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Chapter 578 The Dust Settles
Except for the dozens of artillerymen from Oceania, only Wang Hua knew what was going on.

He looked at the data, which made him feel that it was not very ideal. First of all, it was reloading. Except for the odd cannon and the sub-cannon, they were all front-loading, and the speed was very slow.Then there's the range,

It may be because of the use of black powder, or other factors, that the range is not ideal. The maximum range is the Shenwei Invincible General, which can reach two and a half miles, and the effective range is about 400 meters.General Shenwei, nine-section 300 cannons, and General Weiyuan have even lower ranges. The maximum range is nearly two miles, and the effective range is only [-] meters.The range of the strange cannon and the sub-cannon is weaker, the maximum range is only one and a half miles, and the effective range is only [-] meters, which is slightly better than the longbow.

Then there is the problem of cooling. Now I have to cool it with water, and I don’t want to use coolant.It is possible not to think about it in this lifetime.However, due to technical problems in smelting, although blast furnace ironmaking and converter steelmaking are now being used, and the technology is further developed, the quality of steel is still not good enough.

After repeated tests, the safe number is to fire 30.00 shells in a row. After [-] shells, it is in the dangerous stage. After [-] shells, the accident rate of bombing can reach [-]%.So there is only one way to change the barrel, or wait until it cools down before using it.

On the contrary, the small odd cannon and sub-cannon performed well, not only firing late, but also at a high speed. At the same time, the safe range can reach [-] shells in a row, and the danger can reach [-] shells.

This made Wang Hua feel infinitely emotional. After all, it is handmade. It is no wonder that the handmade cars and watches of later generations are sold at sky-high prices.

But the cost is better.

But its flexibility, safety, and efficiency made Wang Hua make a decision. At this stage, it is better to let Oceania produce these two types of artillery, especially the odd one, which is advanced in opening handle and faster in loading.At the same time, it is very light, although the power is a little less, and no matter where you go, you can take a few of them with one horse.At the same time, the gun mount is also very small, a wooden gun mount that can be folded, with wheels on the four feet, a soldier can easily push it around, and even use it in mountainous areas.

This makes Wang Hua can't help thinking of Pian Pian, if there are a thousand of these cannons, what will be the effect and reaction if they are brought to the Qilun River or some cities?

However, he had to wait slowly, forging into steel, so easy to forge?

For the sake of quality, it is really hardened into steel, a piece of pig iron weighing hundreds of catties is forged, and it is less than ten catties.Unless Wang Hua summoned thousands of blacksmiths, he wouldn't be able to get a thousand strange guns in a few years.Generally speaking, the population base of Oceania is still not large. If the Tang Dynasty starts, it will be very impressive.

Wang Hua was thinking wildly. The soldiers used the simple collimator equipped to adjust the shooting angle. Of course, the accuracy rate was not very satisfactory.More than twenty artillery pieces, large and small, opened fire.

The loud sound made everyone's face full of shock, even Guo Zhiyun and other brave generals who followed along turned pale for a while, and then sparks shot out.

This is also what Wang Hua is most satisfied with. Originally, there were many shapes of cannonballs, but Wang Hua only chose the rocket-like oval shape. As for the gouging bombs for attacking the city, he did not provide them.Because history has proved that even when the Manchu Dynasty entered the customs, the artillery technology was very developed, and the city wall was still working.

Just like the walls of Chang'an City, what kind of gouging shells can hurt this kind of shells?

So only the rocket type was chosen, which is more in line with the mechanics.It is also the most common shell shape except for unconventional purposes.And with the flowering bullets of caltrops.

The city gate that was bombarded was the Golden Light Gate, and not far away was the main gate of the imperial city.

At this time, there were many soldiers standing on the top of the city wall. Zhang said that he was afraid that the talks would not go well, so he arranged them.Fortunately, starting from Gwanghwamun Gate in the north, which was besieged by Xueying, to Mingde Gate in the south, because Zhang said that he knew the power of the catapult in Wang Hua's hand, the residents under the city wall temporarily evacuated to other places.

The huge sound not only deafened the ears of hundreds of people standing nearby, but also the guards on the top of the city, and even the entire Chang'an city heard the sound.

Then one by one soldiers were thrown into the air by the explosion of the shells, rolled in the sky, fell again, and fell on the top of the city or outside the city, and the caltrops caused a second kill.There were also a few shells intentionally directed by Wang Hua, aiming at the gate tower of Jinguangmen. When the third wave of shells shot past, only half of the gate tower was left with broken bricks and tiles, standing pitifully on the top of the gate , as if about to collapse at any moment.Even many solid wall stacks were destroyed by three shells.

There were only three waves of shells, a total of more than seventy rounds, and half of them fell inside and outside the city. The soldiers on the top of the city immediately fled completely.

Zhang Jiazhen immediately called out: "Stop."

This scene was like hell. He covered his head. Although he yelled, he was afraid or angry, so he couldn't say a word.

Fortunately, Wang Hua immediately stopped the soldiers.

Zhang Jiazhen didn't speak, but Wang Hua looked at Wei Juyuan and said, "This is the power of explosives."

"Yes, yes," Wei Juyuan was also startled, swallowed and replied.

Wang Hua stroked the hot gun barrel and said, "I don't want to talk about it now."

Zhang Jiazhen's eyes almost turned black when she heard this, and she felt guilty, this sentence was purely offensive.

But Wang Hua knew in his heart that it was not yet the time for the first large-scale deployment of artillery.Second, this kind of artillery adds weight to itself, and has an important bargaining chip for victory in the war, but it is not a mature artillery, and it is not as effective as a gun. After all, it is faster and more flexible.

But no one in the court knew how many such weapons Wang Hua had in his hands.It is strict prohibition, and heavy artillery may be able to be found out, like sub-parent artillery and odd artillery, unless the Tang Dynasty uses 80 million troops as yamen servants and dispatches them from Yunzhou to Liangzhou, otherwise they can still be transported back to Lingwu .

Under the influence of this killer, negotiate again.This time the artillery came in time, and Zhang Jiazhen risked going back and being scolded by the court, and finally made the decision. Four 1000 million yuan were all distributed to Wang Hua, but now only half of them can be distributed, and the other half will be paid in two years from next year to the next year. Otherwise, the imperial court's finances will not be able to bear it.

If you force me again, I won't be able to pay for killing me. It's not Zhang Jiazhen who can't get it, but the imperial court can't get so much money.

The three states were given to Wang Hua to "manage" Dangzhou and Wuzhou, and Zhang Jiazhen of Chengzhou did not agree with him. If you want, you can bomb it, even if you take Chang'an City, you will not agree.

Dangzhou and Wuzhou were cut off, and it was inconvenient to go from Longyou to Bashu, but the road from Guanzhong to Bashu was Hanzhong.If Chengzhou is cut off, you can sit down and watch Hanzhong, join forces and watch Bashu, and go up to Sanguan from Fengzhou to threaten Chencang Chang'an.

And once this artillery came out, the level function became more powerful.

Wang Hua thought for a while, and finally agreed.

At this time, Zhang said that he was late, not because he was afraid of death, he was in the city, and it was still a while before he arrived, and he saw the soldiers on the top of the city running away together. When he came to the tower that was about to fall, where did he stand? , staring at those barrels, motionless, as if saying: "Come on, shoot me."

No one cares about him at all.

Su Xuan is telling Wang Hua a lot of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith, loyalty, filial piety, honesty, shame and courage, and hopes that Wang Hua will repent and turn around.

Wang Hua didn't say a word for a long time, and suddenly asked: "What is benevolence? Compassion, love is also called benevolence, so what is love, is it that loving treacherous ministers is called "lover?"

One question made Su and Zhang nearly die of anger, Wei Juyuan was gesturing, which means the princess, if you still want to marry the princess, don't mention the matter of the queen anymore.But it's no wonder that now that the princess is not married, Wang Hua still doesn't believe it.

"What is righteousness? With a heart of shame, helping others in times of crisis is righteousness. But helping whom? Can I help Zongchu and Ji Chuna? Tell me, how many people have I helped? Is this righteousness? What is it?" Wisdom, the heart of right and wrong, if I don’t have the heart of right and wrong, I am negotiating with you now? Is it true that I can’t take the city of Chang’an? Is this mental retardation, or is it the wisdom you want? , or congratulations on using hard-earned money to feed your people? Besides, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, loyalty, filial piety, shame and courage, did I do enough before I escaped from Luoyang? But what did I do in exchange? The queen wants to kill me, why did the emperor follow me? , sent a large army to chase and kill them. Thousands of troops fought from inside the palace to outside the palace, so majestic! Let me ask you again, what did you do when the imperial court sent troops to attack Bazhou? What did you do when the imperial court sent troops again this time? "

Su Xuan was left speechless.

Zhang Jiazhen said dejectedly: "Let's not talk about this. Now that the talk is over, then you have to withdraw your troops."

"Withdrawing troops, relying on this?" Wang Huayang raised the agreement signed by Wei Suzhang and the three names, and said, "Is it more effective than the two gold medals that the emperor and the queen mother gave me to avoid death?"

Then what are you talking about?Zhang Jiazhen wanted to slap Wang Hua's mouth, but she didn't dare.

This is Wang Hua who doesn't see the rabbit and doesn't scatter the eagle, so he has to see the real thing.

The three of them looked at each other, didn't even eat dinner, and rushed to Luoyang immediately. The first thing to do is to report that the agreement signed this time is beyond the scope of the imperial court. The second thing is to send the supplies to Wang Hua immediately. Send his army away.

Trapped in Chang'an City like this, the city gates dare not open wide, at most the small gates on the side are for a few important people to enter and exit.Moreover, Chang'an was the capital of the Tang Dynasty, so being trapped by the courtiers and leading the army like this is not very good-looking.

After returning to Luoyang, he reported the incident. In fact, Li Xian also received a report from Kuaima at the same time, mainly about the dozens of artillery pieces.

Gritting his teeth, he accepted the agreement by default, but he was angry and regretful in his heart.

Then immediately issued an order to conscript all small river boats. Large river boats cannot enter the Weishui River, but fortunately, the summer water is flooding now, allowing ships with deeper drafts to enter the Weishui River, carrying grain and cloth until they are unloaded from the Chencang. Transported to Lanzhou by land.At the same time, the grain seized in Bianzhou was reloaded and shipped to Chencang.

The only thing left to do was to look for vegetable oil. When word got out, the price of vegetable oil doubled sharply. Li Xian angrily decreed that anyone who raised the price would be asked.

Seeing that the treasury was gradually emptying, his heart ached.

Afterwards, Song Jing heard about this and wrote a letter to question him.

I have a good impression of King Song Jing's paintings, and his ability to be tactful and adaptable may be slightly inferior to that of Yao Chongzhi, but he is upright and upright. He is a model of an official in the Tang Dynasty. Zhang said that he can't even shoot at me. He can't shoot ten times. It's not as good as his " There are feet and Yangchun (wherever you go, you will bring spring breeze)".

Therefore, he replied that if this were not the case, the court would not regret it, and the civil war would continue.

If you don't make the court heartache, you can't stop.Maybe they will continue to play with Hachishu in the future.

There is one more thing that needs to be done immediately. Ma Zheng’s problem is not big. If Wang Hua of the imperial court is let go, he will not take it back, and the imperial court that is not the imperial court will not come back either.Official business tax also agreed to Wang Hua, and will not go back on his word.But Wang Hua's responsibilities are easy to deal with in Bianzhou, and it doesn't matter if the relevant personnel execute a few, or even use a scapegoat.Mainly the person responsible for the two dispatches of troops from the DPRK and China.

Li Xian looked at Siwei, you can pay it yourself.

Candidates can undoubtedly only be chosen from among Zong Chuke and Xue Sijian.Sanwei Xianggong is the best, but Li Xian knows that this is a bit delusional.If one of them is killed, Wei will be in chaos.Of course, Liu Jingren also sent troops, but Liu Jingren was only participating in the ranks of flattery and had nothing to do with the mastermind. Li Xian was unwilling to execute Liu Jingren. After all, he had made contributions when Li Chongjun rebelled, so Wang Hua would not be satisfied either.

Sanwei Xianggong didn't speak, but after the court was over, he called together a group of party members.

To be honest, Wang Hua's request is not too much, at least it is far from asking for four 1000 million yuan and forcing the court to cut off the two states of Dangwu, and it is reasonable to let Wei Dang go.

But these two people are not easy to choose. It is reasonable to choose Zong Chuke, which has disappointed Webster one after another. However, Zong Chuke is an important minister in the court, and his prestige is far higher than that of Xue Sijian. Webster relied on him as his confidant.

But Xue Sijian is not easy to deal with, he and Zuo Tunwei General Zhao Cheng'en are two of Webster's confidantes, if it is not for this crime, even Siwei Xianggong would have to avoid three points when they meet.

At this moment, Zong Jinqing interrupted, and he said what Xue Sijian said when he was in Lingzhou.Of course, in order to survive, Xue Sijian expressed his loyalty to Wang Hua and scolded Webster to death.In comparison, Zong Chuke was better. He thought that he was going to die, even if he begged for mercy, Wang Hua would not let him go, so he kept his mouth shut.

After hearing the news, he immediately notified the third child, and Zong Jinqing naturally took it out to save the second child's life.

Zong Chuke's mind is not so simple to have been ups and downs in the officialdom for so many years. Maybe his military ability is not good, but it doesn't mean that he is not good at maneuvering.On the contrary, his strategy is better than Wang Hua.He also has a good memory.When he heard that Wang Hua asked the court to hand over someone to be responsible, he thought that it was either himself or Xue Sijian, so he wrote down all Xue Sijian's words from memory.

Xue Sijian talked a lot, some scolded Webster and Wei Quan, some scolded Webster for framing ministers, and even how Webster messed with Wu Yanxiu, Wu Sansi, and even Ma Qinke who just died inexplicably. Yes, said it all.

What's the matter, he is just a servant and has little grudge with Wang Hua.Even when Wang Hua left Luoyang, his name was not on the list secretly posted by his subordinates.

Therefore, I hope that the more you scold, Wang Hua will like it, and maybe he will spare his life.

Now that Zong Chuke has sorted out all of them, everyone's expressions suddenly changed.

Zong Jinqing saw it, otherwise Zong Chuke would be really dangerous this time. After all, Xue Sijian was Webster's confidant, and it was an incomparable advantage to hang around in front of Webster all day long after he came back.

But the balance may not be in favor of Zong Chuke, some people want to flatter immediately and inform Xue Sijian of this matter.

Xue Sijian was terrified when he heard it, but he had been in the deep palace all year round and was secretly aware of all kinds of fights. He had an idea and sent people to spread rumors. Wang Hua hated Zong Chuke to death. Why did Wang Hua want to release Zong Chuke? Sending a lot of real money?Don't listen to what Zong Chuke said, Wang Hua has other intentions, what intentions can he have, expect Zong Chuke to come back and say good things for him, did Zong Chuke say good things?To curry favor with Zong Chuke, with Wang Hua's strength, who does he need to curry favor with?

It makes sense to say that, Wang Hua doesn't even pay attention to the whole court now, why is he flattering Zong Chuke?It's not like framing Zong Chuke. If he cuts off his head with a single knife, it's okay?Is it true that the carload of jade and coral is not money, and those flying money are not money?There is a problem here.

It wasn't until this time that Zong Chuke guessed Wang Hua's real intention. The release was not only for Gou He's respite, but the real follow-up was only used now.Because he is an important person, the balance was originally tilted towards him, but because of the money, he couldn't clean it up.Not only can it not be cleaned, no matter who is handed over in the end, there will be cracks in this camp.

Both are damned, finally ask Wechsler.Webster didn't answer, but asked Wei Juyuan, Wei Juyuan told what he saw and heard, and heard Wang Hua say, I don't want to talk about it now.Wei Shi was smiling, that's a good sentence, I'm afraid that Wang Hua doesn't have ambitions, it's easy to handle if he has ambitions.

Finally, he said: "Send someone to ask Wang Hua who he wants to vent his anger."

Wei Juyuan immediately fell down and said, "The empress is still wise."

So he sent someone to ask Wang Hua, and Wang Hua replied immediately after hearing this: "It doesn't matter, if I really want to investigate, it is not one or two that should be killed, you just need to hand over one, and this matter is over. But don't Just fool me."

Kick the ball over again.

Webster's party had no choice but to discuss again.

But the county magistrate is not as good as the county magistrate, Xue Sijian cried all day long, saying that I was just afraid of death, so I said some damn things, but I was loyal to the queen, but Zong Chuke, if he hadn't colluded with Di Dayan, there would be something behind What happened?

This sentence hit Webster's heart, and there was another reason. Now that Li Xian wanted to take back the power, the most important thing was the Habayashi Army and the Imperial Palace.If Xue Sijian was killed, many people's hearts would be chilled.But Zong Chuke is different. There are many who want to run dogs.

But Zong Chuke also knew many of her secrets, so he sent someone to strangle Zong Chuke at home, not only Zong Chuke, but Zong Jinqing was killed again in order to prevent Zong Jinqing from being dissatisfied.

There is another reason for this, because of Li Xian's "awakening", many ministers used Zong Jinqing to mobilize flying cavalry without the emperor's decree to make a fuss.This killing also put an end to the impeachment excuses of these ministers.

The head was given to Wang Hua.

Wang Hua had some accidents, kill one and give another?
But after thinking about it, he said to the visitor, "Be kind to their families."

This made Wei Dang very happy to hear that, as expected, there are no absolute friends and no absolute enemies.Now that the blood battalion is getting stronger and stronger, they are also afraid in their hearts.

In fact, it has nothing to do with this matter. Wang Hua was afraid that the tree would fall and the monkeys would be scattered, but for the sake of being alone in the future. Li Bai's last wife, Zong Chuke's granddaughter, was also the only wife who brought love to Li Bai.It's a pity that he became a monk in the end.

At this time, food gradually arrived.

But not in a day or two, even now that the water is so strong, the Weishui ships can only load an average of nearly [-] shi of grain. Of course, the maximum can pass a hundred tons, with a load of nearly [-] shi. However, there is a danger of running aground at any time.Coupled with some small boats summoned temporarily, it may be less than a thousand stones.

The imperial court's grain plus the grain prepared from Jiangnan, a total of 300 million shi grains, and other supplies.After the unloading at Chencang, it was changed to land, which required more carriages. Even for the sake of speed, Wang Hua mobilized all the large livestock in the eight states.

At this time, Guo Yuanzhen wrote a letter saying that the Tubo people had begun to attack Dafeichuan, and hoped that Wang Hua would send reinforcements.The court could not count on it. After Wang Hua's extortion, the court was empty, with soldiers, food and military expenses, so there was no way to send troops.

But Wang Hua was unmoved.

I have dealt with Guo Yuanzhen many times, and this is a master who refuses to suffer.Spring sold a favor, how much material did Wang Hua subsidize?Thousands of soldiers were even sacrificed.

Now Guo Yuanzhen still has many sharp weapons provided by himself, and the checkpoints on all roads have been won.Another point is that since Tuyuhun surrendered, he can also call up troops.This is Guo Yuanzhen wanting to use the sacrifice of the soldiers of the blood battalion to preserve his own strength.Of course, I don't want to receive favors from Tuyuhun, after all, it is difficult to control this place if it is newly ruled and receives favors so quickly.

But this time the Blood Battalion soldiers sacrificed equally.

Regardless of the use of prisoners of war, the number of sacrifices and serious injuries has once again reached nearly [-].

Too many people died, Wang Hua would not send troops to sacrifice for Guo Yuanzhen's future management.

What's more, the army is all outside Chang'an city now, and the food is not available for a day, so he feels uneasy, so the troops from other places are also afraid to move.So more than [-] cannons were transported there, not only for Guo Yuanzhen, but also for Jishishan to prevent Tubo from dispatching troops from the Bailan tribe to Jishishan despite the difficult road.

Then he sent envoys and wrote two letters to Tubo and Turks.

There were many Tubo prisoners of war in the Blood Camp, but after the Tuyuhun people and Dangxiang people were detained, there were less than 4 people left.But for Tubo, this is also a valuable combat power.

Therefore, Wang Hua made a request. It is possible to release the captives, but they must return the [-] captured people of the Tang Dynasty and Princess Jincheng.

The latter is impossible, so you can ask Tubo to bring back some Tang Dynasty people.

This is also a helpless move. Although we know that the strength of Tubo has been strengthened, the lives of the people in the Tang Dynasty in Tubo are too miserable. This is a righteous statement.In fact, Wang Hua needs people now.To the south of Jishi Mountain is the Yellow River and the Piaohe River. It was a deserted place at first, but now it is a resort with rich water and grass. In addition, Wang Hua promoted farming and lacked a large number of people.There is also Beihetao, which is also seriously short of people.This time, nearly 2 people were sacrificed in the blood camp, but less than [-] people were available, and half of them were forcibly pulled from the big families who ransacked their homes.

With the people, there will be a source of soldiers and production.Otherwise, the foundation of the eight states will be unstable, and the return of these Han people will also play a role in diluting the nomadic peoples.

In fact, sometimes it is very pitiful to think about it. As Zhang Jiazhen said, the area is almost as large as that of the Qin Dynasty after the Sixteen Kingdoms, but the population is only similar to the population of a city in Chang'an City.If Chang'an County is added up, it will even have a population of 100 million more than him.

For the sake of population, he almost fell out with Guo Yuanzhen.

In order to buy the hearts of Tuyuhun people, Guo Yuanzhen also asked Wang Hua for prisoners of war, but Wang Hua refused to give them. These were middle-aged people, and they were given to all ethnic groups as slaves, which was the best labor and favor.Of course, in order to reduce conflicts, a group of meritorious prisoners of war who participated in the war were released.No more.

Then there are the Turkic people. There are not many Turkic prisoners of war. They are mainly the ones who attacked Fengzhou and the two surrendered cities in the West, and then the group when Mochuo attacked, and the group of Moji, a total of [-] come.Mo Ju let him beheaded.This man cannot be released, he is a brave Turkic general.

Then talk to Mochuo, and Mochuu captured more people in Turkic territory.But it is difficult to ask for it, and they are distributed to various tribes as rewards.But these prisoners of war also come from various tribes, let's see how Mo Chuo talks to them.

Wang Hua asked his lobbyist Zhang Fuzhi to go, and offered a one-to-ten replacement. After all, he is a soldier, and he is different from ordinary people.Moreover, the returned common people are definitely women, old and young.The minimum limit is one to six, and the minimum cannot be lower than one to five.

This continued until early July, when Zhang Shuo begged Wang Hua to leave Chang'an with the army and return to Chencang.Stationed here again to supervise the imperial court's food.It was not until mid-July that half of the grain was shipped to Eight States before returning.

At this time, the imperial court once again sent imperial envoys to ask for prisoners of war.

No, now transporting grain, especially the land route from Chencang, requires the most labor.How to give, besides, the food has not been shipped yet.

The imperial envoy had to go back.

In fact, at this time, 700 million shi of grain had arrived in Bazhou, scattered in the major grain cellars of Lanhe Shanlingyan, and the biggest problem of the blood camp had been resolved calmly.This dispute of who is right and who is wrong has officially settled.

PS: The artillery was not found on Baidu, and it is estimated that it is not complete. It was found in professional books, and it was written to explain the rationality of being able to make it.There are a lot of words, less than [-] words, and three big tails are sent to make up. This is the second one.

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