Super Emperor of the Late Qing Dynasty

Chapter 248: The Emperor Is Soft

You can search for the latest chapters in Baidu for "Super Emperors Search Novels of the Late Qing Dynasty (www.soxscc.com)"!As the shelling continued, powerful shells fell from the sky, exploding gorgeous fireworks in various places in the eastern capital, and then turned into fireworks, which turned into fire dragons, and fire dragons became one piece.

Immediately the whole East was in a mess.There were scattered crowds everywhere, firefighters pushing water trucks, and army and people joining the fire fighting team.

but.Everything is in vain.The fire continued to spread.

Commercial streets, houses, residences of noble officials, and even temples, mountains, forests, and wooden houses of neon people have become the best fuel to help the fire spread.The houses are still a little better, and the fire in the connected houses in the city center is getting more and more prosperous due to the southeast wind.

After a round of shelling, the Neon Man waited for a few minutes and thought it was all right, and started to focus on putting out the fire.

There was another roaring sound from the sky.

The fire can no longer be controlled, and people have to start clearing the isolation zone to prevent the fire from spreading, but the cannonballs roaring through the sky from time to time make people fearful...

This is not the age of steel-reinforced concrete construction of later generations, and the fire-fighting facilities are not as complete as later generations. It is an era when even a kitchen fire can burn half a street.

The shelling lasted for two full hours; this time the Great Qing ship fired a total of fifty volleys, 500 rounds of shells. Although there was a pause in the middle to cool down the barrels, the barrels were all red at the end of the shot, as if to Melting is normal. Such high-intensity shelling will actually greatly shorten the service life of the barrel, but it is no longer so important.

Five hundred shells really fell into the Eastern Capital.There are only more than 300 pieces.And the ones that really hurt people or caused fires were more than one hundred.

However, these more than one hundred pieces are enough, and the fire they have caused has spread to a small half of the capital.

When the first shell fell five miles around the imperial palace, Emperor Meiji was taking a bath. He was shocked and he understood that he came out after he put on his clothes in a hurry. Although the clothes are still neat, but The hair did not have time to dry.

"What the hell is going on? Is there a traitor or the Qing people calling?"

Emperor Meiji asked anxiously, in fact, he hopes the former is more in his heart.

But the panicked attendant in the palace didn't know how to answer him.

Fifteen minutes later, the Secretary of the Army, Shanxian Youyou hurriedly arrived.

"Your Majesty, most of the eastern capital has been shelled, causing dozens of fires, and we are now fully extinguishing the fire."

When Yutomo in Yama Prefecture looked at the emperor's face, he knew that the emperor was on the verge of breaking out.

"Are the guns from the Qing Dynasty? Did they attack Dongduwan? The navy's truth failed?"

Emperor Meiji bit out one by one.

"According to the news from the Navy, the Qing Navy did not appear in Dongduwan. We are investigating the situation and will give you an explanation soon."

"Although the density of shelling is not high, it seems that there are only super large caliber incendiary bombs, but the loss is very large."

Youpeng Shanxian finally told the truth.

"Then hurry up and investigate! The capital was attacked but I don't know where the enemy is, what do you soldiers do!" 180 novel www.xs180.com

Emperor Meiji sighed, wondering whether he should be lucky or helpless.

The fire is still spreading, spreading faster than people can imagine, nostalgic for one’s own finances, slower pace will be swallowed by the fire, crying, screaming, the entire southwestern part of the eastern capital is a relatively concentrated area of ​​shells, it seems to be It's like falling into hell.

However, the Qing Navy still fired too few shells. With the efforts of firefighters, the army, and the people, after about five hours of hard work, the fire was finally extinguished.

In the urban area of ​​the southwestern part of the Eastern Capital, almost two or three kilometers of shells have been completely destroyed in the area where shells are relatively concentrated. Tens of thousands of people have been killed by shells or swallowed by fires. There are more injured and countless property losses. .

For the Neon people, it was an unforgivable thing that he was shelled and killed and injured tens of thousands of people, and he could not do anything at all.

In the early morning of the next day, when people finally put out the fire and barely settled down for hundreds of thousands of homeless people, they thought they could put everything down and take a good rest and wait for the sun to rise that day.

The sharp whistling sound sounded again, and shells fell from the sky again, this time the Qing ship slightly adjusted its position.With the sound of a huge explosion, the fire continued to spread...

The shelling continued, and the high-level leaders of Maoqiuri Neon had gathered together again.

Emperor Meiji called all the elders together, and held the fourth imperial meeting of the year in the early morning.

"Your Majesty, it has been found out. Yesterday, Kamakura was destroyed by the Qing people. It was there that they fired to the east."

Xixiang Congdao first stood up and said.

"Kamakura? Everywhere is 20 kilometers away from the east. Can the Qing people's artillery hit that far?"

Emperor Meiji looked unbelievable.

"Your Majesty! According to the information disclosed by the Geely Ambassador, the range of their 42x 305 main guns mounted on the Dreadnought has reached a range of over 20 kilometers."

"This Daqing also has a battleship of the same level, which explains it from one aspect! Why the falling shells are always sparse."

Xixiang Congdao explained.

"Can the navy go to war? Solve this crisis!"

Emperor Meiji asked.

"Your Majesty's navy's torpedo boats are willing to die, but without the torpedo boats, our waterways will not be kept. At that time, their fleet will all rush into Dongdu Bay, and Dongdu will directly become ruins."

Xixiang Congdao gritted his teeth and said.

"Make peace! Let Ito Hirobumi agree to his terms. It doesn't make sense to stick to it!"

Emperor Meiji said sadly.

Dongdu is under attack, they have no resistance at all, and the domestic economy has reached a point where it can no longer persist. If there are more rounds of shelling...