"Hold on, Your Majesty!" After getting off the city wall, Ren Baqian trotted into the city magistrate's mansion and stroked his spear, and left the city magistrate's mansion with another box in his hand, letting the guards carry it back to the city wall.
The empress and Li Qianqiu waited under the guard of a team of flying cavalry, seeing the guards behind Ren Baqian carrying a box, they all guessed in their hearts what was in the box.
Ren Baqian asked the guards to open the box, revealing rows of black round tubes inside.
Not big, but the length of a palm, about an inch in diameter.
"Fufu Chief Ren, what is this?" Li Qianqiu asked curiously while picking up one and fiddling with it in his hand.
"Dynamite!" Ren Baqian chuckled.
This batch of explosives was obtained from the place where he bought guns on the earth. It is divided into two layers, inside and outside. The middle is 300 grams of TNT explosives, and the outside is gunpowder. It is ignited with fire, and the TNT is detonated when the gunpowder explodes.
Originally, this thing was going to be used for mining, and a total of 300 were prepared, and this box was half of it. It turned out to be useless at all, so I brought it with me when I came out of Lancheng this time, and it happened to be useful at this time.
"Dynamite?" Li Qianqiu was a little puzzled.
The empress did know a little bit about what some explosives were, but she didn't know how to use them either.
"You'll know in a while." After Ren Baqian finished speaking, everyone went up to the city wall again.
Ren Baqian squatted there and tied the explosives to a few long arrows, and cut off the lead wire behind the explosives, then raised his head and said to Li Qianqiu: "Master Li, I will trouble you to find someone to shoot this at the other side later. Under the catapult.
"I'm coming!" Li Qianqiu said without hesitation.
In fact, the distance of 200 meters is almost the same for these ancient soldiers who grew up hunting in the mountains, not to mention that everyone can do it.
But he also wanted to see what Ren Baqian made.
Ren Baqian prepared a total of twenty-two catapults, and the enemy's catapults scattered around Liaocheng only had twenty.
After getting ready, Ren Baqian handed the bow and arrow to Li Qianqiu, before he could speak, the bone arrow turned into a white thread and hit a catapult with a sharp sound of piercing through the air.
Ren Baqian: ...
Li Qianqiu looked expectant, and asked after ten seconds: "Why is there no response?"
"I haven't lit the fire yet..." Ren Baqian said speechlessly.
"Forget, forget!" Li Qianqiu laughed, and after laughing, he picked up a bone arrow and put it on the bow again.
Ren Baqian asked someone to fetch a lit stick to ignite the fuse, and hurriedly said: "Okay, let it go!"
The lead wire was still ten centimeters long, so it should be fine for more than ten seconds, but he was afraid that something might go wrong with the lead wire, if it was a quick shooter, it would be bad luck.
Following his words, Li Qianqiu let go of his fingers, and the bone arrow hit the catapult directly at a distance of 200 meters with a sharp piercing sound.
Then Li Qianqiu cast a searching look at Ren Baqian.
"Wait!" Ren Baqian looked in that direction with a telescope, but at this moment he couldn't see whether the fuse was still burning.
However, it didn't take long before there was a loud "boom" in the Daxia army. With the sudden burst of flames, the trebuchet turned into pieces and flew around in an instant, hitting the iron shield in front of the army formation. Make a crashing sound.
And the few soldiers who were loading bombs around the trebuchet were directly blown away by the airflow of the explosion, and the two closest ones had only some broken corpses falling everywhere.
"Boom!" Just as the Daxia Army was taken aback by this sudden change, another explosion occurred in the Daxia Army's formation. This time, the unignited explosive tube was blown into the Daxia army formation and exploded again. At least the soldiers around a dozen meters away were blown away by the explosion, and the soldiers within a radius of five meters were directly blown to pieces.
"Good stuff!" Li Qianqiu exclaimed with great joy when he saw this scene on the city wall.
"Save this box and use it to deal with their siege equipment. Without the siege equipment, they must be unable to do other things except siege.
Consuming here, the food they need to consume is not a fraction. "Ren Baqian exhorted, he was afraid that Li Qianqiu would squander at will.
"With this thing, no matter how many people they come this time, they can only watch from below." Li Qianqiu laughed and patted Ren Baqian on the shoulder.
Then he asked a few guards to take these bone arrows and act according to the method just now.
After seeing the explosion in the Great Xia army formation, these guards were cautious, and immediately shot the bone arrow out as soon as it caught fire, for fear of blowing up in their hands.
Every minute or two, one could see a burst of flames erupting in front of the Great Xia army formation, as well as the sound of explosions.
But for a moment, the six trebuchets in the east of Lancheng turned into a pile of broken wood, and then there were several explosions from the north of the city in the distance, and then from the east of the city.
In just a short while, all the catapults of the Great Xia Army turned into pieces of wood, along with hundreds of soldiers who were killed by explosives or injured by the pieces of wood.
"Show me this thing and keep it safe. If there is any problem, I will ask you." Li Qianqiu sternly said to the guard behind him.
"Don't worry, guard."
"Don't see an open flame, don't touch it, and store it carefully. Put it in a cool and not humid place, and remember to keep it out of the fire." Ren Baqianqian urged, everyone on earth knows the danger of this thing , can't see the fire, but Dayao people always make him a little worried.
If these things explode, it is estimated that a quarter of Liaocheng will have to be scrapped.
"Don't worry, my lord." The guard behind him cupped his hands.
The trebuchet was blown up, Da Xia would not have any other attacks today, Li Qianqiu continued to stay on the city wall to inspect, and Ren Baqian followed the empress back to the city magistrate's mansion.
"Your Majesty is getting thinner." Ren Baqian opened his eyes and talked nonsense on the way back. The empress is not an ordinary person, so her body shape will naturally not become fatter or thinner as she eats more and less.
The empress was very useful, and she glanced at him lightly.
The guards behind looked at the sky one by one, pretending not to hear anything.
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In the north of Liaocheng, in a large tent in the camp behind the tens of thousands of troops, a general with half hair and beard was standing in front of the desk, looking at the map on it, gesticulating with his fingers from time to time.
"General!" A middle-aged scribe came in from outside the tent and cupped his hands.
The person in the tent is the general who commanded the 700,000 troops marching south this time, the champion general, Wu Shenghou Jin Ling.
His prestige among the people of Daxia is far inferior to that of Hongwu in Dayao, and that is also because Daxia has not made any progress in the south for seventy years. In fact, he has a very high reputation in the court, and he can be said to be the top three in the army.
In just a few decades, from a commoner to a third-rank general, the status of Wu Shenghou, you can get a glimpse of it.
He has been stationed at the border for more than 20 years, and has been preparing for more than 20 years. Even in his dreams, he thinks about how to attack Dayao. Now that he has finally achieved his life's wish, and the situation of the battle has met his expectations so far, the next step is to see who is better on both sides.
"How is that Lu Pinghai injured now?" Wu Shenghou asked without raising his head.
"General, Lu Pinghai has recovered half of his injuries, and he will be fine in another month." The scribe cupped his hands.
"It's not too late." Wu Shenghou said softly.
"There's a letter from Li Yuanzhu, but she still disagrees," the scribe said again.
"As expected." Wu Shenghou was not surprised.
"Did you find Lu Zijian?"
"No news yet." The scribe continued. The whereabouts of Lu Zijian, number two in the world, has always been unpredictable.
As for Lin Xian, who is number one in the world, there has been no trace for several years. Many people suspect that he is no longer alive, or that he has broken through the legendary limit.
"Do you think Qi Zixiao will leave Liaocheng?" Wu Shenghou asked casually.
"Never! If she leaves Liaocheng, she will leave tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Liaocheng behind. Qi Zixiao will never do such a thing. Unless it's life and death, dragging her like this, she can't leave. "Scribe said decisively.
Wu Shenghou nodded, as he thought.
By the time she wanted to leave, it might be too late.
Wu Shenghou used his finger to move from one point on the map to another, and finally pressed his finger on one of the points, where his target was.
It is not only the only way to go in the direction of Lancheng and the Northern Protectorate, but also the only way for the Northeast Protectorate to come back for help.
As long as this place is occupied, even if Qi Zixiao can escape back at that time, he will lose the entire fertile soil in the north...
"Is there any news from Yun Country?"
"They are still arguing endlessly in court." The scribe replied softly.
"Did they forget that they almost destroyed the country when they were beaten by those barbarians?" Wu Shenghou sneered and said contemptuously. "Those guys who are full of merchants..."
"Even without them, with the General's preparation for so long, it is not impossible to take down Dayao." The scribe immediately continued. "The walls of Lancheng are only six meters thick, and these trebuchets can smash Liaocheng."
You must know that the walls of Tiesuoguan, Shuncheng, and Ziyuecheng in the north are all 20 meters thick, and Tiesuoguan even reaches 30 meters. And the city wall of Lancheng is only six meters thick, and the trebuchet only needs to hit a few more rounds to make a gap.
"You can't enter even if you smash it!" Wu Shenghou said lightly.
In a place like the city, the strong personal strength of the ancient people can be displayed instead. He would rather kill the ancient people near the city wall than let soldiers enter the city to fight with the ancient people. I am afraid that the ancient civilians will cause them a lot of casualties.
Not to mention there are flying rides inside.
But if the city wall is really smashed, those developed thunder cannons will come in handy.
Thinking of another kind of cannonball called Wanhua bomb in his hand, Wu Shenghou felt that the court should really reward those craftsmen.
While the two were chatting here, they heard a few loud noises from a distance that were different from the sound of boulders hitting the city wall.
"Which bastard used the Thunder Cannon?" The sound of the explosion immediately reminded Wu Shenghou of the Vulcan cannons and the things called Thunder Fire Powder stored in the army.
Then Wu Shenghou vetoed this idea. If he didn't order it, who would dare to use the Thunder Cannon
Just as he walked out of the big tent, he heard another loud noise from the direction in front of the formation.
"boom!"
Wu Shenghou frowned, what happened? It was clearly the sound of thunder cannons firing, but it was still so loud when it reached here, much louder.
Before he could figure it out, there were several loud bangs in front of him.
"Come here, go and see what's going on." Wu Shenghou said in a deep voice.
After a quarter of an hour, a general in iron armor came back and knelt on one knee and said, "General, for some reason, a ball of fire burst out of nowhere from the trebuchet. It was so powerful that the trebuchet was completely destroyed."
After another quarter of an hour, there were reports from east and west directions, and the trebuchets in those two directions were also destroyed.
"What method did those barbarians use?" Wu Shenghou's face turned ugly, he didn't expect those barbarians to have such an unknown method.