"What? There's a gang of bandits who want to rob us? Li Xuan listened to the news reported by the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion, and his face was a little strange.

Where did the bandits come from, they are so bold, they can't wait to taste the power of machine guns and cannons?

"Your Majesty, it is estimated that the reconnaissance battalion exposed its tracks when they were looking for medicine in the mountains, so that those bandits knew that there was such a settlement in the mountains, so they came to the door and wanted to loot." Li Ling said with a somewhat ugly face.

"It's not your fault, after all, the base is big, it can't be isolated from the world forever, there will always be a day when it will be exposed." Li Xuan said this, but in fact, he was also a little worried in his heart, because the base was exposed too early.

This is the location of the sub-portal of the Gate of Tianwei, if it is occupied by the natives of this realm, not to mention the counterattack on the Tang world, at least the Tang Empire's otherworldly expansion plan will be aborted.

"Your Majesty......" Li Ling wanted to speak and stopped.

Li Xuan said angrily: "If you have anything to say, don't hold it in your heart." ”

"Your Majesty, when our soldiers were out for activities recently, once they left Nantianmen for ten kilometers, they would encounter all kinds of accidents. Someone was bitten by a venomous snake, someone had a landslide, someone tripped over a vine and a gun went off. By now, the number of non-combat attrition in our troops has exceeded a hundred. ”

When Li Ling said this, the worry on his face couldn't be suppressed: "It's like there is an inexplicable force in the dark that is targeting us!" ”

"Huh?" The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. Li Xuan's pupils contracted slightly, and a lofty word instantly came to mind - Heavenly Dao!

Li Xuan and the others were all visitors from another world, and they were naturally rejected by the Heavenly Dao of the Three Kingdoms of Gaowu. In the vicinity of the Gate of Celestial Dimension, this effect is not very large, and once it exceeds a certain distance, bad luck will continue.

Those bandits are probably the first strike force that was affected by the Heavenly Dao and ran over.

The only thing that made Li Xuan wonder was that Zhao Xin took the caravan to Pingyuan County, which was two or three hundred miles away from the sub-portal of the Tianwei Gate, why didn't he encounter an accident?

"Yes, Liu Bei is the son of luck in this world, at least one of the sons of luck. Zhao Xin met Zhang Fei early with the caravan, took the initiative to surrender, and sent horses and equipment, could it be that he was sheltered by Liu Bei's destiny and recognized by the Heavenly Dao in this world? ”

Thinking of this, Li Xuan couldn't sit still, and hurriedly ordered: "Spread my will, quickly summon the scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion, I have something important to discuss with them!" ”

The so-called "Wenyuan Pavilion" is an institution established by Li Xuan in imitation of the think tank of his previous life, which is somewhat similar to the strategists of the Gaowu Three Kingdoms World, the smartest group of elites in the Tang Empire, giving advice to the imperial court.

Of course, these scholars only have the right to make suggestions, but they have no real power, and they cannot interfere in the affairs of the imperial court.

Just when Li Xuan summoned the scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion to discuss the possibility of the existence of the Heavenly Dao, eight miles away from the advance base, a large number of bandits were rushing in the direction of the base.

"Sons, hurry up! As long as you break through the settlement in the mountains, you can enjoy the wine and beauties, and don't let the fat sheep be guarded! Among the thieves, a large man eight feet tall, with a sturdy body and a scar on his face, shouted.

This person's surname is Yang, and he is the thief chief of the bandits. In addition, he has another identity, that is, the remnants of the Yellow Turban!

"Big brother, do you think there really is such a stronghold in the mountains? We have lived in these mountains for so many years, why have we never found it? A one-eyed man asked.

"The second brother doesn't have to doubt it, this matter is true. In the past month, a big fat sheep appeared in Pingyuan County, and he made a generous move, and also gave a large number of materials to Liu Bei's house. I followed the fat sheep's subordinates and found that they had carved out a settlement in the middle of the mountains. However, the other party's defense was quite tight, and I was not able to go deep into the gathering point, but only looked at the situation of the gathering point from the outside, and there were plenty of mouths, and a lot of pillboxes were built, which happened to be our lair in the future. ”

This thief chief condensed his Gang qi, he was a master of the Neigang realm, and he personally followed him, even if the people sent by the Tang Empire had anti-tracking methods, it was difficult to find out that he was being followed.

"Since the eldest brother said so, then there is no doubt about it." The one-eyed bandit sneered: "A few years ago, our Yellow Turban Army was all over the world, and many landlords and old fortunes fled when they heard the news, and some people fled to the mountains and forests in an attempt to hide and take refuge. Most of the fat sheep in that stronghold are those landlords and old wealth. ”

The area of the Three Kingdoms of Gaowu is really too large, equivalent to ten times that of the Tang Dynasty and thirty times that of the Blue Star, but the population is only two or three hundred million, and large areas are deserted.

The thirteen states of the Han Dynasty are quite good, as for the vast grasslands in the north, the vast deserts in the west, and the 100,000 mountains in the south, there are basically no people in sight. Ninety percent of the world's population is concentrated in the thirteen states of Dahan.

It is not uncommon for people to flee the mountains to avoid taxes or war, and to establish settlements that are self-sufficient like paradises.

As the bandits hurried, they imagined how much they could gain from this raid.

At this moment, there was a sudden rumbling explosion, like thunder.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"It's not good, the fat sheep are already prepared, and they have ambushed the gunners in advance!" The Scarface Thief Chief's face changed greatly, and he roared angrily: "Everyone rush forward for me, dare to take half a step back, the old man will split him alive!" ”

There is also gunpowder in this world, which was made by those scribes in the pre-Qin period when they were refining pills. Even many armies have artillery in them, and when they are facing the enemy, the cannons roar with stones...... That's it.

After all, it is the generals and scribes who decide the outcome of the war, and the mobility of the artillery is not good, which slows down the advance of the large army, so it is only a small amount of equipment.

The Scarface Thief Chief also measured according to his usual experience, thinking that the enemy was only equipped with a few artillery, but the new army of the Tang Empire they encountered!

Hundreds of cannons roared and bombarded, and these cannons used explosives, which were much more powerful than gunpowder.

After several rounds of bombardment, hundreds of bandits have lost 30%.

Finally, when I got closer, I could see a trench in front of me, and a faint human head was moving in the trench.

"Heavy, fire!"

"Dada!"

Dozens of heavy machine guns opened fire at the same time, and the dense bullets formed a metal storm, and where the storm swept through, the bandits poured a large piece like wheat harvesting.

After all, they are ordinary bandits, and the strongest ones are the two third-rate generals of the Neigang realm, who have no power to resist in the face of machine guns and cannons.