Xiang Yu took the bamboo tube directly from Long Tho’s hand at this time.
Long Tho was slightly startled and said that
“Your Majesty, be careful of that heavenly thunder!”
“No, it’s not the heavenly thunder, it’s that weapon!”
Long Tho didn’t know what to call this thing.
Xiang Yu, however, was not the least bit scared, while looking at the bamboo tube in his hand with a slightly excited expression.
carefully recalling the third arrow Zhao Lang shot him with earlier!
It indeed seems that there is such a similar bamboo tube.
After looking at it carefully for a while, Xiang Yu said that
“Is that what Zhao Lang relied on, to impersonate the Heavenly Thunder?”
Even though he called himself the Overlord, he still had some fear of the heavens.
For no one could fight against the heavens.
But if it’s just weapons, that’s another matter!
He, the King of Western Chu, does not fear any weapon!
Long Tho nodded his head and said back that
“Your Majesty, this object should be used in conjunction with fire in order to be effective.”
Xiang Yu also nodded slightly, that night he did see a flash of fire followed by the explosion of that day’s thunder!
“Your Majesty, what should we do now?”
Xiang Yu pondered a little for a while and directly took out a dagger and chipped off a piece of the bamboo tube as the crowd looked on in surprise.
Soon, a black powder fell out of the bamboo tube.
Xiang Yu placed all these powders on a sheet of silk.
Then he opened the whole bamboo tube.
But nothing else was found.
At this time, Long Tho said with a bit of disbelief.
“Is that all?”
He couldn’t figure out how such a little thing could emit such a mighty force like heavenly thunder!
Xiang Yu picked up some powder with his hand and frowned slightly, without any clue, and quickly said that
“Dale, call the artisan!”
Ah Dou was his young uncle’s attendant, who was trapped in Pengcheng.
The men, however, had escaped.
It was logical to punish them severely, after all, it was the duty of these men to guard their master.
But even he was rescued from the battle at Pengcheng.
And now the Chu army had no one to take over the rations.
Besides, Dale was a fool, and there was no need to fight the other side.
And this fool was actually quite useful, conveying some rather confidential information and not being afraid of leaking it.
Just like now, this matter of heavenly thunder, he couldn’t trust anyone, and if it were any other person, he would have to throw the other party out.
But Dale was different, even if he was shown it, the other party would not be able to read it.
Only no one had noticed the shocked look in Dale’s eyes as he looked at the bamboo tube on the table.
Hearing the command, Dale quickly returned to his senses.
Forcing his mind down, he walked out as dumbly as usual and went to convey Xiang Yu’s orders.
Then he returned to Xiang Yu’s tent once again.
Everyone was now focused on the artisan, who, after looking carefully at the powder before him for a while, slowly said that
“Your Majesty, this is mostly charcoal, and from the smell of it, there seems to be some sulphur, and then the rest, but I do not know.”
Charcoal, sulphur.
Hearing these words, Xiang Yu’s eyes widened and said that
“Can it be made?”
The craftsman said back.
“The charcoal is all common, and the sulphur should be able to find some in the army.”
Sulphur is also medicine.
Xiang Yu said with a vague sense of excitement that
“Good! You guys go and do it now! No, this King himself will go with you!”
Xiang Yu could not hide his excitement at this time!
If they have this weapon too, then Chu is secure!
With Xiang Yu personally leading the team, soon, charcoal and sulphur were obtained.
The craftsmen crushed the two items and mixed them, and although they sold a little worse, they did look somewhat similar to the powder inside the bamboo tube.
“This is done?”
Long Tho looked at what was in front of him in some disbelief, the heavenly thunder that had defeated them so many times had been made just like that?
Xiang Yu said with extreme urgency that
“Find the bamboo tube! Put it inside the fire!”
This is the best way to prove it.
Just looking at the busy, excited people in front of me.
On the side, Dale’s heart grew more and more shocked.
Of course, the shock went in a different direction this time.
Although he didn’t know the recipe for gunpowder either, he had still studied it at the stately home.
He watched as the men just hastily mixed charcoal and also sulphur together.
No proportioning, no purity, he was dumbfounded.
The anxiety in his heart from before also slowed down instantly.
I’ll be damned if they can make this!
Soon the Chu army was ready for the fire.
Dale then saw the men stuffing those things into the bamboo tubes with nervous, excited faces as they threw them into the fire.
Then spaced out, seemingly worried about that explosion.
But Dale’s face was unruffled at this point, and he even wanted to laugh a little.
It was only when this look fell on the eyes of those who were interested that they became even more convinced of the fact that Dale’s was a fool.
For how could an ordinary person not be curious when encountering such a situation?
Everyone was staring deathly at the fire at this moment, when suddenly a puff of smoke rose violently from the blaze.
They were all too familiar with this smoke!
The Heavenly Thunder that Zhao Lang summoned, every time!
But after a while, there was no change in the flames, until they went out.
Long Tho said, somewhat puzzled
“Why is there no heavenly thunder?”
Xiang Yu, however, did not get too frustrated and said
“This thing must still have some mysteries, but since we know it’s not Heavenly Lightning, there’s always a way to deal with it!”
“Long Tho, are you sure that the Qin army doesn’t have much of this thing in their hands either?”
Long Tho said, after a slight pause.
“The last general confirmed that if they really had that much, then they would have used it on a large scale back in Pengcheng.”
“Now I think that they were deliberately kept to defend against our cavalry!”
Long Tho at this time recalled the timing of every time Zhao Lang used this, and understood something.
His heart couldn’t help but feel a little bitter, if he had known that it wasn’t any heavenly lightning at all.
As long as he was well prepared, those hundred or so crossbow arrows from Zhao Lang wouldn’t have caused too many casualties!
But instead, he had simply abandoned the city!
“Your Majesty, the last general…”
Long Tho tried to plead guilty at this point, but Xiang Yu just shook his head and said blandly that
“It’s not your fault, it’s Zhao Lang who is too cunning!”
Didn’t he also fall for the trick at first?
Long Tho nodded his head and quickly said that
“Your Majesty, the most urgent task is to tell General Ying Bu about this, so that he can hold the front line!”
Xiang Yu also nodded in agreement and was about to give the order when a Chu soldier hurriedly ran in and reported back that
“Your Majesty! An urgent report from the front line!”
“General Ying Bu has surrendered to the Qin army! The Qin army is repairing in the city and should be marching in by now!”
The Chu army quickly explained the situation.
Hearing the report, the entire tent was instantly silent.
Long Tho had a stunned look on his face, and it was only after a while that he slowed down and asked
“What!”
Xiang Yu’s face was also iron blue, he did not expect that Ying Bu had actually surrendered straight away!
And the other side had actually scared the other side without even releasing a single crossbow arrow!
But he quickly suppressed his anger and coldly replied back that
“Got it.”
Now that the facts were in, he had to find a way to deal with them.
After secretly calculating the speed and route of the Qin army’s march, Xiang Yu quickly ordered that
“Send orders to Yu Ziqi and Zhong Li Sheng to lead all the troops to prepare to meet the Qin army!”
Long Tho froze for a moment and said that
“Your Majesty, the Qin army is at its peak, and these two have only recently become an army, should they not recuperate a little more?”
Xiang Yu, however, shook his head at this time and said that
“We can’t let the Qin army get a firm foothold in Chu! Otherwise it will be difficult to fight in the future!”
“Now after the Qin army has captured these cities, they will inevitably have to divide and garrison them.”
“Their troops are already small, and the peasants who are expanding behind them are similar to our army.”
“And I still have my Jiangdong sons and daughters left, and a thousand cavalry!”
“If we collect the routed soldiers they put back, our army will outnumber them instead! ”
“The reason why the Qin army is so unconcerned and alone, relying on nothing more than the prestige of this heavenly thunder!”
“Now, our army also has the Heavenly Thunder!”
Listening to Xiang Yu’s analysis, Long Tho could not help but feel admiration, when it came to military matters, his own king was indeed not to be underestimated.
It was only the last words that confused him a little.
“Your Majesty, our army is not yet ah.”
Xiang Yu returned at this time that
“This is thanks to Zhao Lang, he was able to scare Ying Bu into surrendering with a heavenly thunder, and this king can also use this one heavenly thunder to tell the generals of Chu’s army that this king can also summon heavenly thunder!”
“Have the craftsmen make these bamboo tubes that emit black smoke, just as they have just done.”
“And get this heavenly thunder you’ve been given re-made!”
“When all the soldiers are together, the king will personally demonstrate summoning the heavenly thunder once!”
At once, Long Tho understood that they didn’t need to make the Heavenly Thunder!
Just make the Chu soldiers stop being afraid!
Thinking of this, Long Tho said with heartfelt conviction that
“Yes! Your Majesty!”
“Just, where is the best place for our army to gather again?”
Xiang Yu looked at the map at this time and quickly pointed at it and said
“Here!”
Long Tho looked over and the place Xiang Yu pointed to was a place called Gaixia.
This was one of the rear areas they had set up before, and with the terrain they had built an earthen city, a place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.
It was indeed suitable for a counterattack.
Long Tho returned, at once
“The last general has orders!”
Having said that, he quickly left.
Xiang Yu looked at the direction of Gaixia at this time and said fiercely that
“In this battle, this king will definitely wipe out the shame of his past!”
Soon, in a flurry of activity, it was dark.
All the guards and attendants began to be replaced as well.
Dale, of course, did the same and made his way back to his tent.
When it was late in the night, he went out of his tent.
He went to one of the tents and whispered.
“Go quickly and inform the master of the house! ”
Within a short time, a dark shadow left the camp of the Chu army.
A few days later.
Inside a small city in the land of Chu.
A little different from before, there is not half a Chu army to be seen here, instead it is all Qin troops.
On the walls of the small city, Zhao Lang was patrolling the walls with a group of men.
“What is the movement of the Chu army?”
Zhao Lang looked at the slightly barren fields outside the city, it was now almost autumn.
But there were more weeds in the fields than in the crofters.
The slave quickly returned that
“Master, Spiderweb’s spies at the farmhouse have reported back that the Chu army is making a big, forced call for men.”
“There have been some deaths and injuries among our men.”
“But the Chu army is also having some conflicts with the nobles of the Chu land now, so it should be that the previous message has worked.”
“Now there is also Ying Bu’s word that the nobles of the Chu land have all decided that it was Xiang Yu who killed the Chu king.”
Nu explained the situation one by one.
Zhao Lang nodded, pondered slightly, and was about to distribute the tasks when suddenly a fast horse arrived at the bottom of the city, and the messenger on it shouted
“An urgent report from the south! ”
Nu’s face changed slightly, he naturally recognised it as an urgent report from the Spider’s Web!
Soon after, the intelligence was delivered to Zhao Lang, the
“Long Tho got hold of a black gunpowder? Ah Yu actually came up with a way to break it.”
Looking at the intelligence, Zhao Lang was slightly surprised.
He did not expect that there were crossbow arrows that did not explode and were actually obtained by Long Tho.
However, it had to be said that Xiang Yu was indeed a great talent in military matters, just hearing about his method of deterring the Chu army, he had actually figured out a way to break it.
After reading it, Zhao Lang didn’t intend to cover it up, and directly told the news to Meng Yi and the others, and then said that
“Xiang has come up with a way to deal with it.”
“The deterrent effect of Heavenly Thunder on Chu’s army will not be as great.”
Just before Meng Yi and the others could speak, Hu Hai exclaimed, alarmed
“What? Brother Long, this heavenly thunder will be useless?”
“What can we do then?”
“Why don’t we retreat first, guard the border line, gather the soldiers first, and wait for the next year to get more heavenly thunderbolts and then blow them up!”
In his heart, whether in the battlefield of Liaodong, or in Julu, Pengcheng.
How could he not be surprised when he suddenly said that the sky mines were useless?
Now they could be considered as a lonely army!
Although the others didn’t say anything, they were also somewhat impressed.
Although the Qin army had won several games in a row, they were indeed a bit tired.
It would be better to stabilise first, and then in the spring, when the supplies are ready and the soldiers have been repaired, we can crush the Chu army in one fell swoop.
Sensing the hesitation of the crowd, Zhao Lang quickly revealed a smile.
“Do you also think that without the Heavenly Thunder, our army cannot fight?”
“You guys are looking too much at the power of weapons.”
“Although weapons are important, they are not omnipotent until they reach a certain point.”
Zhao Lang understood this weapon-only thinking of the others, after all, it was the first time he had seen the power of gunpowder.
In the Great Qin, no one was unafraid!
It’s just that if one thinks that everything can be solved by weapons, one will instead fall into a misconception!
If, because of this, one neglects the fundamentals and thinks that with gunpowder one can do whatever one wants, then the day of one’s demise is not far off!
This is also a warning to the Great Qin!
Zhao Lang revealed a smile at this time and said that
“If Xiang also thinks that if he thinks of a way to break the deterrent of heavenly thunder, he will be able to antagonize me.”
“Then they are wrong!”
“This time, I will be able to defeat the Xiang Clan without using the Heavenly Thunder!”
When the others heard this, they were also a little puzzled.
Only Zhao Lang knew that the firepower of the Heavenly Thunder was still far less than the people’s anger.
Looking at the message that Dale sent back, Zhao Lang was not sure if this was heaven’s will.
Xiang Yu has set the battlefield at Gaixia, and just in time, he has a song for the other side!
“They think our army is low on troops? You also think that our army is now alone and without the Heavenly Thunder, you are afraid of being outnumbered?”
“Nu, pass the order to the Holy Maiden, I want to raise up all the people of the land of Chu!”
“Tell all the peasants in the counties around Gaixia to run to Gaixia, young and old, with immediate effect!”
“Their chiefs need them!”
This time, let the world see the true power of the people!
And let the people know their true power!