Chapter 2189:

The Cao’s business in the southern empire was soon known to the headquarters of the Cao’s business. They were also very angry when they knew about this. What is going on now? We are here to help the people of the Southern Empire, so why have we become their enemies? They all know that there must be someone inciting this thing behind this incident, and they basically know who that person is, but that person’s status is really a bit high, and it’s impossible for us to get this guy out. Yes, even if you get them out, it’s impossible to solve this problem so simply. When most of the forces in an empire are hostile to one force, there is no way for this force to justify. How useful, because people don’t believe you at all. Min De is also not sure what to do in dealing with these things because people just took over Cao’s house. It’s easy to do things like knights, just The old master of Minde knows this guy's abilities too well. In the past, he thought he could coax the emperor of the Southern Empire, and the emperor of the Southern Empire might have coaxed you in turn, true or false. Who can tell the matter clearly, as it is now, many people in Cao’s house have said that they need to withdraw from the Western Empire and conclude a peace treaty with the Western Empire. In this case, let the Southern Empire deal with them. That's it. If the people of the Southern Empire are not obedient, it will be even easier. We can unite the Western Empire with the Northern Empire, and maybe we can divide the Southern Empire. At that time, the Cao’s merchants produced weapons. . The western empire and the northern empire were born, and such things can be done very well.
Although this proposal is very marketable within Cao’s house, Li Cong himself is not an ordinary person. He will seek the opinions of other people, but this does not mean that he will definitely adopt their opinions. Boss, it's affirmative to absorb other people's opinions, but if you listen to others in everything, this boss must be a poorly qualified person. Li Cong is like this right now. He would never let himself become like this. The war with the Western Empire absolutely cannot be stopped, even if it encounters some difficulties now, it cannot be stopped. If it doesn't fight like that, what happens to the Southern Empire is secondary. The most important thing is how people on the Western Empire view the Cao's business. The Western Empire still owes a large amount of debt to Cao's Commercial Bank. If this is not done, the Western Empire may start from these debts, and they will not refuse to repay them. But they will definitely ask for some debt reduction or interest reduction or exemption. The Cao's merchant gave them money to earn this interest. If they don't have this income, what will they play with the Western Empire? We are not philanthropists, and we don’t know how to produce silver. We can’t just put so much of our silver with you so that you can use it for a while. In the end, we won’t get anything except West. On the side of the empire, several other empires would also feel a bit puzzled by Cao's House of Business, and even after this incident began to despise Cao's House of Business, thinking that they were just paper tigers.
At the beginning, Li never regarded this incident as a single incident, but later things evolved a bit more drastically. Even the people in the guards of the Cao’s family firm felt a bit aggrieved in helping the Southern Empire fight. And there is still no progress. In fact, they have this idea. Li Cong also understands that in the past, no matter what kind of enemy they encountered, the people of Cao's Commercial Bank were able to quickly kill them, but this The time came to a halt here. Cao’s family firm used all elite troops, and now it has only obtained a beachhead position. Although it passed with so many navies, it was too far away from the capital of the Western Empire. The reason is that there is still no way to shell them. As long as there is no damage to the capital of the Western Empire, it is impossible for the Western Empire to yield to people. Now the Western Empire seems to have seen the dawn of victory. In the eyes of the Cavaliers, the people of Cao’s House of Business are just like that. Your other empires are so afraid of you, but we are not afraid of you. We defeated you once at the border, regardless of how much we paid. Anyway, we have won, and it is the same now. We will definitely win here. Of course, the price paid will be very huge, but this is irrelevant to us. , Everything is solvable. Our empire will not bow to the people of Cao’s house. The attitude of the Western Empire is very tough. They all thought that the people of Cao’s house would retreat. After all, nothing can be seen in this war. The odds are good, but they are all wrong one by one. The people of Cao's House of Business have absolutely no plan to retreat, Li Cong answered.
Li Cong’s answer was very simple. It was an attack. After the beachhead was calm for 13 hours, the whole thing was not the same as before. In front of Cao’s position, there was a line of 105mm infantry artillery. They are all ready. In front of them are two regiments of 13,500 phalanxes. They are the main army of this attack. Behind them is also another phalanx. The strength is the four regiments of the 12th Marine Corps, that is, the regiment where Shan Changhai is. Of course, Shan Changhai did not participate in the battle. This guy has already served as a company commander in another company because of him. His body has suffered a certain amount of destruction in this war. The whole body has either a problem here or a problem there. If this is on the earth, this person must be no problem, but this is not the earth, and he can only be Honestly obeyed the above instructions and went to a second-line army. Although the treatment has been improved a lot, for a professional soldier like him, it is meaningless to live. At this moment, he can only It was lying on the ship waiting for the ship carrying the wounded to set sail, and it would be possible to reach the place where I was going after a year. That place was a very strange place to myself, although I knew that this was a business behavior. of. But my heart is a little uncomfortable after all. My class fell in this place. The Cavaliers hope very much that he can take the rest of his brothers to avenge Xiaojiang. They all feel uncomfortable thinking of that kid Xiaojiang. This kid is just a boy at home, and the future will not be so good. I hope I can live there.
Through the logistics department, they all learned that Xiao Jiang’s family is not what the kid said at all. His family is a good family, with two older sisters and one younger sister. It is not the kind of very poor family. At least there is still 20 acres of land in my family, how can it be regarded as a family with a few hundred taels of silver, such a family would not let their son join the army, but Xiaojiang still came. He thinks that a man cannot live slowly at home. You should try it out on the battlefield. Besides, their whole family is in the occupied area of ​​Cao's house, didn't the people of Cao's house have said that. It’s all because of their arrival that the current life will be so good. If you want to be the same every day, you can receive the food and so on every month. This requires you to come out and join the army of Cao’s house. To protect this, his father and mother are just such a son. Naturally, they are very disapproving of this matter, but they did not expect that Xiaojiang this guy should have left a letter casually. The rest is that they know It’s been like this. It’s been more than two years since I left. A lot of money and pennants were sent home. But the people in the family don’t want these things. The box is that Xiao Jiang can go home quickly. It’s a pity. The thing is that this wish is not so easy to realize, it may not be realized in a lifetime, and now Xiao Jiang has gone to that world over there, and I hope his family can forgive this unfilial son.
The strength of these four regiments is not very large, but if they really want to fight, they can do a lot of things. Just like now, their majestic lineup has made the people in charge of defense in the Western Empire dumbfounded. It’s not that they haven’t seen an army, but it’s the first time they have seen such an army. Their clothes are all uniform, but they don’t know how to do it. It seems that there is no one’s good ones. We are also wearing them. Boots, but the shiny one looks very energetic when I walk on the road. I look at the postures of people holding a serial crossbow. Everyone walks as if they are alone. Every blow is so powerful, it makes the people on their side feel a little scared. Looking at the people on their side, the clothes on their bodies are sloppy, and the weapons are also varied, because of their combat effectiveness. They are more powerful. His Majesty allows them to use their favorite weapons. Although this can maximize their combat effectiveness, there is another point that their appearance is very strange. It is for this reason that they are all I feel that their army is inferior to others, and the knights don’t have such a thing. It’s just one of their feelings, but sometimes they feel that they can do great things. Now, their feelings have made them lose. The army of the Cao’s House of Business stopped at a distance of about 8,000 meters from them. These people quickly formed the kind of battle sequence of the Cao’s House of Business, that is, three columns, so that the largest chain crossbow of the Cao’s House Launched to a limited extent, they also knew that the Cao's firm was going to attack, but what could be done at such a long distance? Unless they used cavalry to charge in the past, they were not fools. They all knew that if the Cao's business had completed the three ranks, they would be looking for death in the past. This is for sure.
"All ready, fire." With a commander's order, the hundreds of artillery lined up here began to speak. The loud sound made the ears of the surrounding artillery temporarily lose their hearing. They already fired separately. Now, about a dozen cannons fired together, and then it was behind them. If hundreds of cannons fired together, it is estimated that their ears would not be needed anymore. That would be a waste. Now let their ears be used for a long time. It couldn’t be slowed down, but they just adjusted it a little bit, and started the loading of the next shell. The gunner quickly carried the other shell over, and the other guy hurriedly gave the shell skin. Withdraw, and then another guy took the shell skin away, and the guy with the shell first stuffed it in and made a good move, and the person who fired there immediately pulled the line. The whole action is completed in about 20 seconds. They can fire about 3 shells per minute, which is already a very good result. After this shell was ejected, it exploded in the distant Xidi Camp. They The things that were made to defend against the Cao’s family’s army were basically bombed out by artillery shells and couldn’t be found. Some wood-built things were all destroyed. They all thought this thing would last for a while, who knew that. The thing that can't last even a minute in front of a cannonball, such a thing is simply rubbish, but it is such that wastes so much time for them to make this thing. Too much manpower and material resources are wasted. This war is not the same as before, and the equipment used to deal with other people is obviously useless against the people of Cao's Commercial Bank.
"The enemy has already begun an offensive. Their strategic goal is to expand their landing area. At present, they can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people. Your task is to defend the current line of defense. You cannot retreat at all. If the people of Cao’s House of Business expanded their positions, then there would not be so few people who landed. That’s how the army’s mission is. Tell the people from the navy not to crash there and lean on me. No matter how you have to show your existence, I know that you are not the opponents of Cao’s business, but the empire has spent so much money to form you, but it was not for you to rest there when the war came, the navy At least we have to put some pressure on the people of Cao’s house. At least we should not let the artillery on their warships bring any harm to our army. Such requirements are not very much. If the people of the navy refuse to fight. If you don’t, then kill them for me. The Empire doesn’t need any waste at this time.
Prince Ding looked at the army of the Cao’s house in front and said, he was disappointed in the performance of the Western Empire Navy. The thing about Wei is that the guy Taiwei talked about expanding the navy. Now the navy has been established. But looking at these navy guys, basically none of them are useful. I went out for a tour and saw Cao. All the warships of the house and trading company have come back. They didn’t do anything like this. They didn’t even fight. It’s really shameful to say this. You can still say that you can’t control it in the outer waters. Now we are in the river, if you still say that, will your face feel a little hot?
Prince Ding’s words can be said to be a little bit of face and they didn’t give them. They all knew that they couldn’t have any face with Prince Ding. In fact, they all had their own difficulties. There are a lot of weapons, but what we have added, war crossbows, this thing was considered a good weapon before. I am optimistic. This is written in the past, although some of the materials of Warcraft were used, the price is considered higher. However, the increase in combat effectiveness is still too slow, and it can be fired thousands of meters away, but what about the artillery of Cao’s house? That's something that can hit tens of thousands of meters, or even tens of thousands of meters. We use this thing to fight against others? Are we opponents of others? Besides, even if our war crossbows are lucky enough to hit someone, if we want to get the warships of Cao's business, at least dozens of war crossbows are needed to achieve that effect. Do you have that ability now? That’s impossible. If you can hit one, it feels like you’ve won a lottery. Everyone is very happy. They never hit the artillery of Cao’s house. The speed is very fast, and the hitting is very accurate. The most important thing is that if this thing is hit, basically their boats will not stick to it. Don’t think that people can’t do research. People’s wooden boats are basically shot. Fifty percent of those going up will sink, and the remaining 50% will be able to continue combat, but the speed will be reduced by more than 30%. The speed was not very high, but now it is reduced. It's the living target of Cao's House of Business. In the following war, there is no need to think about anything else, just look at how you were killed.
However, the navy of the Western Empire was not always like this. People have already begun to innovate, just like getting a war crossbow on a ship. Now they are building a very large ship that can even be mounted on such a ship. For the giant crossbow, the giant crossbow is simply nothing to deal with the wooden ship. Even if the ship of the Cao's house is hit, it can only sink. There is no other way. This was already manifested in the first battle, but this kind of ship is very expensive. It is impossible for a little money. At least it needs tens of millions of dollars. I don’t know such a thing. How much money can the major empires have to build? This kind of thing is nothing to the people of Cao’s house. It seems that the fighting power has been improved a lot, but this thing of yours also has no speed. It has speed on the sea. But the very important thing, let's talk about it. The range of this thing is not very far. There are also a lot of people used. If for some reason these manpower are not enough, this weapon of war will be as good as a waste. This is also a problem that needs to be solved for the Western Empire. After all, there are already a lot of sailors on this ship. If there is such a thing again. What should they do? The living environment of the personnel will be greatly squeezed, and there is also the problem of eating for these people, and now they can’t hold so many things. If you continue to compete with people above, the environment above can only be said to be worse. The people at Cao’s Commercial Bank hope that they will build this thing on a large scale. At least your national strength will be wasted on this. Then you will understand what happened, but it's all over.
The naval generals of the Western Empire received such treatment from Prince Ding, and their faces didn’t look good, so today they decided to give Cao’s fleet a little bit more powerful, but this is powerful. How to give it to others? It's not someone's opponent to fight alone, but what if you fight for quantity? It seems that they are not their opponents. The new-style navy of the Western Empire was established in a short time. Most of the ships are on the sea. There are really not many on this inland river. This is because it is near the capital. There would be so many. If it weren’t near the capital, there would be no way there would be so many. People like them had no idea how to deal with the navy of Cao’s Commercial Bank. After the previous method, just go out for a short walk. Anyway, let Prince Ding see that we are already out. The rest will come slowly. The gap between us and others is to write On the surface, let us fight against them without looking at these gaps? It’s just an act of looking for death. We absolutely can’t do this thing like this. Sometimes it’s like that. They have to understand these things. Now they basically understand this, and we will talk about it later. In the future, who knows that the boss of the navy slapped him as soon as he said this. This was the time before, but now people have hit the capital. If you still dare to do this In terms of doing things, it is estimated that the navy may be abolished by the court. Why do you want such a navy of little use? Is it a fool to spend so much money every year?
"Okay, I don’t want to tell Lao Tzu those things that are of no use. Today, you have to push forward vigorously. No matter how great the loss is, you have to let the empire’s senior officials see clearly the importance of the navy. As far as the navy is concerned, the Cao’s army can land anywhere. This is a disaster for our empire. I hope you can understand that what you are doing today may not be of much use, but You should all know clearly that all of this has to be paid for the survival of the navy." The admiral of the navy looked at these people here and said that he had no choice. The old face damaged by Prince Ding didn’t know where to put it. Now, as the admiral of the navy, he is very aware of the gap between his army and the army of Cao’s house, but it’s not the time to talk about this. If you don’t rush forward, the end result may be Cao’s house. The people from here came directly, and you were of no use at all. They were all put down in the base. There is also a possibility that they directly felt that the navy does not need to exist, so they will be withdrawn directly, and pay back every year. It can save the empire a lot of money. If all of this money is spent on the army, some good results will come out. At least it is much stronger than all in the navy. They will do this one by one. They all feel very depressed. These people are usually afraid of death, but at this time the boss of the navy is already talking about it. If they don’t go out, they can use their toes in the future. The box arrives, you can fight hard after you go out, but if you don't go out. One can imagine his own destiny, there is no good result.
The four regiments of the Cao’s House of Commerce are slowly advancing in a neat line. Their advancing speed may be a bit slow. It has been half an hour since the beginning, but they have advanced about 1,000 meters. This kind of advancing speed can basically be described as a snail, but what they do is very calm. They did not feel that their speed was too slow, even the people on the opposite side of the Western Empire felt it. Something is wrong with them, and at first they didn't know what was going on. But now they understand. It turns out that these Cao's businessmen didn't attack quickly, they wanted to fight steadily, just like now, they all stopped after walking tens of meters. Then the army behind will quickly catch up. Some fortifications were built on this position. Things like barbed wire and super serial crossbows must be done. The people of the Western Empire understood all this, and their charge became even more powerful. But unfortunately, apart from dropping more corpses, they couldn’t rush over. The artillery position of Cao’s house also moved forward vigorously with the expansion of the occupied area. At this time, the prince was set up. The front-line headquarters must run backwards, otherwise they might enter the Cao’s house of firing circle. At that time, if the Cao’s house’s artillery wanted to kill them, it would be very easy, the prince. Although he was yelling that he would not retreat, but now he has no choice. His tent is so conspicuous. Almost a dozen cannons are aimed at his tent. If he doesn’t give his tent If you take it away, where do you put the artillery face of Cao's house? Isn't this torture?
About two minutes after Prince Ding left his tent, a shell directly hit the tent. There were also two generals and a dozen soldiers carrying things inside. All of them died there. Prince Ding. It doesn’t stop the soldiers who are pulling him away. It seems that I really shouldn’t be so forward. This thing is too powerful. If I was there just now, it would be impossible to die. Yes, but I will definitely explain it there. I am definitely not as good as it is now. When I saw my embarrassed appearance, Prince Ding ordered all 200,000 cavalry to be suppressed. In addition, over a million The heavy infantry also followed up. In this case, the movement speed of the infantry can be said to be very slow. To let them go up is actually looking for death, but the cavalry has lost too much, and now the cavalry around the capital They have already been recruited. If all the losses are cleaned up, if the capital cannot be kept, in the end, when the emperor wants to leave here, there is no cavalry protection. At that time, I was a very sinful person. I don’t want that. At that time, I was worried about by His Majesty the emperor, and my seat was not so stable. If this was memorized by the emperor again, I would definitely not have any good fruits to eat, so I just kept some kind of fire. The most important thing to do at that time is to let the navy rush over. As long as they pass the pressure on Cao's Commercial Firm, they will not be able to attack with all their strength.
The navy was connected to the two princes' orders. In fact, an order came out from the palace at this time. It also allowed the navy to attack quickly. If they didn’t move, the navy would definitely not be able to stay. Now, it’s the most critical time to raise troops for a thousand days. Victory and defeat are put to the back. This does not need to be judged now, but a soldier does not even have the idea of ​​going out to meet the enemy, the Empire So much money is to let you live slowly with a little wine? I am afraid that there is no such thing, and the empire is not such a fool, so what you have to do is to show your presence quickly. The admiral of the navy immediately ordered his four squadrons to go out together, and they were combined in two. All of them rushed towards the navy of Cao’s house. Of course, the term
rush
is definitely not very appropriate. Their speed can be said to be used to climb, and they also know that in such a battle. If you advance at full speed, there should be a lot of results, but they all know that if anyone runs fast, who will be the first to die, it’s better to walk slowly like this, and it will be true. If you start fighting, then speed up. At that time, there is a threat of death. Maybe you are not what you are in front of you? Thinking of these things now, they became calm. People who saw the navy finally came out, and Prince Ding, who had already moved, looked a little better, but when he saw their speed, he immediately scolded his mother again. Damn, even if he was traveling, To catch up with such a boat, you will run faster than you. Are you out to fight? Don't be ashamed of Lao Tzu there.
In addition to Prince Ding who observed what happened here, the eunuchs in the capital also saw it. Although the airships of Cao's House of Commercial Bank bombed the walls of the capital without even listening, the capital was too big. And there are a lot of materials. If you have finished bombing here, I can fix it over there. Over time, the airship of Cao's Commercial Bank will not be here to waste bullets. And it took two days. They had already made the crossbow into something that could shoot into the air. As long as the height of the airship is lower than 2000 meters, these things will pose a threat to the airship. The error is very serious when the bomb is dropped at an altitude of 2000 meters. So Li Cong simply asked the airships to retreat first. If they continue to bomb here, they will have a certain effect, but this effect will definitely not be too great. The most important thing is that they may make the airships. This is something that Li never wants to see if he has suffered a certain loss. If the people of the Western Empire are allowed to shoot down his airship, I don’t know how much the morale of Cao’s house will be hit. For the people of the empire, it was also a great encouragement. These eunuchs on the capital city wall took advantage of the opportunity when the airships were gone, one by one came to the city wall, and they all saw the situation not far away. It is very helpless to say that such a situation occurs. In fact, they also hope to bring back good news to the emperor, but at this time, they can’t make it up. If they really do that, it is estimated that the last The one who lost his head at the time must be his own, and he would never do such a stupid thing. These navies are really useless.
Thousands of warships of the Western Empire drove over in a swarm. Li Cong just glanced at them, and then he split up two squadrons to deal with them, because now the battle on land has reached the most critical time. So it’s impossible for Li to command and fight these navies, and these so-called navy Li Cong never looked at them. These guys can no longer be regarded as navies, basically they can’t do anything. Even if it’s the charge in front of me, I don’t know how long I’ve been thinking about it. These guys don’t have much effect one by one. They can be solved by two squadrons of about 120 ships. They are assigned to this task. The navy of the Cao’s House of Business was very happy, because of geography, they couldn’t attack the capital of the Western Empire in the past. This is a bit different from what they thought before. They came here before. In order to be able to kill the capital of the Western Empire, they did not expect that there is no such thing now. They can only wait for the army to advance a little bit. This is simply an insult to the navy. If this can bring these Western Empires If the navy is killed, they will basically be able to go to the city wall when they get to the shore, and there are some large-caliber artillery that can enter. They are also very happy to kill the navy, hope this thing You can proceed quickly. When they look at the washed ships in their eyes, they see their own military exploits. Those poor war crossbows can't pose any threat to them at all. They want to use that thing to follow We fight, really don't know what your mind is thinking, but you know that you will fail and come out, courage is commendable.
The navy of the Western Empire was very scared at the beginning, and it became even more scared when they saw the warships of the Cao’s House of Business coming towards them. Damn, it turned out that the only thing in my heart was that it’s best if the people of Cao’s House of Business didn’t care about them Now, let’s take a stroll in the past and let you see that our navy is not a waste, but now they really treat us as a dish. If something like this happened before, you might be very I'm happy, after all, it is to make others value yourself, but now? I feel really upset in my heart. When do these people value themselves badly? They have to value themselves at this time. It's the best if you look down on us. Now you all look up to us so much? But now that this is nothing to say, they all know what to do now, can they go back? Impossible, all of their harbors are already the personal guards of Prince Ding, as long as they dare to go back, UU reading www.uukanshu. Com is a joy, and it may make people in Cao’s House of Business laugh at a joke, that is, the navy of the Western Empire did not die in the hands of Cao’s House of Commerce, but they all died in their own hands. So after thinking of this, they all went out. Besides, the main fleet of Cao's House of Business did not move. They can still kill such a small fleet. Didn't it mean that 30 warships were killed yesterday? , They also don’t want to think that at the beginning, it was because the squadron of Cao’s Commercial Bank did not see the existence of the giant crossbow. At that time, the giant crossbow was killed, and there were magic cannons on the city wall. Anymore? Because of the loss of the magic circle, the magic cannon dare not come out. If it comes out, it is estimated that it will be targeted by the airship of the Cao's firm immediately. If such a thing is not resolved, it is estimated that the magic cannon will not come out again. of.
Get into range! ! The observer on the first ship of the Cao’s House of Business yelled loudly. The helmsman below immediately turned the entire ship into a ninety-degree turn. The dozens of artillery have begun to intensive aiming work. At a distance of more than 10,000 meters, it is impossible to hit them in the first round here, but you can also slowly calibrate it by seeing where you are hitting. Generally speaking, the second round and the third round are similar. The wooden boats move very slowly. It is a very easy task to kill them. With the command of the commander, several huge water jets are moving. There was an explosion next to the Western Empire Fleet, and their people were directly dumbfounded. Damn, this began? We are not ready yet, why are there no routines?