Everyone's hearts trembled! The few people who had just spoken out were all looking at Li Xiang with fear on their faces at this time, although the smoke had not yet dissipated, they could already faintly hear the screams of many people, and the painful and slightly upturned corners of Li Xiang's mouth became a lingering shadow for these people for a long time in the future.

Of course, Li Xiang was actually worried, the cannon was fired, as for the effect, he couldn't accurately predict it, there were too many factors to influence, he only wanted to ensure two points, first, the cannon was not blown up, and his own people were not injured; Second, Li Jiancheng's men and horses were frightened by the sudden disaster and retreated, after all, there were less than a hundred people on his side.

It is estimated that God also thinks that Li Xiang is not easy and is ready to give him a big gift, so when the cannon sounds, the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army in the woods are actually not much afraid, and they deal with life and death all day long, and they calm down after being suddenly surprised. However, the situation is different after the flowering bomb explodes.

The shells fell in the center of the front army of the Xuanjia Army, in other words, the entire team of more than 2,000 people, at least 100 of the 500 people in front of them were directly hit by the flowering shells, and then the circle around these people, also nearly 100 people, these were hit by the air wave of the explosion. The rest of the people beyond were either favored by the scattered fragments of shells, or shocked by the bloody scene in front of them, and they were all stupid anyway.

Li Jiancheng was still angry about Kawazi stealing the sword, complaining that he was actually deceived by a little doll, and in a blink of an eye, he saw the tragic situation of the former army.

To say that Li Jiancheng is also a battle-hardened general, he has never seen any terrifying scenes, but after seeing the scene in front of him, Li Jiancheng immediately ran to the side and held on to a tree and began to vomit. It's okay now, the generals and soldiers under his command were still holding back when they saw their boss coming, but now when I look at it, the boss has vomited, let's not be idle? So the whole forest became a toilet, and the sound of vomiting came and went, creating a different symphony.

The stomach that finally vomited was clean, and Li Jiancheng raised his miserable white face and asked his subordinates tremblingly. I was shocked just now, but now I reacted, and I didn't send anyone to check. Li Jiancheng didn't blame him, he was all made like this, and they were no better, so he asked someone to investigate now.

As soon as his men went out, they hurried back and reported that there were more than a hundred or so people calling for battle outside the woods.

At first, Li Jiancheng thought that he had heard it wrong, firstly, they were quite hidden and would not be easily discovered, and secondly, even if they were discovered, it should be a team of equal strength to call the battle, a hundred or so people? Are you here to die?

He looked at his subordinates suspiciously, and found that his subordinates were still a little nervous when they talked about the hundred or so people, which was strange.

Putting aside the description of Li Jiancheng in the official history of the Tang Dynasty in later generations, if we carefully study other historiographical materials, it is not difficult to find that the expression of Li Jiancheng in the official history of the Tang Dynasty is definitely biased, which depends on Li Shimin's improper position, so the historical books he asked to compile will more or less erase some of Li Jiancheng's advantages, which is also conducive to his rule. In fact, Li Jiancheng is quite a capable person.

It can be imagined that since a hero like Li Yuan can overthrow Sui Yang and establish the Tang Dynasty, then he is definitely not a mediocre talent, on the contrary, he should have a vision and mind beyond ordinary people. Then the problem came, at that time, Li Yuan did not hesitate much between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin on the issue of deciding the heir, and what he directly considered was Li Jiancheng.

But from this point of view, Li Jiancheng at least has the ability to manage the country, and in the war to unify the Tang Dynasty, Li Jiancheng did not sit back and enjoy his success, he also personally led the soldiers and warriors to the front line to kill the enemy, and recovered the lost territory of the Central Plains.

Therefore, Li Yuan is a lucky person who can give birth to such two sons, of course, if nothing big happens to the later Xuanwu Sect.

Having said so much, in fact, it is a point that Li Jiancheng did not have the straw bale as he imagined. Therefore, when he saw the state of his subordinates, he immediately understood that the more than 100 people on the other side were definitely not ordinarily strong, and it could even be said that they had less than 3,000 people and might not have much chance of winning against the others.

This is interesting, the Xuanjia Army is Li Yuan's trump card, and later Li Shimin trained it himself. Although there is a discord with Li Shimin's brothers, Li Jiancheng also admits Li Shimin's ability, so in Li Jiancheng's opinion, the Xuanjia Army does not dare to say that it is invincible in the world, at least it is a rare force, such a team of people was actually frightened by others, and he was even more interested in seeing who it was.

asked his subordinates to treat the wounded soldiers first, and he took the escort out of the woods, and in the open space between the city gate and the woods, Li Jiancheng saw the men and horses of the artillery detachment of the Volunteer Army.

This detachment was established in Longmen Mountain by Li Xiang personally after the Tianlei Cannon was developed not long ago, and there are three more detachments like this. In order to maintain the mystery of the artillery, Li Xiang required that all training should be carried out in the mountains, and the flowering shells produced were limited after all, and it was a little difficult for the artillery to hit the rake, Qin Qiong thought of a way, he only asked for the success rate of shooting, not the accuracy rate.

It may seem like a contradiction, but it's not. The success rate is not the success rate of killing the enemy, but the success rate of the shell being able to be successfully hit. In fact, to put it bluntly, the Sky Thunder Cannon is a new weapon, everyone is not familiar with it, not to mention the cannon at first, even the huge noise when firing the cannonball makes people scared a lot, and then it is better to get familiar with it.

There are too many shortcomings of hand-made guns, which affects the success rate of guns. Therefore, Qin Qiong's first requirement is to ensure that this cannonball can be fired with every shot, and then the accuracy. Of course, this accuracy rate is not very reliable. Because there is no live-fire training, Qin Qiong's requirement is to ensure that each shell can hit the designated area, which is a bit large, with a radius of one mile.

In other words, if the shell is fired, it must be within a radius of one mile, and if it is out of range, it is unqualified. What is the concept of a radius of one mile, take Li Jiancheng's current team of three thousand people as an example, they gather together, and the area is only less than one-third of the radius, if Qin Qiong asks his artillery to hit Li Jiancheng here, it is not within one mile, it will not reach people at all, but if it is beaten and passes over the heads of others, it still can't cause trouble.

In short, it was under such circumstances that Li Xiang's first artillery unit was born. As for the commander of the detachment, Li Xiang has no democracy, this is a big killer, and he must be in his own hands. Therefore, the supreme commander is Qin Qiong, and the team leaders below are Zhang Fangluo's original subordinates.

The captain of the team facing Li Jiancheng is Guan Yong. Guan Yong is the short-tempered deputy general who has been following Zhang Fangluo before and later defected to Li Xiang. He trained in the special brigade, followed Li Xiang deep into the grassland, and later stayed in the reconnaissance camp, and his experience was quite rich.

was selected as the captain of the artillery detachment, and Guan Yong was a hundred unhappy. For no other reason, he didn't know the power of the cannon, and when he heard that there were less than a hundred people under his command, he was in a hurry, so he went to find the original Shangguan Zhang Fangluo.

Several other squad leaders were also Zhang Fangluo and called Guan Yong brothers, but they were not convinced, so they went to find Zhang Fangluo. Originally, Zhang Fangluo was very happy to see his subordinates, but seeing the appearance of one and two, Zhang Fangluo knew that something had happened.

After a few people complained and complained for a long time, Zhang Fangluo pointed at Guan Yong, the initiator, and scolded: "What should I say, you are not too young, you don't know convergence and convergence?" You won't ask before you come, how many generals besides you want to take over the artillery detachment? Don't you think you're lucky, but you still dare to complain and pick on people? Okay, okay, don't you want to be? I'm going to go to the Captain, and I just want to take over, but if you don't go, I'll ask the Captain to tell me to go. Alright, go back, I promise you'll do it. ”

What Zhang Fangluo said was angry and counterproductive. In fact, he didn't know what this artillery soldier was for, but he had only heard Li Xiang talk about it occasionally, and as for how many generals were waiting for him, it was pure nonsense. Li Xiang is not thin on him, he can't dismantle Li Xiang's platform, so he has to use the agitation method like this.

Sure enough, he still knew his subordinates, and after a few words, Guan Yong and the others were a little stunned. I thought it was a miscellaneous businessman, but it was so popular in General Zhang's mouth? Guan Yong was stunned, and immediately smiled and apologized to Zhang Fangluo, wanting to find out what the artillery was for. Zhang Fangluo didn't know, so he could only pretend to be a mysterious place to tell them that it must be a good place, and warned them that if they didn't want to talk about it earlier, they should change people as soon as possible.

Seeing that Zhang Fangluo was so determined, these few people all shook their hands, shook their heads, made an expression that they would not leave if they were killed, and happily went back to accept the new appointment.

Not to mention that they really encountered good things, in addition to the appointment, each of them also got two gold cakes worth a lot of money, and although there were less than 100 people under them, the food and drink of these 100 people actually caught up with the level of the special brigade, and sometimes even slightly higher than them.

At this time, even if Guan Yong was stupid, he knew that the group of soldiers he brought was definitely not ordinary people, and there was no doubt or hesitation, and after the Tianlei Cannon came for training, Guan Yong made up his mind that he would deal with artillery in this life, and he would never leave the artillery again.