――August 25, 23rd year of Hongwu of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Jijingdong Mansion---

As usual, early in the morning, Liang Qiuwu practiced martial arts in the backyard schoolyard, but somehow, today she is always a little distracted, and it is difficult to achieve the unity of swords and people.

Although the knife is still so heavy and rustling, I always feel that there is a little less momentum.

After all, Liang Qiu Wu stopped, holding the sword [blue wolf] that was taller than her, and looked at the sky and let out a long breath.

From the side, Yi Yi was already waiting with a towel in his hand, and when he saw this, he stepped forward, handed the dry towel in his hand to Liang Qiuwu, and said with a little smile, "Miss always doesn't feel very happy today...... Miss Miss Ann? ”

"What do I miss him for?" Taking the towel in Yiyi's hand and wiping the sweat from his forehead, Liang Qiuwu said insincerely.

"Really, isn't it?" A narrow smile appeared on his face, and Yi asked with a wink.

Liang Qiuwu's face turned slightly red and did not speak.

Seeing this, Yi Yi smiled, then looked up at the sky, his face showed a thick look of worry, and muttered, "It's been more than a month since I left Jijing, and I don't know what An's is doing now?" Have you ever eaten well and slept well every day......"

Glancing at Yiyi, Liang Qiuwu turned around and walked towards the small table where the tea was placed, and said lightly, "You're too used to pampering him!" -- A man can only achieve immortality after going through hardships...... The battlefield is precisely the best training! As he spoke, Liang Qiuwu picked up a water bladder from the small table in front of him and poured it into his mouth quite arrogantly.

"But miss......" Yi Yi said hesitantly, following after him. Isn't Miss worried about Ann? He had never had any experience in this area......"

"Whew!" Liang Qiu Wu, who had replenished enough water, let out a long breath and poured all the remaining water in the water bladder on his head. Let the cold water run down her long, slightly reddened hair and down her bare shoulders.

Shaking off his wet hair, Liang Qiuwu said in a deep voice, "Isn't there still that woman!" ”

"Sister Xiangyu?" Yi asked, tilting her head.

Glancing at Yiyi, who was a little puzzled, Liang Qiuwu frowned and said, "Although I don't like that woman's way of using soldiers, I have to admit that woman." He is a connoisseur of soldiers! ”

"The way of using soldiers?"

"Well, the art of war pursued by that woman is the art of war that doesn't need a general!"

"Don't need a general?" Yiyi's eyes widened when he heard this, and he asked in shock, "Can this kind of thing be done?" ”

"It can be done! -- Before the battle begins, plan everything in advance and judge the enemy's reaction. And then the count...... This woman had calculated all the gains and losses before the battle began...... At the smallest price, in exchange for the most brilliant results! ”

"Good...... It's amazing! ――Isn't it the art of war? Yi Yi looked at Liang Qiu Wu suspiciously, wondering why her young lady would respond with such a strong disgust.

Glancing at the ignorant Yiyi, Liang Qiuwu frowned and said. "Don't you understand? In that woman's eyes, there is no such thing as a subordinate general, and all the soldiers are pawns in her hands...... Before going to war, she will judge the usefulness of those pieces. If there is no value in the pawn, it is regarded as a sacrificeable discard...... In other words. Whether or not those soldiers who fought bloodily can return from the battlefield alive depends entirely on her value to them......"

"This kind of thing ......" Yi covered her mouth in surprise, her expression incredulous.

"There is no need for subordinates to respond on the fly...... More precisely, she hates it when someone does it, because it would lead to a mistake in her overall planning...... Sometimes, she deliberately sent people to death, in order to lead the enemy into a trap and then annihilate them in one fell swoop...... She called it [Dotted Eyes]! ”

"Eye-catching?"

"Hmmm! That's the term used in the game of chess, where the opponent plays in a key position, so that the opponent cannot form two living eye positions to ensure the survival of the dragon...... To put it simply, it is to deliberately send that chess piece to death in exchange for the opponent's entire dragon! ”

"This ...... Can pawns be confused with chess? ”

"It didn't make a difference to the woman...... That is the essence of her eldest grandson Xiangyu's use of soldiers! -- The art of war, which has no human feelings! ”

"How could it be ......" Yiyi covered her mouth in disbelief, most likely because she felt that the eldest grandson Xiangyu that Liang Qiuwu said was decidedly different from the eldest grandson Xiangyu in her memory.

Glancing at Yiyi's look of disbelief, Liang Qiuwu shook his head slightly and looked up at the sky.

In Jijing, everyone knows that Allure Shuangbi refers to Liangqiu Dance and Changsun Xiangyu, but compared to the [Yanhu Ji] Liangqiu Dance of the head of the four concubines, the reputation of Changsun Xiangyu in the entire Great Zhou is relatively small, so that few people know that after Changsun Xiangyu used 80,000 people in Gaoyang as a sacrifice, thus helping Liangqiu Dance and Li Mao to repel the 100,000 Beirong wolf horses, some officials of the military department secretly called this woman.

[Night's Princess], the eldest grandson Xiangyu!

It's like drinking a donkey to quench your thirst, you have already perceived the extreme danger, but you can't resist the temptation, you can't stop, and you fall deeper and deeper.

-- At the same time, Luoyang --

On the fifth day after Li Shou and Xie An led reinforcements to Yanshi, Luoyang, Henan Province, finally started a large-scale battle after many days.

Before the battle began, on a mountain about four or five miles away on the south side of Luoyang City, Li Shou, Xie An, and the eldest grandson Xiangyu climbed high and looked into the distance.

From the side, three hundred soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion of the Eastern Army surrounded the three of them.

Here, where the Chinese army is!

"Am I too far away? Four or five miles apart, I'm afraid it's not easy to give orders! As he spoke, Li Shou covered his hands in front of his forehead, but despite this, he still couldn't see Luoyang City in the distance, let alone the 40,000 Western Expeditionary Army arrayed outside Luoyang City.

Hearing this, the eldest grandson Xiangyu said lightly, "What should be said, this military division has already told them, as long as they do everything according to what this military division says, there will be no ...... difference."

"But from such a distance, how can you observe the battle situation?" Xie An said angrily.

As soon as the words were finished. He was stunned because he saw that the eldest grandson, Xiangyu, had taken out a long, round thing out of nowhere. Hold your hands and put them in front of your eyes......

Monoculars?

Xie An gasped, looked at the eldest grandson Xiangyu in disbelief, and subconsciously said, "Let me see!" As he spoke, he almost snatched it, took the monocular from the hand of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, and used it to look at Luoyang City in the distance.

Although the magnification of the closer scenery is not high. It was only possible to bring the scene four or five miles away closer to him, but Xie Anxin's shock did not diminish in the slightest.

He found that the monocular was very exquisitely made, and he ignored the carved patterns on the lens tube, and the sliding lens tube alone was enough to surprise Xie An.

I don't know if it's the eldest grandson Xiangyu's personal hobby. This woman actually used rosewood to make the lens tube, although it is not the finest small-leaf rosewood, but this value is also incalculable, after all, the sandalwood is polished into a cylindrical shape, and the excess part inside has to be chiseled. It's not a one-time success.

With the carpenter craftsmanship of Da Zhou today, even the most clever carpenter may have to scrap a lot of rosewood, and what makes Xie An feel admired is that these two parts of the wooden lens barrel. It is actually combined in the way of pure hand-polishing grooves, although it is easy to break. And Xie An also has a better way, but in terms of Da Zhou's current technology, this is probably already the peak.

To tell the truth, Xie An had planned as early as when he was in Guangling, whether he could smelt a piece of glass and polish it into a vessel, so as to make a lot of money, after all, there is no such thing as glass in Dazhou, and the collections on the houses of large families, in addition to gold, silver and jade, I am afraid that only pure natural crystals are closest to glass, as long as they can make glass, they are bound to make a lot of money.

But it's a pity that Xie An only has a rough idea of how to refine glass, and just verifying the refining method requires an extremely large amount of money, so he gave up and honestly became his Su family's housekeeper.

After getting acquainted with the eldest grandson Xiangyu, when telling this woman about the refraction and reflection of light, Xie An once mentioned to her that the simplest telescope can be made with a concave lens and a convex lens.

I remember that at that time, the eldest grandson Xiangyu was very interested in this, and asked Xie An with great interest about the method of production.

At that time, Xie An was already the husband of Liangqiu Dance in Donggongfu, and he didn't think about hiding this former money-making plan, so he told Changsun Xiangyu everything from how to refine glass, to the polishing of mirrors, to the production method of simple telescopes and the principle of forming mirror images.

However, he never expected that the eldest grandson Xiangyu would really make a pair of telescopes, although it was still very rough, and it could not be compared with the telescope in Xie An's memory, even if it was a child's toy, but in view of Da Zhou's skills, this was already a valuable cross-era product.

"I really can't imagine that you really made it......" Stroking the pattern of flowers, birds, fish and insects carved on the lens tube, Xie An looked at the eldest grandson Xiangyu in disbelief, and asked tentatively, "How much silver did it cost?" ”

"The glass you mentioned is about a million taels, and during the period of polishing into the mirror, the craftsmen have failed a lot, plus the chisel of the lens tube, it is about 1.8 million taels!" The eldest grandson Xiangyu said lightly.

"Hiss......" Xie An gasped, although he had long guessed that the cost of this telescope would inevitably be astronomical, but even then he didn't expect that there would be so many, and said in disbelief, "One million and eight thousand taels, just such a thing?" ”

"Who told you to be so vague," Eldest Sun Xiangyu glanced at Xie An and complained, "What kind of sand, how do people know that it's that kind of sand?" I had to ask the craftsman to try all the sand! ”

"Good guy......" Xie An was embarrassed and subconsciously swallowed his saliva.

She is worthy of a woman who grew up eating gold......

It's a shame that her grandfather is the prime minister, otherwise it would be ...... to have such a loser girl in the family

Shaking his head, Xie An handed the telescope back to the eldest grandson Xiangyu in his hand, and asked curiously, "Only this one succeeded?" ”

"No, five of them have succeeded, and this can only be seen farthest......"

Xie An was thrilled when he heard this, and asked with a little joy, "What about the other four?" ”

I saw the eldest grandson Xiangyu watching the movement in the direction of Luoyang with the telescope in his hand, and said lightly, "It's ruined!" ”

"Ruined ...... Ruined? Xie An's smile froze on his face, and his eyes widened in disbelief. Why ruin? ”

Now, he finally understood. What is called tyrannical things?

Hearing this, the eldest grandson Xiangyu turned his head and said suspiciously, "What are you doing with things that have no value?" Besides......" At this, the corners of her mouth raised a slight smile, and she giggled, "Do you know what it means to be unique?" - Such an interesting gadget, of course, I have it alone! ”

"......" Xie An opened his mouth. Speechless, after a long exhale, he shook his head and said, "You will be punished!" ”

The eldest grandson Xiangyu looked at Xie An puzzled, and then as if he understood something, he chuckled, "Look at you in a hurry!" - Okay. They'll lend it to you! ”

"I don't mean that!" Xie An felt that the blood vessels in his brain were almost bursting.

It took 1,800,000 taels of silver to figure out how to make such a monocular, and this woman turned out to be just for her own amusement, and she didn't think in the slightest about making money from it......

Although Xie An also knows that this kind of cross-era product has appeared too much on the market, it is indeed not very suitable, but even so. He couldn't help but curse secretly.

Loser!

Whoever marries this crazy woman will be bankrupt!

It's no wonder that Xie An cares so much, in the final analysis, if the eldest grandson Xiangyu can give him one or two, he can use this to coax her wife Liang Qiu to dance. After all, Liang Qiu Wu is a general, and he received such a special gift. It's bound to be a delight.

Pity......

Xie An grumbled and shook his head, then looked at Li Shou with a look of regret, watching him curiously take the telescope from the eldest grandson Xiangyu's hand.

"What a strange thing!" After trying it, Li Shou let out a sigh of admiration.

"Okay, okay, give it back to someone!" The eldest grandson Xiangyu was not as polite to Li Shou as he was to Xie An, and he took it back soon after he lent it, and under Xie An's depressed gaze, he paid attention to Luoyang's every move.

Perhaps in order to adjust his regretful mood, Xie An diverted the topic and asked, "Xiangyu, don't you still order the siege of the city?" ”

Hearing this, the eldest grandson Xiangyu glanced back at the handsome flag erected not far from him, and said, "Wait a little longer......

"Huh?" Looking at the strange behavior of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, Xie An was stunned, and said thoughtfully, "I wanted to ask just now, you haven't ordered the siege of the city, what are you waiting for?" Are you waiting for the wind? ”

Combined with the actions of the eldest grandson Xiangyu who frequently turned back to pay attention to the flag, Xie An made such a judgment, after all, in the era of cold weapons, the direction of the wind would indeed have an immeasurable impact on the battle situation.

"He deserves to be a man valued by the slave family!" The eldest grandson Xiangyu chuckled, then nodded, and said, "Yes, I'm waiting for the wind to rise, and when the south wind blows, it will be the moment when our army attacks Luoyang!" ”

Xie An looked strange when he heard this, and said angrily, "Then what if it doesn't blow the wind all the time?" ”

"Then keep waiting!" said something jokingly, and the eldest grandson Xiangyu chuckled, "Don't worry, it won't be long before the south ......wind blows."

"Are you so sure?"

The corners of the eldest grandson Xiangyu's mouth raised a little smile, and he said quite conceitedly, "My eldest grandson Xiangyu has been familiar with astronomy since he was a child, and it is easy to observe his clouds and winds!" ”

As he was talking, suddenly, the banner of Shuai Qi slowly fluttered, just as the eldest grandson Xiangyu said, the south wind blew.

Under the surprised gazes of Li Shou and Xie An, the smile on the face of the eldest grandson Xiangyu slowly put away, opened the folding fan in his hand with a snap, looked back at the Shenwu battalion soldiers not far away, and said in a deep voice, "Raise the red flag!" ”

"No!" The soldier clenched his fists and took the order, and with the help of several Tongze, he raised a huge crimson flag that lay on the ground and planted it next to the handsome flag.

Accompanied by the still weak south wind, on the red flag, a lifelike red bird waved in the wind.

At the same time, outside Luoyang City, which was about four or five miles away from Li Shou, Xie An, Changsun Xiangyu and others, Liu Yi, the general of the Western Expeditionary Army, as the main general of the attack on the southern city of Luoyang, was standing in front of the 40,000 army on horseback together with Wu Peng and Qi Hao, two generals who served as deputy generals.

After glancing at the sword and shield, the line of vanguards, looking at those soldiers, some of them were holding wooden shields full of straw, and some were directly holding a large bundle of firewood, and they were not even equipped with weapons for combat, Wu Peng frowned, and whispered with a little resentment, "I really don't know what that woman is thinking!" ――Is it possible, does she still want to burn down the entire southern wall of Luoyang? ”

As soon as the words fell, Qi Hao, another general who served as his deputy, sneered and said, "If it can be burned, then thank God!" - There are very few crossbowmen left in our army, so how can we forcibly attack the city? ”

"Isn't there a ladder and a rushing car?" Listening to the complaints of the two colleagues, Liu Yi sighed slightly and said, "In short, do what she says, don't be too troublesome, and don't be perfunctory...... The fate of Zhu Cang, Yang Jin and others, you have also seen it, the dignified general of the third and fourth grades in the court, that woman will kill if she says she will kill, and she will falsely accuse her of rebellion...... It should be for the sake of the old and the young in the family, although this battle is dangerous and unpredictable, but if we die in battle, can we and other families be safe and sound, food and clothing are worry-free, what is the pity? ”

"General Liu is right!" Wu Peng and Qi Hao looked at each other, sighed and shook their heads.

At this moment, there were several soldiers beside the three generals who frequently looked at the Chinese army's place The eyes changed slightly, and they clenched their fists and said tightly, "Three generals, the flag is raised on the mountain!" ”

Liu Yi, Wu Peng, and Qi Hao tightened their faces when they heard this, and turned their heads to look in the direction of Li Shou, Xie An and others.

"I've been waiting for so long, and it's finally time to start......" Taking a deep breath, Wu Peng glanced at Liu Yi and Qi Hao, clasped his fists and said, "Wu Mou is gone, if anything happens, I hope the two of you will take care of the old and young ...... at home."

"General Wu rest assured, if General Wu unfortunately dies in his duties, that woman will still frame the general, even if I don't want to fight for the lives of the whole family, I will kill that woman!"

"It's not just the whole family......" Upeng shook his head with a wry smile, then took a deep breath, raised the spear in his hand, and shouted, "Beat the drum!" - Pioneer Battalion Team 1! With General Ben...... Charge! As he spoke, he turned his head to Liu Yi and said, "Please ask General Liu for help!" ”

"General Wu rest assured, General Ben will ask the crossbowmen to try their best to suppress the archers in the southern city!"

"Please!"

At this time, the drums of the 40,000 Western Expeditionary Army were thundering, and the horn of the attack, representing the attack, was also sounded.

"Woo, woo, woo......"

The battle of Luoyang began.