To tell the truth, at the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, as the most powerful Northern Qi in the Central Plains, his strength was not only reflected in the military aspect, but in the overall national strength, during this period, the Northern Qi in terms of agricultural production, population, strong army, or economic and technological level far surpassed the two countries of Southern Chen and Northern Zhou.

Especially in this period, due to the Northern Qi as the main successor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the iron smelting level of the Northern Qi Dynasty was very superb, it can be said that in addition to the iron smelting level under Wang Yong's rule because of Wang Ze's anomaly, the iron smelting level of the Northern Qi Dynasty was the highest in the world, both the technical level and the scale of production far exceeded other countries.

Although in the previous year or so, the land of Sanqi, which had a relatively large scale of iron smelting in the Northern Qi Dynasty, was occupied by Wang Yong, and the two more important iron-producing areas of Changbai Mountain and Yidu were lost, which slightly reduced the iron-smelting output of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but because the iron-smelting areas of the Northern Qi Dynasty were mainly distributed in the states and counties north of the Great River, in the case of losing the iron land of the Sanqi land, it still could not change the iron production of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Now the scale of iron smelting in Xiangzhou, near Yecheng alone, is about the same as the iron smelting output in Changbai Mountain and Yidu, and if you add the iron smelting output of Handan, Jinyang, Henan and other states and counties that are still under the control of Northern Qi, the iron and steel of Northern Qi is still almost the sum of the iron smelting volume of all countries.

With so much steel, and the sharp giant axe made by the Su Tie method invented by Mu Qi Huaiwen in the past, the Northern Qi quickly equipped a heavy armored army that could compete with the ironclad battalion of Zhou Tong's department.

Although the giant axes in the hands of the soldiers of this army are far inferior to the horse cutting giant sword that Wang Yong equipped his soldiers, but because the number of heavy armored soldiers in the Northern Qi Dynasty far exceeds Wang Yong's ironclad battalion, now the Qi army under Jiaozhou City relies on the advantage of numbers, and still puts a lot of pressure on the ironclad battalion led by Luo Huan with only 1,000 people.

Luo Huan is also thirty years old this year, he was originally from Donglai Huang County, but because of his poor family since childhood, he went to Changguang County alone to live, and when he was fifteen years old, he had a conflict with some people under Wang Yong.

At that time, Wang Yong was on the side, thinking that this teenage boy was going to be beaten, and he was ready to step forward to stop both sides, but he didn't want this guy to knock over five or six people with only brute force, and immediately Wang Yong realized that this kid was a talent, so he recruited him to his subordinates and kept him with him.

As Tai Shi Ci's fellow countryman, Luo Huan grew up listening to the stories of Donglai Tai Shi Ci since he was a child, and he also admired Tai Shi Ci's superb martial arts generals, so he practiced martial arts with Wang Yong during the years under Wang Yong, and when he was young, he was already the first fierce general under Wang Yong in terms of military value.

It's a pity not enough, the only drawback of this fierce general brother is that he is afraid of horses, Luo Huan has always been the commander of the ironclad battalion under Zhou Tong before, because the ironclad battalion was limited by the small scale of the production of the ironclad horse slashing giant sword at that time, so Luo Huan has always been unrenowned.

Now as one of the commanders under Zhou Tong, Luo Huan also has thousands of soldiers who have fought a few battles on the battlefield in Jibei County, but they are becoming more and more famous. Moreover, his strength is outstanding among the several generals of the original ironclad battalion, even Liu Wancheng, who is half a head taller than him, can't beat Luo Huan now.

This time the offensive of the Qi army was very fierce, but fortunately, Luo Huan organized a small group of non-commissioned officers with equally strong force value to establish a firefighting team, whenever the Qi army wanted to open a gap somewhere, they rushed over to support, and with their help, the ironclad battalion repelled several fierce attacks of the heavy armor of the Qi army one after another.

During the battle between the two sides, a general of the Qi army, relying on his martial arts, led dozens of elite guards to personally charge forward in an attempt to open a gap, and actually killed more than ten soldiers of the ironclad battalion one after another, and even the soldiers of the ironclad battalion could not block the impact of these people, so the infantry who fought with them behind the ironclad battalion could not be stopped.

Under the impact of this group of Qi troops, a large number of Qi soldiers were thrown here, and the battle line on Wang Yong's side suddenly became precarious, and at the critical juncture, Luo Huan led dozens of elite warriors under his command to rush up, and after a brave fight, they finally blocked the charge of this group of Qi troops and stabilized the battle line again.

Luo Huan aimed at the Qi army general who took the lead and fought against him, and the dozens of soldiers brought by Luo Huan were against the dozens of personal guards of the Qi army generals, preventing them from going to reinforce their main generals.

The guys in the crossbow battalion probably thought that it was better for Luo Huan and the soldiers of the ironclad battalion to wear thick iron armor for protection, and after seeing more and more Qi soldiers gathering more and more in this area, they suddenly shot a large number of crossbow arrows as if they didn't need money.

This is good, the soldiers on Wang Yong's side are basically wearing armor and are not afraid of arrow rain, while the Qi soldiers are wearing armor at most in key places except for the heavy armor soldiers, and the other parts are not protected by any other, and they were suddenly shot down by the rain-like crossbow arrows one by one, and the Qi soldiers behind saw that the situation was not good and retreated.

Seeing this, Luo Huan took advantage of the situation to force forward with dozens of people, and the general of the Qi army was entangled by Luo Huan because of his slow retreat, and after a while, dozens of personal guards brought by the generals of the Qi army were all killed, Luo Huan struggled to raise the horse slashing giant sword in his hand and aimed at the heavy armor general of the Qi army in front of him.

Although the generals of the Qi army were not weak in martial arts, they couldn't dodge, so they took the weapons in their hands to resist, but they didn't know that the horse slashing giant sword in Luo Huan's hand was different from the giant sword in the hands of other ironclad battalion soldiers, and his giant sword was the best batch of giant swords built by Cao Blacksmith when he was still in the cottage of Changguang County.

And because Luo Huan was born strong, Cao Blacksmith specially created this giant sword for Luo Huan at that time, which was heavier and longer.

Now this Qi army general used the weapon in his hand to block the giant sword that Luo Huan chopped down, but he didn't want the giant sword of dozens of catties and nearly a hundred catties to split the Qi army general into two pieces in an instant under Luo Huan's huge force, and the blood immediately sprayed Luo Huan's body.

"Phew!" Luo Huan licked his lips with his tongue and spat again, "It's so fucking fishy and smelly!" The Qi soldiers who were slowly retreating just now saw that the brave generals on their side were all killed, and they suddenly couldn't form a formation, like birds and beasts scattered, only the corpses of the Qi army lying on the ground were telling the fierceness of the battle just now.

"Brothers, come with me!" This voice was shouted by Han Biao, just now the infantry has always been a supporting role as the soldiers of the ironclad battalion, and now the retreat of the Qi army is a good time to pursue and kill the enemy, and the ironclad battalion is inconvenient to pursue because of the heavy sword and ironclad of the horse, so the infantry has to take on this responsibility.

With the pursuit of the infantry army, the Qi army escaped faster, but Han Biao had just chased a few hundred meters before he was shot back by the bow and arrow of the Qi army's rear sweeping formation, and now the Qi army was only slightly frustrated, and Han Biao did not dare to chase it too far, but even so, Han Biao also slashed and killed hundreds of Qi troops, and even the crash car that the Qi army had not yet pushed up was burned out.

After repelling the large-scale attack of the Qi army, the morale of the Xia army soared, but then Dugu Yongye sent the arrow tower that was originally intended to attack Jiaozhou City, and now Dugu Yongye decided that as long as Wang Yong was captured, then everything else would be easy to do.

In order to prevent Wang Yong from using a bed crossbow to destroy these arrow towers, these arrow towers of the Qi army were all made of fresh trees, and the outside was also covered with a layer of iron sheets, and even the inside was filled with a large amount of ice and snow to prevent Wang Yong's fire attack.

The most helpless thing is that the Qi army only pushed the arrow tower to 200 meters away from Wang Yong's camp under such conditions and stopped advancing, and the Qi soldiers on the arrow tower began to use the bed crossbow made by the Northern Qi themselves to launch rockets at Wang Yong's camp, and soon Wang Yong's camp was lit up with piles of flames, which restrained Wang Yong's many troops to extinguish the fire.

Although Zhou Duo hurriedly let the rockets fired by the crossbow battalion with bed crossbows hit the arrow tower of the Qi army one after another, because of the thoughtful arrangement of the Qi army, the arrow tower could not burn at all, even if there were some small flames attached to it, it could not continue to burn, let alone destroy the arrow tower of the Qi army.

Just when Zhou Duo was having a headache about the Qi Army's arrow tower, at this time, the horses under Dugu Sheng's command also did the same, one by one with a rope tied to a stone and a fire oil bag at the other, while throwing the stone around Wang Yong's camp, while throwing the burning fire oil bag into the fence of the camp.

Fa Yan and Shi Haiguang were angry because they couldn't lead the cavalry out of the camp to fight with the Qi army, but Wang Yong didn't allow them to go out of the camp to fight at this time, so they had to help extinguish the flames in the camp, but although the fire oil bags thrown by the horses did not burn the fence, they also destroyed the strength of the fence.

Wang Yong saw that this was not a solution, so he was ready to ask Zhou Duo to send 200 crossbow arrow battalion soldiers to assist the defenders in the camp to expel the ringing horses that harassed the camp, and prepared to use crossbow arrows to teach these arrogant ringing horses a lesson, but at this time, the Qi army on the arrow tower actually shot a large number of gunpowder shells with bed crossbows.

The gunpowder bullets of the Qi army were undoubtedly made by the Taoist priests of the Northern Qi Dynasty, such as the Northern Heavenly Master Dao and Louguan Dao, and according to the ones picked up from the Andeok-gun and Jeju fronts, a batch of gunpowder weapons were created after the top Taoist priests of the entire Northern Qi Dynasty were concentrated.

Although these gunpowder weapons were not very powerful when they exploded because the gunpowder in them was mixed with a large number of other impurities, a large amount of arsenic, realgar, croton and other substances were added to them by the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the smoke released was very irritating to people, and immediately made the soldiers under the command of Luo Huan, Han Biao, Zhou Guang and others on the front line cry. Line

At this time, the Qi army, which had been prepared for a long time, took advantage of the situation to attack, and the attacking Qi soldiers each used a soaked towel to protect their noses and mouths, although their eyes were still uncomfortable, but compared to the Xia soldiers on Wang Yong's side, it was much better.

So Luo Huan and the others, who had repelled several attacks by the Qi army just now, had to order a temporary retreat of 100 meters, seeing that the enemy army was now forced back by hundreds of poison bullets from their own side, Dugu Yongye couldn't help but praise Meng Lingtong and said: "In the past, those Taoist priests only pretended to be gods and ghosts, and I couldn't imagine that they could make such a good thing!" ”

The Qi soldiers in front didn't care what Dugu Yongye thought, all they were concerned about now was to rush into the camp to catch Wang Yong, who was still standing on the high platform and smiling, that was the greatest credit.

Wait, the Qi soldiers with organic spirits began to feel that something was wrong, they had already rushed into the camp, but Wang Yong was still smiling, these people wanted to retreat and couldn't retreat, because the Qi soldiers in the rear wanted to rush in to grab the battle merits, which was related to the reward of the imperial court!

When Luo Huan, Han Biao, and Zhou Guang led their troops to retreat to the 100-meter wall of the high platform where Wang Yong was, they reformed the formation, and it seemed that they were preparing to fight to the death with the Qi army, but I don't know if the ironclad battalion of Luo Huan's department was too tired, and it turned out that the infantry troops of Han Biao and Zhou Guang's department were in front.

"Let's not be killed by these robbers when we are about to win" Almost all the Qi soldiers paused slightly after thinking of this, but then saw that a very small number of soldiers who didn't know whether they were brainless or dizzy for the sake of fighting were about to rush up, so they charged again one by one.

Just when the soldiers of the Qi army were only thirty or forty meters away from Han Biao and Zhou Guang's headquarters in the first row, with a roar, all the soldiers of the Xia army retreated, revealing hundreds of strange things.

There was a bunch of things on a four-legged shelf, and the four legs below were obviously fixed by a few wooden stakes, and there was a puff of green smoke behind them, could it be that Xia Jun was going to kill himself by splashing charcoal and iron slag?

Without waiting for the Qi soldiers to think about anything, they only heard a sound of "boom", and the rain of arrows in the sky was coming, and the shelf was actually a bundle of arrows, just like the monkeys that pierced the sky in later generations, with the help of gunpowder, each bundle of arrows was hundreds, plus the help of gunpowder was shot over, and the Qi soldiers were shot down in rows.

What's even worse is that these arrows will also explode, and many Qi soldiers avoided this round of arrow rain because of the dense arrows blocked by the robe in front of them, but then they were injured by the rockets that fell beside them.

This is also one of the new weapons that Wang Yong prepared for the Qi army this time is called Yu Fanfei, needless to say that no one has taken this name except Wang Ze, since Wang Ze occupied the East China Sea, a great benefit is to get a huge sulfur production area, so that the output of gunpowder is even more explosive, even if the Northern Qi can now make some gunpowder, but because of the lack of raw materials, the gunpowder produced is far from enough.

It's just that the Qi army, which was hit like this, didn't retreat, but because Dugu Yongye didn't know when to set up a supervision team in the rear, as long as someone retreated there, whether it was a Han or a Xianbei person, they were all killed mercilessly.

So the Qi soldiers had no choice but to continue to move forward, but they were slightly comforted by the fact that Dugu Yongye once again put all the remaining strength of the Qi army's heavy armor soldiers into the battlefield, and with such a batch of meat shields in front of them, the other Qi troops could finally reduce a lot of casualties.

Just when Wang Yong was about to use a round of rain again, the side of Wang Yong's camp was actually broken by the Qi army, it turned out that the so-called harassment of the previous ringing horses was just to pave the way for the subsequent sneak attack, and the fire oil bag thrown was only to reduce the difficulty of the sneak attack of the heavy armor soldiers of the Qi army.

Taking advantage of the fact that Wang Yong and his main forces were pinned down in the front camp, Dugu Yongye quickly rushed to this more serious position where the fire oil bag was burned with a war horse to the heavy armored soldiers, and then the heavy armored soldiers quickly used the giant axe in their hands to cut a gap as wide as five or six zhang.

Without waiting for the defenders in Wang Yong's camp to reflect, thousands of Qi cavalry rushed in from the gap, followed by a large number of Qi infantry rushing in, including the last hundreds of heavy armor soldiers, Dugu Yongye, who was standing at a high place in the distance and saw it clearly, suddenly stroked his palms and laughed: "I'm done!" ”

At this time, Shen Sanshui in Jiaozhou City saw this situation and his heart was like fire, and he immediately wanted to raise troops out of the city to support Wang Yong, but he was stopped by the left and right guards, because Wang Yong did not erect any banner asking for support, and it seemed that he still had the strength to repel the Qi army.

At this time, nearly six or seven thousand Qi soldiers rushed into Wang Yong's camp, and even most of the soldiers under Wang Yong's command thought that they were about to be defeated, but seeing that the prince and the prince were with him from beginning to end, these soldiers also calmed down, anyway, after death, they just went to enjoy eternal life in the heavenly kingdom of Haotian God, so what does it matter if they die in battle!

"Kill! Don't run away from Wang Yong! "Capture the thief and capture the king!" The soldiers of the Qi army cheered one by one and rushed towards Wang Yong's high platform, as if the great merit was about to be received.

At this critical moment, suddenly the cavalry stepped forward, and they did not participate in any battle except for helping to extinguish some fire in the camp, so many infantry were very dissatisfied with this, but at the last moment they finally stood up.

There were more than 2,000 of these cavalrymen, and they had strange iron balls hanging from their waists, which were painted with thin cracks, and they didn't know what they were used for.

Just when the infantry was wondering, each of these cavalrymen took out an iron egg and lit it with a fire breaker, and then threw it out with all their might, smashing it on a distance of thirty to fifty meters, which was also the area with the largest number of Qi troops.

It seems that the thunderbolt should be small, and the knowledgeable soldiers and officers immediately guessed it, but where did such a small thunderbolt hurt the Qi army, not to mention that the front of the Qi army was still heavily armored soldiers, and these soldiers were still very worried.

Unbeknownst to these soldiers, these newly invented grenades were filled with the latest high-purity black powder, because the latest purification methods were used for various raw materials, and the explosion power caused by them was far greater than that of the previous black powder, not to mention that the iron shell on the outside of these grenades inherited the quality of counterfeit and shoddy products.

With the explosion of black powder, these iron shells, which were extremely easy to break, were deliberately carved with many fine lines, and there were dozens of fragments produced by a grenade.

In the sound of explosions, the Qi soldiers fell to the ground one by one screaming, and even the soldiers in heavy armor were thrown to the side of the grenade fragments through the armor or the gaps in the armor, piercing the majestic bodies of the Qi soldiers.

In fact, when making these grenades, Wang Ze was going to fill them with explosives made of nitroglycerin, and Wang Ze was going to use whale oil and pig and sheep fat to make soap to expand his financial resources when he was whaling in the East China Sea.

After some hard work, Wang Ze got a small part of qualified soap, but produced more by-products - glycerin, since the glycerin is available, Wang Ze remembered that the unlucky child Nobel made a fortune by inventing nitroglycerin explosives? immediately pulled Liu Qing to study this thing together.

Because of the Nobel lesson, Wang Ze knew the danger of the thing, and he also knew that the thing needed to be synthesized with diatomaceous earth, which made Liu Qing not sent to Haotian God by him in advance, and also exempted the risk of destruction of the Haotian Great Temple on Jeju Island.

But in the end, Wang Ze found out that this thing seemed to need a detonator to detonate, but Wang Ze didn't know what to do with the detonator, and finally had to fill it with black powder.

This time, when Wang Yong came, he happened to encounter a batch of grenades transported from Changguang County to the Jeju front line on the way, and he immediately intercepted them and brought them to the Jiaozhou battlefield.

After Wang Yong ordered the able-bodied cavalry to throw out the grenade almost without money, it was a blow up that caused the Qi soldiers to suddenly turn on their backs, and the transition from heaven to hell was nothing more than that.