Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 404 Loyalty and Betrayal 【Subscription】

In May, with the scorching sun overhead, the willows hang down on the banks of the Hulong River outside Tokyo, as if thousands of green silk ribbons hang down.

The changes in the current situation did not disturb these long-standing weeping willows. This is a city that loves willows.

The palace city, inner city and outer city of Tokyo all have moats, named "Dragon River", which are more than ten feet wide, and willows are planted inside and outside the moat.There are four rivers running through the city, Bian River, Jinshui River, Wuzhang River and Cai River, and willows are planted on the banks of the rivers.Such a Tokyo city, which is dotted with the royal family, temples, private gardens and street canals, is dotted with neat squares and houses. It can be imagined that if you overlook Bianjing, surrounded by three-story city walls, the majestic and splendid imperial city is located in the city. The center of the palace symbolizes the supreme authority of the feudal dynasty.The surrounding streets are in order, the business is prosperous, the rivers and canals are lingering, the lakes are scattered, and more than a hundred gardens are scattered in all directions of the city like bright pearls. What a beautiful and magnificent city it will be.

If it hadn't been for the rise of the Liangshan Army, in such a season, with the willows hanging low on the riverbank, it would have been a place loved by the literati, scholars and beauties (the leading oirans) in Tokyo.But the rise of the Liangshan Army in Qilu made everything turn into yesterday's smoke.

"The injustice has its head, and the debt has its owner! You soldiers and civilians, don't sacrifice your life for Zhao Guan's family! Those men who came to the city have never seen the skills of our Liangshan army, so I will let you open your eyes today. Don't hesitate to risk your life." .”

Hong Tianlei's yelling in front of the battle was an opening remark with the soldiers and civilians of Tokyo City.The whole process was covered by a group of heavily armored shield men, for fear of being attacked by crossbows at the head of the city.

"You are a coward. How can you be called a hero if you do nothing like this?" Liu Ziyu scolded angrily.Beside him, his old man Liu Kai looked solemnly at the Liangshan Cannon that had been erected outside the city.

"Father, don't believe those false rumors. There are such powerful stone cannons in the world. The city of Tokyo is as high as it is deep, and it is not comparable to a small city. Don't say that there are only [-] columns, and even [-] columns are useless." Young and energetic Liu Ziyu has never seen a real stone cannon bombardment.

And here Ling Zhen said something, and then returned to the artillery formation.The twenty Liangshan cannons that were waiting immediately began to bombard.

All the cannons fired.The big stones cover the sky and block out the sun, carrying huge kinetic energy and potential energy, whistling in the wind, and the majesty is impressive.

Every time a stone hit the city wall, one could clearly feel that the city was vibrating, the tower was hit by a cannon, and immediately collapsed, the mud was flying everywhere, and the sawdust was flying everywhere. Unfortunately, people were hit and turned into meat sauce!

And when the arson bombs burning with raging fire across the sky, they are like dazzling meteors falling from the sky.Fires ignited inside and outside the city, and repeated questions of "this is impossible" echoed in Liu Ziyu's heart.

Accompanied by bolides falling to the ground, accompanied by deafening roars, but often unfamiliar explosions, puffs of smoke rose near the Chaoyang Gate in the east of Tokyo.

The filling materials splashed on all sides—iron sand, crushed iron, fragments, etc., with kinetic energy so huge that flesh and blood could not stop it, tore apart everything in front of him.It would be a real tragedy if the flaming wood-cased incendiary bomb fell among the crowd.

The wooden shell is soaked in tung oil, and under the impact of huge force, the flying wood chips and stabs are not weaker than the blade arrows.And as for the large amount of iron sand, broken iron, and fragments hidden in it, there is no need to say anything about its lethality.

In addition to these, there are as few as four or five bags and as many as seven or eight bags of arson hidden in the wooden case bombs.They will not be shattered by the huge force, but will only jump far away.Because they have a layer of rattan shells on the outside to ensure that the moment the arson bomb touches the ground, it will not shatter the explosives inside.

The gunpowder formula has been adjusted, and the explosive power has not improved much, but the efficiency of burning and igniting has increased a lot.The inside is wrapped with coarse cloth and silk, and put into a bamboo tube. There is a matchlock outside, and the rattan has also been processed with tung oil to ensure that as long as it is dyed with a spark, it will burn blazingly.

Facts have proved that under this arrangement, the medicine bags wrapped in coarse cloth and silk in these bamboo tubes can also explode.Although there is no guarantee of 100%, it is not bad to have a seven or eight.

Although such a small amount of gunpowder has almost no lethality after it explodes, it is completely a big firecracker.But the sound of explosions can undoubtedly make people more afraid, and make the defenders inside and outside Chaoyang Gate even more panicked.

Liu Kai looked at the panicked soldier Ding Minyong, who was fleeing with his head in his arms, and was angry and angry.Wouldn't the thieves outside the city underestimate him by jumping around like this?If he had known this before, he would have sent the Zhejia army to the city. "Come here, come quickly. Tell me to ask for a pass, and tell him to lead a battalion of prefectural troops here to sit here."

The latter, as a remnant defeated in World War I last year, is now the backbone Liu Kai relies on to defend Tokyo.There were only 3000 remnants of the remnant soldiers who fled from the city of Jeju to Xuzhou, turned to Huainan West Road, passed through Haozhou and Chenzhou, and returned to Tokyo.These days, it is Liu Kaiyi and the Great Wall.

Training Ding Yong, arranging defenses, and patrolling security, they are present in various aspects.

It's just that Tokyo City University, with only a small amount of manpower from the Zhejia Army, fell into the city of Tokyo, as if sprinkled with pepper noodles.

Lu Qian is not in a hurry to seize Tokyo, he hopes that Zhao Ji can't help but send troops to help.In that way, he can surround the city of Tokyo to eat up the little remaining immediate combat power of the Song Army.

If so, there were still twenty Liangshan cannons on the first day, and it rose to fifty on the second day.It's just that the number of wooden incendiary bombs thrown has been greatly reduced, and more of them have become simple wooden arson bombs.

There are centuries-old willows outside Tokyo, which are cut into sections and are ready-made wooden bullets.At the same time, some gardens outside the city, stone carvings and strange stones in the manor, and even Shuan Mazhuang were also pulled back by Lu Qian.

Although the forceful style of the whole "bombardment" has dropped by N grades in an instant, it doesn't matter, Lu Qian is using Chaoyangmen as a chicken, and he is killing chickens to scare monkeys.He is patiently waiting for the chemistry in the city to rise.

Liu Kai is not the only left-behind officer in Tokyo. There are hundreds of officials of all sizes in the entire left-behind department. Just by name, they include deputy left-behind officer, knowing left-behind officer, Shaoyin, tongzhi left-behind officer, and tongzhi left-behind officer. Left-behind judges, left-behind judges, etc.

Since Liu Kai took office, he has been doing his best to preside over the overall situation, recruit young men, and strengthen his military equipment.He even took the initiative to bring all his family members into Tokyo City, so as to stabilize the hearts of the soldiers and civilians in the city, which aroused the approval of the Shilin court.It also made his assistant officers have to follow up, which really calmed people's hearts for a while.But it also provoked countless complaints from his subordinates.

People's hearts are complicated, so we can't ask everyone to be the same.Will the other officials of the Tokyo Remaining Department be as loyal to the country as he is?
At this moment, the home of Liu Yu, the left-behind pushing officer, is full of chaos.As early as when the Liangshan Army was haunting outside Tokyo, he deliberately fled with his family wrapped up.In order to be on the safe side, he even entertained Liu Kai on the grounds of discussing a serious matter, but he only showed a little meaning, and was severely reprimanded by Liu Kai.

"Liu Yanyou, don't say that. As an official of the imperial court, how can you be so greedy for life and afraid of death? Not only are you ashamed of the imperial court, but you have read poems and books in vain. Bandits and soldiers invaded the country, the imperial court was honored and disgraced, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians died. You don't care about it at all. Among them, as long as you send your family members and the gold and silver money you have collected to the west, you are really a fool."

"The country has supported scholars for 50 and [-] years, but now it is in danger. We officials and officials cannot be loyal to protect the country in order to save the time. How can we be a minister? Reading sage books on weekdays, what is the promise! But at this time, what is the appearance of such a move? For people, how can you see the late emperor when you die!?"

"I will write down today's past for you. In view of the feelings of the past, I have the right to send you this dog's head. If you dare to say another word, or confuse others, disturb our army's morale, and defeat my morale, I will I will behead you, the thief first, to avenge your hatred." Several days have passed, but Liu Yu still remembers Liu Kai's words of rebuke that day.Whenever I saw Liu Kai on weekdays, I would be frightened for a while.

Then Liu Kai had ordered the whole city to be under martial law, closing all the doors in all directions, so that people could not escape, so Liu Yu had to spin around in the backyard.Even though he was terrified by the battle inside and outside Chaoyangmen for two days, there was nothing he could do.Even today, I heard that there are more and more stone cannons of the bandit army.Everyone in Liu's family became more and more anxious. The things that had been cleaned up in each house were piled up in bundles, but they could not be moved.

The shouts of killing and the sound of stone cannons outside the city made Liu Yu tremble all over.Ever since he became a Jinshi, he had been a peace officer all his life. He had never experienced this, and he was just trembling while sitting on the big chair.Several young concubines were just sobbing and crying across the room.

Liu Yu was distraught when he heard that, and finally the noise outside the city stopped, giving him some strength, and he broke out, "You guys are so messed up, I have nowhere to arrange it."

Of course those concubines didn't dare to cry with such a sentence, but they angered his wife Qian Shi.This is the real owner of the Liu family.

It has been seventeen or eight years since Liu Yu became a Jinshi in the Yuanfu period.If someone is really talented, the left-behind secretary in Tokyo will naturally do it, but Liu Yu is obviously incompetent.He was still on Liangzhe Road for inspection earlier, when he bumped into the Fangla uprising, he fled back to Tokyo in fright.Now instead of being pursued, he became an official in Tokyo, all because of his family's power.

His wife's surname is Qian, from the Qian family in Wuyue.That is the No.1 gate on Liangzhe Road.Since Qian Hongchu returned to the Song Dynasty, the wealth of the Qian family can be relied on.For example, the wife of Liu Mei, brother of Empress Liu E of Emperor Xianming of the Ming Dynasty, was surnamed Qian.And this princess is still a rare long-lived princess who is still alive today and is the longest in the Song clan.The wealth of the Qian family has been passed down to this day, and the blessings have been endless for more than a hundred years.

With an attitude of scratching God's face, Qian dragged Liu Yu into obstinacy, crying and cursing loudly. "I taught you to refuse a long time ago. Just say that I am sick. Did Liu Kai really arrest me and bring me to Tokyo? You worry about this and that, so that you have today's disaster. How can your scruples help you?" What's wrong with you? A group of people who talk about being brave are useless. Now Liu Kai ordered the city to be shut down, and we are all locked up in the city to die. He can win a good reputation."

"Then how many people in Luoyang City are looking for fun, drunk with money? His surname is Liu Zhongzhen. Zhao Guan's family is still drinking and drinking, but taught me to wait to be loyal and protect the country."

Liu Yu was taken aback, and quickly waved his hands: "You can't say these words. Madam, wait a few days, now is the critical time, and all the gates are guarded by Liu Kai's people, no matter how you think about it, you can't do it." Useless. Wait for two days."

Qian and Liu Yu have been husband and wife for many years, and they were fascinated by Liu Yu's appearance, and they shouted: "Could it be that you have a law, tell me quickly."

Liu Yu shook his head again and again, this matter is only a brow, so he can't say more. "Ma'am, don't ask too many questions, just rest assured." He didn't say a word.This made Qian even more convinced.

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That night, there was another series of shouts outside Tokyo.This is the Liangshan Army's plan to harass the enemy. They only bluffed and waved their flags.In fact, there is no real threat, but Liu Kai dares to slack off.Strictly order Ding Yong, a soldier under his command, to stand ready at night and be on guard at all times.

(End of this chapter)