Of course, it's not a big deal if he fails, at most he will lose a few Hongyi cannons, for him now, a few Hongyi cannons are not a big loss, not to mention Jinan Mansion, there are four or five hundred craftsmen in the firearms making workshop here in Dongchang Mansion alone.

After half a year of experience accumulation, and most of the craftsmen are craftsmen who have been passed down from generation to generation, they can now make four or five Hongyi cannons every month, and a few Hongyi cannons are not a big loss.

However, even if Wang Congyi wants to organize masters to destroy the Hongyi cannon, he will definitely organize as many masters as possible, after all, it is extremely dangerous to climb the city wall, and if you want to easily climb the city wall, you must at least have the strength of a second-rate martial artist.

Those who have this kind of strength are all people everywhere, even if they don't take risks, they just mess around in the county, and they are also a landlord who stretches out his hands in clothes and opens his mouth for food, and first-class warriors can be like a fish in water in the city, and at least 100 or 1,000 households start in the army.

And if you want to destroy the Hongyi cannon, naturally it is not three or five people, at least ten or twenty first-class martial artists are enough, and it is naturally not an easy thing to let so many masters risk their lives, so Wang Congyi can only stop everyone's mouth by mobilizing all the masters in the entire army.

After all, people's mentality has always been that they are not outnumbered but uneven, and they are all officials, so why should they risk their lives, while others are watching the play in the back.

After thinking about it for a long time, Su Hao came back to his senses, asked about other details, and arranged for Zhao Xiaoer and Ding Zimo to return to Jinan Mansion, and finally stayed in Dongchang Mansion.

In order to prevent the rebels in Dongchang Mansion from making trouble at the last moment, Wang Congyi mobilized tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to cross the canal and build a garrison on the west bank.

Four days later, at the junction of the Tuxiao River and the canal, Wang Congyi and Yang Guodong appeared here with soldiers and horses, and at this time only a zhang wide sand was left in the river to block the river, and hundreds of people in the river were digging the last bit of sand left.

Wow! Wow!

A large amount of river water washed away the last bit of sand, and it rolled south like a torrent.

"It worked!"

Watching the rolling water flow south, Wang Congyi's face showed joy, now that the canal is opened, even if those rebels in Dongchang Mansion have any conspiracy, it is useless, because if he wants to re-block the canal, it will take at least thousands of people to be busy for several days, and he will not be stupid to watch the other party re-block the canal.

On the other side, on the city wall of Dongchang Mansion, Su Hao, Tang Xiangjin and others also watched the river roll south with mud and sand.

………

Soon, half a month passed, the canal reappeared boats, for some bold businessmen, as long as there are enough benefits, any danger can be ignored, now the price of grain in the capital has reached a high price of one stone, two or five yuan, and the price of grain in Huguang is only four or five dollars a stone, from Huguang to transport a boatload of grain to the capital, at least three or four hundred taels of profit, no businessman can refuse this benefit.

Dongchang Mansion, Mansion.

"Qianhu, according to the report of the spies, now that the Caoyun Yamen of Huai'an Prefecture has begun to mobilize the official ships of the guards along the river, they are ready to start transporting the first batch of Cao grain to the capital, do we want to intercept this batch of Cao grain?" ….

Tang Xiangjin arched his hand and said, "According to the information found out by the spies, this batch of grain used 300 small and medium-sized ships, and it was about 150,000 stone grain."

150,000 stone grain!

Hearing Tang Xiangjin's words, Su Hao gently tapped on the handrail, 150,000 stone grains is not much, but now the shortage of grain in the capital is becoming more and more serious, and 150,000 stone grains can already quench a momentary thirst.

After thinking for a moment, Su Hao asked, "How much grain is hoarded in Jiangnan now?"

"In the past month or so, a large number of ships have docked in Huai'an Province, and according to the estimates of the spies, there should be nearly two million stone grain hoarded in Jiangnan."

Tang Xiangjin replied.

"Don't do it yet, let these ships enter Beijing."

After thinking for a while, Su Hao shook his head and said, "Probably this time the other party is also tempting, otherwise it won't be all boats."

Although there are not many big boats on the canal, the water flows from Jiangnan to Jining Prefecture

This time, the other party only used small boats, and only transported 150,000 stone grains, which must also be a kind of temptation, and if it is successfully passed this time, the other party may send more ships to transport more grain.

On the other side, as the fleet transporting grain got closer and closer to Dongchang Mansion, Wang Congyi and Yang Guodong also became nervous, and the two sent a large number of soldiers and horses to block the east and south gates of Dongchang Mansion.

Glancing at the slowly advancing fleet in the canal, Wang Congyi turned his gaze to Dongchang Mansion City not far away, his expression was extremely solemn, he attached great importance to this time the transportation of grain, whether he could recover the impression in Zhu Youzhen's eyes, it depends on this time.

Don't look at Zhu Youzhen yet, he hasn't gotten rid of him yet, but that's just because Su Hao's rebellion has made the court more jealous of the eunuch officials, and the court is making every effort to deal with the eunuch officials left by Wei Zhongxian.

Now that the affairs of the court have been dealt with almost completely, if something happens to the canal again, he can go back to his hometown to enjoy his old age in peace.

To Wang Congyi's surprise, until the fleet carrying grain disappeared from sight, the rebels in Dongchang Mansion did not make any movement.

The first batch of grain entered Beijing smoothly, and Wang Congyi immediately ordered the governor of Caoyun to continue to transport grain, and the shortage of grain in the capital was still very serious.

The reason why the capital is so short of grain, in addition to the millions of stone grains that Su Hao snatched and the reason why the canal was blocked, there is also a very important reason, that is, the magnates in the capital are hoarding grain and driving up the price of grain.

………

Time passed little by little, half a month of time passed in the blink of an eye, the second batch of grain set sail from Huai'an Mansion, this time the grain was 500,000 stones, and there were seven or eight hundred ships of all sizes.

At this time, all the craftsmen in Dongchang Mansion were in full swing to check all the Hongyi cannons, because they had to keep it secret, all the cast Hongyi cannons had not been test-fired, so Su Hao ordered the craftsmen who cast the cannons to be responsible for the shooting of the Hongyi cannons.

It's just that for the craftsmen, this is an extremely dangerous thing, although firearms have been developed for hundreds of years, but this kind of thing is very common, not to mention that the new thing like the Hongyi cannon is something they have never seen before, and even the casting is the first time, whether it will explode or not is completely fateful. ….

However, no one dared to refuse Su Hao's order, if he went to open the cannon, then life and death would be up to the sky, if he didn't go, his life would be gone on the spot, and the reward given by Su Hao also made it impossible for all craftsmen to refuse, every time he fired a cannon, he would be rewarded with one or two silver, and he hit the target, ten taels of a cannon!

For the craftsmen, this price is enough for them to sell their lives, after all, their monthly salary is less than one tael, and a cannon is worth more than a month's hard work, if they hit the target, it is more than they have worked day and night for a year, whether they blow up or not is unknown, but the silver of the white flower is in front of them.

As the Caoliang fleet got closer and closer to Dongchang Mansion, all twenty-four Hongyi cannons were also pushed to the city wall, but they did not stand on the stomp, and the imperial army hundreds of zhang away from the city wall did not find these big guys.

Walking on the city wall, Su Hao looked at the huge military camp on the other side of the canal, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, after this time, the imperial court should not have the energy to deal with him again, and the chaos in the capital is enough for Zhu Youzhen to have a headache.

After retracting his thoughts, Su Hao took out fourteen small paper figures from his sleeve, which were the formation paper figures he had refined, standing in a shadowless array!

Mana was injected, eight of the paper figures flew out, fell according to the direction of the gossip, and then disappeared on the green bricks of the city wall, and then the remaining six paper figures flew out, falling according to the six positions of up and down, left and right, front and back, five of them were integrated into the city wall, and the remaining one was integrated into a flag, and finally Su Hao came to the middle of the formation, and his hands began to tie the magic seal.

As Su Hao's hands continued to form the magic seal, one by one the mana entered the fourteen paper figures, and soon, pieces of magic patterns spread from the paper figures, and gradually hooked up, and finally the light flashed, and the hundred-foot-long city wall had an illusory feeling, but then this feeling disappeared again, and the city wall once again returned to its ancient solemnity.

Time passed little by little, and when the sun came to the middle, it was the hottest time of summer, the hot sun

The light made all the soldiers sweat, and at this time, at the bend of the river, the boats transporting grain were revealed.

Seeing the boat, Tang Xiangjin waved his hand, and all the craftsmen and gunners hurriedly pushed the twenty-four doors to the stomping of the city wall, and began to be more accurate, the shell of the Hongyi cannon is a large iron ball weighing twenty catties, it can be imagined that such a heavy iron ball under the action of gunpowder, hit the wooden ship at a very fast speed, its destructive power will be amazing.

It didn't take long for the muzzles of the twenty-four Hongyi cannons to be aimed at the Tietasi Wharf, because this section of the canal in Dongchangfu was all dug artificially, the river was not wide, only more than ten zhang, about forty meters wide, plus there was a big bend in front of the Tietasi Wharf, and the ships had to slow down here, which was the most suitable place to block.

Of course, the main reason is that the accuracy of the Hongyi cannon is too poor, the farthest effective range is 500 zhang, and then there is no accuracy at all, what can be shot, can only depend on luck, the section of the Tieta Temple pier is the closest to the city wall, only about 200 zhang away, within the best range of the Hongyi cannon.

It didn't take long for the ships to slowly approach the pier of the Iron Tower Temple.

On the other side, Wang Congyi and Yang Guodong watched this scene, and their nervous mood relaxed a lot, because as long as they passed the dock of Tieta Temple, the fleet would be far away from Dongchang Mansion City.

On the city wall, looking at the slowing down ships, Tang Xiangjin waved his hand: "Boom for me!"

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