We had a big quarrel yesterday and almost got into a fight, which was very unpleasant.
But after a night of thinking, and since both women were concerned about the overall situation, Xiao Linglong and Ye Hongxue decided that it was more important to fight against Qi and Zhou.
But when they met again today, the two people who already disliked each other felt even more unhappy.
This made Tongzhou Prefect Zhang Zheng a little confused.
Why is it that the feeling that these two people are going to fight is getting stronger and stronger?
According to the prepared plan, Xiao Linglong ordered the soldiers to start digging trenches.
Ye Hongxue went to the military camp to check the use of black gunpowder by Qian Guo during this period.
You will be shocked if you don’t look at it. It was studied day and night by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry.
They even made something similar to a landmine.
If Zhao Kang knew this, he would probably be very pleased.
"General Ye, this is a trigger device. After loading gunpowder, it will detonate immediately as long as the weight on the device exceeds one kilogram."
"The iron pellets loaded at the same time will start to spread in all directions, and they are powerful enough to break ordinary iron armor."
Ye Hongxue was extremely surprised and quickly asked the Ministry of War official: "How many such objects can you produce?"
"In addition to grain, grass and ordnance, as long as the auxiliary soldiers are carrying and transporting these items during this expedition, it is not a problem to make thousands of them in one day."
"Based on the black powder we carried this time, 30,000 is no problem."
"Okay, first ask someone to make three thousand for me. In the next battle, I will ask Zhou Guo not to use cavalry for a month!"
Ye Hongxue said excitedly.
A single mine may not kill a cavalryman, but gunpowder is more powerful in larger quantities.
Ye Hongxue could already imagine the moment when the Zhou cavalry was blown up and turned upside down.
In the Zhou Qi military camp.
Horn and Yan Wenyuan are deploying.
Yan Wenyuan said: "According to the information obtained by the scouts, Empress Xiao Linglong led a large army to the front line yesterday, and the number of people was at least 200,000."
"I'm afraid we won't bring all the troops from the Qian Kingdom."
Horn chuckled. He knew the situation in Qianguo. The maximum number of troops was between 250,000 and 300,000.
The combined forces of the two countries numbered 600,000. If so many people swarmed over and stepped on them, they could trample the army to death.
"Then give Her Majesty the Empress a greeting gift?" Yan Wenyuan said with a smile.
Horn nodded and sneered: "It would be a bit troublesome to retreat to Tongzhou, but if they want to keep the enemy out of the country, they are asking for death!"
Horn immediately called people to start organizing troops, and Yan Wenyuan also sent his deputy general to organize the troops.
The battle started instantly.
Men and horses from both sides were fighting in one place, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the blood stained the yellow sand.
The fighting continued from noon to dusk, with corpses everywhere.
However, Zhang Zheng, Chen Xuanlong, and Sun Tianli led the army and did not retreat even a step, and still defended the defense line.
Just because the army in the rear is digging trenches to lay out gunpowder, they can't retreat even one step!
The vanguard force totaled about 70,000 people. After four days of fighting with the Zhou and Qi coalition forces, the number quickly dropped to 20,000 to 30,000.
Fighting on the plains was too strenuous for Qian Guo.
Finally on the fifth day, Zhang Zheng, Chen Xuanlong, and Sun Tianli received the order from Her Majesty the Empress.
"You two, it looks like we have to put on a good show."
Zhang Zheng smiled coldly, Xiao Linglong asked him to return to the rear after defeat tomorrow, and he could only lose but not win.
Isn’t it just acting?
Chen Xuanlong and Sun Tianli looked at each other and nodded.
The next day, Zhang Zheng rode his horse out of Qi State's Guan Chang, and the army behind him followed with a roar of killing.
The two torrents of soldiers collided together. Zhang Zheng shouted loudly and applauded Guan Chang.
"You will die without a burial today!"
Guan Chang smiled coldly: "On your side?"
The spear spun like a dragon, deflected Zhang Zheng's sword, and then stabbed Zhang Zheng in the cheek.
Zhang Zheng quickly returned to defense, slashed with his long sword, and looked at the army pouring out from behind Guan Chang.
He immediately shouted: "Get back!"
"Want to leave? It's too late!" Guan Chang had the upper hand at this moment, so he would let Zhang Zheng go.
But Zhang Zheng hurriedly patted the horse without looking back.
Sun Tianli and Chen Xuanlong, who were fighting together, also immediately fled back.
Because Zhou's cavalry had been touched, the whole earth trembled, and they rushed towards them like iron ropes crossing the river.
The majestic horses trampled the ground and made dust fly. Li Jingyuan, the pioneer general of the Zhou Kingdom, raised his long sword high.
"Surround it with two wings, don't let anyone go!"
The flag commander beside him immediately issued an order. Upon seeing this, the cavalry general behind him began to divide his troops to drive Zhang Zheng and the others into the encirclement.
Once they entered the encirclement, Zhang Zheng and the others were lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and death was the only thing that greeted them.
Upon seeing this, Sun Tianli immediately reined in his horse and said, "You two go first!"
Chen Xuanlong and Zhang Zheng were shocked: "You are crazy!"
Sun Tianli grinned and looked back. He was one of the few generals in the Qian Kingdom who was proficient in cavalry tactics.
Judging from the encirclement situation of the Zhou cavalry, if they continue to escape like this, the opponent will definitely annihilate the three of them before they escape into the ambush site.
Moreover, the enemy's encirclement range has deviated from the ambush location given by Her Majesty the Empress!
"They won't take the bait unless you lay heavy bait."
As he spoke, Sun Tianli clapped his horse and pulled away, shouting: "It will last for ten thousand years! Follow me and kill the enemy!"
A roar steadied the fleeing soldiers, and the troops and horses he led turned around and followed Sun Tianli to charge!
"It will last for ten thousand years!"
Zhang Zheng and Chen Xuanlong said these words in a trembling voice, holding back their grief and turning around to retreat with the rest of their troops without looking back.
He led 20,000 horsemen to charge left and right in the encirclement. After fighting for half an hour with more than 3,000 men killed, Sun Tianli forcefully tore through the encirclement of Zhou cavalry and retreated towards the ambush site.
Li Jingyuan was furious: "We must not let him escape for me!"
He led 40,000 cavalry in hot pursuit, biting Sun Tianli's horses.
Finally, when there were only four or five hundred meters away from the ambush site, Sun Tianli, who was covered in blood and had more than a dozen wounds on his body, laughed and shouted like crazy: "Go for it!"
"Ten thousand years!"
All the Qianguo soldiers behind them roared in the same way. For the cavalry, the distance of four to five hundred meters was only a matter of seconds.
Sun Tianli jumped on his horse and took the lead into the ground full of gunpowder.
Turning around, Li Jingyuan clenched his sword and slashed hard. The sword directly split Sun Tianli's shoulder armor, as if he was about to split him in half.
At this moment, Sun Tianli grabbed Li Jingyuan's blade with both hands and grinned: "Let's go on the road together!"
Li Jingyuan was shocked, an unreasonable throbbing spread throughout his body, and then he heard a violent explosion sound from the ground and all around!
The sky is upside down or the earth is upside down!
Li Jingyuan no longer knew that the moment the gunpowder buried in the ground detonated, he and Sun Tianli were blown into the sky together with their horses.
The violent explosion was mixed with Sun Tianli's wild laughter, as if he was still saying the same sentence.
