All the ministers looked over when they heard the sound, even Lao Lin opened his eyes, full of curiosity.
If the Taoyuan gangster is caught, should I help him to plead for him and persuade him to hand over the secrets to the court to atone for his crime?
After following Liu Mang for a few months, Lao Lin was very curious about how many strange things he could come up with.
He is not as easy to fool as those ruffians. Everyone in Taoyuan County thinks that Liu Mang is the one sent by the gods to save them, but Lao Lin doesn't think so. Liu Mang must have a force supporting him. Whether it is Fuyan Society or something else, Lao Lin doesn't know.
The empress gestured to Wei Wuji.
Wei Wu understood everything, walked down to take the report, and was about to show it to the empress.
"Come and read it to me and the ministers."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Wei Wuji shook his sleeves, opened the memorial and began to read.
"Your Majesty, your servant Li Heng, is ashamed of his actions and of the Great Yan."
After reading the first paragraph, Wei Wuji was already horrified. He looked at the empress, not knowing whether he should continue reading.
The empress and her ministers also felt something was wrong. If it was a victory report, it shouldn't start like this.
"Keep reading!" The empress looked cold.
"Your Majesty, this..."
Before Wei Wuji could finish, the empress glared at him and said, "Read it!"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"The other day I sent Deputy Commander Song with 50,000 troops to recapture Taoyuan City. However, Taoyuan sent out 10,000 soldiers armed with firearms, which were very powerful..."
When Wei Wuji finished reading the report tremblingly, he was already sweating profusely.
The whole audience was silent, and all the ministers had their mouths open in shock.
The empress's full chest rose and fell rapidly. "So, my Great Yan's 300,000 Western Route Army is gone?"
"An entire army of 300,000 was defeated by 10,000 bandits, leaving them in disarray and suffering countless casualties?"
"What's ridiculous is that hundreds of thousands of troops were captured by more than 10,000 people and forced to dig trenches to surround Jinzhou?"
The empress finally couldn't bear it anymore. The Emperor Wu's aura continued to emanate from his body, and all the ministers were almost suffocating.
"Waste, all of them are a bunch of waste!"
The empress cried out, and the table in front of her instantly turned to dust. Even Wei Wuji was affected by the energy and was instantly thrown to the side. He finally managed to recover himself, but his throat felt sweet and blood oozed from the corner of his mouth.
"Your Majesty, calm down."
The ministers knelt down, and although they were almost breathless under the pressure of the empress's momentum, they still spoke out to comfort her.
"Calm down? Three hundred thousand elite soldiers were defeated by a mere bandit army of less than ten thousand. Even three hundred thousand pigs can crush ten thousand people to death." The empress laughed angrily.
The Minister of Military Affairs looked at Song Yuan fiercely, hoping that he could come up with an idea to calm the emperor's anger.
But when Song Yuan heard that Song Shaohong had been captured, he was stunned. Even the empress knelt down subconsciously after she got angry.
The Minister of War could only grit his teeth and say, "Your Majesty, it has already happened. Let's first find out what firearms are mentioned in the report."
"Also, now that Jinzhou is trapped, how can we rescue him?"
Upon hearing this, the empress took a deep breath and secretly suppressed the aura of the Martial Emperor.
Then he looked at Lin Zhengye with a cold look, because Lin Zhengye had mentioned that the firearms of the Taoyuan thieves were sharp when he objected.
"Lord Lin, do you have anything to say?"
When Lao Lin was looked at by the empress's cold eyes, he broke out in cold sweat. He suddenly missed the comfortable time in Taoyuan County. There was a certain gangster who was heartless and didn't care about anything all day long. He was also easy to get along with. If there was something he couldn't solve, he could always go to him and it would be easily solved.
"Your Majesty, when I was in Taoyuan County, that rogue thief did practice with those firearms."
"Hmm? Then tell me about it."
Lao Lin had no choice but to tell them everything he knew.
"These firearms are muskets and cannons."
"One is what they call a five-six semi-automatic musket. It's standard issue for every soldier. Each time the trigger is pulled, it fires a pellet. It can kill a target eight hundred meters away. After every ten shots, the pellet needs to be reloaded, but it only takes a few seconds."
Crash! Lao Lin had just finished introducing the infantry's weapons when the ministers present were shocked and started discussing.
"This... there is actually such a weapon."
"Yeah! What should I do?"
......
"quiet!"
The empress shouted, and the whole audience immediately quieted down. She then looked at Lao Lin and motioned him to continue.
"continue!"
"Another type of firearm is the A-Mother 42 fully automatic firearm, which can fire iron balls continuously. I heard from that gangster thief that this firearm can fire 1,200 iron balls per minute."
Without any reaction from the stunned ministers, Lao Lin continued to introduce the artillery.
"As for the artillery! I haven't seen it up close, but I have seen them practice shooting. An iron pipe makes a sound like thunder, and then it fires a large projectile that explodes after hitting the ground. I can't say how powerful it is, some are big, some are small, but it can be shot quite far, at least two or three miles."
"The last time I advised Your Majesty, I mentioned that there was a case in Taoyuan County where over 20,000 bandits were defeated by just over a hundred Taoyuan guards."
Huh! The empress took a deep breath.
Indeed, last time when dealing with Taoyuan County, Lin Zhengye tried his best to prevent the use of force, but no one listened. According to Lao Lin's plan, he wanted to find a way to appease Liu Mang.
Because Lao Lin could see that the gangster was a lazy bum who was only interested in beautiful women. He didn't even bother to take care of a county, let alone a huge empire. If the empress was willing to give him the Peach Blossom Land, there probably wouldn't be so many problems.
However, Song Yuan and his ministers were very tough, saying that it was a matter of reputation for the court and that all the things must be taken back. Now, not only did they fail to get them back, but they also lost face.
However, Lao Lin did not expect that this bastard was so reckless. People sent 50,000 people to fight against him, but he not only defeated them, but also destroyed their lair.
Sigh! I think it's better not to arrange my daughter's marriage. Otherwise, I'm really afraid that if he finds out, he'll bring hundreds of thousands of people to Kyoto to fight. That would be a big deal. I'd better be a little timid.
Now Lao Lin has learned to hide. If he had a bad temper before, he would definitely fight to the end with that gangster.
The empress didn't know what to do now. Sending more troops probably wouldn't work. If they could defeat your 300,000 with only 10,000 men, how many could she send? 500,000? Or 1 million? If that were the case, she didn't know if she could eliminate the Taoyuan thieves, but Da Yan would definitely collapse.
"What do you think, my dear ministers?" The empress threw the question to the ministers.
But the whole place was silent, and no one spoke. This made the empress so angry that she clenched her fists. She was afraid that she would not be able to help but slap these useless people to death.
In reality, Qin Youlian didn't like these ministers at all, but she couldn't do without them. As there was no other way, she had to ask the current Imperial Master, her master, to assassinate the Peach Blossom Land villain.
Helplessly, she looked at Lao Lin again. Although she still didn't trust Lao Lin very much, she still wanted to hear Lao Lin's thoughts.
"Lord Lin, what do you think?"
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