The Jagged Empire of Daqin

"As long as the feather arrows are well prepared, [-] troops are enough to guard the gate of hell. As for the iron pipes on the surface of the city wall, the general will not be able to figure it out. Captain Yang, what do you think it is?" Zhu Bo asked Yang Taozhen while talking. .

Yang Taozhen shook his head when he heard the words, expressing that he didn't know.

Ying Jiang said at this time: "The iron pipes on the surface of the city wall are used for flowing fire oil!"

"Flowing fire oil?" Yang Taozhen and Zhu Bo were taken aback when they heard this.

"Your Highness, how do you know?" Yang Taozhen couldn't help asking curiously.

"That's right, the iron pipe is not necessarily used to flow fire oil, it may also be used to release poisonous gas!" Zhu Bo's brain was wide open, and he even thought of poisonous gas.

Ying Jiang pointed at a row of iron pipes above the city wall. Yang Taozhen and Zhu Bo looked in the direction Ying Jiang pointed for a while, but they didn't see anything. Just when they were about to ask questions, Ying Jiang opened his mouth. explained:

"Did you find out that the distance between each row of iron pipes is only one foot, and the top row of iron pipes is one foot high from the top of the tower. Although this does not prove that the iron pipes flow fire oil, it can prove that the iron pipes flow The things that come out are very dangerous, so the distance between the iron pipe and the tower is kept to prevent accidental injury to our own people!"

"What usually hurts our own people? There are two common ones. The first is poisonous gas, and the second is fire. For poisonous gas, it is impossible at all, because poisonous gas is not manipulative. When the wind changes, all blows Come back, moreover, if it’s poisonous gas, there’s no need to distance the iron pipe from the city tower, let alone a distance of ten feet, even three feet can cause accidental injury.”

"After the poisonous gas is discharged, only the fire remains. As the saying goes, the fire can be three feet high, but as long as it is not a forest fire, the general fire can be within one foot at most, and the fire burned by kerosene is between six feet and seven feet. A height of one foot is an absolute safe distance!"

"If His Highness were to build this ghost gate, he would also design this kind of fire-fueled defensive mechanism, because as long as the city walls are covered in fire, the enemy army will not be able to attack the city at all, and the fire-oil mechanism must be used at the last crisis. trigger."

"Only at a critical juncture, when the enemy is about to ascend the tower, can the fire oil mechanism play its greatest role. If your highness guessed correctly, the city wall is very thick, at least three feet thick, but more than half of it is hollow. Put the mechanism away!"

After hearing these words, Yang Taozhen's admiration for the eldest prince in his heart was like a torrential river flooding, out of control.

"The eldest prince is as wise as a monster, and he will be convinced in the end!" Yang Tao bent down to salute Ying Jiang sincerely from the bottom of his heart.

"The eldest prince is wise!" Zhu Bo also sat on his horse and bowed to Ying Jiang's editor.

Ying Jiang smiled noncommittally, "You don't need to be like this, it's not certain if it's kerosene, if it's not kerosene, wouldn't it be a slap in the face of His Highness?"

"Haha." Yang Taozhen and Zhu Bo smiled contemptuously.

Ying Jiang took a deep breath, and his expression gradually became serious. Seeing the change in Ying Jiang's face, Yang Taozhen and Zhu Bo's expressions also gradually became solemn, only to hear Ying Jiang say in a neutral tone: "No matter what is at the gate of hell, Ghost, anyway, in front of my Great Qin Cannon, everything is in ruins!"

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Chapter 966 The Han General who has committed many crimes!

"His Royal Highness ordered that the artillery battalion is ready to fire. We don't want to raze the entire Ghost Gate to the ground, but we must also flatten the gate of the Ghost Gate!" Ying Jiang immediately gave the order to fire!

"As ordered!"

The order was issued quickly, and when Yingjiang gave the order, the three blue-armored generals on the gate tower of Guimenguan looked palely at the Qin army outside the pass. The three blue-armored generals were Luo He, Huang Gui, and Pu Jiang. .

Luo He is 49 years old this year. He is the commander of Guimenguan.

Huang Gui and Pu Jiang are the same age, both are 45 years old, and both are deputy commanders of Guimenguan. The former worships the seventh-rank Liding general, and the latter officially worships the seventh-rank general Suyuan. Both of them have always been Luo He's subordinates. Luo He is stationed As long as the ghost gate is closed, they will follow Luo He for as long as possible.

"The Qin army just arrived at Green Mountain yesterday, and it's attacking today. The speed of dispatching troops is too fast!" Huang Gui said with a face full of deceit and panic.

"Qin Jun is trying to force people to death. It's nothing more than deliberately concealing the attack on Han. They didn't give us time to react!" Pu Jiang said with a pale face, with anger and fear in his tone.

When the Qin army arrived at Green Mountain yesterday, the three of them were so frightened that they quickly wrote a letter to the court, asking the court to dispatch reinforcements. After sending the letter, they felt relieved, thinking that the Qin army would not attack the city so quickly. If they send out a new general, then this place has nothing to do with them, even if they lose the battle, they have no responsibility.

But who would have imagined that the Qin army would start a battle outside the customs early in the morning!

Although they have never tasted the power of artillery, their ears are callused these days, what kind of thunder strikes the top, what thunder strikes thousands of miles away, and when the thunder blows, it will be wiped out within a hundred steps, one is more terrifying than what the other said, But this is really believed by some people, such as the three of them.

They believe that it is not that they are fools, but that if they don’t believe this, it is difficult to understand that the borders of the three dynasties of Zhao, Qi, and Xia collapsed in just one day, and millions of troops were wiped out. If the Tianlei equipment is not so strong, it will be so Easily defeated the border of the three dynasties?

Now, they also have to face the "legendary" sky thunder weapon, which is hard not to be scary.

"Shall we surrender?"

Just when Huang Gui and Pu Jiang were terrified, Luo He said something amazing!

"What? Surrender!" Huang Gui was shocked!

"General, you are crazy. If we surrender, our wives, concubines and children in the imperial capital will also suffer!" Pu Jiang said in a panic.

Since the founding of the Korean Dynasty, there has been an unwritten rule that all close relatives of the border generals must settle in the imperial capital. This is to prevent the border generals from rebelling, which is a bit like a hostage.

"Damn it!"

"You think I am willing, think about it for yourself, if the things we have done these years are found out, will we still survive? At that time, the whole family will be killed, why not surrender now and save our lives!" Luo He Swearing, getting emotional!

After hearing these words, both Huang Gui and Pu Jiang fell silent, with guilty looks on their faces.

It has been 23 years since he was stationed at the gate of ghosts. Except for the first five years of trembling and following the imperial court's wishes and doing his duty conscientiously, the next 18 years were a complete waste of time and evil deeds.

The crimes accumulated in 18 years are enough to kill their nine clans.

Eighteen years ago, they led their soldiers pretending to be bandits, and kidnapped more than 18 women in the county town. After bringing them back to the camp, they served as military prostitutes. More than a hundred women were all killed.

This was the first crime they committed. After committing this crime, the people involved in this incident were anxious every day, for fear that the imperial decree would come the next day. As a result, this incident was like a grain of rice sinking into the sea, and the water splashed. Did not splash up.

After they tasted the sweetness, they began to eat empty pay, and did not report when they died of illness or old age. The military pay was distributed by the imperial court, and the military pay for those soldiers who died of illness or old age was shared by the three of them, and occasionally they would be given to their cronies.

Of course, in order to avoid suspicion, they will still report a little depletion of military resources, but the reported number and the actual number are more than ten times different.

Although the operation of their empty pay made them all eat their mouths full of oil, it also greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the ghost gate. The real garrison force is only more than 50 people, half of which are veterans over [-] years old. They are also 'assimilated' by them, and they don't even teach recruits how to operate the organs of the ghost gate.

And the new recruits who came over were also very happy to enjoy this kind of leisurely life. After all, in the Korean Dynasty, being a soldier was a path that men had no choice but to choose. , have a bite to eat, and will not go to the army.

The three of Luo He ate the sweetness of the empty salary, and began to resell arms. The armaments given to Guimenguan by the imperial court every year are very rich, because the two main organs of Guimenguan are the crossbow and arrow mechanism and the fire oil mechanism.

The imperial court has to provide 300 million mechanism arrows and 300 million cans of kerosene to Guimenguan a year. The mechanism arrows are worthless, but the kerosene is very valuable. In addition to providing mechanism arrows and kerosene on time every year, the imperial court will also give an extra 30 Two silvers are used as the maintenance fee of the institution.

For the sake of money, Luo He, Pu Jiang, and Huang Gui began to resell armaments and corruption agency maintenance fees. After more than ten years of development, the money hidden behind the three of them is a huge astronomical figure!

That is to say, they are lucky, no one has ever attacked the ghost gate, but once the Moon Dynasty sent troops and found that the ghost gate mechanism failed, these crimes would be exposed to the sun, but their luck was over.

The arrival of the Qin army not only broke the 200-year-long tranquility of the ghost gate, but also broke the dream of the three of Luo He!

"But what about my relatives!" Pu Jiang already had the idea of ​​surrendering, but he was still quite concerned about his family in the imperial capital.

"Dear ones? Hehe!" Luo He sneered disdainfully, "Since you came to Ghost Gate, how many times have you gone back? How many children have you seen? I'm afraid you haven't seen any of them, and your wives and concubines, you and them What are the feelings!"

"Besides, is there a way to survive if you surrender? The Qin army attacked, and we defended or not. If we defended, we were killed by the thunder of the Qin army. If we didn't defend, we fled and lost the so-called number one pass in the world. If you are executed by the city, you and I may be sentenced to death by thousands of knives!"

ps: "Two updates today, I really can't stand my eyes, I can't stare at the computer for a long time, I'm sorry,"

Chapter 967 Han will surrender!

"Now our only way out is to surrender. With our current rank, as long as we voluntarily surrender, even if we don't make it to the top, we will get some rewards from the Qin Dynasty. We don't ask for these things. The accumulated money is enough for us to marry more than a dozen wives and concubines, which will not be used up by more than ten generations!"

Luo He is determined to surrender, there is no doubt about it, he does not want the huge sum of money he has saved over the past ten years to be wiped out.

"I will follow the general. If the general wants to vote, I will vote too!" Huang Gui said firmly.

Seeing Huang Gui expressing his surrender, Pu Jiang did not continue to hesitate, and said: "In this case, then surrender!"

"Okay!" Luo He was overjoyed when he heard the words, and immediately shouted to the Qin army outside the pass: "Brother Qin Jun, slow down, we want to surrender, open the city gate and surrender now, wait a minute!"

After finishing speaking, Luo He took Huang Gui, Pu Jiang and Han Jun on the tower down the tower.

The generals and soldiers of the Korean army are also happy to hear about their surrender. They have not fought for more than [-] years and have not trained, so their blood and fighting spirit have been wiped out. Nothing to lose.

Qin army!

"What?"

"surrender?"

"Is it that direct?"

The artillerymen of the Qin army who were about to fire were stunned, not only the artillerymen were stunned, but also the six thousand soldiers of the Qin army behind the artillery positions, as well as Ying Jiang, Zhu Bo, and Yang Taozhen were all stunned!

This is not because they haven't seen the world before, but because the other party suddenly offered to surrender without warning. It was so sudden that they didn't realize it all at once. After all, this is not a small pass in a small town, but the largest pass in the world!

Even without a fight, the defenders of the world's largest pass surrendered. How unconfident this is!

Under the banner of the Chinese army, Yang Taozhen looked at the Han army who was retreating from the tower with a suspicious face, and couldn't help exclaiming: "What's the situation? There will be no fraud!"

"A plan to slow down the army?" Zhu Po raised his eyebrows.

"No matter what tricks Han Jun plays, we will know later, and order to stop firing first. At this time, I, Qin Jun, can afford to wait!" Ying Jiang said calmly.

"Obey!" Zhu Bo bowed and responded, and then passed on Yingjiang's order, and went down to the artillery position to convey the order to temporarily stop firing.

Just as the order to temporarily stop firing was passed, the wide and heavy door of the ghost gate was opened from the inside. As soon as the door was opened, the Qin army suddenly became tense, and couldn't help but clenched the weapons in their hands. Hold on, as long as the opponent makes a change, let Han Jun also taste the power of artillery!

A burst of hasty footsteps came from the pass, and then the generals of the Qin army saw a group of Han soldiers in light blue chain mail walking out of the pass. He wears chain mail on his body and a red tasseled helmet on his head, and only a light blue tunic.

With the passage of time, more and more Han soldiers came out of the pass. After about a stick of incense, about [-] Han soldiers walked out of the pass, all of them standing outside the pass, without armor or armor.

Luo He, Huang Gui, and Pu Jiang stood at the front. After seeing all the defenders in the city come out, Luo He shouted to the artillery positions of the Qin Army with a smile on his face: "Dare to ask who the general of the Qin Army is!"

"drive!"

"drive!"

There was a sound of riding a horse, and Luo He and the soldiers of Han Jun raised their eyes and saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old general coming with two Qin generals on horseback. Luo He was stunned when he saw this, and his brain was searching Young General.

After some searching, no such person was found.

Why did the Qin Dynasty produce a young general?Why haven't I heard of it.

While Luo He was thinking about this, Ying Jiang had already brought Zhu Bo and Yang Taozhen to ten steps before Luo He and other Han soldiers. Ying Jiang, who was sitting on a bloody BMW, looked down at Luo He condescendingly, his tone was not cold Not indifferent but with a touch of majesty, he asked: "Who is your last name? How high is your official residence? What is your position?"

Seeing that it was a young general who asked the question, Luo He knew that this young general was the chief general of the Qin army, and he immediately bowed down and saluted and replied: "My surname is Luo Minghe, and I live in Dahan as a fifth-rank ghost general. Ghost gate, I have guarded here for 23 years, do you know the name of this general Gao?"

Ying Jiang took a careful look at Luo He, and found that the latter had a fat waist and a round belly. He was the one who was talking about the fat head and big ears, and his face was also treacherous and greedy. If he hadn't reported his identity, Ying Jiang really couldn't tell that he was The border general who has guarded the ghost gate for many years.

"I am the Great Prince of Qin!" Ying Jiang announced his identity.

Luo He was startled suddenly, and Huang Gui, Pu Jiang, and the eight thousand Han soldiers standing behind him were also shocked.

The Great Prince of the Great Qin Dynasty!

thump!With a sound, Luo He landed on his knees without hesitation, leaned over and kowtowed with a more excited expression: "The villain has eyes but doesn't know Mount Tai, I hope His Highness the First Prince will forgive me!"

Luo He is someone who likes to hug Yingjiang's thigh. Now that he has the opportunity to hug Yingjiang's thigh, how could he give up.

Huang Gui and Pu Jiang also knelt down, and like Luo He, they bent down and kowtowed and shouted:

"Huang Gui, General of the Seventh Rank of the Great Han Dynasty, didn't know that His Highness the Great Qin Prince was here in person, and the villain failed to recognize him. Please forgive me, Your Highness the Great Prince!"

"The villain is the seventh-rank Suyuan General Pu Jiang, and he has met His Royal Highness the First Prince!"

Watching a general and two lieutenants kneel down, the eight thousand soldiers of the Han army also knelt down silently.

Seeing this scene, Ying Jiang felt speechless, thinking, I am the eldest prince of your Han dynasty, is it necessary to perform such a great gift?Why don't you have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, and what kind of eldest prince forgive me, what you say makes you look like General Qin.

"Ghost Gate, are you the only defender?" Ying Jiang went straight to the point and began to test it out.

"Yes, yes, there is only one of us!" Luo He nodded his head, with a flattering smile on his face.

Ying Jiang looked around at the soldiers of the Han army for a few times, then lowered his head to Luo He who was kneeling on the ground and asked, "My Highness heard before that there were only [-] guards at the Gate of Ghosts. Why did my Highness calculate just now that there are only seven or eight thousand soldiers?" left and right, what about the rest?"

"This, this, haha, can you not say it?" Luo He asked with an embarrassed smile, he was a little embarrassed to say it, he was embarrassed to say it, you know, he was thinking of hugging his thigh, if the Great Qin Prince knew If he is empty-paid, he will definitely not pay attention to him.

Hearing this answer, Ying Jiang smiled and pulled out the sword from his waist. When Luo He saw this, he knew that the great prince of Qin was a real smiling tiger, and immediately kowtowed in fright and pleaded guilty: "Prince, please forgive me, the villain is not right!" Deliberately concealing it, but having an unspeakable concealment!"

Chapter 968 Resolute Ying Jiang!

Ying Jiang ignored Luo He, holding the sword in one hand and the rein in the other, and drove the sweaty horse under his crotch to Luo He's body. He held the sword and put the sword edge on Luo He's neck. Feeling cold, his whole body was stiff and his hairs were standing on end, and he didn't dare to move.

Huang Gui and Pu Jiang were also shocked, as if they were the ones with the sword around their necks.

This Great Qin Prince is not a good stubble!

"My Highness doesn't want to listen to nonsense, I just let you make a choice, to say or not to say!" Ying Jiang looked down at Luo He condescendingly, his tone was also full of coldness and murderous intent, and instantly made Luo He fall into the three-foot ice cave , I was chilling all over my body.

"The eldest prince, spare your life, the villain says, the villain says everything!" Luo He was full of fear, trembling all over, and in the face of death, he put down all resistance.

"Say it!" Ying Jiang urged impatiently!

Luo He quickly explained: "It's like this. During the guarding of the ghost gate, the villain did not report the actual loss of troops to the court in order to eat empty wages. After more than ten years, there are only 120 defenders left in the [-] guards!"

After hearing this sentence, Ying Jiang finally understood that the number of troops was two thousand less, and it turned out that Luo He was eating nothing.

He is so brave, he dares to pay for nothing, and he is not afraid of the imperial court sending people to inspect, Ying Jiang thought to himself.

"Why surrender?" Ying Jiang asked immediately.

"Of course the Qin army is mighty. The villain knew he was invincible and didn't want to die in vain, so he surrendered just now." Luo He smiled obsequiously.

Ying Jiang withdrew the sword on Luo He's neck and put it back into the scabbard. Luo He breathed a sigh of relief, but before the breath was over, Ying Jiang said coldly: "You should be honest. To be honest, otherwise, if His Highness draws the sword again, it will not be as simple as putting it on the neck!"

Ying Jiang didn't believe Luo He's nonsense. On the way of the army attacking Han, he had already recorded some basic information of the Han Dynasty. As far as he knew, the immediate family members of the border commanders and deputy commanders of the Han Dynasty had to stay in the imperial capital. as a hostage.