"Your Majesty, wait a minute!" got off the city wall, Ren Baqian trotted to the city order mansion, rubbed his spear, and went out of the city order mansion with another box, and asked the guards to help him carry it back to the city wall.

The empress and Li Qianqiu waited there under the escort of a team of flying horses, and when they saw the guards carrying the box behind Ren Baqian, they all guessed in their hearts what was in the box.

Ren asked the guards to open the box, revealing rows of black pipes inside.

It's not big, but it's a palm long, about an inch in diameter.

"Governor Ren, what is this?" Li Qianqiu picked up one and fiddled with it in his hand and asked curiously.

"Dynamite!" Ren Baqian smiled.

This batch of explosives was obtained from the place where he bought guns on Earth, and it was divided into two layers, the middle was 300 grams of TNT explosives, and the outside was gunpowder, which was ignited with fire and detonated when the gunpowder exploded.

Originally, this thing was going to be used for mining, and there were 300 of them, and this box was half of them. It didn't work at all, so I brought it with me when I came out of Arashiro this time, and it was just right to use it at this time.

"Dynamite?" Li Qianqiu was a little puzzled.

The Empress knew a little about what some explosives were, but she didn't know how to use them.

"You'll find out in a moment. After Ren Baqian finished speaking, everyone went up to the city wall again.

Ren Baqian squatted there and tied the explosives to a few long arrows, and cut off the lead behind the explosives before he raised his head and said to Li Qianqiu: "Lord Li, I will bother you to find someone to shoot this under the opponent's catapult in a while."

"I'm coming!" Li Qianqiu said.

In fact, the distance of 200 meters is almost the same for these ancient soldiers who grew up hunting in the mountains, not to mention that everyone can do it.

But he also wanted to see what Ren Baqian had come up with.

Ren 8,000 prepared a total of 22 catapults, and the enemy army scattered around Liao Cheng only 20 catapults in total.

After getting ready, Ren Baqian handed the bow and arrow to Li Qianqiu, and before he could speak, the bone arrow turned into a white line and pierced a catapult with a sharp sound of breaking through the air.

Ren 8000: ......

Li Qianqiu looked expectant, and asked after more than ten seconds, "Why didn't you react?"

"It's not lit yet...... Ren Baqian said speechlessly.

"Forgot, forgot!" Li Qianqiu laughed, and after laughing, he picked up a bone arrow and put it on the bow again.

Ren Baqian asked people to take the lit wooden strip and ignite the fuse, and hurriedly said, "Okay, let's put it!"

The lead is still ten centimeters long, and it stands to reason that it should be fine for more than ten seconds, but he is afraid that there is something wrong with this lead, if it is a fast gunner, he will be unlucky at that time.

As his words fell, Li Qianqiu's fingers loosened, and the bone arrow once again crossed a distance of two hundred meters with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and directly nailed to the catapult.

Then Li Qianqiu cast an inquiring gaze towards Ren Baqian.

"Wait!" Ren Baqian looked in that direction with his binoculars, and at this time he couldn't see if the lead was still burning.

However, it didn't take long for the Great Xia army to suddenly let out a loud "boom", and with the sudden fire out of thin air, the trebuchet turned into pieces and flew everywhere in an instant, hitting the iron shield in front of the military formation with a crashing sound.

Several soldiers around the trebuchet who were reloading were directly blown away by the blast current, and two of them were close to only some broken corpses scattered everywhere.

"Boom!" Just as the Great Xia Army was startled by this sudden change, the Great Xia Army exploded again. This time, it was Fang Cai's unlit explosive tube that was blown up into the Great Xia army array and exploded again, at least the soldiers around more than ten meters were blown away by this explosion, and the soldiers within a radius of five meters were directly shattered.

"Good thing!" Li Qianqiu saw this scene on the city wall, and immediately praised with joy.

"This box is a little more useful, just for their siege equipment. Without siege equipment, they must not have been able to do anything other than besiege them.

The amount of food they need to consume here is not a fraction. Ren Baqian admonished, he was terrible and squandered at will.

"With this thing, how many people they came this time, they could only watch from below. Li Qianqiu laughed and patted Ren Baqian's shoulder.

Then he asked a few of the guards to take the bone arrows and do what they did.

After seeing the explosion in the Great Xia army's formation, these guards were cautious, and as soon as they caught fire, they immediately shot out the bone arrows, for fear of exploding in their own hands.

Every minute or two, you can see a ball of fire erupting from the front of the Great Xia Army formation, as well as the sound of a roaring explosion.

In just a moment, the six trebuchets in the east of Arashi City turned into a pile of broken wood, and then several explosions were heard in the distance in the direction of the north of the city, and then in the direction of the east of the city.

In just a few moments, the trebuchets of the Great Xia Army were all turned into broken wood, along with hundreds of soldiers who had been killed or injured by explosives.

"Take care of this thing to Lao Tzu, take good care of it, and ask you if something goes wrong. Li Qianqiu said sharply to the guards behind him.

"Rest assured. ”

"Don't see an open flame, don't bump it, and store it carefully. Keep it in a cool, not damp place, and remember not to touch fire. "Ren 8,000 thousand told him, the people of the earth know the danger of this thing, and they can't see the fire, but Dayao always makes him a little uneasy.

If these things explode, it is estimated that a quarter of Liao Cheng will have to be scrapped.

"Don't worry, sir. The guard behind him arched his hand.

This trebuchet was blown up, and there must be no other attacks in Great Xia today, Li Qianqiu continued to stay on the city wall to inspect, and Ren Baqian returned to the city with the empress.

"Your Majesty is a little emaciated. On the way back, Ren Baqian opened his eyes and said nonsense. The empress is not an ordinary person, and her body shape naturally does not become fat and thin as she eats more and less.

The empress was very useful, and glanced at him lightly.

The guards in the back looked at the sky one by one, pretending not to hear anything.

......

In the north of Liaocheng, in a big tent in the camp behind tens of thousands of troops, a general with a beard of half a hundred was standing in front of the desk looking at the map above, and his fingers were gesturing on it from time to time.

"General!" said a middle-aged scribe-looking man as he came in from outside the tent.

In the account is the general who commanded the 700,000 army that marched south this time, the champion general, Wusheng Hou Jinling.

His prestige among the people of Great Xia is far inferior to that of Hongwu in Dayao, and that is also because Great Xia has not advanced an inch in the south for seventy years. In fact, he has a very high reputation in the court, and he can also be said to be in the top three in the army.

In just a few decades, from a civilian to a general of the third grade, the status of Wu Shenghou can get a glimpse of it.

Stationed at the border for more than 20 years, he has been preparing for more than 20 years, and he even thinks about how to attack Dayao in his dreams. Now that he can finally achieve what he wants, and the battle situation has met his expectations so far, it will depend on who is smarter on both sides.

"How is that Lu Pinghai's injury now?" asked Wu Shenghou without raising his head.

"General, Lu Pinghai's injuries have recovered a little bit, and he will definitely be fine in another month. The scribe bowed.

"It's still too late. Wu Shenghou said softly.

Li Yuanzhu sent a letter, but she still disagreed. The scribe continued.

"Expected. "Wu Shenghou is not surprised.

"Has Lu Zijian found it?"

"No news yet. The scribe continued. Lu Zijian, the second in the world, has always been unpredictable.

As for Lin Xian, the number one in the world, there has been no trace for several years, and many people suspect that he is no longer alive, or that he has broken through the boundaries of that legend.

"Do you think that Qi Zixiao will leave Liao City?" asked Wu Shenghou casually.

If she left Liao City, she would throw down tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Liao City, and Qi Zixiao would never do such a thing. Unless it is time of life and death, she will not be able to leave if she is dragged like this. The scribe said decisively.

Wu Shenghou nodded, just as he thought.

By the time she wanted to leave, she was afraid it would be too late.

Wu Shenghou moved his finger from one point on the map to another, and finally pressed his finger on one of the points, where his target was.

It is not only the only way to go in the direction of Arashijo and the Northern Metropolitan Protectorate, but it is also a necessary place for the Northeast Metropolitan Protectorate to come back to help.

As long as this place is occupied, even if Qi Zixiao can escape back at that time, he will lose a large area of fertile land in the entire north......

"Is there any news from the Yunguo side?"

"They are still arguing in the court. The scribe replied softly.

"Have they forgotten that they were beaten by those barbarians and almost destroyed the country?" said Wu Shenghou with a sneer. "Those guys who smell like businessmen......"

"Even without them, with the Great General's preparation for so long, it is not impossible to take Da Yao. The scribe answered at once. "The walls of Lancheng are only six meters thick, and these trebuchets can smash Liao City. ”

You must know that the walls of the Iron Cable Pass, Shuncheng and Ziyue City in the north are all 20 meters thick, and the Iron Cable Pass even reaches 30 meters. And the walls of this Arashi Castle are only six meters thick, and the trebuchet only needs to smash a few more rounds to smash the gap.

"You can't get in if you smash it!" Wu Shenghou said lightly.

In a place like the city, the strong individual strength of the ancient people can be brought into play. He would rather consume the Gu people near the city wall than let the soldiers enter the city to fight the Gu people, and those Gu civilians would probably cause them a lot of casualties.

Not to mention that there are flying horses inside.

However, if the city walls are really smashed open, those developed thunder cannons can come in handy.

Thinking of another kind of cannonball called the Ten Thousand Flower Bullet in his hand, Wu Shenghou felt that the court should really reward those craftsmen.

While the two were chatting here, they heard several loud noises in the distance that were different from the sound of boulders smashing on the city wall.

"Which bastard used the thunder cannon?" The sound of the explosion immediately reminded Wu Shenghou of the Vulcan cannons and the things called thunder fire powder stored in the army.

Then Wu Shenghou vetoed this idea, he didn't give an order, who would dare to use thunder artillery?

As soon as he came out of the big tent, he heard another loud bang in the direction of the front of the formation.

"Boom!"

Wu Shenghou frowned, what the hell is going on? This is clearly the sound of thunder artillery firing, but it is still so loud when it comes here, and the sound is much louder.

Before he could figure it out, there were several loud bangs ahead.

"Come on, let's see what's going on. Wu Shenghou said in a deep voice.

After a quarter of an hour, a general in iron armor came back and knelt down on one knee and said, "General, I don't know why, a fireball suddenly burst out of thin air from the trebuchet, and the power was so great that the trebuchet was completely destroyed. ”

After another quarter of an hour, there were also people in the east and west directions, and the trebuchets in those two directions were also destroyed.

"What kind of means did those barbarians use?" Wu Shenghou's face was ugly, he didn't expect those barbarians to have such unknown means.