Water Margin people

Chapter 1518 Gunpowder

Puchanghai.

Although the sky here is gloomy, there is no rain. This place is close to the desert and there is little rain throughout the year.

"The time has come, the army is moving!"

Sun Li looked at the army and gave orders.

The army headed north towards Gaochang City.

The battle of Xingxing Gorge was just a decoy. The real purpose of the Qi army was to take advantage of the emptiness in the enemy's rear and launch a surprise attack to capture Gaochang City. This was the capital of the Gaochang Uighurs. Once it was taken, the retreat of these people from Western Liao would be cut off.

Star Gorge.

The heavy rain never stopped. I was shivering in a makeshift tent where the Western Liao army was hiding from the rain. Although it was the hottest time in the Western Regions, Xingxing Gorge was at a high altitude and the temperature dropped quickly in the storm.

"Light a bonfire."

Yelu Dashi looked at the soldiers who were shivering with cold and gave orders.

"Jiu'erhan, we didn't bring much firewood!"

A general spoke.

"There is a sparse forest in the distance. Send someone to cut it down!"

Yelu Dashi gave the order that the soldiers could not survive in this kind of weather without heating.

"Jiu'erhan, what should we do? The enemy is guarding Xingxing Gorge, and we can't get through at all!"

Ajisi looked at Yelu Dashi and said that there was something strange about this war. They had fought wars all their lives, but this time they could not understand it at all, which made them feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.

"Send the elite troops to launch a surprise attack tonight!"

Yelu Dashi spoke.

"Elite sneak attack? I'm afraid it won't be very effective! There are 50,000 enemies!"

Mahmud said that a sneak attack by the elite team on a rainy night was indeed feasible, but it was hard to say how effective it would be. After all, there were too many enemies and if it caused some chaos, killing more than a hundred people would have no effect at all.

Besides, it is a rainy night now, and it is impossible to set fire in such a downpour.

"Not much effect? ​​That depends on the purpose!"

Yelu Dashi said with a sneer.

Everyone looked at Yelu Dashi. They didn't know what Yelu Dashi's purpose was.

"I'm going to send someone to assassinate Yue Fei!"

Yelu Dashi looked at everyone and expressed his thoughts.

"Assassination of Yue Fei! How is this possible!"

Everyone gasped. They didn't expect Yelu Dashi to have such a plan. Yue Fei was obviously the enemy's commander. How could he assassinate the enemy's commander among an army of 50,000?

"You didn't seem to pay attention to the enemy's formation just now!"

Yelu Dashi looked at everyone and laughed.

"Formation?"

When everyone tried to recall the past, all they could think of were the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and they couldn't remember anything about the enemy.

"The enemy is divided into three square formations, each on top of three mountain peaks. Yue Fei is on the middle mountain peak, and his army is no more than 20,000."

Yelu Dashi spoke.

"It's not easy to fight against an army of 20,000. We can't even get close to the main peak!"

Someone immediately said that 20,000 people were enough to surround a mountain in several layers.

"Since I said I can go, then there is naturally a way!"

Yelu Dashi clapped his hands, and a team of soldiers came in carrying a dozen boxes.

The box was opened, and inside was full of black iron balls. "What is this?"

Everyone looked at the iron balls in confusion. It was not appropriate to use them to hit people.

"Ibrahim, you should have seen the horror of gunpowder!"

Yelu Dashi looked at Ibrahim and asked.

"Gunpowder? What about the power of thunder? These are gunpowder?"

Ibrahim looked at the iron balls in front of him in disbelief. This was his first time facing gunpowder. He didn't expect that the power of the gods was actually contained in these inconspicuous iron balls.

"Jiu Erhan? These are the gunpowder from the East?"

Everyone looked at the iron balls in surprise. They only knew that there was a mysterious weapon in the East that could exert the power of gods.

"Yes, these iron balls are full of gunpowder. If they explode, all enemies within a radius of several feet will die! With this, breaking the enemy's defense is not a problem!"

Yelu Dashi said that the Liao Kingdom had learned about gunpowder a long time ago, but they did not take it seriously in the past. The Khitan people only believed in the bows and crossbows in their hands, swords and guns, and the horses under their crotch.

But since the rise of Qi, Yelu Dashi realized the horror of gunpowder. Every time Qi encountered a tough battle, it almost always won with gunpowder. It seemed that gunpowder was born for attacking tough enemies.

After the establishment of Western Liao, Yelu Dashi recruited many skilled craftsmen, and even gathered together many craftsmen from the Western Regions who were familiar with gunpowder.

After so many years of research, there have been results. Now Western Liao has quite powerful gunpowder, and he has also found a way to prevent moisture, so that gunpowder can be used in humid environments.

"Is this gunpowder?"

The four Khans looked at the iron balls with greed.

Ibrahim even touched it unconsciously. He really wanted to know the secret of this thing. As long as he had this secret, the loss of a hundred thousand troops would not be a big deal. He was different from the other three people. He had seen the power of gunpowder with his own eyes.

"Don't look at it anymore. Once we invade the Central Plains, everyone will have gunpowder!"

Seeing that the faces of several people were full of greed, Yelu Dashi smiled and said, "The Western Regions have been in chaos for many years, and everyone wants to unify the entire Western Regions. Whoever can control gunpowder can seize the initiative. I'm afraid these people will not be fooled by this temptation."

"Thank you, Juerhan!"

Everyone was very happy; this powerful weapon was exactly what they had been dreaming of.

"Sea of ​​blood!"

Suddenly a burst of terrified shouts rang out in the military camp, and soon the whole camp was in chaos.

"what's the situation?"

  Yelu Dashi frowned. Why did the people who had just been appeased become confused again?

"Report, Great Khan, a sea of ​​blood, a sea of ​​blood surrounds the camp!"

A general ran into the barracks in a panic and said.

"What blood sea! What nonsense?"

  Yelu Dashi was furious. A sea of ​​blood was an ominous symbol in the West. The war was imminent. First, there were corpses everywhere during the day, and now there was a sea of ​​blood in the middle of the night. What would happen to the morale of the army?

Yelu Dashi led his men outside the tent. It was still raining heavily and a bonfire had been lit under the tent. The soldiers huddled around the bonfire, looking in horror at the rain flowing in the ditch outside.

"Blood!"

Bilege's face changed drastically. Under the light of the fire, the water in the ditch was actually red.

"What are you panicking about! This can't be blood on the battlefield, it can't be a sea of ​​blood! Whoever dares to spread rumors and confuse the people will be killed!"

Yelu Dashi roared that such a small matter had caused people to panic.

Yelu Dashi ignored the frightened soldiers and returned to his tent with a wave of his sleeves.

"This is how to do?"

Mahmud looked at the others and said, Yelu Dashi may not care about this sea of ​​blood, but they cannot, because this is a disaster in their beliefs and the fear in the soldiers' hearts is innate.

"So, send someone to dig a ditch around the camp to divert the blood away! As long as it's out of sight, it'll be fine. No matter how much blood there is on the battlefield, it will soon fade away under this flushing!"

Aji thought for a moment and said, they couldn’t stop the heavy rain, but they could change the direction of the blood.