Prince of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 383 Bombarding Chang'an City Gate

When Li Shimin heard that Gao Ming was bombarding the city gate, he was immediately stunned.

However, as a man who has experienced battles for a long time, Li Shimin quickly came back to his senses, and he slapped the table with a "slap".

"How dare this bastard...uh..."

Speaking of this, Li Shimin found that his words were a bit redundant, because Liu Tao had just said that Gao Ming was not "preparing" to bombard the gate of Chang'an, but was "currently" bombarding the gate of Chang'an.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin's face twitched violently a few times, he threw the folder in his hand on the table, and then stood up.

"Go, follow me to the gate of Chang'an!"

"Yes!"

Seeing that Li Shimin didn't mean to blame him, Liu Tao was relieved, and quickly followed Li Shimin's footsteps.

The two had just walked out of the gate of the imperial study when they heard a muffled thunder coming from a distance.

"Boom..."

He had heard this sound twice just now, at first he thought it was thunder, so he didn't pay much attention to it, until now he finally understood, this is not thunder, it is clearly Gao Ming bombing his city gate with cannons ah!
Thinking of this, Li Shimin's face suddenly became more ugly, and his pace quickened a little.

After a stick of incense, Li Shimin and Liu Tao each rode a horse to the east gate of Chang'an City. They were stopped about 100 meters away from the city gate.

"Stop coming, we are Baiqiwei, ordered by His Royal Highness to seal the city gate!"

Hearing the other party's words, a Qianniuwei immediately stepped forward.

"Bold! Do you know..."

But before he finished speaking, Li Shimin waved his hand towards him.

"You go back first!"

"Yes!"

Hearing Li Shimin's words, this Qianniuwei had no choice but to back down. Only then did Li Shimin raise his chin towards Qianniuwei in front of him.

"Why did the prince seal the city gate?"

Li Shimin has been in a high position all year round, and his aura has long been developed. Although he did not reveal his identity at this time, the Baiqiwei also vaguely felt that he was not simple.

Therefore, as soon as Li Shimin's words fell, the hundred cavalry guards bowed towards him.

"My lord, His Royal Highness is testing the cannon. In order to avoid accidentally injuring the people, he ordered me to seal the gate of the city. If your lord wants to leave the city, you can go out through the east gate or the south gate."

Hearing what the Baiqiwei said, Li Shimin frowned immediately.

"Since you are worried about accidentally hurting the people, you can close the city gate. Why do you need to block the city gate?"

"because……"

Just when Baiqiwei was about to explain to Li Shimin, he heard a loud voice resounding through the sky and the earth.

"boom!"

The voice was so loud that it immediately reminded Li Shimin of his experience in Yuzao Pond a few days ago. Before he could recover, another voice reached his ears.

"Crunch... bang!"

Hearing the sound, he immediately raised his head and looked in the direction of the sound, but everything he saw was a cloud of smoke and dust.

The west gate of Chang'an City, which had been standing for more than 20 years, fell to the ground with a bang from Gao Ming's cannon!

Looking at the collapsed city gate, Li Shimin's heart was full of shock, but he was surprised to find that he didn't feel much anger.

At the same time, he suddenly recalled what Gao Ming said when he was drunk that day.

"As long as I give an order, the gate of Chang'an City can be smashed to pieces, and then the cavalry can swarm in, and the old man can kneel at the gate of the city and sing "Conquer" in minutes..."

At this time, Li Shimin finally remembered that he seemed to have issued an imperial decree, saying that if Gao Ming could not smash the gate of Chang'an, he would have to sing "Conquer" by himself.

Thinking of this, he suddenly showed a wry smile.

"Am I lifting a rock to shoot myself in the foot?"

Liu Tao kept observing Li Shimin's face. He originally thought that Li Shimin would be furious, but what he didn't expect was that Li Shimin remained silent at this time.

After hesitating for a while, he asked tentatively.

"Your Majesty, what should we do about this?"

"What should I do?"

Hearing Liu Tao's words, Li Shimin came back to his senses immediately, his face was full of anger.

"What else can I do? He smashed all the gates of my city, so of course he has to pay for it!"

"Uh……"

Liu Tao never dreamed that Li Shimin would say the word "compensation", and he was immediately stunned.

The prince bombarded the city gate with cannons, and the way the emperor pursued responsibility was not to punish the crime, but to make the other party pay for it. This immediately overturned the three views that Liu Tao had worked hard to establish for more than 20 years.

"I may have met a fake prince and a fake emperor..."

When Liu Tao was in a daze, a hundred cavalry guards ran over on horseback and shouted at several soldiers who were responsible for sealing the city gate.

"His Royal Highness has an order. After the cannon test is over, everyone will go to the gate of the city to maintain order and escort Thor's Wrath back to the Military Weapons Supervision!"

"Yes!"

The Baiqiwei who had received the order was about to leave, but Li Shimin stopped them immediately.

"What exactly is the Wrath of Thunder God you mentioned just now?"

Hearing Li Shimin's words, the Baiqiwei who was stopped by him immediately laughed.

"My lord, it's like this. When His Royal Highness was testing the cannon just now, the people thought that God was angry, and they all knelt on the ground, so His Royal Highness named it Thunder God's Wrath!"

"I see!"

After hearing this explanation, Li Shimin nodded in satisfaction.

"The name of Thunder God's Wrath is not bad. It's much better than the super invincible fortress cannon before. Well, I want to see what this Thunder God's Wrath that can blast through the gate of my Chang'an city looks like!"

After finishing speaking, Li Shimin got on his horse and headed towards the discovery of the city gate. Seeing him leaving, Liu Tao quickly followed.

After they had all left, the soldiers of the hundred cavalry guards who stood there showed a look of astonishment.

"The lord just now called himself 'Zhen'? Could it be that he is the current emperor?"

Thinking that he stopped the emperor just now, he shivered immediately, and secretly prayed that Li Shimin would not trouble him.

Of course Li Shimin would not trouble such a small person like him, because he was shocked again at this time.

At first when he saw the city gate being bombed down, Li Shimin thought that Gao Ming's cannon fired a hundred steps away from the city gate, but after he left the city gate, he realized that he was wrong, and it was so wrong!

Because Gao Ming fired the cannon four hundred steps away from the gate of Chang'an!

People often say "Piercing Yang with a hundred steps", which not only refers to a person's more accurate arrow technique, but also roughly expresses the shooting range of a bow and arrow.

The distance of four hundred steps is a distance that makes all archers despair!

However, the clever cannons were able to smash the gate of Chang'an City four hundred paces away. This is what shocked Li Shimin the most.

"Since even Chang'an City can't stop it, there is no other place in the world that can stop it, not even Goguryeo!"

Having said that, Li Shimin suddenly grinned.

(End of this chapter)