Chapter 979: 980 Meet the Emperor
Chapter 979 980 Meeting with the Emperor
When Li Mingshun arrived at the palace, it was already much calmer. There were guards standing guard near the collapsed courtyard wall, and there were people at the gate waiting for Li Mingshun's arrival.
“General, your majesty is very angry and unstable. You must be careful what you say when you meet.” A waiter reminded Li Mingshun as he led him to where Zhao Kai was.
Li Mingshun looked ugly and walked step by step. He knew that he had messed up things again this time, and there was a high probability that he would have to bear the wrath of His Majesty the Emperor soon.
But he was indeed unjust, because he really tried his best. The air defense posts everywhere did not sound the alarm, and no one even saw any aircraft or other aircraft.
What do you think he should do in this situation? The Imperial Capital of the Great China Empire has more than 100 fighter jets responsible for air defense. Since Zhao Yu fled to Fengjiang, the alert level has been increased. However, most of these aircraft do not know how to intercept them, and the palace suffered.
As the commander of the air defense force, Li Mingshun must rush over to meet Zhao Kai as soon as possible, but in fact no one knows whether such attacks will continue.
The air raid sirens have been sounding all the time, and we don’t know when they will stop. Many people in the imperial capital have fled out of the city, and the rest can only be in fear.
The power of the two cloud bombs was really terrifying. Even 400 meters away from the center of the explosion, the walls collapsed due to the vibration.
The wall of the prime minister's residence was like this. It was destroyed in the shock. The prime minister was also frightened when he heard that he was bedridden until now.
Seemingly concerned about the safety of His Majesty the Emperor, the Prime Minister sent his two sons into the palace to visit, but they did not see Zhao Kai.
The fuel of the cloud bomb was ignited and burned everything near the center of the explosion, leaving no one alive within 200 meters.
Those who were directly shocked to death were the lucky ones, and a large number of corpses were burned to a pitch black color. People in the buildings were suffocated to death due to lack of oxygen. The two destroyed places were simply a purgatory on earth.
The people who went to deal with these corpses were vomiting non-stop. Because it involved the palace, they did not dare to mobilize foreign troops to handle the operation. Therefore, many palace servants were forced to carry the corpses, which made them extremely painful when they were usually pampered. .
However, living is ultimately better than dying. They looked at the companions they knew lying in the building without any injuries, feeling both thankful and terrified.
Seriously, who knows whether the weapons used by the other party will explode... They found some fragments at the scene that were not palace objects, some even as big as an arm.
Those are the partial shell remains of the missile. They were collected and placed on a piece of white satin on one side. On the other side were corpses, hundreds of corpses.
Under the guidance of the waiter, Li Mingshun came to the entrance of an underground bunker in the Imperial Palace of the Dahua Empire. The place was filled with guards and maids with different expressions, and the gathering of whispering voices made the place seem extremely noisy.
Several palace guard captains who were smoking saw Li Mingshun and immediately threw away their cigarette butts and stood at attention to salute. Li Mingshun was not in the mood to talk to them, so he walked down the steps directly.
The lights hanging on the wall were extremely dim, and the steps under my feet went all the way down, until they leveled off more than ten meters underground.
In fact, this underground bunker is not qualified. Its depth is obviously not enough. However, a large amount of reinforced concrete was used during its construction, so it must be very strong.
Unfortunately, if there really is a cloud bomb, or a powerful ground-penetrating bomb hits here directly, it is estimated that the people hiding inside will not be spared.
This is a corridor that is not very spacious, still full of all kinds of people, including officers of the Imperial Guard, nervous-looking court officials, and a few imperial doctors talking in the corner.
“General Li Mingshun is here!” The waiter at the door at the end of the corridor immediately sang loudly after seeing Li Mingshun. Then he opened the door and let Li Mingshun walk in.
When Li Mingshun saw Zhao Kai, Zhao Kai had already changed his clothes. Although he had cleaned up, the situation was still miserable.
His head was injured, so it was wrapped with a bandage. His shoulder was actually injured, so half of his upper body was naked, and the other half was also bandaged.
The most conspicuous thing was his leg. The royal doctor and the best doctor he could find in the city helped him reconnect the broken bones. At this moment, the leg was already covered with a plaster.
This is really thanks to the medical contribution of the Datang Empire. With the increasing number of graduates from the Medical College of the Tang Empire, the technological progress in medical technology around the world is obvious to all.
In the past, Zhao Kai's injuries might have led to direct death from tetanus or infection. Even the broken leg might have killed Zhao Kai.
But now, at least in the Imperial Capital of China, there are still a few capable people who have studied modern medicine and can help Zhao Kai treat his wounds.
"Your Majesty!" Li Mingshun didn't know what to say. As soon as he saw him, he knelt down and prostrated himself in front of Zhao Kai's bed.
Originally, he only heard that Zhao Kai was injured on the road, but he did not expect that Zhao Kai's condition was worse than he had previously estimated. So he blamed himself deeply, and there were already tears in his eyes: "I am incompetent! I deserve death for my crime!"
Unexpectedly, Zhao Kai did not blame him, or at this moment, Zhao Kai no longer had the extra experience to scold Li Mingshun. He just said softly: "Step back, I'm tired and need to rest."
Li Mingshun wanted to say something else, but when he saw Zhao Kai lying on the bed, he could only lower his head and remain silent, stood up and left.
Back in the corridor, Li Mingshun had time to look at the crowd around him. He recognized Shen Chuan, the minister of the Ministry of War, and several other ministers.
"How is your majesty?" Seeing Li Mingshun coming out, someone came up and asked. Li Mingshun said that your majesty was in pretty good condition, so he sent him away and walked to several ministers.
"How are you, Prime Minister?" Li Mingshun asked as he looked at Chu Muzhou's eldest son. Chu Muzhou's eldest son immediately replied: "My father was frightened, his body was hot, and he couldn't move. He had to ask me and me to come and pay his respects to His Majesty."
“Thank you for your hard work, you two.” After Li Mingshun said to Chu Muzhou’s two sons, he looked at Jiang Run who was standing aside.
"Is the ambassador of the Tang Empire...still in the city?" Li Mingshun asked, not knowing what he was thinking.
Jiang Run glanced at Li Mingshun and immediately briefly explained the situation: "The other party is still in the city...and someone deliberately submitted a statement to us. They have only sold two missiles so far. If we persist in our obsession, they will report it to us." Toyoji sells more similar weapons.”
“Missiles?” Li Mingshun looked confused when he heard a new word. He didn't know what a missile was, or even what the word "missile" meant - maybe he could guess the word "bullet", but he really couldn't guess the word "target".
However, when Li Mingshun heard that the Tang Empire only sold two such bombs, he was somewhat relieved.
If there are a large number of such missiles, it will really be a fatal thing. They don't know when to dodge, because the next time they attack, the other party may not be so kind and notify Dahua in advance.
Jiang Run nodded and said again what he had just explained to Shen Chuan: "Yes, they call the new weapon a missile. It is not a bomber, but an ultra-long-range attack weapon that cannot be intercepted."
“Could it be a bluff?” Li Mingshun asked again subconsciously.
"Witnesses saw the falling shadow. It was not an ordinary bomb, it was much faster than a bomb... Moreover, when those two things fell, there was no plane in the sky. Using the intelligence analysis we know now, That thing is indeed impossible to intercept," Shen Chuan said with an ugly expression.
He is really about to "leave his name in history". He is almost the first Minister of War to have the imperial capital attacked in hundreds of years.
Moreover, in the future, it is unknown how many such "missiles" will fall, and it will make him even more embarrassed if they fall in the imperial capital.
“Witnesses? Are there many?” Li Mingshun was stunned after hearing this, and then asked immediately. He felt that if there were many witnesses, there might be some other clues.
As Minister of War, Shen Chuan received some reports when he came: "At least tens of thousands of people saw it... At that time, many people crowded near the city gate. Some people exclaimed, and everyone looked up and saw the falling black shadow. "
However, he didn’t know much information. Ordinary people only heard the explosion, and then saw the fire, and the falling black shadow trailing the flames.
Many people have seen these things, so the testimonies are surprisingly consistent. But the problem is that such testimony can only prove that the thing fell from the sky, and has no other intelligence help.
Li Mingshun confirmed again: "In other words, we really have no way to defend ourselves against this weapon?"
"That's what the ambassador of the Tang Empire said." Jiang Runshangshu believed the statement from the Tang Empire - at least until now, the Tang Empire is still very honest when advertising its weapons...
Li Mingshun gritted his teeth, stared at Jiang Run and asked, "Isn't he afraid of death?"
Now he really wants to catch all the **** related to the Tang Empire and execute them to calm the people and repay the emperor's favor.
Jiang Run naturally knew that the person he was asking was an envoy from the Tang Empire, so he could only comfort him with words: "He is protected by law, general. If we attack him rashly, the Tang Empire may not be polite to us." "
Hearing what Jiang Run said, Li Mingshun immediately sneered twice: "They are no longer polite to us."
(End of this chapter)