Zhutian: Starting from the Space-Time Merchant

Chapter 45 Sima, damn it!
The spring is bright and the willows are sprouting.

A breeze swirled through Xiangguo City, bringing a hint of spring.

The huge parade ground in the city was now empty.

"remember."

Standing at the edge of the training ground, Lin Dao thrust the lighter into Liu Hu's hand and solemnly instructed him, "After lighting the fuse, run back immediately, as fast as you can."

"You are absolutely not allowed to linger."

"Even less should you stop and watch out of curiosity."

Liu Hu nodded vigorously, "Yes!"

I saw Liu Hu jogging towards the gas tank in the middle of the training ground.

Lin Dao waved his hand and called out to the onlookers, "Everyone, squat in the pit!"

After saying that, he also jumped into a deep pit that was as high as a person.

Standing on a stool at the bottom of the pit, he stuck his head out to observe Liu Hu lighting a fire in the distance.

Over a hundred feet away, Liu Hu was lying on the ground with his butt sticking out, fiddling with something, but there was no movement for a long time.

After waiting for a long time, Lin Dao became impatient and was about to call out.

On the other side, Liu Hu suddenly jumped up, turned around and ran wildly.

Lin Dao didn't waste any words. He sat on the mat, covered his ears with his hands and opened his mouth.

After a while, a loud muffled sound was heard.

"what happened?"

Lin Dao frowned in confusion. This was not right. It shouldn't be like this.

He stood up and looked around, only to see a black speck falling from the sky.

It gradually enlarged in his sight, and finally crashed down a hundred meters away from him.

The pit where Lin Dao was located was already empty.

After about a cup of hot tea, Lin Daofang reappeared in the pit holding up a riot shield.

He raised his telescope and looked through it.

I saw the steel cylinder in the distance, which was obviously swollen, twisted and deformed, and was still spewing thick smoke.

But it didn't explode~~~
Lin Dao was silent.

Is this a case of poor quality, flawed manufacturing, or is the cylinder simply too strong?
"Master?" A voice called from a nearby pit.

"Hold on."

"Wait until the cigarette is gone."

The gas tank shell plan suffered a heavy blow as soon as it was unveiled.

"It's okay, I still have rockets."

Lin Dao consoled himself by saying, "A thousand rockets fired simultaneously are enough."

More than an hour later, Liu Hu lit the fuse of the rocket at the same position as before.

The noise caused by this rocket explosion was different from the previous gas tank explosion, and it was very loud.

Flames and thick smoke splashed everywhere, and the sound was like thunder.

However, when Lin Dao went forward to check, he saw that only the front end of the charge was blown apart.

The steel pipe was twisted and torn like a pretzel, but it did not cause severe damage as imagined, with iron chips flying everywhere.

Lin Dao squatted on the ground, his eyes scanning the steel pipe again and again.

"Could it be because the quality is too good?"

Lin Dao was slightly disappointed, but he did not give up.

He called Jinlian and said, "Bring me a clay pot."

Put the black powder into the clay pot, insert the long fuse and ignite it again.

There was a loud bang, like a bolt from the blue.

Flying gravel and hot earthenware shards fell like raindrops.

Bright flames and thick smoke enveloped the surroundings.

Everyone near the parade ground was terrified.

This is thunder in dry land~~~
Many people were even so frightened that they lost consciousness and collapsed on the ground.

Others knelt down repeatedly, muttering incessantly with a pious look on their faces.

For the people of Yonghe Time and Space, this is a miracle.

"Sure enough, it's the gas tanks and steel pipes that are of excellent quality."

Lin Dao determined the reason why the previous experiment was unsuccessful.

"My gas tank shells, and Laiyang rocket launcher~~~"

The weapon that was originally envisioned to sweep the world has been temporarily frozen due to technical reasons.

"It's okay, you can put it in a clay pot and use it."

"Rockets can also be replaced with wood or bamboo."

"As long as your thinking doesn't slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties."

Force yourself to defend yourself.

"change!"

“Change it now!”

"Look for clay pots and logs."

The city was bustling with activity.

Preparations for the siege outside the city are also in full swing.

Military households and civilians from various prefectures, counties and districts of the Later Zhao Dynasty gradually gathered outside the city of Xiangguo.

Looking from the top of the city wall, there were camps like a forest and flags like a tree outside the city.

Everywhere I looked, there were soldiers and horses from the Later Zhao Dynasty.

Like a surging wave, it surrounded Xiangguo City tightly.

On the top of the city wall, Lin Dao pointed to a large camp two or three miles away and asked.

"Is that the Zhao prince's camp over there?"

"Looking at their banners, they are indeed Gao Li's imperial guards."

"They are the soldiers directly under the Jiehu Eastern Palace."

Lin Dao felt regretful in his heart.

If his Laiyang rockets were usable, firing more than a hundred of them at once might kill the bloodthirsty prince.

Thinking of this, Lin Dao asked again, "You said last time that the prince had already sent troops from Yecheng a long time ago. How come he has only arrived now?"

Qin Lang immediately showed contempt on his face. "The Jiehu Crown Prince Shi Xuan brought his concubines with him on a chariot to go to war."

"He stopped and walked along the way, hunting and enjoying himself everywhere."

"I heard that in order to facilitate his hunting, they blocked mountains, roads, and ferry crossings everywhere, resulting in blocked roads and insufficient food and fodder."

"Tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers died of starvation and freezing."

"This is really~" Lin Dao sighed, "Sima Shi, damn it!"

Because of the Sima family's stupidity, this great country fell into the hands of human-like beasts like Shi Hu and Shi Xuan.

Lives were destroyed, mountains and rivers were broken, and countless people suffered great disasters.

And the Jia family~
It was that ugly woman, Jia Nanfeng, who invited the kings to come to Beijing to seize power, which triggered the Rebellion of the Eight Kings.

From that point on, the Sima family, in disarray, was no longer able to stop the invasion of the barbarians. "Shi Xuan," Lin Dao said with a sigh, "is a bloodthirsty lunatic."

A single hunt could kill tens of thousands of people. It seems the barbarians never regarded the Han people as human beings.

"bring it on."

Holding onto the parapet with his hand, Lin Dao raised his head slightly and looked at the densely packed camps in the distance.

"Jie people, we have prepared so many gifts for you, but you will all die under this city."

Shi Hu had thirteen sons.

The personalities of these sons are almost identical to Shi Hu's.

Cruel and brutal, treating human life as worthless.

The former crown prince Shi Sui was cruel and inhumane.

His favorite thing to do was to dress up his beautiful concubines, cut off their heads, put them on plates, and pass them around with the guests.

Afterwards, his body was cooked with beef and mutton and shared with everyone.

Shi Sui died too easily, which was too easy for him.

After offending Shi Hu, he was executed and buried in one coffin with his entire family.

Compared with his brother, Shi Xuan was even more brutal.

After arriving at the city of Xiangguo, he either hunted for fun every day or supervised the construction of siege equipment and urged military households and civilians from all over the country to deliver food and supplies as soon as possible.

The craftsmen's camp worked day and night to build siege equipment, and countless people died from exhaustion.

Shi Xuan still thought it was too slow, and every time he came to inspect the artisan camp, he would kill a group of artisans and laborers.

The pretext is to urge faster progress.

During daily patrols and hunting, they would often carry out massacres.

Even some civilians and soldiers were inexplicably trapped in the hunting grounds and brutally eliminated.

With such brutal behavior, everyone is in danger of losing their lives.

The morale of the Later Zhao army was low and the morale was unstable.

"Master Lang."

From the top of the city wall, Qin Lang reported, "According to investigation, the Jiehu have built over a hundred siege weapons of various types, and they are already taking shape."

“The project will be fully completed in three to five days at most.”

After saying this, he looked at Lin Dao with expectant eyes.

"Ah."

Lin Dao understood what he meant. "It's almost time. There's no wind tonight, so let's burn all these big guys tonight!"

Qin Lang was overjoyed and clapped his hands in praise, "Lord, your majesty is so powerful!"

Large siege engines are difficult to build.

Before this, the Qihuo Army had fortified their city walls and cleared the fields, and had already cut down all the few trees outside the city.

Even the houses, houses, shops and villages outside the city were demolished and all the stones and timber were brought into the city.

The large timbers used by the Later Zhao army to build siege equipment were all dragged from far away, consuming a huge amount of manpower and material resources.

Once it is lost, it will take at least one or two months to rebuild it.

With so many troops mobilized, the daily food and fodder consumption is astronomical.

The Jiehu are the ones who can't afford to delay.

In the modern world, Lin Dao asked someone to help improve the drone.

It is easier to operate, more powerful and has a larger load capacity.

At night, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and the silver moonlight fills the earth.

Buzz~~~

The four-winged drone gradually rose up, and on the hook below was hanging a large glass barrel filled with combustibles.

Lindau specifically added some thickener, aluminum powder, magnesium metal and other ingredients to enhance the effect.

The stickiness is stronger and the burning is longer lasting.

Especially for wooden structures, it has excellent burning effect.

There is a lit fuse at the mouth of the bottle, which can be ignited immediately after it falls and breaks.

Lin Dao stared at the control screen and flew the drone into the night sky, heading straight for the Hou Zhao camp outside the city where siege equipment was stored.

If we burn the food supplies, the Jiehu will at most retreat due to lack of food.

Even if all the food and grass were burned, the number of civilians outside the city was enough for the Jiehu to hold out and retreat.

What Lin Dao wanted was for the Jiehu to storm the fortified city and inflict large-scale casualties on it.

If we let the Jiehu escape, they will continue to cause trouble to the world.

Only a dead Jiehu is a good Jiehu.

Under the moonlight, the slight sound of breaking through the air attracted the attention of the soldiers on duty in the Hou Zhao camp.

They looked around vigilantly, looking for the source of the sound.

The Jiehu people had already known about the divine fire that fell from the sky when Li Nong attacked the Qihuo Army.

Soon someone looked up at the night sky.

"There's a bird in the sky! What a big bird!"

"Why is this bird square?"

"A bird without wings~~~"

"Shut up! Call the archer! Get the bow!"

In order to guard against the strange man from the Beggar Army, they used the same trick to burn the food.

The sharpshooters in the Later Zhao army were all concentrated near the granaries.

Unexpectedly, Lin Dao set his sights on siege equipment this time.

Many Jiehu people have drawn their bows and arrows and are shooting at the drones in the sky.

Lin Dao deliberately raised the altitude to more than a hundred meters from the ground.

The Jiehu people all shot upwards.

Most of the arrows fell midway.

Even if it could touch it, it would have already been exhausted and powerless.

On the forest path on the top of the city wall, I determined the position through the camera lens on the drone and flipped the switch.

The hook has fallen off.

Large glass jars filled with sticky incendiary bombs fell from the sky.

There is no satellite positioning, and the operation depends entirely on manual feel.

Although it is said to be aligned, there is still some deviation.

Originally, Lin Dao threw it towards the top of a ladder.

As a result, it hit the side of the ladder and fell to the ground.

Under the huge impact from the sky, the glass jar shattered.

The sticky liquid splashed out in all directions, and a large part of it splashed onto the ladder nearby.

There was a Jiehu who was standing close by and got some of the virus on his body.

The next moment, the flame was ignited along with the falling fuse.

Dazzling flames shot up into the sky!

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