Bai Liyan has always been unable to understand two things, one is how the Black Turban Army can get the production process of a swarm of bees, and the other is that such a huge amount of gunpowder, who will guarantee it.

The first problem is the production process and the manufacture of arrowheads, where gunpowder needs to be wrapped in cardboard and then fixed to the arrow clusters to generate power through gunpowder jetting. If there is a slight mistake in the production process, an explosion will occur during the ignition process.

The manufacture of arrow clusters is also very particular, it is stainless steel, to be precise, it is the steel ingots of Yongxing City, even if each arrow is calculated in ten dollars, it is common for large-scale battles to consume millions of arrows, at least 12,000 catties of steel ingots, counting processing losses, 13,000 catties is at least.

At a time when bronze arrow clusters are still used in large quantities, where did the Black Turban Army get so many steel ingots, and smuggling could not get so many steel ingots. Because the channels for smuggling steel ingots are all in Bailiyan's own hands, he knows very well who he smuggled them to.

The most intriguing is gunpowder, which is now a time when mineral exploration technology is backward and most rely on accidental discoveries. Although Sun Guo had sulfur mines, the output before the war was not large, because the exploration and mining technology was not good, and there was not much sulfur in the territory occupied by the Black Turban Army, at best, it was more than that of Zhiguo.

A battle on a front consumes hundreds of thousands of catties of inferior gunpowder at a time, the total amount exceeds the total amount that the Xian army can reserve in a year, and there may be several battles on four fronts at the same time, and the total consumption is calculated in millions of catties, such a large amount, not counting the consumption of artillery and fire and thunder shells, it is really hard to believe that it is the production capacity of the Black Turban Army itself.

There is only one explanation, there have long been princes who have interacted with the Black Turban Army, and Gongsun Yue's detention is obviously because the factions within the Black Turban Army are making peace with some forces within the princes, and they have obtained more political promises than the Xian State, and the Xiong Daoist faction naturally does not need to pay attention to the political conditions of the Xian State.

It cannot be ruled out that the younger brothers of King Wei secretly funded the Black Turban Army to resist desperately on the Eastern Front for the sake of the territory of Sun Guo's Western Front, so as to buy time for them to compete in the Central Plains.

In this way, the Black Turban Army weakened the strength of Shen Bi, the main force of King Wei, on the one hand, and resisted the westward advance of the Zhi Army and the Xian Army on the other hand.

It is not even ruled out that Changsun Guo secretly made peace with the Black Turban Army a few years ago, and conveyed a lot of benefits and benefits in exchange for the Black Turban Army to suspend the use of troops against it. But this kind of thing that harms others and is not beneficial to oneself is really irritating.

Thinking through this, Bai Liyan did not make a sound, rode around Yin Qu twice, and then fled away, throwing 5,000 leaflets into the city with a hot air balloon that afternoon.

Soon after the leaflets from Gongcheng were scattered, the guards quickly collected hundreds of copies and sent them to the supernatural camp.

After reading the content of the leaflet, Shentong was silent, but his face behind the mask was blue and tendons twitching, and Shen Duchi asked at this time:

"Heavenly King, right now, people's hearts are fluctuating and morale is low, and the Xian army is offering a bounty to shake the hearts of our army with a lot of money, Bailiyan's plan is not poisonous."

"Hmph, despicable!"

The word "despicable" spit out from the mouth of the supernatural power, and Shen Duchi knew in his heart that they were not a hundred times inferior than Baili Yan.

The supernatural gaze swept over Shen Duchi, and seeing that his expression was different, he said in a deep voice:

"General Shen, five thousand silver is a lot!"

Shen Duchi was stunned for a moment, and then thought that it must be a supernatural power who suspected him:

"The king of heaven is too worried, and the last general will never have such a heart."

"Hmph, you don't dare. According to the order of the Heavenly King, the whole army immediately marched and went to Yin Qu. ”

"The Heavenly King, this is going to be a decisive battle?"

"Bailiyan has shaken the morale of our army with this despicable means, and if it drags on for a long time, it will suffer. It is necessary to defeat the main force of the army before its morale is shaken, so as to stabilize the morale of the army.

Moreover, according to the report from the secret agent, a batch of 25 earth-shaking fires of the Xian army will arrive in Lintai soon, and there will be 25 more in April, and the Xian army will have 75 earth-shaking fires at that time, which will pose a huge threat to our city, and we must be taken by surprise so that they will not be able to use troops for half a year. ”

"But Bailiyan is extremely powerful, more than 160,000 troops are stationed in Lintai, if our army goes to attack, I am afraid that it will hit the stone with eggs, and the cavalry of the Zhi army will arrive in Lintai in two days, and our army has no chance of winning."

"This Heavenly King has his own clever plan, and General Shen doesn't need to worry about it. In addition, let people secretly spread the word, saying that the gold and silver promised by the Xian army were all fake gold and silver, and it was a trick to deceive the army, and it was absolutely not credible. ”

"But ......"

Shen Duchi wanted to speak and stopped, and asked unhappily:

"But what's the matter?"

"It is rumored that Bailiyan plundered a large amount of gold and silver back then, and his promise of gold and silver may not be false."

"Hmph, whether it's true or not, you General Shen knows, or this Heavenly King knows, true and false, false and false, true and false, if you believe it, if you don't believe it, you don't, at the moment, it is the best policy to stabilize the morale of the army, this is an expedient measure."

"The last general understands ......"

In the early years, the Black Turban Army used copper-zinc and white copper to smelt copper-zinc alloys, and flowed into the markets of various countries with counterfeit gold, defrauding a large number of materials, and at the same time disrupting the financial order and harming other countries. At the beginning of the flow of fake gold into the Liang Kingdom, it was exchanged for a large number of Liang copper coins.

The trade of the Liang State is developed, the gold and silver reserves are very large, and its copper coins have always been very strong, and the market demand in the Central Plains is very large. The Black Turban Army took the exchanged copper coins of Liang Guo and went to Changsun and Weiguo to buy goods, almost unimpeded.

By the time the East Window Incident occurred, two or three years had passed since the Black Turban Army uprising, and Liang's copper coins were heavily hollowed out by the Black Turban Army, resulting in a significant depreciation of the reputation of Liang's copper coins, and Liang Tianzi was forced to put gold and silver into the market to stabilize the value of copper coins, and Boyuan Jun Jifeng also suffered greatly

Now the magic power is beating a rake and splashing dirty water on Baili Yan's head, which is not clever.

Two days after the supernatural power camp, the news reached the Baili Yan camp, and at this time it was on the way to Zhaocheng:

"Deputy Marshal, the divine power suddenly moved towards Yin Qu, didn't he want to attack my Lin Tai, right?"

Ye Xin pointed to the map and said, Bai Liyan pondered for a moment and shook his head:

"Yes, but it's not."

"What does the deputy marshal mean?"

"General Ye, you think, after our army released this leaflet that bought people's hearts, the supernatural power must be worried that morale will fluctuate and people's hearts will collapse, and there are actually no more means at hand to stabilize morale and military morale. The cult and witchcraft have failed, and the deification of the division of the gods is also self-defeating, and in addition, the supernatural power has neither gold nor silver rewards, nor has he eaten and drunk spicy food, and in the face of the temptation of our army's heavy money, how can he boost morale? ”

"Shhh...... Is the deputy marshal saying that he wants to use the heads of our soldiers to boost morale? ”

This is one thing, but it is not the real intention. Our army of 160,000 people did not move in Lintai, there was a Gongliang army in the south as a reinforcement, and Shentong only relied on more than 100,000 horses in his hands, and he could not shake our army at all. ”

"What does the deputy marshal mean is that the divine power is going to our army to fight in the field?"

"Exactly. General Ye, you see, Yin Qu, Gongcheng, and Lintai are better than Yin Qu, Gongcheng, and Zhaocheng, Yin Qu, Gongcheng, and Lintai are genuine glyphs, and our army only occupies one place in Lintai, while Shentong occupies two places in Yinqu and Gongcheng. If the field battle is between Yinqu, Gongcheng, and Lintai, our army needs to be on guard against the sneak attack on Lintai by Yinqu, Gongcheng, and Zhaocheng from time to time.

If our army does not fight, it will inevitably damage the morale of our army. If it is a battle, it is appropriate to send how many soldiers and horses to fight, and how many soldiers and horses to stay behind, and how many soldiers and horses will be sent by the supernatural power Our army does not know.

And about 110 miles south of the west of Zhaocheng is Xingcheng, although Xingcheng soldiers are few, there can be a port, if the black turban army from the southwest or the opposite bank to land and go straight to Lintai, the main force of our army is outside, Lintai is surrounded again, then it will be ignored. ”

"But the Gongliang army is south of our army, but it is a friendly army, and Xingcheng's every move will never escape the eyes and ears of Gongliang. Our army is also fighting in Changyin, and it is fighting for Zhiguo, and Gongliang and righteousness will definitely not see death and not save it. ”

"But if the Black Turban Army feinted to attack the Gongliang Army from the south at the same time, what would the Gongliang Army do? And even if the Gongliang Army draws troops to Lintai, if the divine power is interspersed with soldiers and horses to abandon Lintai to meet the Gongliang army, wouldn't it be in the hands of the supernatural power. ”

"Shhh...... This one...... Is the game a little bigger, a wrong step, but the whole game is lost. ”

"That's the case, but the supernatural power has to make this decision. If it can't win a game in a short period of time to boost morale, our army's strategy of recruiting and accepting rebellion will corrode its military spirit like a tumor. ”

"How is the lieutenant going to fight?"

"Hmph, it was expected that Ben Shuai was eager to go north for victory, and captured Ganfu and Shangguan before Zhang Sunjun went south, but Ben Shuai just ignored him. The herald ordered all battalions to rush to Zhaocheng before noon today. ”

"No!"

As expected by Zong Botai and Zhao Anling, Shentong took advantage of the mentality of the Xian army to rush north before Changsun invaded Ganfu and Shangguan counties, and wanted to lure the Xian army out and inflict heavy losses.

A day later, Shentong had two battle letters, one went down to the Baili Yan camp, and the other was given to Guan Longxiang:

"Brother Anling, this magical power suddenly came to the war book, how do I feel that there is fraud in it, what do you think, Brother Xian?"

Zhao Anling smiled, pressed the battle book on the table and said:

"Brother doesn't need to pay attention to it, just send someone back, and the deputy marshal will never send troops."

"How do you know that the lieutenant will not send troops?"

"Before coming here, Brother Zong and I had calculated that this black turban army would definitely take advantage of our army's eagerness to go north, and design our army to send troops to fight a decisive battle, if so, our army will definitely be defeated."

"Oh, when the virtuous brother said this, the foolish brother realized some clues, if our army leaves Lintai, it doesn't matter how many soldiers and horses are left, whether it is a false army to attack, or a real soldier to attack, our army is very passive, and this situation is afraid that it is incomprehensible."

"What my brother said is very true." When the words fell, Zhao Anling spread out the topographic map of the mountains and rivers, and pointed to Sakura City: "Brother, look, Sakura City is south of our army, and if the supernatural power uses this trick on our army, I think it will definitely be used on the head of the Gongliang army."

Compared with our army's eagerness to take Ganfu and Shangguan, the Gongliang army has not even taken a county so far, and Gongliangyi is more urgent than our army.

If this is the case, both Sakura City and Lintai are relatively empty, and the Black Turban Army has a lot to do. At that time, I am afraid that it will not be our army that will ignore the end, but the Zhi army and our army will not ignore the end of the war, and it will be strange if they do not suffer a defeat. ”

"Brother Fool understands, in this way, if our army can't avoid the war, it will not be good to delay it for a long time."

"Brother, you have such thoughts, how do you know that the eldest grandson does not have such thoughts. At this moment, Changsun Guo is afraid that he is also in a hurry to go south to capture the three counties of Ganfu, Shangguan and Wanchuan. According to this calculation, the eldest grandson country may have to suffer defeat. In this way, the Changsun Kingdom suffered a defeat and slowed down the speed of its southward movement, and our army didn't buy more time. ”

"Shhh...... Huh! Brother Xian's words are good, why didn't Brother Fool think of it. We are in a hurry to go north, and Changsun Guo is also in a hurry to go south, and at that time, Changsun Guo will lose the battle, which means that our army has won time. At that time, our army will take the initiative to attack, and the odds of victory will be doubled. ”

"That's right, brother, the Eastern Front is different from the Western Front, the Western Front is the dominant family, and the three Eastern Front have their own ghosts, if anyone is in a hurry to win, they will be taken advantage of by the black scarf."

(End of chapter)