Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1087 Shui'er and Dali Kingdom
For ordinary people, they will always consider issues from their own perspective, their own safety, and their own interests. Sometimes this may be wrong from the perspective of national righteousness, but in fact, who can say The people are wrong.

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Duan Siyue, the old prince of Dali, and Lou Yanming, who secretly ruled the Dali Kingdom, died successively, but they didn’t seem to have much impact on the Huanxi Cult that controlled the Dali Kingdom. Therefore, compared with the past, this beautiful small country in the southwest seems to be no big deal Variety.

However, there have been no major changes at the national level, but some individuals have undergone some changes.For example, Duan Sushun, the nephew of Duan Siyue, who was originally neglected in political affairs and only knew how to study Buddhism, Duan Sushun, has undergone great changes and began to work diligently on political affairs, especially began to pay attention to military affairs, strengthen military equipment and training.In addition, Duan Sushun's complexion is getting better and better these days, his spirits are very uplifting, as if he has been injected with chicken blood, he is full of energy, and there is a kind of happiness and satisfaction in his expression and eyes from time to time.

Dali Kingdom, like the Southern Tang Dynasty, had a Buddhist temple deep in the imperial city, and there was a forbidden area in this Buddhist temple in Dali Kingdom. In the forbidden area, there was only a seven-level pagoda made of marble. The bottom floor of the pagoda was There is a jade horizontal plaque at the entrance, on which are written "Huanxi Pagoda" in three big characters.

When Lou Yanming was still alive, this pagoda was the head of the Huanxi Sect, and now it is also the head of the Huanxi Sect, but things have changed, and the owner inside has changed.

After Duan Sushun reviewed the memorial and dealt with the political affairs of the day, he hurriedly walked towards the Tower of Huanxi. When he arrived at the foot of the tower, two young girls with enchanting figures and charming faces greeted him at the door and gave Duan Sushun a little blessing. One of them The girl said: "The saint is waiting for Your Majesty, please come in, Your Majesty."

These two girls are so charming that under normal circumstances any man would not be able to help but look at them a few times when he comes in front of them, but in Duan Sushun's eyes, these two girls seem to be just two pieces of wood, and he has never take a look.His gaze has been cruising on the top floor of the Tower of Joy.

On the contrary, the guards behind Duan Sushun stared at the two girls with wide-eyed eyes, and the two girls seemed to be used to it long ago, without any discomfort.

At this time, Duan Sushun could not wait to trot into the Tower of Huanxi, but his guards were still standing outside the tower, and continued to look at the two girls guarding the tower gate, but no one dared to take a step forward. Not without daring to step forward and strike up a conversation with the two girls.

Not long after, on the top floor of the Tower of Huanxi, in the extremely luxuriously furnished hall, a woman who was full of endless charm just by looking at her figure was sitting behind the veil, and on the left side of the veil stood a man in her 30s with a human-like complexion. It was a harmless man with a cold and frightening look in his eyes. On the right stood a beautiful young woman in her early thirties, her eyes were radiant.These two people are the guardians of the Huanxi Sect who have a great reputation in the Jianghu. Originally, the strength of the Huanxi Sect is second only to Duan Siyue.

The two men's name is Luo Qing, and the woman's name is Su Yin. They are a couple, and they are called Butcher Wolf Girl by the Jianghu people.As soon as he looked at his nickname, he knew that he was not a kind person.In fact, this couple is a first-class master of the underworld in the Jianghu. They are ruthless and specialize in murder and robbery.More than two years ago, he was tamed by Lou Yanming and became the protector of Huanxi Sect.

At this time, Duan Sushun, the emperor of Dali Kingdom, knelt outside the veil with fanaticism and respect, reporting the political affairs of Dali Kingdom for a day.

During Duan Sushun's report, the woman behind the veil would occasionally ask or give pointers, and every time she asked, she pointed to the core of the problem, and the pointers were quite reasonable.Listening to her voice, although it is full of endless charm, she is still a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old.

This girl is none other than Kou Zhun's junior sister, Ye Chen's female disciple in literature, investigation, and arithmetic, female apprentice in Yu Dao Xiang Wu Dao, and Shui'er who has mastered the Dafa of Demon Dao and Charm.After the death of Lou Yanming and Duan Siyue, she easily accepted the power of Huanxi Cult and took control of Dali Kingdom.

After Duan Sushun, the emperor of Dali Kingdom, left, Shui'er was silent for a while, and suddenly said, "Guardian Luo."

Luo Qing bowed and said, "This subordinate is here."

Shui'er said: "Take someone to Xiangfu Kingdom, and secretly inquire about everything Shangguan Bingyun has done."

Luo Qing hesitated for a moment, then said: "Saint, that devil Cui Xi has not given up on the saint, and his subordinates are worried..."

Before Luo Qing could finish speaking, Shui'er interrupted him and said: "Although Cui Xi is powerful, if he dares to break into the Dali Palace or enter the Tower of Huanxi, I dare not say that he will come and go, but It will also make him suffer. Therefore, as long as I don't leave the Tower of Huanxi, nothing will happen. The affairs of Xiangfu Kingdom are very important to me, so you must go there yourself. You must remember that Shangguan Bing Yun is extremely cunning, you must be careful in your affairs. I have a token here. If you find that Shangguan Bingyun has done something that is not good for the emperor of Xiangfu Kingdom, you can send someone to report to me, and you can take the token to see Xiangfu Lian Jicheng, the Minister of State Guards, may go to see...Xiang Fu Guo Yu Guifei, and tell her the whole story."

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In the East China Sea, nearly a thousand miles away from the coastline of the Wuyue Kingdom on the mainland, a big unnamed island is currently engaged in a beach landing battle.

The sound of gears turning, the sound of spring ejection, and the sound of the final ejection sounded continuously. The sound weighed a hundred kilograms. The polished rocks were launched one after another from the giant catapult on the warship. The strong recoil force generated by each launch , causing the warship to shake slightly left and right, and the hull sank slightly.Although the more than 100 people brought by Kou Zhun also brought over the method of making black gunpowder granules and gunpowder bags, but these days, in the process of dealing with pirates and building bases, such killer weapons have not been used.

However, just like this, with the accuracy and launch speed of Xiangfu Kingdom's giant catapults, hundreds of ships and hundreds of catapults were fired at the same time, and the lethality brought about was also extremely impressive.I saw the ear-piercing sound of stone bullets piercing through the sky, like a meteorite rain, it was really not spectacular for the party who could only be beaten and unable to resist, there were only terror and screams.

The stone bombs kept falling, and the well-organized fortifications and some bunkers built on the shore of the island were constantly smashed, and there were screams one after another amidst the rumbling sound of the wall collapsing.

According to the corresponding regulations of the Xiangfu National Navy under Liu Jinyuan, the flagship of the brigade commander is a warship of five thousand materials, and it is named after the brigade commander, so the flagship of Qi Haitao, the commander of the first brigade of the navy, is called "Haitao". .

On the Haitao, Qi Haitao said to his subordinates: "This island is not small, with a radius of more than 500 miles. After taking this place, our navy can completely build it into a transfer station here, or even Permanently stationed in two naval brigades, ten thousand naval troops."

The deputy brigade commander Du Mingfeng frowned slightly, and said: "Brigade commander, this island is not the largest among the islands we built the island chain base, but it seems to be the strongest one, and the resistance is also abnormal. Tenacious, with such heavy casualties, they did not collapse, which is completely different from the pirates we met before."

In the past few months, they have successively captured more than a dozen pirate dens. Most of the time, as long as they start fighting, they can use their powerful long-range strike capabilities and huge warship deterrence to collapse the pirates' will to resist, and it is too late to escape. will surrender.But right now, the pirates on this island have persisted for a full two hours without any signs of defeat or even retreat.

Qi Haitao nodded and said: "The sea is vast and boundless, and there are countless islands. We didn't know too much about it before. If we didn't meet them at sea this time, they were cheating and robbing the pirates we were chasing. After chasing all the way here, we really didn’t know there was such an island here. There is such a powerful pirate hidden.”

Deputy brigade commander Du Mingfeng said thoughtfully: "Brigade commander, I don't think these people are pirates. They are like troops."

Qi Haitao said: "That's right, they really don't look like pirates, or they are not ordinary pirates."

After a pause, he continued: "Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, in the decades of troubled times of the Five Dynasties, many wealthy families, even after the decline of the royal family, led thousands or tens of thousands of troops to flee overseas in order to avoid the pursuit of their enemies. Yes. I suspect that is the origin of the dominion on this pirate."

Du Ming's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and said, "What the brigade commander said makes sense! It's just that although these people's equipment is not very good, and they don't have any long-range weapons that can be used. After all, it won't last long. It's just... this island is relatively large. From a distance, there are many mountains on the island. If they can't wipe out their army and let them escape into the mountains, they will probably be wiped out later. It will be more troublesome."

Qi Haitao said: "If that's the case, then use gunpowder packs to defeat them as quickly as possible, and chase them down after landing on the beach."

Not long after, more than a dozen gunpowder packets landed on this island whose name Qi Haitao did not know for the first time since the beginning of the world.The forts and defense walls on the coastline were blown up in an instant, and the island army suffered heavy casualties. They retreated after ten breaths.

Precious gunpowder packs are no longer thrown, but stone bullets and giant guns and crossbows are still being fired, but only to suppress the counterattack of the island army, so the frequency of firing has been greatly reduced.

At the same time, dozens of small boats used for landing on the beach slid forward like arrows. Each small boat carried 1000 sailors. A marine battalion of about [-] to two hundred people.

(End of this chapter)