Qian Song

Chapter 48 Extremely Hateful (Read More!)
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Once the city gate is broken, everything will benefit.

Moreover, with the subsequent influx of tiger and cardinal troops into Hangzhou City, the defenders of Hangzhou City had no other way to go except to disarm and surrender. After all, the strength of the two sides was too different.

Taking a step back, even if some Song soldiers wanted to fight in the street, it was just a desperate struggle, and it was absolutely impossible to affect the overall situation.

Therefore, after Niu Meng, Zhao Han'er and thousands of Huben Army soldiers entered Hangzhou City, Li Cun handed over the finishing work of the battle to Liang Jin, Niu Meng, Zhao Han'er and others, while he First, he sent two poles to quickly lead people to detain all the ships on the pier, and then led people to find the granary himself.

When Li Cun found the granary, he saw more than a dozen people transporting kerosene to the granary—they were going to burn all the millions of stone officials' grain in one fire.

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

It was useless for Li Cun to send people to interrogate. These people confessed like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube that Zhao Ting sent them to burn the grain and grass, and then took the initiative to confess that there were a few more people who went to burn the Bingjiaku.

When Li Cun heard this, he quickly ordered people to go to Bingjiaku to arrest those who were about to set fire.

Good luck!

李存派去的人在那群人点火之前赶到，救下了兵甲库中的5000多件纸甲、2000多件皮甲、800多件铁甲、各种兵器1万多柄、弓弩1000多张，以及数量庞大的铁条、牛角、牛皮、牛筋、羊皮、箭杆、翎毛等可以制作兵甲的材料。

After each sent a battalion to guard the granaries and armory warehouses, Li Cun went to the port in person to see how the two-barrel boats were doing.

Seeing that the two poles successfully detained thousands of ships in the port, Li Cun was completely relieved.

But just when Li Cun thought he had achieved a perfect victory in this battle and took down the city of Hangzhou almost unscathed, there was a "boom" that shook the sky and the earth, and then the earth shook and the mountains shook. At the same time, Hangzhou The southeast of the city suddenly burst into flames...

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

Soon, someone came to report to Li Cun that the gunpowder factory and the fire factory were on fire, and someone should have set the fire on purpose.

During this period, the manufacture of firearms had begun to take shape. In Bianliang City, Tokyo, the capital of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, there was a Guangbei siege workshop with more than [-] craftsmen and ten workshops under its jurisdiction, including gunpowder workshops and special firearms manufacturing. of fire.

The booming population and the low fire-resistant rating of building materials led to frequent fires in Bianliang City, Tokyo throughout the Northern Song Dynasty, even to the point where there were countless small fires and at least one or two major fires every year.

There are many reasons for fires, such as accidental fire, arson, lightning strikes, and so on.

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

It can be said that as long as two works are made together, 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, a worker in Huozuo (similar to the scientific research personnel of later generations) loaded the gunpowder with too much force, and sparks splashed out. In an instant, the sound of guns shook the sky, the earth shook, and all the craftsmen in Huozuo were killed. Residential houses within three miles were either destroyed by the earthquake or burned down. According to rough statistics, more than 300 people died in the fire.

The court of Zhao and Song Dynasties learned from the painful experience and concluded: Fireworks and gunpowders usually store a large amount of saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal and even gunpowder, all of which are flammable and explosive, and can easily cause fires. to the surrounding residents, causing a huge disaster.

Therefore, the Zhao and Song courts ordered that the fire works and gunpowder works be moved to an uninhabited land in the northwest corner of Bianliang City, Tokyo, and some houses were built there for the craftsmen of the two works and their families to live in.

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

But because the city of Hangzhou is too small and the economy is highly developed, the firework and gunpowder work in Hangzhou city are not so thoroughly separated from the residential areas.

This also caused the fire and the gunpowder to catch fire, and the fire quickly spread to the residential area, causing thousands of innocent civilian casualties, and brought a lot of trouble and troubles to the victory of the Huben army.

The key point is that the fire killed many firework and gunpowder craftsmen and craftsmen, and burned up the raw materials for making gunpowder.

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

You must know that the current mandarin duck formation still has some defects and needs to be improved slowly, and one of its defects is that it does not have a rapid-fire gun like a tiger squat gun as a fire suppression weapon.

Such things as artillery actually existed in this period.

If history does not change, in the battle of Jingkang a few years later, Liu Yanqing, the Zhenhai Jiedu envoy who made a major mistake in the battle to recover Yanyun, is also the fourth ZTE general selected by the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty in history. The father of Liu Guangshi, one of them, used an artillery in Bianliang City, Tokyo to repel the Jin army's attack several times.

Not to mention Li Cun, a veteran and keyboard strategist from later generations, even a random person who has learned a little physics and chemistry in middle school, or even just someone who likes to surf the Internet, watch dramas, and read novels, can build on this foundation. The makers and craftsmen who led the firework and gunpowder making of this period developed sharp artillery.

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 strongly advocated installing new types of firearms such as artillery in their own troops.

To put it another way, two groups of primitive people are fighting for territory, and one of them can obviously make sharper bronzes. Why not make them, and continue to use stone tools to fight against the enemy of life and death at the risk of losing the battle and being wiped out by the enemy? kill?

What is this picture?
Want to give your enemies a fair chance?
This seems too big, right? !
Throughout history.

The reason why 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 cavalry that swept the world, and even make the Mongolian cavalry completely lose its former glory, was largely due to advanced firearms.

The subsequent war between Qing and Ming was also largely due to the fact that the Manchus had mastered the firearms of the Han.

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

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

But Zhao Ting, that bastard, went so far as to burn up all the firework and gunpowder in one fire, making it impossible for Li Cun to realize his idea of ​​sweeping Zhao Song with firearms in a short time.

Moreover, Zhao Ting's setting off this fire will definitely cause Li Cun a lot of losses, and it may even make people in Hangzhou hate Li Cun.

——There must be some bereaved people thinking that if Li Cunlai hadn't attacked Hangzhou City, there would have been no such fire, and their families would not have died.

It can be said that Zhao Ting is extremely hateful!

Li Cun had never hated a person so much that he wanted to cramp and skin him.

If you, Zhao Ting, are really loyal to the emperor and serve the country, then you should organize your troops and lead the army to defend the area under your rule.

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

But you, Zhao Ting, defended and didn't dare to defend. You were afraid that Zhao Ji would punish you for your crime, so you made a shitty set on fire to stop the enemy, trying to excuse yourself from the guilt. This is similar to Du Chong who dug the Yellow River. What's the difference?
The point is, for people like you, if the situation is not good, you will definitely be the first to surrender.

Du Chong in history is the best example.

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

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

Therefore, while Li Cun personally led people to fight the fire, he also ordered Kang Jian to post a reward for Zhao Ting's capture.

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(End of this chapter)