At this moment, Ling Yunfei understood what pressure was, and originally thought that he could easily pretend to escalate, but now, a cruel fact was placed in front of him:

Do the 500,000 people of the Shenzhou Kingdom want to become the pioneers of the founding of the Shenzhou Kingdom and live gloriously, or do they want to become traitors under the guns and swords of the Tang Dynasty and die without a corpse?

Ling Yunfei knew that he had the help of the pretending system, if he left everyone behind and escaped, he could escape from this world, but he couldn't escape his heart, he would fall into guilt and self-blame forever.

"The country I established, I want to stick to it and make it stronger, a big Tang Dynasty, I Ling Yunfei can still fight against it, if they don't remember the kindness we helped them to quell the Anshi Rebellion before, if they will take revenge, I Ling Yunfei is not a vegetarian."

Ling Yunfei said this sentence loudly, and then ordered Fang Wenxin and Sun Shimei to let the two armies stand by.

At this time, Fang Wenxin, who had just left, received a report from his subordinates and immediately returned to the conference hall:

"President, there was a large number of explosions on Suzhu Island, and Fang Hao's garrison on Suzhu Island, a total of fifty-eight people, were all killed."

When he heard this, everyone in the entire council room became nervous.

"Is Datang going to attack?"

Fang Wenxin shook his head: "According to the report from his subordinates, only there was a series of explosions on Suzhu Island, it should be an artillery bombardment, and there is no abnormality elsewhere, according to the location of the shelling, the location of this artillery should be on Shuntian Island, five miles away from Suzhu Island, where there is a garrison of Datang." ”

Ling Yunfei nodded: "Su Can, immediately repair the book and send an envoy to Datang to understand the situation and why it hurt the lives of fifty-eight soldiers in my Shenzhou." ”

Su Can knew the seriousness of the matter, and immediately sent a capable cadre to Datang.

Ling Yunfei also understood that although this Suzhu Island was not managed by anyone, it did not belong to anyone, and there was nothing wrong with Datang firing at this place, the ultimate purpose of the envoy he sent was to personally see how far Datang's artillery had developed.

Ling Yunfei didn't dare to delay for a moment, if the firearms of the Tang Dynasty became the climate, then the Shenzhou Kingdom would be wiped out.

Ling Yunfei took out his 98k and pistol, took out a few bullets from it, and immediately went to find Zhou Shiqiang.

Ling Yunfei found Zhou Shiqiang, came to the iron-smelting factory, and handed the bullets to Zhou Shiqiang.

"President, what is this, this is too exquisite."

"It's a bullet."

"Bullets? Where did it come from? ”

"You don't care about these first, Zhou Shiqiang, you also know that our musket, its bullets and gunpowder are separated, first load gunpowder, and then stuff the bullet into it, so that it can be fired, I think, can you get gunpowder and warhead together, just like this, so that since then, the soldiers have no loading process, they can shoot directly, in that case, our muskets and artillery can improve the lethality, you also know, now Datang has artillery, presumably they also have muskets."

Looking at Ling Yunfei's heavy face, Zhou Shiqiang understood the crisis at this time, which did not stop for a moment, and immediately took the bullet and found workers to disassemble and study.

Two days later, Zhou Shiqiang came to see Ling Yunfei, Ling Yunfei thought that there was any progress, and he was very excited, but when he saw Zhou Shiqiang, his heart was cold.

It turned out that one of Zhou Shiqiang's arms was bandaged, and his face was full of scars.

"President, your subordinates are really not doing well, please punish you."

Ling Yunfei didn't blame Zhou Shiqiang, looking at the scars on his face, he knew what was going on.

"President, we made the shell of the bullet out of iron, but the fuse at the back end really can't be helped, I tried for a long time, but it failed, and the bullet exploded in the barrel before it came out of the barrel, which is very unstable."

Ling Yunfei shook his head: "You did your best, it's not your fault." ”

Ling Yunfei really has no choice, knowing that even if the pretending system provides technology, in this era, it is still very difficult to refine copper-iron alloys, and there is no hope at all to create bullets.

At this time, the envoy team who sent the Tang Dynasty also returned, Su Can came to the conference hall to report on the work, and Ling Yunfei found all the ministers to discuss together.

Su Can said: "The envoy team this time can be said to have eaten a nose of ashes, that Datang, the fifty-eight people killed by the shelling, did not pay attention to it at all, saying that he set off the cannon in his own backyard, and others ran to their backyard and were injured, which was deserved." ”

"How can it be?" Sun Shimei was the first to sit still.

Ling Yunfei calmed him down.

"Did the messenger team see their artillery?"

"I saw it, this is drawn by the messenger team after they came back, relying on their own memories."

As he spoke, Su Can handed a painting of an artillery piece to Ling Yunfei.

Ling Yunfei opened it and looked at it, first taken aback, and then, his face was full of melancholy.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this vicious battle is inevitable and must be fought."

Ling Yunfei passed down the painting of the cannon, and everyone saw it.

"The caliber and length of these guns are larger than ours, that is, their range is even longer than ours, so we can't fight them."

Su Can stepped forward: "President, this is not the most terrifying, the terrifying thing is that in a short period of time, Datang has five hundred such artillery pieces on Suzhu Island alone. ”

Ling Yunfei was even heavier, and the other ministers were a little unable to sit still.

"Five hundred?"

"It was the envoy team who saw it personally, and I think Datang deliberately wanted us to know."

Fang Wenxin moved forward: "President, out of the border of Taizhou, there are also signs of the Tang Army, and they are moving closer to this side." ”

Ling Yunfei sat down, and for a while, he didn't know what to do.

And this meeting, someone came to report.

"President, I went out of Taizhou by the border of Datang, and found a large number of leaflets, and found that there were people of our Shenzhou Kingdom who wanted to flee to Datang and were caught by the border guards."

"What? Why did they run away? ”

The subordinate handed the leaflet up.

When Ling Yunfei took a look, he knew what was really insidious.

"I invented the flyer, and now, it's being used by others."

The leaflet was very simple, and it roughly meant:

You will always be the people of Datang, but you have been bewitched by Ling Yunfei, if you flee back to Datang now, or aim the weapons in your hands at Shenzhou, not only will you not be held accountable for the crime of defection, but you will also be rewarded, if you don't do this, Datang will defeat Shenzhou, and you will be killed.

"What a sinister move, are there more or fewer people who escape?"

"The border guards caught more than a hundred."

"More than a hundred?"

Ling Yunfei was instantly furious and escorted them here for me.

After a long time, all the 100 escapees were escorted back.

The gang shivered in the audience.

Ling Yunfei's face was angry: "Let me ask you, why did you flee, in the Shenzhou Kingdom, are you not living well?" ”

"Good, good, good!"

The men trembled.

"Okay, then why do you have to flee, you must know that at the beginning, it was Datang who was unable to protect you, I took you in, gave you food and clothing, built streets, and let your children go to school, I did a good enough, why did you betray me."

Ling Yunfei almost shouted after saying this, and only then did he come quietly, and some of the more than 100 people were so frightened that they had already peed their pants.

Probably they also knew that defection would be executed.

Fang Wenxin stepped forward and drew his knife: "Come on, pull these people down and cut them all." ”

Ling Yunfei raised his head, said slowly, and then called Li Bai from the household department:

"Order to go down, give the people of Shenzhou Kingdom two days, if you want to stay in Shenzhou Kingdom, just continue to stay, don't want to stay, want to go to Datang, confiscate all their property, those were originally from our Shenzhou, originally they were refugees, and they have nothing, but when they go out of the border, please tell them that our Shenzhou Kingdom has saved their lives." In addition, all these people who have left the Shenzhou Kingdom will be deleted from our Shenzhou Kingdom's household registration and will never be allowed to set foot in the Shenzhou Kingdom again. ”

Li Bai received the order and immediately went to issue a notice, and Sun Shimei stepped forward:

"President, just let them go?"

"Let them go, our Shenzhou Country, don't raise white-eyed wolves, I think, Fang Wenxin and Sun Shimei, there won't be white-eyed wolves in your army."

"No, when the army was established, most of them were workers before the president, waiting for your favor, and they were loyal."

"That's good, we must win this battle with Datang."

When Li Bai released the announcement, all of a sudden, the Shenzhou Kingdom began to make a commotion, but everything was still in Ling Yunfei's control.

According to the statistics sent by Li Bai, in the past few days, more than 20,000 people have left Shenzhou Kingdom and entered Datang.

On the other hand, Datang was very happy, but he didn't expect Ling Yunfei to be so merciful and let those who wanted to leave leave safely, and Datang also learned to pretend and settle those who fled well, with the purpose of continuing to attract the people of Shenzhou Country to leave Shenzhou Kingdom.

However, there are also those who know how to repay the gratitude, holding a banner that reads: At the beginning, it was the Shenzhou Kingdom that saved us, saved our children, and lived a very happy life in the Shenzhou Kingdom, but now the Shenzhou Country is in trouble, how can you leave?

Ling Yunfei was very relieved to see this.

"This country, these people, is worth fighting for."

Ling Yunfei didn't dare to slack off for a moment, then Datang might show his fangs at any time, but Ling Yunfei also understood that Datang wanted to take down the Shenzhou Kingdom without spending a single shot, after all, the wealth of the Shenzhou Kingdom made Datang's eyes very hot.

Ling Yunfei took his five apprentices to find Zhou Shiqiang and came to Zhou Shiqiang's factory.

"Your factory, now stop making everything, and all the bicycles that will be built, all the iron, now it's a time of crisis."

Zhou Shiqiang was a little incomprehensible, but he also knew that the president had something to do, and when Zhou Shiqiang asked everyone to stop, Ling Yunfei put a few pictures he had drawn on the table.

"This is what we can do against Datang, and we can only make as much as we can before Datang launches an attack."

Everyone looked at Ling Yunfei and looked at those pictures, looking very strange, and they didn't know what they were.

However, Ling Yunfei's face showed a resolute expression:

"Datang wants revenge, and we don't have to be merciful, everyone, this time, it's up to everyone!"