"Boom! Rumble! ”

In order to prevent the news from leaking, even the low-level generals who usually take care of the royal gardens were expelled early.

Two bottles of smoothbore guns were aimed at a stone house more than 200 paces away, and at the same time ignited the powder twist and fired, in the deafening sound, the muzzle of the cannon sprayed black smoke and flames, and after the blink of an eye, I saw the masonry flying sideways, the solid stone house was blasted out of a large gap, and the thick stone wall was crumbling in the dust and smoke.

Cao Zhe and Jing Qiongwen all silently looked at everything in front of them, and the faces of the other Shu generals were a little pale.

Wang Yong sat on the gorgeous dragon chariot with a gloomy face.

At the end of February, the land in Chengdu Mansion was already covered with a layer of new greenery, and there were many wild ducks in the nearby streams and rivers, which were startled by the sound of cannons.

Cao Zhe set off from Luoyang to return to Sichuan and Shu on the Yuan Festival, but he had to carry two bottles of heavy artillery with him, and the speed was much slower than when he went, and he returned to Chengdu Mansion more than half a month later than expected, and even he was on the way, hearing the news that the Shouzhou army and Xu Si's army surrendered to Luoyang.

The Shouzhou army and Xu Sijun's descent came, Cao Zhe was not surprised at all, but he didn't know what the lord and ministers would think.

"The main force of the Mongolian army was annihilated in the south of Jinnan, which was intercepted by the Taiyue camp army with a hundred bottles of heavy artillery and could not flee north; This is a smaller kind of artillery I have seen in Luoyang, and there is also a kind of heavy artillery that can fire iron pellets from 3,000 steps away," Cao Zhe knew that everyone was uncomfortable, but he couldn't help but say many details of his mission to Luoyang, and said, "The minister took the south of Fugu from Yongzhou to return to Sichuan and Shu, and also saw that Liang Jun was in the dangerous valley of Fuluo Road, first dug out a hole, drilled into this black fire medicine, and after taking the medicine twist and igniting it, it could blow up a large stone wall - Liang Jun had already used this black fire medicine to open mountains and open roads......

Cao Zhe's implication is that the scale of this kind of black fire medicine produced in Luoyang is large enough, and it can be used to open up mountains and roads, not only for military purposes; It also means that Luoyang has a need for this kind of front sliding gun in front of him, and he can cast three or five hundred or even thousands of them in a short time.

Although it is said that the artillery cast by the Liang army was mainly equipped with the elite of the northern front in the early stage, with the end of the main battle on the northern front, a large number of artillery cast before will go south with the first and second central marching armies, and at the same time, the newly cast artillery of the Liang State will inevitably give priority to equipping the soldiers and horses of the southern front.

If the Shu army really wants to grit its teeth and persevere, it will have to face a Liang army south that is more powerful than the main force of the Mongolian army.

When the monarchs and ministers of Shu heard this, they felt even more uncomfortable, but they couldn't reprimand Cao Zhe for increasing the prestige of others.

Wang Yong waved his hand in a heavy mood, and drove back to the palace with some interest.

Even if everyone exchanged words in private, they didn't have anything to say to Wang Yong at this time.

What can they say?

Luoyang made conditions, and the ministers could no longer satisfy Luoyang's appetite, what could they say?

Although Luoyang has not yet expanded Liangzhou's military garrison on a large scale, with the end of the war in southern Jin, the soldiers and horses that were originally on guard on both sides of the Yu River have all gone south one after another, which also makes Liang Rang's garrison,

From the previous two brigades, it has been increased to three brigades.

It is not difficult to foresee that if their side does not respond for a long time, the Liang army's soldiers and horses in Liangzhou will continue to increase, until one day Luoyang completely loses patience and sends a large army to attack Sichuan and Shu.

escorted back to the palace first, and then Cao Gan, Cao Zhe and his son went out of the palace and returned to the house, and their hearts were also heavy.

Both his father and son knew in their hearts what the most correct choice was to stay in front of the monarchs and ministers of the Shu Kingdom.

However, his Cao father and son have been deeply favored by Jun over the years, and others can advise them, but their father and son should be cheeky, if they want not to be scolded by the world in the back, they can't be admonished.

In the current situation, some generals still have illusions, some generals don't care about affairs, or secretly have intensive contact with Luoyang, and some generals may want to be a little cheeky like Cao's father and son.

This trip to Luoyang for more than three months, Cao Zhe has not been reunited with his wife, children and parents for a while, and his father returned to the house, the sky has been dark, sit down to drink some wine, Jing Qiongwen suddenly visited, and brought an uninvited guest.

"Cao Shufu, Ruogu will visit again, and he won't see the outside, right?" Xue Ruogu bowed his hand and said.

Seeing Xue Ruogu, Cao Gan, Cao Zhe and his son were not surprised, guessing that it was also Jinling who learned the news of the battle of Zezhou at the beginning of the year, and urgently sent Xue Ruogu to Chengdu Mansion to inquire about the news.

Although no matter what Xue Ruogu's intentions were on this trip, the Cao family and his son made up their minds and would not pay attention to it, but it did not mean that they did not even have the courage to welcome Xue Ruogu into the mansion.

Several people sat down in the tea room on the west side of the Ming Hall.

The spring tea in Chengdu has not yet been mined, a pot of clear spring is boiling on the red clay stove, and last year's old tea is taken out and brewed, and a few wisps of fragrance are diffused in the quiet and elegant tea room.

Only then did Xue Ruogu slowly explain the intention of secretly arriving in Chengdu Mansion on this trip.

After the battle of Fanchuanhe, the Liang and Chu peace agreements were completely torn up, and even though the Chu court tried to repair the broken relationship with the Liang State many times, the Liang army ignored them, and even mainly sent envoys to cross the river, but they were all expelled by random arrows.

This also made Liang Chu completely lose the direct communication channel between them.

After getting the news that the main force of the Mongolian army was annihilated by the Liang army in southern Jin, the generals of Great Chu were very clear about the next development of the situation - there were some weak remnants of the Mongolian army on the northern front, and there were not many elites of the Liang army.

Since the Liang Shu peace conference was still sabotaged by Chu Ting, the Liang army waved south, and Han Qian could not be accused of treachery and attacking his homeland.

Cao Zhe glanced at his father, and saw that his father was just looking at the exquisite teacup in his hand, but he didn't want to open his mouth to say anything, so he opened the lid of the teacup, gently blew the floating leaves open, and drank hot tea.

At this time, did Shu Chu form an alliance to fight against Qiang Liang?

If this is really the case, after the Liang army recovers Hehuai, it will not attack Jianghuai, but will first use troops against Sichuan and Shu.

Although there are 100,000 people in the newly formed forbidden army of Shu State, they have not experienced the tempering of war, can they resist the battle-hardened tiger warriors of Daliang?

Not to mention the huge amount that the front slide cannon brought to the monarchs and ministers of the Shu Kingdom

Shocked.

"I heard that General Cao went to Luoyang on this trip, and then went to Zezhou to watch the battle in person, Ruogu wants to ask, is the Mongolian army really so vulnerable?" Xue Ruogu asked.

Cao Zhe glanced at Jing Qiongwen, what he saw and heard on his trip to Luoyang was all known to the lord of the country, and Jing Qiongwen, as the left servant, sat beside the lord of the country.

Since Jing Qiongwen had no intention of talking to Xue Ruogu in detail, there was really no need to talk about it in detail, but since Xue Ruogu opened his mouth to ask, how could Cao Zhe respond, and said with certainty: "The Mongolian army is indeed vulnerable!" ”

"Where will the monarchs and ministers of Dashu go? Jing Gong, Cao Shufu, and Cao Du commanded envoys, deeply favored by the lord of Dashu, and where will they go in Dashu? Xue Ruogu asked reluctantly.

Hearing Xue Ruogu's words, Cao Zhe felt bored for a while, and said, "Mr. Xue, why didn't you ask Lord Zheng and Master Zhang of your country?" ”

After the battle of Fanchuanhe, the relationship between Liang and Chu was completely broken, and it seemed that the border trade between the two sides was completely interrupted, but the Langzhou and Huangzhou trading companies controlled by the Zheng family and the Zhang family behind the scenes or were deeply involved with the Zheng family and the Zhang family, successively purchased commercial goods worth three or four million yuan from Yuzhou - where did the real origin of these commercial goods come from, Zheng Yu and Zhang Chao, who returned to Langzhou to retire after the year, they really didn't know anything in their hearts?

In addition to the transit trade from Yuzhou, according to Cao Zhe's understanding, the smuggling of commercial goods on both sides of the Yangtze River and the Han River has not been really interrupted for a day.

"Cao Zhe, Mr. Xue is a guest." Cao Gan glanced up at Cao Zhe, signaling that there was no need to argue with Xue Ruogu about trivial matters.

At this time, the sound of galloping horses' hooves stopped at the gate of Caofu.

Chengdu is the capital of Shu, and Cao Gan is a privy envoy, there is no matter of urgency, and no one will dare to gallop in front of Caofu.

Cao Gan and Cao Zhe were patient, and after a while, they saw the steward leading a member of the Privy Council to come over, present a letter, and said: "The northern line is urgent, Deputy Envoy Jiang thinks that it is necessary for Cao's Mansion to know as soon as possible - in addition, he also sent someone to Jingxiang's mansion, Jingxiang is best to ...... here."

Xue Ruogu didn't know what the urgent news was, and he needed to communicate with the two important officials of Shu State as soon as possible, so after seeing Cao Gan take the letter, his face suddenly became solemn.

Cao Gan handed the letter to Jing Qiongwen and pondered for a while before he said to Xue Ruogu: "Seven days ago, Zhu Rang ordered all the concubines and children to be driven into the Huangli Palace and set on fire, and then he himself committed suicide by jumping into the flames. Then Bianliang was broken by the Liang army - when the city was broken, Liang Ren also wanted to set fire to the mansion and drive the few remaining family members into the fire, and then he jumped into the fire and committed suicide, but he himself was cowardly in the end and was captured by the Liang army......"

"Ahh Xue Ruogu opened his mouth, but he couldn't say a word after all.

He set out from Jinling in early February to come to Chengdu Mansion, all the way by boat against the water, until he arrived in Chengdu Mansion only to know that in mid-February, Han Yuanqi, Han Donghu, Lin Haizheng and others led 80,000 Liang troops to force Bianliang City from three sides, but counting the time, Bianliang City from being surrounded to falling, it was only five days before and after.

That's too fast, right?

Xue Ruogu was shocked, but he couldn't care about the fate of Zhu Rang and Liang Ren......