"Holy Lord, the catapult is all ready! Whether or not to launch an attack on the target, please ask the Holy Lord. In the Imperial Garden of Daming Palace, Gao Yanfu was wearing a dazzling star armor and a Pixiu helmet, and ran to the four-wheeled vehicle with a fork hand asking Li Xian who was sitting in the car.

"Attack!" Li Xian also wore a dragon pattern dazzling star armor and a dragon helmet, tried to sit up straight, and waved his hand on the four-wheeled vehicle.

"Order!" Gao Yanfu responded loudly, and then quickly ran to the catapult twenty paces away. The legs deliberately exerted force, making the body run up and down, causing the hem of the dazzling star armor to collide with the iron-clad combat boots, and make a "clang" sound all the way.

Ying Tianshen Dragon Emperor Li Xian's attention was not attracted by the sonorous sound of the iron armor at all, and all eyes were focused on the five catapults lined up twenty paces away.

These five cars were built by Zhang Qian, the young superintendent of the Ordnance Supervision Department, the year before last, and each car has a bronze medal with a sign that can be checked. On the surface of the bronze medal, the numbers of the overseer and the maker are clearly engraved.

The gunpowder bullets loaded in the catapult were also supervised by Zhang Qian himself. Although the battle was raging on the side of Broken Leaves, Zhang Qian still sent people to transport a full hundred gunpowder shells back to Chang'an. And the secret recipe for the configuration of black powder, together with the manufacturing process of gunpowder bullets, was hand-drawn into an atlas with text descriptions, and sent to the palace with Zhang Shuo.

In the recital to the Shenlong Emperor Li Xian, Zhang Qian explained very solemnly that the black powder and gunpowder bullets were all obtained by him on the way to Shule and according to his master's knowledge. The reason why he entered the palace so late was because this thing was too dangerous, and if he was not careful when using it, it would cause a catastrophe. In order to avoid threatening the safety of the Holy Lord and the Holy Empress, he did not dare to let this object near the palace until he mastered the properties of this object. The second is because, when this thing was just manufactured, there were many defects, and Zhang Qian himself didn't know what its actual combat effect was, in order to avoid ugliness? Does he need to be verified multiple times after? Only then did he dare to take it out and let His Majesty the Divine Dragon Emperor take a look.

And now, through repeated improvements? And after being tested in real combat? Zhang Qian has explored the complete manufacturing steps, usage methods and actual combat effects. That's why he sent his powerful subordinates to send the physical goods and manufacturing manuals back to Chang'an? Entrust the old boss Zhang Shuojin to present to His Majesty Emperor Ying Tianshenlong. Please send his henchmen to inspect it after His Majesty the Heavenly Dragon Emperor sends a confidant to verify it, and then decide whether it will be mass-produced by the Ordnance Supervisor? and distributed to the army.

Furthermore? In the letter, Zhang Qian also reminded His Majesty the Emperor Ying Tianshenlong that black powder is a great evil. How to make it, please after the Holy Emperor has a look? Leave it in the hands of a special person for proper collection. Where is it manufactured? It should be far from the Royal Palace. The specific manpower should be rewarded handsomely, and it should be restricted from leaving Chang'an.

In the end, Zhang Qian unceremoniously proposed, the manufacturing department of black powder? Do not leave it to the control of aliens. Officials of various ministries are not allowed to write it into books and circulate it in the world. If there is a person who sells fame and fame? For your own selfishness, you leaked the manufacturing method? Then I implore His Majesty the Heavenly Dragon Emperor to cut it with a thousand knives, and then engrave his name and bad deeds on the stone? Let him stink for 10,000 years!

"This guy? Am I an idiot? Thinking of those "nonsense" on Zhang Qian's recital? Li Xian couldn't help but smile and pout.

Without thinking about it carefully, he knew that the so-called "on the way to Shule, according to the master's knowledge, figure out and comprehend the gains" is Zhang Qian's desire to cover up. The gunpowder bomb in front of him must be the same thing as the meteor that blew up the altar that day. Or, at least, "Uncle Brothers".

However, Li Xian didn't want to delve into it, nor did he want to consider whether Zhang Qian's behavior was "bullying"?

If you are a human being, you will inevitably have some little secrets, and no matter how loyal a courtier is, she will not show all the secrets to the royal family without reservation. What's more, with Zhang Qian's status and strength at that time, if it weren't for the fact that he had some powerful "magic weapons" hidden in his body, he would have been joined forces by Buddhism and Princess Taiping a long time ago, and he would have eaten so much that he didn't even have bones left, how could he have the opportunity to go to the Western Regions to regain the lost territory for Datang?!

"Forget it, let him offset his merits. I didn't ask about what he had deliberately concealed before, and he also wanted to be promoted with the recipe of black powder and gunpowder bullets. Slowly stretching in the sun, Li Xian continued to mutter in his heart. Otherwise, if I am really gone one day, what will the queen and the crown prince give him to be grateful? ”

Thinking that Zhang Qian could be arranged as the right-hand man of his wife and the crown prince, the smile on Li Xian's face suddenly became a little mysterious. Back then, in order to save his father's arms, His Majesty Emperor Taizong deliberately demoted Xu Shiji's official position again and again before he died, which frightened Xu Shiji and didn't dare to sleep at night.

And after his father ascended the throne, he immediately entrusted Xu Shiji with important tasks. As a result, Xu Shiji became a sky-leaning sword under his father's command. Used outside, the Goguryeo plough court can be swept away. If it is used in China, it will deter all powerful ministers from acting rashly!

"If you use the same means to suppress Zhang Qian......" A flash of inspiration flashed in his heart, and his thoughts were immediately uncontrollable. Soon, however, he shook his head again.

It's not easy to suppress, Zhang Qian is too capable of meritorious service! Last year, he just put down the Suo Ge Rebellion, and this year he beat the invaders of the Stone Country to the ground. If those who have made such miraculous contributions to the country will not be given additional officials and knights, but will be degraded, who will dare to expand the territory of the Tang Dynasty in the future? !

"The Holy Decree Aims at the ——! Target" Gao Yanfu's voice sounded twenty steps away, deliberately dragging out a long tail rhyme.

Li Xian's thoughts were quickly pulled out of a large number of troubles. The gaze was refocused on the catapult, and the eyes did not blink.

Gao Yanfu asked Li Xian again with his gaze, and the latter nodded with a smile.

"Attack!" Gao Yanfu no longer made any delays, and decisively waved the flag down.

Five well-trained guards bent down at the same time and lit the freshly loaded fuse with mugwort. The five small leaders of the guards stomped on the mechanism with their feet as Gao Yanfu waved the flag.

"Whoosh-" Five gunpowder shells were thrown high into the air by the throwing arm, dragging pale cyan smoke and smashing into a mountain of earth a hundred and twenty paces away, where many scarecrows were placed, and then the explosion was earth-shattering.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom" "Boom! "Boom!" The earth rose into the air with the light of fire and the smoke of gunpowder. On the dirt mountain, two of the three tea trees with thick bowls were broken on the spot, and one was pushed crooked by the smoke of gunpowder, and the trunk was instantly covered with miserable green gaps.

Looking at the scarecrow placed on the dirt hill in advance, most of it was torn apart by shrapnel. The remaining half were also shaken to the ground, and some even emitted wisps of black smoke!

"Good, good!" Li Xian shouted excitedly and stroked his palms, instinctively wanting to go to the side of the earth mountain and inspect the results of the battle in person. However, as soon as the body was halfway up and up, the waist pole and thigh lost strength at the same time, and with a "poof", he fell back on the four-wheeled bike.

"Holy Lord, be careful!" Xue Sijian, the general of the right prison gate, was so frightened that he hurriedly rushed to the side of the four-wheeled vehicle, and hugged Li Xian's upper body tightly with both hands, in case Li Xian couldn't even sit still, and fell to the ground with a blue nose and swollen face.

"Get out of here!" Li Xian impatiently stretched out his hand and pushed Xue Sijian aside. Immediately, he turned his head and yelled at a group of frightened little eunuchs behind the four-wheeled vehicle, "Are they all dead?" Can't even have a cart? Push me to the dirt mountain, I ......"

"Holy Lord, slave and maid come to push, slave and maid come to push!" Xue Sijian immediately understood that he had slapped the horse's leg on the horse's leg just now, and hurriedly rushed to the back of the four-wheeled vehicle and tried to make up for it.

Xue Sijian was a red man in the eyes of Empress Wei Wushuang of Shuntian, and several little eunuchs did not dare to fight with him, so they turned sideways and stepped aside. The handrail on the back of the four-wheeled vehicle was quickly grabbed by Xue Sijian. Immediately, the body moved forward steadily, quickly carrying Li Xian to his designated destination.

Seeing this, Gao Yanfu hurriedly ordered someone to stop continuing to operate the catapult. "Bang dang" "Bang dang" stepped forward and gently held the body of the four-wheeled vehicle from the side.

"Let them continue to prepare, the next round of attacks, I want to see five wheel shots!" Li Xian's mood immediately began to improve. turned his head to Gao Yanfu and commanded with a pleasant face.

"Yes!" Gao Yanfu decisively withdrew his hand and quickly turned his body to the catapult. "Catapults were reloaded, and no fuses were allowed to be placed on the gunpowder bullets. Once you're ready, report back immediately! ”

"Yes!" The guards agreed in unison, and began to carry out a series of operations in an orderly manner. Shake the oar, use the rope and pulley, pull the throwing arm back to the waiting position, fasten the mechanism, straighten the grenade basket, and place the gunpowder bullets with the lead drawn into the basket one by one.

While they were reloading the gunpowder bullets, Gao Yanfu and Xue Sijian pushed Li Xian up Tushan. Although he had been prepared in his heart, Li Xian was still shocked by several huge craters on the dirt mountain, and gasped several times. Immediately, his eyes quickly scanned the blown up straw men around him, and he stroked his palms excitedly again, "Okay, good, I have this thing, why worry about the Turkic immortal?!" Gao Yanfu, push me to the catapult, I will personally drop the bomb! ”

"Yes!" Gao Yanfu agreed, pushed the four-wheeled car and left. Xue Sijian, the general of the right prison gate, looked at Li Xian's face that was flushed from overexcitement, and cautiously reminded, "Holy Lord, that catapult is a bulky thing after all, and it is ...... by the guards."

"It's none of your business, don't talk too much!" Li Xian glared at him and scolded him.

"The slave knows that she is wrong, please forgive the saint!" Xue Sijian was so frightened that she shuddered, and hurriedly bowed down, admitting her mistake with a red face.

"In my life, I don't have the opportunity to ride a horse and charge into battle like Emperor Taizong." Li Xian glanced at him again and sighed softly, "Fortunately, the country has a weapon that is enough to make the Turks fearful. I personally fired a gunpowder bullet today, just as I have been on the battlefield, Gao Yanfu, after the five wheels are fired, you will send someone to send these five catapults to Zhang Renyuan. Even if it is for Shuo Fang's soldiers! ”

As he spoke, two lines of tears flowed uncontrollably all over his face. When Gao Yanfu saw it, he felt sad in his heart. hurriedly handed over the four-wheeled car to Xue Sijian, and then took a handkerchief to help him wipe his tears. Li Xian, on the other hand, raised his hand and wiped it, and then smiled with tears in his eyes, "It's okay, I'm happy." When I first returned to Chang'an, the Turks knocked on the pass, and the queen mother actually sent Wu Yanxiu to kiss! Born as a man, Wu Yanxiu didn't feel humiliated, but I was on pins and needles at that time. Now, I want to see which barbarian dares to let my Tang boys go into the rich?! ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Gao Yanfu and Xue Sijian opened their mouths to praise at the same time, however, they secretly sighed in their hearts.

Gao Yanfu sighed that in his life, the Divine Dragon Emperor may not be able to get rid of the shadow of the Great Sage Empress Zetian. Many times, he was not so much trying to be a wise monarch as trying to prove that the Heavenly Great Holy Empress was very wrong in ousting him from the throne back then.

Xue Sijian sighed that the Divine Dragon Emperor Li Xian didn't know the severity. The combination of catapults and gunpowder bullets, no matter how powerful they are, is just a weapon of conquest, which can neither decide the throne nor replace the country. And the Tang Dynasty's Jiangshan is about to be surnamed Wei, and Li Xian, as the emperor, is unaware of this, or rather, indifferent.

"Gao Yanfu, have you made gunpowder yourself? The result? Li Xian didn't feel the emotional changes of Gao Yanfu and Xue Sijian at all, raised his hand and rubbed a few handfuls on his face, and asked with a smile.

"If you go back to the saint, the old slave personally concocted a hundred catties, and the effect is exactly the same as the one sent back by Zhang Zhenshou." Gao Yanfu didn't think about it, and responded with pride. "Gunpowder bombs, the old slave also personally went to the ordnance prison to supervise the craftsmen to build two. The power seems to be greater than that sent back by Zhang Zhenshou. ”

"Huh? Why? Li Xian was happy when he heard this, but instinctively asked.

"According to Guo Nu's report from the Gunpowder Administration, the craftsmen of the Ordnance Supervision are the best in the Tang Dynasty, so the bullet casings made are several times stronger than those on the side of the broken leaves." deliberately wanted to make Li Xian happy, Gao Yanfu exaggerated his report.

"Oh, I really didn't expect this!" Li Xian was really happy, and nodded with a smile. Immediately, he quickly ordered, "You ask the ordnance superintendent to make more shells and send them to Zhang Qian." When it comes to making weapons, there is certainly no one in the world who is stronger than him. But he is alone after all, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to find suitable craftsmen in the Western Regions. ”

"Yes!" Gao Yanfu smiled and bowed.

"Has there been a new war report from Broken Leaf recently? I remember that the last time there was an invasion of the Shi Kingdom's special service leaders who didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and after being defeated by Zhang Qian, he immediately led his troops to chase into the territory of the Shi Kingdom. I wonder where he has gone? As soon as Li Xian was happy, his thinking began to diverge again, and the conversation quickly shifted to Zhang Qian himself, "Shi Guo is just an itch of scabies, in fact, there is no need to deal with it." He raised his troops early to join Zhang Renyuan, and it was only right that he would destroy the Turks together. ”

"If you go back to the Holy Heaven, there is no war report back yet." Gao Yanfu thought for a moment and responded cautiously, "However, on the side of the Hundred Cavalry Division, I have heard some rumors recently, and I am doing my best to verify them. ”

"What kind of rumors, but Zhang Qianshiguo suffered?" Li Xian's brows furrowed quickly, and he asked nervously.

He is not familiar with the place, and there are only a few thousand soldiers and horses under his command. Even with a sharp weapon like gunpowder bombs in hand, Li Xian was not very optimistic about the result of Zhang Qian's rash entry into the territory of Shiguo.

It's just that as the emperor, he didn't want to vent the anger of his soldiers, so he didn't express his worries publicly. And the affairs of the court, he rarely cares about it in person now. lest Empress Wei feel as if she was his puppet because she was disturbed by him.

"I didn't suffer a loss, the saint can rest assured. Rumor has it that Yihu was captured by Zhang Qian and promised to pay 20,000 taels of gold for redemption. After Zhang Zhenshou released him, he immediately turned his face and denied it. And he put all the Tang merchants in Talas City on the city wall as meat shields. Zhang Zhenshou was furious, so he set a fire and burned the city of Talas to the ground. Gao Yanfu quickly lowered his head and responded in a low voice. However, rumors may not be accurate. Seeing that the situation was not good, the people of Shiguo abandoned the city and fled, and it is also very possible that they set fire to the city themselves. The Holy Forgiveness, Anxi's side is too far away, even if it is a hundred horses, it will take half a month to send the news back. ”

"Talus, where is Talus?" The Divine Dragon Emperor Li Xian was extremely unfamiliar with the places west of the Green Ridge, and asked with a frown.

"It is said to be the third largest castle in the Stone Country, and it seems to be more than 1,300 miles away from Broken Leaves." Gao Yanfu was also not familiar with the situation west of the Green Ridge, and after thinking about it for a long time, he gave a rough answer. "It is four or five hundred miles away from the capital of Shiguo. The lord of the Shi Kingdom, at the time of the first emperor, once asked for it to be attached and was named the governor of Dawan. But more than 20 years ago, the lord of the country betrayed his word and refused to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty. ”

"Has the matter of the burning of Talas been discussed in the court? What do you say? Li Xian was not interested in whether the lord of Shi Guo had been an official of the Tang Dynasty, and quickly asked about the movements of the imperial court.

"Old slave, old slave doesn't know very well." Gao Yanfu's face was obviously hesitant, and his voice quickly became lower, "The old slave is a minister, and he doesn't dare to care too much about the affairs of the court." However, the old slave recently vaguely heard that there was a lot of debate in the court about whether Zhang Zhenshou should chase him into the territory of the enemy country. As for the burning of Talus, it should be that the official news has not yet come back, so it is not included in the scope of the agenda. ”

"Argument about what?" Li Xian's face quickly became gloomy, and he continued to get to the bottom of it.

"It seems that someone impeached Zhang Zhenshou for starting a war without asking for instructions. But how the court finally came to a conclusion, the old slave didn't dare to ask. Gao Yanfu lowered his voice, and his back quickly became rickety.

"Fart! It's all bullshit! Li Xian immediately became angry, scolded in a very inappropriate language, and then ordered in a deep voice: "Who impeached, Gao Yanfu, you find out his name?" Then, I asked the queen to kick him back to his hometown! Broken Leaves is thousands of miles away from Chang'an, and the message is delivered back and forth for at least a month. If the other party knocks on the door, Zhang Qian needs to ask for instructions on whether to fight back, how can he defend the city?! was beaten to the door of the house, if you don't return the color, what will my Datang use to deter Siyi! ”

"The old slave obeys!" Gao Yanfu didn't dare to take it, so he bowed down and agreed.

"A bunch of idiots!" Li Xianyu was still angry, and continued to scold in a low voice. After scolding, I also knew that the problem was probably not with a certain imperial history. After hesitating for a moment, he continued to command, "Forget it, when the holy queen goes down to the court, I will tell her directly." By the way, even that big, big what? What is the name of the city that was set on fire by Zhang Qian? ”

"Talus!" Gao Yanfu reminded in a low voice.

"Yes, Talus!" Li Xian raised his hand and patted his head in annoyance, "My memory is really worse day by day!" Regardless of whether the big screws or the small screws are burned, Zhang Zhenshou burned them correctly. Whoever dares to take my people as a shield should destroy his kingdom. To burn a city as punishment is to be too merciful! ”

"Holy Wisdom!" Gao Yanfu and Xue Sijian listened to the relief, and bowed down to praise at the same time.

As soon as the words fell, I heard a burst of cheers not far away, and the content was vaguely similar to the praise of the two, "The holy queen is wise, and the ministers are ashamed!" ”

Li Xian, who was sitting on the four-wheeled car, quickly looked up and saw his wife, surrounded by Princess An Le, Shangguan Wan'er, as well as Xiao Zhizhong, Zong Chuke, Dou Huaizhen, Cen Xi and other ministers, walking into the imperial garden with a spring breeze on her face!