"Mr. Concubine, if you don't go to entertain guests, what are you doing here?" Zhao Jinnu asked her husband with a smile.

"Isn't this the fifth sister here? I want to ask her about the situation in the palace."

"Which brother-in-law wants to ask? Do you want to ask my elder brother?" Zhao Fujin also asked with a smile.

Cao Sheng sighed, "You know, I just want to ask about the third brother's situation."

The third brother is Zhao Kai, who was placed under house arrest by Zhao Huan in a cold palace. If Zhao Huan felt that the throne was unstable, he might be the first person to kill him. Cao Sheng and Zhao Kai had a deep friendship, so he of course worried about Zhao Kai's safety.

Zhao Fujin Yanran smiled and said, "I don't know the situation of the third brother. I will go back and ask for you in just two days."

Cao Sheng looked at his wife again, and when he saw his wife nodding, he stood up and thanked, "Then I'll trouble my third sister."

At this time, Zhao Jinnu asked with great concern: "Mr. Concubine, what's going on outside? I heard that the Jin soldiers are coming in full force this time. Can the capital be preserved?"

"Don't worry! We can definitely save it. We are also actively responding. I will arrange defense with Yanqing this morning."

Zhao Jinnu frowned, "You just trust him so much?"

"Second sister!"

Zhao Fujin next to him couldn't help but interrupt, "This is not a question of whether my brother-in-law believes it or not. If even Li Shaobao can't protect the capital, then there will be no hope for other people. Have you forgotten the hundreds of thousands of people in the capital to keep him?"

"Okay! Okay! I can't afford to offend your aunt, I just asked casually, "Mr. Concubine, go and entertain guests!"

Cao Sheng glanced at Zhao Fujin, turned around and left quickly.

At this time, Zhao Jinnu sighed softly, slowly drank tea, and his mood became obviously deeper.

"Is the second sister worried about the capital?" Zhao Jinfu was extremely smart and suddenly guessed the reason why his second sister was in a low mood.

"How could it be that you're not worried?"

Zhao Jinnu shook his head with a sad expression, "I heard that the Song army was defeated miserably, and the 200,000 troops were destroyed, and there were only 50,000 troops left in the city. Once the Jin soldiers attacked the city, what should we do?"

Zhao Fujin also lowered her head. This was also the thing she feared the most. She just pressed her heart and didn't dare to say it. She knew very well what it meant to these princesses once the Jin soldiers captured the city.

She suddenly stood up and said, "Second sister, I'm not feeling well, I want to take a rest."

Without waiting for Zhao Jinnu to ask more questions, she turned around and walked quickly towards her room. Zhao Jinnu stared at her sister's suddenly turned pale face. She seemed to have thought of something and sighed softly again.

After leaving the Prince-Consort's Mansion, Li Yanqing, accompanied by Cao Sheng and Pan Yue, walked up to the southern wall of the inner city. Although Li Yanqing passed through the inner city every day, he had never carefully studied the defense situation of the inner city.

However, with Li Yanqing's experience of many battles, he also knew that the tall and sturdy inner city was no worse than the outer city, and even stronger than the outer city. The inner city was actually the original wall of Tokyo City. It was built on the back beam. It has been repaired and improved for more than two hundred years. The inner city itself is already extremely strong.

However, there are also weaknesses, that is, after Tokyo expanded its city, the outer city wall was built, and the defense function of the inner city wall gradually weakened. Now it will take some time to re-pick up the defense function.

"General Pan, your army is still responsible for defending the East City, and you don't have to worry about other places."

"But it's not possible to use 5,000 troops to defend this section of the city wall." Pan Yue especially

Li Yanqing shook his head and said to Pan Yue extremely seriously: "That's because you don't have enough experience. If you want to defend the East City, it's far from enough to rely on five thousand people alone. You need at least two army of five thousand people and ten thousand civilians to support the logistics, which means you need 20,000 people. As for how many people can survive in the end, half or even fewer, I don't know."

Pan Yue was silent for a while and nodded slowly, "I understand."

Li Yanqing felt the pressure Pan Yue was under, but without pressure, there would be no achievements. Li Yanqing did not continue talking, but instead changed the topic and asked with a smile: "General Pan, let's talk about the specific situation in the inner city! I found that the head of the east city seems to be a little narrower than the head of the north and south city. What is the reason?"

After completing the research on the defense of the inner city, Li Yanqing rushed to the Firearms Bureau Workshop. The Firearms Bureau Workshop is located in the northwest corner of the outer city. It is a wasteland. It was transformed from a City God Temple. It is mainly responsible for the assembly and manufacturing of the Shishi thunder and iron fire thunder. The person in charge here is He Fang, the military weapon supervisor.

Because the Firearms Bureau created the Shinstorm Thunder, it is currently a very special department. It is nominally a military weapon supervisor, but in fact it is directly managed by the emperor. This is also Zhao Huan's selfish intention. He also knows the power of Shinstorm Thunder and wants to hold it firmly in his own hands.

However, things are both sides. When Zhao Huan was ambitious and desireful, He Fang had to write memorials almost every day to report it. However, now Zhao Huan was frightened by the cruelty of the Jin soldiers massacred more than 100,000 Song troops, and threw power to Zhizheng Hall. He locked himself in the palace like an ostrich burying his head in the soil and waiting for the result of the negotiations. No one inquired about the Firearms Bureau.

Li Yanqing and more than a dozen personal soldiers rushed to the Firearms Bureau on horseback. The soldiers standing guard at the door knew him and immediately saluted him. Li Yanqing waved his hand and asked, "Who is there?"

"Shaojian He is inside!"

Li Yanqing turned over and dismounted and walked quickly into the workshop. When he happened to meet He Fang coming towards him, He Fang hurriedly saluted and said, "I am not good at judging him, please see Li Shaobao!"

The Firearms Bureau Workshop is also the department that Li Yanqing valued the most. He Fang was promoted when he was appointed as the governor. Zhao Huan also considered finding an excuse to replace He Fang. Before he could find a suitable candidate, the Jin soldiers came and the matter was delayed.

Li Yanqing asked with a smile: "Shaojian He knows I'm coming?"

"I guess the young security guard should come here today or tomorrow."

"Sister He Shaojian is indeed a smart person. Okay, there is not much time. Let me tell me about the inventory of the Thunder."

Seeing that He Fang was a little hesitant, Li Yanqing frowned, "Why, there is no inventory?"

"Not that!"

He Fang quickly explained: "It's a humble position and there is another important thing to report to Li Shaobao. We have developed a new firearm."

Li Yanqing waved his hand, "Things are said one by one, let's talk about the inventory of the thunder first. This is the most important thing for me."

"Li Shaobao follows me!"

He Fang took Li Yanqing to the side alley to the warehouse behind. The warehouse covers an area of ​​ten acres and is made of large bluestone. Even if a thunderclap explodes, it will be safe and sound.

When he walked to the front door, He Fang bowed and smiled: "Flint is strictly prohibited in the warehouse. If the Shaobao knows this rule, I will not be troubled."

Li Yanqing nodded, "It's okay, I don't have flint on me."

He then winked at several subordinates, and the soldiers were all left outside. He Fang opened the iron door and waved his hand, "Please please, Young Guardian!"

Li Yanqing walked into the firearm warehouse. The light in the warehouse was very dark, and only two air windows were emitting a little light. In just a moment, Li Yanqing's eyes adapted to the light in the warehouse. He saw rows of iron racks erected in the warehouse, about a hundred rows, and black thunders were neatly placed on the iron racks.

"Your High School Guarantee, there are three such warehouses, each warehouse has 120 rows of iron racks. This warehouse is specially placed on the sky-shaking thunder. Currently, there are 30 sky-shaking thunders on each row of iron racks, a total of about 3,500. This morning, Mr. He asked me to transfer all the sky-shaking thunders to the outer city."

Li Yanqing frowned, "Is there no thunder in the outer city?"

"Of course there are three thousand thunders, but Xianggong He said it was not enough. We must transport all the thunders."

Li Yanqing immediately shook his head, "Three thousand thunders are enough, let it all be left for the inner city!"

"I understand. Originally, the official's handwriting required to be transferred from the official family. I told him this in the morning."

Li Yanqing nodded with a smile, walked around the warehouse, then walked back to the door and asked, "What is it that you said you had invented a new firearm?"

He Fang hurriedly smiled and said, "It was made by the craftsmen, specifically targeting the siege ladders."

Li Yanqing was immediately overjoyed, "Where is it? Let me see."

"It's next door!"

Li Yanqing followed him to the warehouse next door. The warehouse was arranged exactly the same as the one next door, except that most of the iron racks were empty, and only two rows of iron racks had items on them.

He Fang walked forward, took a firearm on the shelf and handed it to Li Yanqing, "It's this thing, please see it, Shaobao, please see!"

Li Yanqing took this new firearm, and it was actually a slender iron chain and tied two small thunders, one of which was tied to one. The so-called small thunder is actually an iron fire thunder that had been removed.

"We call it Flying Fire Thunder, throw it out or shoot it out, and it will wrap around the ladder and will quickly blow the ladder off in an instant, with a very significant effect!"

Li Yanqing was immediately surprised and happy. The wisdom of the working people was indeed infinite, and he actually invented this kind of weapon to defend the city.

He asked quickly, "Do you want to test now?"

"It's totally OK, please don't keep it with me."
Chapter completed!