"Sixteen years old!" Wanyan Li said incredible.

"Mr. Liu, this is exaggerating. As you say, you are just a child. What kind of climate can it be, let alone the Great Jin Kingdom." Wanyan Liang said relievedly. Among the princes, he was the only one who was not hostile to Liu Xu.

However, Wanyan Liang has a special identity and is also a tragic figure.

Although he was the eldest son, he was born in a vassal state, which made him not have the right to inherit. Moreover, among the many princes, only Wanyan Liang was obsessed with Han culture and even was fond of learning poetry and songs, which made him incompatible with the rest of the princes.

Liu Xu said: "The eldest prince is definitely not an exaggeration from the old minister.

The man was named Li Xingzhou, the prince of Pingnan, Jingguo. In the early spring of this year, a rebellion broke out in the south of Jingguo. The rebels were in great orders of more than 100,000, and they defeated the Imperial Army."

"Hmph, Jingguo is just like this." Wanyan Li said.

Liu Xu ignored him and continued: "At that time, Li Xingzhou led thousands of people to the south to rescue his sister-in-law. As a result, he defeated more than 100,000 rebels on his own and pacified the south!"

"This is really happening!" Wanyan Wugunai frowned: "At the turn of spring and summer last year, we were still in Liaodong. At that time, I heard from the merchants of Jingguo talk about this. I thought it was just a boast about the King of Pingnan who lost 100,000 yuan."

"The Emperor is true, and it's not just that. Last winter, he wiped out the Black Mountain bandits in the Taihang Mountains generation, beheaded thousands and captured thousands. He was just sixteen years old at that time." Liu Xu said.

Now everyone was a little surprised.

"The key is that this time he sent troops, he brought hundreds of people under his command, integrated the local wing army, and combined with the auxiliary troops to send only about a thousand troops..."

"Impossible! I believe it once, it's all a lucky person. How could he succeed every time!" Wanyan Li immediately denied, "Don't think I have never fought a war. I followed my father all the way from Liaodong. I haven't seen any wars before. This must be heard and boring unrelenting people are praising it."

Liu Xu opened his mouth and did not argue with him. Wanyan Li was the second prince, but he was the legitimate prince, so he was the crown prince. He did follow the emperor to fight south and north. It is said that he was the vanguard when he conquered Shangjing City and was very prestigious in the army.

"It is indeed a talent, but it is not that serious. No matter how powerful a person fights, he will always have to look at his subordinates. We, the Jin Dynasty warriors, do not have to worry too much." Wanyan Wugunai was very calm. Indeed, such a person can be considered a powerful general, but not a threat, or a powerful general has never been a big threat. This truth has actually been done since ancient times, but many people cannot see through it.

Xiang Yu, the most powerful person back then, won more than 70 victories in his life, but ended up killing himself.

The most powerful one in the Han army was not Fan Kuai, but the general was not Fan Kuai but Han Xin.

The three kingdoms are most talked about by people. The winners and losses will be won by one person, but if you look at the official historical records, you will find that there are records of single-handed fights that are actually not enough.

Lu Bu, who is regarded as the world's number one general, has no record of fighting with others in "The Three Kingdoms". The only single-handed fight was when Pei Songzhi later quoted records from other heroes when he wrote annotations on "The Three Kingdoms", and added a record of Lu Bu fighting Guo Si, but it was obviously unreliable.

The role of personal courage on the battlefield is destined to be very limited. Generals who know how to unite soldiers, arrange troops, see the overall situation clearly, and respond quickly are the real generals. Mobilizing soldiers and trusting soldiers is the key to winning.

Wanyan Wu Gunai obviously understood this very well, so he said that Li Xingzhou was not afraid of it.

Liu Xu sighed in his heart that the emperor's clarity on the war, "The emperor is wise!"

He then added: "As the emperor said, if Li Xingzhou only fought with courage, it would be really not fearful, but the key is that he was very cunning and had a vicious vision at this time!

At that time, I wrote a letter to Your Majesty, wanting the emperor to give up two places, but Li Xingzhou threatened that if he did not give two places to Jingguo, he would cross the sea from the Bohai Sea and attack Liaodong!”

After Liu Xu finished speaking, he looked at everyone here. Wanyan Li, Wanyan Liang, Wanyan Yun, and Wanyan Zongbi who arrived later did not react. Only the emperor Wanyan Wuguna looked ugly and held the handle of the sword at his waist: "This is a vicious plan to destroy me!"

The rest of the people looked confused, only Liu Xu nodded deeply with agreement, Wanyan Liang looked at him in confusion.

Liu Xu explained to him: "The eldest prince, our Jin Kingdom conquered Zhongjing at that time, and only Zhongjing and Liaodong were occupied. However, Zhongjing was unable to gain a foothold. It was sandwiched between Nanjing and Shangjing. Our foothold was actually Liaodong. The army supplies, and the soldiers and families were all in Liaodong.

Once Jingguo really attacks Liaodong across the sea, will we withdraw or not? Should we withdraw from Liaodong?

If it does not withdraw, it will continue to occupy Zhongjing, and more than 90% of the young and strong men will follow the emperor to the west to fight. Liaodong is only the elderly, weak, women and children. Jingguo only transports more than 5,000 troops to easily break through Liaoyang City. Once Liaoyang is broken, the army will lose supplies and will be sandwiched between the east and west sides of the army and the Jing army. Many soldiers, wives and children in their families, will fall into the hands of Jingren."

"Damn it, then go back and fight with them! If they dare, I, the Jurchen man, are cowards!" Wanyan Zongbi widened his eyes and said angrily.

"Prince, this is not a question of whether we are cowardly. If the Jing people just burned, killed, looted, it would arouse the anger of the soldiers. It is possible to fight back. I am afraid that they will take their families as hostages and force our army to surrender. Even if they fail, they will turmoil the morale of the army.

If we ignore it, they can enter from Liao east and west. At that time, there will be Shangjing to the north, Nanjing to the south, and the Jingguo army to the east. How can we gain a foothold?" Liu Xu asked, in fact, when he heard what King Pingnan said, his back suddenly became cold and he was shivering.

"At first we were worried that the Liao Kingdom asked for help from Jing Kingdom, but we were thinking that Jing Kingdom sent troops to the north. In fact, the upper class of Jing Kingdom also thought so, but they didn't expect to send troops from the Bohai Sea!" Liu Xu shook his head: "So, the emperor, I think this person is terrible. He is not just able to fight. He has a long-term vision and a vicious mind. Now he is favored by the Emperor of Jing Kingdom and is in charge of one of the four imperial guards of Jing Kingdom. I really have to worry."

Wanyan Wugunai nodded, "That's true, he is indeed a strange person."

"Hmph, what's there to be afraid of..." Wanyan Li said unconvincedly: "I think he is just talking about scary. This kind of thing is just a land or a waterway. Who would have thought of it?"

Liu Xu didn't say anything, but he didn't agree. If he could think of it, he wouldn't have to be afraid of Jingguo for a few months. Fortunately, the emperor Shenwu unexpectedly conquered Shangjing.

"Father, we will concentrate on finding ways to take down Xijing Road. As for Li Xingzhou whom Lord Liu is afraid of being like that, he is more than a thousand miles away from us, so there is no need to worry. Besides, if he really dares to come, I will ride a horse and lead the troops and bring back the heads of others!" Wanyan Li looked at him and said provocatively.

Liu Xu opened his mouth and took a deep breath, but still did not refute: "The prince is mighty."

"Hmph, you know sooner or later whether you are mighty or not. Anyway, the Han people are like you. If you dare not say anything, you dare not say anything, and you dare not let go of anything. How could you be my opponent?"

"Shut up!" Wanyan Wugunai frowned, interrupted Wanyan Li's rude words, and then said, "Let's just talk about this today."

...........

Nanjing City is a real and strong city, a city built by the Han people, and later the Liao people built it further.

Yelu Dashi pressed the black bricks on the female wall on the top of the city with his left hand and held two letters in his right hand. The coldness penetrated into his palm and his whole body shivered.

During the previous dynasty, the Khitans also had the same country as the Han people. At that time, the powerful Central Plains country established the Songmo Governor's Office, which belonged to the Andong Protectorate. Their ancestors even remembered that past event, but many people also regarded it as a shame.

But as the king of the Nanyuan, Yelu Dashi understood better than others that the so-called Khitan and Han people were like this solid city in Nanjing, with a foundation from the Han Dynasty. However, later the Han people built it and the Liao people also built it. The Han people's bricks and tiles and the Liao people's bricks and tiles were accumulated, and it was already impossible to tell who the bricks belonged to.

That's why he admired Han Derang, a Han minister, and was willing to learn Han culture. He resisted the opposition of the generals and asked Jing State for help, explaining the truth that his lips and teeth were cold, and even showed that if Jing State came to rescue him, Liao State would be willing to bow down and be subordinate to Jing State in the future.

The Khan had fled west. More than ten days ago, he personally supported the crown prince Yelu Dun ascended the throne in Nanjing City and changed his lunar name to Baoda.

Only when Khan is in Nanjing can many soldiers and civilians be determined to stick to it.

After the news spread, the fugitive generals of Xijing Road, Zhongjing Road, Shangjing Road and other troops led the remnants of the troops to join Nanjing.

For a moment, their manpower became more abundant again, and the Liao Kingdom was not defeated!

The final resistance was concentrated in Nanjing, ready to fight to the death.

He sighed, his right hand was unable to hang down, and the weather was still getting warmer. It was not the blue bricks on the top of the city wall, but the letters in his hand.

One of these two letters comes from the Jin people and the other from Zhuo and Yizhou in the south.

The Jin people's letter was to know that they had captured Princess Yelu Yali and advised him to surrender. As long as Yelu Dashi was willing to surrender, he would not hurt his soldiers and civilians at all, and he was also named King of a different surname.

Moreover, Wanyan Wugunai promised that as long as he surrendered, he would not hurt the princess Yelu Yali of Wei, and would let his eldest son take him as his wife.

He could see through Wanyan Wugunai's tricks at first sight. He pretended to be kind and accepted, hoping that after the Jurchens became Emperors, the Khitans would be treated well, and even let the princess of the Liao Kingdom be the concubine of their eldest son.

But Yelu Dashi knew that his eldest son was not born to his wife, nor could he be the prince of the Jin Kingdom.

He was generous on the surface, but actually kept a hand to ensure that the Khitans could not become the crown princess and would not be the queen in the future. He had long seen through Wanyan Wu Guna's suspicion and distrust of the Khitans in his heart.

He had no choice but to fight to the end and protect the Liao Kingdom's destiny.

.........

Another letter from Liao officials from Zhuo and Yi provinces in the south said that the "resentful troops" stationed in the two places had abnormal movements and might become a major concern.

Yelu Dashi also knew that most of the resentful soldiers were Han people from the Bohai Sea. They were formed by reorganizing hungry people and gathering more than 20,000 people in total. They had no sense of belonging to the Liao Kingdom. Now that the Liao Kingdom is weak, the Khitan tribes are beginning to ignore the command, and the Mongolian tribes do not respond at all, and the resentful soldiers cannot have no intention of being indifferent.

But he couldn't distract himself at all. Nanjing's defense was the thing he had to care about the most.

The Jin people in the Later Spring will definitely make a concerted effort to attack again. Moreover, the bad situation he fears most is that Jingguo also takes advantage of the danger and sends troops to get a share of the pie...

Yelu Dashi's heart was cold and he sighed. If things really reached that point, the heaven would destroy the Great Liao.

.........

"The design of Zhao Si is simply a genius." Li Xingzhou was amazed at the flowering firecracker drawings provided to him by Zhao Si.

Jingguo began to mobilize all over the country to send troops, but because there were few new soldiers and they were left to surround Kyoto, Li Xingzhou became more idle than others.

After reading Shiyu for a long time, he still had a little understanding: "I can only see that the middle of these are gunpowder and iron sheets, ignited from the middle, how can I lit it?"

Gillian couldn't understand even more. She was not interested in such simple and single lines, stereotyped and unsightly pictures.

The history of flowering firecrackers in history was very difficult. The initial flowering firecrackers were to install gunpowder and iron sheets in the iron ball, and then leave a lead hole at the tail to insert the lead.

When the launching medicine in the barrel burns and launches the shell out, the tail leads at the shell will also be ignited at the same time. The leads burn when the shells fly, and then ignite the internal gunpowder, causing an explosion.

However, such flowering bullets are not safe and often exploded in the barrel, because the lead hole is difficult to seal 100% if it is accidentally fired, and the gunpowder in the shell will be ignited. A tragedy occurs and it will explode when piled up, which is very unsafe.

Moreover, before launching this kind of shell, the landing time must be analyzed based on the distance and closeness of the target, and the process is very complicated. It often occurs when the enemy is not exploded after being launched, or the enemy is blown away in the air.

The reason why Zhao Si said he was a genius was because he thought of a more advanced and classic design, front lead, and inertial detonation that had been used!

Simply put, this design is to place the lead wire at the front end of the shell, and the lead shell is made into a cylindrical metal barrel with a thickness of a thumb, and the center of the shell gunpowder is inserted from the front.

Place two flints in front and back of the cylinder respectively. The flints in front are fixed to death. The flints in the back can slide along the inside of the metal cylinder and be separated by a suitable strong spring.

When the shell is fired, it will suddenly obtain a huge initial velocity, which will exceed the speed of sound in a short time. Both flints move backward due to inertia, but because the flints in front are fixed and dead, there will be no collision.

When the shell hits the target, it suddenly stops from a huge speed. Under the action of inertia, both flints move forward and far away, but the flint in front cannot move, and the only thing that can move is the flint behind.

It will compress the built-in spring under the action of an inertia of an instant emergency stop, hit the flint in front, generate sparks and ignite the gunpowder in the shell, causing an explosion. This is the inertia lead!
Chapter completed!