Han Qian was about to put the Jinling puzzle behind him, which was beyond his reach, when he suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves like a thunderstorm, coming from the side lane like thunder, as if hundreds of fast horses were coming suddenly, trying to kill him
They came over and tore these people into pieces.
The sound of the horse's hooves was so urgent, so fast, and so murderous that Xi Rong's face changed with shock. She squatted down in the carriage like a leopard, lifted up her skirt, and pulled the sheath from the outside of her thigh.
He took out a sharp dagger about a foot long from his car, stared out of the car window, and listened quietly to the sounds in the distance.
The Shu and Chu states wanted to marry the Qin and Jin Dynasties, but they did not break up with the Liang state. In particular, the leader of Shu, Wang Jian, had always chosen to be a vassal to the Liang state, which allowed the Liang state to lurk a large number of elite troops in the capital of Shu.
Yang En was assassinated three times before on his mission to Shu. Han Qian's mission to Shu this time will bring the cooperation between Chu and Shu to a new level. There is no reason to think that Liang's scouts will stand still this time, but if Liang's mission is
The scouts gathered cavalry in the capital city of Shu to attack them in broad daylight, which was also shocking.
The dozens of ceremonial guards brought out by Honglu Temple Qing Wei Qun to greet them were usually used to being pampered and pampered. At this moment, they were a little panicked. They didn't know what was happening or how to deal with it.
Yang Qin and Zhou Chu stayed outside the city to take care of the warships, cargo and the large group of captured troops. Zhao Wuji did not enter the city, so he was sent back by Han Qian. Feng Yi reined in his horse in panic, but Xi Fa'er, Kong Xirong, and Guo Que
The three of them immediately ordered the troops to spread out to the left and right, into groups of twenty. Within a few breaths, they were on the main road of the Imperial Street, which is nearly a hundred steps wide, from the south gate to the palace city.
, forming three small conical formations, guarding the chariots of Han Qian, Guo Rong, Changxiang Hou Wangyong, Honglu Temple Wei Qun and others in the middle.
At the same time, twenty armored soldiers moved forward. In the open space at the exit of the alley, they supported the ground with twenty iron shields and mounted their spears and halberds to form a horse-repelling formation to guard against cavalry attacks. The men retreated a dozen steps to hold on.
The sword and bow are ready.
Han Qian looked at Changxiang Marquis and Honglu Temple Qing Wei Qun with a calm expression. He did not think that Liang Guo scouts dared to assassinate him so blatantly on the imperial street of the capital of Shu. In that case, it would not force Shu Lord Wang Jian and Liang Guo
Falling out?
However, looking at Wang Yong and Wei Qun, their faces were both shocked and suspicious. They obviously didn't know who the visitor was, and he dared to attack their car and horse team on such an occasion.
"stop!"
Han Qian soon saw dozens of black cavalry, rolling out from the wide alleyway several feet wide like a huge black wave. Judging from their posture, it seemed that they would not hesitate to overturn the simple horse-repelling troops deployed in front of them.
formation, but with a gloomy shout, dozens of black-armored cavalry were seen stopping their momentum almost in the blink of an eye.
The war horses snorted and puffed white mist from their mouths and noses. The cavalrymen on the horses had their faces covered in black masks, making them even more murderous.
The Lord of Shu, Wang Jian, inherited the legacy of the former Shence Army and had a large number of cavalry under his command. However, dozens of black cavalry completed the transformation from galloping like thunder to as quiet as a virgin in an instant. It was obviously not something ordinary cavalry could do.
This step.
When Han Qian saw that the cavalry did not charge forward, he sat quietly in the carriage and looked at the leader through a gauze curtain. He was a handsome young man wearing a white robe and silver armor, who was no more than twenty-three or four years old.
, he saw him holding a dark halberd across his knees and looking at them with interest.
"Xiao Xian, what do you mean?" Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, opened the curtain, stood in front of the carriage, and stared at the young man in silver armor and asked.
Wang Xiaoxian?
"It turns out to be His Highness Marquis Wei. Han Qian was timid and reckless, and His Highness Wei Marquis laughed at him!" Han Qian also stepped out of the carriage at this time and faced Wei.
Hou Wang
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Xiaoxian bowed his hands in salute, and at the same time signaled Kong Xirong, Guo Que, and Xi Fa'er to gather their troops back.
After the Liang Kingdom occupied the Guanzhong area, Yong Wang Zhu Yu had been working hard for more than two years. The relationship between Shu and Liang had not yet broken down. However, in these years, the Shu Kingdom lived in southern and western Sichuan in order to consolidate its rule and resist the Jingnan Army, which was dominated by Western Qiang forces.
During the southern invasion, we experienced a lot of wars.
At the age of thirteen, he was granted the title of Marquis of Wei by the Lord of Shu, Wang Jian. Wang Xiaoxian, the fourth son of General Zhenqiang, although he was two or three years younger than the Marquis of Changxiang, he had been extremely brave since he was a child, and few people in Shu could defeat him.
He also likes to read military books. In recent years, he has led the 3,000-man Mansion Guards Heiyunqi compiled by Wang Jian, the Lord of Shu, to fight in the north and south, and has made many illustrious military exploits.
At this time, seeing Weihou Wang Xiaoxian standing out like a sharpened halberd, Han Qian smiled inwardly, secretly feeling that the rumors were true, but he did not know that on the first day they entered the capital of Shu, Weihou Wang Xiaoxian
We are about to give them a showdown. Is it the instruction of the Prince of Shu and the Marquis of Qingjiang, Wang Hongyi?
Wang Xiao first looked at Han Qian a few times, and then looked at the nearly a hundred Han family members who had retreated to both sides of the chariot and horse team. It was obvious that Han Qian and the members around him were not scared to death, which gave him some hope.
Han Qian compiled a new army of 300 soldiers. Although a considerable number of them were selected from the descendants of the slaves, the real backbone was still the torture soldiers. The village soldiers were mainly elites who were born as slaves of the Xi family.
Han Qian also knew that the mission to Shu this time would not be smooth sailing. Only a few of the tribes he brought were newly hired and had more potential to be trained. The others were almost all involved in the Jingxiang War and the reduction of vassals.
The elite veterans who followed Han Qian during the war.
Don't look at the hundreds of black cloud riders around Wei Hou who are extremely elite, but the troops around Han Qian are definitely not bad. Even in just a few dozen breaths, Xi Fa'er, Kong Xirong and others had already led six people to defeat them.
The bed crossbow is half assembled.
Wang Xiaoxian ignored Han Qian and Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong, and looked at Wei Qun, the minister of Honglu Temple: "Master Wei, it is true that Han Qian is a welcome envoy, but can they bring these sniper weapons into the city?
?”
Wei Qun looked with embarrassment at Bubu beside Han Qian, who was methodically dismantling six unassembled crossbows into parts and packing them into boxes.
As a rule, they allowed Han Qian to bring nearly a hundred well-armed guards into the city. It was considered an extremely courtesy. There was no way they would allow Han Qian to bring a heavy weapon like a bed crossbow into the city; but he had not seen the bed before.
The crossbow can be disassembled so easily and quickly, and it is so inconspicuously packed in a wooden box after disassembly that there is no deliberate reminder.
But then again, Marquis Wei did this inexplicably, and it seems that he shouldn't have the temperament to ask Han Qian to bring a bed and crossbow into the city privately?
"These six crossbows are a gift that His Highness King Tan specially ordered Han Qian to present to the Lord of Shu. If you don't bring them into the city, how can you present them to the Lord of Shu?" Han Qian asked with a smile, "If Marquis Wei feels like offering such a gift
, it’s disrespectful, I’ll ask someone to transport them out of the city.”
The bed crossbow, which weighs hundreds of kilograms, is extremely powerful. It may seem easy to disassemble it, but with the current strength of materials, especially the bow arm parts, it is extremely difficult to maintain sufficient tension on the bow arm after disassembly and assembly.
At the same time, heavy weapons such as bed crossbows are mostly equipped by elite soldiers and horses, so there is no need to hide them at ordinary times.
Therefore, when it came to manufacturing military armor and weapons, no one had thought of making a detachable crossbow.
And if the bed crossbow can be disassembled and assembled, it is not difficult for Weihou Wang Xiaoxian, who has several years of military career and led his troops to charge into battle, to imagine the many benefits of this detachable bed crossbow.
Of course, just six of today's detachable crossbows are nothing. After all, no matter how good the weapon is, it will be worn out after being used for many times.
"Except for these six bed crossbows, His Highness Prince Tan originally
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I also specially ordered Han Qian to present the drawings of the cyclone cannon," Han Qian said calmly, "Since Marquis Wei feels that these gifts are a bit abrupt for the Kingdom of Shu, Han Qian will remove them from the gift list..."
Not only the Liang Kingdom, but also the Ma family mastered the manufacturing technology of the cyclone cannon. In Han Qian's view, there was no need to keep the technology strictly confidential from the Shu Kingdom; and if they hoped that the Shu Kingdom could contain the Liang Army's offensive in Liangzhou, Hanzhong
, the Shu army is too weak.
Moreover, they wanted to exchange for some substantial benefits during this trip, but they couldn't come up with anything shocking enough. They just secretly bribed the Shu ministers, which would be completely underestimating the Lord of Shu, Wang Jian.
At this moment, Weihou Wang Xiaoxian's handsome face became a little stiff.
Although he did not personally visit the Jingxiang battlefield, he still knew that Chutan King Yang Yuanpu assisted Han Qian in defending Xichuan City, causing Liang Yong King to lose his troops and return without success, and that the Xichuan Battle played a decisive role in the entire Jingxiang War.
of.
The whirlwind cannon came out during the bloody battle of Xichuan. It was built by the Chu army craftsman battalion led by Han Qian at that time, and played an extremely important role in the city defense battle.
"Epidemic Water Shuttle" written by Han Daoxun, the governor of Xuzhou, has also been circulated in recent years, and the outside world has more reasons to speculate that the whirlwind cannon was most likely created by Han Daoxun. Han Qian was able to perform extraordinary feats repeatedly because of his family background.
Although Wang Jian, the Lord of Shu, also ordered some officials to imitate the cyclone cannon and other war weapons, the Shu craftsmen had never seen the actual cyclone cannon. How could they imitate it based on only a few rumors about the cyclone cannon?
At this time, Weihou Wang Xiaoxian refused to say that the cyclone cannon was useless to Shu, so how could he pursue Han Qian's case of bringing a bed crossbow into the city?
Of course, Wang Xiaoxian couldn't bow his head to Han Qian. He just snorted coldly, turned his horse's head, and disappeared from the alley without saying a word. With the hundreds of black riders receding like a tide, it was as if the episode just now had never happened.
Similar.
"The fourth child is fooling around in the street, has a surly temper, and disturbs the envoys. I will definitely read a copy of his book when I see my father. Please don't pay attention to it, Mr. Han!" Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, said apologetically, his eyes pretending to be there.
The box with the crossbow parts was spinning around. I never expected that the third prince Yang Yuanpu would agree to donate the manufacturing technology of the cyclone cannon to the Shu Kingdom as a betrothal gift.
"How do I have the right to care? The so-called withdrawal of the cyclone cannon pattern from the gift list is just a casual saying, and it cannot scare Marquis Wei at all. But if Han said that the whirlwind cannon pattern was obtained by the Marquis after he fought hard with His Highness.
"Would it make Marquis Wei feel a little unhappy?" Han Qian smiled slightly and asked Wang Yong, Marquis of Changxiang.
As a wedding envoy, his main goal during this trip was to smoothly marry Princess Qingyang back so that the Chu-Shu cooperation talks could deepen.
Otherwise, it would be a sign of his incompetence, and it would be difficult to explain the past no matter how he returned to Dachu.
Therefore, no matter how much he wants to control his temper, the scale is quite limited. More often, he has to take advantage of the contradictions among the Shu generals and the Shu rulers.
However, the Marquis of Changxiang, Wang Yong, knew that Han Qian had bad intentions, but when he heard what he said, he couldn't help but feel a little excited.
His mother and concubine died young, and although Qingyang was favored as before, he left the palace early and went to his home. He didn't see his father a few times every year, so his emotions naturally became weak.
On the one hand, he had no support from his mother's family, and on the other hand, he was wary of the suspicion of Marquis Qingjiang. In addition to focusing on poetry and Buddhism, he had not made any achievements in military and political affairs, so he became increasingly disliked by his father.
He knew that his father attached great importance to the Chu army's performance in the Jingxiang War, and had been guarding against the possibility that Liang Jun would attack Shu when he was ready. If he really wanted to take credit for obtaining the whirlwind cannon pattern, he would
It can change his father's view of him to a certain extent.
Of course, if he takes the bait easily, he will probably be looked down upon, right?
