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As soon as the gates of the city were broken, everything was good.

Moreover, with the subsequent influx of the Tiger Ben army into Hangzhou City, the defenders of Hangzhou City have no other way to go except to disarm and surrender, after all, the difference in strength between the two sides is too much.

Taking a step back, even if some Song troops wanted to fight in the streets, it would be just a death struggle, and it would definitely not affect the overall situation.

Therefore, after Niu Meng and Zhao Han'er and thousands of Tiger Ben soldiers entered Hangzhou City, Li Cun handed over all the work of ending this battle to Liang Jin, Niu Meng, Zhao Han'er and others, and he first sent two poles to quickly lead people to detain all the ships on the dock, and then personally led people to find the granary.

When Li Cun found the granary, he saw more than a dozen people carrying fire oil to the granary—they were actually preparing to burn all the millions of Shiguan grain in one fire.

Li Cun was furious and immediately ordered people to arrest all these guys who harmed others and did not benefit themselves.

There was no need for Li Cun to send someone to interrogate, these people confessed like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, it was Zhao Ting who sent them to burn grain and grass, and took the initiative to confess that there were still a few people who went to burn the armor.

When Li Cun heard this, he hurriedly ordered people to go to the armor store to arrest those who were preparing to set fire.

Lucky!

The people sent by Li Cun arrived before the group of people lit the fire, and rescued more than 5,000 pieces of paper armor, more than 2,000 pieces of leather armor, more than 800 pieces of iron armor, more than 10,000 pieces of various weapons, more than 1,000 pieces of bows and crossbows, as well as a huge number of iron bars, horns, cowhides, cow tendons, sheepskins, arrow shafts, feathers and other materials that could be used to make armor.

After each battalion was sent to guard the granary and armor storehouse, Li Cun personally went to the port to see how the two-pole ship was detained?

Seeing that the second pole successfully detained all the thousands of ships in the port, Li Cuncai was completely relieved.

But just when Li Cun thought that he had won a perfect victory in this battle and took Hangzhou City almost undamaged, there was a earth-shaking explosion sounding "boom", followed by the earth shaking the mountains, and at the same time, the southeast direction of Hangzhou City suddenly burst into flames......

Li Cun was shocked, and hurriedly sent someone to find out what was going on in the southeast direction?

Soon, someone came to report to Li Cunyu that the gunpowder and fire were on fire, and someone should have deliberately set the fire.

During this period, the manufacture of firearms has begun to take shape, in the capital of the Zhao and Song dynasties, in the city of Bianliang in Tokyo, there is a wide preparation siege work, more than 5,000 craftsmen, under the jurisdiction of ten works, including gunpowder and firework specializing in the manufacture of firearms.

The thriving population and the low fire resistance level of building materials led to frequent fires in Bianliang City, Tokyo throughout the Northern Song Dynasty, and even to the point that there were countless small fires and at least one or two large fires every year.

There are many causes of fire, such as accidental fire, arson, lightning splitting, and so on.

Among them, the most harmful and difficult to extinguish fires are fire and gunpowder fire.

It can be said that as long as there are two works in one, it will be a huge disaster for Tokyo Bianliang City.

Take a huge fire caused by fire during the Song Zhenzong period as an example:

At that time, one of the craftsmen of the fire (similar to the scientific researchers of later generations) used too much force when filling the gunpowder, splashing sparks, and in an instant the sound of cannons shook the sky, the earth shook the mountains, all the craftsmen in the fire were killed, and the houses within a radius of three miles were either collapsed or burned down, and the total number of people killed in the fire was as high as more than 1,300 people.

The Zhao and Song Dynasty courts learned from the pain and concluded: A large amount of saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal and even gunpowder are hoarded on weekdays, all of which are flammable and explosive materials, which can easily cause fires, and once they cause fires, they will definitely affect the surrounding residents and cause huge disasters.

Therefore, the Zhao and Song dynasties ordered the relocation of the pyrotechnics and gunpowder to a no-man's land in the northwest corner of Bianliang Castle in Tokyo, and built some houses there for the craftsmen and their families to live in.

The fire and gunpowder in Hangzhou were also moved to the southeast corner for similar reasons.

However, because the city of Hangzhou is too small and the economy is highly developed, the fire and gunpowder production in Hangzhou are not so completely separated from the residential areas.

As a result, as soon as the fire and gunpowder caught fire, the fire quickly spread to residential areas, causing thousands of innocent civilian casualties, and bringing a lot of trouble and trouble to the great victory of the Tiger Ben Army.

Crucially, the fire killed many craftsmen and craftsmen of pyrotechnics and gunpowder making, and also burned out the raw materials for making gunpowder.

Li Cun could have used these craftsmen and craftsmen, as well as the raw materials and production equipment for fire and gunpowder, to directly manufacture firearms.

You must know that there are still some flaws in the current Mandarin Duck Formation, which need to be improved slowly, and one of its flaws is that there is no rapid-fire cannon like the Tiger Squat Cannon as a fire suppression weapon.

There is such a thing as artillery, in fact, there are already in this period.

If history does not change, a few years later, in the Battle of Jingkang, Liu Yanqing, the envoy of Zhenhai Jiedu who had made a major mistake in the battle to recover Yanyun, that is, the father of Liu Guangshi, one of the four generals of Zhongxing selected by the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty in history, used a cannon in Bianliang City in Tokyo to repel the attacks of the Jin army several times.

Not to mention Li Cun, a veteran and keyboard military strategist from later generations, even if a random person in later generations has learned a little middle school physics and chemistry knowledge, or even if he is just a person who usually likes to surf the Internet, watch dramas, and read novels, he can lead the craftsmen and craftsmen of pyrotechnics and gunpowder in this period to develop sharp artillery on this basis.

One of the reasons why Zhu Yuanzhang was able to sweep the world and establish the Ming Empire, and why Napoleon was able to sweep Europe and establish the First French Empire was that they very much advocated the installation of new firearms such as artillery in their own armies.

In other words, two groups of primitive people are fighting for territory, and one of them can obviously make sharper bronze tools, but don't they have to continue to use stone tools to fight with the enemy at the risk of being defeated and wiped out by the enemy?

What's this picture?

Want to give your enemies a chance to play fair?

That sounds too big, right?!

Throughout history.

The reason why the Mongolian iron cavalry can sweep the world is inseparable from their clever use of advanced firearms.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty was able to defeat the Mongolian iron cavalry that swept the world, and even made the Mongolian iron cavalry completely lose its former glory, was largely due to advanced firearms.

The subsequent Qing and Ming Wars were also largely due to the fact that the Manchus mastered the firearms of the Han people.

Therefore, firearms are not only the trend of the times, but also the treasure of the world.

Originally, Li Cun could easily get this kind of treasure.

But Zhao Ting, a dog thing, actually burned up all the fire and gunpowder with a frenzied fire, so that Li Cun could not realize the idea of using firearms to sweep Zhao Song in a short time.

Moreover, Zhao Ting set this fire will definitely cause a lot of losses to Li Cun, and it may even make the people in Hangzhou hate Li Cun.

- There will definitely be some people who have lost their loved ones who think that if Li Cun hadn't come to attack the city of Hangzhou, there would have been no fire, and their families would not have died.

It can be said that Zhao Ting is extremely hateful!

Li Cun has never hated a person so much as he does now, to the point that he wants to cramp and skin him.

If you want to say that you Zhao Ting are really loyal to the country, then you can reorganize your soldiers and horses, and then lead the army to defend the area under your rule.

In this way, maybe I Li Cun can still respect you Zhao Ting is a man.

But you Zhao Ting didn't dare to defend it, and he was afraid that Zhao Ji would punish him, so he made a fucking shit arson to stop the enemy, wanting to exonerate yourself with this, what is the difference between this and Du Chong who dug up the Yellow River?

The point is, if people like you are caught, they will definitely be the first to surrender.

Du Chong in history is the best example.

Full villain!

After the city was broken, Li Cun ordered Zhao Han'er to quickly occupy the major gates of Hangzhou City, and strictly forbade anyone to leave Hangzhou City.

Therefore, Li Cun estimated that Zhao Ting should still be in the city.

Therefore, while Li Zheng personally led people to fight the fire, he also ordered Kang Jian to put a reward on Zhao Ting, he wanted to see people alive and corpses when he died......

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