Chapter 300 Chapter 87 Bombardment of Chang'an City Gate (II)
When Li Shimin heard that Gao Ming was bombarding the city gate, he was immediately stunned.
However, as a man who has been fighting for a long time, Li Shimin quickly came back to his senses, and he slapped the table with a "snap".
"How dare he ...... this evil beast Uh......"
Speaking of this, Li Shimin found that his words were a little redundant, because Liu Tao had already said just now that Gao Ming was not "preparing" to bombard Chang'an City Gate, but "being" bombarding Chang'an City Gate.
Thinking of this, Li Shimin's face suddenly twitched violently a few times, he threw the fold in his hand on the table, and then stood up.
"Let's go, follow me to the gate of Chang'an!"
"Yes!"
Seeing that Li Shimin didn't blame himself, Liu Tao breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly followed Li Shimin's footsteps.
As soon as the two of them walked out of the door of the imperial study, they heard a muffled thunder in the distance.
"Boom ......"
He had heard this voice twice just now, and at first he thought it was thunder, so he didn't pay much attention to it, until now he finally understood, what kind of thunder is this, this is obviously Gao Ming bombarding his city gate with cannons!
Thinking of this, Li Shimin's face suddenly became even more ugly, and his pace sped up a little.
After a stick of incense, Li Shimin and Liu Tao each rode a horse to the east gate of Chang'an City, and they were stopped about a hundred meters away from the city gate.
"Stop coming, we are a hundred cavalry guards, and we are blocking the city gate on the orders of His Royal Highness the Prince!"
Hearing the other party's words, a Qianniuwei immediately stepped forward.
"Bold! Do you know ......?"
But before he could finish speaking, Li Shimin waved his hand at him.
"You stand down first!"
"Yes!"
Hearing Li Shimin's words, this Qianniuwei could only retreat, and at this time, Li Shimin raised his chin towards the Qianniuwei in front of him.
"Why did the prince block the city gates?"
Li Shimin has been in a high position all the year round, and his momentum has long been cultivated, although he did not indicate his identity at this time, but the hundred cavalry guards also faintly felt that he was not simple.
Therefore, as soon as Li Shimin's words fell, this hundred cavalry guards arched their hands towards him.
"My lord, our Royal Highness the Crown Prince is testing the cannon, in order to avoid accidentally injuring the people, so he ordered us to block the city gate, if you want to go out of the city, you can go out from the east gate or the south gate."
Hearing the words of this hundred cavalry guards, Li Shimin's brows suddenly furrowed.
"If you are worried about accidentally injuring the people, why do you just close the city gates?"
"Because ......"
Just as the hundred cavalry guards were about to explain to Li Shimin, they heard a loud voice resounding through the heavens and the earth.
"Boom!"
This voice was so loud that it immediately reminded Li Shimin of his experience in the fish algae pond a few days ago, and before he could come back to his senses, another voice also reached his ears.
"Crunch...... Boom! ”
Hearing this voice, he immediately raised his head and looked in the direction from which the sound came, but everywhere he could see, there was a cloud of smoke and dust.
The west gate of Chang'an City, which has stood for more than 20 years, fell to the ground with a cannon sound!
Looking at the collapsed city gate, Li Shimin's heart was full of shock, but he was surprised to find that he didn't feel much anger.
At the same time, he suddenly remembered what Gao Ming had said that day when he was drunk.
"As long as I give an order, I can smash the gate of Chang'an City, and then the cavalry can swarm in, and the old man can kneel at the gate of the city and sing "Conquest" in minutes......"
At this time, Li Shimin finally remembered that he seemed to have made a holy decree, saying that if Gao Ming could not smash the gate of Chang'an, he would have to sing "Conquest" by himself.
Thinking of this, he suddenly showed a wry smile.
"Am I shooting myself in the foot?"
Liu Tao has been observing Li Shimin's face, he originally thought that Li Shimin would be furious, but what he didn't expect was that Li Shimin remained silent at this time.
After hesitating for a while, he asked tentatively.
"Your Majesty, what should I do about this?"
"What should I do?"
Hearing Liu Tao's words, Li Shimin immediately came back to his senses, and his face was full of anger.
"What else can I do? He smashed all the gates of the city, and of course he had to pay for it! ”
"Uh......"
Liu Tao dreamed that Li Shimin would actually say the word "compensation", and he was immediately stunned.
The crown prince bombarded the city gate with a cannon, and the emperor's way of pursuing responsibility was not to punish the crime, but to let the other party pay for the door, which suddenly subverted the three views that Liu Tao had established with great difficulty for more than 20 years.
"I may have met a fake prince and a fake emperor......"
Just when Liu Tao was in a daze, a hundred cavalry guards rode over and shouted at several soldiers who were in charge of blocking the city gate.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has an order, the test is over, everyone goes to the city gate to maintain order, and escorts Thor's Fury back to the Ordnance Prison!"
"Yes!"
The hundred cavalry guards who had received the order were about to leave, but Li Shimin immediately stopped them again.
"What exactly are the Wrath of Thor you just said?"
Hearing Li Shimin's words, the hundred cavalry guards who were stopped by him immediately laughed.
"My lord, that's the case, when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was testing the cannon just now, the people thought that God was angry, and they all knelt on the ground, so His Royal Highness the Crown Prince named it Thor's Fury!"
"I see!"
After listening to this explanation, Li Shimin immediately nodded with satisfaction.
"The name of Thor's Fury is not bad, it's much better than the super invincible fortress cannon before, well, I want to see what this Thor's Fury that can blast through my Chang'an City Gate looks like!"
After speaking, Li Shimin turned over and got on his horse, and then went towards the discovery of the city gate, and seeing him leaving, Liu Tao also hurriedly followed.
After they were all gone, the soldiers of the Hundred Cavalry Guards who were standing in place showed a stunned expression.
"That adult just now called himself 'I'? Is he the Holy One today? ”
Thinking that he had stopped the emperor just now, he immediately shuddered, and secretly prayed in his heart that Li Shimin would not trouble him.
Of course, Li Shimin would not trouble such a small person as him, because he was shocked again at this time.
At first, when he saw the city gate being blown down, Li Shimin thought that Gao Ming's cannon was fired a hundred steps away from the city gate, but after leaving the city gate, he found that he was wrong, and it was very wrong!
Because Gao Ming fired the cannon four hundred steps away from the Chang'an City Gate!
People often say "a hundred steps through the yang", in addition to a metaphor for a person's archery is more accurate, but also roughly expresses the range of the bow and arrow.
A distance of 400 paces is a distance that makes all archers desperate!
But the clever cannon can smash the gate of Chang'an City from 400 paces away, which is what Li Shimin felt most shocked.
"Since even Chang'an City can't stop it, then there is no other place in the world that can stop it, not even Goguryeo!"
Speaking of this, Li Shimin suddenly grinned.