I do research in ancient times

For the death of his son, Lu Tao was outraged.

He locked himself in the study for a whole day, and when he came out again, his face had returned to calm.

"A Zuo is dead, Channing Peng is guilty of a serious crime."

Patriarch Lu, who had lost a lot of weight, stood in the main hall, looking coldly at the subordinates standing below the hall with their heads bowed, and his voice was icy.

"Shaolang Jun of my Lu family, how could he die so unclearly, so he killed the Peng family as a sacrifice."

With a single word, the fate of the Peng family is determined.

Even though the Lu family had just lost their strength on the South River, it was still easy to deal with a second-rate family, and took down Channing City without much effort.

When Lu Tao started, he still had some reservations. He only sent a thousand-man trilogy to Channing City first, followed by three armies to divide and encircle them. It wasn't because he was really afraid of the Peng family, but because he was afraid that Channing City was separated by a mountain. of Changzhou.

Feng Kai's Hei family army was stationed in Changzhou.

After the First Battle of Nanjiang, the frontier army quickly wiped out the remaining Hu soldiers in the western section of Nanjiang, and completely controlled the situation in the old Beijing area.

Feng Kai had no interest in the old capital, and after handing over to the brothers in the clan, he returned to the front line of Changzhou with the elite black armor army.

After several battles in the open and in the dark, Lu Tao now dare not underestimate Feng Bosheng's son.

It is said that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, but Feng Kai himself is a fierce tiger in the mountains. As long as the prey he targets, there is almost no possibility of escape.

Channing City is sandwiched between Changzhou and Dingfeng City, and its strategic location is very important for Dingfeng City.If Channing is captured, Dingfeng City will have an extra barrier, and can even take advantage of the steep mountains to defend and wait for reinforcements.

Using Lu Shiji's death as an excuse, Lu Tao made full preparations and carefully tested the movements of the Black Armor Army.However, until the Lu family's trilogy completely occupied Channing City, the Black Armored Army on the other side of the mountain remained motionless, as if they were watching a stage drama involving a family.

Lu Tao was suspicious by nature, seeing that Feng Kai didn't act according to his expectations, he always felt a little uneasy.

However, the city of Channing has taken over everything, so he can't spit out the meat he ate.After thinking about it, Lu Tao felt that there was a high probability that this matter had something to do with Ning Fei.

Hearing that his son is Feng Kai's darling, if Ning Fei's attitude has changed, it's no wonder that Feng Kai didn't respond to Channing City, he was probably busy putting out the fire.

Lu Tao couldn't be sure how true his speculation was, so he held a grand funeral in Qijiang City, announcing to the world that the suzerain of the Lu family had passed away as an heir.

He lived in a different place, and felt that if he met the clan's family back then, he would definitely try his best to return to Qijiang City and become the master of the number one family in the world.

However, Ning Fei does not seem to be a person who can use common sense to speculate.According to Lu Tao's vision, he should have abandoned the border town and the Feng family early in the morning, and returned to the family. Why would he procrastinate until today to confront his closest relatives? !

Can't he see which is more noble, the pampered pet raised by the Feng family or the master of the Lu clan?Why are you still willing to help that Shuzi of the Feng family to fight against the family? !

idiot!idiot!

When he was burning with anger, his confidant suddenly appeared at the door and knocked lightly on the door three times.

Lu Tao raised his head and frowned slightly.

"If it's about Ah Zuo's burial, there is no need to report back, everything will be arranged by Lu'an."

Lu'an is the manager of Lu's mansion, he has followed Lu Tao for many years, and Lu Tao will give full authority to Lu'an for the insignificant matters in the mansion.

The confidant was taken aback, and quickly shook his head.

"Mr. Lang, it's not about Mr. Shaolang."

He paused without hesitation, and immediately added another sentence.

"It's on the side of the East Forest Farm. It is said that a cannon was built."

"Oh?!"

Sure enough, hearing what he said, Patriarch Lu's eyes lit up.

He stood up and looked at his confidant with piercing eyes.

"But really? Was it really made?"

The confidant nodded quickly.

"It's true, my subordinates personally supervised and tested it for seven days, and tried it no less than a hundred times, and it is indeed successful!"

"Good! Good!"

As soon as Lu Tao patted the book table, he seemed to be ten years younger, and he was very energetic.

"The cannon is in the East Forestry Farm. Prepare your horse quickly. I want to go and have a look!"

He said one thing at Lu's house, but within half an hour, he had already entered the East Forest Farm.

The Lu family has been researching artillery for some time, and many skilled craftsmen in Qijiang City died. Most of the craftsmen who filled in later were found from other places in the Central Plains.

Everyone saw the tragic situation when the cannon exploded, and the huge potential was aroused under the life and death, and a small cannon was actually built.

This cannon is smaller than the one picked up from the Qingniu River, and the cannon body is not rifled.In order to reduce the possibility of bombing, this group of craftsmen unlearned the smoothbore without a teacher. The shells are made of cast iron solid bullets, which can even guarantee the safety of incoherent firing!

Lu Tao took people to try it a few times and was very satisfied with the results.

He immediately ordered people to start a large number of imitation artillery. He wanted to arm a batch of paddle boats in a short period of time, and it would be better to equip some for the trilogy to attack the city. Just like Ning Fei armed the Black Armored Army, he also wanted to build a world Invincible army!

In the next period of time, the situation in the Central Plains once again fell into a strange calm.Although the small-scale battles have never stopped, the two largest forces in the world, Nanjun and Yongxiguan, and the bordering Shanning-Changzhou line, have always been in a state of calm.

Lu Tao is busy building guns, and Ning Fei is busy building ships.This pair of father and son with similar destiny trajectories actually made the same choice at the critical moment - to develop insignificantly, to accumulate strength, in order to kill with one blow.

It's just that this plan is easy for Ning Fei to realize, but it's not as simple as expected if it's Lu Tao.

Feng Kai seemed to be aware of it, how could he be allowed to build honestly?

In the next few months, the Heijia Army bypassed Channing and headed south along the coastline from Tangzikou.Relying on the artillery on the sailing ship, the Black Armor Army successfully captured the important coastal towns such as Xianyun and Wuling, and directly blocked the Qingniu River, making Dingfeng and Channing two isolated islands hanging north of the river.

At the end of the battle, the Lu family's trilogy in Jiangbei was completely suppressed.The black-armored army with Mo Dao surrounded the two cities, and did not invite war to attack the city. They just cut off the water and land supply lines in the city, threatening to completely trap people in Jiangbei.

The generals defending the city only now understand why the Black Armor Army did nothing to seize Channing, but waited for them to enter Channing City, and then took advantage of their scattered forces to attack the empty Xianyun and Wu from the sea. spirit.There are only so many troops in Jiangbei, and only when they are all gathered together can they barely fight against the Heijia army. Now the troops are scattered in several places, let alone win.

Now that the Feng family has surrounded them in the two cities, there is no need to do anything, and the cold winter in Jiangbei will help reduce the number of staff.

The soldiers from Nanjun were still wearing autumn clothes, but it was already cold and windy in Jiangbei in Dongyue. They lacked food and clothing and had no supplies. I don't know how long they can last!

It's not that the guard never thought of asking Nanjun for help.

In fact, when he was still able to send people out of the city, he wrote a secret report to the Patriarch early in the morning.

It's just that I don't know what the Patriarch is busy with. There has been no movement in Qijiang City. When the artillery boats of the Heijia Army blocked the Qingniu River, the supplies were even less settled.

The city has already begun to kill war horses, and there is no supply of firewood for heating. People will freeze to death every day.

But more of them were deserters who quietly left the city at night.

There were only a few in the beginning, and then there were more and more.Especially after the first frost fell, the cunning Heijiajun cooked delicious food in the city every day.

After that, every time there was an inventory drill, the generals could find that some soldiers had disappeared.

Dead or gone, no one knows.Everyone didn't bother to pay attention to the movements of others.The days are getting more and more difficult, the weather is getting colder and colder, supplies and reinforcements are nowhere in sight, and I don't know how long such days will last.

"Let's go, let's go."

The guard Chan Ning stood at the head of the city.

His clothes were also tattered. Seeing the Nanjun soldiers who slipped out of the city gate and lined up to be inspected by the frontier army, he just sighed and did not order the archers of Chengtou to shoot.

They are all people who want to live, and it is good to have a way out.

Left and right... They are also abandoned now, and it is a merit to live one more.

Half a month later, the people of Shanning opened the city in the middle of the night, but the defenders did not make any resistance.

On the third day after that, Dingfeng City opened.So far, the entire territory of Jiangbei has fallen into the control of the frontier army, and Nanzhao and Suicheng in the south of Nanjiang are also under Feng Kai's control, forming a siege to Nanjun from the north, west, and south.

The frontier army began to frequently mobilize troops to the north bank of the Nanjiang River.

With the help of the big ship, the army is gathering faster and faster. The western frontier army led by Uncle Feng Tang has entered Bailong Mountain a few days ago, and may approach the western boundary of Nanjun at any time.

Nanjun is also nervously preparing for the battle.

All the grain farms and iron workshops in Qijiang City were requisitioned, and the fires in the East Forest Farm were kept on fire day and night.There were no more singing and dancing in the city, and the faces of the gentlemen of the aristocratic families were full of solemnity, and the atmosphere became tense day by day.

In such an atmosphere, the news of the Lu family's artillery was particularly exciting.

On the day when the artillery boarded the ship, the residents of the whole city were rejoicing. After the previous panic and depression, it seemed that the Lu family wiped out the frontier army, and the beauty of winning the world was in sight!

People living in Nanjun have always claimed that their status is higher than others. Even the Sima family, the royal family of the Ye Dynasty, is nothing more than a few generations of rich local turtles. The richness and exquisiteness of Shangqijiang City.

They were worried at first. After all, Lu Bei was bombed and sank in Nanjiang by the frontier army. If the Lu family really couldn't beat the Feng family, then their followers would not have a good end, and they would probably be liquidated together.

This is great, the Lu family is also on fire!

In the water battle that sank Lu Bei, the Feng family managed to pull out six ships. It is said that there are four other ships that were converted from cargo ships. If there was no surprise, it might capsize the experienced Lu Bei? !

After suffering a loss, it is impossible for the Feng family to play raid again.

The Lu family has a boat, the sailors are good at water warfare, and the cannons on the boat are like a tiger with wings, so are you afraid of those generations of landlubber frontier soldiers?

Many young and energetic little men even clamored to take the initiative to attack Jiangbei and sink the six ships of the frontier army, so that those bumpkins would know how powerful they are.

I don't know if their invitation to the battle was too pious. On the morning of the fifteenth day of the winter moon, there was a strange rumbling sound on the South River.

The sentinels stationed along the coast watched, and then suddenly their expressions changed drastically. They raised their horns with trembling hands, and blew desperately.

--Ohh Ohh ohh--

Enemy attack!Enemy attack!There is a fleet on the river coming!