During the first month, there was another event that attracted the attention of the princes, the Son of Heaven was sick, and the illness was not light, maybe it was going to change the sky, and the King of Xian convened the cabinet to discuss who to send to mourn after the death of the Son of Heaven.

It is said that after the death of the Son of Heaven, it is normal for the princes to mourn, and it is generally necessary to send cabinet ministers and even the crown prince to Liang to mourn.

However, the current situation is treacherous, King Xian is old, and he may also go to see the ancestors and ancestors at any time, and send the prince to envoy Liang Guo, coming and going for as little as three months and more than half a year, in case there is a mistake in the country, and the succession is very problematic, Xihuan obviously does not want to be set aside at this moment.

The only remaining cabinet that can go is from the Taiwei, the Foreign Deacon, Sima and Dasi Nong, or the Zhisu Neishi. Taiwei Zhang Jun has been recuperating for many years, so he definitely can't go. Diplomacy also expects Promise to be in charge of its own words, and it is inseparable from it. And Zhao Xun is old, and his health has been deteriorating recently, so he is obviously not good.

As for Gao Xun and Lu Gao, Gao Xun is a long history, barely qualified, but not high enough, otherwise he has to mention the prime minister, King Xian has no intention of worshipping the prime minister, and Lu Gao is even less qualified, so only Bailiyan can go.

However, Baili Yan was busier than everyone else, where could he still be out for three and a half months, and King Xian finally disagreed.

After discussing this matter, there was no news of the Son of Heaven's breath, so it was not resolved, and there was no follow-up, so it sank into the sea.

Just after the first month, the north has entered the spring, and it is the beginning of spring ploughing in another year, and the engineering projects launched last year in various places are advancing in an orderly manner, and the second wave of projects has started at the beginning of this year, and the country has entered the era of great construction.

In mid-February, Ji Feng arrived in Lingling with hundreds of skilled craftsmen and knowledgeable people, through the eldest grandson, this matter is not worthy of any attention, Ji Feng came to pay the deposit for the final signing of the contract, but the route of Ji Feng's route is worth pondering.

Wei Guo's attack on Changsun was selected on the southwest border of Changsun, two thousand miles away from the border of Xian, but less than a thousand li away from Liang State, and Ji Feng came to the north of Changsun Southwest, so it was not far from the war zone.

Bailiyan judged from this that if it weren't for the extreme safety of the war zone, Ji Fengyan would have been able to pass there, and even Ji Feng came to the front line to watch the battle and find out the details.

Ji Feng's envoy again brought full sincerity, not only full of gold and silver, but also brought the Son of Heaven handwritten edict, officially recognized the Xianguo "leave enough to give up the shortage", as a tribute, Bailiyan made an exception to open the Liang State skilled craftsmen to enter Yongxing to visit, and arranged for the master of the Ligong faction to accompany the introduction.

By the end of February, there was some news about the front-line war, and the defense suffered a great defeat in late November and early December last year, and it was not until January that it eased up and launched another offensive.

Hearing this news, if you want to say that you are not surprised, everyone is not surprised, after all, the incident has been more than three months, and there has been no news of the defeat of the eldest grandson, which has already shown that the eldest grandson withstood the first wave of offensive to defend the country. But to say that it is surprising, it is indeed somewhat unexpected.

The strength of the defense of the country is obvious to all, Zhiguo may not be its opponent, if the Changsun army, which has always been weak, does not rely on its naval army to rely on the river to block, there is no chance of winning in a head-on battle, not to mention that the defense has white phosphorus.

However, it is precisely in the face of the military strength of the defense that the country is comprehensively crushed, and the Changsun Kingdom is undefeated and wins a game, and the reason for this is intriguing.

Bai Liyan didn't believe that a sick cat could turn into a tiger overnight, and he even suspected that Changsun Jun had obtained some kind of "artifact to town the country", which completely disrupted the plan to defend the country. So he began to turn to the royal guest for help and investigate the clues as soon as possible.

In early March, two pieces of vague information came one after another.

The first is that Wei Guo and Changsun fought back successfully after slowing down, and Changsun lost half of the county, and then the second is that in December last year, Wei Guo and Changsun fought 570,000 people in Beilin, and Wei Guo fought for only one day, with more than 100,000 casualties, and the army was defeated.

If you want to talk about cold weapons fighting, you can't kill 100,000 people in a day, even if you drive 100,000 pigs, you can't be killed or injured 100,000 people.

Even with the use of hot weapons, there would not be 100,000 casualties a day, and such a fierce battle would have had to use machine guns, artillery and even nuclear weapons.

"How could there be such a large number of casualties, is the news wrong!"

Bai Liyan asked suspiciously, but the royal guest was very sure:

After the battle in December last year, there were more than 12,000 more guards in the Changsun army, and the guards lost nearly 60,000 people's food consumption, so it would not be wrong for the guards to die 47,800 people, more than 12,000 people were captured, more than 40,000 people were wounded, and 100,000 people were killed or wounded."

"How many soldiers and horses did the eldest grandson lose in the first battle?"

"It's less than three thousand, because the defense of the country is about to collapse at the touch of a button, so the defense of the country in this battle was chased and killed by the eldest grandson, so the casualties of the eldest grandson are not large."

The person who came said quickly, Bailiyan couldn't help but be incredulous, how could the army that would collapse at the touch of a button, it should be the other way around. After thinking for a moment, he asked again:

"Since it was the eldest grandson who won the battle, why can't the news come out?"

Although the eldest grandson won, he was later recaptured on the battlefield by the Guardians, so the Eldest Grandson did not know the details of the casualties of the Guardians. Neither has the first rank, nor can it be credited, and most of them will not be publicized to the public. In this war, the patriotic country suffered heavy casualties, and the news has been tightly sealed, so it is not known to the outside world. ”

"I see, then what is the reason for the defeat of the country, and what is the reason why the country was able to fight back in February?"

"It is said that the eldest grandson used two weapons that he had never seen before, the Overlord Cannon and Huoliufei, which were very powerful."

"Shhh...... Overlord cannon and fire flowing? Bai Liyan's heart was spinning, and when he thought about it, he was right, to say that the eldest grandson could defeat the Wei Kingdom, he could only come up with some new weapon with amazing power, and it was a more practical weapon than white phosphorus. Thinking of this, he hurriedly asked, "Do you know what these two things look like?" ”

"I don't know, but I've heard that the Overlord Cannon is a large diagonal copper cylinder with a large ball wrapped in a cloth, about two feet long. The fire flow is similar to a tube, the head has a cone thorn, erected on the bamboo that is half opened, after ignition, it can fly 300 steps to stab the human body or penetrate the ground and explode on its own, the power is extremely great, but whoever is hit by these two is not flesh and blood, bleeding and dying violently, extremely tragic. ”

Hearing this, Bai Liyan faintly sketched the outlines of the two weapons in her mind, and suddenly slapped one hand on the table and suddenly realized:

"Understood, I said how could the defense of the country be defeated so easily and completely, it turned out to be it!"

"What's it!" Zhou Kong was busy asking, and he couldn't think of what kind of weapon could cause 100,000 casualties a day.

Bai Liyan froze and said while thinking:

"It's not that there is no such powerful weapon, but it is also a powerful weapon at the moment."

When Yuke talked about a copper cylinder with a diameter of more than two feet, Bai Liyan thought that it would be some kind of mortar with a huge caliber and a stubby body, but none of the princes could make hollow charge projectiles, so there was no possibility of making howitzer shotguns or fragmentation shells.

If you want to realize the firing of charge projectiles, it is not impossible, you can use other technical paths, and the ball cloth mentioned by Yuke is the key.

The so-called Overlord Cannon of Changsun Guo should be some kind of "unconscionable cannon", which relies on firing explosives to kill hard or soft people.

Due to the inherent defects, the range of the unconscionable cannon is mostly 100 to 150 steps, and Changsun Guo made a large-caliber copper cylinder made of copper, and the chamber pressure is much higher than that of a gasoline barrel, which is used to fire spherical explosive packs, and the range may be much farther, but it is also limited, and 200 to 250 steps is already a limit.

However, the two armies are in formation, and the distance between the soldiers of the first row on both sides is usually not more than fifty paces, which is just within the reach of the light bow, and at the same time within the coverage of the strong bow.

Under the intensive shelling of the unconscionable artillery, there was not an inch of grass within a range of 300 meters, and the guards were crushed at the first touch, and the Changsun army took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill the guards, chasing the guards to kill, and it was called hell if they did not suffer heavy casualties.

In view of the limited kinetic energy of black powder, the warhead charge of this kind of Liufeihuo is limited, and at best it is used as a weapon to add icing on the cake, and its practicality will not be high.

"I said, why is the eldest grandson country so calm, it turns out that he has a powerful weapon." Thinking through this, Bai Liyan asked the person again: "In this way, when Wei Guo captured Changsun Banjun in February, should he have imitated the Overlord Cannon, or did he avoid its edge and find its weakness?" ”

"Yes, it is true that the Guards are actively copying the Overlord Cannon, but it has not yet succeeded. This big victory was to take advantage of the heavy rain to attack, and in one fell swoop broke through the Changsun defense line and broke into the rear, thus making the Changsun Army's overlord cannon useless. ”

"Hmph, the battlefield you have fought can still be driven out by the enemy, and the nest is still a nest. This time, Your Excellency Lao has sent a message, and please rest in my house for a few days, and it is not too late to hurry. ”

"Don't dare, it's not appropriate to stay for a long time in the next official business, if there is nothing else, I will retire for the time being."

"Well, Wei Qi, Haosheng sent someone to leave the house."

"No!"

When Wei Qi sent the people away, Zhou Kong couldn't wait to ask:

"What kind of weapon did the eldest grandson army use so powerfully, you say."

"It's actually not unusual to say it, it's just that the explosives are packed into a two-foot vat, used as artillery, and then fired out, falling in the middle of the dense battle formation, and one explosion will cause casualties to more than a dozen people, and dozens of people at most."

"Hah!" Zhou Kong was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "Isn't this waiting to find death." ”

"Yes, the battle array is densely populated, and doing so is indeed tantamount to seeking death, and Wei Guo took the initiative to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the eldest grandson, and it was inevitable that he would not be able to parry it if he was not prepared. However, if you want to fight all over the sky with one move, the eldest grandson is too weak after all, and when the defense of the country also creates the overlord cannon, the end of the eldest grandson army may not be far away. ”

"Since the husband knows the mystery, why don't you let Yongxing City imitate it for his own use."

"Madame is right, Ben Hou does mean this. Although the overlord cannon is simple, but used in the present, whether it is a siege or a field battle, the effect is good, the eldest grandson set this precedent, all countries should compete to follow suit, if our army is not equipped will be controlled by others, this matter must be done quickly, too late to suffer. ”