MTL - Unparalleled Concubine-v2 Chapter 1052 Emperor's mother-in-law

   Chapter 1052 The Emperor's Mother-in-law

   Xie Jing was able to send Li Xin a set of firearms, which means that he definitely had more than one there, which meant that he was already on his way back to the capital with firearms.

The structure of the fire gun is not complicated. As long as there are samples to bring back, the old blacksmiths in the capital can easily imitate them. Moreover, the most crucial gunpowder is also being developed in the capital, so Li Xin and the other three saw this. Things, the complexion is a little unsightly.

Li Shuo immediately knelt on the ground and said, "General. In the past few days, the five hundred fire gunmen of the Ningzhou Army have suffered more than 20 casualties, and three are missing. Get all the guns back..."

   Li Xin felt a little helpless.

The two sides face each other in the city, and the fire gun is not a panacea. It is normal to be shot by the enemy's bow and crossbow, and the loss of the fire gun is inevitable. After a while, he felt somewhat uncomfortable.

   "Xie Jingken left half of the Hanzhong army in Xiangyang City, mostly for this, no wonder you, just get up and talk."

Li Shuo got up from the ground, bowed his head to Li Xin, and said solemnly: "General, I will be using fire guns at the end of the past few days. Children can also use them to hurt people, but when it comes to lethality, they are still no match for bows and crossbows.

Li Xin frowned slightly and said in a muffled voice: "The question now is, what happened to the gunpowder in the imperial court? The samples I left for them last year are only half as powerful as our own gunpowder, if they just copied it. At that level, even if there is a fire gun, it is basically not lethal."

   Having said this, General Li exhaled slowly.

   "I just don't know if the skilled craftsmen in the capital can improve the gunpowder to the level of southwest gunpowder."

Mu Ying lowered her head and frowned: "General, do you want to take someone out to chase at the end? It's better to get this thing back. I have few people in the southwest, and the lives of soldiers are precious, so I can't just make fire guns for the people of the court. ."

   "I'm afraid it's not very easy to chase..."

Li Xin shook his head helplessly: "The Hanzhong army is not the same as the rabble who attacked Hanzhou in those days. Although they were defeated in Xiangyang city, they are not without combat effectiveness. The Hanzhong army has become a mourning soldier, and it may not be enough to be killed by them with a carbine."

   "Don't worry, General, the last will not chase deeply, just chase it out and give it a try."

Li Xin hesitated for a while, nodded and said: "Then you go out of the city and chase it, remember one thing, don't fight with them recklessly, if you can take advantage, take a little advantage, if you can't take advantage, you will come to Xiangyang, and then There are many things to discuss with you."

  Mu Ying bowed her head readily, strode away, and then led 20,000 elites of the Southwest Army to chase from the East City of Xiangyang City.

After    Mu Ying left, Li Xin was still standing on the tower and glanced back at Li Shuo.

   "For making trouble with Xie Jing, you will get a discount on your Ningzhou Army's credit."

   Now that the two brothers were outsiders from Meizu, Li Shuo gave a wry smile and bowed his head: "It's the younger brother who didn't think about it thoroughly and ruined the elder brother's business."

"It's not a bad thing, as you said, the fire gun can't change anything, it can only be regarded as the icing on the cake at most. Huzi has made new things. If it can be successfully made, the fire gun and so on are irrelevant. thing."

Back then, Li Xin's formula for gunpowder could be said to have achieved the utmost in confidentiality. From the first time he made gunpowder in Yongzhou, to the next ten years, the formula of gunpowder has been firmly in his hand. However, after he handed over the samples of gunpowder to Emperor Yuan Zhao last year, secrecy is not as important as it used to be.

  Because as long as there is gunpowder, these things will come out sooner or later. What Li Xin has to do now is to enter the capital and control all the situation before the imperial court can get the things out.

   Having said this, Li Xin said solemnly, "How many cavalry are there in your Ningzhou army?"

  Li Shuo bowed his head respectfully: "Brother Hui, the Ningzhou army has been successively continued in recent years, and together there are about 2,000 cavalry."

   "Being able to support 2,000 cavalry shows that you have lived very well these years."

Li Xin said quietly: "From today onwards, you will select 1,000 cavalry from your Ningzhou army, and also 1,000 from Mu Ying's cavalry. The 2,000 cavalry will be handed over to me to command myself. Is there any problem? "

"No."

  Li Shuo bowed his head respectfully: "Tomorrow, my younger brother will let a thousand people come to my brother to report."

Li Xin squinted his eyes, looked at Mu Ying who was chasing the troops under the city, and said slowly: "This matter is not urgent, we will do it together after Mu Ying returns, you can help me send some people back to Jincheng, and put the Brother You'an invited him to Xiangyang and said that I have something important to discuss with him."

   "Yes, my brother will do it himself."

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   The victory of the Southwest Army in Xiangyang is naturally something to celebrate, but for the imperial court, this is a defeat, a huge defeat!

   The defending side of the city had the upper hand, but the Southwest Army, which was weaker in strength, broke the city within three days!

  No one can explain this matter, even Xie Jing, who is the uncle of the country, can't afford it.

   Therefore, after the Hanzhong army withdrew from Xiangyang, Xie Jing broke away from the Hanzhong army early, and rushed back to the capital with a fire gun.

   In order to explain to the emperor, Xie Jing traveled extremely fast all the way. When he returned to the capital, the military report of the defeat in the southwest was just passed back to the capital.

   In the Weiyang Palace, the still young emperor looked at the military newspaper he had just sent back from the southwest in his hand, and then looked at his mother-in-law who was kneeling in front of him, but he couldn't see any expression on his face.

   "General Xie means that the Hanzhong army lost Xiangyang within three days because of the iron pipe in your hand?"

   "More than just this iron pipe."

Xie Jing knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Go back to Your Majesty, the main reason is that there are thunderbolts in the southwest that can be thrown with catapults, and the city walls of Xiangyang City are useless. After this kind of iron pipe is ignited with fire, it can shoot hidden weapons, which is powerful in the capital. , you can even pierce armor within twenty steps, which is very powerful."

   "Twenty steps?"

   Emperor Yuanzhao said coldly: "General Xie chooses one of my three imperial guards to test the arrow at random, and it can shoot at least fifty steps. What's the use of twenty steps?"

The most notable feature of hot weapons is that the threshold for use is relatively low. Even a three-year-old child can easily kill a strong man with a pistol. On the contrary, a three-year-old child needs to practice hard for at least several years or even more than ten years. It takes time to cultivate oneself into a qualified archer. As for the kind of archer who can pierce Yang with a hundred steps, it is even more impossible to meet.

  Xie Jing knelt on the ground, trembling all over: "Your Majesty, this thing is like a fetish in the hands of the southwest."

   "Hundreds of them entered Xiangyang City, and only two or three rounds came down with this thing in hand, and our troops suffered heavy casualties."

   "The Hanzhong Army killed tens of thousands of people before they got this gun from the Southwest Army."

   He knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, there are countless skilled craftsmen in the capital. I urge Your Majesty to get this thing out as soon as possible. If there is no such thing, Southwest will soon be able to enter the capital!"

   (end of this chapter)