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"This statement should... make sense, right?"

Chapter 529 Prologue and End!

There is gunpowder in this era, but it is only used for New Year's firecrackers and fireworks. It is powerful enough to hurt people, and it is impossible to use it on the battlefield.

The problem is the ratio of those three things.

As a later generation, Li Xin naturally knew the horror of gunpowder, a big killer. This was one of the few golden fingers he came to this world, and he naturally would not discard it.

Last year, in the first year of Taikang, he went back to his hometown to repair his mother's grave, and stayed in Qiyang County for more than half a year. During that half year, Li Xin experimented in the Qi Garden Countless times, after countless times of disgrace, Li Xin made his biggest foundation in the world in that garden.

(It was mentioned earlier in this paragraph, if you can’t remember it, you can go back and have a look.)

It is precisely because of this foundation that Li Xin has the courage, as a military "novel", to lead troops to the southwest to face the huge Pingnan Army.

It is precisely because of this big killer that Li Xin has the confidence to say that he has the capital to turn against Emperor Taikang in the future.

Originally, this thing, Li Xin should never have used it at this time. If someone like Li Shen or Ye Ming was in Li Xin's position, not to mention the death of one or two thousand people in the imperial army, it would mean one death With 2000 people, all the subordinates are dead, and they will not show their cards at this time.

But Lee credited it.

After all, he is not the same as these "cold-blooded" generals. He is a modern person who grows up under the red flag. He has no way to watch these subordinates who have been with him for almost a year go to death meaninglessly .

So he chose to use this big killer.

For a whole day, Li Xin personally prepared dozens of catties of gunpowder, and then at night, people raised their shields to carry the gunpowder and pushed them to the gate of Mianzhu City.

The biggest casualties in the siege were those who died under the walls or when they climbed the walls, but it was not that difficult for these shield soldiers to forcefully push to the gate of Mianzhu City.

More importantly, none of these people carrying gunpowder was from the imperial army, but a cronies of Habayashi guard who followed Li Xin to the southwest.

It has been a year or two since the Habayashi Guards were reorganized. This new Habayashi Guards were brought together by Li Xin, and those who followed him and Mu Ying to the southwest were the old men of the Habayashi Guards. Half of them were Mu Ying took him to Hanzhou City, and the other half who followed Li Xin were his cronies.

These people were labeled as Li Xin, and their wealth and lives were tightly bound to Li Xin. They had no reason to betray Li Xin, and it was impossible for them to betray Li Xin.

So let these people go to Mianzhu City with a big killer, Li Xin is absolutely trustworthy.

Just like that, when night fell, a gorgeous flower bloomed under Mianzhu City.

This is the flower of the devil.

Because this may be the opening of a new era, this era may not open immediately, but with the Battle of Mianzhu City, it has been revealed.

This day is the 21st of the twelfth lunar month in the second year of Taikang.

This is a day worth remembering. From this day on, the era of cold weapons, which lasted for an unknown period of time, has been seriously threatened.

Dozens of catties of gunpowder may not be as powerful as an ordinary shell in later generations, but Mianzhu City is not a big city, so use these gunpowder to blow open the wooden city gate of Mianzhu...

More than enough.

After Habayashi lit the fuse according to Li Xin's instructions, he immediately spread out holding his shield.

After a loud bang, the main body of the wooden Mianzhu city gate was still there, but the part that bore the brunt was blown open a gap of two or three meters. The gate was originally blocked with stones behind the gate to prevent the level of the hammer from hitting the city. The defenders of the southern army were directly blasted by this loud noise, and some people were directly blown away by three or four meters.

With just one explosion, more than a dozen defenders of the Pingnan Army died behind the city gate.

Others were also dumbfounded by the loud noise.

This city gate is a full five inches thick!broken

No matter what, they couldn't figure out why the city gate, which was still strong during the day, suddenly... shattered open?

What's more, the deafening bang made these people go dumb with fright.

At this moment, Ye Xiaogong, who was covered in armor, was like a god of war descended from heaven, taking the lead and leading 5000 people to rush in through the broken city gate.

Ye Mao was already tall, and he was personally trained by the old Duke Ye Cheng when he was young. When Ye Cheng was young, there were still some flaws in his martial arts, but when he retired at the age of 40, all his kung fu had become perfect. Killing skills on the battlefield, and when Ye Sheng started training Ye Mao, he was already 60 years old.

What Ye Mao was taught was the essence of Ye Cheng's life on the battlefield.

Although he still can't beat his grandfather, but at least he has the appearance of Ye Cheng.

At this time, the young man took the lead, wearing heavy armor weighing more than thirty catties, but he seemed to be nothing. Every time a big gun was swung, at least one or two people would die under the gun.

In this era, generals also rushed to the battle with their own bravery.

But they didn't rush in and fight many of them. Each general would have enough personal guards around him to help him guard the enemies on the flanks. The generals who rushed into the battle only needed to concentrate on dealing with the enemies in front of them.

Moreover, generals like Ye Cheng are well-armored, and sometimes he can't be hurt by melee slashing, and the arrows in the distance basically pose no threat to him.

Under this premise, there will be countless fierce generals in the history books, who charged into battle and returned after a hundred battles.

Otherwise, this kind of mid-to-high-level general will basically die as long as he goes to the battle.

Ye Mao was like the tip of a sword. His tip was extremely sharp, and he went straight into Mianzhu City without hesitation.

The people in Zhechong Mansion in Fangshan, seeing how brave their captain was, also moved forward bravely. Five thousand people, led by Ye Mao, rushed into Mianzhu City.

This night is destined to be a sleepless night.

Just after Ye Mao and others rushed into Mianzhu City, the second echelon outside Mianzhu City had already formed a formation, ready to wait for all the people from Fangshan Zhechong Mansion to enter the city before the second batch entered the city.

At this time, Li Xin and Zhao Jia, each holding a binoculars, watched from afar.

Standing behind Li Xin, Zhao Jia slowly put down the binoculars in his hand.

This young man from Duke Chen's mansion had trembling hands.

Even his speaking voice trembled.

"Hou...Hou Ye, what is this...?"

In comparison, Li Xin was much calmer. He also put away the binoculars and took a deep breath.

"This is thunder."

"The rebels rebelled against the way of heaven, and the heavens sent them catastrophe."

Zhao Jia was silent for a long time.

Then he tremblingly asked Li Xin a word.

"Master Hou, this... Tianlei, can there be a second time?"

Li Xin was expressionless.