In the first month of Guo Xingge's arrival in Khotan, he and his craftsmen built the first cannon, using a cannon cast from a Buddha statue, which weighed 2,000 catties.

The tiger squat cannons brought from Da Zhou are all 100 catties of gadgets, and this cannon is worth 20 tiger squat cannons only by weight.

Guo Xingge presided over the test gun, and the twenty-pound projectile crossed the sky and fell heavily on a gravel ground, and the dust and smoke filled the sky.

The soldiers of Khotan ran over, and after seeing it, they wept excitedly, danced and jumped up.

The cannon had a range of a thousand paces, and the heavy projectiles left a large crater more than two feet deep in the ground, and the sand and gravel shattered, and it was a mess.

I can't believe what the result would be if it fell on people!

But the people of Khotan knew that they were saved.

These people who come from the Great Zhou are the Bodhisattvas and Arhats who save lives!

Many people knelt on the ground, prostrated their heads, and kept prostrating. The monks who were still training also stopped, and the old monks burst into tears after seeing the crater.

He beckoned his disciples back to the temple, and they opened the dungeon and took out the last collections...... In the underground palace, there are many, more precious Buddha statues, ritual weapons, gold, silver and jade, and countless scriptures and treasures......

Buddhism has flourished in Khotan for hundreds of years, and almost everyone worships the Buddha, and Li Shengtian is accompanied by dozens of eminent monks.

The monks have no quarrel with the world, but they know that the Black Khanate will not allow aliens to exist, and if they kill them, the Buddhism in the Western Regions will be wiped out.

Many monks hid the treasures of Buddhist scriptures in the underground palace, trying to keep these priceless treasures...... No one knows how many things they hid, no one knows how many treasures were destroyed, how many monks were killed, but thousands of years later, by chance, people discovered the cave of Dunhuang, which established a science - Dunhuang Studies!

You don't need to be like a mouse, hiding treasures, and you don't expect to shine thousands of years later, take everything out, fight a fish to die and break the net, and fight a way to live!

The monks of the Western Regions were fully mobilized, from Khotan to the Guiyi Army, from Shazhou to Liangzhou, every temple was donating bronze vessels, from tens of thousands of catties of Buddha statues, to copper cymbals, copper chimes...... The large pieces were smashed, and each monk carried them on his back, trekking through mountains and rivers, and rushed to the city of Khotan.

As soon as the bronze was delivered, he took up arms...... Many temples, leaving only the old, weak, sick and disabled, slightly younger monks, all rushed to Khotan.

I don't go to hell, who goes to hell!

With a tragic mood, the monks trained hard and did not stop for a moment.

Accustomed to holding the hands of the wooden fish, he picked up the sword, which was a little jerky at first, but soon became smooth.

At the moment of life and death, you have to fight, and you can't stop fighting!

In order for the Dharma to be passed on in this land, become a demon and fall into hell forever, there is no complaint!

War! War! War!

The arrival of the Great Zhou people changed the state of the Han people in the entire Western Regions, although there were only a thousand people, it was like a needle of the sea god! Firmly rooted in the ground.

In the past, the enemy was strong and I was weak, and I was bound to die, some people hid treasures, some people fled, and some people tried to bend their knees and surrender...... The greatest threat to the Han people in the Western Regions is not from the outside, but from internal instability.

Under strong pressure, they can be torn apart at any time, giving the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of.

But with the arrival of the Great Zhou reinforcements, people no longer hesitated, no longer confused, and they became confident.

The Black Khanate has the support of the Great Food Empire, and behind them is the stronger and more prosperous Great Zhou.

Almost no one would doubt that Da Zhou would lose to Da Shi!

Come on, let's see, who is the real king!

The high morale infected everyone, and the craftsmen of the Great Zhou rushed to work day and night, and it took less than two months to create thirty artillery pieces. In addition, a million catties of gunpowder were produced.

In order to cope with the next battle, the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty implemented a strict rationing system in Khotan, and the surplus grain had to be handed over to the government for unified distribution, and no one ate a grain of grain!

The reason why these measures, which will be strongly resisted in the Central Plains, is that Khotan has implemented them smoothly and the people have unconditionally cooperated.

Chen Shi had several long talks with Li Shengtian, and he finally persuaded Li Shengtian to give up his plans to take risks. With firearms in hand, you can wait for work, and you can win the battle with the Black Khanate!

It won't be long before the Shu Road is repaired, and the people and horses of the Great Zhou will continue to flow, as many as they want!

Fight for strength, Da Zhou has never been afraid of anyone!

The days of preparation for war were busy and short, and it was an afternoon when a cloud of smoke suddenly burst up from a distance and soared into the sky. The soldiers guarding the city were briefly surprised, and immediately beat the drums of war.

Enemy attack!

The Black Khanate is coming!

The city of Khotan quickly entered a state of battle, and after countless drills in these days, the people outside the city retreated into the city, their houses burned down, and the wells were filled to death.

The soldiers at the head of the city took turns on guard, and everyone moved into combat positions.

Women, including women, need to carry stretchers and wait for rescue at any time.

The Great Zhou brought not only advanced technology to Khotan, but also a management method, where all the people were soldiers and tapped the greatest combat potential!

Victory in Khotan!

Big Week will win!

The roaring artillery, the first to break the silence, the projectiles streaked across the sky and fell into the middle of the dense crowd, setting off bloody alleys.

His limbs flew all over the sky, and blood stained the yellow sand...... The Black Khan soldiers didn't even know what was going on, could it be that the gods were angry and came to punish them?

Soon, someone discovered the muzzles of the black holes in the city...... What is that, is it the devil?

Damn the Khotanese people, they made a deal with the devil, and they all had to die!

The Black Khan soldiers are overwhelming, rushing towards the city, and they are even crazier than they were at the beginning!

The artillery did not frighten them, but aroused the frenzy in the veins, Chen Shi was not surprised, if a little lesson could make them wake up, it would be too easy.

But don't worry, Lao Tzu has a way to make you completely enlightened!

"Get on the tiger squat cannon and change the grape bomb!"

The original solid projectile is a line, but the grape projectile is a large piece, although the range has become closer, but the coverage is more extensive, a cannon down, overwhelming, dozens of people are shrouded in it, there is no way to dodge, after the baptism of bullet rain, only a group of wounded soldiers who are screaming and screaming.

Some people have broken arms and legs, some have broken brains, some have intestines gushing out, and some war horses are dragging half of their bodies and running around......

There is no doubt about the lethality of artillery, the only drawback is that the rate of fire is too slow, and it takes three minutes for heavy artillery to be fired, so there are not too many Black Khan soldiers who actually die under artillery.

But the shock caused by the heart is incomparable.

Growing at the same time as the fear of the Black Khan soldiers was the courage of the Khotanese people.

The brutal siege battle began, the two sides fought with white blades, the fierce Black Khan soldiers climbed up to the top of the city, those monks were the first to kill, they waved the spears in their hands, decisively pierced each other's chests, the moment the blood burst they knew that they had no chance of the Pure Land in this life.

In that case, let's kill it!

The old Li Shengtian also carried a sword and supervised the battle at the head of the city.

Everywhere the king passed, there was a roar of excitement.

More popular than Li Shengtian was Chen Shi, who led the musketeers to become firefighters, and where there were the most enemies, they rushed up and shot indiscriminately.

The tactics of the Great Zhou Dynasty were an eye-opener for the Khotanese people, and they never dreamed that the war could be fought like this!

In addition to artillery and muskets, they built many trebuchets.

Clay pots that every household has, or hollowed-out stones, stuffed with gunpowder, thrown out of the city walls, and falling into the crowd, can cause terrible damage.

The principle of Da Zhou is like this, it can be solved with firearms, and it is definitely not desperate.

There is absolutely no shortage of saltpeter and sulfur in the Western Regions, and in the Western Regions, there is one more thing, that is, fire oil!

With the help of the Khotanese people, the officials of the Ministry of Works found a place where the oil was produced, and they dug three large ditches in the city to store the oil.

This time it was all used.

The city of Khotan is really not high, only one zhang and five, and it cannot be compared with the behemoth of the Central Plains that is often three zhang high, and Khotanese city does not even have a moat...... But such an inconspicuous small city has become a nightmare for the Black Khanate.

On the first day of the battle, more than 3,000 people were killed.

Not reconciled, they continued to attack, and the next day more than 2,000 people were killed.

The corpses of the soldiers of the Black Khanate were scattered all over the city, and nothing was gained.

On the third day, the Black Khanate tried to continue the siege, but when they were gathering their men, they found that some of the tribe's soldiers had fled in the middle of the night......

This is not a good phenomenon, the Black Khanate is still tribal, to put it bluntly, more like a bandit group, and when it is found unprofitable, it becomes a natural choice to flee.

The offensive on the third day ended half an hour later than usual, and ended half an hour earlier.

"They're going to run!"

Zhao Kuangyi smiled and said: "It turns out that all the nomads are similar, if you win, you will fight, and if you can't win, you will run!" What kind of hero! ”

"Can't let them go!" Guo Xingge gritted his teeth and said, he spent his fourteenth birthday in Khotan, he became more and more mature, a faint fluff gushed out of his mouth, the little guy seemed to be infected by the Khotanese people, and he didn't need mercy for the robbers of the Black Khanate, just like the Khotanese people said, hatred is innate.

That night, Ye Zhong and the other six led the soldiers separately and pounced on the Black Khanate camp, and they first fired rockets into the camp, igniting the military tent and causing a fire.

And then from all directions, suddenly killed.

The Black Khanate had never seen firearms before, and they were blindsided.

The generals argued, some advocated going back to ask the king's will, while others said that the king had let them take Khotan, and if they hastily withdrew their troops, they would only take the king and feed the lions......

While they were arguing, the attack came.

The camp of the Black Khanate was in chaos, and the crowd frightened by the cannons scattered and fled, one tribe after another, disappearing into the night.

The night attack was successful, and the whole army attacked...... Khotan ushered in a clean victory, capturing more than 20,000 prisoners alone......