Chapter 148: The Qi Army That Rose Up

Although these Taoist priests were not top-level Taoist priests in Yecheng before, they were also well-known in the city on weekdays, and after being constantly praised by others, it can be said that they think very highly of themselves over time.

They had also heard before that a kind of thunderbolt used by the Sanqi rebels was a palm thunder refined by the Taoist priests of Taiqing Dao.

In addition, a large number of people only believed what they had seen with their own eyes, and several Taoist priests were quite unconvinced when they saw that the thunderbolt they had made according to the analysis of the original version was so poor, and after the approval of the managers and generals of the arsenal who were present, they decided to try the thunderbolt that they had picked up from Wang Yong.

But there is nothing to see in any thing alone, but there is a saying, 'Goods are better than goods, and people want to die more than others!'" The movement of the original thunderbolt almost frightened these Taoist priests.

Empiricism kills people, according to the power of the thunderbolts made by themselves in the previous test, these Taoist priests are just hiding in a trench a few zhang away, although the general who came back from the front line tried his best to describe the power after the explosion and wanted to let a few people hide away, but these people don't care, when they refine the pill', they can still hear the explosion in the alchemy furnace from time to time!

The thunderbolt was lit by the general's own soldiers, and looking at the soldiers who lit the fuse and ran desperately into the distance, several Taoist priests suddenly felt a little bad, as if they were waiting for someone to do something stupid!

When the soldier ran out of more than a dozen feet and fell to the ground violently, the Taoist priests only heard the sound of 'boom', the earth trembled, their eyes couldn't help blinking, their scalp was a little numb, and then they felt some pain and discomfort in their ears.

After the explosion, the nearest Taoist priests felt that their ears were gone, and they 'touched' and 'touched' their ears with their hands one by one to make sure that their ears were still on their heads, and then they barely put their minds at ease, but the 'buzzing' tinnitus in their ears lasted for a quarter of an hour before disappearing.

The general who had returned from the front line saw that several Taoist chiefs were no longer as pretending to be as calm as before, and were 'rubbing' their ears vigorously one by one, and it seemed that he had suffered a lot of losses, so he stepped forward and picked up a sycamore plank that had been placed outside the trench at the beginning.

Several Taoist priests immediately breathed a sigh of cool air when they saw this wooden board, this sycamore wooden board that was four or five inches thick was now embedded with more than a dozen pieces of broken iron and iron slag of all sizes, and a Taoist priest stepped forward to try to pull out a larger piece of iron, but he didn't want to pull it out at once.

After pulling out the iron piece with force, I saw that the iron piece had penetrated into the wooden board as deep as two fingers, even if the plane wood was relatively loose, it was a lot of four or five feet away from the explosion point.

That is to say, the minimum explosion range of the thunderbolt is to draw a circle with a radius of four or five zhang, and such a large area is also the effective killing radius of the original thunderbolt, such an effect suddenly stunned several Louguan Taoist priests, it can be said that the heart of the liver fluttering and fluttering a strong jump.

It seems that Taiqing Dao is too powerful, is it really only Taiqing Dao that can be regarded as the authentic Dao 'Gate', otherwise why would they suddenly be able to produce so many thunderbolts?

These Taoist priests secretly doubted 'confused', generally speaking, there are always a few places in Taoism that are connected, and after careful study, they can always imitate it, but now the thunderbolt they make is not the same thing as the one made by Taiqing Dao.

These Taoist priests of Louguan Dao have always been arrogant and never obey others, but this time they somehow always feel a little weak-hearted, although the 'door' of the Northern Dynasty Road occupies the mainstream of the Heavenly Master Dao, but the Taoist priests of the Louguan Dao have never thought that they are worse than the Northern Heavenly Master Dao.

During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Northern Dynasty Dao 'Gate' was orthodox to the Northern Heavenly Master of Kou Qian's Kou Tianshi who sorted out the Northern Five Bucket Rice Road and reorganized the Northern Wudou Rice Dao, and it was also recognized by the imperial court, but the historical origin of Louguan Dao was not bad, and Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty Tuoba Tao also trusted Louguan Dao Master Yin Tongshi Ma Jian.

But now when I think of Liu Qing's Taiqing Dao, these Taoist priests are becoming more and more empty-hearted, they still know something about the incident that happened in Jiankang City at the beginning of the year, of course, the protagonist has changed in the story of these Taoist priests, the original protagonist Wang Ze is now just a trick, and the Southern Dynasty Dao 'Gate' who played soy sauce before has become a big hero who turns his hands into clouds and covers his hands for rain.

In the story of the Taoist priests, Wang Ze became a little kid who was trapped in the imperial city and was not allowed to travel almost scared to death, when hundreds of thousands of monks and believers in Jiankang City gathered outside the city of Jiankang to ask for Wang Ze to be executed, but later because of the sudden "intervention" of the Southern Dynasty Taoist "door", so that those monks worked in vain not to mention that they also lost many temples and temple properties, which I heard that there was Liu Qing's fourth disciple Chen Duan.

What made the Taoist priests of the Northern Dynasty envious was that after this incident, the people of the Southern Dynasty greatly reduced their hearts to Buddhism and converted to Taoism, so that the Taoist 'gate' of the Southern Dynasty regained the upper hand, and they were no longer as miserable as before, and lived a miserable life of living alone.

Now the various sects of the Southern Dynasty are no longer arguing with each other about which is the orthodoxy of the Dao 'Gate', they are now preparing to unify the Dao 'Gate' of the Southern Dynasty by discussing a divine book called "The Romance of the Gods", and even the emperor Chen Baxian, who has been ill for a long time, knows about this matter and commends it.

Of course, the above statements are all heard by these Taoist priests of Louguan Dao from other Taoist friends, speaking of which, these Taoist priests did not look up to the Taoist friends of the Southern Dynasty in the past, but this time the Taoist priests of Louguan Dao were really impressed by their Taoist friends of the Southern Dynasty.

The most heartbroken for these Taoist priests is the book from the Southern Dynasty "Romance of the Gods", according to some Taoist friends said that this book is the past Jingxiang land people called Xianweng, now in the East China Sea Xiandao blessed land Taiqing Taoist Liu Qing wrote.

Since this book was transmitted to the Northern Dynasties, the propaganda of some Taoist priests within the Taoist 'gate' spread rapidly, and now a copy of "The Romance of the Gods" printed on Jeju Island can be sold for more than 1,200 yuan in the Southern Chen, and it is even more expensive in the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi dynasties of the Northern Dynasties.

There's no way, who made the content of the book so lovely, just because there are many derogatory meanings in this book, and it was banned by the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou courts, which have always believed in Futujiao, and these Taoist priests can only hide in their houses and hold a few pages of manuscripts to enjoy themselves.

It's just that after reading it, I have more respect for the Taiqing Daoists, but no matter how these Taoist priests of Louguan Dao think of Taiqing Dao, the research and development of Thunderbolt will continue after all. In this way, through daily experiments and explorations, the power of the thunderbolt created after day by day of hard work has become more and more powerful.

The ancients believed that autumn was the season of depression of all things, and there was the intention of killing, and the prisoners who were generally sentenced to death were beheaded after autumn.

In addition, most of the wars in ancient times also took place in autumn, generally speaking, at this time, the grain in various places was harvested, and the war horses were also fattened and strong, and it was the time to eat and drink enough to fight and play.

Just as young people are full of "essence" and "strength", they like to be full of warmth and think about "lust" and "desire" after eating, and after a country's national strength is strong, it must also expand externally, and after the autumn harvest, it is the time when grain and grass are abundant, and the weather is cool and suitable for war.

Twenty miles outside Jeju City, in the camp of the Qi army, the Hu Lawyers Association can finally relax a little, since the news of the sudden death of the abolished emperor and Jinan King Gao Yin spread in the Qi army, the Hu Lawyers Association stopped attacking, after nearly 20 days of rectification and pacification, the Hu Lawyers Association finally calmed down the soldiers' 'commotion' emotions with great effort.

In fact, there is nothing new in the routine of the Hu Lawyers Association, he first called on the officers above the captain level of each battalion to do a good job in the ideological work of these people, because the prestige of the Hu Lawyers Association in the army has always been very high, coupled with the thorn 'excited' of promotion and fortune after the big victory, these officers are willing to obey the orders of the Hu Lawyers Association.

After doing a good job in the ideological work of these officers, let these people go back to their own camps and give the soldiers a word, as long as they defeat the thieves in front of them, everyone can immediately go back to their respective homes and find their own mothers! And the Hu Lawyers Association also told them another good news, that is, their own side also has a big killer weapon like Thunderbolt.

There is no doubt that these thunderbolts are the latest ones made by Yecheng, and it will take a long time for these thunderbolts to be imitated, but because of the support of the emperor, it is very different.

One day, the old Xianbei general He Balen rode past near the arsenal workshop, where the power of the newly made thunderbolt was being tested. Although the thunderbolts made by these Taoist priests were still far less powerful than those obtained from Wang Yong, the movement after the explosion was not small.

This is good, a loud bang frightened the war horse under He Balen's crotch, if it weren't for the veteran He Batren who was still strong and powerful and restrained the war horse in time, I'm afraid there might really be some 'traffic' accidents, this He Batren is the main supporter of Gao Yan's ascension to the throne, and it would be great if something happened to him.

Seeing that his master was almost frightened, the 'squires' who followed him were of course not indifferent, and immediately rushed into the workshop to teach the people inside a lesson. Then He Balin saw that the thunderbolt was so powerful, so he brought the matter to the court.

After Gao Yan, the emperor of Jinyang, knew that the arsenal outside Yecheng was already experimenting with the production of thunderbolts on Wang Yong's side, and ran back to Yecheng with thousands of forbidden troops from Jinyang despite the changes in various places.

In order to ensure the quality and speed up the progress, Gao Yan summoned some famous Taoist priests such as the Heavenly Master Dao around Yecheng and the Northern Qi Dynasty, and finally made a thunderbolt that can explode after months of development!

Of course, although these thunderbolts can explode or make a thunderous roar, the sound of the explosion is not as loud as the thunderbolt equipped by Wang Yong's side, and the number of fragments blown up is far inferior, at most it is just to blow up the cast iron shell outside into four or five pieces.

Considering that the explosion effect of the cast iron shell of the thunderbolt made by his side was not good, Yecheng also sent some thunderbolts with ceramic shells to the Hu Lawyers Association.

Although the power, scope, and lethality of these ceramic-shelled thunderbolts after explosion are far inferior to those on Wang Yong's side, because of the large volume of gunpowder filled in them, coupled with the iron nails, broken porcelain pieces, iron slag and other objects mixed inside, the threat to the general unarmored infantry is not small.

Of course, only a few high-ranking generals such as Hu Luxie and Murong Yi knew about the weakness of their own weapons, and the other low-level officers and ordinary soldiers only knew that they now had the weapons of killing that made them fearful before.

With so much courageous equipment, the 'spirit' of the soldiers of the Qi army was mobilized, coupled with the promise that they could go home after the battle, the soldiers were full of energy to fight with Wang Yongjun one by one. Most of these soldiers are new recruits who have been in the army for a year, and it is the first time that they have been away from home for such a long time, and they are really 'quite homesick' after months of hard fighting.

Seeing the soldiers preparing to fight with Wang Yong one by one, the Hu Lawyers Association finally put down the heart of the carry, seeing that the autumn harvest has passed, the grain and grass on their side are very abundant, and it is time to fight well, otherwise I am sorry to reuse his own Emperor His Majesty!

At this time, August will be the end of the autumn equinox, it is a good season for autumn to be crisp and suitable for battle, Hu Lawyers Association issued an order, hundreds of thousands of Qi troops are still divided into the original three roads and began to attack Wang Yong again.

Wang Yong, who was stationed in Jibei County, and Yuan Jia, who was stationed in Jeju, did not show weakness, and each mobilized all his troops to fight against the Qi army.

I have to say that this time the thunderbolts equipped by the Qi army greatly encouraged the confidence of the Qi soldiers, and on the eve of the 'engagement' battle, more than 10,000 sets of heavy infantry iron armor were newly transported from Yecheng and were all used by the Hu Law Association, waiting for the critical moment to be used.

In the face of the fierce offensive of the Hu Lawyers Association and the use of a large number of ceramic thunderbolts, Wang Yong was really a little overwhelmed at first, but later Zhou Tong, a rough man, came up with an idea to use trebuchets and crossbow arrows to 'shoot' thunderbolts, which suppressed the attack of the Qi army.

But within a few days, the Hu Lawyers Association also created a trebuchet to counterattack Wang Yong's side, and the technology of the 'bed' crossbow is not complicated, and the Qi army also has a 'bed' crossbow, although the power and 'shooting' range are not as powerful as Wang Yong's equipment, but the number is far more than Wang Yong.

In this way, the two sides have been constantly introducing new tactics and weapons, which has greatly promoted the progress of military technology, and it can be said that war promotes the progress of mankind.

Unconsciously, the time came in October, and under the deliberate attraction of the Hu Lawyers Association, most of the troops on Wang Yong's side were gradually attracted to the areas near Jeju and Jibei County, and even the cavalry of Ge Wei, who was defending the south bank of the Yellow River, unknowingly leaned towards this section of Qizhou.

In the more than a month that the two sides were 'fighting', no one noticed that the Hu Lawyers Association secretly sent the general Dugu Yongye to lead 50,000 'elite' troops from the Jeju front line to leave quietly.