When the army set off from the Zhenrong Army, Chao Yong was accompanied by two thousand-man troops. The commanders of the thousand men were Han Shizhong and Liu Qi.

A military general must go into battle to kill the enemy in order to make achievements, and defeating the Xixia Emperor is undoubtedly a good opportunity. Therefore, Han Shizhong immediately used the reason that he was a Tiangang star to protect the prince and conquer the world. Liu Zhongwu also felt that the opportunity was rare and made him the best His son Liu Qi was sent out to guide the way, although there was already an old manager who had been fighting in this land for decades.

Near dusk, the army arrived at Sanchuan Village.

Sanchuan Village is located in the valley of Liupan Mountain, with a dangerous terrain.

Everyone originally thought that the Xixia soldiers and horses in Sanchuan Village should have escaped. Unexpectedly, the scouts came to report that Sanchuan Village was heavily guarded.

Chao Yong led everyone to a small hill outside Sanchuan Village.

The walls of Sanchuan Village are all made of huge stones, and there are still a lot of blood stains on them. It is obvious that the Xixia soldiers and horses paid a high price when they attacked a few days ago.

Sanchuan Village can communicate with the east and west sides of Hengshan, so when Cha Ge attacked the Zhenrong Army, he immediately sent people to capture Sanchuan Village and maintain contact with Li Qianshun's army to the west of Hengshan.

Lu Zhishen shook his head and said: "In the past, it would have been difficult to capture a stronghold like this without killing thousands of people."

Chao Yong smiled and said: "Han Shizhong, take a thousand of your troops to form an array and prepare to attack the stronghold."

"Get the order"

Although Han Shizhong felt that his troops were a little short, he still turned around and ordered troops without hesitation.

Soon, a thousand soldiers and horses were deployed outside the pass.

Han Shizhong's subordinates did not even have siege equipment, but he did not ask anyone to cut down trees nearby, but waited for the deputy army behind him to come up.

The minor chores such as Daliang are all done by the deputy army, while the main army is only responsible for fighting. Even the transportation of grain and grass is done by the deputy army, and no civilians are used.

Han Shizhong originally thought that the lieutenants had prepared siege equipment in advance, but when he saw two lieutenants pushing a strange cart down the wall, he couldn't help but rub his eyes.

That's right, it's a trench-filling vehicle. It's protected by guards on the front, left and right, so it's not afraid of bows and arrows.

A lieutenant also said to Han Shizhong: "General, please retreat further and be careful of flying gravel."

When Han Shizhong heard this, he realized that he was going to use divine thunder.

After Han Shizhong heard that Daliang used divine thunder to defeat the Xixia people, he didn't take a break at noon. Instead, he rushed to the battlefield to see the power of the divine thunder. There were pieces of iron armor that were blown to pieces, and there were holes of different sizes on the ground.

There was still some smell of gunpowder on the battlefield, which was familiar to anyone who had used gunpowder. Han Shizhong immediately guessed that Daliang had created the powerful gunpowder.

Han Shizhong didn't dare to be careless when he saw the huge trench-filling truck. He hurriedly commanded his troops to retreat further.

A group of Western troops watched in confusion as the two lieutenants pushed the trench-filling truck under the wall and then pressed it against the wall.

The people in the car fiddled with it for a while, and the trench-filling car was divided into two parts. The front half stayed under the wall, and the back half was pulled by the two people and flew back.

The Xixia people on the wall also laughed and watched the two men approaching the wall pushing the trench-filling truck. They were no strangers to the trench-filling truck, so they thought the Han people were crazy.

When General Fan saw the trench-filling truck split into two, with the second half running backwards like flying, he was shocked to realize something was wrong.

In the morning, hundreds of defeated troops fled, saying that there was a divine thunder in Daliang that could blow people to pieces. King Cha Ge of Jin was killed on the spot, and more defeated troops fled directly to Xi'an Prefecture, which was closer to Xixia. They were all frightened. He also found out that Chage's army was indeed defeated. However, he did not believe that there was any divine thunder in Daliang, and if he gave up Sanchuan Village, Daliang's soldiers and horses could directly insert themselves behind the main army, so there was no Abandoning the stronghold and running away, Pegasus reported to the lord of the country.

At this time, I saw a big iron box left under the city. I believed it for a while and immediately shouted: "Hurry and smash it open with something."

After shouting, seeing that the soldiers were still thinking about it, they didn't care to say more, picked up a stone, and threw it at the trench-filling truck at the bottom of the city.

"Bang"

There was a crisp sound, and the wooden board inside broke, but the iron sheet covering it prevented the box from cracking. The box did not move, and there were brackets on the corners below to fix the box there.

The two lieutenants pulled the cart and ran out of the shooting range of the closed archers. They immediately dropped the cart, got out and ran back.

As soon as the Xixia people smashed the iron box loose, they felt the ground shake, earth and rocks flying, and then they heard a loud noise.

Standing more than a mile away, Han Shizhong could feel the vibrations on the ground. He looked at the collapsed wall and was stunned for a while before shouting and rushing forward.

When I rushed forward, the ground was covered with gravels of different sizes, and there was no place for the war horse to set foot.

Han Shizhong could only jump off his horse and rush in while stepping on the rocks.

There was no resistance. In the small village, Xixia people were either dead or injured. Many people were shocked to the point of bleeding from their mouths and noses, and everyone stood there dumbly.

Zhong Shidao looked at Han Shizhong's troops easily entering Sanchuan Village, and thinking of the soldiers who had been killed and injured over the years, he shook his head and said: "If this gunpowder had come out earlier, many people would not have died, and Xixia would have been gone long ago."

Chao Yong said shamelessly: "If it hadn't been for the dream given by Empress Jiutian Xuannv, I'm afraid this thing wouldn't have come out."

Zhong Shidao didn't answer the question, and instead smiled and said: "Fortunately, the prince condescended to speak to Old Minister Xiang, and the old minister also understood the situation, otherwise he would have been toasted and fined. With the help of divine thunder and gunpowder, we can dominate the world."

It must be Daliang."

Zhong Shidao is really glad that he made the right choice. Standing here and looking at the power of gunpowder, he feels frightened. If he had stood on the top of the city, he would have been shattered to pieces.

Lu Zhishen also touched his bald head and said: "What my husband said is that no one can stop Daliang's footsteps. The prince's future territory will definitely be wider than Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty or Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty."

Chao Yong also told Lu Zhishen about returning to the secular world. Unexpectedly, Lu Zhishen refused, saying that he was used to being bald. Although he didn't give up drinking and meat, and he didn't behave like a monk in killing people and setting fires, he gave up women's sex and was not ready to return to the secular world.

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Chao Yong smiled and said: "The emperor of the ages is my father, and the famous generals are you. People may call me the king of kings in the future, but I will not become the emperor."

Lu Zhishen said strangely: "The King of Kings?"

Chao Yong smiled and said: "I will have many sons, and then I will give each of them a fief. Only the people in the Central Plains are emperors, and the rest are princes. Do you think I am the king of kings?"

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at Chao Yong strangely.

Lu Zhishen glared and said, "Except for the Central Plains, they are all barbarian lands. Are those places where the prince is willing to put your son?"

Chao Yong smiled and said: "Actually, the world is very big. The Central Plains is just a small area. There are many places that are no worse than the Central Plains, but the people in most places are not yet civilized. I plan to spread Han people all over the world and let people of other ethnic groups learn from it."

The transformation of us Han people.”

There is another sentence that Chao Yong did not say, which is to absorb some culture from other ethnic groups. Nowadays, the surrounding ethnic groups are learning from the culture of the Central Plains. If the Han people are asked to learn the culture of other ethnic groups, I am afraid everyone will sneer at it, so Chao Yong will

Let’s not mention this anymore.
Chapter completed!