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Chapter 348 Lu Chen is pushed by the times
Just when Zhan Hong was internally laughing at the ignorant and naive defenders of Yunzhong City, he soon discovered that he was the one who was truly naive.

He was about to give orders to the messengers at this time. Suddenly, an iron ball flew from the sky. Zhan Hong didn't take it seriously. He drew out his sword and slashed, and a sword energy flew directly to the iron ball in the air.

However, just when the sword energy was about to touch the iron ball, the iron ball exploded instantly.

Zhan Hong and Xu Xingwen instantly realized that something was wrong.

Xu Xingwen shouted "No!"

At this moment, their two great masters used body-protecting Qi at the same time.

After the iron ball exploded, countless iron pieces flew out. Except for Xu Xingwen and Zhan Hong, almost all the surrounding soldiers were injured or killed.

Seeing this bloody scene, Zhan Hong was stunned.

what weapon is this?
Why is it so powerful?

There were several ninth-level warriors around him. As a result, these ninth-level warriors were killed directly. If they had not used the body-protecting Qi just now, their bodies would have been seriously injured.

Even though Zhan Hong was a great master, he was still frightened when he saw the explosion scene just now.

When he came to his senses, his face was dark and his brows were frowning.

What kind of weapon was that iron ball just now?Why is it so powerful!
They had never seen such a weapon before.

At this time, Xu Xingwen said to Zhan Hong: "General Zhan, something is wrong!"

As soon as Xuxingwen finished speaking, several more cannonballs fell from the sky. Zhan Hong hurriedly swung his sword and tried to kill those cannonballs. As a result, the cannonballs exploded as soon as the sword energy came into contact with them.

Although the shells were relatively far away from the camp this time, the fragments inside after the shells exploded still killed and injured many soldiers on the ground.

Seeing this scene, Zhan Hong and Xu Xingwen's faces became even more ugly. They did not expect that this kind of iron ball could still have such terrifying power after it was destroyed.

no!We can no longer sit still and wait for death. If the North has a large number of such iron balls, then their 30-strong army may be blown up before they can counterattack.

Immediately, Zhan Hong and Xu Xingwen braved artillery fire, gathering soldiers and preparing to retreat.

Beiguo has come up with such a terrifying weapon, and it is absolutely impossible to confront Beiguo head-on at this time.

Under the bombardment of artillery, Dawu's soldiers were quickly assembled. They were divided into several groups and evacuated to the rear. The artillery was a heavy artillery after all, with a certain range. Dawu's soldiers evacuated very quickly, and Song Xuelin and the others had not yet attacked. , Dawu's soldiers abandoned their camp and ran away for an unknown distance.

Dongmen Feiyue immediately led his soldiers to attack, but Zhan Hong left tens of thousands of soldiers behind to set up a counter-ambush. Fortunately, Dongmen Feiyue and the others brought some light artillery, and soon the tens of thousands of soldiers left by Zhan Hong were defeated again. , but these tens of thousands of people bought Dawu's army a lot of time to retreat.

In the night, looking at the scattered torches not far away, Song Xuelin came to Dongmen Feiyue, "He is worthy of being the main force of Dawu. His reaction speed is not simple. I didn't expect that their soldiers could react so late."

Dongmen Feiyue frowned, and then asked: "Are you still chasing me?"

Song Xuelin said: "There is no need to chase them. The heavy artillery can't keep up. Dawu's 30 troops are also elites. Even if we catch up, we will suffer heavy losses. The prince only asked us to stop them and did not let us take the initiative to attack."

Although they also want to destroy Dawu's main force and gain military glory, their mission is not to actively counterattack, and their 20-strong army just came from the Far North. If the losses in this war are too great, they will Leave a bad impression on King Bei.

After hearing Song Xuelin's words, Dongmen Feiyue did not let the soldiers continue to pursue. He immediately led the soldiers to retreat to clear out the lost Dawu soldiers.

In the early morning, when the sky was gray and bright, the soldiers of the Northern Kingdom were still cleaning up the loot in the barracks of Dawu's army last night.

The so-called trophies are Dawu's grain, grass and weapons. If we go back a year or two, these things will still be of some use to the North Kingdom. But now that the North Country already has weapons such as firearms, Dawu's weapons are basically of some use to the North Country. It doesn't have much effect.

At this time, a soldier came to Dongmen Feiyue and Song Xuelin, "General Song, General Dongmen, last night we killed about [-] enemies and captured more than [-] enemies!"

Hearing this, Dongmen Feiyue's face looked a little ugly. He frowned and said: "I didn't expect that with the help of firearms, Dawu could actually be able to escape nearly 20 people. I'm afraid it's hard for the king to explain."

After all, this was their first battle after coming to the Northern Kingdom. As a result, the enemy escaped in the first battle. This made Dongmen Feiyue feel a little uneasy, fearing that their king would think they were useless.

At this moment, a soldier in the distance with a small flag on his back rode towards them on horseback. When he came to them, the soldier got off the horse and handed the letter bucket in his hand to Song Xuelin.

"The king's military order!"

Hearing this, Song Xuelin quickly took the letter bucket from Hong Ling's messenger, opened it, took out the military order and glanced at it.

At this time, Dongmen Feiyue next to him couldn't wait to ask: "What is the order from the king? Are we counterattacking?"

The failure to destroy Dawu's 30 troops last night made Dongmen Feiyue feel a little uncomfortable. He thought that if their king asked them to counterattack, then they would seize this opportunity and directly pursue those Dawu soldiers.

After Song Xuelin glanced at the military order in his hand, he handed it to Dongmen Feiyue, and then he said: "The king has no plans to take action against Dayue yet. He asked us not to enter Dayue's territory. If Dawu's soldiers If they escape into Dayue, let them escape."

After Dongmen Feiyue took the military order from Song Xuelin's hand, he glanced at it and suddenly felt extremely depressed.

Seeing Dongmen Feiyue's brows furrowed and looking very unhappy, Song Xuelin said: "General Dongmen, don't worry. Your Majesty must have his intention in making this arrangement. There will be times when we can make meritorious deeds in the future."

Dongmen Feiyue sighed and said nothing.

Just as Song Xuelin said, Lu Chen did have some ideas in preventing them from chasing Dawu's remnant soldiers and preventing them from entering Dayue.

a few days later.

Yancheng.

Lu Chen was in the study room, discussing the war with Zhuge Chongguang. Lu Chen already knew what happened in Yunzhong City. Dongmen Feiyue and the others failed to destroy Dawu's 30 army. This seemed normal to Lu Chen. , after all, the 30-strong army was the elite of Dawu's elite, and it was not easy to capture it.Zhuge Chongguang looked at the map hanging on the wall of the study and said: "Your Majesty, now Dawu's 20 troops have withdrawn to Dayue. They will most likely not launch another attack, but will withdraw to Dawu. However, if they withdraw to Dawu , will inevitably pass through Youping County, and a war will probably break out with our soldiers. Although we have firearms, this army is led by two great masters, so it is better to send the great masters to Youping County immediately."

Firearms can indeed suppress the Grand Master and continuously consume the Grand Master's power, but it is not that easy to kill the Grand Master.

Zhuge Chongguang was worried that if the 20 troops were allowed to withdraw to Youping County, if the two great masters Zhan Hong and Xuxingwen directly attacked Mu Changtian and Wen Renlie, Mu Changtian and the others would definitely not be their two great masters. If Mu Changtian and Wen Renlie were killed, the Northern Army would probably be leaderless.

In this case, the Northern Army might be defeated even if it had firearms.

If Zhan Hong and the others confiscated Beiguo's firearms and used these firearms to attack Beiguo in the future, this would not be a good thing for Beiguo.

The reason why they were able to achieve a crushing victory in the face of Dawu's army was mainly because Dawu's people did not understand firearms. When the cannon was fired, those Dawu soldiers were frightened.

If Dawu's soldiers obtain firearms from the North, they will surely have a certain understanding of the firearms after dismantling them and studying them. I'm afraid it won't be that easy to use firearms to produce the same unexpected effects in future wars.

Therefore, at this stage, people in Dawu must not be allowed to obtain firearms.

After hearing Zhuge Chongguang's words, Lu Chen smiled faintly, and then said: "After receiving the battle report from Yunzhong City, I immediately sent people to Youping County. As long as Dawu's soldiers withdraw to Youping County, they will definitely be defeated. Grand Maester need not worry.”

Seeing how confident Lu Chen was, Zhuge Chongguang instantly thought of someone.

The easiest way to deal with the Grand Master is to send heavenly beings. It seems that Xuanyuan Chaoge has already left Yancheng.

Since Lu Chen had arranged for people to go to Youping County in advance, Zhuge Chongguang didn't say anything more.

At this time, Lu Chen stood in front of the map, his eyes scanning over the map repeatedly. After a while, Lu Chen asked Zhuge Chongguang a very important question.

"Does the Grand Master think the North Country can continue to be peaceful in the future?"

Hearing this question, Zhuge Chongguang seemed to understand what Lu Chen wanted to ask, and then he replied: "No, the moment firearms come out, it will be impossible to maintain long-term peace in the Northern Kingdom, unless the prince can destroy all dynasties and unify The whole continent.”

The power of firearms is too great. Once the firearms come out, Lu Chen has offended all the warriors in the world and threatened all dynasties.

Although this war between the Northern Kingdom and Dawu can deter the major dynasties in a short period of time, in the long term, the major dynasties will inevitably form an alliance and unite to fight against the Northern Kingdom.

And the major dynasties will also try to find ways to make firearms. When all the major dynasties have firearms, the situation in the Northern Kingdom will be even more difficult.

Lu Chen actually understood this truth.

He has been thinking recently that he actually doesn't like to keep fighting at all. He was not a war maniac before, nor is he now, nor will he be in the future.

But even if he is unwilling to start a war, he has no way to stop. The firearm has been exposed. Many people will want his life in the future, and his appearance poses a huge threat to the major dynasties in the world. , even if he does nothing, those dynasties will try their best to eliminate this threat.

So he is being pushed forward by this era. If he wants to live a stable life, he must destroy other dynasties so that long-term peace can be maintained.

At this time, Lu Chen looked at the map on the wall and was stunned for a while. After a while, Lu Chen asked again: "If we want to complete the unification, which dynasty should we start from?"

There are only so many people in the Northern Kingdom. If you want to destroy all the major dynasties, you cannot destroy them all at once. There must be a starting point. In other words, who should be attacked first?

Zhuge Chongguang replied: "I think we should start from Daxia."

Before Lu Chen could ask why, Zhuge Chongguang explained: "The prince is your majesty's child, and he is qualified to inherit the throne of Daxia. If the prince can inherit the throne, he can continue to improve his strength based on Daxia. Then wait until the time is right before destroying the major dynasties."

"The prince is a prince. Even if the prince controls the entire Daxia, he will not cause much resistance from the people of Daxia."

"If Daxia is not destroyed and other dynasties are destroyed first, the prince will face great pressure to rule. The people of other dynasties may not obey the rule. The population of the Northern Kingdom is still too small. Once other dynasties are in chaos, the Northern Kingdom's It is difficult for the population to suppress unrest in the lands of other dynasties.”

Lu Chen instantly understood what Zhuge Chongguang meant. Zhuge Chongguang wanted to use Daxia as the basis to first win the public opinion of the people of Daxia, and then use Daxia's resources to increase his strength. When he was strong enough to destroy other dynasties, he would use The people of Bactria managed the lands of the major dynasties.

With the current population of the Northern Kingdom, even if the major dynasties were defeated, there would be no way to manage the major dynasties, and it would only be a mess.

This is actually the order of first easy and then difficult. Daxia is the easiest to control, so start with Daxia first.

Lu Chen was silent for a moment and continued to ask: "In the opinion of the Grand Master, when is the best time to go south?"

What Lu Chen called going south was actually usurping power and seizing the throne.

Zhuge Chongguang said: "In my opinion, the time is ripe."

"Now that the civil war in Daxia has continued, the people hope to see someone appear and stop the civil war in Daxia as soon as possible."

"In addition, there have been rumors among the people that His Majesty is about to die. The ministers in the court and the princes also believe that His Majesty is not going to die soon. Although the prince knows what His Majesty is planning, we can completely assume that His Majesty is really dying."

Lu Chen thought for a moment, Zhuge Chongguang's intention was to make a fuss about Emperor Xia's recent death, and then provide them with an excuse to go south.

As for whether Emperor Xia really has a physical problem, it doesn't matter. Even if there is no problem with Emperor Xia's health, when the army goes south, Emperor Xia will have a physical problem. Not only will he have problems, he may even die directly.

Seeing Lu Chen's frown, Zhuge Chongguang also realized that he had said something wrong and said quickly: "My lord, please forgive me, it was my fault."

After all, Lu Chen was the son of Emperor Xia, and Zhuge Chongguang was just a minister. It did sound a bit treasonous for one of his ministers to say in front of Lu Chen, "Emperor Xia is about to die soon."

Lu Chen came to his senses at this time and said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter, I don't care about this."

"I thought about it for a while and felt that what the great scholar said was very reasonable. After the war between Dawu and the Northern Kingdom is over, I will prepare to go south."

(End of this chapter)