with a smile.

Li Anguo thought for a while, and said seriously: "There are still more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and before the city wall is broken, Meng Chang still has a glimmer of hope for stubbornness, I'm afraid it will be difficult to make a decision to surrender, right?" ”

Li Zhongyi raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, Meng Chang in history was really greedy for life and afraid of death to the extreme, and actually took the initiative to take 140,000 Shu troops and surrendered the Song army, which had only tens of thousands of troops.

It's just that now, the situation is very different. Meng Chang's hope is still unending, and he still has a big hole card in his hand, which is worth looking forward to.

Compared with the invincible army inside and the helpless army outside in history, today's Meng Chang can still count on Lin Renzhao, who has been stationed in Kuizhou.

After Li Zhongyiping destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, Lin Renzhao, the governor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, actually led tens of thousands of sailors of the Southern Tang Dynasty to sail against the current and take refuge in Meng Chang.

In Pingshu this time, Li Zhongyi did not mobilize a powerful sailor to move west along the Yangtze River, mainly because Lin Renzhao was proficient in water warfare and occupied the geographical advantage of the upper reaches.

From Kuizhou (present-day Chongqing) to Kipzhou (present-day Yichang), the waterways were narrow and there were many dangerous shoals, and Lin Renzhao, who was located upstream, could lay down fireboats anytime and anywhere, threatening the safety of the Han army's sailors.

Objectively speaking, with the help of more than 100 artillery pieces, it was only a matter of time before he took Chengdu City, and Li Zhongyi was not interested at all.

Now, what Li Zhongyi is really interested in is, will Lin Renzhao feel Meng Chang's kindness in accepting him at the beginning, and lead the main force of the Kuizhou soldiers to rush to reinforce Chengdu?

Li Zhongyi has dealt with Lin Renzhao, and he knows very well in his heart that Lin Renzhao is definitely not an ordinary mediocre talent.

As the saying goes, people hurt the heart of the tiger, and the tiger eats people. Li Zhongyi and Lin Renzhao both saw very clearly that there would be a decisive battle between the two of them.

It depends on the battlefield of the decisive battle, is it near Chengdu or Kuizhou?

Intuition told Li Zhongyi that Lin Renzhao should have come, but he was still a hundred miles away. After all, the reprimands of the Han army have not sent back news of Lin Renzhao so far.