Bright Spring

After two consecutive heads fell to the ground, Huang Zhong could no longer imagine what would happen next.Xue Yan was talking with his neck twisted, vaguely saying that he was a relative of the King of Han.

But Xue Yan was pushed to the top of the wall, and the bloody machete was raised high behind him.

A jerky Chinese voice asked, "Surrender or not?"

Facing thousands of Ming soldiers, Xue Yan stood on the tower and closed his eyes without saying a word.

Unexpectedly, an Annan man next to him said "Ji Li wow", and the sword was put down.Several people dragged Xue Yan over like a sack.

"Hahaha..." There was a mocking laugh from the tower, and then everyone on the tower and the hillsides on both sides laughed loudly. The laughter was deafening, as if there was a grand festival party.

Laughter came and went in the mountains, mixed with the sound of firecrackers.Row after row of Ming army captives were pushed onto the city wall, some jumped off the tower and fell half dead, and some were killed by gunfire against their faces.

Only the thousands of Ming army soldiers on the valley road did not laugh. Everyone saw their own officials and sergeants being insulted|tortured|killed, who could laugh?

In the crowd of as many as 4000 people, there was not even a single voice. They were caught in the middle of the valley and waited in full force, and no one said a word.Many people have only anger on their faces.

The bowstring next to him made a vibrato of "Kakakaka...", but Huang Zhong stretched out his hand and made a gesture. He took a deep breath, looked at the people on the tower with a complicated expression, and said, "Command the order!" , the rear army is the front army, retreat slowly!"

... In Yunnan Fucheng, Zhu Gaoxu was the first to learn about what happened at Annan Guoqin Station.It's been ten days, and the New Year's Eve has passed.

Kunming City is still shrouded in the atmosphere of the New Year, with lights everywhere, and the sound of firecrackers floating in the air.

Zhu Gaoxu's reaction was also dumbfounded. He sat on the mahogany chair and couldn't say a word for a long time.He had a feeling of unreality for a while, but when he touched the letter in Huang Zhong's hand, the textured rice paper was very real, and the words on it were described in quite detail...I have to make people believe that this really happened ten days ago past!

It wasn't that the matter was serious and he was shocked. After all, Zhu Gaoxu had experienced a lot of turmoil since he came to the Ming Dynasty; it was that he couldn't understand An Nanguo Hu's family and began to question his own thinking again.

After all the calculations, Zhu Gaoxu really never thought that Annan would do this!

Standing beside him were two long officials, two guard generals, and an eunuch. They all looked at Zhu Gaoxu's blank expression, with a look of curiosity.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu slapped his palm on the rice paper and pushed it forward, "Let's take a look."

Several civil and military officials circulated it, and they were all shocked and surprised.Zhu Gaoxu was relieved a lot, at least he wasn't alone.

Li Mo said: "This news is reported to the court, I'm afraid it can't be good. How will the court deal with this matter?"

Zhu Gaoxu gradually calmed down, and said: "What else can I do? Prepare your weapons and meet each other on the battlefield."

Li Mo pondered again: "What is the reason for the actions of Hu and his son?"

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Maybe I feel that living is too tiring, I'd better go to the underworld to see the ancestors feel comfortable!"

After hearing this, several people looked at each other in blank dismay. Some wanted to laugh but thought it was inappropriate, so they held back their laughter.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't mean to be joking, he could only deduce Hu's motives in this way at this time, so that he could barely make sense of the matter in front of him, which made sense.

"Wait until Chaoli gets the news." Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand.

Several civil and military officials cupped their fists and bowed, and retreated.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't move for a long time, and his thoughts were still in a mess... Although what he did last time was a lesson for him.But An Nanguo is not a small country, and he still doesn't want to believe that someone who can take charge of the country's affairs would be so trifling?

Perhaps, the way people think about things and the value of things is very different from Zhu Gaoxu.

He re-read Huang Zhong's letter again, and a detail described in it aroused Zhu Gaoxu's interest...

The Annan Army's ambushes were fifty steps away from the main road, and all of a sudden they fired firecrackers, and there were many casualties among the soldiers of the Ming Army?

Zhu Gaoxu had come into contact with various firearms of the Ming army. Among them, there were all kinds of firearms, and being able to hit a person ten steps away basically depended on luck, and the distance was a little far, so it was difficult for an armored sergeant to break through.

Zhu Gaoxu felt a little strange that the shooting range beyond fifty steps could kill "very many people".

However, some officials like to make false reports at this time, even Zhu Gaoxu himself is no exception. Last time he went to fight the Si family, he counted all the guards and guards, and the total number was less than 1, but he claimed to be [-]. The army... So Huang Zhong may have exaggerated the distance by five times in the letter; moreover, Huang Zhong was defeated in an ambush, and he exaggerated the firearms of Annan's army, and he also had the motive of wanting to shirk his guilt.

After Zhu Gaoxu speculated like this, he still felt that something was wrong.If the enemy army ambushes within ten paces, so many people will lie in ambush close to their faces, how can the careless people not notice it at all?

He thought for a while, then picked up a pen and wrote two lines, and said to Huang Gou, "Seal the letter and send it to the Imperial Guard. Ask Hou Hai to send two people to deliver the letter to Huang Zhong."

The yellow dog bent down and said sharply: "Your servant obeys."

If Huangzhong takes the Red River to return, it still has to go through Yunnan.Just ask Huang Zhong to come to Kunming City and ask him face to face, and the truth will be revealed.

Zhu Gaoxu's previous education was not high, and a lot of knowledge was scattered.For example, he knew things like bastions because he had played strategy games.As for the specific types of muskets, he mostly saw them in the army of the Ming Dynasty, so he didn't have much knowledge.

Chapter 300 Desperate Country

Shi Qianxun, the governor of the Han Dynasty, said that firearms were frequently used in the Central Plains from the Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, and they were used in almost every battle.Later Annan, Dashi and other countries all practiced it.

Within two days, Zhu Gaoxu saw Shen Xushi again.Mrs. Shen Xu said that there is a seaport in Yuntun in Annan Kingdom, where merchants from various countries come to trade all the year round, and Han Chinese merchants also often go to this place, and they saw that there are still many big cannibals there.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu was a little worried that An Nanguo might have learned more advanced firearms from Arabia or somewhere else.After all, China, which invented the firecracker, may not necessarily develop the fastest.

Zhu Gaoxu was very concerned about this matter, and when Huang Zhong's defeated army came to Kunming City, he personally went to Huang Zhong's army to inquire.

Huang Zhong frowned, recalling, "At that time the enemy soldiers suddenly launched, and the last general only heard the sound of firearms, as dense as fried beans. I don't know how many people there are. Later, I saw rockets scurrying in the air, and the soldiers screamed. , and ordered to retreat from the city gate..."

Zhu Gaoxu asked Chang Shi Qian Xun to write down what he said, and went to the barracks where the wounded soldiers were placed.The speeches of some soldiers were similar to those of Huang Zhong, arrows flew randomly, the road inside the pass was paved with bricks and stones, stone bullets flew on the ground and so on.

Looking at the wounded soldiers who were brought back, apart from those injured by swords, most of them were injured by stones, and some were injured by rocket arrows.Zhu Gaoxu took a look at the soldiers who claimed to be hit by rockets, and they were all scars from top to bottom.

He pondered for a while, the rocket was thrown|throwing|throwing from the air, and it would be such a wound.Dense rockets, accidental hit|injury soldiers in the dense army, do not need to be accurate at all.

And those soldiers who were injured by stones must have been fired by large-caliber artillery, and it is not difficult for artillery to hit fifty paces.

So Zhu Gaoxu preliminarily judged that there seems to be no essential difference between An Nanguo's firearms and the Ming army's firearms... In his impression, the more powerful muskets did not seem to be the same thing.

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The news of the upheaval in Qinzhan has been passed on to the capital by fast horse station.

After hearing the news, the ministers who were discussing the state affairs at Yumen were discussing for a while.At this moment, the emperor suddenly tore up the memorial with a "wow", crumpled it into a ball, and threw it on the hall.

In an instant, everyone shut up.The main hall became silent, and everyone bowed and stood back to their original places.

"Jumping beam clown! Xiao Xiao!" The emperor's voice trembled a little, and his face was extremely ferocious.He raised his arm and exposed his hand from the dragon robe, pointing to the imperial gate in the south, as if he was pointing at Hu's nose, "In front of the soldiers, kill my envoys. I don't want to ruin my country, what face is there?" live?"

Some words were spoken from the mouth of the emperor, and they echoed in the hall, making people savor those words for a long time.

All the civil servants were worried, and Xia Yuanji's eyebrows, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, almost twitched together at once.The emperor is so determined, who dares to persuade him again?The civil servants seem to have seen countless silver, copper coins, grain and grass floating away from the water...

A group of warriors who are wild beasts are full of anger, as if they share the same hatred with the emperor.Everyone gradually started to shout, and the hall was filled with the sound of shouting and killing.

It was originally the center of the Ming Empire with strict etiquette and exquisite speech. Now it seems to have become a military camp.

"Immediately..." The emperor stepped out of the throne, stopped after speaking half a sentence, he seemed to be confused by anger.He paced back and forth on the steps for two steps before he said, "It's called the Hanlin Academy, first write the proclamation. These villains who kill the lord and usurp the throne, are unfaithful and unfilial, are unkind and unrighteous, and violently kill innocent people. If I don't kill him, the way of the world Is there still Wang Fa?"

Zhu Di continued: "Hubu, Xia Yuanji?"