Gao Wan City.

Li Mu stood calmly on a high platform that had just been built not long ago, looking at Gao Wancheng in front of him.

It's been a month since the siege of the city, but it doesn't seem that the Qi army in Gaowan City shows no sign of wanting to give up resistance.

On the contrary, under the leadership of Tian Fen, the people of Qi did exert their combat effectiveness that had never been shown by the people of Qi in the past few decades.

When the combat effectiveness of the two warring sides is almost the same, the very subjective thing of will will play a very important role.

At this moment, Li Mu was watching the soldiers of the Zhao Army under his command keep running towards the city wall, and then kept paying for their young lives under this city.

To be honest, since he saw the power of the earth-shattering thunder and grenades, Li Mu began to resist from the bottom of his heart the primitive and backward combat methods that were now being staged in front of him.

Why do you have to pay so many lives under this damn, incredibly thick wall before you can move on to the next stage of the siege?

"No, you can't go on like this." Li Mu shook his head and said to the master of Zhao Guo beside him, "Are you ready?" If you're ready, then you can start now. ”

Master Zhao replied very respectfully, and then hurriedly ran off the platform and walked towards the trebuchet position a few hundred steps away.

After a few days of test firing with stone bullets of comparable weight, Zhao Jun's craftsmen have initially mastered the distance, angle and landing time.

And today, it was time for Zhao Jun's trebuchet troops to try to baptize Gao Wancheng with the first gunpowder bullet.

Among the hundreds of trebuchets lined up, ten are the most conspicuous.

This is so because the ten trebuchets were at least a hundred paces away from the others, and each of them was almost thirty paces apart.

In addition, the people who were responsible for the projectile loading of these trebuchets were all Zhao prisoners, not Zhao craftsmen and infantrymen.

Of course, this is out of the need for safety, after all, there are hundreds of prisoners who have died, and in Li Mu's heart, the death of a soldier is not more important.

Although Li Mu is not a believer in Legalism, he still agrees with the concept of Legalism.

These prisoners have been working very hard to carry out projectiles in the past few days, although they don't know why they don't throw those hundreds of pounds of boulders but only throw some "small stones" weighing only ten or twenty pounds, but they are still very conscientious to obey the instructions of the craftsmen of Zhao State, and try hard to express themselves.

This is because Li Mu had promised in advance that once this test launch was successful, then all of these prisoners could get the credit of beheading.

This credit will help these prisoners get rid of their crimes and make them civilians of Zhao again!

This is definitely a dream for these prisoners, and the world is a pie-in-the-world thing.

You must know that if these prisoners cannot be exonerated by virtue of this war, then their outcome will be very tragic, and a lifetime of hard labor until death is almost a doomed thing.

Before that, the worst part of hard labor was undoubtedly being sent to build the Great Wall, but not anymore.

Because now everyone knows that the Monan Grassland has been completely included in the sphere of influence of the Zhao State and has become the territory of the Zhao State, since this is the case, it has become unnecessary to continue to build the Great Wall.

However, the cessation of the construction of the Great Wall does not mean that these prisoners of hard labor are relaxed, on the contrary, the migration direction of all the prisoners of the Zhao State has changed from the Great Wall in the north to the Hexi Corridor in the west, and the land of the river and the river!

Hexi, a land of mountains, grasslands, hills, deserts, Gobi and almost every other terrain you can think of, is full of barbaric Qiang and Hu people.

Moreover, these two places are at least thousands of miles away from the Central Plains of Zhao Kingdom, and they are even more remote and farther than the Great Wall in the north of Zhao Kingdom!

Compared with these two places, the matter of building the Great Wall thousands of miles away suddenly seems not so cruel.

Therefore, if they don't want to be sent to the northwest thousands of miles away to be accompanied by the Qiang and Hu people, these prisoners must behave themselves well, and strive to be able to exonerate themselves from responsibility and become new people through their own performance!

Next to the ten trebuchets, ten swarthy jars had been placed, inconspicuous next to a pile of stones.

The jars were all sealed, but if you looked closely, you could see what appeared to be a layer of black, mud-like slag near the mouth of the jar.

In addition, there was a long fuse sticking out of the jar, which was a new type of weapon made by the craftsmen of the Zhao State at the request of Li Mu, a "gunpowder bullet" born for ejection.

After carefully examining the ten trebuchets, and then the ten gunpowder cartridges on one side, and after confirming that everything was correct, he nodded and said to one of the prisoners he had selected to be the commander of these trebuchets: "Wait until you listen to my orders and start immediately, understand?" ”

The prisoner nodded vigorously and said with a smile: "Please rest assured, we can save everything." ”

"Be careful, if it explodes, your life will be at risk!" After some advice, the master walked away.

This is Li Mu's order, after seeing the power of these explosives, Li Mu has already regarded these craftsmen who can manipulate the earth-shaking thunder as treasures, and does not allow them to take any adventures at all.

Fifty paces away, the master returned to a trench that had only been dug for a few days, poked his head out and said to the prisoners in front of him: "Count down, start!" ”

"Three, two, one!" The prisoner counted down loudly, and then began to wave a small red flag in his hand.

Thirty prisoners stood next to the ten catapults, and when they heard this, they immediately carefully put the gunpowder jars into the baskets.

"Light the fuse! Pour dozens of sounds, ten, nine...... Two, one, launch! ”

Under the order of the prisoner's hundred generals, the Zhao prisoners next to the ten trebuchets lit the fuse with all hands and feet, and then smashed the trigger hard when the penultimate sound fell.

After ten consecutive dense sounds, ten burning gunpowder canisters were thrown at the head of Gaowan City in the distance.

Li Mu stared at these gunpowder jars, his eyes full of anticipation.