"Horse, what are you doing here for me instead of entertaining guests?" Zhao Jinnu asked her husband with a smile.

"Isn't this the fifth sister coming? I want to ask her about the situation in the palace. ”

"What does my brother-in-law want to ask, do you want to ask my imperial brother?" Zhao Fujin also asked with a smile.

Cao Sheng sighed, "You know, I just want to ask about the third child's situation." ”

The third child is Zhao Kai, who was placed under house arrest by Zhao Huan in the cold palace, if Zhao Huan feels that the throne is unstable, I am afraid that the first person to kill is Zhao Kai, Cao Sheng and Zhao Kai have a deep friendship, of course he is worried about Zhao Kai's safety.

Zhao Fujin smiled and said, "I don't know the situation of the third brother, or I'll go back and help you inquire in two days." ”

Cao Sheng looked at his wife again, and when he saw his wife nodding, he got up and thanked: "Then trouble the third sister." ”

At this time, Zhao Jinnu was very worried and asked, "Donkey, what's the situation outside?" I heard that the Jin soldiers are menacing this time, can the capital be kept? ”

"Don't worry! We will definitely be able to keep it, and we are actively coping with it, and I went to Yanqing to arrange defense this morning. ”

Zhao Jinnu frowned, "You just believe in him like that?" ”

"Second sister!"

Zhao Fujin next to him couldn't help but interject: "It's not a question of whether my brother-in-law believes it or not, if even Li Shaobao can't keep the capital, then there is no hope for other people, have you forgotten the matter of hundreds of thousands of people in the capital keeping him?" ”

"That's it! All right! I can't afford to mess with your aunt and grandmother, so I just asked casually, donkey, you go and entertain guests! ”

Cao Sheng glanced at Zhao Fujin, turned around and left quickly.

At this time, Zhao Jinnu sighed lowly, drank tea slowly, and his mood became obviously low.

"Second sister is worried about the capital?" Zhao Jinfu was extremely smart, and suddenly guessed the reason why the second sister was in a low mood.

"How can you not be worried?"

Zhao Jinnu shook his head gloomily, "I heard that the Song army was defeated very badly, the 200,000 army was wiped out, and there were only 50,000 troops left in the city, once the Jin soldiers attacked the city, what should we do?" ”

Zhao Fujin also lowered her head, this is also what she is most afraid of, she just pressed it in her heart and didn't dare to say it, she knew very well what it would mean to them as princesses once the Jin soldiers broke through the city?

She stood up suddenly, "Second sister, I'm not feeling well, I want to take a break." ”

Without waiting for Zhao Jinnu to ask more, she turned around and walked briskly to her room, Zhao Jinnu looked at her sister's face that suddenly became pale in a daze, she seemed to think of something, and sighed low again.

...........

Coming out of the Horse Mansion, Li Yanqing, accompanied by Cao Sheng and Pan Yue, walked up to the southern wall of the inner city, although Li Yanqing would pass through the inner city every day, he really did not carefully study the defense of the inner city.

However, with Li Yanqing's experience in a hundred battles, he does not need to study carefully, he also knows that the height and solidity of the inner city is by no means worse than that of the outer city, and even stronger than the outer city, the inner city is actually the original city wall of Tokyo City, built on the back beam, after more than two hundred years, it has been continuously repaired and improved, and the solidity of the inner city itself has been extremely strong.

However, there are also weaknesses, that is, after the expansion of Tokyo, the outer city wall was built, and the defensive function of the inner city wall gradually weakened, and now it will take a little time to deploy before the defensive function can be picked up again.

"General Pan, your army is still responsible for guarding Dongcheng, and you don't have to worry about other places."

"But it doesn't take five thousand troops to defend this section of the wall." Pan Yue in particular

Li Yanqing shook his head and said to Pan Yue very seriously: "That's because you are not experienced enough, if you want to defend Dongcheng, it is far from enough to rely on 5,000 people, at least two armies of 5,000 people, and 10,000 people for logistical support, that is, 20,000 people are needed, as for how many people can survive in the end, half or less, I don't know." ”

Pan Yue was silent for a while, and nodded slowly, "I understand." ”

Li Yanqing felt the pressure that Pan Yue was under, but without pressure, there would be no achievements, Li Yanqing did not continue, but diverted the topic and asked with a smile: "General Pan, let's talk about the specific situation in the inner city!" I found that the east city seems to be a little narrower than the north and south city heads, what is the reason for this? ”

.........

After finishing the study of the defense of the inner city, Li Yanqing rushed to the workshop of the Firearms Bureau non-stop, which is located in the northwest corner of the outer city, which is a wasteland, which was transformed from a city god temple, mainly responsible for the assembly and manufacture of earth-shaking thunder and iron fire thunder.

The Firearms Bureau is currently a very special department due to the manufacture of the earth-shaking thunder, nominally belonging to the ordnance superintendent, but in fact it is directly managed by the Son of Heaven, which is also Zhao Huan's selfishness, he also knows the power of the earth-shaking thunder, and wants to hold it firmly in his hands.

But things have two sides, when Zhao Huan's ambition is strong, He Fang has to write a report almost every day, but now Zhao Huan has been so frightened by the ferocity of the Jin soldiers that he slaughtered more than 100,000 Song soldiers, and lost his power to the Zhizheng Hall, like an ostrich burying his head in the soil, locked himself in the palace and waited for the outcome of the negotiations, and no one in the Firearms Bureau cared.

Li Yanqing and more than a dozen personal soldiers rode to the Firearms Bureau, and the soldiers standing guard at the gate all knew him and immediately saluted him, Li Yanqing waved his hand and asked, "Is Young Eunuch He here?" ”

"Young Eunuch He is inside!"

Li Yanqing turned over and dismounted, walked quickly towards the workshop, and happened to meet He Fang coming towards him, He Fang hurriedly saluted and said: "See Li Shaobao for your humble position!" ”

The Firearms Bureau Workshop is also Li Yanqing's most important department, He Fang was single-handedly raised when he was in charge of the capital, Zhao Huan also considered finding an excuse to replace He Fang, but before he could find a suitable candidate, Jin Bing was killed, and this matter was delayed.

Li Yanqing smiled and asked, "Young Eunuch He knows that I am coming?" ”

"It is estimated that Shaobao should come over today or tomorrow."

"Young Eunuch He is really a smart person, okay, there is not much time, tell me about the inventory of the earth-shaking thunder."

Li Yanqing saw that He Fang was a little hesitant, and couldn't help frowning, "What's the matter, there's no inventory?" ”

"That's not it!"

He Fang hurriedly explained: "There is another important thing to report to Li Shaobao, we have developed a new type of firearm. ”

Li Yanqing waved his hand, "Let's talk about things one by one, let's talk about the inventory of the earth-shaking thunder first, this is the first important thing for me." ”

"Li Shaobao comes with me!"

He Fang took Li Yanqing to the side alley to the warehouse at the back, the warehouse covers an area of ten acres, and it is made of large bluestone, even if a sky-shaking thunder is exploded, it will be safe and sound.

Walking to the door, He Fang bowed and said with a smile: "Flint is strictly forbidden in the warehouse, Shao Bao knows this rule, so I won't have much to do." ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "It's okay, I didn't have flint on me." ”

He immediately gave a few of his subordinates a look, the soldiers all stayed outside, He Fang opened the iron door and waved his hand, "Please protect yourself!" ”

Li Yanqing walked into the firearms warehouse, the light in the warehouse was very dark, only two air windows let in a little light, only a moment, Li Yanqing's eyes adapted to the light in the warehouse, only to see rows of iron shelves erected in the warehouse, about more than 100 rows, and the iron shelves were neatly placed with black earth-shattering thunder.

"Qi Yu Shaobao, there are three such warehouses, each warehouse has one hundred and twenty rows of iron frames, this warehouse is specially placed for earth-shaking thunder, at present, there are thirty earth-shaking thunders on each row of iron shelves, a total of about three thousand five hundred, this morning He Xianggong asked me to transfer all the earth-shaking thunders to the outer city."

Li Yanqing's brows furrowed, "Isn't there a sky-shaking thunder in the outer city?" ”

"Of course there are, there are 3,000 sky-shaking thunders, but He Xianggong said that it is not enough, and he wants us to transport all the sky-shaking thunders over."

Li Yanqing immediately shook his head, "Three thousand sky-shaking thunderbolts are enough, all of this side is left to the inner city!" ”

"The lowly position understands, originally the earth-shaking thunder must have the official command to be transferred, and the lowly position told him like this in the morning."

Li Yanqing nodded with a smile, walked around the warehouse, and then walked back to the door and asked, "You just said that you invented a new type of firearm, what is it?" ”

He Fang hurriedly smiled: "It was made up by the craftsmen, specifically for the siege ladder." ”

Li Yanqing was immediately overjoyed, "Where is it?" Let me see. ”

"It's right next door!"

Li Yanqing followed him to the warehouse next door, which was exactly the same as the layout next door, except that most of the iron shelves were empty, and only two rows of iron shelves contained items.

He Fang stepped forward, took a firearm from the shelf and handed it to Li Yanqing, "That's it, please take a look!" ”

Li Yanqing took over this new-style firearm, which was actually a slender iron chain with two small earth-shaking thunderbolts, one on one end, and the so-called small earth-shaking thunder was actually an iron fire thunder with a handle removed.

"We call it a Flying Fire Thunder, throw it at the siege ladder, or throw it out, and it will get entangled in the ladder, and soon the ladder will be blown up in an instant, and the effect is very significant!"

Li Yanqing was suddenly surprised and delighted, the wisdom of the working people is really infinite, and they actually invented this kind of sharp weapon to defend the city.

He hurriedly asked, "Do you want to test it now?" ”

"That's total, please come with me."

He Fang took Li Yanqing and walked towards the test site to the east.