Tang Niu was defeated by a trap. Fortunately, Mei Xu came to rescue him and fled out of the city with his defeated generals. He retreated to the other side of the Mijiang River to count the soldiers and generals, leaving only less than 40,000.

Many soldiers and generals were trapped in the city, either died in siege, or were captured by China.

The 80,000 army came here with great enthusiasm, but most of it was lost in a short period of time. Tang Niu, who was covered in dust, could not accept it.

"Your Majesty!" Mei Xu sighed. How could Tang Niu listen to his advice? Now this great defeat has caused the morale of the Zhou army to plummet, and even the invincible emperor in everyone's mind was almost defeated. The mentality of the Zhou soldiers collapsed. Therefore, he advised, "After this battle, the situation is determined! If you don't retreat early, reinforcements from the surrounding counties will arrive, and it will be difficult to fly. Although you don't know why the news is leaked, you should make a decision early!"

After hearing this, Tang Niu gritted his teeth and said, "Although I was defeated by a trap, there are still 40,000 troops. The city gate of Huajun has been broken, and all the materials guarding the city have been used up. How can I stop me? I will definitely be able to fight in one battle after a break!"

Mei Xu knew that once Tang Niu was at the forefront, it was difficult to listen to people's persuasion. He had such a personality. But as the prime minister, he had to persuade: "There must be wise people in Huajun City, and they must set up traps."

"My intention has been decided!" Tang Niu was completely defeated and did not listen to the advice at all. "If you can't win this time, it's not too late to leave."

Mei Xu persuaded him several times but failed to persuade him, so he said, "Since that's the case, I'll be the vanguard and take the lead in attacking the city after rest. Your Majesty leads troops to respond. If you succeed, Your Majesty will enter the city later. If you are in a hiding place, your Majesty can save him, and if you cannot save him, you will evacuate immediately and turn back the same way!"

"This..." Tang Niu frowned slightly.

Miao Ji beside him whispered, "What the Prime Minister said is so much. How can Your Majesty take risks again and again? What is the use of this? With Your Majesty's ability, once the vanguard is in danger, he will be able to save him!"

Tang Niu hesitated for a while, thought carefully, nodded and said, "I will follow the Prime Minister's words!"

Inside Huajun City.

Although he almost left Tang Niu, the city gate was destroyed, and the materials to defend the city were basically used here, and there was not much left.

The city gate is temporarily blocked with a large amount of horizontal wood and adds a thorn in the horse, but it is difficult to block the enemy's strong attack. The inner gate's defensive trap mechanisms are used up, which is also very dangerous.

Liang Teng ordered the strengthening of guards and collecting materials from the people instead of rolling stones and wood.

The civil and military officials discussed in the hall, and Chu Meiren said: "Although this battle is won, it should not be ignored. If Tang Niu leads troops to attack again, it will be difficult to stop outside the city!"

"What should I do?" Liu Yuanxiang asked anxiously.

Once the Zhou army invaded Hua County, the situation became very bad.

After careful consideration, Chu said to her: "If the Niu Tang retreats, the crisis will be resolved. If he leads troops again, Your Majesty should mobilize the people of the whole city and make a last try!"

While he was talking, the scout came in: "Report—!! Hot air balloons came lined up from the east!"

The hot air balloon came from the east? The civil and military officials in the hall looked confused. Look at me, I look at you, I can't figure out the situation.

Hot air balloons were "invented" by Ning Ze, and only China has them. Everyone will know where these came from?

Only a few people know the Secret Institute.

Liu Yuanxiang looked at Meiren Chu, meaning there was a response from the institute?

Beauty Chu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, saying that she wanted to send a batch of weapons to help defend the city, and she probably arrived.

Therefore, he turned to Liu Yuanxiang: "Your Majesty, the weapons you have secretly hoarded in advance have been delivered, and we will have another 10% chance of winning!"

The weapons that Your Majesty secretly hoarded? When all the civil and military officials heard this, they suddenly realized that the queen had already prepared and had a foresight!

The matter of the Secret Research Institute cannot be made public, so Liu Yuanxiang admitted this matter: "Since the weapon has been delivered, everyone will follow me to inspect it!"

"Here!!"

Take all the civil and military officials out of the palace and come to the hot air balloon landing together.

Those who control the hot air balloons are all soldiers who are responsible for keeping secret research institutes and receive Ning Ze's orders.

Of course, it also includes researchers explaining how to use new weapons.

The ones carrying them with hot air balloons are a large number of mines, and objects that look like firecrackers but are extremely different, and have very strict protection measures.

Needless to say, the main force has actually been tested. Although it has not yet been popularized in all states and counties across the country, everyone is familiar with it.

Another weapon with a shape similar to a firecracker, which can be seen from the caution that scientific researchers can escort soldiers is definitely not an ordinary thing.

In order to avoid the other party saying something wrong and revealing the secret research institute, Meiren Chu took the initiative to step forward: "All the weapons that Your Majesty has hoarded have been shipped?"

The weapons that Your Majesty has hoarded? The researchers quickly understood from the eyes of Meiren Chu, so they responded respectfully: "Report to Taichang, everything has been shipped!"

"Very good, let me introduce it to Jingshi Liang and General Wei."

"Here!" The researcher turned to Liang Teng and Mi Yan, saluted respectfully first, and then said, "There is no need to introduce the mines. This thing has come out long ago. There is a new weapon that is particularly dangerous, called a grenade."

"Grenade?" The generals looked confused and looked at each other.

"This thing is related to the prince." Chu Meiren explained that the matters of the Secret Research Institute should not be announced, and Ning Ze and these things do not have to be hidden. Anyway, any novel thing is related to Ning Ze, the king of Danyang.

Sure enough, when they heard that it was related to Danyang King, the generals immediately showed such expressions. As long as they were related to that person, no matter how strange the thing seemed to become normal.

Hot air balloons, dragon-shaped kites, telescopes, pendulum clocks, landmines, explosion crossbows... For him who is proficient in "spells", all this seems to be reasonable. It is okay to know that Ning Ze is doing all kinds of strange things in private, and the existence of the Secret Research Institute cannot be known by too many people, and it must be ensured to be concealed.

Researchers continued: "Grenades are dangerous, not only for the enemy. They can play a considerable role in the battlefield, causing terrifying casualties and also causing losses to us."

"What does this mean?" Liang Teng asked quickly.

"In fact, the grenade is not perfect. It is not stable at present. Sometimes it is not thrown and suddenly detonated. There are also cases of collisions during transportation and explosions. If it is not an emergency, it should not be used!"

"Is this probability of a situation high?" Chu Xun asked hurriedly.

"Report to the Prime Minister, the probability is not very high, but once a problem occurs, the consequences will be unimaginable!"

"The situation is urgent now, so I don't care about so much!" Chu Xun pondered for a moment, "Even if there is a chance of hurting himself, as long as it can cause a deterrence to the Zhou army, it should be used."

"All the mines and bombs that can be used have been delivered!"

"Hurry off the weapon and send it to the city gate." Chu Xun ordered, "You go over together and teach our soldiers how to use it."

"Here!" The scientific researchers and the soldiers who were traveling with each other agreed in unison.

Liang Teng and Mi Yan hurried over and placed landmines under their guidance to understand how the grenades were used.

After rest and recuperation, the troops of Zhou State finally recovered.

As the sun sets, night is about to fall.

Mei Xu suggested to Tang Niu: "Your Majesty, our army has been repaired. If you want to attack, don't delay. If you decide the victory or defeat in the near night, you will plunder Emperor Yuanxi and the ministers of the Chinese Kingdom. If you lose, you will retreat in the same way. You must hurry up and retreat before the enemy reinforcements arrive. You can advance and retreat with evidence!"

Tang Niu nodded and said, "Since that's the case, please lead the Prime Minister to attack Huajun, and I will respond in the rear."

"Here!" Mei Xu had no choice. Tang Niu was unwilling to evacuate if he didn't fight this battle.

That night, the Zhou army was divided into two teams. Mei Xu led the troops and led the generals as the vanguard and took the lead. Tang Niu and Miao Ji led the troops to respond in the rear and sent troops to Huajun.

Mei Xu led his troops to the city of Huajun. There were indeed only cross-border trees at the gate, which resisted horses and wooden thorns, which were very easy to destroy.

Liang Teng and Mi Yan led their troops to guard the city.

Mei Xu knew that the other party would not be unprepared, but could not retreat, so he took the lead and led his troops to the city gate.

When I rushed to a place hundreds of meters away from the city gate, my feet suddenly exploded and fires burst into pieces in the dark night.

It turned out that a large number of landmines had been buried outside the city, and they were waiting for them to come.

The landmines are very powerful. Many war horses were directly blown off their legs, some of which were broken into their stomachs, and some were even more unlucky because they exploded nearby, which exploded their horse's head.

The first wave of war horses passed, and infantry came lined up behind them, and countless soldiers wailed and fell down amid the explosion, or simply exploded. The scene was quite tragic.

Mei Xu was lucky. He kept trampling on landmines and being killed by the generals or cavalry, but he rushed all the way and arrived at the city gate smoothly.

"Swish swish swish swish swish!" Tens of thousands of arrows in the city were fired at once, blocking the Zhou army from approaching.

The landmines kept ringing, and the Zhou army was not afraid of death. Although they were tragic, they still rushed to the city gate and prepared to demolish the crossbows, resist horses and wooden thorns.

Liang Teng immediately ordered the use of grenades.

The Chinese soldiers on the city wall took out grenades, ignited them, and threw them hard, smashing them downwards.

"Boom-!Boom-!" The power of the grenade is no less than that of landmines, and it can be aimed and thrown to a large number of people.

In an instant, the Zhou army suffered even heavier losses.

This way of fighting was far unexpected. The soldiers of Zhou, who were used to fighting cold weapons, were directly shocked.

Mei Xu is not simple. Even this situation can still boost morale and prevent the army from being defeated. They work together to break through the horse, rush out of the crossbar regardless of casualties, and finally enter the city.

The inner city gate was closed, and the defenders used the stones obtained by demolishing the people's houses, and used beams as rolling stones to block the Zhou army.

The two sides fought fiercely for a long time, and Mei Xu fought bloody battles. After losing thousands of warriors, he finally broke through the inner city gate.

This greatly increased the morale of Zhou soldiers. As long as they attacked the city, the basic victory was decided.

However, when the inner city gate was broken and the Zhou soldiers followed Mei Xu to attack, they suddenly heard the sound of mountains and seas in the city.

At the same time, the Chinese people were blocking the city, holding torches or hoes and forks, standing with the defenders in the city.

Mei Xu led his troops into the ground several times, and immediately suffered a tsunami-like counterattack.

The Chinese people are too large, and they can't see at first glance.

Several strong attacks have caused huge losses, and they cannot advance or retreat, and they are completely in a dilemma.
Chapter completed!