"Don't worry, there will always be a chance, the most important thing for you now is to equip yourself with new weapons, and train them, sharpen your knives and cut wood, and after a while, I will send you to the Ryukyus." Li Su shook his head helplessly.

Qin Huaiyu and Zhu Youzhi were overjoyed when they heard this, squeezed their eyebrows at each other, and said, "Thank you, Your Highness!" ”

After the discussion, the three decided to equip all the infantry with new rifles, expand the scale of the artillery regiment, and reduce the number of cavalry accordingly, but maintain the scale of 10,000 people, after all, the grassland is still dominated by cavalry, and some battles are still not good without it.

Just when the army in Yizhou began to replace the new equipment, the 100 artillery pieces ordered by Li Su for Li Shimin arrived in Chang'an, and Li Su, who was used to spoofing, also gave this batch of artillery a well-known name - Shenwu Cannon, and the name of this artillery was cast on the cannon body.

"Majesty, majesty! The artillery of the King of Shu has arrived at the gate of the city."

In the Ganlu Palace, Li Shimin was criticizing the performance, and at this time, a eunuch hurriedly ran in from outside the Ganlu Palace, with an excited face.

"It's really here!" When Li Shimin heard this, he put down the brush in his hand and walked out, saying, "Take me to have a look!" ”

Seeing that Li Shimin was happy, the eunuch said with a smile on his face: "Yes, Your Majesty!" ”

A hundred Shenwu cannons from Yizhou were pulled by horse-drawn carriages, and they were stopped by the guards guarding the city at this time, and they didn't dare to let these things into the city without getting an order.

Li Shimin left the Taiji Palace and came directly to the south gate of Chang'an City, and at the same time he also asked the eunuchs to notify the important civil and military officials to come together to see this powerful firearm, after returning from Yizhou, he described the power of this weapon to the courtiers in the early court, otherwise the matter of coinage would not be so easy for Li Su to get.

Riding a bloody BMW Li Shimin galloped all the way, since he ascended the throne. He had seldom been so happy, and the ministers who had been notified had quickly changed their clothes, or left, or rode towards the Mingde Gate.

"Elder Elder Sun Ge, wait for us!" After getting the eunuch's message, the eldest grandson Wuji put down the matter in his hand and rode out of the mansion, and as soon as he arrived at Suzaku Street, he saw Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng, who were also in a hurry.

Restraining the horse, the eldest grandson Wuji said: "You also got a message from the eunuch?" ”

"It's all got, you look at Suzaku Street heading south, isn't it all because of this artillery?" Wei Zheng said, "I don't know if what the emperor said in the morning court that day is true or false." Can this artillery really shatter a stone mountain with one shot? If it weren't for that, wouldn't it be a loss for the right to mint? ”

"Whether it's true or not, let's just go and see, and the coinage is also a matter of time, but the king of Shu is still worried about the emperor and told the emperor about it, if he comes secretly, who can control it." Fang Xuanling said.

The eldest grandson Wuji urged the horse forward and said, "Xuan Ling's words are right, this King of Shu is still worried about the emperor." Let's not pursue the rest, the emperor is in a good mood after returning from Yizhou, can't you see the cattiness? ”

"Does Elder Changsun Ge mean that the emperor is also a little worried about the King of Shu?" Wei Zheng said as he recalled the words of the eldest grandson Wuji.

With a long sigh, the eldest grandson Wuji said: "Don't be confused with understanding." In the first year that the king of Shu was in charge of Yizhou, he defeated the 40,000 army of Tuyuhun with 10,000 soldiers, and in the second year, less than 20,000 soldiers defeated the 100,000 Tubo army, which scared the Tubo so much that he did not dare to come down from the plateau for more than a year. ”

"yes. Therefore, this time the emperor went to Yizhou to escape the summer, one was for fun. This second one is to test the King of Shu, because the emperor did not expect that in just three years, the fief of the King of Shu has undergone such a huge change, and the hidden strength makes the emperor also frightened. Fang Xuanling added.

Wei Zheng nodded, "I'm not pretending to be confused, I really don't know as carefully as the two of you." The eldest grandson Wuji is the queen's elder brother, Fang Xuanling has taken over the intelligence agency established by Du Ruhui since Du Ruhui's death, and the two naturally know more things than him, "According to what the two pavilion elders said, I, Wei Zheng, understand, and now the emperor is so happy, it is nothing more than that the king of Shu does not have the heart of rebellion, and he still has benevolence and filial piety to the emperor, that is, he gave the emperor the weapon to defeat Tubo without hesitation." ”

"Exactly!" The eldest grandson Wuji said: "If the king of Shu has the heart of disobedience, how can he simply give the emperor a weapon like artillery!"

The three of them talked all the way, and gradually arrived at the Mingde Gate, at this time, there were already many ministers gathered in front of the Mingde Gate, civil and military officials, all of whom were talking to each other at this time, pointing to things outside the door from time to time.

At this time, a hundred Shenwu cannons have been neatly arranged in a row outside the Mingde Gate, the barrels of the cannons are forty-five degrees towards the sky, the overall look is very spectacular, the three of them dismounted, greeted the ministers, squeezed to the front, and finally saw the so-called artillery.

Li Shimin was the first to arrive at this place, he had already asked the people who transported the artillery about the detailed situation, this is the first batch of 100 Shenwu cannons, and 200 Shenwu cannons will be transported one after another, a total of 300 cannons, for Li Su It almost costs nothing to make this grade of artillery, so he is not stingy, after all, compared to this thing, Li Shimin gave him a large fief and free support, in comparison, this thing is really nothing.

This time, the cannon came with the three gunners of Yizhou, who will stay in Chang'an for a period of time to teach how to use artillery, and this first time Li Su also gave Li Shimin a hundred shells and some black powder, and Li Shimin needs to figure out how to deal with the gunpowder later.

Li Shimin looked at the artillery array that stretched for hundreds of steps, his face was smiling, when he was in Yizhou, he did not discuss the number of artillery with Li Su, but just let Li Su look at it, what he didn't expect was that Li Su sent a hundred artillery pieces over for the first time, and walked around the artillery from south to north, Li Shimin turned around and saw Li Chengqian's three princes, the eldest grandson Wuji, Li Jing, Hou Junji and other civil and military ministers have arrived, so he said: "Don't stand at the door, come and see the artillery sent by the six princes." ”

Hearing this, the ministers walked up to the cannon and looked at it carefully, some of them tapped it with their fingers, and some of the ministers stretched out their heads to look inside from the muzzle of the cannon, but they were still puzzled, what was so powerful about this kind of thing.

"Father, isn't this cannon just an iron pipe?" After observing around an artillery piece for a long time, Li Tai asked, after staying in the prison for half a month, Li Shimin still released Li Chengqian and Li Tai, both of whom were also in charge of the government affairs of the Tang Dynasty, and no matter how they said that this was also his son.

Li Shimin was in a happy mood today, and he temporarily forgot about his previous unhappiness, and said: "This artillery is naturally just an iron pipe, but the use of gunpowder and cannonballs can produce great power. ”

Li Jing and Hou Junji are both outstanding generals in Rong Ma's life, compared to those civil officials, they are more concerned about artillery, that day Chaoyi is also a group of military generals shouted the loudest, asking for the right to mint this artillery, Li Jing is over sixty years old, his hair is gray, but the body is still very strong, according to the original history, he should have recovered Tuyuhun, but there is no doubt that Li Su robbed him of his cake.

"Your Majesty, let's see the power of artillery, if it is really as the emperor said, we will have a sharp weapon to defend the city." Li Jing said impatiently.

Li Shimin said with a smile: "I have this intention, let you Aiqing see the power of this artillery." After that, Li Shimin asked the eunuch to inform the gunner to show it to them in front of the ministers.

The gunner was ordered to take out the gunpowder and shells from the box, and on both sides of the main road of Mingdemen was wasteland, and there was an abandoned earthen wall on the west side of the wasteland, so the gunner pulled one of the guns and aimed it at the earthen wall, and quickly filled the gunpowder and shells, and then one of the gunners lit the fuse.

When the gunner was operating, the ministers were watching the gunner's operation intently, and when the lead was ignited, he looked more seriously.

Looking at the burning lead, Li Shimin always felt that something was wrong, and when he instinctively covered his ears, he suddenly remembered that he forgot to let the ministers cover their ears, and at this time the lead had burned to the bottom...... (To be continued......)