The Jiaozhi army was quickly routed and fled under the repeated attacks of Shi Qing and Yang Chongyu with muskets, and then they were pursued and killed by the cavalry from behind......

After Xia Chengting led the sailors into the Zhu Yuan River, the speed of the march slowed down.

It was not that they encountered the kind of stubborn resistance that the Son of Heaven had warned them of, but that Wu Quan's men had planted many wooden stakes in the river, and the fleet needed to clear the obstacles while advancing.

Troops marching on the shore occasionally encountered counterattacks from small groups of Cochin troops, which were also routed with a single blow.

Jiaozhou and Zhizhou were originally the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and many residents could speak Chinese, and some even took the initiative to ask to act as guides for the imperial army. It's not the so-called heart to Datang in the mouths of the big people, but for the reward.

The Jiaozhi people have not yet experienced the weakness and bullying of the Central Plains Dynasty in the Two Song Dynasty, and they are full of fear of the imperial army. As soon as the battle starts, they will basically scatter and flee.

By the time Xia Chengting's sailors slowly soared past Zhu Yuan City, Wu Quan had already been defeated at Beining Pass, and directly led the remnants to flee along the Zhu Yuan River to the mountains in the west.

Yuan Ren fought a big battle with the main force of the Jiaozhi Army at Beining Pass.

There were 3,000 musket cavalry in the Jinyang army under his command, and after a few volleys, the Jiaozhi army's army formation began to collapse.

Taking advantage of the scattered formation of the Jiaozhi army, Fu Yanrao also ordered the crossbow army to start advancing, and at the same time, Wu Xun, who had fled from Jiaozhi, also joined the attack with his subordinates, and the two troops began to attack the flank of the Jiaozhi army.

In the roar of Shi Jianning, the commander of the musket cavalry, "three consecutive shots", the Jiaozhi army was suddenly killed under the sharpest weapons of the Tang Army.

Countless swarthy gunpowder bullets, some of which exploded in mid-air before they landed, and flesh and blood flew in the tight military formation of the Jiaozhi people. After Shi Qing led his subordinates to throw a round of gunpowder bombs into the enemy's military formation, in a series of explosions, nearly 30,000 Jiaozhi troops collapsed instantly, and then the Tang army began to chase and kill the scattered and fleeing Jiaozhi army all over the mountains......

Yuan Ren, who was watching the battle, looked at the battle situation in front of him expressionlessly, and then ordered the follow-up troops to quickly seize Beining Pass with a blue face. Because the news had been sent from the flying pigeon in front that Xia Chengting had led the sailors to occupy the abandoned Jiaozhou City, this victory made him unhappy at all.

In this war of speed, the cavalry he has always been proud of will actually lose to the sailor......

After Xia Chengting's troops occupied Jiaozhou City, they adjusted slightly for a few days, and then the army began to continue to march upstream along the Zhuyuan River and continue to march towards Fengzhou.

Xia Chengting went ashore outside the city and was about to enter the city of Wuzhou, when he saw a cavalry army galloping over.

Take a closer look, but it is Yuan Ren who is in the lead.

Xia Chengting was surprised when he saw Yuan Ren: "Why are you here too?" ”

Yuan Ren raised his hand towards the cavalry behind him, and then rode his horse over: "If I don't come again, the credit will be all over you." There is a new order from the imperial court, so that we can temporarily stop the pursuit, prepare to settle the place, and plan the affairs of Tuntian. As long as we control these navigable rivers and ensure the logistics and transportation lines, there will be nothing to worry about. In addition, I guess the above may have some thoughts on Nanzhao's side......"

"What, you mean to march into Nanzhao?" Xia Chengting's eyes narrowed, "This previous dynasty failed to conquer the Nanzhao Kingdom, this is a great merit!" This is an ideal route to march all the way west along the Zhu Yuan River. ”

"The task now is to strengthen the city defense, leaving some people to guard, and the rest to retreat to the Jiaozhou area for tuntian. Someone has already been sent from above. Yuan Ren smiled: "I heard Li Jizhong say that planting sugarcane in this area is more profitable than planting rice!" ”

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Li Qi also did not expect that the army would be so easy to pacify Jiaozhi.

Later, when I thought about it, I was relieved, the power of the Tang Dynasty was still there, but it was not as weak and bully as the Song Dynasty. It was originally the territory of the Tang Dynasty, which had ruled for hundreds of years, and the people still regarded themselves as Tang people in their subconscious.

It's just that in the Song Dynasty, under the deception and instigation of the Jiaozhi rulers, the Jiaozhi people increasingly deviated from the Central Plains culture and moved towards monstrosity, and they were also full of hatred and cruelty towards the Central Plains people.

The more humble you are in dealing with such a small country and widows, the more he thinks you are weak and can be bullied.

I don't know when the small countries around me seem to dare to grin at Huaxia, just because they know that you won't beat them.

Now, Li Qi was busy moving the capital and directing the construction of the empire's first railroad from Jinyang to Gujiao.

The slow development of science and technology in the feudal era was due to the fact that it had been suppressed for a long time, and from a religious standpoint, anything that contradicted their claims was "heretical". The same is true of Confucianism, which strives to suppress people's sense of exploration of nature and science, and strangles in the cradle all ideas that do not conform to their consciousness.

During the "Dark Ages", the Church controlled people's minds and frantically persecuted scholars who engaged in scientific inquiry, and the Inquisition even used capital punishment to execute thinkers who doubted the correctness of the scriptures, such as Copernicus, Galileo, and Bruno. In the East, Confucianism suppressed craftsmen who played a vital role in social development at the lowest level of the social hierarchy, reduced them to untouchables, and deprived them of the right to read in order to block the intellectual inheritance of the materialist school in the pre-Qin period, so as to achieve their extinction.

After human beings have been indoctrinated with a wrong worldview and methodology, their perception of the world has actually deviated more and more from its essence.

With the more and more common use of the steam engine, it has opened the prelude to the industrial revolution of the new Datang and even the world.

Except for the students in the Jinyang Academy who had already watched many train trials, trains and railways were definitely a very new thing to the people of the entire empire.

The world's first railway was actually two freight lines built by the Gujiao Iron Works, both of which were 12 kilometers away from the iron ore and coal mines to the iron smelting plant, mainly used to transport iron ore and coal to the iron works. If it is earlier, it is the experimental track laid by the research team led by He Quan in the Jinyang School Palace.

In this world, as soon as the steam engine appeared, it skipped the stage of Newdoor's and Watt-style single-cylinder two-way piston steam engines, and directly entered the mature era of three-expansion four-cylinder piston steam engines, which is equivalent to one step across another time and space Nearly a hundred years of steam engine development and progress history.

The same is true of trains, the 3.2-meter steam engine equipped by the team led by He Quan for the first steam locomotive reached 600 horsepower, about 6 times the power of the first steam locomotive invented by the Englishman Stephenson in another time and space.

This first railway was from the Gujiao Iron Works to Jinyang.

There is no way to do this, the rails come from the ancient Jiaojiao, and if you want to build the railway, you have to transport the rails out first......

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