Since it was a decree, Li Zhao did not dare to neglect it. Just as he was preparing to greet it, the waiter came up.
It was Eunuch Shang who was very puzzled when he saw Li Zhao standing on a high hill, but he didn't ask any more questions and declared the order.
"Li Zhao accepts the order!"
Li Zhao knelt down to receive the order.
"Your Majesty ordered Li Zhao to return to Xianyang City immediately and not to stay." In just a few words, the emperor's anger and worry could be seen.
Li Zhao stood still, with no intention of thanking him. He turned his head and stared into the distance, deeply and solemnly.
"Please thank me immediately!" Shang Xin urged.
Li Zhao glanced at Shang Xin with sharp eyes, pointed at the distant shadow below and said:
"Eunuch, please go back and report to Your Majesty. The bandit army is attacking. As the general, Li Zhao cannot hide in the city and live quietly. This is Li Zhao's battlefield unless the bandit army breaks through Chang'an Township."
He said it very firmly, this was a rejection of the decree.
"You?" Shang Xin hesitated, with an angry look on his face.
He didn't expect that Li Zhao would resist the order at this time. His sharp words were softened a lot, "Li, General Li, your Majesty is doing it for your own good. The traitor army is here. If you don't leave, you will die."
"Are you so not afraid of death?"
In fact, Shang Xin didn't want to see anything happen to Li Zhao. After going back and forth, the two of them had become very familiar with each other.
Li Zhao glanced at Shang Xin, moved his steps, and scanned the entire Chang'an Township.
"I, Li Zhao, am also made of flesh and blood, so of course I am afraid, but compared to the wolfish ambitions of the traitor army, death is nothing." Li Zhao looked into the distance, trying his best to make himself look like he was content with death, but he had another thought in his heart.
He must be afraid of death, but he is even more afraid of losing everything. Chang'an Township, which has been run for so long, is his family business and the foundation for him to become the richest man in the future. How can it be destroyed by the thieves? He must protect his things and never allow others to destroy them.
What's more, even if he doesn't leave, the bandit army may not be able to do anything to him, even if the opponent has 50,000 troops.
You must know that the weapons he took out were all advanced weapons. In the era of cold weapons, these things were gods. Even if they could not wipe out the rebel army, they could at least stop them outside Chang'an Township.
"You are hopeless!" Although Shang Xin said this, he was still moved in his heart.
In order to stop the traitor army, he took his family alone to resist the tiger and wolf army without any soldiers. There were only a few people in the Qin Dynasty who could do this, even the Marquis of Tongwu could not do it.
Li Zhao smiled and held his hands, "My father-in-law, I will be away and the emperor's orders are not accepted. Please go back and tell your majesty that Li Zhao will take good care of himself. When the traitor army is driven away, he will go to the palace to plead guilty."
Shang Xin was moved, but His Majesty asked him to announce that Li Zhao should return. If Li Zhao did not return, he would not be able to complete the task and would be implicated if he returned to the palace. Li Zhao must be allowed to return to the palace.
"General Li, you are embarrassing this old slave. If you don't return to the palace, how can I explain to His Majesty?"
"The bandits are fierce and numerous. Regardless of your own safety, you must also consider the people of Chang'an. If you stay, they will have only one possibility, which is to die."
Li Zhao smiled and said, "When the rebel army retreats, I will explain it to Your Majesty. You don't need to explain this matter. If Your Majesty blames you, I will bear the responsibility."
"As for whether my Chang'an Township congregation will die, it's really hard to say."
This was said very firmly.
"You, you, tell me what you want me to say, that's all. If you want to die, just die!" Shang Xin thought for a while and walked away. He no longer persisted. He could only go back and tell His Majesty the truth.
This boy is too stubborn and there is no cure.
Just when he was about to leave, suddenly, a slave came hurriedly to report: "Master, the bandit army has entered the plain area. Should we start a war?"
"Start a war?" When Shang Xin heard this, he paused and looked back at each other with regret in his eyes.
My heart seemed to be saying: War? With these people in Chang'an Township going to war with tens of thousands of bandit troops, how brave Li Zhao must be! No matter how big it is, it must be used in the right way. If you hit an egg with an egg and hit a stone like this, no matter how powerful you are, you will suffer.
"Yes, let's start a war!"
Li Zhaoli was stunned, and immediately picked up his binoculars and looked into the distance. Sure enough, the rebel army had entered the plains, thousands of them in number, and there were long black spots behind them.
"The mother who bombed them wouldn't even recognize them."
He threw the black flag down hard.
Seeing this action, Shang Xin felt like peeing, and hurriedly stepped onto his horse to fly away quickly.
He would not accompany Li Zhao in his attempt to commit suicide. He still wanted to remain useful and serve His Majesty.
But the next moment, bursts of rumbling sounds startled him. The sound was like thunder, shaking the entire land.
Looking at the sky, the sky was clear, there was no sign of rain, and there were no dark clouds. But, where did this thunder come from?
Driven by curiosity, he turned around and saw Li Zhao raising the black flag again.
"Come again!"
Li Zhao slammed the black flag down again, extremely powerfully.
Then, there was the sound of the earth shaking again, and he could faintly feel waves of vibrations coming from the ground.
"what happened?"
Such a sound could be neither too loud nor too small, but he was sure it came from within a mile. "Could it be that the sound was made by Li Zhaoren? Is this the sound he made when he talked about starting a war?"
"Or did Li Zhao launch a mass murder weapon?"
But at first glance, Li Zhao didn't have a big killer weapon in his hand. Moreover, as far as he knew, when the killing weapon was activated, although the sound was loud, it was not continuous.
Shang Xin became even more curious, so much so that he forgot his fear, and the horse slowly stopped under his uncontrollable control, dismounted, and walked over in a daze, asking: "General Li, what's going on with this sound?"
Li Zhao looked solemn and did not answer him. Instead, he handed over the telescope in his hand and said, "See for yourself."
Shang Xin looked at this thing, which was very novel, but now was not the time to be surprised. He quickly took it and imitated Li Zhao and put it in front of him. The scene in front of him shocked him.
The scene in front of me quickly enlarged, and it was blurry and clearly visible.
What you see is a scene of tragedy.
The sky above the plains was filled with gunpowder smoke. Under the gunpowder smoke, thousands of people were lying scattered and scattered. These people did not have the uniforms of the regular army of the imperial court, but they were also unified. However, under the uniformity, there were red blood stains and broken limbs. I saw them moving as if they were in pain.
He guessed that if he was close, he would be able to hear their miserable sounds.
He thought what he saw was a fantasy, so he quickly put down the telescope, rubbed his eyes, and looked around. The distance was blurry and he couldn't see clearly, but the slowly rising smoke could still be seen.
The smoke was definitely not an illusion. A trace of shock appeared on his face, and he quickly put on the telescope. The bleak scene just now reappeared. The smoke had risen high, and the scene on the ground became clearer.
"Li, General Li, what happened to them? Did you do it?"
Li Zhao smiled and did not answer. He took the telescope from the slave next to him and continued to investigate.
After two rounds of explosions, several thousand bandit troops were blown away from their combat effectiveness, but it was only a few thousand, and there were densely packed ground troops coming from behind.
Scattered like ants.
They were like a school of fish scrambling for food. Even if there was an explosion in front, they could not stop those behind from pouring into the ground.
So much so that they were stunned when they saw the explosion. The bandits in front who had a chance to escape were pushed by the crowd and forced into the ground.
But people are always aware of danger. They dare not rush into the bombed-out areas and take detours to other places.
Seeing this, Li Zhao smiled.
The thief army is still a thief army, but it is just a temporarily organized bandit bandit. The march is completely unorganized and they just want to reach the destination as soon as possible.
If we continue in the same place, we may not be able to threaten them, but we need to take a detour! hey-hey! They are destined not to see the sun tomorrow.
In this area, he ordered thousands of mines to be laid, covering almost the entire flat land.
"General Li, you haven't answered me yet? I have to talk to His Majesty about such a military move, but you have to inform the situation in detail."
Li Zhao suppressed his smile and just said lightly: "See for yourself, don't hinder me."
"At this moment, the third wave, blow it up for me."
The black flag in Li Zhao's hand was thrown down again.
Shang Xin realized something, closed his eyes tightly with the telescope, and stared hard.
As soon as Li Zhao finished speaking, there were waves of terrifying rumbling sounds, and then such a scene appeared in Shang Xin's eyes.
This was a picture he had never seen before, such a shocking picture.
Under the feet of the thief army, hundreds of fires burst out of thin air. The fire mixed with the thick smoke and went up from the bottom. Immediately, the thief army flew into the air, fell to the ground and stopped moving, turning into a piece of meat in the chaos. It was shocking to see.
There were bloodstains and stumps all around.
Just like that, thousands of thieves were still drinking in hatred.
"This, this" Shang Xin was shocked.
These fires seemed to emerge from the ground, and then the remnants of the army were scattered. He had never seen such a scene, and had never heard of it, but it was true that this scene happened.
The bandits were still alive one moment, and then they were lying down the next moment. Everything happened in the blink of an eye, and it was impossible to imagine what had happened to them.
"General Li, please tell me what is going on. I must tell His Majesty this scene."
Shang Xin was no longer afraid, and showed full of excitement. His previous desire to escape had long since disappeared, and he only had bright eyes.
"This is a landmine!" Li Zhao didn't have time to explain to him, so he just responded hurriedly and hurried down the mountain.
After three rounds of explosions, even the pigs knew that this place was dangerous. Although the bandits were in chaos, they were not stupid. They would definitely change their route and advance from other places.
It is not appropriate to stay here any longer.
As he expected, the bandit army stopped, and a general-like figure walked out of it, then quickly retreated, and soon disappeared from sight.
"Landmines?" Shang Xin was still muttering on the spot. He searched a thousand times in his mind but could not find what the landmines were. When he saw Li Zhao walking away, he quickly chased after him, "General Li, what are the landmines? You and I Let me tell you, so that I can show off in front of His Majesty."
Shang Xin said it very straightforwardly.
But Li Zhao has gone far.
"Wu Quan, how is the battle going? Where did the bandit army retreat to?"
Li Zhao found Wu Quan and asked immediately.
At this moment, Wu Quan's eyes were full of shock, and he looked at Li Zhao excitedly, as if he was seeing a god.
Not to mention him, the people of Chang'an were all looking at him with blazing eyes, extremely hot.
Li Zhao smiled. He knew why everyone had such strange looks. The three waves of explosions just now were too shocking.
They destroyed almost tens of thousands of thieves with just one pull, and the thieves couldn't even see their shadows. This is shocking.
Wu Quan reacted and immediately reported: "Back to you, young master, our Chang'an villagers are not injured at all, but the bandit army's damage should be 10,000."
"According to the spies' report, the bandits retreated two miles away and then stopped. They had no intention of leaving."
"Oh!" Li Zhao was not surprised. Based on his previous calculation, the damage within ten thousand is not an exaggeration. As for the rebel army stopping two miles away, it shows that the rebel army has not given up and vowed to reach Xianyang from here.
"Forget it! Since they are not afraid of death, let's come!" Li Zhao swept away everyone and asked solemnly: "How many landmines have been consumed just now, is there any left?"
"There are thousands, but not many left."
Li Zhao nodded. Thousands of landmines destroyed thousands of thieves, which is a good record. Of course, this also benefited from the help of sulfuric acid. To say that thousands of landmines killed ten thousand people is an exaggeration. But with sulfuric acid, it is not the case. .
Although sulfuric acid cannot explode, it can quickly sputter on the human body with the impact of the explosion, and corrode strongly, causing serious injuries as well as death.
However, half of the sulfuric acid was consumed, which was somewhat costly.
"This thing is so great, Master, please get some more. Wu Quan will blow these bastards to pieces." Having tried the power of the mines, Wu Quan got addicted and handed over his request.
Li Zhao rolled his eyes at him.
Landmines are easy to use, but it also depends on when. The rebel army that has suffered three consecutive losses is not prepared for landmines, then they are not worthy of rebellion.
It is unrealistic to drill here knowing that there is something threatening their lives. In other words, if you are prepared and want to use landmines to give them a fatal blow, it will be difficult to do so.
Besides, the mines sent by Ah Chao were only a few thousand. If you wanted to replenish them, you would have to wait for a while, but I couldn't afford to wait now.
Li Zhao waved his hand and said: "Landmines are too limited. It will be difficult to have any miraculous effect if used on them. It will be in vain. It is better to focus on defense at the moment."
He then asked: "Are the defenses in the west ready?"
Wu Quan felt a little pity, but when he heard the young master ask Xi Bian, he quickly replied: "We are all ready, just waiting for the thieves to come to our door."
"Very good, inform everyone immediately, and machine guns will be on hand. We must let them injure ten thousand more people and make them look beyond recognition."
Chang'an Township faces outwards on three sides, forming a good barrier that merges the three roads leading to Xianyang into one. In other words, if you want to reach Chang'an Township, you have to pass through the south of Chang'an Township.
And if you want to pass through the south, you can come from three sides.
Li Zhaozheng saw the shortcomings of Chang'an Township, so he set up defenses on three sides.
Mines are buried in the north, roads are corroded in the west, and mines fall in the east, hey, everywhere.
Shang Xin followed Li Zhao closely. When he heard such a result, he was so shocked that he could not describe his expression. He was very disappointed when he learned that Li Zhao no longer used landmines. He was very surprised when he heard the machine gun. He even heard that it was beyond recognition. Terrified.
Machine gun? What a new thing, this thing is beyond recognition and a bit scary.
But he didn't ask any more questions. He was no longer in a hurry to go back and report. He wanted to keep everything that happened here in mind and report it to His Majesty when he went back.
"Yes, Master!" Wu Quan responded excitedly. Others were also eager to make a move, and their previous fears were all covered up.
This all depends on the magic of landmines. Since landmines are so powerful, what will happen to the side full of bottles? Does the thing that looks up to the sky also have such a magical effect?
At this moment, they are very eager for this to happen immediately.
"Wu Quan, you lead two hundred people to guard the east side immediately. Two hundred people will follow me to the west side. The rest will stay here. If they do it again, I will beat them hard."
Li Zhao ordered and pointed at the machine guns in everyone's hands.
Everyone patted the things hanging on their bodies and nodded confidently. Although I have never tried this thing, I am sure that it must be something amazing.
With this thing, they have nothing to fear from the bandit army.
"yes!"
(End of chapter)
