When Guo Bailuo saw the combat demonstration of the 3,000 people brought by Zhao Weiji, he finally understood why this prince dared to come back with such a small army to wade into the troubled waters of the Liao and Song Wars.

Is this girl studying magic in Xinhua City, what kind of strange things are those sticks in the hands of soldiers and the barrels controlled by soldiers?

The hollow stick was far from Baizhangyuan, which was able to pierce the armor used by ordinary soldiers, and the barrel was even more terrifying, capable of blowing a big hole hundreds of battles away.

With the blessing of these two divine weapons, these 3,000 people can indeed be ten with one, or even one as a hundred.

However, Guo Bailiu also saw the flaws of these two weapons, the stick, which was called a rifle by the prince, was actually the same as the bow and arrow.

Just like the archer shoots an arrow, takes the arrow, takes the arrow, opens the bow, aims and then fires, the gunner also has a reload, pull the bolt, push out the cartridge case, put a new bullet into it, and then push the bolt back in, do aiming, and finally shoot these steps.

In Guo Bailiu's eyes, these gunners brought by the prince should be very skilled, and their reload time will be a few breaths.

If such a gap is exploited by a huge number of enemies, defeat is still inevitable.

And the heavy weapon that should be called artillery, its flaw is even more obvious, that is, although it is very powerful, the range is also very long. But it also has a close range. Targets within 100 zhang can't be hit. Once you get close, there is only one option left.

Now Guo Bailuo finally understands why this prince with a divine weapon is still in Dongying, and he has not directly returned to the Central Plains to join the battlefield.

"How? Do you still think that 3,000 people are less? After taking Guo Bailiu to visit the entire army, Zhao Weiji asked.

"With such a divine weapon, there are naturally a lot of three thousand people." Guo Bailiu pondered for a moment, and then said: "But I think the prince is estimated to only be able to arm three thousand people, I think the prince knows the defects of these two divine weapons, if he can't be equipped in large quantities, especially the weapon called a rifle." It is estimated that it will also be difficult to confront hundreds of thousands of Liaoguo iron cavalry. It is estimated that this amount is only enough to defend the city. ”

Zhao Weiji nodded, and acquiesced to Guo Bailiu's statement, the current rifle force is more than enough to defend the city, and once the opponent's cavalry exceeds 30,000 in the field, it can only deliver food.

After all, rifle melee combat is not easy to use, and now Zhao Weiji regrets that he didn't stay in the city at that time and then get the pistol out, if he has a pistol, at least he doesn't have to go to the bayonet for hand-to-hand combat.

But it's useless to regret it now, and the urgency of delay is to discuss with Guo Bailiu a feasible way to intervene in the battle of Song Liao.

After visiting their own troops. Zhao Weiji took Guo Bailuo back to his residence and entered the study. Zhao Weiji didn't plan to talk nonsense, and asked Guo Bailuo directly: "Shusheng, now only you know the situation in the Central Plains best, I need you to give an idea, where is the best place for my army to return to the Central Plains." ”

After speaking, Zhao Weiji opened a curtain hanging on a wall in the study, and behind the curtain was a map of the Great Song Dynasty and the surrounding area, drawn in great detail.

This map is a task that Zhao Weiji carried out at the same time when he was arranging Qian Zhuang in the Central Plains, and this map was drawn by collecting information through the Qian Zhuang distributed in the Central Plains and even the surrounding Qian Zhuang.

The appearance of this map gave Guo Bailiu a great shock, and at the same time, he was extremely surprised, with such a map, many strategies can be planned in detail.

Just when Guo Bailiu fell into contemplation in front of this map, Zhao Weiji also found Wang Dayuan and Tie Zheng, who were still training troops outside, although the two of them now have a similar understanding of the current situation in the Central Plains as Zhao Weiji, basically half-understood, but they can always think of good ideas with their collective efforts.

When Zhao Weiji retrieved the other two, they found that Guo Bailiu's eyes had been staring at a point on the map, and when they looked at him, they found that the point he had been staring at was a place on the Shandong Peninsula inside the Bohai Bay, which was the mouth of the Yellow River, Qingzhou City.

Just after the other three people cast their eyes on the map, Guo Bailiu finally came back to his senses and realized the existence of the three people.

"Ah, sir, are you back?"

"Excuse me?" Zhao Weiji, who thought he had interrupted Guo Bailuo's train of thought, hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry." ”

"It's okay, the prince came back just in time, I have already thought of a suitable landing place, that is, here." Guo Bailiu pointed to the location of Qingzhou City on the map.

"This location is close to the mouth of the Yellow River, and once we can capture this place, we can take advantage of the convenience of the Yellow River flowing through Bianjing to go up the Yellow River and reach Bianjing smoothly, and we can avoid the Khitan troops during this period."

As Guo Bailiu said, if you set off along the Yellow River upstream to Bianjing, you can indeed avoid the Khitan troops, after all, the Khitans civilize the world with iron horses, but the navy is almost scum.

It's just that although the Khitan navy is a scumbag, Qingzhou City has always been an important port city in the north, and whether it can be captured so easily is still a question of completing the login.

At this time, Tie Zheng raised this question: "Although Mr.'s strategy is good, is this Qingzhou City so easy to capture?" I heard from the spies who came back from the Central Plains that the Khitans had no less effort to capture Qingzhou City, and it must have been heavily guarded now. ”

Tie Zheng's question is exactly what Wang Dayuan and Zhao Weiji want to ask, although they now have cannons and even gunboats in their hands, but if Qingzhou City is heavily guarded, it is not so easy to capture, and it is impossible to destroy the entire city.

Knowing that the three of them were eager to know how many defenders there were in Qingzhou City, Guo Bailiu didn't sell any more: "Regarding the matter of how many defenders there are in Qingzhou, judging from the information that my Guo family has detected, there shouldn't be too much."

This is also thanks to Kou Zhun Kou Laoxi, because he defended the city effectively and dragged a large number of Khitan troops under Bianjing, so that the Khitan army had to draw soldiers from some of the cities that had been captured to continue to reinforce under Bianjing.

And a large part of the troops that were transferred were the troops that originally occupied Qingzhou City. ”

Hearing Guo Bailuo say this, the other three suddenly increased their confidence, as long as there are not many troops defending the city, it is easy to land under Qingzhou City, Zhao Weiji's fleet can be said to be invincible in the world in this era, and it is almost impossible to intercept him outside the Bohai Bay with the Khitan scum army.

Although there is no problem with the location of the landing, once the landing, it is not so easy to go up the Yellow River.

All the ships that Zhao Weiji has now are all sea vessels, with huge tonnage, even if they enter the Yangtze River, it is a little reluctant, let alone a river like the Yellow River, where the perennial silt and sediment riverbed is higher than the ground level.

"Shusheng, there is one more thing, that is, how can we smoothly pass through the Yellow River and go upstream after we capture Qingzhou? I can't sail into the Yellow River with these ships under my command. ”

Guo Bailuo had seen the sea ships that Zhao Weiji had developed at the beginning when he was in Huating County, and he simply thought that Zhao Weiji had transformed those sea ships into warships, and he was still wondering that those sea ships were big, but they would not be completely unable to drive into the Yellow River.

However, he did not question it, but provided a solution: "Prince, don't worry about this, when the time comes, it will be over when the ship is changed, I stopped a batch of boats in Dengzhou when I went to sea to find the prince this time, and I can use those." ”

After listening to Guo Bailiu's words, Zhao Weiji put his heart down, now that all the plans have been arranged, then it is time to take action, after all, God knows how long Bianjing will be able to support it.

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Three days later, all of Zhao Weiji's troops were assembled, and he was allowed to go to sea by boat to prepare for the landing operation in Qingzhou.

After everyone boarded the boat, Guo Bailuo found that the boat Zhao Weiji was riding here was not as big as he said it could not be driven into the Yellow River, and it was not even as large as the sea ship he had seen in Huating County.

Just when Guo was full of suspicions, he found that the fleet was not heading directly for Bohai Bay, but stopped next to an island after a day's departure.

After the fleet stopped, I saw Zhao Weiji start to beckon all the personnel to prepare to get off the ship.

Just when Guo Bailuo couldn't figure out why, Zhao Weiji walked over: "Shu Sheng, get ready, let's get off the boat." ”

Hearing this sentence, Guo Bailiu was confused: "Get off the boat? Why disembark? It's only been the day. ”

"This is not the ship we are going to take, we are now preparing to change ships, and my ship is parked over there." While speaking, Zhao Weiji pointed to the distance with his finger.

Guo Bailuo looked in the direction of Zhao Weiji's finger and saw a fleet of three behemoths leading by it stopping at the north of the port.

When Zhao Weiji walked over with Guo Bailiu, Guo Bailiu found that the three were not behemoths, but monsters, and for the first time in his life, he saw that the boat with an iron shell could still float on the water.

"Lord Wang." Guo Bailiu swallowed his saliva: "This is a boat?" ”

"Of course." Zhao Weiji took Guo Bailuo's hand and took him to the Black Pearl: "Let's take a look at the new warship I invented." ”

After getting on the boat, Guo Bailiu was finally able to understand Zhao Weiji's words: The warships under my command can't enter the Yellow River.

But at the same time, he was even more worried about the Khitan naval army stationed in Qingzhou City, would he be able to survive when he encountered this kind of monster warship? (To be continued......)