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Qianhe River, the longest river in the Central Plains, flows eastward and crosses the Changping slope.Changpingpo occupies a high ground, overlooking the Qianhe River, and on the other side of the river, there is an imminent foreign army stationed.

The commander of the Dacheng barracks.

"Foreigners don't know water skills, but they made enough plans early in the morning to attack the city without killing craftsmen. There is no shortage of shipbuilders now. They can even learn from us slowly, and even train a navy army." Nangong Jue Said in a deep voice, "It must be resolved quickly."

The person who is currently in charge of the army is Cheng Yue, Prince Qi after the new king ascends the throne.Nearly half a year of military life and drastic changes in his family and country have brought him obvious changes. The old stubbornness and childishness have long since disappeared, and what has replaced him is the sternness and stability of the superior.

Ah Jia still stood silently behind him, but he seemed to be seven or eight years older.

"You understand that the price of attacking the past is too high." Nangong Jue had just returned from Axe City, and Cheng Yue knew that the military adviser would not say some commonplace things for no reason. A trick against the enemy?"

Ever since the two sides occupied Qianhe's side, Dacheng understood the principle of quick battle and quick decision early on, and launched two night raids, but both times failed, and he was embarrassed by the fierce rockets of the foreign race.

Whoever wants to attack first has to cross the river first. Once the river is crossed, both sides will inevitably launch several rounds of arrow attacks first. There is no reason to honestly wait for the other side to come over.Even if they crossed the river without dying under the rain of arrows, the side crossing the river is still in a hurry, but the other side has already taken the lead. The whole army is waiting for the enemy, and the outcome is obvious.

Ten thousand steps back, even if Dacheng captured the alien race in the Qianhe area, what he got would be a piece of flat land, difficult to defend and easy to attack. Unless he wiped out the alien race's 50 soldiers and horses in one fell swoop, what he got would be nothing more than a hot potato.

As expected, Nangong Jue had a strategy to deal with the enemy, and simply said: "Cannon." He took out a slightly damaged roll of paper from his sleeve, and slowly unfolded it, only to see that it was a design drawing of a cannonball.

Cheng Yue was surprised, "A military division's design?"

The design of this cannon looks like a trebuchet at first glance. Trebuchets have been used on the battlefield for a long time, and they are even more indispensable when guarding city gates. Naturally, Cheng Yue is no stranger to it.

However, after a closer look, the design on the blueprint is obviously more complicated than the commonly used trebuchet. The design of the wheel and the rotating column alone has greatly exceeded Cheng Yue's understanding. He is a foreigner, but in terms of ingenuity, he is still far superior to those barbarians. It is expected that the blueprint of Nangong Jue will be of great use.

"I didn't design it." Nangong Jue pondered for a while, and said, "This kind of artillery only needs two people to operate at most, but it can reach 72 rounds in a row, and the range is far away. It can even make the shells fly across the river. Cannonball formula, if used properly, it is not difficult to injure alien races in one fell swoop."

Cheng Yuexi said, "Such a sharp weapon, why didn't the military master take it out earlier?"

Nangong Jue said: "I only recently obtained this design drawing... This drawing is an old drawing from three years ago. To actually create the new type of artillery I am talking about, a new drawing from the designer is needed."

Cheng Yue had a bad feeling.

"May I ask who designed this cannon?"

"Zhou Suiyun."

A military genius, it is not surprising to have such a handwriting.

However, Cheng Yue's face changed slightly. Ever since Ah Jia brought back the news about Zhou Chuze, he had confirmed Zhou Chuze's identity. Naturally, combined with the information collected by the four departments, he concluded that the person Zhou Chuze went to ask Liushanzhuang to look for was Zhou Suiyun's. in conclusion.

Cheng Yue naturally knows how ambitious Liushanzhuang is now in controlling the emperor to centralize power and declare its feelings.

He was not very old at first, although his childishness had faded, at most he still looked like a mature young man, but after hearing Zhou Suiyun's name, his expression became almost stern.

"Zhou Suiyun hasn't heard from him for so long, so there are naturally people behind him to protect him."

Nangong Jue sighed secretly in his heart, sure enough, at this moment, what Prince Qi was most concerned about was the issue of power behind the turmoil.

"Ask Willow Villa."

"Sure enough..." Cheng Yue chuckled, "What the military adviser brought was not the final blueprint, presumably because Marshal Zhou was worried about entrusting this new type of artillery to me?"

Nangong Jue frowned. In fact, he and Zhou Suiyun cherish each other. No matter who is in charge of the world, what they want is to protect the family and the country, and the world is peaceful.

It's a pity that there are too many things that cannot be decided by them.

"They have one condition - Zhou Suiyun will be in charge next."

Cheng Yue sneered, "Is the emperor willing to make a decree? How to overturn the crimes given by the previous emperor? Or is Liushanzhuang already covering the sky with one hand to the point of being so blatant?"

The fall of the political power is due to Cheng Yue's bad luck.But fortunately, he has grasped the military power with one hand, and thought that Xuanqing would share a share, but he didn't expect to use such a method to forcefully ask for a handsome position.

tough enough.

"What order the emperor makes now depends only on the attitudes of both of you." Nangong Jue said calmly, "Frankly speaking, Zhou Suiyun is a talented man. It may not be a bad thing for you to be in command. If you stay with Qingshan, you will not worry about it." Burning firewood, I hope Prince Qi understands what is the overall situation at the moment."

Cheng Yue didn't speak, and looked down at the design drawing, slowly calming down.

After a long time, he asked, "Just one Zhou Suiyun?"

"Only Zhou Suiyun." Nangong Jue sighed, "But even so, I'm afraid it will take a lot of work to design this cannon. This time, I don't have time to wait. If the cannon can't be produced before the aliens attack... ..."

"So what?" Cheng Yue had a headache. For the past 16 years, he lived as a pampered prince who gave orders. Less toss.

Nangong Jue looked solemn: "The production is too complicated..." He looked at Cheng Yue's face, and said, "Not long after the design of this cannon was completed, Xuanqing has a group of craftsmen. If you want to borrow it, you can borrow it again." It's a condition... and even if you borrow these craftsmen, it may not be able to make it smoothly."

The design of this new type of gunfire must undoubtedly be kept secret, and it is impossible for the craftsmen to see it completely, and the requirements for the crafting process are naturally high.And when it is finally assembled, no matter what, it must be done by our own people.

Cheng Yue snorted coldly: "What condition?"

"Twelve craftsmen are exchanged for ten thousand soldiers and horses."

"He's dreaming!" Cheng Yue was really annoyed, "Twelve craftsmen who don't know if they can make things? He's ashamed to ask!"

Nangong Jue shrugged, "He also knew that there was little hope, so he said casually, anyway, I have explained everything that needs to be explained. My suggestion is very clear, if you can really get such artillery fire, you must get it regardless of the cost."

Cheng Yue paced back and forth twice, stared at the blueprint for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "I want to see a cannon fire, if I really think what you said is so powerful... He and Zhou Suiyun can become six commander of the army."

Nangong Jue said: "This is easy to handle, I will hurry up and send someone to send Senior Zhou over, and bring the cannon along the way."

Cheng Yue nodded.

As soon as the two of them finished discussing this matter, Nangong Jue felt very relieved, while Cheng Yue was about to end the discussion, but suddenly heard an exclamation from outside: "Someone is crossing the river! The alien race is released!"

Cheng Yue opened the tent door and went out, "What's wrong?"

I only heard the surrounding soldiers talking about it, it was a mess of military discipline, everyone was talking about "crossing the river" and "letting go", isn't this a new thing?

Before he had time to listen to the report from the herald, he saw a pawn running towards Cheng Yue, knelt down and said loudly to Cheng Yue: "Report to the Marshal! Someone came directly by ferry from a barracks of a foreign race! It's a Han! He said he wanted to see him directly. You are handsome!"

Cheng Yue raised his eyebrows.

He heard the pawn dryly, as if he couldn't hold back, he said, "Master...that's a very handsome man..."

Cheng Yue only felt his heart skip a beat, and he lost his balance all of a sudden.

"Bring it up!" As soon as he said it, he remembered that this was a military camp, and regretted it again, "Please come up respectfully, don't be rough."