As dawn comes, the long night will pass.

In the south gate tower of Qianzhou at dawn, the soldiers took turns guarding the outside of the city, carefully watching the movements outside the city, preventing the White Lotus bandit army from launching a general attack anytime and anywhere.

At this time, Guo Ye also appeared on the city tower, accompanied by Xue Rengui, and the remaining stewards who brought thunderbolts from Xichuan thousands of miles away.

After all, Steward Yu is a little old, and he has traveled such a long distance, and because of some disharmony in the water and soil after arriving in the south, he didn't get up until now.

Even when he was inspecting the city tower by Guo Ye's side, Steward Yu's footsteps were a little slow and heavy, as if he was sick and weak.

Guo Ye inadvertently turned around and found that Steward Yu's face was wrong, and immediately asked with concern: "Steward Yu, if you are not feeling well, you can go back to the city and rest more." As for the thunderbolts, I will ask Xue Rengui to lead people to your place and transfer them to the city tower. ”

"Out of the way, out of the way."

Steward Yu waved his hand again and again, shook his head stubbornly, and said: "Thank you Lord Guo for your concern, the old man is just old and lacking in spirit, and his body is very hard." Besides, this thunderbolt still has to be fiddled with by our people from the Wind and Thunder Hall, after all, the little general next to the adult has not been in contact with the thunderbolt, so it would be inappropriate if there was a mistake. ”

Xue Rengui's ears pricked up slightly, and when he heard Steward Yu call himself a little general, he said humbly with some shame: "I can't afford to be called a little general of the old man, the junior is just a captain of the sword and shield battalion." ”

Steward Yu was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing: "Although I am a captain today, I will definitely be a general who can fight well on holidays." Besides, if Master Guo can take you with him to teach you by word and deed, how far can you go in the future? The old man saw that the little general's eyebrows were extraordinary, his earlobes were full, and his face was even more heroic. ”

Who doesn't like to hear good words? What's more, Xue Rengui is a young man who is arrogant and ambitious higher than the sky?

When he heard this, he had a happy expression on his face, and because Guo Ye was beside him, he had to say that he didn't dare to dare and praise falsely.

Guo Ye also smiled knowingly, knowing that Steward Yu was an old ghost who said sleek words, but he still had to admit that his good words were right, Xue Rengui's future is not just amazing? That's a great hero who has been written by posterity for centuries.

"Okay, okay," Guo Ye waved his hand with a smile, "Steward Yu, if you continue to boast like this, Xue Rengui, this kid should pout his ass and cock his tail." He can't help but boast at his young age, don't let him make the old mistake of being too high-minded and empty-eyed. ”

The remaining steward stopped in moderation and stopped the conversation in time.

But Xue Rengui was not happy, secretly holding back his strength, and said in his heart, aren't you a few years older than me? still looks like relying on the old and selling the old, hmph, wait for me Xue Rengui to do another earth-shattering thing for you to see, and see if you dare to look down on me so much when the time comes.

After saying nothing for a while, Guo Ye continued to patrol around the city tower, until after checking that the hundred bed crossbows were all in order, Guo Ye looked at Cheng Erniu standing next to the bed crossbow, and said, "Erniu, you now transfer a hundred cavalry from your camp, and then go out of the city to patrol one mile away from the south gate." Within a mile, I don't want scouts from the other side. ”

Cheng Erniu gave up his hand, and then shouted out the cavalry under Bai Laiming, and hurried down the city tower.

In the blink of an eye, a hundred cavalry rode out of the city and cruised.

Just when Pang Feihu and the others on the city tower couldn't understand why Guo Ye wanted to come out at once, Guo Ye suddenly asked the Yu steward behind him and asked, "Old steward, how many thunderbolts did you bring this time?" What are the numbers? ”

Steward Yu nodded and replied, "Eighteen mule carts, each mule cart is loaded with about twenty wooden boxes, and one box should be twenty thunderbolts. That's about 5,000 thunderbolts. However, these thunderbolts have been improved, and once they are exploded, they are definitely far more powerful than the previous ones. ”

Guo Ye thought to himself, enough, more than enough.

Then he asked: "I want to use thunderbolts to give the bandits a minefield first, how about it?" ”

"Minefield?"

Steward Yu said curiously: "What is this?" ”

Guo Ye thought about it, where would Steward Yu know about landmines? Then he laughed dumbly, shook his head and explained: "First dig a shallow pit and bury a thunderbolt, use the same method to arrange about 1,000 thunderbolts in an area of about a mile outside the south gate, and then cover the shallow pit with soil as a cover." And the pits are connected to each other by a fuse, that is, a very long fuse is used to penetrate the fuses of the thousand thunderbolts at the same time. Belch...... Is that what I tell you? Have you ever seen a gourd vine? ”

Steward Yu frowned slightly, and nodded as if he didn't understand.

Guo Ye explained: "I said that the long fuse is like a gourd vine, and this thousand thunderbolts are like a gourd on a gourd vine. Think about it, if we ignite any gourd on this vine at that time, uh no, any thunderbolt, will we be able to ignite the thunderbolts on other vines? Belch...... I explain it this way, Steward Yu, can you understand? ”

"Got it!"

A cheerful cry sounded one after another, but it was not Yu Guan who answered, but Xue Rengui.

I saw Xue Rengui's eyebrows fluttering and shouting excitedly: "My lord is saying, we only need to casually expose the fuse of a thunderbolt on the ground in advance, and wait for the bandit army to enter an area within a radius of one mile, and we can use the bow and crossbow on the city tower to accurately shoot a rocket, which can detonate all the thunderbolts buried in the ground and send this group of dogs. Mother's raised people go to heaven together, right? ”

Guo Ye smiled and asked Steward Yu again: "Now, is there anything else that Steward Yu doesn't understand?" ”

Steward Yu had already been stupid by Guo Ye's whimsical thoughts, he didn't expect that the thunderbolts used to be thrown in the past could still be buried in the ground and played like this.

I saw him slowly calm down from his shocked look, nodded and smiled bitterly: "Lord Guo, it's a pity that you don't play with gunpowder." The words are said so clearly, how can the old man still not understand? I'll go back here to prepare, and I'll take the brothers from the Wind and Thunder Hall to dig a pit outside the south gate and bury mines. ”

Guo Ye snorted, and then motioned to Xue Rengui and said: "You take some people to help Yu take care of them, dig pits and bury mines and arrange mine arrays, just let the people of the Wind Thunder Hall do it themselves, you are very unfamiliar with thunderbolts, don't be reckless." You are responsible for carrying and lifting. ”

Xue Rengui suddenly begged: "Can you hand over the work of shooting rockets with a bow on the city tower and detonating a mine array to me?" ”

Guo Ye glanced around, and it seemed that the best archery in this group was Xue Rengui.

So he was generous, and said with a smile: "Who will I hand it over to you if I don't hand it over?" But the ugly words are ahead, if the White Lotus bandit army is put within a mile of our south gate, but you kid drop the chain for me and can't detonate the mine array, then don't blame me for being unkind. ”

"Good!"

Xue Rengui puffed up his chest and promised loudly: "If I miss it, I will unscrew my head and kick it for you." ”

After shouting, he hurriedly pulled the remaining steward and hurried down the south gate building, returning to the station of the Wind Thunder Hall and Thunderbolt in the city.

Pang Feihu breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and sighed: "It turns out that junior brother, you suddenly asked the second brother to lead the cavalry out of the city to patrol, did you not want the bandit army to notice that we were arranging a mine array?" ”

Guo Ye nodded and said, "That's exactly why." Otherwise, if the bandit army knew in advance, wouldn't it be a waste of all the previous efforts and would not be able to reap the unexpected effect? ”

Kang Bao shouted: "We have also seen the power of thunderbolts in Xichuan. But brother-in-law, a minefield arranged by a thousand thunderbolts, although powerful, can't kill many bandits after all. A mine array was laid within a radius of one mile, and it was remarkable that it would kill 10,000 people, right? So what? can't stand the bandit army of hundreds of thousands and nearly millions of people pouring up, is it possible that the bandit army will not be able to do it for the second time? Even if the bandit army will repeat the same mistake for the second time, didn't the remaining steward say it just now? This time, there were only 5,000 thunderbolts, which still took a lot of time to make them after exhausting the raw materials they had in Xichuan. ”

"Hey ......"

Guo Yeyin laughed, squinted at Kang Bao, and said happily: "It doesn't matter how many people are killed. What is important is the word 'potential'. ”

"Potential?"

Kang Bao exclaimed in surprise and asked, "What's the explanation?" ”

Guo Ye Youyou said: "In this battle between the two sides, they are attacking, and we are defending. In the next first battle, the enemy army will definitely devote all its forces to a large-scale attack, and it must be overwhelming. So who is in the hands of the first battle is very important, and it is very important. This situation is not only related to the morale of the troops on both sides, but also related to whether or not the bandit army can be frightened and drag on for us for a few more days. ”

Pang Feihu suddenly nodded with a clear look on his face, and added: "Oh, that's the case!" It turned out to be the momentum of momentum, the momentum of might! ”