"Boom!" An extremely violent explosion came from a distance, and the ground was shaking.
Yang Yuhuan suddenly woke up from her deep sleep. She was so frightened that she hugged Li Ye tightly, "Husband, what was the sound just now?"
"What time is it now?" Li Ye asked.
Yang Yuhuan quickly asked: "Alan, what time is it now?"
The maid outside said: "Madam, it has just arrived at the fifth watch!"
Li Ye held her in his arms and said, "Go to sleep! The Gunpowder Bureau is conducting experiments."
Yang Yuhuan asked curiously: "Why is the experiment so big?"
"A very powerful firearm."
Li Ye was extremely sleepy and fell asleep again, but Yang Yuhuan couldn't sleep. Qingyu's pregnancy had a great impact on her. She was also wondering if she should also restrain her desires for a few days and follow Qingyu's implementation of a sowing plan?
The next morning, a cavalry of 300 people closely guarded five carriages and slowly stopped at the gate of Jiedu Mansion. The carriages were tightly covered, and no one knew what they were transporting.
Hu Jiuling, a military officer of Cao Cao, jumped off the carriage path: "Wait a moment, I'll ask His Highness to come out and take a look!"
In the meeting hall, Li Ye was slowly telling the senior officials his plan.
"Nominally I told the court that we would send 50,000 troops, but in fact, I sent 100,000 troops, of which 50,000 were sent to Yunzhong to intercept the Turkic troops coming from the grasslands, and the other 50,000 were sent to Tongguan to attack Luoyang step by step.
The army sent out in Yunzhong will fight back and join me in Luoyang, and the final army to attack Luoyang will be a hundred thousand troops."
"Your Highness only sent 50,000 troops, wouldn't the Emperor find it too few?" Liu Yan asked.
Li Ye said calmly: "The emperor hopes that Shi Siming and I will both suffer losses, and then let him eat both sides, annexing Helong to the west and regaining Luoyang to the east. This is what he wants in his mind, so he will agree to my offer of just five.
Tens of thousands of troops went to fight with Shi Siming, while his troops were just fishermen in the back! They were just waiting for the cranes and clams to fight, and he came to gain."
"If the emperor finds out that we actually have an army of 100,000, will he change his mind and order the imperial army to join the battle to prevent us from monopolizing the spoils?"
"Definitely, but I won't give him a chance."
Everyone looked at Li Ye in confusion. At this time, a soldier whispered a few words in their ears.
Li Ye smiled and said: "Speak of Cao Cao. Cao Cao is here. Come with me and have a look!"
Everyone followed Li Ye out of the gate of Jiedu Mansion. Hu Jiuling stepped forward and saluted: "Your Highness, we made a total of six. We tested one in the middle of the night last night. The power was beyond our expectation."
Li Ye smiled and said, "Let's see the real thing!"
Hu Jiuling opened the car door, and everyone saw a large wooden box, bigger than any box they had ever seen, and the whole body was painted black.
"Your Highness, what is this?" everyone asked in confusion.
Li Ye smiled and said: "This is what woke you up at midnight last night. It is a gunpowder box made of double-layered thick wood. It contains 380 kilograms of gunpowder. The explosion is huge."
Li Bi smiled slightly and said, "No wonder I haven't seen any other firearms coming out. It turns out they were all making this thing."
Li Ye patted the box and said: "Instead of a basket of rotten apricots, it is better to have one good peach and concentrate the gunpowder to do big things. This is not easy to do. It took more than half a year of repeated trials to succeed."
"Is this the reason why His Highness doesn't give the Emperor a chance?"
Li Ye nodded slowly, "I believe that my expedition this time will solve all the crises in Longyou!"
Three days later, the first to go out was the 50,000-strong Anxi Army led by Bai Xiude and Duan Xiushi, consisting of 30,000 cavalry, 15,000 infantry, 3,000 heavy-armored Modao Army and 2,000 gunpowder firearms corps. The supply team consisted of 30,000 camels.
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They will go north to Shuofang, and then go east from Shuofang to Yunzhong, which is Datong.
Using Yunzhong County as a base to inquire about the Uighur army, they will inevitably enter Hebei from Junduxing in the Eighth Routes of Taihang. Their mission is to annihilate the Uighur army outside Junduxing.
On the second day of February, the dragon raised its head. On this day, Li Ye personally led an army of 50,000 and set off. He bid farewell to his wife and children and set foot on the road to Guanzhong again.
In Chang'an, in the western suburbs of Xianyang County, Yu Chaoen, the commander of the Shence Army, personally led 10,000 troops to surround a small manor called Bailian Villa, which was the property of the Dugu family.
According to the information provided to them by Queen Zhang, five hundred hidden-wing warriors of the Dugu family, as well as a large number of weapons, armor and money were hidden in this manor, which only covered an area of ten hectares.
Ten hectares of land is one thousand acres, which is actually not too small, but it is more than enough for Yu Chaoen to dispatch 10,000 elite Shence troops.
Of course, Empress Zhang's information was provided by Dugu Qiming. She took advantage of the fact that her third uncle was not at home twice, used her identity as niece to chat with her aunt, sneaked into Dugu Qiming's study, and found the map of White Lotus Villa from the secret box hidden on the bookshelf.
It is clearly written on the map that White Lotus Villa is also called Hidden Wing Villa. There are 500 Hidden Wing warriors stationed there, and there are 20,000 weapons, 100,000 taels of gold, 500,000 taels of silver, and countless treasures.
If Li Fuguo has found a treasure, he only needs to capture the 500 hidden-wing warriors of the Dugu family and dig out 20,000 weapons, and the rebellion of the Dugu family will be confirmed.
Not only can they embezzle the gold and silver in the villa, but they can also confiscate the Dugu family's house on the grounds of rebellion. I wonder how much wealth they can extract from the house of the richest man in the world?
Li Fuguo and other eunuch groups were full of expectations for this. Of course, they did not tell the emperor and would tell the emperor after the evidence was conclusive.
Yu Chaoen ordered five thousand people to surround the manor, and he personally led five thousand people to rush in from the gate.
The manor was mostly covered with wheat fields. Yu Chaoen's men were running through the snow, targeting a dozen houses in the northwest corner, including warehouses, butlers' quarters, guest rooms, etc.
Yu Chaoen already felt that something was wrong. There were hundreds of houses drawn on the map, but in fact there were only a dozen. How could they possibly accommodate 500 people? Could it be that he had found the wrong place?
The soldiers kicked open the door and escorted all the people inside. There were only five people in total, the steward and four waiters.
The steward was escorted up, but he said harshly, "This is the manor of the Dugu family, what do you want to do?"
Yu Chaoen asked: "Let me ask you, is this the White Lotus Manor?"
"That's right!"
Yu Chaoen opened the map again. There was a location map on it. He pointed at the location map and asked, "Is this here?"
"This is here. The location is correct, but your map is wrong. How can we have so many houses here? There are a total of twelve supply buildings and eight warehouses. They are all empty and the food has been transported away."
Yu Chaoen had already realized that he had been deceived. He gritted his teeth and ordered: "Search thoroughly for me, dig deep and search!"
It was no use digging ten feet into the ground, not even a single hair was found, not to mention 20,000 weapons and so many gold and silver treasures.
Yu Chaoen finally realized that he had been fooled, and Queen Zhang had been fooled by the Dugu family.
Chapter 860: White Lotus Villa "This stupid woman!"
Yu Chaoen cursed fiercely and waved his hand, "Retreat!"
Five thousand soldiers were covered in mud and retreated in disgrace.
The steward sneered and said, "Uncle Fish, don't you want to drink some hot tea before leaving?"
If it were the steward of an ordinary family, Yu Chaoen would have ordered him to be chopped off with a knife. But for the steward of the Dugu family, he did not dare to make a big deal out of the matter without having evidence.
He turned around and glared at the steward, then led the soldiers away.
"Bang!" Dugu Lie slapped his hand on the table and said through gritted teeth: "Look at the good daughter he gave birth to, how dare he betray the family?"
Duguming said with lingering fear: "Fortunately, Aye sent an eagle letter to remind me. I still didn't believe it, but I asked the princess again and found out that she was acting abnormally in my house. Someone saw her entering my study, so I
I made a fake map and it was stolen by her soon after."
Dugu Lie nodded, "It is right to listen to A Ye's advice. He will not doubt Qiming without any reason. It must be something Taiwei said in Longyou that aroused A Ye's vigilance."
"I think so. Qiming and Taiwei talked about everything. They must have missed something. The key is what should we do now? How to deal with Qiming."
Dugulie thought for a while and said: "I guess she is very dangerous. The eunuchs were deceived by her and will definitely not let her go. You immediately sent someone to inform her to return to the family, saying that her father was seriously ill. When she came back, he would take her to the house overnight.
Send her to Jiangnan, where it is best to find a family for her to marry."
Dugu Ming nodded silently, "I'll make arrangements right away!"