The remnants of the lieutenant and guard led by Qi Brown went north from Wuguan to Lushi County, and then made a large circle from Lushi County before crossing the Qinling Mountains, and returned to the Guanzhong Plain together with the troops of other counties. In the scorching summer, Aristotle IV walked through the mountains and forests and inhaled miasma, and from time to time he would have chills all over his body and foam at the mouth. Although he was unwell, he immediately returned to Zhao Zheng when he was on a mission.

When he entered the royal curtain, Zhao Zheng's loose hair had been tied, and he was wearing a red deer crown on his head, and he was wearing a mei-colored robe. The color is like blood, this color is exciting, but no matter how exciting it is, it is difficult to hide Zhao Zheng's pale and gray face.

"Your Majesty......" Aristotle IV was surprised by the change in Zhao Zheng. The Qin army was not really defeated, but only lost Humdan. His Majesty's mother, the beautiful queen, his student Fusu, and countless concubines were all in the royal city of Humdan.

But Aristotle IV was confident that they would not be harmed—after the Battle of Issus (333 BC), Alexander the Great also captured Darius's family, but the Emperor treated them with royal etiquette without the slightest insult. King Chuni is the real king, and the true king will never bully the weak, he will only challenge the strong.

Aristotle IV thought so much, he comforted Zhao Zheng so much, but Zhao Zheng turned a deaf ear after hearing the unscrupulous interpretation, he only asked: "Your Excellency, can you see the witchcraft of the Jing people?" ”

"Of course." The power of the cannon made Aristotle IV tremble, believing that it was Zeus' weapon, but it was not clear why it was stolen by the Chuni. "I saw it, and it was as fearsome as the thunder of Zeus. All the secrets are in that black powder, and when the Chuni use the thunder, they will stuff the iron pipe with the powder wrapped in silk......"

With the help of the mirror, Aristotle IV discovered that, like the grenade, the gun's propellant was wrapped in silk, which was first loaded and then placed in the round, terrifying iron bullets that were constantly jumping after being fired to kill and wound the Chinny soldiers.

At the back end of the pipe was a movable machine connected by a rope, and whenever Officer Chuni shouted 'release', the soldier would pull the rope, and the machine would flash a spark that ignited the black powder in the pipe in a way he did not understand for the time being, and then the pipe thundered, spewing flames and shooting iron bullets.

Aristotle IV spent about two quarters of an hour describing the artillery he had witnessed, describing its power and guessing how the cannon worked. This is not just an oral description, but also a realistic painting drawn by his entourage: rugged mountain valley roads, side by side Chu artillery violently spewing flames and cannonballs, and the Qin soldiers hundreds of meters away from the muzzle of the guns are being killed and injured by them as if they were cutting wheat......

Zhao Zheng flipped over the painting after only one glance, and the following paintings are realistic depictions of artillery: the cannon is erected in the middle of the axle of two wheels, and there is a pair of small wheels in front of the two wheels, which constitute a complete four-wheeled gun carriage. Four tall dragon horses dragged the gun cart along the valley road.

"Now that you know the reason, you dare to ask how to break it?" Zhao Zheng handed the last painting to Wei Yu and asked.

What exactly is the witch weapon in General Chenny's mouth, Aristotle IV has already seen with his own eyes. From the first sight of artillery, he was constantly thinking about how to deal with this weapon. The first thing he thought of was a giant ballista, which was the idea of Shaofu Yan Wuyi and others, but this was unrealistic. Giant ballistas have a long range, but they are difficult to move and slow to wind.

The second method was close combat, which was used by the Qin army against the Korean army and by the Greek soldiers against the Persian archers. This method was completely effective, and Alexander IV had previously advised the Qin army to try to rush up to melee combat, but the Qin army apparently failed - when the Chu army used shotguns, the Qin army was routed by the shotguns fired by the guns before they could get close to them.

Thinking back on his thoughts in the past few days, Aristotle IV said: "Your Majesty, as far as I know, there has never been such a weapon in the known world, and therefore there is no way to defeat it on the battlefield. ”

The translation of the unscrupulous is one step slower, and there is no way to hear that Lord Bai Di has no choice, and Zhao Zheng's face is even more gloomy.

"But that's just on the battlefield." Aristotle IV's next words gave Zhao Zheng hope. "The Chuni need the Sogdiana merchants to sell the sulphur, which means they can't find sulphur elsewhere."

"Brimstone?" The vocabulary of this era has less than two characters, both of which are one word, and Zhao Zheng pronounces these two words very unnaturally.

"Yes." Aristotle IV said, "Your Majesty can buy all the brimstone from the merchants of Sogdiana at a high price, so that the Chuni will not be able to get it, so that the thunder weapons of the Chuni will be unusable......"

Aristotle IV did not speak with a firm gaze, and his proposal was likely to be ineffective, since the Chuni merchant ships could sail directly to the Persian Gulf. Sulphur was not as scarce in the Mediterranean world as it was in the East, and Chuni merchant ships had to travel farther to obtain large quantities of cheap sulphur. When Zhao Zheng nodded repeatedly, he said what he really thought.

"Other than that, I think the best way to deal with a thunder weapon is to copy it, and use a thunder weapon against a thunder weapon like an archer against an archer." While waiting for the translation, Aristotle IV looked at Zhao Zheng, and his heart suddenly beat fast. "I ask your Majesty's permission to send a portion of the black powder to the Muse Academy of Alexandria Zoya, where the most knowledgeable sages and philosophers, mathematicians, and the best alchemists will surely crack the secret of the powder......"

A weapon that emits the sound of thunder and has the same divine power as Zeus. Aristotle IV could not have imagined how much shock it would be to 'bring' this weapon back to the known world, and even though he did not have a wealth of military knowledge, he could have foreseen that such a weapon would change the entire known world.

As he spoke, he tried his best to restrain his apprehension and not let his tone tremble. After speaking, he held his breath and waited for the translation of Wuji, and listened to Zhao Zheng's answer. It's a pity that I didn't hesitate to translate for a long time, and I didn't hear Zhao Zheng's voice. Because Zhao Zheng didn't speak at all.

"The king said, my lord has worked hard, please rest after your tent." Zhao Gao's sharp voice sounded. When Aristotle IV still wanted to fight for it, he carefully and cautiously shut up, believing that Zhao Zheng would eventually agree.

"Lord Bai Di......" Wei Yu stood beside him and did not speak.

"How can the sharp weapon of the country be shown lightly." As long as he can calm down, Zhao Zheng is sensible. Witch weapons, witch medicine, although they are the enemy's weapons now, after this battle, they will be the weapons of the Qin army, how can he give such weapons to Bai Di.

"The king is wise." Wei Wei fully agreed with Zhao Zheng's opinion, and he really had no choice at that time, so he would ask Aristotle IV about this matter. Since the West doesn't have this kind of weapon, why bother asking Bai Di people to crack it? Once cracked, the Baidi people also have the witchcraft of the Chu people, that is not to say, 'Nanyi and Beidi are intertwined (invaded), China is endless. ’

"When will the Jing people run out of food?" The shogunate had come up with a way to deal with witchcraft, and more and more soldiers had arrived in each county, and Zhao Zheng tried his best to suppress his mania and wait for the final decisive battle.

"Be here for a few days." A few days ago, Xianyang City let the common people go out of the city to eat, otherwise Zhao Zheng would not have found out that Xianyang had been pulled out by the Chu army.

"How many days are you?" Zhao Zheng turned his head and looked at Wei Yu coldly, with an inexplicable murderous aura.

"The minister......" Wei Yi was in a hurry. The two armies of Qin and Chu confronted each other across the water, the dragon and horse cavalry of the Chu army screened the north bank, and the city gate of Xianyang City was closed. These commoners are only allowed to go out but not enter, and the Chu army is stationed in the palace garden, and no one knows how much grain and grass they have, and when they will cross Weishui in the south.

"The widow waits for another five days, if the Jing people still haven't crossed the Wei after five days......" Zhao Zheng gritted his teeth, and his cheeks kept twitching.

Seeing this, Wei Yu knew that he had made up his mind, and said hurriedly: "The minister knows also." The minister knows also. ”

Zhao Zheng was only willing to endure for another five days, in the south of Xianyang City, on the seven-foot and two-foot city wall, Xiong Jing was looking at the continuous Qin army tents in Weinan. War is not won by whoever has more people; The elite of the Qin army either attacked Nanyang Fangcheng or besieged Handan, and most of these Qin soldiers in front of them were ...... old and weak. Rao was like this, he was still shocked by the Qin army camp that could not be seen at a glance.

Ten days ago, he had a glance at the Qin army camp on the White Deer Plateau, but the Qin army at that time was not as large as it is now. ...... 500,000, 600,000, and 700,000, Xiong Jing kept guessing the number of Qin troops.

"The Qin people's military curtain is an array, and I don't know the geometry of the array." Nao Xin also stood at the head of the city and looked at the Qin army's military tent, he could only see that there were four military formations in the horizon, and he could no longer see it in the distance.

"There are a lot of Qin people!" Dou Yu Pheasant put down Lu Lijing and couldn't help but marvel. "Our army's heavy cavalry breaking formation technique is no longer available."

The Qin people's military tents were overlapped, except for the five miles that were deliberately vacated near Weishui to lure the Chu army to cross south, the entire Weinan was boundless, and it was full of camp tents. The heavy cavalry may be able to break through one or two military formations, but no further than that, and endless breaking formations will only tire the horses to death.

"The Qin people's array is like a city, and it is prepared on all sides. However, the city cannot be moved, and if you advance and retreat, the city will be broken. At this time, the heavy cavalry took advantage of the gap to attack its shogunate, and the Qin people were defeated. Dou Chang said what Zhuang Wudi wanted to say in his heart. Fei Jing, who didn't speak, just smiled when she heard this, as if she still wanted the cavalry to deliver the most fatal blow in the proud war.

"Where is the army of Higashino?" Xiong Jing put down Lu Lijing and asked about the reinforcements coming from Nanyang.

"Your Majesty, Dongye Ao has gone to Shangluo, and he can go to Weinan in five days at the latest." After the occupation of Xianyang, with the help of carrier pigeons raised in the Changping Junfu, a two-way connection was established between the Chu army and the Yingdu. The situation of the countries under heaven, the reinforcements led by Dongye Ao, and the ...... of the competition between Qi and Wei for Hanoi County, Dongjun, all came to Xianyang unimpeded. The reinforcements arrived in Shangluo, and the decisive battle between the two armies was not far away.

"If we can decide more than ten days late, the Qin people will run out of food." Ele, who was disliked by the generals, stood the farthest, and he did not approve of an immediate decisive battle with the Qin army. There are many Qin soldiers and a lot of food, so the grain may be worry-free in a short time, but it will definitely not be able to be transported after a long time. At that time, if there is a decisive battle, or lure the Qin army to cross north, the Chu army will undoubtedly win.