Li Xiao can be sure that Mr. Yu has never seen Lao Maozi in his life. But since he saw Li Xiao's heartless cannon, Mr. Yu's thinking about weapons has become closer and closer to Lao Maozi.

Being powerful has become the pursuit of the old fisherman, and being stupid, bold and thick has become his trademark.

The latest scientific research achievement is a large-caliber mortar. It doesn't matter that the caliber of this thing is large. But it is difficult to find gunners to move the shells. These four gunners were selected based on the standards of Olympic weightlifting champions. One hundred and ten kilograms

The stone lock was like a piece of straw in their hands, and they lifted the two-hundred-jin pile and walked around the threshing floor, their faces unchanged and their hearts not beating.

Li Xiao always believed that Mr. Yu was deeply poisoned by the storyteller Mr. Yuan. His face remained calm and his heart stopped beating, so his grandson was probably dead.

In this way, two people had to hold the cannonball before it could be loaded into the barrel.

Li Xiao had seen a drill. Two burly men struggled to stuff the cannonballs into the barrel. Then they jumped into the pit dug on the side with a diving posture and lay down. After a burst of smoke, a huge rocket rose five miles away.

The plume of smoke can be seen clearly without a telescope.

In terms of explosive power, this large-caliber mortar is sufficient. However, there are still inherent problems with mortars. The accuracy of long-distance targets is too different. It is said that it can hit eight miles away, but it can't hit eight miles away.

I can't tell where it will explode.

Li Xiao just hoped that this thing would not explode in the barrel and harm the two Olympic champions in vain.

But that thing is suitable for dealing with the Dengzhou City Wall. After all, a target as big as the city wall is there. It doesn't matter where you blow it up, it's just to scare the people in the city.

In the evening, Li Xiu also arrived. As soon as he and Chen Laohu entered the two five-masted ships, they completely blocked Dengzhou Port.

The small artillery in Dengzhou City only fired two rounds in demonstration, but Li Xiu fired a round of shells. Shrapnel flew across the city, killing an unknown number of people. Even the artillery on the city never fired again.

Pass.

The snow that has been falling for two days has finally stopped, and the land outside the city is also in serious trouble. The most annoying thing is that in places like Shandong, it is not too cold even if it is cold. If it is not cold, your nose is still freezing.

The snow fell to the ground without freezing, and melted again when the sun shone the next day. The entire wilderness turned into a huge swamp. Fortunately, Dengzhou is still prosperous. There are many villages and towns nearby, and Aocanghai and Mangui brought them this time.

There weren't that many soldiers coming. Otherwise, living in the wild in this kind of weather would be a serious crime.

The sun shone on the snow, and Li Xiao personally chose a place. The mortar position was dug very deep, and he looked at the muzzle, which was as thick as his own head. Li Xiao was worried whether this thing would explode.

Li Xiao stood on the hill in the distance, with Ao Canghai and Man Gui standing next to him. These two people came here specially to join in the fun today. They had never seen what the big killer that the fisherman said looked like.

The two weightlifters worked together to lift the cannonball, and Li Xiao couldn't help but feel his heart in his throat. He was a full mile away from the artillery position, and Li Xiao was still a little worried whether the distance of five hundred miles was a safe distance. After all, then,

The thing is really too big.

"Boom!" A cloud of smoke erupted from the muzzle. Through the telescope, Li Xiao could clearly see a green brick turret on the city wall. It was suddenly sent into the air by the explosion, and the bricks and stones fell densely, as if it had rained for a while.

Rain of bricks.

"Holy shit!" Ao Canghai was obviously shocked.

I couldn't help but be surprised. Li Xiao had seen those kind of city bricks before. They were similar to those used to build the Jiayuguan Great Wall. One city brick weighed about thirty or forty kilograms. The power of the explosion could actually lift dozens of city bricks.

10 feet tall.

"This thing is too damn powerful!" Mangui grinned, and he could not understand the current weapons more and more.

Things like grenades and mines used to look pretty vicious. But now it looks like they were just fucking New Year firecrackers.

"There is no most powerful, only more powerful!" Li Xiao replied helplessly. Throughout the evolutionary history of weapons, they have developed in three directions: small size, high power, and long range.

We can't let Mr. Yu continue to play like this, otherwise Li Xiao will one day feel that he will see the Dora Cannon on the land of the Ming Dynasty.

The people on the top of the city were obviously more shocked than Li Xiao and the others. The city tower was made of blue bricks, and the seams were specially made of expensive cement. The other party disappeared with one shot. The three people inside the city tower, even

Not even a single corpse was seen.

What kind of cannon is the opponent tinkering with? It’s so powerful!

People were running around like headless chickens everywhere. They used to think that Dengzhou's solid city walls could protect them. But this shot made them lose confidence.

The weightlifters worked together again to lift a cannonball. This time, the cannonball landed a little off. It hit the city wall directly and actually made a hole the size of a tabletop in the solid city wall.

Li Xiao shook his head helplessly. It seemed that the power of this thing was still not enough to deal with Dengzhou's solid city wall.

The city wall made of glutinous rice mixed with sand and millet has a special feature, that is, it will not collapse as easily as a brick wall.

If it were a brick wall, if the bricks below were blown down, the bricks above would definitely collapse, but there is no guarantee of this.

In other words, if you want to knock down the Dengzhou city wall, you need to chew it piece by piece.

The cannonball was fired for the third time, and this time another blue brick turret was dislodged. Li Xiao looked through the telescope and clearly saw a cannon flying down the city wall.

It is estimated that the explosion detonated the ammunition in the turret, and the power of the second explosion was even more violent than the first. After the second explosion, all the people running around on the city wall disappeared.

Because of the air wave generated by the explosion just now, people who were more than ten meters away were thrown away, and they landed under the city wall and they didn't know whether they were dead or alive.

"Send someone to shoot the letter up. If you don't surrender, no one will survive." While everyone on the tower was gone, Li Xiao immediately ordered someone to shoot the written letter of surrender into the city.

"Brother Geng, the Liao army is on the opposite side. What should we do?" Kong Youde was so anxious that he almost cried when he saw the tragic situation on the city wall.

The Liao Army, that was the Liao Army, a Liao Army that could even defeat the Tatars. Kong Youde knew the quality of his men better than anyone else.

"What should I do? Do it while you are alive! Or die! Even if you want to run away now, there is nowhere to run. The road to the sea is blocked. I have never seen such a big ship in these years." Looking at the five ships in the distance.

The big ship made Geng Zhongming feel a headache.

I used to think that even if I couldn't go to Dengzhou, I could go to sea and become a pirate or something. Now it seems that I can't become a pirate. If I really go to sea, the possibility of feeding fish is very high.

"Brother Geng, why don't we surrender?"

"Silence!" Geng Zhongming looked around in horror. When he saw that there was no one around him, he hurriedly said to Kong Youde: "Are you crazy? We are committing a capital crime. If you have diarrhea now, what will the people below think?

, maybe someone will chop off our heads and take the credit.

If you want to survive, just hold on. As long as you delay for a while, you will always find a time when they relax. When the time comes, we will find a way to stand out. This is the only way!"

"Boss, boss! The letter shot up from below!" A guy who looked like a captain ran over with an arrow tied with a letter.

Kong Youde grabbed it and quickly untied the letter tied to the arrow.

"What are you trying to grab? Do you know how to read?" Geng Zhongming grabbed it angrily.

"As if you know him!" Kong Youde muttered.

Both of them were illiterate, but there were still a few scholars in Dengzhou city. The two brothers captured a few scholars, and they even knew how to ask them separately. They asked them to read out what the letter said!

The day after the bombardment, people from the imperial court came. It was obvious that those guys from the Donglin Party really wanted to protect Sun Yuanhua. According to Li Xiao's calculations, the people he sent might have just arrived in the capital. The next day this person

The imperial envoy set off on the road.

It was a minister of the Ministry of Rites named Wen Tiren, who should be regarded as a high-ranking official according to his rank. It only took four days to get from the capital to Dengzhou, which was really fast.

Li Xiao, Wen Tiren, had heard of him, and he was a famous double-dealer. He started working in the industry during the Wanli period, and he has been actively seeking progress.

When the Donglin Party came to power, this brother was promoted to an official. Later, when Wei Zhongxian came to power, this brother was promoted to an official.

Wei Zhongxian was rectifying the Donglin Party, but he had nothing to do with it.

The most amazing thing is that even though Wei Zhongxian overthrew the Taitung Lin Party and the Returning Group came back, nothing happened to him.

There were not many officials like this during the Tianqi years, which shows that Mr. Wen Tiren's skills were rare in the world. The officials in the capital gave him a nickname, Liuli Qiu.

There is only the wrong bed and no wrong nickname.

When Li Xiao saw the Minister Wen, he immediately felt that the nickname was correct.

Wen Tiren is a chubby guy, six feet tall and eight feet in waist. He has no neck at all and a fair, chubby face. Li Xiao thinks that when this guy is standing, he can't see his feet.

The facial features are quite passable, but people are always happy when they are fat, and they look very festive. Perhaps this is the real reason Wen Tiren has been able to dominate the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty for decades.

"I've met Fu Zun." Wen Tiren smiled and clenched his fists at Li Xiao with his pig's trotters-like hands.

"You're polite, Mr. Wen, please!" The place where Li Xiao stayed was a local wealthy family's home. Li Xiao didn't know where the wealthy family had gone. Anyway, there was no owner when he moved in.

The two entered the hall and took their seats respectively.

Li Xiao was a little surprised. Since he was here to announce the decree, why didn't he bring it out?

"This time I came to announce the decree, Banzai just gave an oral instruction. He said that he wanted the governor to do things easily! This is in the military, and since Banzai said to do things easily, those red tapes can be avoided."

Li Xiao discovered that this Wen Ti Ren Wen Shi Lang always smiled no matter how he spoke. Faced with a smiling face, it is difficult for you to hate this person. Especially when this guy talks so affectionately, he looks like an uncle next door.

Li Xiao was very wary of this famous treacherous minister in the late Ming Dynasty. Because no matter how nonsense TV dramas are in later generations, this man will be a staunch villain. Even the most unqualified director would not dare to vindicate this grandson Zhaoxue.

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"Oh! Long live this cheap errand...! The best things to do in the court are the cheap errands, and the worst things are also the cheap errands. This errand is really difficult to handle!" Li Xiao spread his hands and said with a wry smile.

"Although Lord Fu is not very old, what he said is the words of an experienced official. It is indeed not an easy task to do a cheap job to the satisfaction of Long live and all the officials of the court!

Before coming here, Mr. Qian had visited Mr. Wen.

Mr. Qian was once unhappy with Mr. Fu Zun, and asked Wen to be a peacemaker. In everything, the overall interests of the court should be put first. Although Mr. Sun did not check the personnel for a while, he was still loyal to Long Live and the court. I hope Mr. Fu Zun

, this time, the dignity of the imperial court was taken into consideration. In dealing with the rebels in Dengzhou, they used both suppression and appeasement, with appeasement as the main focus.

After all, they are all ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and killing too many lives is detrimental to the harmony of heaven." Wen Tiren looked at Li Xiao. After all, he and Li Xiao had no friendship. Moreover, it was said in the capital that Li Xiao was a sour-faced monkey who would fall out when something happened.

Li Xiao didn't speak, and neither did anyone else. The scene suddenly turned cold!

"My lord, I still find it hard to express my feelings! But my lord, you must know that everyone comes out to hang out and sometimes asks for help.

As far as Wen knows, you and Mr. Shi Kefa, the commander of the Nanjing Forbidden Army, have entered into some arms business. Do you know that the financial backer behind Mr. Shi is none other than Mr. Qian Qianyi?

Also, Mr. Fu Zun has a lot of business in the capital. Recently, you have been selling the manor outside Xibianmen. It is a good business that makes a lot of money every day. I dare to ask Mr. Fu Zun, has anyone ever found a trace of it?
To be continued...