Chapter 629 Facing swords and guns, I have no choice but to kneel down
In the blink of an eye, it’s early autumn.
On the campus of the Shihai Trading Company Maritime Base in Nanjang Island, 20,000 guards wearing black helmets, carrying Mauser 98K rifles on their shoulders, wearing yellow and green camouflage uniforms, and wearing cowhide boots were all looking at the ordering platform.
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Wang Lidong, who was standing on the general stage, looked at this scene and almost waved his right hand and said, "Hello, comrades... Thank you for your hard work, comrades..."
"Sir, trumpet."
Wang Lidong reached out and took the big metal speaker that Buwei handed him, put it to his mouth, activated his internal power, and said to the guards on the field:
"Some people may be curious, why did Hao Duan Duan want to conquer Goryeo?
I won’t talk to you about such high-sounding nonsense as hatred of the country and the family, and serving the country and the people.
There are two reasons. The first is to improve everyone's ability to conduct actual combat and large-scale coordinated operations.
We have experienced nearly 50 battles over the years, but most of our opponents were bandits and bandits. The largest battle only had a few hundred people, so it was a small fight.
As the business of a trading company grows bigger and bigger, it may one day encounter a big power. If you are inexperienced, you will definitely suffer a loss.
Second, in the past two years, the Korea Shipping Department has repeatedly targeted our trading company and raised the tax rate from 15% to 35%. If this continues, business here in Korea will no longer be profitable.
Moreover, several forces have begun to imitate Korea and raise tax rates to exploit us.
If we don't teach Koryo Bangzi a lesson, the trading company will no longer be able to do overseas business in the future.
Don’t even think about the hundreds of pounds of dividends you receive every year. If you can get your monthly payment on time, you will be blessed by the Three Pure Ones!
Everyone said, do you want to have sex with Korea?!!"
The 20,000-strong bodyguard army were all filled with righteous indignation and raised their arms and shouted:
"Fuck Gaoli Bangzi to death!"
"Fuck you to death!"
"Fuck! If you dare to hack our money, do it hard!"
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Thirty percent of Sihai Trading Company's annual profits will be distributed to each employee in the form of dividends. In other words, every employee is a small shareholder of the trading company. If the trading company makes less money, these people will make less money. If there is no
Without dividends, if you rely on a dead salary, the quality of life will definitely drop a lot, and anyone else will jump at the chance.
Seeing the performance of the guards, Wang Lidong nodded with satisfaction.
Profit is the best motivation and loyalty elixir.
As long as the money is paid in place, most employees will be grateful and will not "receive salary for nothing." After spending a long time, they will naturally become more and more loyal and treat the company as their home.
Just like when the Song Dynasty collapsed, many civil servants would rather die than surrender, but when the Ming Dynasty collapsed, civil servants surrendered one after another. The big reason was that Zhao Kuangyin was willing to spend money, but Zhu Yuanzhang was too cunning.
The salary of a county magistrate in the Song Dynasty was almost ten times that of a county magistrate in the Ming Dynasty. At the top, the monthly salary of a prime minister in the Song Dynasty was almost 40,000 to 50,000 yuan, while the monthly salary of a prime minister in the Ming Dynasty was only about 20,000 yuan.
The next day, at the Kaesong Palace in the capital of Goryeo, there was a middle-aged man with a square face sitting on the dragon chair in Qinzheng Hall, wearing a jade crown with nine points and twelve jade crowns and a crown with twenty-four beams.
Standing in the main hall were fifty or sixty officials in various colors of court uniforms, purple shirts, red shirts, and green shirts. They were also holding wat boards (attendance boards in the hands of Song Dynasty officials when they went to court). At first glance, they thought
It was the court meeting of the Song Dynasty.
"Your Majesty, a total of 155 people were admitted for this examination, and the one selected from Huiyuan is Pu Kedao from Anxi Prefecture, Jiangnan Road." Li Ting, the Prime Minister, bowed slightly and said.
Although the King of Goryeo accepted the canonization of the Central Plains Dynasty, he was a king on the outside and an emperor on the inside. When he presented himself to the Central Plains Dynasty, he called himself the Little King, but internally he always boasted that he was the "Emperor of Haedong" and called himself "I... I am a widower".
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The king's order is called "Edict", "Zhi", and "Imperial Edict", the king's heir is called "Prince"; the king's mother is called "Queen Mother", and the capital is called "Imperial City".
There are records of monarchs such as Guangjong of Goryeo being directly called "emperors", and even Taizu and Guangzong had their own reign titles.
Bangzi's arrogance has remained unchanged for thousands of years.
"Pak Kado?" Wang Hui, the 11th generation monarch of Korea, was slightly lost in thought. He always felt that the name sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was. Then he looked at an eunuch not far away on the right, who immediately approached the little boy.
He said, "Your Majesty, this Pu Kedao is Prime Minister Li's second son-in-law..."
So bold!
This time the examiner was Prime Minister Li Ting.
"Where's the list? Submit it."
Prime Minister Li Ting saw the cold look in the eyes of the King of Goryeo and knew that Liang Liang had not said anything nice just now.
I have already marked this person's name with a cross in my heart.
After accepting his benefits, you dare to stab him with a knife...
"Report! Urgent report from 600 miles!... Report! Urgent report from 600 miles away!" The voice came from far and near, and the faces of the courtiers in the palace changed slightly. They hadn't seen the urgent report from 600 miles away for many years.
Unless there is an invasion by a foreign enemy, or there is a rebellion in a certain place, this level of communication is not allowed.
"Report! Six hundred miles urgent report," a messenger stumbled into the hall, "Your Majesty, an hour ago, the Song army captured Bilando Port (the gateway to Gyeonggi, 40 miles away from the royal city), General Kang Zhao fought
Die, the Song army is about to attack the imperial city!"
Wow!
The hall immediately started to boil!
The King of Goryeo stood up in a leap, jumped off the throne, rushed to the messenger, grabbed the emergency report, opened it and read it carefully, then frowned.
Prime Minister Li Ting no longer cared about the etiquette of the emperor and his ministers. He stepped forward and looked at the note in the emperor's hand and said: "Your Majesty, what do you say about the urgent report?"
The King of Goryeo handed the urgent report to the prime minister. Prime Minister Li Ting took it and read it carefully, his face became a little strange.
"Prime Minister Li, Prime Minister Li, what's in the emergency report?"
Seeing the expressions of the two men, all the courtiers spoke out one after another.
Li Ting glanced at the King of Goryeo, saw him nodding slightly, and handed it to the chamberlain beside him. After the chamberlain took it, he read it out loud word by word.
If an iron pipe catches fire, people will die...Thunder occurs during the day...Godly fire descends from heaven...
The courtiers looked at me and I looked at you, and they all looked confused.
It feels like listening to a fairy tale.
In this era, even the most developed Song Dynasty had not invented firearms, not to mention that in the bitter cold land of Sanhan, there was no relevant concept in the mind for such high-tech things.
The ministers asked the messenger to describe the situation at the beginning of the war. The messenger stumbled and talked a lot, but it was not as detailed as the emergency report.
Prime Minister Li Ting came out and said:
"Your Majesty, we should immediately arrange for a group of reliable people to go to Bilando Port to investigate the situation."
The King of Goryeo looked at the ranks of generals and said, "Pu Xingheng."
The commander in front of the palace came out and knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, Pu Xingheng, pays homage to your Majesty."
"Bring a battalion of cavalry and quickly explore the enemy's situation."
"I accept my order."
Privy Councilor Li Zhiquan came out and said: "Your Majesty, the most important thing right now is the safety of Your Majesty and the Royal Capital."
As an outstanding representative of the fear of death, the King of Goryeo hurriedly ordered all the gates of the royal city to be closed, and arranged for his father-in-law and Taiwei to take over the defense of the royal city to prevent the invasion of the Song Dynasty...
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Two hours later, Wang Lidong led 20,000 soldiers and horses to the foot of the King of Korea. He looked at the city wall, which was more than ten meters high, and it was exactly the same as in the intelligence.
The turtle shell is large and hard.
Immediately divide your troops and surround the entire imperial city.
After an hour, the twelve city gates were finally arranged in place.
"Sir, a big fish has appeared on the city tower." Buwei looked at the defenses on the city wall half a mile away with a telescope, and suddenly found several purple-robed officials on the city tower, and these people were surrounding a yellow-robed official.
The young man asked, "Sir, the one wearing bright yellow is not the King of Goryeo, right?"
Wang Lidong raised the telescope on his chest and looked at it carefully. "He is too young. He does not look thirty years old. He should be the younger brother of the King of Goryeo."
Turning your head and looking towards the wrong path,
"Have the three steel artillery battalions been deployed?"
The establishment of the Sihai Trading Company's armed forces is roughly based on the principle of the three-three system in the previous life. One artillery battalion has three artillery companies, each artillery company has three artillery platoons, and each artillery platoon is equipped with three steel cannons. One artillery battalion
There are 27 small steel cannons.
This time he brought a total of 81 small steel cannons. The number was a bit small. He wanted to bring more, but unfortunately the production could not keep up. In order to get 81 guns, the arsenal had been working in three shifts 24 hours a day for the past half month.
Two days were enough to get the number he needed.
Buwei nodded and said, "It's been arranged."
Wang Lidong said: "Send the order, let's fire three rounds first to see the power of our small steel cannon. Remember to take care of the city tower and let a few big fish enjoy the enthusiasm of us people from all over the world!"
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"Three salvos!" Niu Ergen, commander of the 1st Artillery Battalion, ordered.
"Three volleys! Start loading!" The three commanders (company commanders) of the 1st Artillery Battalion all ordered to the three artillery platoons under their jurisdiction.
The loaders of 9 artillery platoons and 27 small steel cannons immediately began to load the ammunition skillfully.
"5.4.3.2.1", the starter waved the small flag, "Fire!"
"Boom!...Boom!...Boom!...."
Dozens of cannonballs roared out of the barrels and flew towards the city wall half a mile away.
"Boom!...Boom!...Boom!"
Orange fireballs bloomed on the city wall, shrapnel shot out, and flesh and blood flew everywhere. Many Korean soldiers were blown out of the crenels by the blast of air and fell from the city wall more than ten meters away. They screamed piercingly.
Wang Lidong could faintly hear it both inside and outside.
Smacking his lips.
There are fewer guns, it feels sparse and not spectacular at all....
"Sir, the tower has collapsed."
Wang Lidong looked at the city tower and found that half of it had collapsed, "Where are the big fish?"
Buweidao said: "Two purple robes fell under the city wall. The bright yellow ones were hit by a cannon and were smashed to pieces."
After three rounds of volley fire, I looked at the results and found that several holes in the city wall had been blown out, but the holes were not very big.
I don’t know who the builder and contractor of this city wall is, but the quality is definitely good.
"Three more salvos, free fire."
After the three rounds of volleys were fired, there were many more holes in the city wall, and two of the holes were already big enough to pass through.
Wang Lidong frowned slightly.
The power of this small steel cannon is still a bit weak. If you want to destroy the city wall, it will probably take seven or eight rounds.
I looked at the soldiers on the city wall and found that there were only a few left.
Wang Lidong said to Buwei, "Arrange a group of blasters and let the artillery battalion cover them."
As the cannon sounded again, a demolition team consisting of nine people rushed towards the city gate with several special aluminum alloy protective plates.
The King of Goryeo didn't know what he thought, but he built the royal capital on a hillside 100 meters high, so it didn't have a moat like the cities in the Song Dynasty, but it was more convenient for the demolition team.
When they arrived at the city gate, the demolition team immediately used nine pieces of protective panels to build a temporary protective shelter.
"There are people from Song Dynasty!"
"There are Song people here!"
The actions of the demolition team still alerted the Korean soldiers on the city. Although they didn't know what the Song people were doing under the city gate, they thought it was not a good thing, so they all drew their bows and shot.
"Ding! Ding! Ding!"
A large string of arrows hit the temporary protective shelter. Xiao Liu, who was digging a hole, sneered: "It's just a broken arrow from a stick, but it still wants to shoot through our protective board."
When they first got the shield, they thought it was a fool.
It's lighter than a board made of wood.
But after firing two shots from pistols, rifles, grenades, and finally mortars, everyone really couldn't put it down.
Cannonballs can also make dents!
Super life-saving tool!
"Xiao Liu, hurry up and dig! This thing can protect against arrows, but it can't protect against golden juice..."
Xiaoliu glanced up quickly, and his hand speed increased a bit unconsciously.
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"boom!"
A thunderbolt sounded out of thin air, and the ground shook with lightning and flint. Wang Lidong, who was sitting and drinking tea, felt his feet shaking. He put down the teacup in his hand, picked up the telescope, and saw a black mushroom rising from the city gate.
"Fuck,"
Did these bastards plant too much explosives?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! A few hundred kilograms of explosives will definitely not be able to create this scene. It is estimated that it is impossible to achieve such a good effect without fifteen hundred kilograms!
Seeing that the city gate tower was blown away, I opened the skylight.
Son of a bitch!
Even if you have money, you can’t make it like this!
Just at that moment, a large area of houses within a radius of 200 meters near the city gate fell instantly. Most of the thousands of Korean soldiers hiding behind the city gate were blown into the air. Then various parts were mixed with rocks and wood.
Falling from the sky like raindrops.
"Notify the First Guard Regiment to enter the city!"
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"Report!" A messenger stumbled into the Qinzheng Hall of the Goryeo Palace, "Your Majesty, the city gate was blown open by a loud noise, and the Song people have entered the city!"
The King of Goryeo's legs weakened and he fell down on the dragon chair. After a while, he scanned the ministers in the hall and said, "My dear sirs, the Song people have already arrived at the imperial city. Do you have any good strategies?"
Most of the courtiers immediately lowered their heads a little more. It was like this. Apart from negotiating peace, the only thing left was surrender.
Peace talks are on epic difficulty!
Whoever dares to take the initiative to surrender to a foreign race will definitely be recorded in the history books, be spurned by future generations, and be infamy for thousands of years!
...I can’t do it if I love whoever I love!
The King of Goryeo looked around again, but unfortunately, not one of the generals who managed to sneak into the hall was an idiot.
Listening to the increasingly clear sounds of fighting outside the palace...
Pu Jihui, the general manager of the palace, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I believe that we should send an envoy immediately to contact the Song Dynasty people to negotiate peace. Otherwise, if it continues to be delayed, if the Song Dynasty people arrive in the main hall, then..." He did not say anything.
Everyone knows that if we go down, there will be no chance for peace talks. Faced with swords and guns, we can only kneel down...