"You old ......!"

Li Xiao slapped the three words bastard back. Li Hu rubbed his head and stepped aside. His eyes were still staring at Sun Chengzong, just now Sun Chengzong spoke very politely, and the tiger master was about to scold when he opened his mouth when his temper came up.

Li Hu is not sensible, but Li Xiao knows. Sun Chengzong kindly reminded him that if he really let the Eight Banners break through Shanhaiguan. Plundered around Gyeonggi, although the Ming Dynasty was not killed with the strength of the Tartars, but Li Xiao did not want to mix in the Ming Dynasty.

"Lord Sun is an emperor, so you shouldn't be unable to see the Tao here." Li Xiao pointed to the sand table, if he were a different person, he would never say what he thought in his heart. The importance of pre-war secrecy is well known to Li Xiao.

Now there are only three people in the entire Shanhaiguan until the battle plan: Mao Wenlong, Yuan Chonghuan and Li Xiao. Even Ao Canghai is only until a little bit.

"All out!" Sun Chengzong's face sank and waved at his subordinates. The entourage behind him retreated, and Li Xiao pushed Li Hu. Li Hu also stupidly withdrew from the door with people, and Ao Canghai personally guarded the door. When the idlers get close to the room, they will be shot into a sieve.

There were only four people left in the room: Mao Wenlong, Yuan Chonghuan, Li Xiao and Sun Chengzong.

"Lord Sun, there are only three people in Shanhaiguan who know about this battle plan." Li Xiao compared himself and Mao Wenlong and Yuan Chonghuan.

"You are the fourth to know about this, and this matter affects the lives of thousands of soldiers. I beg Lord Sun not to reveal half a point! ”

"Thanks to Mr. Li's trust, the old man knows."

"Lord Yuan entered Jinzhou City with an army of 40,000 in order to let the Tartar soldiers attack. In other words, these 40,000 people are a piece of bait that I put out. At present, the strength of the Tartars is about 70,000 people, and they want to eat 40,000 people. Even if the Tartar soldiers are large, they must be dispatched by the whole army.

Once the Tartars besiege Jinzhou City, I will order the elite under my command to board the ship. The stick in Li Xiao's hand pointed to a place on the map.

"You didn't go to relieve the siege of Jinzhou?" Seeing the place pointed by Li Xiao, Sun Chengzong's eyes shrank.

"Yes, we don't need to solve the siege of Jinzhou. Our purpose is to occupy Montenegro and build a position on the front line of Dahu Mountain. Don't let the Tartar soldiers retreat from here to Liaoyang and Shenyang! ”

"This is the main force to annihilate the Tartars, are you sure that you can solve the siege of Jinzhou?" Sun Chengzong admired Li Xiao's courage, not everyone has such courage, and wanted to eat the main force of the Houjin Eight Banners in one go.

It's one thing to just have the courage, but it's another thing to be able to do it. Li Xiao is the most happy at this age, in case his plan fails, it will be a disaster for the Ming Dynasty.

"I will contact the Mongolian leader Geritu and march from Zhangwu to Jinzhou. And here's where my confidence lies. Li Xiao's stick pointed to the sea.

"At sea?" Sun Chengzong asked in surprise.

"Yes, at sea. I captured a Dutch warship with forty gun emplacements. Now I only have twenty guns, but my arsenal is working overtime to cast them. Before the war, it is expected that the artillery positions will be fully prepared. No matter how powerful the Tartar soldiers are, they will definitely not be able to stand the bombardment of my forty ship-borne cannons in turn.

I've already been to see that the pier on the edge of Jinzhou is a deep-water pier. Even if it's not tidal, you can let the boat drive over to the pier. ”

Li Xiao took a paperweight and placed it as a ship on the edge of Jinzhou Port.

"The dock is seven miles away from Jinzhou City, how far can your cannon hit?" Sun Chengzong squinted his eyes and pondered for a while, feeling that something was wrong.

"Huh! Brother Xiao'er's new cannon is farther than the Franco's cannon. I heard that the longest range can already hit 12 miles, so at present, it is no problem to hit 10 miles. Mao Wenlong looked at Sun Chengzong's proud explanation.

"Twelve miles?" Sun Chengzong's eyes widened, and he admired the Franc cannon. The longest firing distance of the Furlong cannon was only six miles. That's it, you have to risk exploding.

In fact, the artillery of this year wants to hit far. It depends on the more charge into the breech, and the charge is too much. This cannon is naturally easy to explode!

It's terrifying to find a tipping point between exploding and not exploding. It takes trial and sound with a cannon, and if you don't get it right, it will not only blow up the cannon. It is very likely that there will be deaths, and no one in the Ming Dynasty will be in prison, but no one has this kind of consciousness of taking their lives out to fight.

"How much is twelve?" Li Xiao looked at Sun Chengzong mockingly, and finally had a chance to mock this big man with great strategic vision for not knowing.

I even made nitric acid gunpowder, and it was not difficult for the shells to hit twelve miles. Twelve miles seems to be a long way to say, but it is only six kilometers.

Later generations will find a howitzer of more than 120 mm, and the firing range will easily exceed 10 kilometers. Calculated that his range is not even half of that of others, which is also something that cannot be helped, and the casting technology is really like that.

This is still a cannon cast in copper with good ductility, and if it is cast with iron, I don't know how many guns have been blown up now.

Of course, in order to increase the range. The fishermen still added several turns to the position of the gun breech. As much as possible, increase the strength of the breech without adding too much weight.

After testing, this cannon charge can hit fifteen miles. If there is more charge, there is a risk of exploding.

Li Xiao decided to set the charge at 12 miles.

The gunpowder needs to be weighed and packed in advance, and a bag of medicine can be poured into the bore to send the cannonball out for a mile. If you want to fight twelve miles, you need to pack twelve packs of medicine.

Before the gunner fires, just order the gunner to charge a few numbers. You can shoot as far as you can, for example, the gun commander says charge ten. That is, ten packs of gunpowder will be poured in, and the shells will be able to shoot ten miles out.

This method of charging allows even unskilled gunners to master it as soon as possible.

"If your cannon can really fight twelve miles, the Tartar soldiers can only concentrate at the west gate to take refuge. You contact the Mongols and attack from Zhangwu in the northwest. Just poke in the back of the Tartars!

Under the attack from both sides, if I were the thief chief Nurhachi, I would also order the troops to retreat. And you, a bad boy, have deployed troops on the front line of Black Mountain and Dahu Mountain in advance. The Tartar retreated there, and was beaten by you, hehe! It's strange if you don't lose your troops!

It's just that the old man doesn't know, how many troops are you going to deploy in the Black Mountain Big Tiger Mountain? ”

"Five thousand infantry, fifteen hundred cavalry."

"Are you sure you can stop it?"

"Stop!"

"Really?"

"If I can stop it, I can stop it!"

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Just when Li Xiao was actively planning for the Jinzhou Campaign, there was also turmoil in the capital. Although there is no gunpowder here, there is no lack of swords and swords.

Li Xiao wants to have a showdown with Nurhachi, but Wei Zhongxian now wants to have a showdown with the Donglin Party.

Partisanship, although in many cases, is cloaked in political opinions. But when it comes to the root, it is still a struggle for interests.

The meaning of interest is very broad, but to describe it in one word, it can only be described in terms of money.

Father-in-law Wei wants to have a showdown with the Donglin Party, but in fact, it is for money. For a sum of money, to be exact!

Speaking of which, the fuse of this incident was still a troublesome thing caused by Li Xiao.

Li Xiao sent 5,000 taels of silver, and Zhao led the sect into the edict of Jinyiwei. His ass of shit went out eight streets against the wind. You don't need to check strictly, as long as you check a little, you won't be able to run.

In particular, Gao Jin, the deputy general of Zhao Shujiao, from the first day that the deputy general soldier was brought into prison, he turned into a tainted witness. Zhao taught this time, even if he wanted to, he couldn't run away.

Although the crime is big, after all, there is money and good things to do in these years. Zhao Zhishan, the son of Zhao Shujiao, received the housekeeper's report and immediately brought a large amount of silver to Beijing for activities, hoping to get his father out.

Of course, the first thing he visited was his fellow villagers. Zhao Nanxing, who is also a Hebei person!

After stuffing a considerable amount of red envelopes, Zhao Zhishan finally met the court bigwig.

After hearing what happened to his fellow countryman, Zhao Nanxing didn't say anything. After all, this is a bad thing, the reason why Zhao Zhishan was able to meet Zhao Nanxing. It was entirely because he thought of an idea, that is, Zhao Shujiao was persecuted by Li Xiao. As long as Zhao Shujiao comes out, he can sue Li Xiao for favoritism, private armies, intent to rebel and many other crimes.

On these charges, the speech officials controlled by the Donglin Party rushed up again, forming a public opinion effect. Li Xiao is basically dead and dead, you must know that the Ming Dynasty is lenient in managing other things. But the intentions are ill-intentioned, and the vain attempt to rebel is extremely strict. As long as you are touched, whether you are a prince or a nobleman, or a courtier, it is not good.

With such an opportunity, Zhao Nanxing immediately met with Zhao Zhishan. After a cordial meeting between the two sides, Zhao Nanxing expressed his concern and condolences to Zhao Zhishan. Zhao Zhishan expressed his full respect for the elders, and the two sides had fruitful consultations on a series of relevant issues concerning Zhao Shujiao.

The consultations lasted from late evening into the evening and were finally concluded. Zhao Nanxing can't do anything!

After all, he is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and although his official position is high, Jinyiwei is not under his control.

To rescue Zhao Shujiao, you have to have someone who has the ability to reverse the matter. can be found and searched, and the only person in the Donglin Party who can do things is Wang Wenyan.

So Zhao Nanxing pointed out a clear way for Zhao Zhishan to find Wang Wenyan, who was the most upside down in the capital. and generously wrote a letter of recommendation to Zhao Zhishan, as long as he holds this letter, he will not worry about not seeing Lord Wang.

Zhao Zhishan was like a treasure, and he went to Wang Wenyan with the letter from Zhao Nanxing early the next morning.

Lord Wang was a happy person and read Zhao Nanxing's letter. generously said that Zhao Shangshu's entrustment is that there are difficulties to do, and there are no difficulties to create difficulties.

The only difficulty now is that the person is in Jinyiwei's edict, and the evidence is conclusive. If you want to get out of it, you have to get a lot of money.

As soon as Zhao Zhishan heard that his father could fish it out, he immediately said generously. He is a filial son, as long as he can get his father out, he can spend as much as he wants.

Wang Wenyan gave a number, 40,000 taels of silver to ensure that Zhao Shujiao would not die. If you want to release it and not be affected by this matter, you need 60,000 taels of silver.

Zhao Zhishan was shocked at the time, knowing that it was more expensive to fish for people, but he didn't expect it to be so expensive. Helplessly, people are locked up in the edict prison, even if they are ruined and avoid disasters. After gritting his bad teeth and agreeing, Wang Wenyan immediately happily sent Zhao Zhishan out of the house.

Although he promised Zhao Zhishan, Wang Wenyan couldn't do it. After all, the case is in the hands of Jinyiwei, and this matter has been in a uproar. The top and bottom are ready to be done as a model, and it is too difficult to catch people at this time.

But it doesn't matter, he Wang Wenyan can't get it out, he can get it out of his relationship, after all, it's easy to do things if he has money!

Lord Wang doesn't take the usual path, since he wants to find someone to catch people, he must find someone who has the final say. In the eyes of Lord Wang, the one who has the final say is naturally Wei Zhongxian and Wei Gonggong.

Dongchang Jinyi Wei is full of Wei Gonggong's minions. As long as he says a word, he is not afraid that this matter will not become a big matter and a small matter.

Through layers of relationships, Wang Wenyan asked someone to entrust Wei Zhongxian. Wang Wenyan naturally wouldn't say that he entrusted Wei's father-in-law to do business, and found Wei's father-in-law under the pretense of someone else's name.

Gonggong Wei listened to what Zhao taught and gave his price after thinking about it.

To say that Gonggong Wei and Wang Wenyan are also very good-hearted, the price he gave is 40,000 taels of immortality, and 60,000 taels of release.

The news came back to Wang Wenyan, and Wang Wenyan immediately quit. Lao Tzu went back and forth, and he couldn't get the last penny, it all went into Wei Zhongxian's pocket, and there was no royal law!

The angry Wang Wenyan immediately found Zhao Zhishan and told Zhao Zhishan that things had changed, and now he needed 80,000 taels of silver to get people out.

Zhao Zhishan, who was surprised, was dumbfounded, and then ......!

That's it!

Zhao Zhishan revitalized the funds in his hometown, and only sold more than 60,000 taels of silver in total. I thought I would go to Wang Wenyan and talk about whether I could make a low-cost one. As a result, I didn't expect that Wang Wenyan would increase the price when he opened his mouth.

Zhao Zhishan, who was helpless, could only say that he had no money and could not do anything.

Wang Wenyan also said that no money is not good!

Originally, the matter ended here, and after the imperial approval of the Emperor of the Autumn Queen, Zhao Shujiao would be pulled out and killed with a knife.

But this thing actually happened again.

It is estimated that Father-in-law Wei has been relatively tight recently, and with such a business, he is naturally worried. But there is no news from the left, and there is no news from the right.

sent someone to check and found out that the person who asked him to do things was actually Wang Wenyan.

It's too much of a bully!

On weekdays, it's okay to go against Lao Tzu, and dare to ask Lao Tzu to do something. I also gave my mother a kickback for Lao Tzu, and it was 20,000 taels of silver when I ate it.

Father-in-law Wei was angry, and the furious Father-in-law Wei immediately sent someone to arrest Wang Wenyan. If you dare not use the eunuch as a dish, I will drink you today.