Jinan Mansion, Jinyi Wei Yamen.

"You took Dongchang Mansion City?"

Looking at Liang Ping, Su Hao's expression was extremely strange, this was something he didn't expect at all, it was a mansion, and there were five or six thousand people stationed in Dongchangwei and Pingshanwei, and they wanted to capture Dongchang City, not to mention the more than 10,000 people they brought, even if fifty or sixty thousand people besieged it for a year, it was impossible to take Dongchangfu City.

This is not a joke, the price to pay if you want to take a city is very great, the main reason is that the city wall of the city is extremely high, just like the height of the city wall of Guiyang City is two zhang five, which is equivalent to eight meters three, An Bangyan led 100,000 people, and he couldn't break Guiyang Mansion after besieging it for ten months.

The height of the city wall of Dongchang Mansion City is more than 11 meters, which is one meter higher than that of Jinan Mansion City, this kind of city wall height, ordinary siege equipment is already difficult to reach, and it is difficult to fight the situation when it goes up, with the strength of Tang Xiangjin and a few people, it can go up, but in the face of thousands of defenders and masters in the city, it is just to send people to the head.

If you want to capture this kind of heavy city, there are only three possibilities, the first is to besiege the city until there is no food and no equipment to defend the city; The second is that there are insufficient defenders in the city, after all, the walls of a government city are basically more than a few thousand meters, and such a long city wall requires at least tens of thousands of people to take turns to defend the city; The third is that the city gates should be opened.

In addition to these three methods, if you want to attack, it is basically impossible, at a height of eleven meters, a small stone can kill people, and shooting an arrow for two or three hundred meters is the same as playing, and the power is extremely strong, not to mention other city defense equipment.

"Jiang Renxi, the prefect of Dongchang Prefecture, led his troops out of the city to fight a decisive battle with us."

Liang Ping said with a smile, for this result, they didn't expect it, after all, Jiang Renxi and their troops were already less than them, and they had to give up the city wall and fight them in the field, which was a decision that could only be made when the head was in water.

Hearing this, Su Hao was also a little speechless, this has to be a way to come up with how much fake wine he drank, but now that Jiang Renxi, Shao Kun, and Pan Ding were all killed, he couldn't find anyone even if he wanted to ask.

After thinking for a while, Su Hao got to the point: "Then do you think this Dongchang Mansion should be guarded?"

Although Dongchang Mansion has a high wall to defend, the troops on their side are not enough now, and it is too risky to divide troops to defend Dongchang Mansion.

Now in addition to the soldiers sent out by the Jinan Mansion, there are only more than 10,000 soldiers recruited, and it will take at least four or five months to recruit enough soldiers to hold the two cities, and the imperial court can gather enough soldiers and horses to quell the rebellion in three months at most.

What's more, they can't afford to fight outside the city with the soldiers and horses of the imperial court now, and it will take at least a year or so to train recruits to the extent that they can go out to fight, and as for training for a month and then pulling them into battle, he doesn't want to use this method.

It's not that he is merciful, in the past few years, more than three hundred people have died in his hands, not to mention that his blood is colder than ice now, but benevolence has little to do with him.

The main reason is that his current territory is not large enough and the source of soldiers is not enough, the imperial court can continuously recruit new soldiers from various provinces, and the imperial court can use new soldiers as cannon fodder.

But he can't, he's not like Li Zicheng and them, Li Zicheng and they take the route of rogues, never fight head-on with the imperial court, they can escape, and if they can't escape, they will let the refugees under them break off, only take away the elite, and coerce the people of a place every time they go. ….

But he didn't want to take this route, since ancient times, the rogue has no future, it's too bad a reputation, and the soldiers and horses under his command have no rules, and it is difficult to have any loyalty, which is also the reason why Li Zicheng will fail, after all, there is no foundation, where to grab it, how can a group of robbers have any loyalty at all.

What he wants to follow is the route of local warlords, based on Jinan Province, slowly occupying other prefectures and counties, separating one side, and finally swallowing the world, which requires a strong army, not a large group of refugees.

"Xiaguan and the others think that Dongchang Mansion can't give up."

Liang Ping arched his hand and said: "Simply defending Jinan, it is very easy to be completely trapped, it is better to occupy Dongchang Mansion, with Dongchang Mansion and Jinan Mansion as each other's horns, echoing each other, there are Daqing River and canals, and the connection between the two cities will not be easily cut off."

This is the conclusion that several of them came to after discussing for a long time, and they are simply trapped in Jinan

The mansion, even if the food and water are endless, it is very likely that it will be completely trapped in the Jinan Mansion, it is better to occupy one more mansion city, so that it can also have more foundation.

Horns for each other?

After listening to Liang Ping's words, Su Hao tapped the handrail gently, this proposal is not bad, if his memory is not wrong, in the next few years, there will be a large-scale uprising in Shaanxi, and the Jurchens will also enter Beizhili.

As long as he can survive the first two years, the imperial court will not be able to concentrate all its energy on him, and this time he seized the million stone cao grain and occupied Dongchang Mansion, the entire Cao Yun will be cut off by him, and the food problem of the border army and the food problem of the capital will appear, and the court may not be able to mobilize many troops to encircle and suppress him.

After all, the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, and the people of the army of more than 100,000 or 200,000 people eat horses and chew is not a small number, and the transportation is broken, which means that the imperial court needs to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to transport food to supply the army.

According to normal standards, the number of servants and the army is directly proportional, and the imperial court requisitioned 150,000 troops to encircle and suppress them, so it would need a similar number of servants to transport food and other materials, which are great losses, and the imperial court may not be able to hold on.

"Are you sure you can cut off the luck?"

After pondering for a moment, Su Hao said, "If we can cut off the Cao Yun, then the imperial court will definitely not have much spare strength to deal with us in order to meet the food needs of the border army and the food needs of the capital."

"We can block the canal before the Imperial army arrives, divert the water into the Tuxiao River, and destroy all the locks."

Liang Ping said in a deep voice: "Although it is difficult to stop this for a long time, half a year should still be gained, but in this way, we will also lose the convenience of the canal."

It was easy to fill the river, but it would be much more difficult for the imperial court to dig it up, and with the destruction of the floodgates, and their sneak attacks from time to time, it would definitely take longer.

"Then do it."

After thinking for a while, Su Hao nodded and said, "You recruit new soldiers in Dongchang Mansion first, and then I will send some more people to Dongchang Mansion, but in terms of the masters of the imperial court, I can only rely on you."

He is still a little sure that he will defend Jinan Mansion by himself, but he will no longer be able to guard Dongchang Mansion by himself.

"Xia Guan understands!" ….

Liang Ping's expression was solemn, they had also thought about this before, as long as there were twenty or thirty thousand soldiers and horses guarding the city, plus ten of them, it was not impossible to defend Dongchang Mansion.

………

Capital.

Qianqing Palace.

Boom! Winter! Bang! Peng!

"Rubbish! Fool!"

The sound of all kinds of smashing plates and stools resounded throughout the Qianqing Palace, accompanied by Zhu Youzhen's roar.

"The court raises you, and that's how you serve me!"

"Rubbish! Fool!"

Boom! Boom!

A few more pieces of gold were smashed into the ground, smashing the tiles into small pits.

Qian Longxi and others knelt on the ground and did not dare to move, nor did they dare to open their mouths to dissuade, millions of stone grains were robbed, Dongchang Mansion was captured, compared to this matter, the slaughter of King De and the occupation of Jinan Mansion is a bit insignificant.

After all, King De was killed only to lose the emperor's face, and Jinan Mansion was only occupied in one place, although the impact was great, but it was also limited, Jinan Mansion was not a traffic artery, nor was it an important checkpoint, and the loss of Jinan Mansion had a great impact on the imperial court.

But the grain is different from Dongchang Mansion, the million stone grain is the food of hundreds of thousands of border troops in the north for several months, without these grain, it means that hundreds of thousands of border troops will be hungry next, lack of pay and silver can be delayed, lack of food will starve to death, once a mutiny, the entire capital will be in danger.

More importantly, Dongchang Mansion was occupied, and Caoyun was always in danger of being cut off, and the city of Dongchang Mansion was surrounded by water on several sides, the city was high and the pool was deep, and it was difficult for the army to deploy, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so to speak, don't want to recapture Dongchangfu City in a short time.

"Yan Aiqing, what do you say about this?"

After the anger subsided slightly, Zhu Youzhen looked at Yan Mingtai below and said coldly.

"I think it's the heaviest now

What we want is to solve the food problem of the border army, and then we will crusade against the rebels."

Hearing Zhu Youzhen's question, Yan Mingtai hurriedly said: "Now that the Jurchens are in full swing, if there is a mutiny, the Jurchens will drive straight in and repeat the tragic situation of the Gengxu Rebellion."

"Do you just sit back and watch rebellion sit down!"

Hearing Yan Mingtai's words, Zhu Youzhen was so angry that his back molars were about to crush, and since he ascended the throne, he had not been happy.

"Your Majesty, although the rebels have occupied Dongchang Mansion and Jinan Mansion, their strength is still insufficient, and there is no need to worry about it in a short period of time."

Yan Mingtai said again: "But Wang Congyi is ordered to speed up the mobilization of troops and horses, open the canal as soon as possible, and resume water transportation to solve the problem of food shortage."

At this time, Yan Mingtai only felt that the position of the secretary of the military department under his ass was like a hot soldering iron, and he completely lost the vigor that he had just taken office before.

"Dispatch Tianjin Sanwei to Wang Congyi's command to listen to the order, and order him to open the canal as soon as possible and resume Cao Yun."

Zhu Youzhen gritted his teeth and said, "In addition, additional grain was levied from Shanxi, Henan, and Huguang and transported to Beijing."

Although I know that the loss of grain transportation by land is very great, but there is no way, Cao Yun is broken, and if grain is not transported by land, then the border army and the capital will be short of food, and when the time comes, the capital will be in chaos, and the world will be in chaos.

"Your Servants obey!"

Hearing this, Qian Longxi and the others hurriedly responded.

………

Jinan Mansion, Jinyi Wei Yamen.

In the martial arts arena, the two figures flickered vertically and horizontally, staggered, the long knife in his hand cracked out, and the blade passed, sparks flew out. ….

One of the figures is Su Hao's No. 2 natal paper figure, and the other figure is Liao Qing wearing armor.

Clang!

The two long knives cracked together, and then Liao Qing was cracked and flew out!

"Liao Qing come here."

Su Hao beckoned to Liao Qing and said, "How powerful is the armor?"

"Qianhu, this armor is too powerful, wearing this armor, the lower official has increased his strength by at least two thousand catties, with the help of this armor, the lower official can also defeat the hundred households of the Tang Dynasty."

Liao Qing said excitedly, although he barely broke through the first-class realm last year, compared to Tang Xiangjin and other veteran first-class martial artists, his internal strength was not deep enough, and there was only one Eight Veins of the Qi Jing that was opened, and this armor was enough to raise his strength to a higher level.

The gap between first-class martial artists is not unacceptably large, the only gap is the depth of internal strength, Tang Xiangjin can send out a hundred sword qi with all his strength, he can only send out thirty strikes, but there is not much difference in their strength.

He is at most inferior to Tang Xiangjin's strength, but with the help of this armor, he surpasses Tang Xiangjin in strength, as long as he does not fall into a protracted battle, his chances of victory are greater.

"That's good."

Hearing Liao Qing's words, Su Hao nodded with satisfaction, this demon spirit paper armor is not in vain He has spent such a big price, even if he has enlightenment points, the refining of this demon spirit paper armor is also not easy.

It took him a full ten days to refine this demon spirit paper armor, which cost two hundred catties of demon bark, and the more than 1,000 catties of demon bark he got from the treasure house could only refine five demon spirit paper armors.

The most important thing is that the mana stored in the demon spirit paper armor cannot be stored for a long time, it can only be stored for a month, and if it exceeds a month, the mana will slowly dissipate, unless it is cultivated every few days like a magic weapon.

After retracting his thoughts, Su Hao waved his hand and said, "Get used to it, and then give it to me when the mana in the armor is exhausted."

After that, Su Hao took back the second number, turned around and left the martial arts arena, leaving only Liao Qing familiar with the armor in the martial arts arena.

After leaving the Jinyi Guard's yamen, Su Hao came to a workshop with billowing smoke, in the workshop, the sturdy men were still shirtless in the cold wind, hammering the red iron one after another.

"A thousand households!"

At this time, an old man saw Su Hao and hurriedly greeted him.

"Hou Dushi, how is the cannon cast?"

Su Hao looked at the old man, the old man's name was Hou Yuangao, which was originally the same thing

The capital of the Wave Envoy Division, a petty official of the seventh grade, is mainly responsible for casting firecrackers and artillery, and Hou Yuangao is a child of the Mo family, specializing in the art of organs.

When he broke through the capital command envoy before, Hou Yuangao chose to take refuge in him, and finally he sent Hou Yuangao to manage the workshop, which was responsible for casting artillery.

"Qianhu, now that a Hongyi cannon has been cast, it's just a matter of testing."

Hou Yuangao arched his hand.

"Take me to see it."

Su Hao said, although there are martial arts and spells in this world, the development of science and technology has not stopped, and gunpowder, firecrackers, and artillery are also available, and the power is also good.

It's just that in front of the cultivators who come and go, these things don't have much effect, the six senses of the martial artist are sensitive, and even the high-powered bomb refined by the Dao technique of thunderbolt fire bomb is difficult to hurt a first-class martial artist, let alone a bulky thing like artillery, unless the other party is stupidly standing in front of the muzzle of the cannon and waiting for you to boom.

And although the speed of the fire gun is fast, the power is pitifully small, and if the small iron ball launched does not hit the vital point, even ordinary people may not be able to kill it, let alone cultivators.

However, although these firearms are difficult to deal with cultivators, their power on the battlefield should not be underestimated, after all, most of the people on the battlefield are ordinary people, and cultivators are a minority after all.

The most important thing is that firearms are used to defend the city, and the power is even greater, in addition to firearms and artillery in this era, there are many various types of firearms, such as relatively primitive grenades, with ceramics as the shell, containing gunpowder, iron sheets, iron sand, if a little poisonous, it is an iron sheet soaked in poison, this thing is a dozen or twenty catties, and the explosion can hurt people within a radius of more than ten meters.

However, this thing works well for ordinary people, and for the deaf and clear-eyed warriors, if you throw it out, they will run away early, and the only place that can play a role is the battlefield.

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