Chapter 235: Mixed Blessings

The heavy snow has been falling for several days, and the snow on the ground is almost a foot thick, but just before the heavy snow closes the road, the spies sent to the party still have a message related to Li Yuanhao, but to Li Zhang's disappointment, Li Yuanhao is not dead.

However, although Li Yuanhao is not dead, the information from the spies proves one thing, the name of the person who was attacked by Li Zhang before was Li Yuanhao himself, and he was seriously injured in the explosion, not only his face was disfigured by the explosion, but one leg was also useless.

This news is also mixed for Li Zhang, although Li Yuanhao was crippled by his own bombing, but he did not die, and as far as Li Zhang knows, Li Yuanhao is not only the eldest son, but also Li Deming's favorite son, even if he is crippled now, but Li Deming may still hand over the power of the party to him, and then Li Yuanhao will definitely be even more crazy than in history.

Speaking of Li Yuanhao in history, he is crazy enough, relying on the strength of a mere party clan, he actually overcame the two countries of Song and Liao, which were a hundred times stronger, and forced the two countries to recognize the establishment of Western Xia, and ordinary people may not even dare to think about it.

However, as the so-called success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He, and Li Yuanhao in the later period was also completely crazy, almost exerting his poverty and luxury to the extreme, and even his daughter-in-law snatched it to be the queen, but was castrated by his own son, and then died of serious injuries, but in the history books, in order to avoid secrecy, he cut off his nose instead, but the probability of death by cutting off his nose is obviously much smaller than the probability of dying from cutting off below.

Although Li Yuanhao in history is crazy, he is very good at taking advantage of the situation and profiting from the Song and Liao countries, but now he has become a cripple, even if he is in a high position, his psychology will inevitably be distorted, so Li Zhang judges that he will be even more crazy in the future, but there is a degree to everything, if Li Yuanhao loses his mind due to madness, maybe it will be easier to deal with than in history.

Originally, Li Zhang wanted to continue to inquire about the news from Li Yuanhao's side, but not long after the above news came, a continuous heavy snow blocked the road, and the snow fell for several days, and the snow on the ground reached more than a foot thick.

The environment of this period of the Great Song Dynasty has not been as serious as the destruction of later generations, and it is not as obvious as the greenhouse effect in later generations, so generally speaking, the winter of this period will be particularly cold, such as this year's snow, in Li Zhang's opinion, it is already quite a snow, but I heard Cao Mata say that snow like this is not too big, not even a snow disaster, a snow disaster the year before last can even bury the house, many old houses have even been collapsed, and many people have been killed and injured.

Heavy snow closed the road, and the news outside was cut off, Li Zhang simply put all his thoughts on training the musket army, he had already written a letter to Liu E, hoping to stay in Gyeongju until next year, but Liu E has not replied to the letter, even if there is, it is estimated that it is now blocked on the road.

The training of the musket army is obviously much easier than when Li Zhang and they first founded the musket battalion, after all, they had no experience at the beginning, everything needs to be explored by themselves, and even the musket alone waited for half a year to be used, but the musket army is readily available, and even the musket has been shipped in advance, which is also thanks to Li Zhang's preparation at the beginning, and the musket workshop has not stopped, so there is a large number of muskets in reserve, and now it has just been shipped to Gyeongju.

"Woo Woo Woo ~ " In the military camp outside Gyeongju City, even if it was cold and snowy outside, the live ammunition training was still in full swing in the barracks, and Li Zhang accompanied Cao Wei to stand on the high platform next to him, reviewing the training results of the musket army during this time.

"It was a good fight, and now it looks like it has a bit of the momentum of the original musket battalion." After Cao Wei watched the live-fire training of the soldiers below, he couldn't help but nod and said, it is quite rare to be able to train the musket army like this in just a few months, and he also saw the hard work of Li Zhang, Huyan Shouxin and others during this time, and he really couldn't find anything wrong at this time.

"This is all the credit of Brother Huyan and Brother Cao, but they have trained too hard during this time, and there is not much ammunition transported before, didn't the imperial court promise to send a large amount of ammunition before, why has it been missing?" Li Zhang first put the credit on Huyan Shouxin and Cao Yu, and then asked again.

The amount of training is large, and the consumption is naturally large, and now the ammunition has been almost used, Li Zhang was originally in charge of logistics, so he knows better than anyone that if there is no ammunition supply, no matter how powerful the musket is, it is just a burning stick.

"It's already on the road, but you've seen this heavy snowfall, the roads in several nearby state capitals are blocked, although the local governments have recruited people to clear the snow on the road, but it still takes a while, it is estimated that there will be about ten days and a half months, and the batch of ammunition will be delivered, and you will let them save some use in these days!" Cao Wei also said helplessly at the moment.

"Ten days and a half months? But now the ammunition can only be used for seven or eight days. Li Zhang also smiled bitterly when he heard Cao Wei's words, this was already the result of his best savings, otherwise the ammunition would have run out long ago.

"No one can do anything about this kind of natural disaster, but this is still good, when I was young, I just came to the northwest, but I encountered a big snowstorm, the snow was even almost level with the city wall, and it has not melted in the spring, the food in the city is finished, and finally the old and young can only gnaw the bark, and then finally open the road to transport the grain over, and the result is that dozens of people died on the same day." Cao Wei also spread his hands at this time, the conditions in the northwest are like this, and he has long been used to it.

"Okay, I'll discuss it with Brother Cao and them later, and try to save as much as possible during this time." Li Zhang could only say helplessly when he heard this, in fact, ammunition can also be made in Gyeongju, but Liu E was worried that the formula of gunpowder would leak out, so he insisted on placing the place where he took refuge in gunpowder near Tokyo City, for example, the current musket and gunpowder workshop was moved to the western suburbs of Tokyo, and it was directly classified as a forbidden area, and idlers were forbidden to approach.

It's still early, and Li Zhang took Cao Wei around the musket army, although the musketeer army is directly managed by Cao Wei, but he usually has too many things to do, and he rarely comes here, but Li Zhang has made a lot of suggestions for the establishment of the musket army, so he is more familiar with this place.

"Appeasement envoy, Li Yuanhao was blown up like that by us, how do you think the party will react next year?" Li Zhang finally suddenly asked Cao Wei, which was also the first time he asked Cao Wei's opinion after learning about Li Yuanhao's situation.

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