It was Wu Anguo who had seen the world, and he was the first to wake up from the huge shock caused by the explosion, and he ordered loudly: "Attention catapults, stop all launches!"

In fact, even if Wu Anguo doesn't give this order, the catapults who are still stunned and emotional, will not make any action for a while.

After all, the Qingzhou soldiers in the city are condescending and far away from the ironclad cars, so they are much better than the seriously injured Yuan soldiers in the city, and they have gradually recovered from their dementia state.

Yan Liang, who had the demeanor of a general, was a figure in the end, and it didn't take long for him to wake up from the shock, and he immediately gave the order for the whole army to retreat quickly.

Yuan's left army suffered such a major setback, and for the first time, the soldiers who led the gunpowder explosion were now afraid that many of them even had and urine in their crotch, if they still had to forcibly attack the city, what was the difference between hitting their heads against the wall?

Watching Emperor Zhang's retreating Yuan Jun gradually move away, an inexplicable sense of pride welled up in Wu Anguo's heart. At the beginning, he originally wanted to stay in the Jin Kingdom and follow Zhao Xing to conquer the world like Tai Shici, but in the end he was persuaded by Zhao Xing and sent back to Qingzhou. When Zhao Xing said goodbye to him alone: "Defend Qingzhou, protect Kong Rong, and I will let people make up for your merits in the future!" Now that the war is coming, he has faithfully fulfilled his duties and assumed the safety of a city, which makes him feel very happy.

The loud explosion alarmed Wang Xiu, the military advisor in the city, and he hurried to the top of the city to meet Wu Anguo. After seeing that Linzi City was still safe and sound, Wang Xiu asked Wu Anguo: "General Wu, the few loud noises I heard before I seemed to have been made when the thunder exploded?"

Wu Anguo suddenly couldn't help laughing out loud, and replied while laughing: "Hahaha, Yuan Jun actually learned from Jin Guo to make an ironclad car, but it was used improperly, and it was blown up by someone I ordered someone to blow it up with a thunderbolt! Just now I saw through clairvoyance that Yuan Jun's chief general Yan Liang's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and it is estimated that he must be angry this time, hahaha......"

Wu Anguo was about to laugh, but Wang Xiu, who was born as a strategist, found a very serious problem from what happened just now. He asked Wu Anguo with a straight face: "General Wu, have you ever thought that if you hadn't commanded the catapults to blow up those ironclad vehicles just now, would you still be able to laugh now?"

Wu Anguo, who was still giggling, stopped his smile when he heard the words of his old partner Wang Xiu, and then his face gradually became solemn. He said slowly: "This time it is really a fluke, if I am attacked by the ironclad car of the Yuan army to the city, I am afraid that I have already died in the city now." ”

Wang Xiu patted Wu Anguo on the shoulder in understanding, and then said: "Isn't this because you have found a way to restrain the ironclad car! There is an acropolis outside Linzi City, and there is a moat to cover it, even if the Yuan army still has an ironclad car, it is easy to approach, as long as we have enough thunder, we must still be able to hold Linzi." However, this matter is very important, and it is necessary to report it to Mrs. Zhao as soon as possible, otherwise the Jin troops will suffer a big loss in the future!"

"Yes, yes! Hurry up and report to Lord Taifu, in the future, you must guard against the use of gunpowder by the Yuan army, and you must guard against the Cao army, the army of the imperial court, and the army of Yizhou......" Wu Anguo counted them one by one with his fingers, and it seemed that he would not stop talking until he finished talking about the opponent that Zhao Xing wanted to cut off.

The news of the setbacks of the two sieges soon reached the ears of Yuan Shao, who was stationed in Linji. Yuan Shao learned that the gunpowder he had tried his best to make people make up had killed and injured a large number of his soldiers, and the entanglement and grievance in his heart could be imagined. However, Yuan Shao was a person who planned great things, and he immediately sent a letter to Yan Liang and Wen Chou, expressing his condolences to the two generals for their hard work in attacking Linzi, and at the same time giving instructions on the tragedy of the explosion of the ironclad car.

Yuan Shao told Yan Liang and Wen Chou that although there was a problem with the first use of gunpowder, it was undeniable that the power of gunpowder was really huge, so don't be afraid and resist gunpowder because of this incident, and carefully explore the correct way to use it and strive for success next time.

Yuan Shao finally instructed that since Linzi City was so difficult to attack, he simply bypassed it and attacked Donglai County directly, and must occupy the area of Qianqian (pronounced "Qian Zou", south of present-day Jiaozhou, Shandong), and open up a passage to Langya in Xuzhou.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou, who were looking for the two people under the steps, immediately followed Yuan Shao's instructions to bypass Linzi and left, first taking the secret city of Beihai County that Xiahou Yuan had not had time to occupy in one go, then turning southeast and taking the two cities of Jimo and Zhuangwu, and finally hitting Qianqian in the southeast of Qingzhou.

Fortunately, this place is located in the southwest of Jiaozhou Bay, separated by a large bay from the coastline that Tai Shici originally purchased near the sea in Buqi County, so it will not be threatened by Yuan's army for the time being. However, if the situation continues to develop like this, Yuan Shao's army will sooner or later occupy the entire territory of Donglai County, and the three advance bases set up by the Jin State Navy Division in Donglai will be difficult to preserve.

When Yan Liang and Wen Chou were having a good time in Qingzhou, Wang Xiutuo's secret report from the sea back to Crouching Tiger City finally reached Zhao Xing's hands. When Zhao Xing saw the secret report that Yuan Shao's army had begun to use gunpowder on a large scale, he was silent for a long time at the whole picture of the Han Dynasty hanging on the wall directly opposite the desk.

Zhao Xing's inner feelings are more complicated. At the beginning, he instructed the craftsmen of the Crouching Tiger Weapons Research Institute to vigorously study the formula of gunpowder, and then applied this lethal weapon, which should have been used on a large scale more than a thousand years later, on the battlefield, and achieved amazing results, replacing the lives of at least 50,000 Jin soldiers. For the Jin state, the use of gunpowder was undoubtedly successful, and it was also strictly controlled, and it was never excessively spread.

However, Zhao Xing also knows very well that the use of advanced technology will always have an unpredictable effect on social development, most of the time it will benefit mankind, but sometimes it will also bring fatal disasters. For example, under the influence of the Jin State, Yuan Shao's army began to equip with gunpowder, which really did not benefit the people, but only caused the death of a large number of soldiers and civilians.

As Wang Xiu said in the letter, since the Yuan army began to use gunpowder, it is difficult to guarantee that Cao Cao and the imperial army will not know how to make gunpowder, so the battlefield environment and battle mode will also change greatly in the future. The only way to do this is to push the use of gunpowder to a more advanced level, and at the same time, in view of the fact that many forces have already mastered the method of making gunpowder, strengthen the training of commanding officers and grassroots non-commissioned officers, so as to avoid the tragedy of Yuan's army bombing itself under the city in the future.

Zhao Xing called Li Jinsi and asked him to send capable men to investigate, find out how many forces were secretly producing gunpowder, and at the same time spy on how Yuan Jun obtained the formula for gunpowder in the first place. If the method of making gunpowder was spread from within Crouching Tiger City, then this matter became very serious, and there were too many secrets in the Jin Kingdom that could not be mastered by opponents, which was the foundation of Zhao Xing's invincibility.

It didn't take long for a secret report to come back from Luoyang City, pointing the target of the leaked gunpowder directly at the newly appointed national teacher Yu Ji. After careful analysis by everyone, it was finally confirmed that Lao Dao Yuji was the culprit who spread the gunpowder production method.

Zhao Xing secretly pondered for a long time, thinking about whether to send his right-hand men to sneak into Luoyang City, secretly clean up this troublesome old way, and keep Yu Ji alive, maybe how much chaos will be created for the Jin Kingdom!