Cross the Sea in the Red Chamber

In the end what brought the soaring flames? !

It's a landmine!

Even though there is no way to make a detonator/tube under the current possible circumstances, the masters of the Mohist school discovered the method of using phosphor powder to ignite gunpowder under the prompt of Jiang Yuan, and created a landmine that can ignite automatically.

As a soldier, Jiang Yuan has of course watched many anti-war old movies and gained a lot of knowledge from them. Just like the scenes in the mine warfare, the landmines made by the local method of the Jing Dynasty are also set to be pulled with wires to make a sound. These two kinds of ones and those that will ring as long as you step on them.This time, Jiang Yuan ordered people to set up a lot of landmines in the second half of the gorge, using the rocker as an ignition mechanism, as long as someone stepped on the mechanism, the mines would sound.

The performance of the black/fire/powder has been brought to the extreme by the Jing army. It was just such a landmine, and the shrapnel and gravel it brought up killed and injured more than ten northern barbarian knights around them.The unlucky ghost who happened to be stepping on the landmine was directly blown to a pulp, and the horse he was riding didn't even have a chance to neigh and howl, and died on the spot with the sound of the explosion.

It was just such a landmine, and the effect was so calming that it frightened the northern barbarians who followed behind.In this era when no one had ever seen gunpowder used, no one knew what happened in the canyon just now.

These short-sighted northern barbarians only knew that a dozen knights fell after a loud bang like a thunderbolt, and the appearance of the dead was horrifying, with not only burnt marks on their bodies, but also countless wounds dripping with blood. The tragic death made them suspect that this was the result of divine punishment!Besides gods, who else could make such a terrifying sound?You must know that the sound of the landmine explosion shook their eardrums, making them dizzy, tinnitus and at a loss when they saw the power of gunpowder for the first time.

In such an era where all the people believe in gods and do not know what technology is, not to mention the northern barbarians whose technology is more backward and more ignorant, even Jingren believes that all unsolved mysteries are the result of miracles ?The belief of the northern barbarians is still at a relatively primitive stage. They only believe in the gods and the gods of creation/world, but their degree of piety is much stronger than that of the Jingren who are always cramming, so they are even more afraid.

When the San Francisco was in chaos, the Qi army would be afraid of being struck by lightning and being liquidated by God. Tens of thousands of people surrendered to the Jing army, and the Wei army was even more straightforward. Just because of a crooked meteor, they directly pressed The king of Wei surrendered.Whether it is a meteor or a thunderbolt, this is still a normal natural situation, and people are so scared that they cry their fathers and mothers and kneel down to worship, so what about landmines that are completely different from natural phenomena?

The effect of the landmine can only be better... The northern barbarians are terrified by this landmine at this time.Because they don't know what it is, but the more they don't know, the more frightening they are. Deep down, they feel that such a scary thing cannot be made by humans, so how did it appear?Is it a god? ... No, this is definitely the will of the gods!It is the gods who want to deal with the northern barbarians!The gods actually stood by Jingren's side!Could it be that the heavens can't tolerate the proud northern barbarians?

Many northern barbarians were so frightened that they jumped off their horses and knelt on the ground to worship and pray. They only hoped that the gods in the sky would spare the northern barbarians and stop blaming them.Some people even complained about the Khan's branch in their hearts. If they hadn't offended Jingren decades ago, how could God have punished Beiman?

Abernajiang rushed too far just now, and was relatively close, and was almost hit by the gravel blown by the gunpowder, but even if he reacted quickly and jumped the horse to hide, he was also poured by the blood of the tribe who died in front of him. All face.

He was also quite frightened, and the fear caused by the landmines was even more severe than that of the Mo Dao Bing down the mountain just now, making him tremble.Mo Daobing, at least he knows that the opponent is also a human being, but the equipment is more powerful, but the landmine...he doesn't even know what the flaming thing is just now...

People will only be more afraid of the unknown, and fear will stimulate people's imagination to explode.In a daze, he remembered a legend he had heard in the capital when he was an envoy to the Jing Dynasty—the legend about Jiang Yuan being the reincarnation of the God of Thunder and Situ Sheng being the descendant of the Heavenly Emperor...

Cough, this legend is very popular in Dajing. Even after so many years since the San Francisco rebellion, this story is still spread in all the teahouses and theaters, and the version is more varied, and the time when Situ Sheng was born is added. The sky is full of red light, Empress Dowager Jiang dreams of the red sun in her arms, and Jiang Yuan, it is said that when he was born, there was a thunderbolt from the blue sky, and thousands of thunders rang together...

Jiang Yuan heard this version of storytelling once while drinking tea, and almost choked to death on the tea...

When Abonajiang heard the legends, he just had fun. These days, if a wise emperor and minister didn't have a legend about the reincarnation of a god, he would be ashamed to say hello to others.Their Great Khan claimed to be the Son of God at the beginning, and the emperor of the Jing Dynasty directly called himself the Son of Heaven. If you really want to take it seriously, you will lose...

No one would take this kind of thing seriously, but those people in Jing said it clearly and clearly, and the details were clearly stated, making it hard to believe that it was made up.Reminiscent of the scene of Jiang Yuan shooting birds with his own eyes when he first entered Beijing, although Abonajiang didn't believe it on the surface, he actually believed it a little bit in his heart.

Back then, Jiang Yuan was scary enough, but today Jiang Yuan is even more terrifying.Bending a bow at a distance of hundreds of steps, he was able to break the rope of King Zuoxian's banner with one arrow. Even the arrows shot by the best archer of the northern barbarians could not stop Jiang Yuan's attack.Is this ability really human capable?Could it be that Jiang Yuan is really the reincarnation of a god?The legend of Jingchao turned out to be true? !

Thunder God... So, isn't that voice just now very similar to Thunder's? !And it is even more common for fires to be caused by thunder, so the thing that emits fire is actually thunder?

Thunder did not appear in the sky, but appeared on the ground. This is definitely not something that can happen in nature, it must be a miracle!

Although King Zuo Xian didn't know what Abona Jiang was thinking at this time, he himself was quite frightened. Fortunately, he didn't know the legend about Jiang Yuan, and he didn't think of too many things. He just felt pure fear .

Although he was afraid, as the leader, he was very clear about his responsibilities. If he didn't escape from the canyon now, the Jing army would soon kill the cavalry he left behind and pursue the encircling ones.When the time comes, "Thunder" will intercept them and the Jing army will pursue them later, and they will all die in the valley.

No way, let's continue to work hard!

Under the order of King Zuo Xian, the soldiers of the northern barbarians finally got up from the ground, pulled out more than 100 riders, and continued to charge forward, testing whether there was any "thunder" ahead.As a result... of course there are!Amid the dense explosion of seven or eight landmines, all the northern barbarian cavalry sent out fell down, not one remained, either killed or seriously injured, none of them survived.

In this era, no one has even seen landmines and gunpowder. Even the Mohist scholars who are responsible for researching landmines are still at a relatively primitive stage in their understanding of firearms, and no one knows what an engineer is.

In the Jing army, there are engineers specially trained by Jiang Yuan. They can use a simple mine detector formed by a circle made of a magnet with a handle to detect whether there are mines underground. Very easy to use.But how do the northern barbarians know this kind of thing?Those who don't know how to detect mines can only use human life as a temptation, and fill it with flesh and blood.

King Zuo Xian had no choice but to send more and more soldiers to the front to test where there were landmines, and then watched these soldiers die one by one.But at this time, Pang Liang had already followed up with the Jing army and the Yuezhi people, and was shooting at the entrance of the canyon with the northern barbarian army guarding the back road, fighting bloody battles.

Defending pays more attention to the quality of weapons than attacking. The northern barbarian army is on the defensive, but the horn bow in their hands has lost to Jingren's two stone bows again. , but did not dare to hide in the canyon, for fear of being flanked.

This canyon is distributed from top to bottom in a downhill pattern, so once the Jing army occupies this valley entrance, just like the situation where they rushed up the hillside with heavy casualties, the Jing army can go from top to bottom. Shoot at the northern barbarians and use their powerful bows and arrows to kill and injure a large number of northern barbarian soldiers. Due to the limited width of the canyon, even if the northern barbarians want to fight back, they will be limited by the width and cannot exert their due strength. At that time, there is only a dead end one.

I can imagine it, but the width of the canyon is limited after all, so there are not many northern barbarians guarding the mouth of the valley. Most of the northern barbarians have followed King Zuo Xian into the canyon, and they are completely trapped by the mines and the Jing army. up the center.

The northern barbarian knights guarding Taniguchi will now face the Jing army, which far outnumbers them. They are trapped in Taniguchi and cannot form a formation, but the Jing army has enough places to form a formation casually, taking advantage of the superiority of the number. Played to the fullest, launched a fierce attack.Even if these northern barbarian soldiers are still holding on, losing Taniguchi has become an inevitable fact.

At this time, Zuo Xianwang couldn't help hesitating any longer, and if he waited for a while, the Jing army would really rush over from the canyon.It is absolutely impossible to turn around and fight, so he can only overcharge. Although he knows that this order will cause countless deaths and injuries to the northern barbarian army under his command, King Zuoxian can only reluctantly issue the order at this time, otherwise he will lose Not just his subordinates, but his own life.

"Rush! Charge towards the grassland outside the valley!"

The helpless northern barbarians could only choose to meet the countless mines in the canyon with their flesh and blood, and forcibly used their lives to fill in a bloody road.

After all, the width and length of the canyon are limited, and the two landmines cannot be buried too close together, otherwise it is easy for one to ring and the other to ring, which will not achieve the best killing effect, so this canyon can only be buried Only a few hundred landmines were dropped.

Not only that, the transportation and storage of landmines need to be treated with extreme care. If one is not handled properly, an accident will occur. Therefore, Jiang Yuan did not dare to take more when he left the customs this time, but he only brought these hundreds of landmines. If you bring more, you will not only have to worry about delaying the speed of travel, but also worry about explosions during transportation with the army.If the Jing army could bring landmines casually, I am afraid that at this time, the Beiman army would not suffer heavy casualties, but all of them would be left behind...

In the case of leaving behind countless corpses, King Zuo Xian finally led the remnants of the defeated generals to escape from this valley of death, and Pang Liang also led the Jing army to follow behind in pursuit. All the cavalry stepped on it once, and all the mines were trampled by them. They didn't even need to detect mines, they just chased them.

This chase lasted for several hours, until it was completely dark, King Zuo Xian relied on his familiarity with the terrain to get rid of the Jing army who was following him.

God finally stopped messing with him, King Zuo Xian was lucky once, the sky was very dark this night, there was no moon or stars.Pang Liang's army did not carry enough torches, and it was impossible to pursue them even with the Yuezhi people who were familiar with the terrain.Pang Liang had no other choice, so he ordered Jin to withdraw his troops and brought the army back to join the army led by Jiang Yuan.

Because the army he led was limited, and he could not be exposed in advance, Jiang Yuan could only choose to annihilate the more threatening northern barbarian army, and reluctantly let go of the camps of these tribes in the northern barbarian country.Therefore, after the [-] coalition troops taken away by King Youxian escaped from birth, they were able to flee to the nearby deep mountains with the northern barbarian and foreign tribes who had packed up all their belongings and were ready to flee at any time, and hid without a trace.

But I don't know if they did it on purpose, they left only the clansmen and slaves under King Zuo Xian, and even snatched away their last supplies, which made Jiang Yuan feel bad for King You Xian Mind sneered endlessly.

Compared with Zuo Xianwang, who is arrogant and conceited, Youxian King is much smarter. Although he has gathered a lot of power, he has never done anything to Beiman Khan. After his death, he did not declare himself Khan immediately, but let his subordinates continue to call him the Great King.Compared with King Zuo Xian who had already asked his subordinates to call him Da Khan, this King You Xian, who knew "slowly becoming king", undoubtedly forbears a lot.

And in this battle, King Youxian obviously understands the truth in the art of war better than King Zuoxian who relies on intuition and doesn't listen to advice.However, just because of his abandonment of Zuo Xian Wang's family members, it still exposed the shallowness and ignorance deep in You Xian Wang's heart.

A person who wants to become the Great Khan of the country can't even tolerate civilians of his own race who have conflicts with him. How can he tolerate people of other races if he has done things so terribly?He thinks he is smart, but his mind is narrower than that of the original Khan. At least that Khan knows how to be kind to the people of the Northern Man tribe. Feeling.

Hmph, he didn't even think about it, just relying on the remaining 3 troops in his hands, what would he use to fight against the remaining [-] to [-] troops of alien races?Could it be that in order to entrap King Zuo Xian and make him lose more power, did he even give up the control of the country by the northern barbarians?

King Zuo Xian left other allies, his own people, and fled with only the army.King Youxian took away the clansmen, but he abandoned the clansmen under King Zuoxian like shoes.Can this kind of practice be called abandoning the car to protect the handsome?It can only be called short-sighted!

Jiang Yuan shook his head, no matter how many troops this villain has, he is not enough to be an enemy of Dajing, and the left and right virtuous kings are just the same, not to mention compared with Situ Cheng, even King Yong and King Lian are inferior , Sooner or later it will be a crushing defeat!

After the war, the Jing army wiped out more than 15 enemies, leaving the remaining soldiers and horses of the Beiman Kingdom to less than [-].Moreover, the ordinary tribesmen of the Northern Barbarian Kingdom, except for the soldiers, also lost a lot in the war, and the remaining tribes were even more conflicted, no matter how difficult it was to unite.

Originally, there were 50 million armored men, more than 200 million subjects, and countless slaves and livestock. The Northern Barbarian Kingdom, which occupies a vast land, has since become extremely weak. Come on, there are not even bones left!

Such brilliant achievements are no different from his "ancestor" Jiang Chen Jiang Xiwen, making Jiang Yuan once again famous in the world after the San Francisco Rebellion.He even spread the name of his "Thunder God" throughout the entire northern barbarian country, making people fearful with his unique "immortal technique"...

In this battle, Jiang Yuan's way of using troops can be described as a combination of fiction and reality, with many changes.When besieging the Northern Barbarian allied forces, the setup of light cavalry and heavy cavalry seemed to encircle three queues and drive the Northern Barbarian army towards the hillside.

Jiangyuan was short of manpower. He knew that there were only [-] to [-] troops guarding the hillside, which was not enough to resist the northern barbarian army. Of course, he didn't want to drive all the coalition troops up the mountain. Can't stand it.

He deliberately used this obvious form of surrounding three ques and one to force the Northern Barbarian coalition forces to have no choice!

The more obvious the gap and the "way of life" is, the more the commander of the Northern Barbarian coalition is hesitant, and the more clever the commander is, the less he dares to rush up the hillside, worrying that there will be a large number of soldiers in ambush there. , is a trap.

Sure enough, just as he thought, smart people are very suspicious and often have difficulty in choosing, so most of the coalition forces still choose to stay below the hillside to face the interception of the Jing army. Only Zuo Xianwang led his men to storm up the mountain .Although not all the northern barbarians at the foot of the mountain were left behind, this was the result that Jiang Yuan had already thought of, and it was not a mistake.

The Yuezhi people and the Dajing Dynasty are in harmony with each other, and both sides have the interests they want to obtain, but these interests are not completely unified.The Yuezhi people really wanted to attack the Beiman, they wanted to get the pasture and land, but they didn't want Dajing to wipe out the Beiman all at once, for fear that they would lose their value and become Dajing's next target.

The Yuezhi people thought too much. They were afraid that after Yasukuni completely occupied the Beiman Kingdom, they would occupy all the pastures and leave no room for them to live.Therefore, they deliberately pretended to be invincible and let go of part of the northern barbarian army inside the encirclement.This was all within Jiang Yuan's expectation, and he didn't take it seriously.He and Situ Sheng hadn't intended to give the Yuezhi people too many benefits. They let go of the northern barbarian army just to give Dajing an excuse to beat the Yuezhi people. Isn't that great?

If the northern barbarian army is really surrounded, they will fight desperately, and they will be able to break through the siege and escape at that time, but Dajing's troops will suffer heavy losses. It is better to let them be surrounded by the Yuezhi people. Release some, and wipe out all the remaining guys, so that the enemy's vitality will be wiped out, and no troops will be lost.

The most important thing is that he can see that the Northern Barbarian coalition has a deep fear of the Jing army. If they defeat the Jing army at this time and break out, then this fear will be reduced with the partial victory, but if they Was it released by the Yuezhi people?

Then the next time they encounter the Jing army, they will continue to feel the fear of being besieged, causing them to perform abnormally, and even voluntarily surrender. This also paves the way for the next war in advance...

However, Zuo Xianwang, who did not know the art of war and rushed up the hillside along the gap, once again encountered a choice between reality and reality.This time, Jiang Yuan created a situation that seemed false but true. Those nobles were the bait he set up to confuse the northern barbarians.

There are too few soldiers on the mountain. If you want to fight against the larger Beiman army, you may have to sacrifice too much, and this is something Jiang Yuan doesn't want to see.Those who went with him were all sergeants in the Gyeonggi camp, each of them was his treasure, how could he die in an unworthy place?

So he used Xungui, who was so weak and could be defeated in one blow, as bait to lure Zuo Xianwang to break out in Xungui's direction!And after breaking out in the direction of Xungui, if he wanted to leave the hillside quickly, he had to go through that canyon.Jiang Yuan ordered the engineering soldiers to plant landmines all over the lower half of the canyon, luring Zuo Xianwang to lead his troops to step on the mines, causing heavy casualties and achieving the effect of killing a large number of enemies.

He played this game very cleverly. Compared with the big battle in Tobu City ten years ago, his arrangement this time is even more unpredictable and unpredictable. When I didn't know why, it was too late when I fell into the trap.

At the very beginning, if you are a person who knows the art of war and pretends to be smart, you will be hesitant and difficult to make a decision. In the hesitation, you choose not to rush up the hillside and stay in a deadly fight.Those who did not rush up the hillside would be besieged by the Jing army surrounded on three sides. What greeted them was to flee desperately and leave a psychological shadow, or to be completely strangled or captured.In the end, there can only be heavy casualties...

Those who don't know the art of war, or those who are in a hurry, will choose to rush up the hillside and fight to the death with Pang Liang on the mountain.Not to mention how many soldiers and horses will be sacrificed in the process of rushing upwards, even if they really rushed up the hillside, this kind of guy who doesn't know how to combine reality and fiction will definitely be arranged by Jiang Yuan when facing the Jing army formation on the mountain Bait tricked.

According to the thinking mode of those who rely solely on intuition and do not act according to the art of war, it is absolutely impossible to choose to break out from other directions, and they will only choose to rush out in the direction of the nobles who seem to be weak, but in fact they will only be weaker, then choose The army in such a direction will inevitably enter the canyon where Jiangyuan has long planted landmines, resulting in a large number of deaths.This kind of chain trick always makes people unable to break free. Jiang Yuan has already seen through all the opponent's thoughts, so that they can only fall into the trap honestly.

No matter how the Beiman army chooses, it will eventually fall into Jiangyuan's big net, because what he calculates is not the strength of the troops, but the psychological state of the person commanded by the other party. The sky and the earth.

Of course, if the opponent is an unusually calm and intelligent person, then he may be able to find some clues from Jiangyuan's layout and think of a corresponding solution.

But even this river source has been calculated.He first led the heavy cavalry to attack from the uphill, and used the heavy cavalry's ability to charge the formation to kill the northern barbarian coalition forces.Then they used the ultimate move of Mo Dao Bing to scare away the rest of their souls.Under such circumstances, if there is still someone who can calm down, analyze the situation carefully, and find a way to break through, then Jiang Yuan can only admire this person's heartlessness...

And it will take time to find out the way to crack it, and Jiang Yuan did not leave any time for the Northern Barbarian coalition to think about countermeasures. Unless the leader of the army is lucky and blessed by golden fingers, otherwise he can only lead the way Killed.

Fortunately, no one in the northern barbarian allied forces could see through Jiang Yuan's strategy, which allowed Dajing's soldiers to usher in their first big victory after the Northern Expedition, a victory that Dajing hadn't had in decades!

Soldiers are also deceitful, putting people to death in the midst of falsehood and reality.Strategies are definitely not small cleverness, small tricks, but great wisdom that will still be applied by future generations after thousands of years.And Jiang Yuan used this kind of wisdom to kill his opponent Beiman country, and he could only blame Beiman country for not having a wise man better than him.