Section 2151: Giant Cannon

"What's the matter, stupid? It seems that you are unhappy in your heart? Looking at the expressions of the brothers, you should know that they are all willing to do this thing. I also know the reason why you feel uncomfortable, sure. Maybe it feels like we are being robbed by the people from Cao’s House. Although the ugly cow’s words are not very pleasant, but this time he brought us all good things, including those weapons and Silver, when will our people have five taels of silver in their hands, even if they work hard, they are willing in their hearts. Look at their happy faces, as if they are going on vacation this time. It’s not to fight. For us, we have to accept the fact that we don’t feel very comfortable in that mountain all the time. We have to go out and have a look. If we can let people from Cao’s House see If it is useful to us, our chances will be even greater in the future. ; "The cousin also came this time, and there is nothing to see at home, because the surrounding county officials have already been beaten down by them Yes, when I came here, I also carried out a surprise attack on the surrounding area, which made those people more honest. Don't talk about attacking them at this time. Everyone can go to burn incense. Some things that the people of Cao’s House of Commerce are doing now have scared them. Damn, although these insurgents are not regular troops of Cao’s House of Commerce, how many of them are related, Shengguang Those people in the city dared to attack, not to mention the small place in front of them. This place was nothing to them. For them, Cao's House of Commerce was already something that they could fear.

"No, it's not because of this reason. I said it before. We became pawns between Cao's Commercial Bank and the Southern Empire from the beginning, but we had a good vision at the beginning. Come on Cao's firm, we will be winners in the future. As for whether we are cannon fodder or not. These are not things we can decide. To put it bluntly, we are pawns. I can know my position no matter what time it is, isn't it? Did you teach me? I don’t care about what the ugly cow said. They are all from the Cao’s house. They are our parents who give us food and drink. It’s okay to talk too much, just This time, I felt unsteady in my heart, and I couldn't tell what it was like. I couldn't express it myself, as if I was afraid of that thing happening. But I also kind of hoped that that thing would happen. In short, my heart is It's very contradictory." Ersha's words directly confuse my cousin, if a psychiatrist heard such words, he might have some strategies, but it's obvious that my cousin is not the one to do this job. He could only casually say a few words to Ersha and then leave. From the bottom of his heart, he doesn't agree with Ersha's feeling, but from the perspective of actions, everything is still worth it. Just look at the brothers' appearance now. I know, they will never be able to eat the things on the table for the rest of their lives. Although they have already captured several counties, those cities basically belong to some shabby households, and they have nothing at all. Making a fortune in it is something you don't even have to think about. Although there are some supplies, all the people have distributed them equally, so there is nothing left. Enjoy? Forget it.

It’s different on the airship. Li Cong told the people here when he came here, to give them the best enjoyment. Although the chefs on the airship are not the best chefs, they do things one by one. They are still very good, and the things I made are all suitable for my appetite.

If there is any dissatisfaction in their hearts, it is that the space is a bit small, and there is no way to do it. Hundreds of thousands of them have to be transported here quickly, so naturally they cannot be given a comfortable environment. But I can give them a place to eat, drink and have fun. They are already very satisfied. Look at the soldiers who are playing with money one by one. Cousin is helpless. There are not many entertainment items in the army. It's time to start some activities like this. Such things would definitely not be allowed in a regular army, but are they considered a regular army? Putting on the military uniform of Cao's firm and holding the weapon of Cao's firm is considered a regular army? Impossible, just a regular army on the surface. Although Ugly Bull brought a hundred people, but my cousin can be sure that the one hundred people who can kill thousands of them is Cao Cao. The regular army of a commercial firm, these people are just counting, but this kind of employment relationship is also good, just go to fight, each of them will have five taels of silver, and there are many of them, he still remembers When Ugly Niu pulled down a whole million taels of silver, everyone's eyes lit up. There was nothing they could do about it. They were ordinary people. Where had they seen so much money? They will agree to things, but they are really poor and afraid, so they have to go with it.

As their liaison, Chou Niu doesn't know what the above means. What are the people from Cao's House doing? Let's rely on these people or forget it? They are simply people who have not accomplished enough. You can tell by looking at their current appearance. They don’t want to think about how to adapt to the weapons in their hands first. What they think about is that the war is about to happen. They have to enjoy it. Now these people don't have war in their minds at all. It can be said that these rebels have suffered too many casualties recently. More than half of the rebels were killed by the people of the Southern Empire. Millions of regular troops beat them into what they are now, and they also hold the chain crossbow, as well as the materials supplied by Cao's business, but they just don't have that ability when facing the regular army of the Southern Empire. It is a fact that Ugly Bull once observed their battle, and the chain crossbow in their hands did not form an effective attack. Many people fought on their own. For the army of the Southern Empire, such a battle is very difficult. It is too simple to break through. The greatest power of the chain crossbow is the rain of arrows when attacking together. If two or three people attack like this, it will be useless at all. When I handed it over to them, I said I would use this thing. But then when they got to the battlefield, none of them remembered what they had done. All these people just saw the enemies in front of them, and basically couldn't do anything else. Many people just noticed a shop. And didn't notice a face, but when they all noticed. The battle situation is no longer what it was just now, so the ugly cow is really helpless to them.

The order to use the rebel army came down from Li Cong himself, and the people below had no room to refute except for doing business, and people like Chou Niu absolutely trusted Li Congna. There will never be any refutation. They all think that Li Cong must have his own intentions. In fact, this is also a very normal thing. The reason why Li Cong uses them is because the base is too far away from here. In their words, the people before and after this may have dragged them down just because of the transportation line. The main reason is this. The second thing is that this army also needs to go to the front line to weaken it. Ersha's direct lineage has reached two million people. If they can't be weakened, they should return to their own ruled area. I am also going to have a headache, you are not direct descendants of Lao Tzu, we certainly cannot let you be so powerful, it is the best thing to be cannon fodder on the battlefield, it sounds good verbally, it is a joint operation, but anyone understands Yes, the people in Cao's House must be using them as cannon fodder. These people are very clear about it, but there is no other way, right? They can only do this, otherwise their supply will be cut off. These days, they are used to having supplies from the Cao's House, and if they suddenly don't have them, they don't know what to do. If there are some far-sighted leaders, they may be self-sufficient, but they are all lazy people, and they have already given up on their own development. In their opinion, that is too tiring. It is better to use Cao's firm directly. These things are faster, and they do things better. Theirs is good. As far as their future road is concerned, these people have given the rest of their lives to others.

The eyes of the entire continent were once again attracted by Li Cong and the others, and other empires were also watching this battle. If the people from Cao's House of Commerce can attack Shengguang City, they will put their city in Give it a good reinforcement, although I know it won't have much effect, but I can have some comfort in my heart, at least I can tell others that I have done something, and I didn't do nothing, this Cao's firm The attack of the people is powerful, but I have also strengthened the defense, and the work of repairing the city wall will cost a lot of money. It will be a waste of time at that time. This is another good time to make money. If it is not good at this time If you want to get money from the store, how can you have such an opportunity in the future? Of course, people from other empires are not all people who think about getting money like this, and there are also some people of insight. They found a way to deal with Cao's Commercial Bank's army in the exhibition war. Now they really have no way. Although they have also produced some bows and arrows, those things need three people to work together to achieve the serial crossbow with Cao's Commercial Bank. A distance, and the most terrible thing is that they must be single-shot. There is no such thing as the Cao's Commercial Bank. People from several empires already want to buy chain crossbows, but Cao's Commercial Bank The number of people is strictly controlled, and they can also form a lot of troops, but they don't have any crossbows. The crossbows they make themselves are all for one reason or another. It is impossible to have such a long distance. This problem is really It makes them depressed to death, but there is no way, who let others have technology in their hands, if they have such a thing, it must be stricter than the people in Cao's house.

Ersha and the others arrived at the front line just in time for the end of today's battle, and the people from the Cao's House of Commerce won again, but this time the people from the Cao's House of Commerce also paid their price. To be honest, the price this time was not high. No matter how small, many people in Cao's House were injured. The people brought by Ersha were considered useful to them. They went to the front line in less than 30 minutes after getting off the airship. The result was terrible. It is conceivable that these guys were not prepared for such a thing at all, and as a result, their 20,000 people were directly knocked out when they went up. They only won less than ten minutes, but this is not bad, at least they can Let the army of Cao's House of Commerce rest for a while, and then the troops of Cao's House of Commerce took over the defense. There is no cannon fodder in Ersha's imagination. According to his thinking, shouldn't the people of Cao's house should let their own people continue to go up, if there is no result, they must not retreat. But nothing like that is happening now. These people still stayed there honestly, and there was no intention of letting them go up at all. The people in Cao's House didn't have to do everything. In their view, these people just came to see them. Li Cong originally planned to let them be cannon fodder, but just look at them like that. A new task was given to them, which is to attack the troops of the Southern Empire next to them. This is a dispensable task. No one knows what Li Cong means, but Ersha has already followed It was different in the past, he would not take the initiative to ask for tasks, but now he just wants to bring his brothers back.

It has been two hours since the second fool arrived. The level of power on the battlefield has long been beyond his imagination. These things are simply unbelievable. In his opinion, if all of the battles of this level were his people, they would have been killed by now. how many times. Looking at the performance of Cao's commercial army, he really felt that the so-called elites he called were rubbish. He saw that they could withstand the attack of hundreds of thousands of cavalry, but what could his men do? It seems that nothing can be done. These people are very ugly when they do things one by one. They saw that the troops of the Southern Empire made slight movements, especially when they moved in a uniform manner. Although they were not scared to pee, But none of them dare to attack. The best defense is to attack. They all know about this, but they basically forget it when they get to the battlefield. What they think about is how to save their lives, mainly because In their minds, they just feel that they are a waste, not a regular army, but a farmer, and the soldiers of Cao's Commercial Company don't think so. According to what their squad leader taught them, they don't kill twenty soldiers from the Southern Empire. They will lose a lot of money. On the battlefield, their battle loss ratio with the Southern Empire is more than one to twenty. If they do not reach the figure in front of them, they will not make any concessions. Even if they do, they will You also need to add some to your record, because each of their serial crossbows is numbered, and someone will analyze how many enemies you have killed afterwards. For other people, of course, it doesn't happen in every war, it needs a battle that must be won.

In the past, Ersha felt that his army was actually similar to the army of the Cao's House, but today he knew that the people of the Cao's House had a one-to-twenty-five match against the army of the Shangnan Empire. The loss ratio, but when facing your own people, it is estimated that it can reach 30, or even more. If your army is not chaotic, it may still be fine, but if it is chaotic, it is estimated that it can exceed 50. Look at my soldiers who may fall off the horses when they see the collapse of ten thousand horses. My brother has already fallen, but they don't seem to be in a panic at all. They didn't look at the brothers around them for the first time, because they all understand very well that their most important task now is to keep an eye on the enemy in front, because The enemies in front of the fallen brothers are already rampant. If I can't suppress them quickly, I may let more people rush over. In that case, I may all get in, and the brothers behind will take care of them. The people next to him have a clear division of labor. This is a true portrayal of the army of Cao's House of Firm. This cousin can see it very clearly. He wrote all these things in a small notebook, probably because he wants to go back. Teach your soldiers well, but Ersha knows very well that it is better not to waste these things as far as those under him are, even if you teach them well, they will not learn, those people They are all very selfish people. In fact, Li Cong made his soldiers look like they are now. The military academy has done a lot of credit, otherwise it would not work.

Li Cong now has more than a dozen military academies, including three who specialize in training officers, and many more who specialize in training soldiers. All military cadets are cut off from the outside after entering, and they are either ordinary people when they come out. Either he is a qualified soldier, how many people are very envious of the treatment of Cao's firm. But how many people can become one of them in the end? There are very few, basically there will not be that many people, and most of them will still be eliminated, although the publicity is very good. What do you say when one person is a soldier and the whole family eats fine grains. But that also requires capable people, it doesn't mean that you can get in if you want to. Thinking about what Ersha and the others said when they recruited soldiers, as long as your limbs are fine, you can come in. This is simply a world of difference, and it is impossible to be together. There are still many such things to say. At the beginning, the two sides were not on the same level. Now it is impossible to ask them to have the same fighting power. When Ersha thinks about these things, he basically doesn’t care If it was loose, he took his own people to attack the people who blocked them. These people are the second-line troops of the Southern Empire. In fact, Li Cong called them to let them see Cao Cao through their mouths. How does the regular army of a commercial firm fight. Let them be honest one by one, don't think that your combat power is very powerful now, in fact, you are nothing compared to the army of Cao's House, and you have no capital to be rampant at all. If you are really messing around like that, you all know the final result very well, and there won't be any good results.

Many high-level people in the Southern Empire didn't have any opinion on the arrival of so many insurgents. In their view, this was part of Li Cong's weakness. In their view, Li Cong's supply line was too long. If you can work harder, you can drive Li Cong's army away. Although the army of Cao's House of Commerce has sent a lot of reinforcements, today's casualties have reached more than 20,000 people, and the army of Cao's House of Commerce has also It's not a myth, the tens of millions of troops in the Southern Empire have already assembled. If it weren't for the terrain problem, their tens of millions of troops might come up directly. It's getting bigger, the huge airship dropped 5,000 tons of bombs, turning the entire Holy Light City into a sea of ​​flames, but it also successfully ignited the anger of the troops outside the city, and each of them They are already angry. When they attack, they bring their own emotions. For them, if they don't kill these people in front of them, they will be sorry for the people behind them. The senior officials of Shengguang City The officials don't have that kind of thinking anymore. For them, Shengguang City is no longer safe. If they continue to stay here, they may lose their own lives. This is absolutely impossible. , the life of an official is very important, the ordinary people don't need to be so anxious, anyway, you will die when you die, and you don't have much to squander. It's different for us officials. There are a lot of things, we need to take all of these away, we have to live, if the officials in the Holy Light City think so, this city...

But when these people were about to give up the Holy Light City, the son-in-law of the Southern Empire came. This guy came as the General Zhengnan. This name directly shocked the frontline army. This guy But those who don't understand military affairs, although he can be said to be a master in the Southern Empire, such a guy can't just lead the army casually, can he? They are speechless to such a person, how can such a person understand how the army is mobilized? But since they ran out, they don't care about this anymore. Shengguang City is no longer the original city. It's up to you how you want to do it. Even the emperor of the Southern Empire will do it when he sees you. For those who let you get three points, let’s not talk about these people below. The army around the Holy Light City seems to have been beaten with chicken blood all of a sudden. There are a million people, but there are only less than 300,000 direct line troops with strong fighting power, and the rest are fools who come to make soy sauce. They are doing a good job, and they can contain the army of more than one million in the Southern Empire. , As far as their combat effectiveness is concerned, what they have done is already quite good. If it is impossible for such a thing to happen at other times, many times when they do things, they can be regarded as okay. At least let Li Since I feel that they are all worth the money I paid, these guys heard that the money will be paid out one by one, and they are all as if they have been beaten with chicken blood, and they are even more excited. You can make a fortune in a few days. However, Li Cong's use of them is basically over, because the Cao's House has already experimented with giant airships, and there will be a lot of them coming.

The remaining army of the Southern Empire was 10.35 million people, plus the 200,000 guards brought by the son-in-law from the capital. It can be considered a lot. The first thing he did was to chop off the heads of more than a dozen generals who were retreating. This kind of thing is probably what the guy in front of him can do. In the official circles of the Southern Empire, in fact, in the official circles of several other empires, there is basically an unspoken rule, even if the battle is lost. At most, it's demotion or something. It's rare to cut off someone's head directly, because when he becomes a general, he will definitely not be himself behind him, and there will definitely be himself. Some forces in China, they would not do such a thing recklessly, and they would definitely be scrupulous about it. But the son-in-law doesn't need to worry about this, the son-in-law himself is heaven, even if he killed these dozen generals, so what. Among them is the nephew of the current Taiwei. If it was before, who would dare to move the Taiwei's nephew? Is there something wrong with this head? As long as there is nothing wrong with you, generally speaking, no one dares to touch such royal relatives, but now they will be killed. You ran for thirty miles with the army, and directly let hundreds of thousands of your subordinates More than half of the army is dead, if you are not killed, how can the other generals be convinced? It is for this reason that all the generals around feel scared. The guy in front of him is really fearless. He will do whatever he wants. The forces behind them are Very powerful, but did not make him feel scruples, people who are not in the eyes of tenth-level fighters, they are nothing.

This is the first shock he brought, and there is another shock, which is silver. This guy brought 1.5 billion silver, all of which were brought by space rings. This guy directly took these The money was divided, which is regarded as the settlement expenses for these soldiers. This fucking magician is rich. Li Cong was surprised when he knew this. Now the financial situation of the Southern Empire can be said to be terrible. , It’s not bad if you don’t go bankrupt, the money will definitely not come out, the money is all paid by the magician in front of him, in order to boost the morale of the front line, in fact, he still wants to do this. It's too simple, the money can indeed stimulate the fighting spirit of the people on the front line, but it's not distributed like this. If you distribute it like this, all the money will be in their hands. How can these people work hard one by one? In fact, many generals said it when he handed out the money, but he was stared back by this guy. In his eyes, these people are drinking blood, so they will definitely not listen to them. For him, there is no good general on the front line. In fact, this has something to do with his point of view. This magician will never lack money in his life. He will do many things he likes, because he has money Yes, but for a general, apart from the salary given by the imperial court, how do they make money? Unlike the people in the local government, they don’t have many ways to make money, but they have so many expenses, so they can only do this. , Drinking soldiers' blood, how ugly it sounds, but if you don't do it like that, this matter is unjustifiable. Many things need to be done that way, and even if it sounds ugly, you have to do it.

The son-in-law has never studied the affairs of the army, but this guy is really the kind of person with a higher heart than the sky. He himself feels that he knows the military very well. He saw so many people standing on the playground. Some people think that the two policies he has implemented are already very powerful. For him, seeing this, he thinks that these armies have combat effectiveness. In fact, those generals can tell at a glance, it is all because of his The two policies, generally speaking, the policy of money plus stick is very useful no matter what, but now this matter seems to be a bit difficult, and I don’t know how they are doing it, anyway, he feels it now I did the right thing, delivered a passionate speech, and made a big promise, how much will be rewarded for killing a soldier of Cao's house, how much will be rewarded for an officer, if all the troops of Cao's house can be given If they are killed, everyone will have a bonus of no less than five taels of silver. To be honest, this is really very effective for the army. It is very attractive to the army of the Southern Empire. These people seem to have forgotten how the people from the Cao's house shot them on the battlefield with the silver. Their corpses were piled up as high as a hill, and they all forgot about that matter, and now they all understand it, but they all forget it now, and they are all thinking that they can make history. This attack is obviously different from last time. Basically, the attack method was the same as last time, and a large number of troops were still arranged in a square formation to advance. Their offensive methods have not changed, but there is a threat that Li Cong feels on them. These people actually have murderous aura, and an army with murderous aura is not so easy to fool.

"It seems that I have really underestimated these guys. Wu En, this time there are some good things on the new ship. Get them out and let the people of the Southern Empire see them. You must not let their army have any This feeling can lead to millions of troops, we can't let them get such a precious thing like killing. Let our cannons kill all their murderous intent." Li Cong naturally knew exactly what to do. This time, a special warship came aboard. This was also a way of Cao's firm and a way of warning the Southern Empire. The airship is a huge weapon they have seen, and now they have to show them another huge weapon, this is the cannon of Cao's firm, the caliber of the earth can only be called a cannon, but in The muzzles in this world are already considered giant cannons, because if a wooden sailboat uses a bigger muzzle, the entire ship will probably be killed by the recoil. There are only three cannons on a ship, so Li Cong is still in it The reason for adding some steel, otherwise, even this caliber would definitely not work, and would definitely be killed. They all know this kind of thing clearly, but the people of the Southern Empire don’t know it. After the soldiers received the money from the son-in-law, their combat effectiveness has improved a lot. At this moment, they don't care what the thing in front of them is. As long as it is a threat to their Southern Empire, they will go up and take it away. It seems that it is a great honor to be able to work for the son-in-law. Such a thing is also very good for them.

When the muzzle of the gun was exposed, the surrounding warships had already given way to this thing. To ensure the shooting window of this thing, other ships were in charge of guarding around, and we must give this cannon a performance Li Cong's engineers have already done calculations, and at most they can fire 60 cannons before they have to rest, otherwise the whole wooden boat may collapse. This is definitely not alarmist, but It's true, you have to rest for half an hour, the muzzle needs to cool down, and the ship also needs to be inspected. Such an attack method is not very comfortable for them, but there is only this thing on this planet, so there is no way thing is not? If the bombing continues persistently, the Cao family firm may be punished. After the ship sinks, the blow to the soldiers will be very serious. If the army can have a good base, it is also very good to establish an artillery position. Things, but now there is no such a good opportunity, it can only be like that, the army also hopes to have such a thing, but they don't have such a good opportunity behind the enemy lines, if the son-in-law did not come, this matter may be possible It's been a while, but after this guy came, the combat effectiveness of these Southern Emperor Army seems to have improved a lot, but it's nothing, when the first shot was coaxed out, the huge sound could directly make the battlefield Everyone on the road could hear it clearly, and these people were dumbfounded, what was that thing, and then everything within 30 meters around them disappeared, they were surprised, such a situation really happened, the imaginary The situation really happened, what the hell is this thing?

Large-caliber artillery, Li Cong said with a smile to Wu En and the others, "In the future, each fleet will need to add two to three such warships. We call them battleships, and their displacement will be larger than the current warships." , but they are only equipped with these two cannons, and other weapons are unnecessary. Their naval combat capabilities can be said to be very weak. The cannons are very powerful and have a long range, but there is one thing, The speed is not very fast, and they have no other weapons other than this, so other ships must protect them. Their main task is to attack the ground, just like a city like Holy Light City, let him directly give the city wall to Blast away, so that the enemy can be defeated ideologically." Li Cong said with a smile, everyone has not recovered from the shock, and these people are all dumbfounded looking at these things, these things It's really terrible, such a thing is definitely a weapon of war.

"I don't know when this thing can appear in the army? You know that the navy can't reach many places." A brigade commander of the marine corps said enviously. His army also has artillery. According to the explanation of the superior, they An artillery regiment has already been established, but compared with the one in front of me, the 90mm artillery is like a play house thing, it is simply not on the same level, and this kind of thing is what soldiers should use Yes, the thing I'm using now is like a child's toy. If I give myself such a thing, I can be the commander of the regiment. That shot is so exciting. Look at the army of the Southern Empire. It's all because of this Things are in chaos, no, it's panic.

"It is still difficult for the army to use this thing. The shells of this thing weigh three hundred catties, and they need too many carriages to pull them. The artillery needs to be pulled by at least eight horses, and it needs to be changed several times on the road. Well, if this kind of thing is not transferred well, it is estimated that it will be seized by the enemy. The logistics supply is also a huge problem. If this kind of artillery is used, I estimate that at least 20 people will operate one artillery. It is also a huge burden for the Army." Li Cong said with some concern.