The craftsman was puzzled: "Isn't it too extravagant to build a road for the car to run!" ”

Li Yao told the king of craftsmen about the operation of the train, and the king of craftsmen exclaimed: "Is there really a vehicle that can pull hundreds of thousands of catties?" ”

Li Yao said: "You can test it and you will know that the role of the train is extremely important, whether it is to transport a large number of troops or materials in the back, this thing can greatly solve our problems!" ”

The craftsman nodded and said, "Okay, I will release the train proposition as the main proposition of the Academy of Sciences, and mobilize the scientific and technological personnel of the whole academy to study this thing!" ”

Li Yao nodded and said, "Then it's hard grandpa!" ”

After the king left, Li Yao immediately passed on the news, let Li Feng actively prepare for war, and after a month, he led 100,000 foot soldiers to attack Chu from the south of Yiguo, and he led five warships to rest in the port, and a month later, he led five warships with 25,000 sailors and 50,000 foot soldiers to attack Chu from the north!

In a month's time, the five warships have been almost repaired, and the matter of the train has also made the Academy of Sciences start to study, because the steam engine is researched by the technicians in the Academy of Sciences, so the King of Craftsmen is not in the Academy of Sciences, and the Academy of Sciences can study it on its own. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After announcing the proposition from the Academy of Sciences, the craftsman rushed to the country of Li to build a port, and after the port was built, he began to build a new generation of warships!

Anjia can be regarded as benefiting a lot in Li Guo, because the ports are Li Yao's, so Anjia's sea and river transportation lines are very convenient, and the tax revenue of the port is also managed by Anjia, so it is appropriate to give Anjia some preferential treatment, Li Yao also turned a blind eye, after all, these warships and ports were built by Anjia, and it is really unreasonable not to give Anjia some discounts!

At this time, Li Feng led 100,000 foot soldiers to prepare for the attack, and as soon as the time limit of one month was up, he actively launched an attack, and at the same time, Li Yao's five warships and troop carriers also entered the waters of Chu State!

Of course, the state of Chu knew that Li Yao had defeated the state of Li in a very short time, and now that the two countries had surrounded their own countries, the next one would definitely attack them, so they also issued an order to the navy early, and once they found out that Li Yao's warship had entered, they would attack immediately!

The navy of Chu is not weaker than Li at all, but the Yangtze River is so wide, there are too few ways to fight, five warships go hand in hand, and the warships of Chu must connect with Li Yao's warships, Li Yao saw that although the number of warships on the opposite side was large, it was not very large, so he attacked with artillery first, and then directly rammed over!

After a few rounds of attacks, the water army of the Chu State was scattered, and they fled in a hurry, unable to match!

Chu also has a port, although it is not a deep-water port, but there is no problem at all to dock warships!

So Li Yao chose to land in this place, because of the defeat of the Chu army, so the local people at the port and wharf knew that there was going to be a war, so they all hurriedly evacuated this place!

Li Yao came to the wharf and saw that there were many merchant ships here, holding the policy of not disturbing the people, Li Yao gave them an hour to evacuate the port, and after an hour, the merchant ships that did not leave here were destroyed!

When the merchants heard the news, they were very grateful to Li Yao, and hurriedly took the boat away from this place, Li Yao saw that the dock had been emptied, waved his hand, and shouted: "The troop carrier has landed, and the warship is on standby!" ”

The troop transport ship quickly drove to the dock, and 50,000 foot soldiers landed on the shore, as usual, they rested for a day, although after such a long time of training, many soldiers still did not get used to the life of adrift on the water for a few days, except for those soldiers who grew up near the water, the mental state of the foot soldiers on land was not very good!

When the Chu royal family received the news of the defeat of the naval army, although they were surprised, they still asked: "You have fought with the Yiguo naval army, and have you found any weaknesses of the enemy army?" ”

The general of the Chu State Navy arched his hand and said: "I found their weakness, because their warships are very large, so they can only operate on the main trunk of the Yangtze River, there are many small tributaries that they can't enter at all, we have a lot of small tributaries in the Chu State, I think it's a very good way to attack them by relying on this!" ”

King Chu nodded and said, "Okay, let's rely on these small tributaries to strike at their water army!" ”

Then he asked the infantry general, "How is the situation of the 100,000 infantry soldiers who attacked from the south of Yiguo?" ”

The infantry general said: "The situation is not very good, because they have powerful firearms, so we can't hold out for long at all, and now one county has been attacked, and several other counties are also in danger!" ”

The king of Chu said: "I will give you 200,000 soldiers, and I will only keep 20,000 soldiers for the king's guards, you must solve the 100,000 soldiers from the southern part of Yiguo!" ”

The infantry general hurriedly persuaded: "King Chu, our capital is just on the riverside, in case their warships go straight to our capital, you only have 20,000 foot soldiers, I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate!" ”

King Chu shook his head and said, "You don't have to worry about this, there are still 50,000 sailors in the navy, and I am ready to recruit 100,000 foot soldiers among the local people, so that I will have 170,000 foot soldiers, and there is no problem in defending the capital!" ”

When the infantry general heard the words of the King of Chu, he nodded and said, "The last general will lead the army to clear the enemy army!" ”

After Li Yao's 50,000 foot soldiers rested on the shore for a day, they were ready to attack the first city, because it was a wharf, so the local freight was very developed, and this place was also a logistics base for Anzhu himself, where a lot of grain was stored, even if it was a protracted war, there was no problem at all!

The defense of the city is very sufficient, but in the face of the huge cannons on the warships, it is a bit insufficient, and the main guns on the five warships have opened a few big holes in the city wall with a single salvo!

The army of Chu had never seen such a powerful firearm, so they were all frightened and hurriedly abandoned the city and fled!

An army of 50,000 quickly took the city, then moved food from the warehouse and began to garrison it!

Su Feiguang's department had already come to the country of Li very early, because they were all foot soldiers, so they didn't make a move when Li Yao attacked the port of the country of Li, plus Li Yao's policy on the mainland city of Li, so Su Feiguang came to the state of Chu to fight guerrillas!

Because there is a lot of food in Li and Chu, military food is the most scarce, and with the secret support of the An family, Su Feiguang is very nourishing in Chu!

In troubled times, the richer the place, the poorer the people, because in the troubled times, the government needs to strengthen itself, coupled with corruption and the layers of officials, so the people can't eat!

Su Feiguang, who has enough food, is recruiting soldiers on a large scale, and as long as Su Feiguang reports the weapons and armor to Li Yao, Li Yao will basically approve them!

It's just that weapons and armor will follow a lot of political commissars in the past, because the demand for weapons and armor is large, which proves that there are more soldiers, so political commissars must also be added!

With the position of political commissar, Li Yao is not worried that the troops outside will be antipathetic at all, because the political education class is not a non-commissioned officer, and the officers must also be educated, and the officers will not be able to rebel at all after years of brainwashing!

Now that Su Feiguang has 100,000 horses, he is training in the deep mountains and old forests, and now it is time to take them out and test them to see if Su Feiguang has wasted his time in the past three years!

There were 100,000 sailors in the Chu State and only 200,000 foot soldiers, and when the scouts found out that the infantry generals led 180,000 foot soldiers from the capital to recruit Li Feng's troops, Li Yao realized that the opportunity had come!

So he didn't care about the city he had just captured, gathered 50,000 foot soldiers, and then led five warships to kill directly in the capital of Chu!

Su Feiguang also got the order to assemble in the capital of Chu, so he also led a large army to the capital of Chu!

At this time, there were only 20,000 foot soldiers and 50,000 sailors in the capital of Chu plus 100,000 newly recruited soldiers, and when Li Yao's five warships approached the capital of Chu, the king of Chu was also frightened, these five warships were so big!

But the capital of Chu is not made of paper, the capital that has stood for hundreds of years, every time the dynasty is changed, it will be greatly built, and the king of Chu believes that even if these five warships are powerful, it is not very simple to break through this city!

Li Yao was also shocked when he saw the capital of Chu State, it was worthy of being a century-old city, and the city defense did not say, but he still had to say how to do it with a shot, so he said to the main captain: "Aim at the capital of Chu State, give me a bang!" ”

The captain of the main ship hurriedly gave the order, and after the main gun was aimed, it let out a roaring bombardment sound, but because of the distance, the shells of the main gun only made a big hole in the city wall.

Li Yao frowned and said: "It seems that this capital city is not very easy to fight, you have to think of a way!" ”

At this time, the smoke of gunpowder after the artillery bombardment drifted to Li Yao's side, looking at this smoke, Li Yao suddenly thought that he could use the air force to strike!

Then he said to the guard: "Quickly go to the Academy of Sciences and see how many spare hot air balloons there are!" ”

Then he said to the other guard, "Quickly go and invite the craftsman king here!" ”

After receiving the order, the guards left the warship one after another!

At this time, the captain of the main ship asked, "King Ning, what should we do now?" ”

Li Yao said: "Wait! ”

The captain of the main ship nodded and said, "Okay, I'll send some small boats over to reconnoiter the nearby terrain first, and our troop carriers will also find a place to land, it's not a matter for foot soldiers to float on the water!" ”

Li Yao nodded and said, "Okay, then you can do it!" ”

The King of Craftsmen came over quickly with the guards, and Li Yao said to King Craftsmen: "Grandpa, I want to use the Air Force to strike at this city, do you think it is feasible?" ”

The craftsman asked, "Is it a hot air balloon?" ”

Li Yao nodded and said: "That's true, I just don't know how the hot air balloon is built now, it's been three years, and it's been successfully tested!" ”

King Craftsman nodded and said: "Hot air balloons have indeed been successfully tested, and they have already begun to be manufactured, I think one hundred and eighty have been manufactured, but it is a little difficult to strike at them, after all, this one is powered by wind power, it is really not easy to use!" ”

Li Yao said: "Grandpa, I plan to tie these hot air balloons to the warship with ropes, and then let the hot air balloons fly like a kite, and then attack the soldiers and large siege weapons on the city wall!" ”

When the craftsman heard Li Yao's words, he thought about it and said, "This is a good way, you can give it a try!" ”

Soon the guards who went to the Academy of Sciences returned, along with the technicians of the Academy of Sciences and a hundred hot air balloons!

Li Yao quickly let the technician get into the hot air balloon, and there was also a soldier next to him, the technician was responsible for operating the hot air balloon, and the soldier was responsible for throwing bombs!

This time, it is not only equipped with grenades, but also fuel bombs, because the large siege equipment is made of wood, so the effect of using fuel bombs is even better!

The King of Chu was very puzzled when he saw Li Yao's movements, and he didn't know what Li Yao was going to do, but he still reminded the soldiers to get ready!

A hundred hot air balloons soon rose into the air, and the king of Chu knew that something was wrong when he saw these hundred and ten strange things floating here, so he hurriedly asked the guards to guard them well, and he and the guards fled from the city wall!

A hundred hot air balloons quickly floated to the sky above the city wall of Chu State, because the hot air balloon floated relatively high, the soldiers of Chu State could not attack it at all, so they could only watch the hot air balloon above their heads!

The soldiers saw that the timing was right, so they threw down the fuel bombs one after another! The fuel bomb burned when it was thrown to the ground, and the soldiers specially threw it to the catapult behind the city wall and the soldiers on the city wall, and the soldiers of Chu State saw that the city wall was on fire, and they wanted to run under the city wall, but there were too many soldiers, and the city wall was so wide that they couldn't run away at all, but they didn't want to be burned alive, so they could only jump, and there was still hope of living if they jumped down, and if they didn't jump, they could only be burned or smoked to death!

The soldiers on the hot air balloon saw that the soldiers on the city wall had been defeated, and hurriedly gestured to let the army attack, because the height of the hot air balloon was particularly high, so the movement of troops in the whole city, the soldiers on the hot air balloon could see it clearly!

Because the soldiers on the east wall suffered heavy casualties, the 50,000 soldiers quickly broke through the city wall, and at this time, the other three city wall troops began to surround the east city wall, but the capital of Chu was all new soldiers, plus Su Feiguang's 100,000 troops came quickly, so the Chu army did not have an advantage at all, and under the monitoring of hot air balloons and fuel bombs, the Chu army had already shown the momentum of rout!

Seeing this situation, the king of Chu hurriedly fled from the Chu capital with his army and ministers, and went to meet the 180,000 army of the infantry generals, but Li Feng's 100,000 army was not simple, including 20,000 cavalry composed of Dawan horses, which defeated the 180,000 troops who came like a devastating victory, and then captured the king of Chu and a cadre of ministers alive!

The campaign against the Chu State took only one month, and the entire territory of the Chu State was occupied, and by this time Li Yao had unified the three countries, and his power was on a par with the Liang Dynasty!

This can make the Liang Dynasty very surprised, but now Emperor Liang's body is gradually failing, the eldest prince and the second prince are fighting for power, and they don't have time to care about what Li Yao did!

This gave Li Yao a lot of respite to govern these three countries well! (To be continued.) )