In the end, not only did each person give money, but even some of the game that Hou Weiqing caught was given to the people who were detained for hunting or cutting firewood in this hill.

The warm sun of early winter shone on Wang Xing, but it did not bring a trace of comfort and coziness to Wang Xing, who was jolting. The road to Xuzhou is extremely uneven due to the secession for decades, especially the recent deliberate destruction, which makes the long-distance run in the territory of Yutai a very tossy people's performance art, whether it is a person or a horse, they are looking for the bottom line of the earth with one foot deep and one foot shallow, just like shareholders are testing where the bottom line of A shares is. However, Wang Xing is still much happier than the shareholders, and the result of bottoming out A shares may not be bottomless at all, but Wang Xing has already seen the dawn in sight, and in another fifteen miles, the former army will enter Fengxian. Where the road is, it is well paved.

originally wanted to toss the enemy army, but it turned out to be tossing himself, whether it was Wang Xing or his 12,000 soldiers, they all had a self-deprecating idea. To the north of Nanpi, the road is better, but after Nanpi, it can turn the lungs of the cavalry upside down. There was a kid who just didn't pay attention to the saddle and flew a tooth, and now he talks like he pulls a bellows. If it weren't for the wheat poking their heads out in the field, the cavalry would be more willing to walk up the field, after all, everyone is a farmer's child, who wants to spoil their father's crops?

Soldier Wang Lao Wu is such a person, Wang Lao Wu is a native of Yutai Dongxiang, his family lives on the edge of Weishan Lake, last year when the official army crusaded against Huaixi, Li Shidao was forcibly conscripted into the army when he was preparing to rescue Huaixi to expand the army. In fact, it can't be said to be forced, Wang Lao Wu has almost no sense of resistance to the duke, and he followed stupidly, if it was in Huaixi, he would have to be called wood. Years of farming life have enabled Wang Lao Wu to develop a strong physique, coupled with underdeveloped brain cells, a perfect cannon fodder was born. After a not strict review, the former farmer Wang Lao Wu became a long knife hand in the Xuanfeng Battalion.

However, Wang Lao Wu is more straightforward in the end, and he always makes such and such mistakes during drills, such as turning his helmet off when running, sliding out of his waist knife, etc., and he is often kicked several times by the team leader during a training, and his body is full of footprints. The miserable life in the military camp made Wang Lao Wu's mind greatly distorted, and he often looked out at the vast field while marching. The officer told them:

"When I got to the army, I thought about how to work for Shangshu and save some money for myself, so that no one would care if I got old and injured. Life in our army is a little harder, don't think about running, if you want to run, think about whether there is still someone in your family, and think about running without you, so as not to be sorry for your parents. ”

After seeing a few deserters with broken arms and legs, Wang Lao Wu's heart completely gave up the idea of fleeing home. Thinking that because his little nephew would be picked up by the captain with a grin, just like the captain did in other places, Wang Lao Wu trembled, and he was relieved to be his big soldier, and only in the middle of the night would he shrink alone in the quilt to wipe his tears. Locked up in the barracks, Wang Lao Wu was thinking about the wheat field at home, the fish and shrimp in Weishan Lake, and even walking on the uneven official road, Wang Lao Wu moved his nose fiercely, wanting to smell the fragrance of wheat, but unfortunately what he smelled was the smell of dry and hard dust.

Wang Lao Wu later recalled that at that time he felt that there was a smell of something wrong hidden in the air, but as a small soldier, he should not worry about something wrong, although he wanted to at the time, but he still held back and kept up with the rhythm of the brigade, until the forward cavalry was blocked by the officers and soldiers who suddenly appeared.

The form of blocking made all the people below Wang Xing stunned, which they had never seen before. Not only for them, but also for the officers and soldiers, it is indeed unprecedented, and no one has ever seen such a hot and violent scene.

Attribute all this kind of stuff to us, the emperor and the court really don't treat us as outsiders!

Li Zhongyi has experienced a hundred battles, but he has never seen the spectacular scene of 5,000 horses bombing the camp at the same time. When the 500 soldiers of the Guards Heavy Battalion who were assigned to him planted explosives on the road and piled them up in the hay on both sides of the road, Li Zhongyi was still questioning the significance of doing so, and when the captain of the Baggage Battalion asked him to withdraw his troops two miles away, Li Zhongyi was unimpressed. To tell the truth, this thing that the emperor has concocted has not been used on the battlefield a few times at all, and it is all in the hands of the guards, and the enemy who has seen this power has already gone to see the great god. Li Zhongyi was a normal person in all respects, and how could he believe that these black jars that emitted a pungent smell could defeat the invincible cavalry on the plains alone? Li Zhongyi shouted dissatisfiedly to the captain of the baggage battalion:

"Ambush the army two miles away, what if the thieves run away? Can you afford to delay the fighter? ”

Captain said:

"General Li, you should trust the commander. In fact, there is really no need to lie in ambush two miles away, but this is the first time that your army has come into contact with this kind of fire and thunder. The last general told you that when he first detonated this thing, he was so scared that he peed his pants. The movement was just too much. In the west, there are a lot of Tubo troops who have been blown up stupidly, and their legs are weak, where do they want to run. Basically, as soon as this thing comes out, the battle is not far from over. Even men are like this, how much more so animals? The last general asked the general to stay away, not because he was afraid that the general would be cowardly, but because he was afraid that the horses that were scurrying around would collide with the brothers and cause unnecessary damage to us. Besides, if we get too close, even though we brothers are all good, we may not be able to come back to our senses immediately. ”

Li Zhongyi finally agreed to the arrangement of the captain of the baggage battalion, because the other party had 5,000 cavalry, and his entire army was infantry, and it was light infantry. However, Li Zhongyi still put down his cruel words, and asked the captain to be careful, so as not to miss the fighter. To tell the truth, if it weren't for Li Yu's strict order, the officers and men of the 52nd Army must be respected, and the captain of the baggage battalion who is already the captain of Guoyi may not be so verbose with this general who has made great achievements, our lords, but the serious Son of Heaven is a personal guard, and the elite of a hundred battles, what do you have to say to you earth leopards?!

Li Zhongyi's thoughts are the same as Hou Weiqing's, and he also wants to justify the name of the 52nd Army in the first war, but Li Yu has Li Yu's considerations, and Li Yu's considerations are to exchange the smallest price for the greatest victory. In fact, after Li Yu went to the Dan room of a few famous Taoist priests in Zhongnan Mountain under the pretext of poor health, and pretended to come up with the formula of gunpowder as if he had suddenly realized, Li Yu had an order that gunpowder could only be used first on the external battlefield. In the Battle of Huaixi, the Third Army of the Guards Army, because it had already experimented with fire and thunder on a small scale in border friction, took advantage of the loophole of the emperor's order and gave the Huaixi infantry who blocked its advance to do so, and as a result, the Third Army lost its qualification to participate in the war this time. Among the first few generals of the Guards, Hao Jue had already entered the king of Baoding County, Li Yu and Li Guangyan were both princes of the country, and Wang Dahai, the envoy of the Third Army, did not even catch an earl. Li Yu knew that the emperor actually did not want to use gunpowder for internal wars. Therefore, after the military meeting, Li Yu confronted Li Guangyan and pleaded:

"Ziqing is a continuous 12 states, with more than 100,000 soldiers and a mobilization capacity of more than 200,000. Moreover, the towns in Hebei can be involved in the war at any time, and the ministers think that they should be quickly resolved. And to fight quickly, in addition to the courage of the soldiers, but also the strength of the weapon. When it comes to military weapons, there is nothing more powerful than fire and thunder. For the sake of the Tang Dynasty and the livelihood of the world, I also ask Your Majesty to allow your ministers and others to use fire and thunder in the First Battle of Ziqing. If there is the help of fire and thunder, the ministers will guarantee that within half a year, Ziqing will be pacified. ”

Li Chun, who had seen the power of gunpowder during the attack on Foguang Temple, was also in favor of using gunpowder in war. Li Chun's reason is extremely lethal. Li Chundao:

"My father was reluctant to use gunpowder on Wu Shaocheng and Li Shidao, because he remembered that they were all subjects of the Tang Dynasty, so he couldn't bear it, but his father regarded them as subjects, how could they respect his father as a monarch? The father is the father of the ministers and workers of the world, and the father of the loyal and brave soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, so why bother the lives of the loyal and brave soldiers and innocent people for the sake of a few unscrupulous ministers? ”

Li Yu is really pedantic on this issue, in fact, Li Jifu is right, you think of yourself as the ancestor of the Wude period, and don't you think of Shandong and Hebei as Wang Shichong Dou Jiande? I don't know what else Li Jifu said, anyway, after Li Jifu finished admonishing, although the emperor did not express his position, he did not say anything against it. Originally, it was a big taboo to guess the emperor's mind for the prince, but when Li Guangyan, who had no bottom in his heart, asked to see the East Palace, the prince said:

"The widow doesn't know what his father thinks, but his father is benevolent, he must not see my Tang soldiers shed blood in vain and the people are displaced."

Li Yu and Li Guangyan naturally understood, and laughed at each other a few times. However, Li Yu later issued a special edict pointing out that it is people, not weapons, that determine the outcome of a war. After carefully studying the edict, the generals at the front line all expressed their admiration for the emperor's incisive opinions, and at the same time everyone reached a consensus: the emperor's words should be listened to, and new weapons should be used.

Hiding behind a hill, Li Zhongyi was bored chewing a dry red leaf, while estimating how loud the fire and thunder were, planning to find an opportunity to humiliate him if the captain bragged. Just as he was thinking, the scout of the lookout ran up to him and said:

"General, the enemy cavalry has entered our minefield."

Spit out the red leaves, Li Zhongyi raised his hand, and the soldiers sitting on the ground got up one after another, picked up their weapons, and stood according to the formation. The officers are reorganizing the formation. The loud noise was heard all over the world.

Li Zhongyi later recalled:

"Then where is it called fire thunder, it should be called heavenly thunder, divine thunder!"

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