Looking at the storeroom after storeroom, Xenobud's mood became heavier and heavier.

He fought against the Tang army in Hedong and intuitively felt the combat effectiveness of the Tang army, and now, he further understands that the strength of the Tang army is not without reason.

The Don Army did the ultimate in logistics.

The only thing a soldier has to do is train and fight.

This is simply not possible in Tibet. Even the major nobles and the personal guards of the leaders could not be like Tang Jun. And the Don Army had as many as twelve such armies. And that's not counting some of their special units such as the Mo Sword Guard, the Rangers, etc.

Today, there are more than 400,000 well-equipped and well-trained troops under Li Ze's command. And the Tibetans, even if you count those slaves, are only two or three million people.

Now Li Ze, if he recklessly mobilizes all the troops under his command, he can even immediately arm millions of people, and they are all well-trained soldiers.

These warehouses like the ones he saw today could immediately equip an army with the same level as Tu Lichun's.

This is the national strength, this is the heritage, when Tubo was at its strongest, it never reached such a height when it made the Tang Dynasty in the past a headache.

What now?

The Western Regions have been lost, and now Qinghai has lost most of it, and within Tubo, there is more than chaos, civil wars are endless, and now even food needs to be purchased from Datang.

"Let's go, I'll take you to see our new weapon!" Looking at Xenobud, who was a little confused and obviously absent-minded, Li Ze said with a smile.

The new weapon was not in the camp, and in the company of Tu Lichun and others, the group rode horses and smelled the camp, and actually only went to Lishan Mountain.

An hour later, they had appeared on top of a hill in the middle of the mountain, and now, the top of the hill had been completely flattened, and there was something of great size wrapped in linoleum.

"Nice terrain here!" Li Ze looked around and said with satisfaction.

"This hill is used as a battery, and the target is the opposite hillside, where we have set up some targets." Tu Lichun said: "This place is surrounded by mountains, far away from inhabited places, although the sound is very loud, it is not afraid to scare others. ”

"What is this?" Xenobud asked, somewhat confused.

"This is our new weapon!" Li Ze smiled: "Because you are coming today, General Tu has set up something new on the opposite side, which is a section of the city wall?" ”

Tu Lichun nodded and said: "I couldn't get anything good in my eagerness, so I asked the soldiers to build a section of the city wall with rammed earth, and piled up some stones outside, and set up a lot of dummies around them, but the dummies were covered with real armor." ”

"Well, let's our honored Tibetan guests and see the power of our new weapons!" Li Zedao.

Tu Lichun waved his hand, and the soldiers who had been waiting for a long time immediately trotted forward, tearing off pieces of linoleum, revealing the swarthy cannon body inside.

"Artillery!" Tu Lichun patted the cold cannon body and said to Xenobud: "The latest application of Datang gunpowder technology. At present, it is only a practical drill in Tongguan Jinshuguan, and the results are not bad. ”

Xenobud didn't understand what to do with it, so he could only remain silent, and at the same time looked at the opposite hillside, which was only a few miles away, and the naked eye could not see what was on the opposite hillside.

The empathetic Tu Lichun immediately handed over a monocular.

Raising the binoculars and looking again, Xenobud's eyes immediately became clear.

The half-human-high city walls are indeed made of earth, but outside, a lot of stones are piled up to act as protection, and behind these city walls, you can faintly see a lot of armored figures, which are the dummies Tu Lichun said, and in other places, there are also a lot of armored dummies scattered around.

How far can this thing hit?

Xenobud was skeptical.

"Li Xiang, please take a hundred steps back!" Tu Lichun said with a smile: "The terrain behind is a little higher, but you can see it more clearly later." ”

Knowing that this was Tu Lichun's own safety, what Zhu Yi made out could not guarantee absolute safety until now, although the explosion rarely happened, it was obvious that Tu Lichun did not dare to take this risk with himself.

The group took more than a hundred steps back.

In the artillery position ahead, an officer raised a small red flag in his hand and gave orders loudly.

Packets of fire were stuffed into the chamber of the cannon, and then pounded with a wooden pestle, and the black and heavy projectiles were immediately stuffed into the chamber.

Except for the officers who stood still and the soldiers with torches in their hands, the rest of the soldiers were half-crouched on the ground, their heads in their hands.

Li Ze, Tu Lichun and others also knowingly reached out to cover their ears.

The small fire flag in the hands of the officer fell heavily, and the order to open fire was given. The soldier with the torch in his hand immediately lit the exposed fuse.

Then, the two guys also crouched down.

A rumbling sound suddenly sounded, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and puffs of smoke rose from the position and were immediately blown away by the mountain wind.

Caught off guard, Xenobud's ears were buzzing, his legs went limp, and he almost fell to the ground.

The sound of artillery was incessant, and on the hillside, about twenty of these guns were arranged, and at this time, in order to show their firepower, these twenty guns were fired in turn.

Xenobud's face turned a little pale.

He didn't know what the situation on the other side was, but just by looking at the power at the time of activation, he knew that it was not a good thing. Fierce fire oil bombs, they also bought a batch from Datang, but that thing is more of an arson, and the movement of the explosion can't be compared with the one in front of them at all.

When the smoke cleared, Tu Lichun looked at Xenobud with a smug smile: "Look at the other side, look at our new weapon, how powerful is it?" ”

Xenobud couldn't hear what the other party was saying, but from the other party's pointing and pointing movements, he also understood what the other party meant. Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, he raised the monobrass telescope in his hand.

Instantly, his face turned pale.

On the opposite hillside, the original layout has long been unrecognizable, the rammed earth city wall has been blown to pieces, the stones piled up outside the wall have flown to some place at this moment, and those armored dummies hidden behind the city wall are even more miserable, with broken arms and stumps visible everywhere. On the hillside, there are potholes the size of water basins everywhere.

Xenobud finally could no longer stand, his legs went limp, and he sat down on the ground.

Li Peng waved his hand, and two guards stepped forward and helped him up.

"What is this? What is it? He muttered.

"Li Xiang named it artillery." Li Peng said.

"Can you sell it to us?" Xenobud blurted out, but in the blink of an eye, he saw the sarcasm in Li Peng's eyes, and immediately closed his mouth tightly.

How could the other party sell such a powerful weapon to their own.

A moment later, the cavalry galloped up the hill, but it sent a few of the broken dummies on the opposite side.

Li Zetu Lichun carefully inspected the broken iron pieces embedded in the armor, and Li Ze said with satisfaction: "It seems that it is much stronger than when he attacked Jin Steep Pass." ”

"Yes, the technician who came with these guns once said that the most important thing now is the further purification of the gunpowder and the sealing letter of the artillery. More importantly, the tightness of the artillery, the better the tightness, the more powerful the gunpowder can be, but so far, it has only been able to achieve this level. Give them time, and they can develop something better. Tu Lichun said.

"No hurry, no hurry!" Li Ze didn't look anxious at all: "Now, it's enough." Take your time, we'll make better artillery. ”

Turning his head to look at Xenobod, "How's it going, Xenobud, how does it feel?" ”

Xenobud's face was like ashes, and he bowed his head and said nothing.

"It's just a ranged attack weapon, and some melee weapons have been derived from this weapon." Li Ze said: "I won't show it to you one by one." ”

"Is Li Xiang going to use this weapon to attack Tibet?" Xenobud said with some difficulty.

Li Ze smiled faintly: "If this is necessary." ”

"Tubo is willing to be a brotherly state with the Tang Dynasty forever." Xenobud shook off the two soldiers who were supporting him and said loudly.

Seeing that Li Ze was unmoved by his eyes, Xenobud gritted his teeth: "Tubo is willing to serve the Tang Dynasty as the state of his parents, and is willing to pay tribute every year, and come to the dynasty every year, the lord of Tubo is willing to send the heir of the next generation to the Tang Dynasty as a hostage, and he will not go back until he inherits the throne." ”

Li Ze shook his head and said: "Xenobud, I told you a long time ago, Tubo, I am bound to win, Tubo people, must become a member of my great Chinese nation, this point, there is no need to discuss." ”

Xenobud's face showed a look of grief and indignation: "Li Xiang, Goryeo can't, why can't Tubo?" ”

"Tibet is not the same as Goryeo." Li Zedao: "Even when Goryeo is the strongest, it is impossible to pose a fatal threat to the Tang Dynasty, but Tubo is different. I wouldn't tolerate a knife under my ribs. This is not negotiable. The purpose of taking you to see this today is to tell you that Tibet will either surrender or be reduced to powder under my artillery. I will not hesitate to rebuild this place after turning this place into a blank field, you should have seen the power of our Tang people to turn decay into magic. ”

"Li Xiang, is this going to rely on national strength to be arrogant and domineering?" Xenobud hissed.

Li Ze smiled coldly: "When the Tang Dynasty declined, when you Tubo annexed my Tang territory and plundered my Tang Dynasty as a slave, did you ever make sense?" A lonely city for thousands of miles, full of white-haired soldiers, Li Ze will never let such a thing happen again in his lifetime, even if I am a hundred years later, I will not let this kind of thing happen again. ”

After a pause, Li Ze looked at Xenobud and said, "One more word for you, Xenobud, you remember, the truth is only within the range of the cannon." ”