Chapter 565 Zhang Yide Hedong Martial Arts
Because he was worried that the assassination of Yu Ji would cause a strong counterattack from the imperial court, Zhao Xing finally suppressed this idea for the time being.
The Jin State has now faintly become the leader of the world's trend, and once a large-scale assassination operation is launched, all forces will follow suit, causing a violent chain reaction. If the princes of all parties in the world no longer take into account the bottom line of politics and morality, after a fierce assassination and assassination, I am afraid that many generals will disappear from history, which Zhao Xing does not want to see.
Zhao Xing's ideals and eyes did not only stay on the territory of the Han Dynasty, otherwise he would not have spent three years meticulously drawing a "Complete Map of All Nations" covering the five continents and four oceans, and hung it on the huge wall of the combat command room for all the civil and military generals who came to attend the meeting to see.
Zhao Xing's world is the blue planet in his memory!
It is precisely because he has such a strong ambition that Zhao Xing needs a large number of available talents, including the good ministers and fierce generals that have been recruited by all parties now, and they will all be used by Zhao Xing in the end. Compared with the vast and boundless whole world, the current population of Dahan is really small and pitiful, and there is no time for hundreds of years to occupy and operate, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to realize Zhao Xingxiong's desire to dominate the world.
Zhao Xing had already sent an order to Tai Shi Ci to support Qingzhou and Xuzhou, and now he was only waiting for Tai Shi Ci to lead 20,000 sailors to rush to the advance base of Le'an State from the sea, and then land ashore from here, and go straight to the camp of Yuan Shaozhong's army stationed in Linji to carry out a thousand-mile mobile "decapitation operation".
If Yuan Shao's occupation of Qingzhou was a good move, then he made a fatal mistake by setting up the Chinese army's camp in Linji, which is in the territory of Le'an State. Now the left army led by Yan Liang and the right army led by Wen Chou are far away in the area of Qianqian and Dongchang in Donglai, with a distance of five or six hundred miles.
The operation of attacking Qingzhou has been launched, and the specific action will be dealt with by Tai Shici on the spot, and Zhao Xing will no longer pay too much attention, and now what worries Zhao Xing the most is not the progress of the attack on Yecheng on the eastern front, nor the battle to recover Wudu on the western front, but Zhang Fei, who led 30,000 troops into Hedong County.
Since Zhang Fei followed Liu Bei, his official position and title have been improving, and now he has been awarded the title of Zhenbei General by the imperial court, and he alone commands the elite of the 30,000 Northern Army subordinate to Lu Zhi, which can be regarded as a high power.
Since Wang Yun went north to Jinyang and reached some agreements with Zhao Xing, the Jin State had to provide some steel and war horses to the imperial court every year, although the quantity was far less than the total annual output of the Jin State, but after three years of accumulation, the imperial court had completely redressed the brave northern army.
Zhang Fei led his army into Hedong County in February this year, and naturally Liu Bei followed Zhuge Liang's advice, intending to use these 30,000 people to put pressure on the hinterland of the Jin State, forcing the four armies stationed in the Jizhou battlefield on the Eastern Front not to dare to attack Yecheng.
Before leaving, Liu Bei asked Zhang Fei to bring the partial generals Wei Yan and Fu Wei, as well as the military Sima Yang Yi, such a general configuration can be called a very luxurious team, which shows Liu Bei's reliance and trust in Zhang Fei.
Zhang Fei led the army out of Luoyang, crossed the Yellow River north to Yang County in Hedong County, and set up the marching camp in this city located in the east of the middle section of Fenshui.
Twenty miles to the east of Yang County is the Huoda Mountain Range, and fifty miles to the east over the low Huoda Mountain, it is the important town of Shangdang County of the Jin Kingdom, Guyuan City. From this point of view, Zhang Fei's choice to station the army in Yang County is indeed very strategic, and it has really caused deterrence and interference to the Jin State.
Soon after Yu Ji arrived in Luoyang, the imperial court mastered the production of gunpowder, and began to frantically produce this lethal weapon, which could cause huge casualties. When Zhang Fei led his army north, he took away more than half of the black powder in the Luoyang armory. If Zhao Xing knew that such a huge amount of gunpowder was hoarded on the navel of the Jin Kingdom, he was afraid that he would lose sleep for several nights.
When Zhang Fei left Luoyang, Lieutenant Lu Zhi, who was familiar with the great power of gunpowder, had a separate conversation with him, and the main meaning of this conversation was to ask Zhang Fei to hurry up and train his soldiers so that the soldiers of the Northern Army could use gunpowder correctly and skillfully.
Soon after, Zhang Fei learned from the information sent by the imperial court spies that the Yuan army used gunpowder for the first time under the city of Linzi, but because of the improper operation, he seriously injured his own soldiers. Zhang Fei then paid more attention to the correct use of gunpowder and the adaptive training of his corporaries.
After a period of careful exploration and trial, Zhang Fei basically figured out the characteristics and use of gunpowder, just as he was about to carry out more in-depth and systematic training, there was news that the Jin State was gathering troops and horses in the area of Zhongyang County, which was close to Hedong County, and the number was only less than 20,000.
In order to show his strength, Zhang Fei temporarily decided to organize a large-scale military exercise in Yang County, which could not only boost morale, but also increase the actual skills of soldiers in handling gunpowder.
After the martial arts exercise officially kicked off, Zhang Fei first asked the soldiers to conduct a demonstration of regular training, only to see the court ministers who came to supervise the war yawn for a long time, and felt very boring. After the regular drill was over, Zhang Fei ordered people to carefully move out the large iron box where the black powder was stored, and then began to show the results of the Northern Army's training in the use of gunpowder weapons.
Zhang Fei ordered people to build several small corner towers in a vacant lot in Yang County, and then buried a sufficient amount of black powder under the corner towers, and pulled out a long section of detonated fire ropes.
In front of the imperial court and many officers and soldiers, Zhang Fei calmly gave the order to light the fire.
People looked at the fire rope attached to the ground, and they all knew that the black smoke was burning quickly towards several corner towers, and it was not long before several huge roars sounded, and the court envoys and soldiers who had never seen the explosion of gunpowder were frightened by the huge sound and destruction in front of them.
The few corner towers made of huge stones that were still standing in front of me were lifted into the air in the smoke and firelight, and by the time they fell, they had turned into rubble and powder.
Seeing that the gunpowder had successfully blasted several corner towers, Zhang Fei and Wei Yan and Fu Wei beside him said: "According to what Taiwei Lu said, Zhao Guochang used this thing back then, and he blew the demon Zhang Jiao into powder in the blink of an eye without much effort! The power of gunpowder is really strong, and in the future, it will be just under the Kei Pass, which is known as the first level in the world, to try it out!"
Wei Yan continued: "If the general allocates a batch of gunpowder and five hundred dead soldiers, I promise to sneak into Guyuan City and turn this city into rubble!"