subvert the late Tang Dynasty

Zhu Wen heard Zhu Zhen's report and said: "Brother Zhen, you send people to pay close attention to the movements of Wang Xianzhi's remaining troops, and send troops to respond immediately if you find any traces." Zhu Wen smiled and continued: "If the enemy has pursuers, use them." The catapult throws the 'explosive pack', just to see how powerful the explosive pack developed by Wu Biao is."

Zhu Zhen nodded and said yes, he had absolute confidence in the "dynamite kit" developed by Wu Biao.Old Wu Gang tried it when he got it out, it was really earth-shattering, it is not a problem to break mountains, let alone a body of flesh and blood?He couldn't imagine that if a person was blown up by that thing, there wouldn't even be a single bone left!I really didn't expect that Old Wu could come up with such a powerful thing, but the third brother is still very powerful. If it weren't for his proposal and support, it would be useless for Old Wu to be capable.

It turned out that after seeing the firecrackers made by Wu Biao, Zhu Wen knew that he was not just talking about it, so he asked him if he could use gunpowder to make weapons for the battlefield.After all, muskets and cannons were a bit shocking in this day and age, and Zhu Wen didn't say what he thought. Besides, he also wanted to see how capable Wu Biao was.

But who knew that just a few days later, Wu Biao went to Zhu Wen with a thick bamboo tube in his arms, and asked him to see if it would work.

Zhu Wen saw that there was a bamboo with a thick bowl mouth, eight inches in length, and the mouth was sealed with mud, which had solidified, and a long lead wire was dragging outside.Zhu Wen laughed and said, "Isn't this a big firecracker?"

Wu Biao was embarrassed for a while, and said cautiously: "Yes, but firecrackers can hurt people, and large firecrackers can inflict greater damage on people. When approaching the enemy, light the fuse and throw a catapult into the enemy's formation. The explosion of gunpowder can cause A lot of damage, the key is to make the enemy panic, the morale of the army is shaken, and the horses lose control..."

Zhu Wen's eyes lit up. He didn't expect that Wu Biao knew how to use tactics in his mind. Yes, although he didn't make a decent firearm, at least he wasn't a fool. In addition to his understanding of gunpowder and his own suggestions, he will make a gunpowder in the future. There is still hope for a decent firearm.

Zhu Wen asked someone to use a catapult to throw the large firecrackers on a small hill. After a thunderous explosion, smoke and dust billowed, and gravel rained, but the power was passable.Zhu Wen really praised it, and asked him to make more than a hundred of them first, and keep them for later use.

I didn’t forget to mention him again, and said: “Old Wu, can you try to replace the bamboo tube with iron, so that the power will be stronger when it explodes? And you can also make some smaller ones. Yes, so that soldiers can throw with their hands..." Zhu Wen said while gesturing to him with a grenade, thinking: Even if you can't make a grenade, at least make a grenade for me to pop out.

Thinking of letting everyone in your army wear grenades in their waists, wouldn't that be all-encompassing in this age of cold weapons?No matter how high or strong your martial arts are, a grenade will still settle you down.

The death of Wang Xianzhi made the tens of thousands of troops under Wang Xianzhi lose their morale and their morale fell to the bottom.Wang Xianzhi's younger brother Wang Chongyin led 8000 people across the Yangtze River to join Wang Xianzhi's other general Liu Yanzhang in the south of the Yangtze River, but he didn't know that Liu Yanzhang had also been defeated and killed.Wang Chongyin was just in time to accept Liu Yanzhang's remaining troops. After reorganization, there were more than [-] troops, and he has been developing in the south of the Yangtze River since then.

Shang Rang led Wang Xianzhi's main force of 3 troops to withdraw northward in an attempt to rendezvous with Huang Chao. He and Meng Kai also had a deadly friendship. Huang Chao wouldn't leave him alone, he thought.

When Shang Rang's army was approaching the border of Bozhou, he received a report from the former army saying that Huang Chao's subordinates would send Zhu Wen troops to the front to meet them.Shang Rang calmed down a bit, although there were not many soldiers in one of them, it was enough to show that Huang Chao had the heart to accept him, and with Huang Chao's support, he would not have to worry about the court's pursuit of troops.After all, Huang Chao also has 6 to [-] people, plus his own more than [-] people, it is still not a problem to deal with Zeng Yuanyu.

Zhu Wen also went out of the city to meet him in person. From a distance, Zhu Wen could see the smoke billowing in front of him. After all, 3 people is not a small number.But these 3 horses are now all disheveled and incompletely armored, and many of them are still wounded.

Zhu Wenwen, Huang Ying, Zhu Zhen, Zhu Cun, Hu Zhen and others urged the horse to come forward. Huang Ying said, "Second Uncle Shang, my father heard the news of the death of Uncle Shang and General Wang, and was deeply saddened. He knew that Uncle Shang would come to meet my father. Let’s meet up, and that’s why I’m ordered to come to meet you.”

Zhu Wen saw that he was still in his forties, with a white face and beardless eyes, and he seemed to be a master of the inner family.He clasped his fists and said, "General Huang's generals, Zhu Wen, have met General Shang."

Shang Rang said: "You are in armor, so you don't have to be polite. I am a defeated general. I just want to serve a little under General Huang's command in the future. I am satisfied. Now the enemy army will follow I hope that General Zhu will report to General Huang as soon as possible, so as to find a way to deal with it."

Zhu Wen said: "General, please advance to Luyi City, and leave the chase to the last general."

Shang Rang looked behind Zhu Wen, there were more than a thousand people, and thought: You want to stop Zeng Yuanyu with just such a small number of people?Is my head not bad?If more than a thousand of you can stop the army of Zeng Yuanyu and Zhang Zimian, I don't have to take more than [-] people to travel thousands of miles to join Huang Chao.

But seeing Zhu Wen's confident look, he thought to himself: After all, he is a young man. After a few victories, he thought that no one in the world could beat him. However, no matter how powerful your personal bravery and resourcefulness are, the key to victory or defeat is your military strength. The number of people and the level of morale.Let him suffer a little bit, let him know that every day there are heaven and there are others.

Shang Rang clasped his fists and said, "So, there is General Lao Zhu."

Half an hour later, dust rose up in front of him, Zhu Wen ordered Huang Ying and Zhu Cun to guard the city, closed the city gates tightly, and lined up under the city with Zhu Zhen and Hu Zhen.Although Huang Ying knew that Zhu Wen had a secret weapon, she was still worried and insisted on staying and living with Zhu Wen, but Zhu Wen couldn't resist her, so she had to agree.

Zeng Yuanyu's vanguard team also has more than [-] people, how could he pay attention to the more than [-] people in the city?They didn't stop at all, and rushed directly to the enemy's formation.

Suddenly seeing more than a dozen catapults of the enemy army starting together, but the things they threw were not big stones, he thought: Such a small stone is also trying to stop the footsteps of my imperial army?It's simply overpowering.

But just as their thoughts changed, the little "rock" had arrived in their own formation, and it turned out to be a bamboo tube.Before they could react, the bamboo tube had exploded.Amidst the earth-shattering explosion, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and sand flew away.The running horses were even more frightened and ran around, and some of them even turned around and rushed back, not listening to the orders of the horsemen at all.

There was chaos for a while, and the troops charging at full speed trampled on each other, causing countless deaths.Before they could reflect what happened, the second round of "missiles" exploded in the crowd, and the already chaotic formation completely collapsed.

The frightened war horses fled frantically, and the worst was the infantry who followed the cavalry. Many people were trampled to death by their own war horses when they couldn't escape.Sparsely, more than a hundred war horses charged towards Zhu Wen's camp with knights on their backs, and a round of arrows rained down into the dust with a long hiss.

The battle situation became completely one-sided. After Zhu Wen fired the third round of "missiles", the enemy's defeated army dispersed one after another, leaving behind corpses and heavy food and grass all over the ground. Countless seriously injured officers and soldiers screamed on the ground wailing...

In this battle, Zhu Wen did not lose a single soldier. He defeated the enemy's 3000 elite troops, wiped out 2000 enemies, captured [-] people, and used more than [-] carts of food and grass, and [-] horses.In this battle, Zhu Wen will be famous all over the world.

Standing at the top of the city, Shang Rang watched the dramatic battle below the city and Zhu Wen's calm command, the horror in his heart was indescribable.Such a vulnerable enemy army chased him for thousands of miles!I even brought 3 horses with me, and more than a thousand people easily beat the enemy's pursuers to pieces.

I thought that I had experienced dozens of battles, big and small, and I had never seen such a strong wind and wolf, but today really opened his eyes, and let him, who has been fighting for many years, know what a real war is.

He watched Zhu Wen enter the city mightily with the captured food and grass, the captured prisoners and war horses, and the scene where the defenders and the people in the city lined the streets to welcome him, and his heart was full of generosity.He thought: "It would be great if I could have that kind of 'explosive stone'." He thought that Zhu Wen used stones.