Late Tang

Li Jing sighed for a long time, it was a pity that Li Lingfu died in Duli Town in such a foolish way.In his opinion, Li Lingfu was really a hero, but in the end he was confused for a while.Ten years ago, Li Lingfu changed the raging tide from the collapsed building to the collapsed one.It was he who led the return of the Crane Cavalry Army to save Qingni City, which was on the verge of extinction.After ten years of recuperation, especially this time when they teamed up with Shamen Town to annihilate Duli Town's joint fleet, Qingni City is facing the best future in a century. Together with Li Jing, they can suppress Duli Town.

But it was just one wrong step, one wrong step, which caused Li Lingfu to be defeated and killed, and turned a hero into a hero.His impulsiveness not only harmed himself, but also Qingni City, and Li Jing as well.

"The ten generals of Huang led the Nutao Camp and two thousand old brothers to participate in this battle with Li Lingfu. The news is that apart from the one thousand brothers who stayed on the battleship, the two thousand brothers who entered Duli Town The whole army was almost wiped out. Although the four heads of the White, Yellow, Red, and Black families brought hundreds of brothers and followed the Li family brothers to break out of the city, they were ambushed near Qingni City, and the four generals were seriously injured. They followed them to break out There are only about 500 brothers left. In addition, there are "

"What is it?" Li Jing asked heartbroken, 500 people died all of a sudden, although the real number of the Nutao Battalion was only 1000, the remaining [-] can only be regarded as children who participated in the war.But no matter what, the Raging Wave Battalion was almost abolished in this battle.Huang Huzi and others sent troops to Qingnipu without revealing themselves, which led to this heavy loss.But Li Jing also understands that some things are hard to avoid.The Nutao Camp was adapted from Zhendonghai Zhaoan. The head of this camp was adapted not long ago, and Qi An, who hadn't come to Li Jing for a while, stepped in. He was worried that he would start too early and too quickly, which would arouse Zhendonghai's disgust. .However, they didn't expect that this would lead to the Raging Wave Camp acting without orders this time, and ended up being defeated.

"What's more, as soon as the news came back, the two generals, Megan and Julie, would immediately lead the Zhenhai Battalion to send troops to Qingnipu to meet the generals Huang and Bai. However, the leaders of the Zhenhai Battalion rejected their orders. They refused to send troops. In a fit of anger, General Megan and General Julie took their own two boats to sea, and the generals temporarily detained them. Now the special agent sent a letter, please handle it, General."

Hearing that such a thing happened, Li Jing felt a burst of gratitude, but also felt tricky.It is actually correct for the generals to refuse to carry out the orders of Megan and the others.But on the surface, this is another disobedience to military orders.What's more, they still have Megan and the others under house arrest, which is already equivalent to a small mutiny.The starting point of the generals is good, but Li Jing couldn't help but smile bitterly. After this incident, not only the Raging Wave Camp was abolished, but now the generals and schools of the Zhenhai Camp are at odds. It is impossible for him to deal with those who have made the right move. Captains, it will be difficult for Megan and the others to stay in Zhenhai Camp in the future.

Hey, what is it all about.

Frowning, Li Jing asked a very important matter.

"After Li Lingfu's allied forces you mentioned earlier entered the outer city of Duli Town, the captured North Gate and Water Gate exploded almost at the same time. The explosion was loud and accompanied by great vibrations. , and the flames soared into the sky, killing and injuring hundreds of people at one time. Do you know what this is, and don’t tell me what it is?" When I heard the description of this incident earlier When Li Jing was shooting, the first thing Li Jing thought of was gunpowder.Only gunpowder can almost match these descriptions. Although many Taoist priests had developed the formula of gunpowder in the late Tang Dynasty, it was only used for alchemy.I haven't heard of any army that officially transported gunpowder as a weapon of war.

According to Li Jing's understanding of gunpowder, gunpowder should be used as a weapon on a large scale in the Song Dynasty, and the first use should be almost at the end of Tang Dynasty, but it seems to be a few years later.Specifically, it seems that it first appeared in a siege battle in Nanchang, Jiangxi, but it is absolutely impossible to cause such a big effect like this time in Duli Town.

Li Jing has also been researching and preparing black powder. Li Jing has always felt that black powder is too powerful, consumes a lot of energy and has little effect. Although he started researching and preparing black powder and Shenhuo together, Shenhuo was prepared first. And it began to be mass-produced, and it has shown its power in wars several times.And it has become an extremely valuable product and killer weapon like Shamen Town.As for the black powder, Li Jing has just come up with the formula of black powder, granulation and many other processes, and has just set up a small secret workshop with hundreds of people in production.

At present, it is only perfecting the production process formula, and has not yet started the real production into a war weapon.

Shamen Town has not produced this weapon yet, how did Duli Town suddenly produce black powder, and judging from the effect, the quantity they have is definitely not low, it cannot be made by Taoist priests.Li Jing believed that the formula of his black powder had never been leaked, so where did it come from in Duli Town?

"It is said that the powerful weapon is called flying fire."

"Flying fire?"

"Yes, the town of Duli has already begun to claim this weapon they possess. It is said that they claim that this weapon is one of the alchemy fires that the city lord Wang Pumeng received from the Taishang Laojun, saying that it is infinitely powerful. However, according to the information we inquired, it seems that this is a recipe dedicated to Wang Pu by some Taoist priests from the south of the Yangtze River. I heard that the secret recipe of Feihuo was bought by Duli Town with 3000 taels of gold. , There are two ways to use them. At first they were buried underground at the North Gate and Water Gate, and a fuse was installed. Finally, the fire caused a flying fire to explode, directly blowing up the city gate, and killing and injuring many people at once. There are as many as a hundred people. There is another usage, which seems to be equivalent to our Shenhuo. It is also installed in a pottery pot with a fuse, and then ignited and thrown on the cannon. Qingnipu attacked Duli Town The coalition forces tried to break out of the siege many times, but they were all scattered by the flying fire of this kind of machine."

Li Jing understood everything at once, the fire of alchemy taught by the Supreme Lord was indeed black powder.What surprised Li Jing even more was that after the people of Duli town bought this formula from a Taoist priest, they could produce so many gunpowder so quickly, and it could be assembled into the army so quickly, and it was used for the first time in the war. It really surprised him to be able to use gunpowder so well and play such a big role.Hearing the titles of the Taishang Laojun's alchemy fire mentioned by Deli Town, it is easy to remind people of the Holy Fire of Shamen Town.One is the professor of the Dragon King, and the other is the professor of the Taishang Laojun, and they are really good at making stunts.

"General, Duli Town got Feihuo suddenly, we send troops now, I'm afraid we won't be able to defeat them." Zhao Jiang persuaded cautiously.

Although Li Jing knew that Feihuo was nothing more than black powder, since it was the dragon king's dream to impart divine fire that he had created first, he naturally couldn't accuse others of spreading rumors to confuse people.The soldiers and civilians in Shamen Town all believed in the stories Li Jing made up at the beginning, so Li Jing also knew that everyone was afraid of ghosts and gods.

"Don't worry, this so-called Feihuo is actually far worse than Shenhuo. It is just the smallest form of Shenhuo. Our Shamen Town already has this kind of Feihuo. When the Dragon King told me about Shenhuo last time, it Tell me about Feihuo. It’s just that I didn’t think it was very useful before, so I didn’t use it. Since Duli Town needs to use it, let’s bring some this time.”

"Really, Dragon King told you Feihuo last time?" Zhao Jiang asked in surprise.

"Of course." Li Jing was a little timid, and he actually engaged in this kind of ghost theory.

Zhao Jiang's brows brightened a lot, but he still hesitated and said, "But is it necessary for us to send troops? Qingnipu's [-] soldiers were defeated, and their defeat is their own fault. Who made Li Lingfu refuse to listen to the general's arrangement. Now that they are all defeated, we can't blame us. I don't think it is suitable to send troops now. Duli Town and Beisha City defeated Qingni City. Qingni City suffered this big defeat and Li Lingfu died again. If we can’t get over it, we might as well give up on them as soon as possible. The situation in Liaodong has turned upside down overnight, and we’d better stick to it.”

Li Jing shook his head and sighed softly: "How can I not understand the current situation, Li Lingfu's impulsiveness has ruined the good situation. But the more critical the situation is, the less we can show weakness and retreat. Qingnipu was indeed defeated, but this time we have to send troops. The best result is naturally to repel the coalition forces of Duli Town and Beisha City, save Qingnipu from danger, and meet the soldiers of the Raging Wave Camp. The worst Under the circumstances, we have to take the people from Qingnipu back to Daxie Village. We have to let Duli Town understand that even if they can defeat Li Lingfu and Qingni City, he still can't get it from us Good to go. We have to show him our strength to promote peace. Sending troops is only a means, and maintaining peace with Duli Town is the goal. But we can't rely on Duli Town for the peace of our backyard, but we have to take it ourselves Hit out the sword until they are afraid."

In fact, in Li Jing's heart, apart from these superficial strategic considerations, Duli Town must be made aware of the strength of Shamen Town, lest they start another war and break the stability of the backyard.There is another very important reason why Li Jing sent troops that he didn't say, that is, he already expected that Qingnipu would definitely not be able to hold on this time.

The century-old Qingni City was about to perish, and Li Jing rushed to the tiger's mouth to grab food, and took the century-old savings of Qingni City from the tiger's mouth of Duli Town and Beisha City.Li Jing didn't have the extravagant hope to take over Qingnipu's city land, but he wanted to take away Qingnipu's population, money, food and property.

In particular, Li Jing had already taken a fancy to Li Lingfu's crane-controlling army. This time, he also planned to take him in one bite and take him into his hands.

Of course, on the surface Li Jing would not tell others about her thoughts and plans.On the surface, Li Jing's reason for sending troops was to avenge the brothers who died in the battle, to avenge the brother Li Lingfu who died in the battle, and to help the nephews in Qingnipu who had just lost their fathers to rescue the siege!

Suddenly, Li Jing remembered a sentence from the hero Cao Cao: I will support your wife, so don't worry about it!

(To be continued)