Border Cook

Chapter 601: Clever
"Your Majesty, I heard that the new weapon developed by the Western Frontier Army today is very powerful. It can be thrown dozens of miles away and explode on the ground. It is very powerful and can injure dozens or even hundreds of people at a time..."

When he heard this, Li Yanyang's expression darkened.

He was not afraid of anything else, but this was what he was most worried about.

If such a powerful artifact were used to attack a city, especially the capital of the Jin Wei Kingdom, as the Western Frontier Army privately discussed, what would be the outcome?

"Report to the Lord, the border guards should intensify the battle reports!"

There was a sound outside the hall, and Li Yanyang raised his hand hurriedly, "Announce!"

The eunuch at the door bowed his head as he walked into the hall and handed over the battle report.

A eunuch beside him took it and handed it to Li Yanyang.

Li Yanyang opened it and took a look. His originally frowned brows were now twisted into the shape of a Chinese character "川". He stood up suddenly and slammed the battle report on the table with a "啪".

Seeing this, the people below hurriedly knelt on the ground.

Li Yanyang closed his eyes and took a long breath. After a long while, he slowly exhaled, almost squeezing out a sentence from between his teeth, "Three nights ago, the Western Frontier Army sent out 5,000 elite soldiers to launch a night attack, burning countless food and grass in the army. Countless soldiers were killed or injured, and the Duke of Weiguo... was seriously injured."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the hall was in an uproar.

After years of fighting, Jin Weiguo didn't have many generals to use. Duke Weiguo was seriously injured this time, and the border troops were leaderless. The morale of the army was greatly frustrated and it was impossible to recover...

It can be said that there is no need to continue this battle.

If we don't fight, Jinweiguo will still be Jinweiguo. If we continue to fight, I'm afraid there will be no place for Jinweiguo on the map in the future.

Li Yanyang took another deep breath, and exhaled again after a long while. He wanted to open his mouth, but found that he couldn't make any sound at all. He could only take another deep breath...

Before he could completely inhale the air, Li Yanyang felt a black screen in front of his eyes and fell straight back.

"Father!"

"Lord of the country!"

The entire hall was suddenly in chaos.

At this time, in the barracks of the Western Frontier Army, Fan Honghui was happily setting up a banquet to welcome Lu Qiyan and Xia Yunji and to celebrate their success.

This night attack was proposed by Lu Qiyan, and he and Xia Yunji each led 3,000 elite soldiers, divided into two groups, and caught the enemy off guard.

At the banquet, after three rounds of wine, Fan Honghui praised loudly, "This great victory is all due to the efforts of Commander Lu and Commander Xia. I have reported it to the court and asked the emperor to commend you two!"

"Thank you, Commander Xiang." Xia Yunji thanked him first, and said, "However, Commander Lu made a greater contribution in this battle. We all obeyed his command, so it was so smooth."

"Commander Xiang, don't listen to Commander Xia's nonsense. The reason why Zhuo Shengjie of Jinweiguo was seriously injured was because Commander Xia had superb archery skills. He shot two arrows in a row, both of which hit his shoulders. This caused the enemy's army to be in chaos and defeated."

"This is also because Commander Lu took the lead in launching a fire attack, which caused the enemy's granary to catch fire and caused the enemy to lose their composure..."

Fan Honghui, "..."

The rest of the people, "..."

Are you guys being humble to each other or flattering each other?

Especially since one of you is my brother-in-law and the other is my brother-in-law, do you think it's fun to do this?

You both have made great contributions and are awesome, that's enough!
But even though they were complaining, it was precious to be able to win a great victory at this critical moment. Since they liked this, it would be okay for them to indulge in it! Everyone watched the two people's performance quietly until they had fully praised each other and were at a loss for words, and then they began to toast them.

After all, it was a celebration banquet, which started happily and ended with satisfaction.

After the wine was finished and the party was over, Fan Honghui kept Lu Qiyan and Xia Yunji in the tent to talk.

"How's the situation here, Commander?" Lu Qiyan asked.

"Everything went well." Fan Honghui replied, but he also had a headache. "But I have to write down the accounts of purchasing a large amount of tarpaulin, stone materials, and a large number of brooms in the military expenditure. I really don't know how to explain it to the Ministry of Revenue."

Just say it's necessary for war?

I'm afraid the Ministry of Revenue will be extremely surprised and ask further what these things are used for.

We can't just tell the truth and say that the stones are used to impersonate food, and the brooms are tied behind the horses to sweep up clouds of dust when they run, giving people the illusion of a large number of soldiers and horses?

This shows that their Western Frontier Army is a little too cunning.

Lu Qiyan smiled and became even more teasing, "The commander of the wing is always resourceful, I think he will be able to deal with it smoothly. But I heard someone mention today that the armory has newly developed a very powerful weapon. Is this true?"

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"It's fake!" Fan Honghui mentioned this with a helpless look on his face. "I was also inspired by you. I let the catapult throw out the blackened stones, and then ordered people to ignite the explosives used for mining ore on the hillside. It took many attempts before I succeeded. This gave people the illusion that I could control the explosives at will."

Although gunpowder existed at that time, it was very difficult to ignite and could not be controlled at will. It was very easy to cause heavy casualties to one's own side, so it was not used in warfare for the time being.

Fan Honghui's actions made Jin Weiguo believe it, and he must have been terrified.

"This move by the commander of the wing is extremely brilliant!" Lu Qiyan couldn't help but give Fan Honghui a thumbs up.

Fan Honghui felt a little embarrassed.

Although this idea was his, it was only because of Lu Qiyan's example that he thought of it.

If I say that he is extremely talented, I would really feel unworthy of the title.

"The commander of the wing is really powerful!" Xia Yunji also praised him openly.

Hearing this, Fan Honghui's original embarrassment suddenly turned into horror, and he couldn't help but take half a step back.

Xia Yunji actually praised him. Would this be followed by other questions?

Will you ask him why he didn't think of anything else and only thought of this?

Would you ask him how he found enough explosives and an experienced master?

Will he also ask how he determined that this news would definitely reach the ears of the King of Jinwei State...

It’s scary to think about it!
So you'd better stop bragging!

Fan Honghui subconsciously held Xia Yunji's hand that was raising his thumb, then silently bent his thumb down and let out a long breath.

"What is the commander going to do?" Xia Yunji was puzzled. "Does the commander think that my praise is wrong?"

"But why? I don't think I'm wrong in praising you."

"Next, why does the commander look so nervous? Did he do something to offend me?"