Chapter 42: The Big Shot Is Coming
The sky above Xining City suddenly gathered thick and deep clouds from nowhere, slowly rotating, and there were constantly silent lightning bursting out of it, like a frightened snake flashing away, the guards at the head of the city did not notice these visions at all, like a clay sculpture staring motionlessly ahead, but the Guchi City not far away was clear and sunny.
In front of Mink Yue's house, a huge carriage was quietly parked, and fifteen divine horses stood jagged and beautiful, and their hair was as dark as the night sky, and even if there was a light breeze, they did not dare to pass through here. Everyone would rather take a few more streets than stay here for a moment, because when you look directly at the carriage, you feel the strange feeling of being choked by the throat.
At this time, a thin man who looked like a scholar on the corner of the street walked here with a sad face, walked to the door, and saw the giant carriage and couldn't help but smile bitterly, shook his head, and pushed the door in. In the huge courtyard, there are no more people. If you look closely, you will find that directly below the center of the cloud vortex above Xining City is the Mink Yue Mansion where the thin man pushed the door in.
All the light in the house seemed to be frozen, and there was no flow at all. Meng Wen gently pushed open the wooden door of the main hall, "Squeak--" The eyes of the people in the hall were all fixed on him, Meng Wen's face was even more sad, and he didn't dare to look at the person sitting in the center with his head down.
"Now that all the generals in front have arrived, let's start the meeting now." Behind the man in the center, a pale, high-pitched man called the meeting to a low voice.
The black cloth covering the desk in front of the person in the center suddenly slipped off, and what appeared in front of everyone was a huge sand table, in which you could find the cities of Guchi, Xining, and Sacrificial Water. At first, the entire sand table was full of dead things, but wherever the man's eyes with a sharp voice went, the sand table map gradually glowed, and everyone followed the man's gaze on the sand table.
The narrow and steep Hangu Pass was the first to be lit, along the terrain zigzag and meandering into two routes to the Central Plains, one is the Central Plains land route, through Lushi, Hongnong, Caoyang, Daguchi, Xining, all the way to the Beijiang waterway, through Jiacheng, Puliang, Sanliang, straight to the sacrificial water. Under the gaze of everyone in the house, these rays of light are of course not simple bright lines, it is composed of many inseparable faint points of light, these points of light converge into bright lines on the existing lines, and flow out of Hangu Pass continuously, forming a huge light cluster in Xining, which has several large light points that are completely different, if these large points of light correspond to the front-line generals in the house, then the remaining small points of light can be recognized as every Qin soldier who is rushing to Xining.
When the light shines near the Water Sacrifice City, it turns into a cluster of red light, unlike the light that represents the Qin army, which can be subdivided into each light point. It can be seen that the people who operate the sand table do not know much about the distribution of the Jin army in the Water City, and the light stops at the Water City.
The person in the center was always shrouded in a condensed black mist, his true face was not revealed, his left hand was on his cheek, as if he was wandering in all directions, and after the light was all up, his eyes fell on the water city.
In an instant, the image of Zhicheng, the guard general and Zhixin, who are now stationed in the water city, appeared above the model of the water city, and soon the image of Tu Hao also jumped out of the city, and then Gan Yin also appeared in the sky, and there were still several images such as Tu Sheng and others struggling on the model of the water city.
At this time, the generals of the Water Sacrifice City, who were hundreds of miles away, all felt something, and they all looked in the direction of Xining, knowing that there was a great enemy who was spying on the strength of the Water Sacrifice City, Gan Yin immediately took out a brown vial from the small cabinet with dark gold patterns, and wanted to open it and sprinkle it on his body, Tu Hao grabbed Gan Yin and said: "That's the Wei Ying of the Qin State, your method can't eat him, but may cause serious injuries to yourself." ”
Gan Yin had long heard from his master about the Qin State Wei Ying, but he didn't expect him to come to the front line of the Qin and Jin wars.
Gan Yin's image slowly rotated under Wei Ying's gaze, and soon burst and disappeared like a blister, and the images of the others disappeared as well.
Wei Ying looked at the illusions of these people, his eyes did not fluctuate, he had seen a lot of things in all directions just now, and he had seen many old people, and he couldn't help but recall how the young man who was full of ideals had become such a pivotal head of the Qin State after decades, the river was still there, but the face was different.
Sacrificial water city is the first big city in the west of the Jin Kingdom, the water of the Beijiang River is from west to east, through this city, the six tributaries of Qingtianshenshan flowing out of Qingtianshenshan are also gathered here, the waterway is extremely convenient, it is not far from the three kingdoms of Yan, Qin and Chu, it is natural to become a big commercial city, and the world's merchants do not transfer here. Although it has been nearly a month since the Qin and Jin Dynasty started the war, the two water gates that run through the east and west of the water city were sealed only a few days ago, and there are still a few small gates in the north and south for merchants to evacuate and disperse.
Wei Ying's short-term loss of consciousness made the generals suffer a lot, and even if the person with the highest official position outside the Qin State clan did not say a word, the entire hall guest had an invisible oppressive force.
Wei Ying finally spoke: "The Montessori people can reach Xining in two days, and a large number of siege warships will arrive in these two days. ”
The generals nodded silently.
Wei Ying looked at Meng Wen and asked, "I heard that you have invented a new weapon?" ”
Meng Wen nervously took out the burning stick that injured Tu Hao from a long distance last time from his back, and respectfully handed it to the attendants beside Wei Ying, Wei Ying took the burning stick, and after observing for a while, he already knew the internal structure, which was basically the same as the principle of the thunder that had been secretly shown to Meng Wen before, but the way to drive the fire stick was very different from the thunder, the thunder used pure gunpowder to propulse, and the casting needed fine iron-grade materials to withstand the intensity of the gunpowder explosion, and the iron ball shot could only pose a threat to the city walls, towers and other buildings, for real masters, The iron ball has a slower rate of fire than a turtle crawling and poses little of a threat. The fire stick of Meng Wen uses a special crystal that can stimulate the energy of the human body in the propulsion part, which can accurately and violently push the gunpowder out, so that the gunpowder will not explode in advance in the cavity of the fire stick, but will explode after being hit in the target range, so that even if it cannot directly target the center, as long as it explodes in the nearby area, it will cause considerable damage, but the material used in the propulsion structure of the fire stick in the hand is a special section steel newly developed by the Qin State in recent years, and it cannot be mass-produced at present.
Wei Ying studied for a moment and asked, "Can this thing be named?" ”
Meng Wen looked at the only female in the hall, Diao Yue, and said with difficulty: "This thing ...... Named ...... Green Dragon. ”
The male generals who had been silent for a long time couldn't help but shake their bodies, and Diao Yue's face turned red.
Wei Ying nodded and said, "Good name!" ”