On the other side, outside the city of Nanjing, there are many military formations, banners are displayed, and more than 160 Hongyi cannons are displayed.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

With a series of earth-shattering loud noises, more than 160 solid iron balls weighing 20 catties turned into a small black dot under the action of gunpowder and quickly crossed the sky, and then flew towards the city wall.

Bang! Bang!

Some cannonballs smashed on the wall, directly smashed a big pit, countless rubble flew in all directions, some fell directly into the city, smashed the houses, and some smashed on the city wall, smashing the wall bricks.

On the city tower, Wang Jia and the three of them looked at the Hongyi cannon in the distance, their expressions were extremely solemn, although there were also cannons in Nanjing City, but they were all antiques from a hundred years ago, and the firing range could not be compared with the Hongyi cannon at all, so they could only be beaten hard.

But they didn't dare not be beaten, they had asked the soldiers to go down to the city to hide, but the Qi army directly attacked the city, and even the moat was filled in a small half, and then they didn't dare to let the soldiers go down to the city to hide, so they could only be beaten.

"Marquis Chen, how is the cannon cast in the city?"

Wang Jia said with a gloomy expression, it is not okay to be beaten all the time like this, sooner or later the morale will completely collapse, and it will be all over at that time, so they also collected the copper and iron in the city and began to cast Hongyi cannons.

Fortunately, Nanjing City, as the capital of the south of the Yangtze River, has no shortage of copper coins and ironware in the city, and there is no problem with the materials at all, and there are also casting methods for Hongyi cannons in the city, and there are many craftsmen who cast cannons.

"Princess, only three Hongyi cannons have been cast now."

Chen Guangyu said with a heavy expression: "The number is too small now, and we can't go up to the city wall, otherwise it won't be long before it will be destroyed by the Qi army." ”

The Qi army has been besieging the city for more than a month, and this month they have searched for cannon materials and craftsmen everywhere, but how can this grinding gun be fast and light, and they have only cast these three Hongyi cannons after a busy month, which is not enough to go to the city wall, otherwise a few attacks by the Qi army will be enough to make their month's hard work go to waste.

"How long will it take to forge enough Hongyi cannons?"

Hearing Chen Guangyu's words, Wang Jia's face was instantly gloomy, he didn't understand military affairs, but he was not a fool, now those soldiers on the city wall are like frightened birds, all of them are hiding behind the city wall and dare not move, with this morale, how can they hold Nanjing City?

If they can't fight back, then it won't be long before these soldiers will completely collapse, and then they will all be finished.

"I'm afraid it's going to take about a year."

Chen Guangyu sighed and said, "Now we can cast up to four Hongyi cannons a month, and we are trapped in the city, there is not enough charcoal, and we have to demolish the people's houses to use them to cast cannons." ”

"Then dismantle it."

Hearing this, Wang Jia hurriedly said: "Is it important to have those untouchables now, or is it important to defend Nanjing City?" ”

"Xiaguan, let people go."

Hearing Wang Jia's words, Chen Guangyu hurriedly replied, the reason why he asked Wang Jia was to let Wang Jia carry this matter, don't look at those civil officials who can't do any, but this kind of thing is very neat.

He demolished the houses of those people today in order to cast cannons, and it won't be long before those civil officials in the court will scold him bloody, and even the title that has been passed down by his family for more than 200 years will be taken away.

That's why he asked Wang Jia, and Wang Jia carried this matter, even if those civil officials were looking for trouble with him, there was Wang Jia on it.

………

On the other side, the Qi army camp.

In the commander's camp, Su Hao is practicing with his eyes closed, and the four natal paper people are dealing with all kinds of messy government affairs on the side, although he is out on the expedition, but he is not negligent in government affairs, after all, over there in Shandong, the prince is still young, and he is not at ease to let those civil officials mess around.

Moreover, Jiangnan and Shandong are not far away, and there are canals, so it does not take long to send them from Jinan to Nanjing.

At this time, the guards guarding outside the tent walked into the tent and said, "Your Majesty, Commander Liao asks to see you." ”

Su Hao slowly opened his eyes and said, "Let him come in." ”

After a while, Liao Qing walked into the tent.

Su Hao said calmly: "Is there something wrong?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the spies of the Black Ice Platform in the capital have sent back news that half a month ago, in the Taihang Mountains, a hunter saw a huge centipede more than 100 zhang long crossing the thunder tribulation."

"A centipede of more than 100 feet?"

Hearing Liao Qing's words, Su Hao frowned and said, "How is this possible?" ”

You must know that one zhang is equivalent to three meters three, and this more than 100 zhang is equivalent to four or five hundred meters long, and you must know that the aircraft carrier is only more than 300 meters long, and these four or five hundred meters can no longer be described as long, and it is completely a behemoth.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has sent people to the Taihang Mountains many times to investigate, although the big centipede appeared in the deep mountains, but there are more than a dozen people who saw this big centipede, these Orions should not be false."

Liao Qing hurriedly explained.

Hearing this, Su Hao also fell into deep thought, since the last time Jiaolong appeared, he had always felt that some kind of change was taking place in the world, but he didn't know what this change was.

After being silent for a moment, Su Hao then asked, "Has the Jiaolong who appeared in Jingzhou Mansion last time reappeared?" ”

"Nope."

Liao Qing shook his head and said, "Countless masters of the people have searched along the river dozens of times, but no trace of the dragon has been found so far. ”

"Let people stare more."

Su Hao said in a deep voice: "What is the situation with Guo Hong and Ganyang?" ”

Although he doesn't know what changes are happening in the world, his goal is very clear, that is, to take Jiangnan, search for more enlightenment points, and improve the martial arts of human immortals, as long as his strength is strong enough, no matter how the world changes, he can easily deal with it.

"Back to Your Majesty, Governor Guo has surrounded the Luzhou Mansion, and now there are more than 4,000 villagers in the Luzhou Mansion, and it will take a while to capture the Luzhou Mansion."

Liao Qing arched his hand and replied: "Gandudu's side has already taken Suzhou Mansion and is attacking Songjiang Mansion, but according to the report of the spies of the Black Ice Terrace, more than 10,000 Ming troops have been gathered in Hangzhou Mansion, and there seem to be signs of attacking Suzhou Mansion." ”

Hangzhou Mansion?

Hearing this, Su Hao couldn't help frowning, this Hangzhou Mansion and Suzhou Mansion are collectively called Suzhou and Hangzhou, since the rise of the south, there has always been a saying that there is heaven and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou, and this Hangzhou Mansion is still the end of the canal, in terms of wealth, it is not much worse than Suzhou Mansion, if you really want to raise soldiers and horses, there is no problem for Hangzhou Mansion to raise an army of 350,000 at all.

"How's the conscription on Hao Yi's side?"

After thinking for a while, Su Hao opened his mouth and asked, although the Ming army on the side of Hangzhou Mansion showed signs of being ready to move, but he didn't think that those Ming troops really dared to make a move, after all, those guards were already rotten now, and it was okay to defend in Hangzhou City, if they really wanted to go out of the city to fight, it would be too high to look down on those guards.

You must know that he also collected eighty or ninety thousand guards in Huai'an Mansion and Fengyang Mansion, but he didn't dare to use these guards, because unlike Shandong, although those guards in Shandong were also abolished, most of them were still young people.

However, among the guards in Jiangnan, thirty percent are old people with gray temples, fifty percent are half-old people in their forties and fifties, and the young people basically run away, and the main reason for this is that the business in Jiangnan is too developed.

On the Shandong side, although there is commerce, but it is far inferior to the south of the Yangtze River, most people can only rely on farming to survive, those guards basically have nowhere to escape, escape from the guards, either fall into the grass, or flee to the mountains.

These two endings are not as good as being in the guard, after all, although there is not enough to eat in the guard, but you can barely live, but if you escape from the guard, it will be life and death.

The Jiangnan side is different, the business is developed, and a lot of manpower is needed, and those young guards can go to the city to make a living after escaping from the guards, and those merchants are also happy to hire these guards.

After all, these guards became black households after escaping from the guards, not only did the wages be lower, but even if they died in an accident, the government would not pursue them, so the guards on the south side of the Yangtze River, except for those who really couldn't run, were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and it was impossible for them to leave Hangzhou City.

"Back to Your Majesty, Hao Dudu has recruited 40,000 recruits and is currently training."

Liao Qing replied.

"Let Zheng Yuefeng and Zhou Bao each bring 20,000 recruits to support Guo Hong and Ganyang."

After thinking for a while, Su Hao said: "Tell Guo Hong that after taking Luzhou Mansion, lead his troops to Anqing Mansion and Chizhou Mansion, take the two places, block the Yangtze River, and instruct Ganyang to take Songjiang Mansion and divide his troops to take Guangde Mansion and Ningguo Mansion." ”

"I understand."

Liao Qing replied.

"By the way, is Hou Sui here?"

At this time, Su Hao also remembered Hou Sui, a few days ago he had asked Liao Qing to bring Hou Sui over, there was no way for Nanjing City to rely on a strong attack, he had tried it before, but the moat of Nanjing City was too wide, and the city wall was too high.

More importantly, Nanjing City is surrounded by the Yangtze River on one side and a lake and mountains on the other side, and the two directions that can be attacked are the moats formed by the Qinhuai River.

That's why he also thought of Hou Sui, after all, Hou Sui is also a person favored by the Dao of Heaven, if someone can break through Nanjing City as soon as possible, then it must be Hou Sui.

"Back to Your Majesty, Hou Sui has already gone south by boat, and he should be there in three days."

After thinking for a while, Liao Qing replied.

Su Hao said lightly: "When you arrive, bring him to see me." ”

"Obey the order!"

Liao Qing hurriedly replied.

…

Time passed, and soon three days passed in the blink of an eye, and Hou Sui also came to Nanjing City by boat.

On the car, Su Hao and Hou Sui looked at Nanjing City in the distance.

After a long time, Su Hao opened his mouth and asked, "Hou Aiqing, what do you think of this Nanjing City?" ”

"Majestic!"

Hou Sui praised that although the city wall of Jinan Mansion City is not short, in terms of height and scale, Jinan Mansion City is far from being comparable with Nanjing City.

Su Hao asked calmly: "Now that this Nanjing City can't be captured for a long time, what good way does Hou Aiqing have?" ”

A good way to capture the city of Nanjing?

Hearing Su Hao's words, Hou Sui fell into deep thought, although before he came, he knew that Su Hao specially asked people to invite him over, and it would definitely not be an ordinary thing, but he didn't expect this kind of thing.

After thinking hard for a long time, Hou Sui spoke: "Your Majesty, if you want to capture Nanjing City, the best way is to go over the city wall. ”

"Aiqing has a way?"

Hearing Hou Sui's words, Su Hao's eyes couldn't help but squint slightly, although he sent someone to invite Hou Sui over, but in fact, he didn't have much expectations for this matter, after all, the city wall of Nanjing City was too high and thick, even if he took hundreds of catties of gunpowder, it was impossible to blow up the city wall.

At present, the only way he can think of is to consume, and the defenders in the city will have no morale, and then they will be able to capture the city of Nanjing.

"Back to Your Majesty, when the minister was researching the steam engine, he improved a machine that uses black oil, and this kind of machine is more powerful."

Hou Sui arched his hand and said: "The minister is currently studying how to combine this machine with the Mo family's mechanism beast, before the Mo family sages once wanted to create a huge siege beast, but later because this siege beast required too much mana, it was finally abandoned by the Mo family sages." ”

"Now that we have this kind of machine that the minister has improved, if the two can be combined, then this siege beast may be able to succeed in making it."

"How big is this siege beast?"

Hearing Hou Sui's words, Su Hao was also a little curious, he had also seen Hou Yuangao make the Mo family trap beast before, but the Mo family's trap beasts also need mana to drive, so they are relatively small, such as tigers, leopards, jackals, and other Mo family trap beasts are already considered big, and it is precisely because of this that the Mo family is far inferior to other cultivation paths.

"Back to Your Majesty, according to the siege beast conceived by the sages of the Mo family, it is four or five zhang high, more than ten zhang long, can spit fire in its mouth, can shoot heavy crossbows in its eyes, and can hide two thousand soldiers on its back and around its body."

Hou Sui replied: "And the siege beast can also be equipped with various mechanisms, according to the ancestors of the Mo family, this kind of Mo family trap beast can capture any city." ”

Four or five zhang high, more than ten zhang long?

Hearing Hou Sui's words, Su Hao couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, if this thing is made, I'm afraid it will be much bigger than Gundam, if it is driven by mana, it is estimated that three or five hundred second-rate realm left path warlocks will have to be squeezed dry, if there are so many left path warlocks, what is it bad to do something, to drive this thing.

But if you really want to do what Hou Sui said, this thing really needs to be made, it is estimated that any city wall is cannon fodder, after all, the height of the city wall is only three or four zhang high, and this thing is not like a ladder or something, it can be destroyed with a cannon or a fire.

If you want to burn this thing, it is estimated that it is difficult for ordinary flames to work, after all, there are many fire prevention methods in the Mo family's mechanism techniques, and it is difficult for masters to destroy them.

However, if this thing wants to be built, it is estimated that it will be equally difficult, not to mention anything else, the volume alone is a giant, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to build even if it is a large country.

After all, the manufacturing process of the Mojia Trap Beast was cumbersome before, and he had also seen it with his own eyes, all kinds of large and small parts had to be engraved with magic patterns, because only magic patterns could conduct mana, and all kinds of gear transmissions could make the trap beasts move.