When the premonition appeared, Su Hao was instantly stunned in place, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time, until the smoke came out of the chimney of the steam engine ship, and Su Hao came back to his senses.

Is the world starting to change?

For his hunch, Su Hao did not ignore it, his current strength can already be said to be the strongest in the human race, except for those canonized gods and old ghosts in the underworld, basically no one in the living is his opponent alone, this sudden whim can never be his fantasy.

But after thinking about it for a long time, until Hou Sui's steam engine ship started, he didn't think through it, this whim had a premonition of what it portended, after all, there were too few relevant clues.

However, he knew that this change was definitely caused by the steam engine, but he didn't understand how this steam engine affected the world.

However, there is a way of cultivation in this world, and the cannon of the giant ship is not so useful in the face of those cultivators who come and go, unless the ship is equipped with a large number of strong people.

If you want to influence the whole world, you can only develop technology at the level of missiles, nuclear bombs, and supersonic aircraft, otherwise it will be difficult for technology to deal with the real strong.

At least ordinary guns and artillery are difficult to deal with a first-class martial artist wearing heavy armor, and a martial artist of this level has extremely keen six senses, and he can sense the slightest threat, unless it is a supersonic missile, which is so fast that he can't react.

But if he wants to develop to that point, it will take at least one or two hundred years, and he doesn't feel that his whim can premonition that one or two hundred years later, if he can, then he will be an immortal.

At this time, Hou Xun's steam engine ship had already begun to circle around the lake, and although the speed was not fast, it was much faster than the manpower row.

"Hou Aiqing, let your son come back."

After thinking for a while, Su Hao spoke.

"I'll go."

Hearing Su Hao's words, Hou Yuangao hurriedly said, now the net worth and life of their Hou family are in Su Hao's thoughts, if Su Hao really wants to investigate Hou Hao's disobedience, then the Hou family will be finished.

After a while, Hou Sui returned to the shore under the leadership of Hou Yuangao.

Looking at Hou Yuangao and Hou Sui, father and son who were kneeling on the ground, Su Hao suddenly had a little headache, if he really wanted to resist the crime of disobeying Hou Sui, then not only Hou Sui and Hou Yuangao would die, but even those Mo family children in the scientific research institute would also have to die.

More importantly, in the court of Daqi today, the three schools of law, Mo and Taoism are the main pillars, the officials of the Legalists are mainly from the civil officials and officials who surrendered at the beginning, and the officials of the Taoists are mainly from the folk Taoist scattered people, while the Mo family is mainly composed of the children of the Mo family who practice mechanical arts, such as the Hou family.

Now Hou Yuangao is the leader of the Mo family, if so many Mo family children are moved, then the three-legged structure of the court will definitely collapse, and now the war with the Ming Dynasty is just around the corner, and it is not a good thing that there is civil strife in the court at this time.

After thinking for a long time, Su Hao spoke: "Hou Xun, if you don't obey the order, according to the law of Great Qi, you should be beheaded all over the house."

Hearing the four words of the full door, the bodies of Hou Yuangao and Hou Sui's father and son couldn't help but tremble.

Fortunately, at this time, Su Hao continued: "But remembering that your father has worked hard for the imperial court, I am not a ruthless person, I give you a chance to atone for your sins, you go to Huang Xiang and them, I want a new iron-making method, the kind that can make a large amount of iron, if it can be studied within half a year, I will not pursue your crime of resisting the decree, if it fails, Hugh blames me for the two crimes and punishment!"

Hearing Su Hao's words, Hou Yuangao and Hou Sui's father and son were immediately overjoyed, and kowtowed again and again, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace! Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Although Su Hao's request was difficult, as the leader of the Mo family, their Hou family could gather a large number of Mo family disciples to study together, and it was not impossible to study a new ironmaking method.

"Let's go down."

Su Hao waved his hand.

"Resignation!"

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Yuangao father and son saluted again before slowly retreating.

Looking at the figures of Hou Yuangao's father and son, Su Hao turned his head to look at Liao Qing on the side, and said lightly: "Let people keep an eye on it, anyone who approaches Hou Sui must check it out."

He also had some uncertain guesses about the power that made Hou Sui do such an unreasonable stupid thing, maybe this power was the Heavenly Dao he had guessed before, after all, even illusion could not be done so unknowingly.

But this is just his speculation, it may also be that the people of Daming are secretly playing ghosts, after all, Hou Sui is the son of Hou Yuangao, and Hou Yuangao is the leader of the Mo family.

"I see."

Hearing Su Hao's words, Liao Qing nodded in response.

………

As time passed, the atmosphere of the war became more and more intense, and a large number of Ming troops moved south along the canal and were stationed in Cangzhou.

As more and more soldiers gathered, the entire Cangzhou wharf once again became a huge barracks, with military tents standing.

In the county government, Hong Chengchou and Chen Qiyu had sad faces.

"Brother Hong, this Daqi is not easy to fight."

Chen Qiyu was extremely depressed, he was originally in Shaanxi, Jin, Yuchuan to encircle and suppress Gao Yingxiang and them, who knew that things were done well, and the imperial court actually transferred him directly to deal with Daqi.

"I also know, but the court let us come, and there is no way to do it."

Hong Chengchou also had a sad face, dealing with Daqi and dealing with those homeless rebels are not the same thing, those homeless rebels say something bad, that is, the farmer who just put down his hoe, not only does not have a strong city to defend, but also has no logistics supplies, not even many masters, as long as the army arrives, those homeless people will flee in embarrassment, in addition to being difficult to chase, there is no difficulty at all to deal with.

But Daqi is different, Daqi's soldiers and horses are all trained soldiers, and there are high walls as defense, and there is no problem with supplies, if you want to attack the city, it is not easy, and the losses will also be very heavy.

"Brother Hong, is there a way to lure the soldiers and horses of Daqi out of the city for a battle."

After thinking for a while, Chen Qiyu opened his mouth and said, it is really not an easy thing to attack the city, Sun Chengzong attacked the Haizhou Acropolis for a full year, the defense of the Haizhou Acropolis is far inferior to the Dezhou City, if you really want to attack the city, it will definitely not be able to break through in a while.

What's more, in addition to Dezhou City, there are also Linqingzhou City and Dongchangfu City, if they gnaw down everywhere, their hundreds of thousands of troops are estimated to die, so it is not a wise choice to storm it.

However, if you want to open the canal, you can only capture Dezhou City and Linqingzhou City first, otherwise it is empty talk to open the canal, so the best way is to lure out all the Qi troops in the city and defeat them outside the city.

Lured out of town?

Hearing Chen Qiyu's words, Hong Chengchou also frowned, this is indeed a good way, but the Qi army is not a fool, and it is impossible to give up the advantage of the city wall to fight them outside the city.

"Let's go to Texas City first."

After thinking for a while, Hong Chengchou sighed and said, if you want the Qi army to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight them, it is not easier than attacking the city, you can only act at the opportunity.

…

Soon, the army was launched, and more than 2,000 large and small ships were coming down the river one after another, and with such a convenient transportation artery as the canal, naturally no one would be stupid to walk on two feet.

After arriving in Jingzhou, the Ming army went ashore and began to advance on foot, because Jingzhou was only more than 50 miles away from Dezhou City, and if it continued to go downstream, once it was intercepted by the Qi army in the river, it would be embarrassing.

Naturally, such a big movement of the Ming army could not be hidden, and as soon as the Ming army left Cangzhou, the news had already reached Tang Xiangjin's ears.

Texas City.

On the city wall of the north gate, Tang Xiangjin and others looked at the Ming army winding in the distance, everyone's face was relaxed, if it was five years ago, more than 100,000 Ming troops came to attack, they would definitely panic.

However, there are now 90,000 soldiers and horses in Dezhou City, nearly 20 first-class warriors, more than 40 second-rate warriors, more than 100 tiger squat cannons, and 50 Hongyi cannons

Yumen, if the Ming army wants to attack the city, it will only kowtow and bleed.

It didn't take long for the Ming army to camp more than ten miles north of Dezhou.

………

On the building car, Hong Chengchou and Chen Qiyu looked at the towering Texas city wall in the distance.

"Brother Hong, do you want to try the defense of Texas City first?"

Looking at the nearly four-zhang high city wall, Chen Qiyu's sank again, it was not easy to climb such a high city wall, let alone withstand the attack of the Qi army.

"Then let's try the power of the Hongyi cannon first."

Hong Chengchou said quietly.

"It's fine."

Hearing this, Chen Qiyu nodded, for this war, Da Ming has been preparing for a long time, and the Hongyi cannon alone is enough to cast more than 120 guns, and copper is used to cast the Hongyi cannon, for these Hongyi cannons, the imperial court has almost scavenged the copper coins in the entire capital.

Soon, the army lined up in formation, escorting more than 120 Hongyi cannons to slowly approach Dezhou City.

On the city wall, Tang Xiangjin found the Hongyi cannon protected by the Chinese army at first sight, looking at the Hongyi cannon with more than 100 pieces, Tang Xiangjin's brows couldn't help frowning, and he naturally knew the power of the Hongyi cannon.

"Prepare to aim!"

Seeing that the Ming army was getting closer and closer, Tang Xiangjin ordered that although the Ming army had more Hongyi cannons, his side occupied the height advantage of the city wall, and the cannonballs fired farther away.

Eight miles!

Six miles!

Five miles!

Silently calculating the distance between the Ming army and the city wall in his heart, seeing that the Ming army had entered the range of the Hongyi cannon, Tang Xiangjin directly ordered.

Although the Ming army is still five miles away from the city wall, this distance can also be hit by Hongyi cannons, but there is no way to guarantee the accuracy, but he is not worried about this problem, because the Ming army has more than 100,000 people, almost all over the city, and no matter how accurate the head is, it can beat the middle.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Dozens of earth-shattering loud noises, and then more than 50 solid shells with a piercing scream smashed into the formation of the Ming army, in an instant, more than 50 solid shells ploughed out of the crowd of blood, in front of the solid shells, whether it was people or siege equipment, they were all shattered.

For a while, the entire Ming army formation was in chaos, and some guards wanted to retreat, but the next moment they were killed on the spot by the rear generals' personal soldiers, and with a bloody deterrence, the entire Ming army formation stabilized again.

Seeing this scene, Hong Chengchou's brows couldn't help frowning, he was also clear about the range of the Hongyi cannon, but he didn't expect that with the advantage of the high wall, the Hongyi cannon could exert such a great power at a distance of five miles.

Although this wave of artillery bombardment by the Qi army only caused less than 300 casualties, this long-range attack was extremely demoralizing, after all, it was a distance of five miles, and they could not reach it in any case, unless the army attacked the city.

After thinking for a while, Hong Chengchou spoke: "Pass the order, the front army will become the rear army, and retreat two miles."

"Yes!"

Lu Zongmo, the chief soldier who had been standing behind Hong Chengchou, replied.

At this time, Hong Chengchou continued: "By the way, bring me the craftsman who forged the cannon."

"Yes!"

After Lu Zongmo answered, he rode away.

It didn't take long for the Ming army's formation to change, slowly retreat, and retreat for more than two miles before rearranging the formation.

"Fang Dushi, you said before that the Hongyi cannon can shoot five miles away, and now that the Pseudo-Qi rebels occupy the advantage of Gaocheng, our Hongyi cannon can't match it at all, how can this be?"

Looking at the city wall in the distance, Hong Chengchou frowned, he can be appointed as the commander of the conquest of Daqi, he is naturally also in charge of military affairs, if he can't suppress the Hongyi cannon of the Qi army, then their Hongyi cannon is a piece of scrap metal.

After all, if they want to shoot at the nearly four-zhang high city wall, their Hongyi cannon must be at least three miles away from the city wall, and at this distance, the power and accuracy of the Hongyi cannon of the Qi army will be greatly increased.

What's more, the Qi army's Hongyi cannon also has a stomping wall to protect, he

Our Hongyi cannons can only be placed on the ground, and it is estimated that before they can defeat Texas City, their Hongyi cannons will all be blown to pieces.

"Back to the governor, now that the pseudo-Qi occupies the high wall, if you want to suppress the other party, you can only build the fort higher than the other party."

Hearing Hong Chengchou's words, Fang Rong pondered for a long time before speaking.

"It's not going to work."

Hearing Fang Rong's words, Hong Chengchou waved his hand and said, if you want to build a fort that is four zhang high and enough to hold more than a hundred Hongyi cannons, it will take too long, after all, it will take a lot of stones and sand to ensure that the fort is stable enough.

And the Qi army is not stupid, they can build high, the Qi army occupies the city wall, and the same can be, and then it will be endless.

"Governor, we can build a shield cart on the outside of the Hongyi cannon, and put sacks full of sand and gravel around the car and on the roof of the car, just to show the muzzle of the cannon."

Hearing Hong Chengchou's words, Fang Rong thought hard for a long time before he said again: "In this way, our Hongyi cannon can get close to the city wall, even if it is hit by the Hongyi cannon of the Qi army, there are sandbags blocking it, and our Hongyi cannon will not be damaged."

"Then build a shield car first."

Hearing Fang Rong's method, Hong Chengchou nodded and said.

(End of chapter)