Today's attack is a general offensive in a practical sense, and the highest commander of the general offensive is Liao Shanhe.

Outside the north gate of Chengdu, the Han army's military formation was like a red ocean, and it was endless to see at first sight.

At the forefront of the Han army formation, more than 100 six-pound cannons stood, with green and yellow cannon barrels pointing straight towards the city wall at the north gate of Chengdu.

As usual, Li Yongtang, the commander of the artillery army, was still responsible for the full command of the enemy.

There is no way, it is too difficult to train a qualified god gunner. God gunner not only needs to be educated, but more importantly, the foundation of mathematics must be good.

In this era, it is no longer easy for people who are proficient in adding and subtracting. Not to mention, calculating parabolas, calculating the deviation of ballistics, and calculating the impact of wind direction on ballistics.

Of course, Li Yongtang also trained a number of approved gunners. When the battle was about to be fought, these people commanded a cannon and specifically bombarded the city gate hole.

As far as Li Yongtang knows, the north gate, west gate, south gate and east gate of Chengdu City are protected by the urn city.

In other words, even if the shells bombed open the city gate outside, the army would not dare to rush into the city to seek death.

Then, the plan to attack Chengdu is obviously necessary to make adjustments.

According to the offensive plan formulated by Li Yongtang, we first gathered several magic gunners to open the gate of the city.

Then, all the artillery was concentrated, and the twenty artillery was divided into six groups, pushed up one by one, and bombarded the same position on the city wall until it collapsed.

Completely accurate bombardment is obviously impossible. However, it is still possible to control the landing point of the shell within a certain error range.

In fact, with Li Yongtang's rich bombardment experience, he knew very well that it was only a matter of time before so many artillery bombardment was concentrated and the collapse of the city wall was just a matter of time.

If you are lucky, you can collapse in a few hours. If you are unlucky, it will be at most three days.

If the city wall cannot be crushed within three days, Li Yongtang would simply find a piece of tofu to kill him. It would be meaningless to live.

Li Zhongyi rode on the back of "Little Blood Kill" and silently watched the artillery soldiers' every move through the monocular telescope.

Although artillery was an epoch-making weapon, because the Shu road was particularly difficult, Li Zhongyi only brought a 6-pound cannon instead of a real siege weapon, the 12-pound cannon.

The main one is the 12-pound cannon, which is too heavy. One cannon weighs about one ton. Even if it is taken on the road, it will be difficult to transport it to the city of Chengdu in time.

Therefore, Li Zhongyin could carry more than 100 light 6-pound cannons, nor did he bring a heavy 12-pound cannon.

In addition, in the military artillery supervision artillery workshop, the 24-pound heavy artillery is also being developed in an orderly manner.

In the future, when the navy landed in Annan, a warship would be loaded with dozens or even hundreds of 24-pound cannons, which would be an invincible existence at sea.

In this era of no condoms, as long as it is a peaceful era, the population will double every twenty years and will not be transferred by anyone's will.

The large population explosion caused by insufficient land and insufficient food to be eaten is always a huge hidden danger.

If we want to completely break the deadly situation of the dynasty cycle of less than three hundred years, in addition to adopting extremely strict national policy of suppressing land annexation, it is more important to explore overseas grain production bases.

Others must not know it, but Li Zhongyi knew it in his mind. It was just south of the Han Dynasty, with a narrow area of ​​Jiaozhi, a fertile Siam, and a simple Khmer. These are all treasure lands that are easy to get three times a year.

Although the Han Dynasty has a large territory today, in fact, the Jiangnan, Jinghu and Guangdong and Guangxi have not been fully developed, and the arable land area across the country is not large.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the grain output in Guanzhong has been as good as Wang Xiaoer's New Year, and it has been worse than that in one year. Otherwise, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han and Later Zhou in the north would not have abandoned Chang'an, and either established the capital in Luoyang or Kaifeng.

Several countries on the Indochina Peninsula have small land areas, but their grain output is astonishingly high.

People in this era, affected by the inherent geographical environment, do not know an amazing fact: landing in Annan and other places by sea is actually the fastest attack by force and the lowest cost means of conquest.

Coincidentally, Li Zhongyi has the largest and most powerful navy power in the world today.

When Li Zhongyi was expeditioning Goryeo in the east, he borrowed the power of the navy, and wiped out the opposition forces in Goryeo in one fell swoop, turning Goryeo into a colony under the actual control of the Central Plains Empire.

The Goryeo Kingdom was just a springboard to attack Japan. In terms of economic and strategic value, it was actually far inferior to the Annan countries with rich resources.

As long as you master the main production area of ​​food, the entire Han Empire will have enough capital to feed more people. With more people, you can lead to disasters and continue to expand your territory to overseas areas.

The subsequent change is that the dynasty cycle control cycle will no longer work due to the introduction of super live water.

Li Zhongyi was not the supreme commander of the front enemy. He was qualified to sit on the horse and wander around, while Liao Shanhe was nervously deploying all preparations before the general attack.

"Everyone, after entering the city, you must not use cocktails. Otherwise, what a huge loss would it be if such a prosperous Chengdu City was destroyed by your and my hands?" Liao Shanhe was still a little worried after all, and repeatedly reminded the senior generals participating in the general offensive.

War is the continuation of politics, and politics is the continuation of economy. In the final analysis, war requires calculation of costs.

The Han army traveled thousands of miles to the city of Chengdu, and all they got was a ruin. Even if Liao Shanhe agreed, Li Zhongyi would never agree.

Song Yunxiang smiled slightly. Influenced by His Majesty the Emperor, all the senior generals in the entire Han army system learned to be careful in their calculations.

When he was in the northwest, Song Yunxiang often calculated the detailed account of sending troops to mediate internal strife in the grassland, especially the time and strength of sending troops.

It’s not enough to go early, and the barbarians fled in all directions. Who should I ask for military expenses to send troops?

It’s not enough to go too late. The barbarians have decided the winner and cleaned the battlefield. With Song Yunxiang’s experience, the barbarians have already grabbed the spoils they have, and if they want to force them to take them out, they can only speak with a knife.

The so-called success of a general and his bones were completely ineffective among the Han army. This dynasty was extremely martial, and the status of the military ministers was unprecedentedly high.

What followed was that the cost of raising soldiers in the court remained high. If tens of thousands of soldiers were lost in one battle, the court's finances would immediately collapse. His Majesty the Emperor was furious and the head of a defeated general would definitely not be guaranteed.

Therefore, in the Han army, no general who only considers personal gains and losses and does not care about casualties in the soldiers will have no good ending.

However, Song Yunxiang was not in charge of financial management, so he still missed a little. Since unifying Jiangnan, the fiscal revenue capacity of the Han Empire's court has risen sharply, at least half of the time compared to before.

After the rich Shu Kingdom is pacified, the court's fiscal revenue capacity will increase by at least one third.

In other words, the Han Empire today is different from the past, and its financial affordability has been greatly enhanced.

Long before the troops left the battle, the detailed combat plan had been distributed to various participating troops.

Liao Shanhe convened everyone for a small meeting, with the purpose of emphasizing that the tragedy of burning Chengdu must be prevented.

After Liao Shanhe had a breakup, Li Zhongyi simply got off the horse and sat on the small stool.

There was no way. In order to strengthen his momentum and show his image, the silver helmet and silver armor on Li Zhongyi were too heavy, so heavy that he had already started to breathe.

"Zhengqing, do you think Meng Chang will surrender from the city?" Li Zhongyi asked Li Anguo with a smile after taking a sip of warm tea.

Li Anguo thought for a while and said seriously: "There are still more than 100,000 soldiers in the city. Before breaking the wall, Meng Chang still had a glimmer of hope of holding on. I'm afraid it would be difficult to make a decision to surrender, right?"

Li Zhongyi raised his lips high and smiled. Meng Chang in history was so greedy that he was extremely afraid of death. He actually took the initiative to lead 140,000 Shu troops and surrendered to the Song army with only tens of thousands of troops.

However, now, the situation is completely different. Meng Chang's hope is still unsuccessful, and he still has a big trump card in his hand, which is worth looking forward to.

Compared with the army that cannot be fought within and cannot be rescued outside in history, Meng Chang can still count on Lin Renzhao, who has been stationed in Kuizhou.

After Li Zhongyiping destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, Lin Renzhao, the commander of the Southern Tang Dynasty's naval commander, actually led tens of thousands of naval troops from the Southern Tang Dynasty to sail against the current and surrender to Meng Chang.

This time, Li Zhongyi did not mobilize the powerful navy to advance west along the Yangtze River, mainly because Lin Renzhao was proficient in water warfare and occupied the upper reaches of the territories.

From Kuizhou (now Chongqing) to Jiuzhou (now Yichang), the waterways are narrow and there are many dangerous shoals. Lin Renzhao, who is in the upper reaches, can put down his fire boats anytime and anywhere, threatening the safety of the Han army navy.

Objectively speaking, with more than 100 artillery pieces assisting, it was only a matter of time before it was taken down by Chengdu City, and Li Zhongyi was not interested at all.

Now, what Li Zhongyi is really interested in is whether Lin Renzhao would be grateful for Meng Chang's initial grace to take in, and led the main force of the Kuizhou soldiers to come to reinforce Chengdu?

Li Zhongyi had dealt with Lin Renzhao, and he knew very well that Lin Renzhao was definitely not an ordinary mediocre person.

As the saying goes, if a person hurts the heart of a tiger, a tiger can kill people. Li Zhongyi and Lin Renzhao both saw it very clearly that there will be a decisive battle between them.

It depends on the battlefield of the decisive battle, is it near Chengdu or Kuizhou?

Intuition told Li Zhongyi that Lin Renzhao should have arrived, but he was still a hundred miles away. After all, the Han army's reprimanded people have not yet heard of Lin Renzhao back.
Chapter completed!