Li Yan sighed long, as a pity for Li Lingfu's death in Duli Town so confused. In his opinion, Li Lingfu was really a hero, but in the end he was confused. Ten years ago, Li Lingfu changed the tide and helped the building to fall. It was he who led the return of the Crane Cavalry that saved Qingni City on the verge of destruction. After ten years of rest, especially this time, he joined forces with Shamen Town to annihilate the joint fleet of Duli Town. Qingni City faced the best future in a century. They joined forces with Li Yan to suppress Duli Town.

But he was just one step wrong, and he was wrong step by step, causing Li Lingfu to be defeated and killed, and made a hero become a hero. His impulse not only harmed himself, Qingnicheng, but also caused Li Guan to be exhausted.

"The four generals of Huang Shi led Li Lingfu to participate in this battle with Nutao Camp and the two thousand old brothers. The news that he got back was that in addition to the one thousand brothers left on the warship, the two thousand brothers who entered Duli Town were almost wiped out. Although the four heads of Bai, Huang, Hong and Hei brought hundreds of brothers to break out of the city, they were ambushed near Qingni City. All the four generals were seriously injured. There were only about five hundred brothers left to break out of the siege with them. There were also one."

"What is it?" Li Yan asked heartbrokenly. One thousand five hundred people died. Although the real organization of Nu Tao Camp was only 1,000, and the remaining two thousand could only be regarded as children participating in the war. However, in this battle, Nu Tao Camp was almost destroyed. Huang Huzi and others did not report it, so they sent troops to Qingnipu without authorization, which led to this major loss. But Li Yan also understood that some things were difficult to avoid. Nu Tao Camp was adapted from Zhendonghai's recruitment. Not long after the camp was adapted, Li Yan had not yet arrived for a while and inserted people in. He was originally worried that he would take action too early and too fast, which would arouse Zhendonghai's disgust. But he did not expect that this resulted in Nu Tao Camp's failure to go without orders this time and finally defeated.

"Another, as soon as the news came back, General Meghan and Julie immediately wanted to lead Zhenhai Camp to send troops to Qingnipu to respond to Huang Bai and other generals. However, everyone in Zhenhai Camp rejected the team leaders and refused to send troops. General Meghan and General Julie were furious and took their own two boats to go out to sea, and they will temporarily detain them. Now a special person is sent to send a letter, please deal with it, General."

When Li Yan heard that this happened, he felt both thankful, but also difficult. The generals refused to execute Meghan and their orders. In fact, it was correct. But on the surface, this was not abiding by military orders. What's more, they have placed Meghan and others under house arrest, which is equivalent to a minor mutiny. The generals' starting point is good, but Li Yan couldn't help but smile bitterly. After this incident, not only was the Nutao Camp aborted, but now there was no harmony between the generals and the generals in Zhenhai Camp. It was impossible for him to deal with the captains who had made the right moves, so it would be difficult for Meghan and the others to stay in Zhenhai Camp in the future.

Alas, what's this all about?

Frowning, Li Guan asked about a very important thing.

"After Li Lingfu's coalition troops, which you mentioned earlier, broke into the outer city of Duli Town, the captured North Gate and Water Gate were around the same time. The explosion sounded huge, accompanied by a huge vibration, and the fires soared into the sky, killing hundreds of people at once. Do you know what this is? Don't tell me what it is?" When Li Yan heard the description of this matter, the first thing he thought of was gunpowder. Only gunpowder almost matched these descriptions. Although many Taoist priests had developed the formula of gunpowder in the late Tang Dynasty, it was only used for pill training. I haven't heard of any army that formally used gunpowder as a weapon of war.

According to Li Guan's understanding of gunpowder, the large-scale use of gunpowder as a weapon should have been in the Song Dynasty, and the initial use should be almost the end of the Tang Dynasty, but it seems that it should have been a few years later. The specific one seems to have first appeared in a siege in Nanchang, Jiangxi, but it is absolutely impossible to have such a great effect as Duli Town this time.

The black gunpowder Li Guan has been studying and preparing it for a long time. Li Guan has always felt that the black gunpowder is too powerful and consumes very little. Although he started to study and prepare it together with the two types of black gunpowder and divine fire, the divine fire was prepared first and started to be produced in large quantities, and it has shown its power several times in wars. He has made a very valuable product and killer weapon like Shamen Town. On the black gunpowder side, Li Guan has just made many processes such as black gunpowder formula and pelletization, and has just formed a small secret workshop of about a hundred people in production.

At present, it is only improving the production process formula, and has not yet begun to truly produce it into a weapon of war.

Shamen Town has not yet produced this weapon. How did Duli Town suddenly produce black gunpowder? And depending on the effect, the amount they have is definitely not low. This cannot be made by Taoists. Li Guan believes that the formula of his black gunpowder has never been leaked. Where did Duli Town come from?

"It is said that the powerful weapon is called Feihuo."

"Flying Fire?"

"Yes, Duli Town has begun to claim that the weapon they have. It is said that they claim that such a weapon is one of the alchemy fires obtained from the dream of the city lord Wang Pu, and it is said that it is extremely powerful. However, the news we have learned is that this is the recipe offered to Wang Pu by several Taoist priests from Jiangnan. I heard that Duli Town bought this secret recipe for flying fire for 3,000 taels of gold. There are two ways to use this flying fire in this battle. At the beginning, they were

Buried under the north gate and water gate, a fire lead was set up. In the end, the fire led to the explosion of the flying fire, which directly collapsed the city gate, and killed and injured hundreds of people at one time. There is another method, which seems to be comparable to our divine fire, and it is also installed in a pot. It is then ignited and placed on the cannon and shot out. Many formations of the coalition forces in Qingnipu attacked Duli Town tried to break through, but they were broken up by this kind of aircraft."

Li Guan suddenly understood everything that the alchemy fire taught by Taishang Laojun was indeed black gunpowder. What surprised Li Guan even more was that after the people of Duli Town bought this recipe from Taoist priests, a lot of gunpowder could be produced so quickly, and they could be assembled so quickly into the army. He could use gunpowder so well for the first time in the war. He really surprised him. He heard the names of Taishang Laojun's alchemy fire mentioned by Li Zhen easily reminded people of the divine fire in Shamen Town. One was the Dragon King and the other was the Taishang Laojun, and he could really make gimmicks.

"General, Duli Town suddenly got the flying fire. We are sending troops now, I am afraid we can't beat them." Zhao Jiang advised carefully.

Although Li Guan knew that the flying fire was just black gunpowder, since he had created something that he had first taught the divine fire in his dream, he naturally could not accuse others of making up the people. The military, civilians and people in the Shamen Town all believed in the stories made up by Li Guan at the time, so Li Guan also knew everyone's fear of ghosts and gods.

"Don't worry, this so-called flying fire is actually far worse than the divine fire. It's just a form of the smallest power of the divine fire. Our Shamen Town actually already has this kind of flying fire. Last time the Dragon King told me about the divine fire, he told me about the flying fire. But I always thought it was not very useful before, so I didn't take it out. Since Duli Town wants to use it, we will bring some of it this time."

"Really, the Dragon King told you Feihuo last time?" Zhao Jiang said in surprise.

"Of course." Li Guan was a little guilty, and he actually made this kind of gods and ghosts.

Zhao Jiang's eyebrows were much more cheerful, but hesitated: "But do we need to send troops? The 40,000 troops in Qingnipu were defeated, and their defeat was due to their own fault. Who made Li Lingfu refuse to listen to the general's arrangement? Now that they are all defeated, we can't blame us. I think it is not suitable to send troops at the moment. Duli Town and Beisha City defeated Qingni City. Qingni City suffered this great defeat and Li Lingfu died again. They would definitely not be able to hold on. We might as well give up them as soon as possible. The situation in Liaodong has turned around overnight, so we'd better stick to it."

Li Yan shook his head and sighed: "How could I not understand the current situation? Li Lingfu was impulsive and ruined the good situation. But the more critical we were, the less we could show our weakness and concession. Qingnipu was indeed defeated, but we had to send troops this time. The best result was naturally to repel the coalition forces of Duli Town and Beisha City, rescue Qingnipu's danger, and to meet the soldiers of Nutao Camp. In the worst case, I

We also have to take the people from Qingnipu back to Daxie Fort. We have to let Duli Town understand that even if they can defeat Li Lingfu and Qingni City, he still can't get it in our hands. We have to show him our strength to promote peace. Sending troops is just a means, and continuing to maintain peace with Duli Town is the goal. However, we cannot rely on Duli Town to give alms, but we have to use swords to beat them until they are afraid."

In fact, in Li Guan's heart, in addition to the strategic considerations of this son-in-law on the surface, Duli Town must understand the strength of Shamen Town, so as not to provoke the war again and break the stability of the backyard. There is another very important reason why Li Guan sent troops without saying it, that is, he had already expected that Qingnipu would definitely not be able to persevere this time.

The century-old Qingni City is about to perish, and Li Guan rushed to Hukou to seize food, and seized Qingni City's century-old savings from Hukou in Duli Town and Beisha City. Li Guan did not expect to accept the city and territory of Qingnipu, but he wanted to take away the population, money, grain and property of Qingnipu.

Especially Li Guan had already fallen in love with Li Lingfu's army of Crane Control. This time, he also planned to eat it in one bite and receive it.

Of course, on the surface, Li Guan would not tell others his thoughts and plans. On the surface, Li Guan's reason for sending troops was to avenge the brothers of Nutao Camp who died in battle, to avenge the sworn brother Li Lingfu who died in battle, and to help several nephews in Qingnipu who had just lost their father!

Suddenly, Li Guan remembered a sentence from the hero Cao Cao: I will raise your wife, so don’t worry about it!
Chapter completed!