Chapter 290： use explosives

Chapter 290 Using Explosives

General Qin turned around, saw Dugu Huanxu approaching, and said seriously: "Your Highness, what should we do next."

Dugu Huanxu didn't speak for the time being, but just took a look at the situation across the way through the binoculars.

After seeing the situation on the other side, he asked Feng Yuan to pass another telescope to General Qin with a serious face, and then asked Feng Yuan to teach him how to use it.

When General Qin saw what the person on the other side was doing, he was startled and looked at the telescope in surprise, "What is this? You can see the situation on the other side so clearly?"

Dugu Huanxu said: "This is called a telescope. Someone sold it to me. The one you have is given to you. It will be more convenient to fight in the future."

"Thank you, Your Highness." General Qin said excitedly, "I will definitely keep this telescope well, but Your Highness, the wolf on the other side was ambitious and attacked us last night. Should we fight back?"

Dugu Huanxu sneered and said: "Ming Wang's people actually dared to attack us, and they are planning to use arrow rain to attack us, so we don't have to bear it anymore, now is the time when people gather on the opposite side, as long as one explosive goes past, they will There were at least dozens of casualties."

"This..." General Qin said: "Didn't the lord say before that we should use explosives as our secret weapon? If we use it now, will it expose our cards too early? Or, let's use the rain of arrows too?"

Dugu Huanxu said: "There is no other way. There are 80,000 troops on the opposite side, and we only have 60,000 here. Seeing how willing they were to use arrows just now, they are not short of weapons. In order to reduce casualties, deter them , only by surprise."

"And now our fief is surrounded by others. If we can't make them afraid of us, once they attack at the same time, our chances of winning will be much lower."

"Besides, they are about to shoot us with bows and arrows, we have to strike first."

General Qin nodded: "Okay, just listen to Your Highness."

Vice General Zhao immediately went down to prepare.

After a stick of incense, Dugu Huanxu saw that the military flag was waving below to show that he was ready, so he also picked up the flag and began to give orders.

After a while, ten explosives were ignited at the same time, and were thrown at the opposing army at the same time, targeting their archers.

The people on the opposite side saw several smoking objects flying towards them at the same time. Before they could guess what the object was, they saw that it fell to the ground and exploded.

After a while, there were broken arms and limbs everywhere, and blood flowed all over the ground.

Some people who escaped by chance, before they realized what happened, another explosive exploded in front of them, blowing them up in an instant.

Even across a river, Vice General Zhao could still hear the screams from the other side.

Explosives are still being thrown towards the opposite bank.

General Qin saw Vice General Zhao's unbearable expression, frowned and said, "What? Do you sympathize with them?"

Deputy General Zhao said: "A little bit."

It was the first time he saw the enemy in such a miserable state.

Before General Qin could speak, Dugu Huanxu said: "Vice General Zhao, you must always remember that being kind to the enemy is tantamount to being cruel to yourself."

"As you saw just now, if we don't launch an attack first, their arrow rain will come, and we don't know how many people will be killed or injured here."

"As long as those people come over, they will be the executioners who want to kill us. Your parents and relatives will most likely die at their hands."

"It's good to have empathy, but you can only sympathize with your own brother, you know?"

Vice General Zhao was taken aback, obviously knowing that what Dugu Huanxu said was reasonable, he said sternly: "Your Highness taught me the lesson, the general will remember it."

Dugu Huanxu didn't say anything after hearing this, but just picked up the binoculars and continued to observe the situation on the opposite side.

Although there were heavy casualties on the opposite side, the 80,000 army could not be wiped out with a few explosives. Seeing that the situation was wrong, the people on the opposite side hurriedly started to retreat.

Seeing that all the archers were routed and retreated to a place where the explosives could not reach, he hurriedly waved the military flag.

Soon, he stopped attacking with explosives.

General Qin said with a smile: "That's right, that's right. They've been defeated today. I guess they won't dare to provoke again in the past few days."

Dugu Huanxu said: "Don't underestimate the enemy. In the past few days, you have to use binoculars to carefully observe the situation on the opposite side. If the situation is not right, you use explosives. Try not to hurt our army. But explosives are precious, and we must also guard against their reaction. Consuming our explosives, for example, if only a dozen or so people gather, there is no need to use explosives, just use arrows."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Fief of King Ming

Ming Wang was discussing matters in the tent, when he heard several explosions outside, he ran out quickly, "What was that sound just now?"

A soldier recounted the incident of throwing explosives from the opposite bank just now.

Ming Wang was shocked and said: "What is so powerful? It can actually tear people apart?"

The soldier said: "The general doesn't know what that thing is. The general is far away. He just saw those things fall on the ground and then exploded. The soldiers present were instantly blown away. It was only a moment. The ground was covered with the blood and limbs of the soldiers, and there was no other way, so the generals ordered the troops to retreat."

King Ming didn't ask any more questions, and walked towards the military doctor's tent, and saw countless people being carried to the military doctor's tent.

King Ming saw that those people were covered in blood, and some of them had their limbs cut off. He said angrily, "What kind of weapon is that on the other side? How could it be so powerful?"

A general said: "Your Majesty, we don't know what's going on. The last general just ordered the archers to prepare to attack. I didn't expect that the other side seemed to know our thoughts in advance. They actually acted first and threw them with a trebuchet." Lots of smoking stuff."

Ming Wang proclaimed himself emperor some time ago, and asked his subordinates to call him His Majesty.

"What's that thing?"

"I don't know, but that thing is so powerful that if it falls to the ground, everyone within a radius of ten meters will be injured or killed."

King Ming kicked over the weapon rack next to him, and roared angrily: "Damn it, when did King Li get such a useful thing, I don't know at all!"

If he knew, he would never send troops to besiege King Li's fief, nor would he lose so many soldiers before the war started.

General said: "Yes, I guess the other princes don't know. Your Majesty, should we inform the other princes to be careful, so as not to suffer heavy casualties like us."

Ming Wang said: "How many people were killed or injured?"

"This is still being counted, and I will remind you later."

The general came back soon, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, a total of 2,200 people were killed or injured, 800 of whom died, and the rest were seriously injured. More than half of them had broken hands and feet, and most of them were unconscious. There are a lot of people, even if they recover, they will not be able to go to the battlefield again.”

(end of this chapter)