The loud noise caused by the explosion was deafening. At the same time as the loud noise, there was smoke and dust rising from the ground, which was also mixed with a large number of residual limbs, flesh and blood and stones of different sizes.
Chang Sheng and Chen Liqiu were directly above the wooden box when it exploded. After the explosion, the powerful air wave spread rapidly, not only knocking over the rebel soldiers on the ground, but Chang Sheng and Chen Liqiu who were high up were not spared either. , was directly hit high into the sky by the cold air waves rising into the sky.
Chen Liqiu succeeded for the second time without any delay. After being blown away by the air wave, he immediately rolled to release his strength, then quickly flapped his wings and flew towards the fire unicorn not far away.
Changsheng was hit in his left leg by a stone mixed with air waves. Although he was far away from the ground when the explosion occurred, he felt extremely painful after being hit by the stone, as if he had been hit by an arrow. Only then did he realize that the square wooden box In addition to a barrel of gunpowder, it was also filled with a large number of stones.
At this time, the smoke and dust caused by the explosion had not completely dissipated. Changsheng lowered his head and looked down, only to see a huge pit appearing at the place of the explosion, which was ten feet square. There were stumps of limbs everywhere within a hundred steps of the pit, and he could measure the corpses. .
Changsheng knew that firearms were very powerful, but he did not expect them to be so powerful. This barrel of gunpowder mixed with stones killed at least a thousand people. He also had more than fifty barrels of similar gunpowder. With the help of these gunpowders , it is not difficult to turn defeat into victory.
After a brief moment of astonishment, Changsheng came to his senses and activated his spiritual energy to fly back from the fire. At this time, Chen Liqiu had already grabbed a wooden box again. Because the wooden box was too heavy, Chen Liqiu's flying speed was very slow. Someone is flying with you for protection.
Seeing Chen Liqiu flying down from high altitude with the wooden box in his arms again, the rebels were so frightened that they shouted loudly, "Stop him quickly", but there were only shouts and no one to stop him. Under the protection, Chen Liqiu once again flew to the area where the rebels were gathered and dropped the wooden box.
Changsheng had experience this time, and he quickly retreated the moment Chen Liqiu let go of the wooden box.
Since the gunpowder was detonated by a fuse, it was not easy for Chen Liqiu to accurately determine the time of the explosion. He took action late this time, and the dropped wooden box exploded in the air before it even hit the ground.
There was another loud noise, and then there was the cold air wave that spread in all directions. Although Changsheng retreated early, he still did not escape the impact of the air wave. It would be okay if it was just a simple air wave reaching the top. The key is that there is still something in the air wave. Mixed with hard objects, this box was not filled with stones, but arrowheads. It was impartial, and it was the left leg. Fortunately, the arrowhead flew sideways. I don't know whether it broke the skin or not, at least it didn't enter the flesh.
Changsheng didn't know how the gunpowder in the wooden box was loaded. There were no hard objects flying directly above the explosion. Chen Liqiu was not hurt at all. He stabilized his body and flew towards the fire unicorn again.
Due to the long-term fierce battle, Changsheng only had 30% of the spiritual energy left in his body at this time. However, in order to protect Chen Liqiu from interference, he could only continue to volley through the fire and protect him.
The previous three explosions injured more than a thousand enemies each time, but Chen Liqiu's last throw only blew up a few hundred people. It was not because of insufficient gunpowder power, nor because Chen Liqiu made a mistake in throwing, but because of the previous explosions against the rebels. Already frightened out of fear, when he flew down with the wooden box in his arms, the rebels had fled in fear and no longer gathered in rows.
In the last explosion, what flew away with the air waves were not stones or arrows, but iron pieces of different sizes. The reason why the wooden box was filled with iron pieces was because the incident happened suddenly and it was difficult to find it in a short time. There were not enough stones, and these iron pieces were probably smashed by the military pots used for cooking.
After unloading the four wooden boxes, Batulu and Li Zhongyong rode the fire unicorn to the western camp. Chen Liqiu did not leave in a hurry, but flapped his wings and hovered, looking down at the battlefield.
Changsheng was also doing the same thing as Chen Liqiu at this time. After a brief look down and observe, the two of them had the same expression on their faces. The four wooden boxes thrown earlier completely destroyed the enemy's fighting spirit. Now the rebels have taken a position. There was great chaos and they began to retreat in defeat.
There are also discerning people among the rebels. Based on the contents of the four wooden boxes, they guessed that they had not made many similar wooden boxes in a hurry, so they shouted loudly, trying to inform the soldiers to stabilize the morale of the army. .
The effect of one person's shouting was not obvious, but as the purple energy masters on the rebel side raised their voices and raised their voices, the rebels gradually stabilized their position.
In order to save his spiritual energy, Changsheng temporarily withdrew his pure yang spiritual energy, extinguished the fire outside his body, and flew towards Chen Liqiu. Chen Liqiu understood this, flapped his wings to greet him, and grabbed his shoulders to help him hover in the air.
"Third Senior Brother, do you still have any gunpowder?" Changsheng took the opportunity to take off the water bag on his waist and drink water to quench his thirst.
"There is still a lot of gunpowder, but the camp is located in a plain, and hard objects such as rocks and rocks are difficult to find. If there is no hard object to load, the gunpowder will not be very powerful after it explodes." Chen Liqiu shook his head and said.
Chen Liqiu's words also confirmed Chang Sheng's guess, and he immediately asked, "Then what are the senior and second senior brothers going back to do?"
Chen Liqiu replied, "There are still a few of those big wooden boxes. If it doesn't work, just put two barrels of gunpowder into one box. Although it is not very powerful, it makes a lot of noise. I hope it can scare them away."
While the two were talking, arrows were shot from below from time to time, but since the two were at a high place, the arrows could not shoot so high, and fell back after exhausting themselves mid-flight.
After drinking the water, Changsheng tied the empty water bag around his waist again. While breathing to regain consciousness, he looked down and observed, trying to find the location of the enemy coach.
However, after searching for a long time, no one was found. In the end, Chang Sheng had no choice but to give up. There were nearly 200,000 rebels, and there should still be 112,000 by now. So many soldiers were not led by a single commander. Each of them had no choice but to give up. Each military formation has a commander, and simply killing the commander cannot completely destroy the rebels.
At this time, Datou and others were still leading the soldiers to protect the food team and push westward. The huge battlefield was almost divided into two by the soldiers, leaving only an area about one mile to the west where the enemies could still connect end to end.
At the beginning of the war, there were fully 30,000 soldiers, but by now, less than 30% were left. The reason why the soldiers suffered such heavy losses was because when the soldiers moved westward, they were attacked from both sides and needed to fight on three sides.
Not long after, Huo Qilin came back carrying Batulu and Li Zhongyong with four more wooden boxes on his back.
Before the Fire Qilin flew over the battlefield, our own soldiers began to cheer in unison, and the rebel soldiers seemed to have seen a ghost when they saw the Fire Qilin. Although fighting on the battlefield is dangerous, it is possible to hide behind your own soldiers with your whole body, but the kind that can explode The loud wooden box exploded into a large piece, and it was useless to hide anywhere.
Seeing the Fire Qilin flying back with a big killer weapon, the enemy's general and the Purple Qi master began to shout loudly again, "Don't be afraid, catch them and fight them, make them throw away the rat weapon." "The whole army assaults, close combat."
Before the fire unicorn could fly closer, Chen Liqiu let go of Changsheng, flapped his wings and flew towards the fire unicorn. Changsheng activated the pure Yang spiritual energy, volleyed in the fire, and looked up.
Looking carefully, it is not difficult to find that Chen Liqiu was very relaxed when carrying the wooden box, and the flying speed was much faster than before. It can be seen that this wooden box has less filling material and is much lighter than last time.
Seeing Chen Liqiu flying over with the wooden box in hand, the rebel soldiers almost wet their pants in fright. No matter how the leading captain shouted to stop him, they ignored him completely, abandoned their helmets and armor, and fled in all directions.
At this moment, dark clouds reappeared over the battlefield. The sun had already risen. The sudden appearance of dark clouds was undoubtedly caused by someone's actions.
"Zhang Mo, there is someone a hundred steps away on the right doing something to draw thunder." Zhang Shan's shout came from below.
Changsheng heard the sound and found Zhang Shan's location, but he couldn't see where Zhang Mo was. However, soon after Zhang Shan spoke, the dark clouds in the sky faded away. Needless to say, it was Zhang Mo who took action and successfully stopped the opponent. Attract thunder from the sky to attack the fire unicorn.
This time the gunpowder fuse seemed to be much longer than before. Chen Liqiu was not in a hurry to throw it, but grabbed the wooden box and flew everywhere. Wherever he went, the rebels seemed to see poisonous insects, snakes and scorpions, scurrying around like rats and birds and beasts.
The enemy generals and purple energy masters carefully noticed that Chen Liqiu had not dropped the wooden box for a long time. They thought he was bluffing and intended to intimidate, so they shouted at the top of their lungs that their gunpowder had been used up and no more explosions could hurt anyone.
Unexpectedly, not long after he shouted, Chen Liqiu chose a place where rebels gathered and threw the wooden box. The wooden box exploded when it hit the ground, and the ground shook like thunder.
By this time, the rebels had no time to judge the power of the explosion. Seeing that this explosion was more violent than the previous ones, the last trace of luck was gone. The extreme fear caused the rebels to be completely defeated and no longer had any fighting spirit. .
As the saying goes, one ebbs and the other increases. Seeing the enemy's defeat, our own soldiers are full of energy and high morale. They shout loudly and counterattack to pursue them.
Chen Liqiu threw down the wooden box and flew towards the Fire Qilin again. Seeing that Chen Liqiu no longer needed his protection, Changsheng turned around and swooped back to Datou and the others. Together with the four of them, he led the soldiers to advance westward quickly. Strive to completely break the enemy's army at the waist and split it into two.
By this time, everyone on our side knew that there was no more suspense in this battle. The next step was to hunt down the rebels and expand the results.
However, this area is too empty. It is easy to pursue the victory, but it is very difficult to retain all the rebels.
Since the enemy had been defeated, there was little resistance to move westward. Seeing this, Changsheng left the battle group. Based on his appearance, he found and caught up with an enemy mountain master who was escaping. He attacked him at close range and killed him after a few moves. He was knocked unconscious, then dragged back by his collar.
Yang Kai naturally knew that Chang Sheng wanted to replenish the spiritual energy of the four of them, but after grabbing the opponent's Cun Guan ruler, he frowned and turned to Chang Sheng and shook his head, indicating that this person's spiritual energy had also been exhausted.
Seeing this, Changsheng could only look for the target again, but he also knew that after fighting for so long, both the enemy and ourselves were at the end of their crossbows, and no one had any extra spiritual energy.
At this time, the rebel army had been completely defeated, and all the soldiers were running south, because they all came from the south, and the north was the area controlled by the imperial court.
Why officers and soldiers often fail to catch up with thieves is mainly because the two sides have different moods. If the officers and soldiers catch the thief, they will get a reward at most, but if the thief is caught by the officers and soldiers, his life will be lost. Their lives are at stake, so they will naturally run as hard as they can.
This is the situation at this time. The rebels are running in front and our army is chasing behind. However, the distance between the two sides is getting farther and farther. If this continues, more than half of the remaining 100,000 soldiers of the rebels will probably escape. .
Although there are many shortcomings in his heart, Changsheng also accepts this result. The essence of demanding perfection is too greedy. It is not easy for our side to fight to this level in this battle. It is really unpopular to want to keep all the rebels. Greed is unbridled.
At this moment, an unexpected situation occurred again. The rebels who had been fleeing south turned around and ran north.
Changsheng didn't know why, so he looked south in confusion. When he saw the fire unicorn appearing in the southern sky, he suddenly realized that compared to the pursuers, the rebels were more afraid of the three large wooden boxes on the back of the fire unicorn...
