After all, Dangxiang's Southern Expedition Army Camp and Shu Army Camp are still several miles apart. Although the weather is good today, from a few miles apart, we can only barely see the catapults on the opposite side slowly turning, and groups of people shaking.
But he couldn't see clearly the specific movements of the escort.
The telescope arrived just in time.
When he was in the royal city, Emperor Dangxiang once showed off a telescope to Li Lingrui, and he knew how to use it.
After opening the small box, I adjusted the focus somewhat awkwardly, and then pointed the telescope towards the south for the first time.
Through the telescope, Li Lingrui saw more than a hundred people walking out of the Shu army's position.
These people wore escort uniforms, and two-thirds of them carried a long black stick on their backs.
Li Lingrui once had a detailed understanding of the structure of the escort bureau. Judging from these numbers, this should be a company of the escort division, and it is a company dominated by female soldiers.
But what puzzled Li Lingrui was what the long stick on the back of the escort was for.
In the Cold Weapon Age, weapons had sharp edges or points, but this long stick had no points or edges at either end.
"Could this be the new weapon made by Jin Feng?" Li Lingrui frowned slightly.
When he asked the groom in the morning, Li Lingrui heard him say that the bodyguard had a weapon that made a loud noise and could knock away two or three people at once, which was very powerful.
Li Lingrui has always suspected that Jin Feng used a new weapon in Yuguan City, but because of the heavy snow, he has never been able to confirm it.
Therefore, we attached great importance to the information provided by the grooms. Unfortunately, the few grooms we found were hiding far away at the time, and it was dark, so they did not see clearly.
Now seeing the long stick behind the escort, Li Lingrui's first thought was that this was Jin Feng's new weapon.
What he couldn't understand was that these escorts didn't seem to have any intention of launching an attack, but instead stood in three rows in the open space.
The escorts in the first and second rows all carried long stick-like weapons, while the escorts in the third row carried two black cloth bags.
Then another team of escorts carrying the wooden frame ran out and placed the wooden frame in the open space.
The structure of the wooden frame is very simple, similar to the tripod Jin Feng used in his previous life. It has a long vertical wood in the middle and three short wooden pieces at the bottom that support the vertical wood.
Just when Li Lingrui was wondering what the bodyguards were going to do, he saw the bodyguards moving.
The escorts in the first row raised their long sticks neatly and pointed them at the wooden frame.
Then a puff of green smoke came out of the long stick in the bodyguard's hand, and a row of wooden frames dozens of meters away began to shake.
Sawdust is flying!
After a few more seconds, Li Lingrui heard a crackling sound coming from the south!
Not only Li Lingrui heard it, but almost the entire Party Xiang Nan Expedition Camp heard it.
The intelligence chief and staff standing behind Li Lingrui naturally heard it.
Although they were curious, they found that Li Lingrui's face was not friendly, so they couldn't bear to ask.
They can hold it back, but the lieutenant of Changzhizi can't hold it back!
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, what are they doing? Why is there such a big movement?"
The lieutenant lay on the railing and stretched his neck to look south.
Unfortunately, he could still only see a blurry shadow.
This made the deputy general anxious. He rubbed his hands and stared at the telescope in Li Lingrui's hand.
Li Lingrui had guessed that Jin Feng had a new weapon before, and had already made some mental preparations. Now it was just a confirmation of his guess, so he quickly calmed down.
This fierce battle between our side and Jin Feng is inevitable, and it is necessary to let his subordinates know Jin Feng's new weapons.
He gave the lieutenant a sideways glance and handed over the telescope.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
The deputy general quickly took it and imitated Li Lingrui's example, pointing the telescope to the south.
Although it was the first time to use a telescope, the focal length had just been adjusted by Li Lingrui. After a while, the deputy general got used to it and could clearly see the movements of the escorts.
At this time, the escorts were firing. When the deputy general looked over, he happened to see sawdust flying everywhere.
"Your Majesty, what are they doing?" the deputy general asked.
But Li Lingrui did not answer him, but said to the intelligence chief and staff: "You should also take a look!"
The person in charge of intelligence was waiting for Li Lingrui's words.
Afraid of losing the telescope, he kicked the deputy general: "Stop looking, it's our turn!"
Although the lieutenant general is a straight-laced person, he also knows when to act arrogantly and when to restrain himself.
Although I was reluctant to give up, I still handed the binoculars to the person in charge of intelligence.
The intelligence chief and staff took turns using the binoculars and looked at them all.
Then the deputy general asked again: "Your Majesty, what are they doing?"
"What else are you doing? Experiment with Jin Feng's new weapons and demonstrate with us!" Li Lingrui said coldly.
"They have new weapons. If they don't hide them, why would they deliberately show them off?" the deputy general couldn't figure it out.
"Because Jin Feng knows that he can't hide it anymore!"
Li Lingrui replied: "And he also wants to scare us and boost the morale of their people!"
Li Lingrui guessed this right.
Jin Feng did this because he knew that the musket could no longer be hidden.
Although the musketeer company captured the groom and the escorting cavalry in the ambush last night, the opponent had thousands of people. It was dark at the time, and the musketeer company wanted to fight quickly, so it was impossible to clean the battlefield too carefully.
Ninety percent of the time, something will slip through the net.
The musket company had been using muskets to fight yesterday, and any fish that slipped through the net would definitely be reported to Li Lingrui.
So there is no point in hiding the musket anymore.
Moreover, in Jin Feng's view, the number of muskets was too few and the replenishment was too slow to have a decisive impact on this large-scale battle involving hundreds of thousands of people. He was already satisfied that the musket company could complete last night's ambush mission.
Already.
Now it's exposed, it's exposed.
Sound is a magical thing. On the battlefield, loud sounds can not only boost the morale of your own soldiers, but also intimidate the enemy.
This is the role of war drums.
Jin Feng planned to use this to lower the morale of the enemy's ordinary soldiers and improve the self-confidence of his own soldiers. Bayi Chinese Website
It can be regarded as taking advantage of the final value of the musket exposure.
The violent and intensive gunshots indeed made many party soldiers fearful, especially those who could not see them, making them even more anxious.
As the head coach, Li Lingrui was sensitive to this anomaly.
"Send the order and tell everyone that the Shu Army has developed a new type of grenade. Please don't be nervous. They have a guilty conscience and are trying to scare us!"
Unknown things are more likely to make people fearful. Not only Li Lingrui is worried about Jin Feng's new weapons, but many party soldiers who participated in the last southern expedition or heard about Jin Feng's deeds are also worried about this problem.
Hearing that Jin Feng had just made a new mine, the Nanzheng Army slowly calmed down.
They all knew about the existence of grenades before they came.