"That's your weapon?" As soon as he returned to the city tower, Li Xiang was surrounded by those heroes, and the scene just now was too shocking, making these guys feel that it was okay to fight without dead people for the first time.

Li Xiang smiled and nodded: "It's nothing, it's just good luck, if you call those hundred and ten people and the hand-to-hand combat on the opposite side, it is estimated that it will be over a long time ago." Li Xiang Gu left and right about him.

Luo Yi asked in a deep voice: "Captain Li, the artifact just now, the old man thinks it's a mountain cannon." There was a little doubt in his tone, and at the same time, there was a hint of affirmation, which made Li Xiang a little surprised.

In this era, no one should know the weapon of cannon, how did Luo Yi come up with the concept of cannon? He looked at Luo Yi in disbelief.

Looking at Li Xiang's appearance, Luo Yi affirmed his judgment, and said casually: "Li Duwei must be curious about how the old man knows this, in fact, the old man has experienced more wars, a few years ago I heard a story from a Persian merchant, the story of the Persian army, there is a description similar to the mountain cannon of Du Wei, so the old man boldly guessed, but he didn't expect to be right." ”

Li Xiang was so shocked that if he wanted to say that Luo Yi had a cannon, Li Xiang would not believe it if he was killed. But after Luo Yi said the reason, Li Xiang could only believe it. Although Persia was already in turmoil during this period, the overall strength of the country did not weaken much, on the contrary, because of the frequent wars, it contributed to the upsurge of various weapons research in the country, and because of this, the Persians developed the simplest large-particle gunpowder.

The most primitive gunpowder is really not much to compliment on, but its impact on future generations is immeasurable in terms of its value. At the same time, the Persians also began to use this large piece of gunpowder in the manufacture of weapons, although there was no such perverted weapon as Li Xiang, but the basic gunpowder detonation technology still appeared, which is the kind of mountain cannon that Luo Yi said.

The reason why it is called mountain artillery is because the mountain artillery itself is not a weapon invented for war, but a tool for mining mines. At that time, the Persians mined by hand, and hundreds of slaves were driven to carry stones by hand. The consequence of this was that the slaves would rebel every once in a while, and the court did not come up with a feasible solution.

Under such a premise, a clever slave accidentally ignited a small packet of gunpowder, and as you can imagine, although this guy was not killed, he was also disabled.

But it was this disabled slave who no one paid attention to it that got a revelation from the sudden explosion of gunpowder, and it took more than a year to build a cannon that could open a mountain, and it was this mountain cannon. Later, mountain artillery became more and more popular, and after the transformation and improvement of masters, there was a Persian attack cannon in later generations.

Li Xiang didn't know anything about this, Li Xiang was frightened by the technology mastered by the Persians, and Persia still had such high-level weapons.

Unlike other people's thoughts, these people saw that Li Xiang couldn't speak when they were asked by Luo Yi, and they thought that Luo Yi had told Li Xiang's secret, but they were a lot less worried. By the time Li Xiang came back to his senses, these people had already waited for Li Xiang to express his position.

Li Xiang didn't say anything, just asked: "Do you think that dozens of such cannons are arranged in Longmen City, and there will be anyone who dares to fight Longmen?" After speaking, he quietly leaned on the buttress, and looked into the distance.

That's the threat, it's the warning. No one is stupid, who doesn't know that Li Xiang has done so much today, isn't it just to force everyone to admit the particularity of Longmen's existence.

All the heroes collectively lost their voices, of course, that is, everyone did not express their opinions. I want to publish it, but it's a pity that there is no force behind it.

Li Xiang Shi Ran smiled, and said: "Today's matter is over, I have other things, if I have any ideas, I will ask Wei Zheng to find everyone, everyone will rest in the inn first." Regardless of what everyone thought, the lieutenant stepped down the wall.

Li Xiang's goal of threatening by force was achieved, and the following was Wei Zheng's matter, but as for himself, he began to patrol the four city gates with his personal guards.

The heroes who remained on the city wall and were still dazed had been taken back to Qinxiang Pavilion by the soldiers left behind by Li Xiang, and as for their questions, they could only be answered when they saw Wei Zheng.

Not to mention them, after Li went down to the west city wall, he found a fast horse and hurried to the south gate non-stop.

When Li Xiang arrived at the south city gate, the battle outside the city gate was basically over. It's not how powerful You Junda's Shenwei army is, or how weak the team outside Xiao Milling City is, it's really because of Li Xiang's death order to Qin Qiong. According to Qin Qiong's meaning, he has long known that there are so many thieves around Longmen City who are not dead, so it would be good to directly lead the troops out and destroy them one by one, why bother with this strategy and that strategy to get rid of until now.

Li Xiang's conclusion is that the first is that Longmen can get a relatively stable development time in the future, and the other is that there is no need to exchange the lives of the soldiers for those people, which is not worth it. So his tactic is that he will never leave the city if he can use artillery. So the result can be imagined, Xiao Miao's men and horses have not seen the shadow of a soldier in Longmen City, they were bombarded by the heavenly thunder on the city wall, there were originally more than 3,000 people, and there were less than 800 people left after two rounds of artillery bombardment.

Obviously, the result of such a battle was unprecedentedly amazing, and even Qin Qiong, who rushed to the south gate first, was a little shocked. Li went up to the castle tower and looked out of the city, and he himself was a little scared. Outside the city, there were piles of dead bodies near the city gates, and there were many dead grass still burning, and the smell of disgust wafted through the air.

Li Xiang didn't see with his own eyes how the artillery fought, but he got the answer from You Junda, whose eyes lit up. The artillery on the wall of the south gate did not fire shells, but flame bombs. As the name suggests, a shell explodes and catches fire as soon as it hits the ground.

This flame bomb is also different from the incendiary bomb of later generations, the flame bomb uses white phosphorus, which was designed on a whim by the research institute after experimenting with a match that can be struck at once. At first, because the ignition point of white phosphorus was too low, it failed many times, and later Li Xiang went to inspect it once and put forward a proposal for transformation before the trial production was successful. I didn't expect it to be used to deal with Xiao Milling this time.

A team of more than 3,000 people was reduced to more than 800 people in the blink of an eye, and they didn't even see the enemy's face clearly, which made several commanders of this team very depressed and at the same time very afraid.

Their identities were found out by Li Xiang to the people sent out, and they were composed of Jiangnan water bandits and bandits hired by Xiao Miao. But the news from the shadows and the message from the Yin Yang Gate from the future confirmed that this team was not simple. Nominally bandits, in fact, they have been a regular army that Xiao Mo has built up for many years, but they are disguised as bandits.

There are three leading generals in this team, compared with the main general Zhang Da and the deputy general Geng Zhong, Li Xiang is more concerned about another general, who is also the partial general of this team, called Lin Shihong.

Maybe this person is not very famous, but for Li Xiang, he really knows a lot about him, thanks to a good buddy of Li Xiangxiang. This is my buddy's hometown is Poyang, Jiangxi, Li Xiang followed him to Poyang once, and many local places of interest actually have the name Lin Shihong, and there is also a part of the legend about this person. The most important thing is that this buddy is also surnamed Lin, and he is actually related to Lin Shihong on the family tree.

Who is Lin Shihong? There are not many studies in later generations, but there are many local legends in Poyang. Overall, this is a character similar to Xiang Yu and Chen Youliang.

Needless to say, Xiang Yu did not succeed in the great cause, and he killed Wujiang. Chen Youliang was the most difficult force to deal with when Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, if it wasn't for Tianshi standing on Zhu Yuanzhang's side, it was really not necessarily Chen Youliang who was the emperor. Lin Shihong is such a character!

In the history books, Lin Shihong was a member of the anti-Sui army, and at the most glorious time, he had won three battles against the Sui Dynasty army in Poyang Lake, and also established his own dynasty "country name" Chu", the capital Yuzhang, the year name Taiping, and the people called him "King of Nanyue". In Lin Shihong's fighting career, he was on the verge of defeat more than once, but Lin Shihong came back to life every time. And tenaciously persisted in the great cause of rebellion until the fifth year of Wude (622), that is, five years after Li Yuan became emperor, he died of depression.

It can be said that the second half of Lin Shihong's life is the second half of his life of rebellion.

He was a peasant, and his rebellion was defined as a peasant revolt by later generations, but unlike other rebels at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he rebelled purely for the sake of rebellion, while most of the other rebels later came to better enjoyment, or in other words, to be emperor.

Anyone who knows a little about history knows that peasant uprisings will generally develop into a new landlord class in the end, which is inevitable, but this is not the case here with Lin Shihong. He has always paid attention to the lives of the common people and has never harmed the people, which is why he will leave a good name in the hearts of the people, and why there are still so many stories after a thousand years.

Li Xiang knew him, so he was also puzzled why he was under Xiao Miao.

Therefore, seeing the tragic situation of Xiao Mill's men and horses outside the city, Li Xiang ordered to send someone to find out about the casualties of Xiao Mill's men and horses, and it was best to see if this Lin Shihong was still alive.

Li Xiang's performance today is very strange, Xicheng fired a few shots, but Li Xiang cared about Li Jiancheng's life and death, and when he arrived in Nancheng, he cared about the life and death of Lin Shihong, which made the people around him not very understandable. Of course, these people have been following Li Xiang for a long time, and they also know what kind of temper this little lieutenant is, and it doesn't hurt to have occasional convulsions.