I am the villain in the book

Wind and snow filled the sky, and the firelight flickered.

When the more than one hundred thousand soldiers crowded around the Immortal Pool looked up and saw dense black dots appearing in the night sky and gradually growing larger, no one realized the severity of the problem.

They only thought these were some boulders, so they quickly formed an array, preparing to work together to fight against these falling rocks from the sky.

Although low-ranked martial artists of the third grade and below cannot release their inner strength externally, they can bless their weapons to unleash power far exceeding that of ordinary people.

And after simple training, they can even achieve the effect of "a trickle becoming a river" through formations.

"Clang!"

"Clang clang clang!"

However, this time, they were harmed by their battlefield experience.

"Not stones!"

"They are wooden barrels!"

Soon, when the number of large wooden barrels, numbering five thousand, were only dozens of feet away from the bottom of the valley, someone finally noticed something was wrong.

After discovering that what the Tengu Army was dropping were actually wooden barrels, a sense of unease suddenly rose in everyone's hearts, and the gray light of the shield walls instantly became thicker.

Instead of dispersing, they gathered even more closely, attempting to increase the defense of the shield walls again.

Such a reaction was almost subconscious.

Everyone crowded together, forming hundreds of large square formations at the bottom of the valley, standing ready for these wooden barrels to fall.

At this moment, they had no time to think, let alone guess what was in the barrels.

Countless pairs of eyes stared intently at the increasingly large black shadows overhead, until the Tengu patterns painted on them, and the burning fuses became clearly visible.

Fuses?

Is it gunpowder??

For a time, everyone's eyes became puzzled.

Gunpowder has very weak lethality and is rarely used on the battlefield, at most it is used to make signal fires.

So the Tengu Army's sneak attack in the middle of the night was just to show them a "firework"?

"Hahahaha!"

"This Tengu Army is rumored to be so miraculous, but now it looks like nothing more than this!"

"That's right! I thought they had some powerful means!"

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Bursts of laughter rang out in various military formations, full of disdain.

Although such a large barrel can hold a lot of gunpowder, and it can indeed kill many ordinary people if used by ordinary people.

But facing martial artists, even low-ranked martial artists of the third grade and below, the effect of this thing is really limited.

Therefore, when the tension in their hearts dissipated, all that remained was ridicule.

However, the thoughts of the generals in the army were much more meticulous than those of ordinary soldiers.

Some frowned, some looked uncertain, and some even realized something, opening their mouths as if preparing to shout.

However, when the huge explosion sounds like a mountain collapsing rang out one after another, everything could no longer be saved.

"Boom!!!!!"

"Boom boom boom boom!!!!!"

"Wh-what is this?!"

"Ah!"

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Rounds of "red suns" suddenly appeared at the bottom of the valley, engulfing hundreds of military formations and those gray shield walls in the scorching and fierce red light.

The huge explosion sound collided with the mountain walls and refracted, turning into a muffled "rumbling" sound, covering all the wails and roars.

Five thousand barrels of black gunpowder detonated almost simultaneously, and the power generated even made the entire Tianshan Mountains seem to tremble slightly.

In just an instant, the Immortal Pool, which had never frozen for many years, turned into a human hell, with raging flames burning and broken limbs everywhere.

How many people would die in this round of "bombing" was still unknown, but it was estimated that there would be tens of thousands.

As for the "culprit" of all this.

Eyes slightly narrowed, even though he was more than two hundred feet in the air, Chu Xianping could still feel the rolling heat waves rising one after another below him.

He did not intend to stay and count the results of this battle, nor was he prepared to admire the tragic state of the enemy trapped in the sea of fire.

He didn't even glance down, just turned the eagle's head and shouted a word again.

"Return!"

An hour later, Wangnan Peak, Mountain God Temple.

When the "dark clouds" in the sky rolled in the wind and snow, and then slowly landed on a large open space in front of the temple, Wei Changtian, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately greeted them.

"Brother Chu, how was it?"

"I was fortunate enough to not fail my mission."

Chu Xianping nodded slightly and jumped off the eagle demon.

The five thousand Tengu Army soldiers behind him also immediately got off the demon bodies, lined up in small teams and quickly ran into the Mountain God Temple.

Under the guise of "guarding the teleportation array", the Mountain God Temple was actually built into a transit point for "bombing missions".

Because the teleportation array was no longer a secret, this move was able to hide it from the enemy's spies who had infiltrated Liangzhou City, so that they never noticed anything was wrong.

As for what these Tengu Army soldiers were going to do in the Mountain God Temple now.

Who said there couldn't be a "second round of bombing"?

"Good!"

On the other side, Wei Changtian patted Chu Xianping on the shoulder heavily: "Don't go for the second time, okay?"

"Young Master, don't worry, I will pay more attention."

Chu Xianping shook his head: "These two raids are related to the negotiation plan, and there can be no mistakes. If I don't go, I will always be worried."

"Alright, then be careful."

Nodding lightly, Wei Changtian didn't persuade him any further, but turned his gaze to the Tengu Army soldiers who had already walked out with gunpowder barrels not far away.

There were a total of eight thousand barrels, five thousand had just been detonated, and there were still three thousand in the second round.

It is estimated that the other side would never have thought that they would come for another round.

After these two rounds, although the big killer of black gunpowder would undoubtedly be exposed, the results achieved and the strategic significance brought about by it were extraordinary.

According to Chu Xianping's previous estimate, these eight thousand barrels of black gunpowder would cause the other side to lose at least one hundred thousand people.

So it was almost one barrel of gunpowder in exchange for ten low-ranked soldiers.

Wei Changtian didn't know whether this lethality was high or not, but the result of losing one hundred thousand people overnight would definitely make Yan Huaiqing sleepless.

By then.

Standing side by side with Chu Xianping, Wei Changtian thought about the future while watching the soldiers tie wooden barrels one by one to the monster beasts, and then carefully cover them with black cloth that could prevent rain and snow.

The departure time for the second round of air raids was set at three quarters of Yin time, and there was less than a quarter of an hour left.

Wei Changtian was just about to say something to Chu Xianping, but his peripheral vision happened to catch Li Zimu, who had been following them, with a hesitant expression on his face.

"What's wrong? What do you want to say?"

Turning his head, Wei Changtian asked casually.

Li Zimu's answer greatly exceeded his expectations.

"Young Master, I want to go with Young Master Chu to see."

"What?"

Wei Changtian was stunned, with a look of surprise on his face: "What are you going to do? Besides, you haven't cultivated, how can you ride these monster beasts?"

"I just want to see the scene of the battle."

Li Zimu lowered his head embarrassedly: "As for how to go, I can just ride the same monster beast with any general."

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Frowning slightly, Wei Changtian was just about to scold Li Zimu, "This is not to watch a show."

However, when he saw Chu Xianping's eyes, the words that came to his mouth suddenly stopped.

Although it felt unlikely, but.

How do these two seem to be a little ambiguous???

"Ahem, Brother Chu, you can handle this matter."

"I'm tired, I'll go back to rest first."

"Yes, Young Master, walk slowly!"

"Young Master, walk slowly."

Chu Xianping and Li Zimu responded one after the other, and watched Wei Changtian walk into the Mountain God Temple without looking back.

Then, Li Zimu moved closer to Chu Xianping, lowered his head and murmured:

"Young Master Chu, is it, is it okay?"

"If you really want to go, then you can ride the same beast with me."

Chu Xianping's old face turned red, he didn't dare to look at Li Zimu, but pretended to be calm and replied: "But you must listen to my arrangements in everything."

"Yes, yes!"

Li Zimu nodded repeatedly: "I will listen to you!"

"Ahem, that's good."

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