Qiu Yizhi felt strange when he heard this, and said, "What black soil? Tell me clearly. ”

"Iron Head Jiao" scratched his ears and cheeks, and then said: "This, I can't tell the door clearly." If you are really interested, you might as well take a look for yourself. But this thing is very fishy, and it doesn't look good in the black......"

Qiu Yizhi saw that it was still early, so he said: "It's good to go and have a look, I want to know what the King of Lingnan sent to Zheng Yu." 'Iron Head Jiao', you lead the way. ”

After that, he followed the "Iron Head Jiao" forward.

Along the way, Qiu Yizhi found something good - he sometimes pointed to a pile of cut wood next to him and said: "Look at it, these arrows are all made of good Nanmu in the south, and the arrows made are heavy and straight, and they are no longer accurate." You remember to ship some back. ”

He pointed to a number of horses in the distance and said, "Don't look down on these horses from the south. Although they are not as good as the good horses of the Bohai Sea and the Turks, they are also very rare in the Central Plains. Send someone to drive these horses back and raise them carefully. You must know that our army is now a cavalry elite. ”

From time to time, he looked at the mountains of weapons and sighed: "Lingnan Road also has good blades." Although these swords are not as good as the weapons made in Bohai, and they are worse than the Japanese swords, they are still better than the Central Plains blades. It's a pity that time is tight now, and we don't have enough manpower, so we can't take them all away......"

Qiu Yi walked and looked at it, and finally came to the front of the "several jars of black mud" mentioned by "Tietou Jiao".

I saw that this jar with "black mud" was just a large stoneware flower pot used by ordinary people, and there was nothing special. The cylinder mouth was sealed with skin, and when it was uncovered, it was indeed a pile of black glue stuffed with a large amount of dignified material.

With such a container, such a color, and such a shape, Rao would scoff at it, thinking that the Lingnan Army had nothing to do when it was full, and it actually transported a pile of sludge thousands of miles away.

But when Qiu Yizhi saw these things, he gasped - these are not the silt used to grow flowers and grasses, but carefully prepared gunpowder!

Qiu Yizhi was collected from the main altar of the Tianzun Sect's "Yu Huang Ding" and came from the Western Regions, knowing that gunpowder could still be used to attack the city. After that, he used explosives several times to blast through countless city walls and gates, each time it had the effect of reviving the dead and turning things around, and played a great role in the great cause of Emperor Zheng Rong.

It is precisely because of the power of such a thing as gunpowder that only a few people in the world, such as Emperor Zheng Rong, Prime Minister Zhong Likuang, and Qiu Yizhi, know its existence, and only Qiu Yizhi knows how to prepare and use it, and strictly keep it secret and avoid talking about other people, in order to prevent the small people from using gunpowder to conquer the city and cause the world to shake.

Qiu Yizhi had already guessed that the method of excavation with tunnels when the King of Lingnan attacked the city was obtained from Wen Honghui, but he had not heard of which city was blasted open when it was captured, so he was a little glad that Wen Honghui had not yet mastered the method of using gunpowder.

However, this gunpowder siege method was brought to Middle-earth by the Tianzun Sect from the Western Regions, and Wen Honghui, as the leader of the Tianzun Sect, finally mastered this skill. If he is loyal to Zhenggui, the king of Lingnan, then what other city in the whole world can hold on? The world is at your fingertips.

Seeing the gunpowder in front of him, how could Qiu Yizhi not be cold? He sat on the ground almost in collapse, and his face suddenly turned pale.

The "iron-headed Jiao" beside him didn't know why, touched his shiny head, and asked, "My lord, what's wrong?" Is your face so ugly? Isn't there anything weird about these jars of mud? ”

Qiu Yizhi's brows shrunk, he glared at the "Iron Head Jiao", and said angrily: "There are some things, it's better not to know!" ”

His eyes were extremely cold, and he actually stared at the ferocious "Iron Head Jiao" and shrank all over, and he didn't know how to answer.

In just a few moments, Qiu Yizhi had returned to normal, and shouted to Wu Changxi to come over, ordering: "We have almost burned the enemy's ships, and we will burn this port next. ”

Of course, Wu Changxi had no reason to refuse, so he immediately led his soldiers, exited the original way from the entrance of the cofferdam, and came to the city.

Qiu Yizhi asked Wu Changxi to go out, but not to let him answer outside, but not to let him know the secret of this gunpowder.

Therefore, after he saw Wu Changxi leave, he led his soldiers to bring the jars of gunpowder to the middle of the dock, and after indiscriminately transporting some eye-catching military supplies, he took a torch in his hand, personally lit the gunpowder, and galloped out of the cofferdam.

Unexpectedly, the power of this gunpowder was beyond Qiu Yizhi's imagination.

With an earth-shattering huge explosion, the entire Mingzhou Wharf was suddenly shrouded in gray-black smoke.

By the time the smoke cleared, the pier had already been blown up beyond recognition, and even the sturdy and thick cofferdam had collapsed into several gaps. Looking inside from the gap, I saw that the original very neat and decent wharf of Mingzhou Port was already in tatters, and there was no good one, and even the mountains of military supplies were blown to pieces.

Qiu Yizhi knew that such a movement spread today, and the main force of Zheng Yu, who was led away by Zhao Chengxiao, would definitely move closer to Mingzhou City as quickly as possible, and it was very likely that they would encircle themselves in Mingzhou City.

Therefore, he didn't dare to sigh more, and as soon as he gave an order, he ordered his subordinates to take the plundered horses and baggage, and marched west along the original road and left Mingzhou City.

The port of Mingzhou fell, the grain and grass were destroyed, a large number of sea ships were sunk, and even Yin Chengliang and Yin Tai and his son fled in embarrassment.

Although Zheng Yu is ambitious and talented, he also knows the importance of Mingzhou Port, and knows that if he has more than 100,000 mobile troops and more than 200,000 defenders from all over the country, if there is no sea route from Lingnan to Jiangnan, it will be extremely difficult to maintain the current military supply with just a tortuous land route. Don't say that it is to maintain the current rolling offensive of hundreds of thousands of troops, even if you can survive the winter until the end of the spring famine, it is not a simple matter.

can do such a tricky and mean thing, don't guess that it is the mean and tricky Qiu Yizhi!

Thinking of this, Zheng Yu was already carried away by anger, leaving the army led by Zhao Chengxiao in front of him, and immediately ordered his army to turn around and march to Mingzhou City, and his subordinates wanted to capture Qiu Yi's life alive.

Zhao Chengxiao, who led the army, was in charge of such an army of tens of thousands of people, paying attention to the word "safe", thinking that as long as his army was safely returned to Qiu Yizhi, the task would be completed.

However, there was also a talented "half-pine layman" Lin Shuhan in his army, and he saw that the opponent hurriedly retreated, and the gap was huge, and he did not want to miss this great opportunity, so he proposed to Zhao Chengxiao to take the opportunity to sneak attack the opponent.

Although Zhao Chengxiao had Lin Shuhan to help him share the responsibility, he didn't dare to take too many risks, and only divided and annihilated a few teams that were too prominent or backward, but also wiped out two or three thousand Lingnan troops, which was also a big result.

Qiu Yizhi's side had also guessed that Zheng Yu was bound to arrest him on a large scale, so he didn't dare to delay at all, but instead of directly going west to make peace with Zhao Chengxiao, he first shook a shot to the north, making the illusion that he was going to enter Jinling City, and tricked Zheng Yu into going around in a big circle in the north.

Zhao Chengxiao and others were overjoyed to see that Qiu Yizhi not only came back intact, but also seized a large number of military supplies, and had their own greetings.

Qiu Yizhi was originally afraid that he would not be able to escape from Zheng Yu's pursuit, but now he was afraid that he would have no head and no brains to attack the place indiscriminately, so he simply ordered his sergeants to make a big flag, and rushed to make a big car, planted the flag on the car, and showed off his power everywhere. This big flag is enough to see a square foot, and it can be described as majestic and majestic in the wind, but there are only five timid big characters written on it, "Shanyin County Lingqiu", which makes people who have seen it unforgettable.

Such an obvious provocation made Zheng Yu angry, and he hurriedly reversed the direction of the army's advance again, and attacked Qiu Yi's army to the west again.

This is exactly what Qiu Yizhi wants.

Relying on hundreds of war horses captured from the Mingzhou wharf, he established a light cavalry unit, relying on this highly mobile light army, and annihilated hundreds of Lingnan soldiers, and after completely arousing Zheng Yu's anger, he went all the way west to his hometown, Shanyin County, the capital of Yuezhou.

Zheng Yu was in hot pursuit, but the number of troops was getting smaller and smaller.

It turned out that after Qiu Yizhi completely destroyed the port of Mingzhou, the grain, grass and ordnance transferred from Lingnan Province to Zheng Yu became less and less, and it was really difficult to maintain the cost of the military rations accumulated before, so the soldiers who could not maintain it had to be dispatched to various prefectures and counties, so that they could practice and eat food on the spot.

In this way, Zheng Yu barely managed to maintain 40,000 elite soldiers and continued to pursue Qiu Yizhi, although the speed accelerated, but also narrowed the overwhelming force advantage over Qiu Yizhi's headquarters.

Although Zheng Yu's talent is limited, he also slowly noticed such a change, and intends to stop the pursuit of the hurricane. However, Qiu Yizhi's side was like an annoying fly, sometimes attacking nearby states and counties, and sometimes harassing Zheng Yu's army - and even once taking advantage of Zheng Yu's unpreparedness, a cavalry smashed Zheng Yu's camp and almost cut down the banner of the Chinese army.

After several years of training, Qiu Yizhi's use of troops has been perfected, especially commanding a small group of troops like ghosts and ghosts, difficult to know like yin, how can Zheng Yu catch his whereabouts? Fortunately, Zheng Yu has a large number of people after all, and a large number of troops are scattered to various states and counties, although there are fewer soldiers and horses pursuing Qiu Yizhi, they have also strengthened local defenses, so that Qiu Yizhi is increasingly unable to find states and counties that can be easily attacked.

In this way, the battle situation was stalemate for another month, and seeing that the New Year was approaching, the soldiers in Zheng Yu's army were homesick and exhausted, and their morale was getting lower and lower.

Zheng Yu, who was personally in charge of the army, became more and more anxious when he saw such a situation. At this moment, a battle report came from the front: it was said that Qiuyi's headquarters, which had been harassing and wandering around him, had all been evacuated and went to Shanyin County.

Zheng Yu has been on a lot of Qiu Yizhi, and when he heard such news, he still didn't believe it, but then there was a report from the front: Qiu Yi's headquarters had all arrived in Shanyin County, and even his banner of the Chinese army, which could not be swaggered, was raised in Shanyin County; And the enemy troops who were originally harassing everywhere and scratching their ears and cheeks were no longer there, and it seemed that they had also returned to Shanyin County.