Chapter 266.

When a group of men appeared in the valley, they quickly noticed the hot air balloon in the sky.

Arutai was a little alarmed.

But just then, the ball dropped a cascade of ammo straight down.

Hundreds of iron horsemen, led by Arutai, were supposed to go through the forest here.

Immediately afterward, a roar began to resonate in all directions.

The bombardment of hot air balloons was not accurate, but this diffuse bombardment was enough to surprise hundreds of iron horsemen.

At this point, all the men were in disbelief and the war horses were frightened.

But apparently, this is just the beginning.

The first round of bombardment was nothing more than a test firing, based on the point of impact of the projectile, then judging the error and finally adjusting the new position.

Only this second round was all about the big guys.

Hoo hoo hoo ……

The whistling sound came out, but a huge mound of pine bombs began to smash down from the head.

Arutai was originally confident, but now, he was panicked.

He seemed to be wrestling with the air, facing this untouchable enemy, waving his weapon in vain, but this air …… is a real killing force.

Rumble …… Rumble …… Rumble ……

This time, the location of the falling bomb is much closer, coupled with the incredible power of the explosives …… After the countless smoke filled, it is seen that the ground is full of sores.

Arutai see the people around him, instantly actually less than nearly half, eardrums were also pierced by this boom in general, only buzzing sound, he subconsciously issued a yell: “Disperse, disperse ……”

Against such a large firepower firearms, the best way, is directly into zero, hundreds of cavalry, scattered in a few miles in a vast valley.

But apparently, it was too late, because his roar, no one heard at all, all the ears, almost lost their hearing, the nitrous smoke confused their eyes, they are in this mist, fleeing haphazardly, trampling on each other.

It is good that Ha’er Wu’ou perceived the situation on Arutai’s side, Ha’er Wu’ou was shocked when he saw this, he had fought a lifetime of battles, but he had never seen such an enemy.

But as a veteran, he was able to remain calm at this point, and he made the same decision as Arutai: “Spread out, spread out ……”

More than a thousand cavalrymen, in groups of three or five, began to spread out at fire speed, they were already considered well-trained, and faced with such a situation, they were still able to do so without arrogance, although the roar in the distance, made their hearts tremble.

And once the group spread out, it meant that the hot air balloon’s damage to them, was minimized.

Of course, the hot air balloon was clearly not interested in bombing them, but continued to start drifting toward their camp, aiming for what was clearly their rear camp, and where their rations were hoarded.

In fact, by this time, if it is a general war, the face of this simply can not solve the enemy, especially the other side can easily attack their camp and grain. Ha’er Wu’ou already know that he has already lost.

But apparently, it doesn’t end there.

The eyes of Ha’er Wood Outlaw revealed a color of grief and anger, and he gritted his teeth and said, “Blow the horn and charge with me.”

The cavalry, scattered as if it were loose sand, still galloped on, trying to make an impact.

Soon afterward, a heaven-shaking roar came from the camp behind them, and flames leapt up as if all of a sudden, the sky was burning red.

The rest of the cavalry, continued to attack stubbornly.

And at this time …… on the hill to watch the battle Zhang Anshi could not help but let out a sigh of emotion, really …… new weapons appeared on the battlefield, not only their own side of the means of war to change, even his enemy, also began to make changes.

The original cold-weapon era, with its intensive charges, had become impossible, as gunpowder had become more and more powerful, and if one dared to attack in a pile, it meant that one would be caught in a pot at any time.

Zhang Anshi said to Gu Xingzu, “What do you think of these people?”

Gu Xingzu thought for a moment and said, “Unbearable.”

Zhang Anshi, however, shook his head: ”I don’t see it right, they are at such a disadvantage, but still able to quickly make changes, spread out the army, and still able to keep the cavalry like scattered sand to launch an attack. Based on this alone, they are no longer to be underestimated, and are indeed considered elite. The only pity is that they met an enemy they shouldn’t have, such as me.”

Gu Xingzu pondered for a moment, felt justified, nodded and said, “Enshu is right, they do ……”

Zhang Anshi suddenly smiled and said, “Xingzu, how are you doing in the Model Battalion?”

“Fair enough.”

“Want something bigger?”

Gu Xingzu said in disbelief, “I don’t know what the benefactor has to say?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Men should go to the desert, to the west, to the ends of the earth, are you interested in going to Nanzhou? My Annan Guard there happens to be in need of a commander.”

Gu Xingzu: “……”

Gu Xingzu is a descendant of the general’s family, but he also passed the examination for a scholar, not to mention that he also went through the exercise of the model battalion, if he is said to be stupid, then I am afraid that the whole world is stupid.

Upon hearing this, the expression on Gu Xingzu’s face froze, and for a moment he didn’t know how to respond.

Zhang Anshi encouraged him, “There is no need to be constrained, you can say whatever you have in mind, you know me, I am a very easy-going person.”

Gu Xingzu thought for a moment and hesitantly said, “Go …… a few years ……”

“How about ten or eight years?”

Zhang Anshi is a long time ago planned, ten years eight years, with the level of Gu Xingzu, enough to establish a new model battalion in the southern state, and from it to promote some can be a unique talent.

Gu Xingzu thought again and finally said, “If the benefactor does not abandon …… the student is willing to make a trip.”

“Are you really willing to go?” Actually, Zhang Anshi was a bit surprised.

He is now is actually sort of casting a net all over the place, catching people and trying to bump into them, except for his three brothers.

As for not calling those three brothers to go, it is really that those three brothers, are the king of the mongrels, let them go to be alone, Zhang Anshi is really uneasy.

Gu Xingzu was self-contained, “My master said that I would listen to my master when he is here, and when he is not here, I will listen to my benefactor.”

Zhang Anshi was instantly overjoyed, “Good, your ah-master is a man of deep understanding.”

This should be done urgently, and sent away in a straight packet, while his ah-master is still in your state, and too late to object to it.

By that time, Nanzhou has Yang Shiqi in literature and Gu Xingzu in martial arts, so such a luxurious lineup is a descending blow to Nanzhou.

Right now ……

The earth-shaking roar began to emanate again.

But it was at that moment that the artillery began to bombard.

The hills were filled with Tartars and Woodlanders, who made an onslaught, while the artillery began to bombard indiscriminately.

After the advent of refined steel, smelting techniques were vastly improved, which led, in turn, to the emergence of new artillery pieces.

They were more refined and thinner, with huge charges, and far exceeded the artillery of their contemporaries, both in accuracy and in rate of fire.

Although it was still a front-bore gun, the rifling was in its infancy, and the assembled blooming shells had the ability to explode twice.

So …… in this valley, the fire of an explosion began to appear in one place.

Even if they were scattered in formation, but running through such a rain of cannon, the formation of the Tartars and the Woodlanders had long been in disarray.

They had no way of launching an organized attack, and could only act like lone wolves, launching an onslaught similar to that of a straggler.

It was hard to rush to the front of the line.

Here, the infantrymen formed the original formation, all shoulder to shoulder, and afterward, a cannon began to fire en masse.

This method of fighting, almost crushing general, the use of artillery and hot air balloons, directly break the other side of the dense formation, but their own side, but still take is a dense array.

Using a dense array to deal with these so-called cavalrymen in groups of three or five is like cutting up a melon and chopping up a vegetable, forming a copper wall, and all those who are close to this copper wall have been shot dead without waiting to rush to the front of the formation.

The whole model battalion, as if it were a meticulous machine, each man became a part, and they began to run fast for the harvest.

The Tartars and the Woodlanders, on the other hand, became ridiculous, losing the ability to charge intensively, and their individual valor, in the face of firearms, was worthless.

An iron car began to appear, this iron car, all barbs, the lower head is equipped with wheel rails, can be three hundred and sixty degrees at any time to turn, and then blocked in front of the infantry, even if there is a burst of luck of the cavalry, but only in vain and this iron car collision together, covered with barbs pierced.

The artillery was still roaring on and on, and the cannons sounded like fried beans.

The ground was full of corpses in bits and pieces, while this Tartars and Woodruffs, emboldened at last, scrambled to retreat and trampled on each other.

Arutai rose from the dead, only to realize that the warriors around him were long dead.

Haer Wood outlaw luck is also limited, he although early to let the people scattered, but since then the artillery’s constant indiscriminate bombardment, coupled with the cannons of the harvest, instantaneous effort, dead and wounded has been more than half.

And that wasn’t the most frightening thing, the most frightening thing was that their camp had long been burned to ashes in a single pot.

Looking at one by one to seize the road and flee, full of frightened soldiers, Haer Wood outlaw heart sad, these …… are the elite of the tribe, he seems to have witnessed, the advent of a new era.

And this was an era in which he and his tribe belonged to a group that had been completely abandoned to the dustbin of history.

Even their own personal guards, also began to chaos, personal guards seem to want to stop the defeated army, but the defeated army to the Ming army’s fear, even more than their military law. But the fear of the defeated army was even greater than their fear of military justice. So some of the defeated army chose to directly attack their own guards in order to choose a way to escape.

“Retreat, retreat ……”

Total collapse.

And during their retreat, the artillery still did not stop, and the hot-air balloons overhead, as if they were not yet relieved after blowing up the camp as usual, appeared in the sky above them as if they were hocked to the bone, and threw down the remaining ammunition without stint.

Alutai was covered with blood, and finally met with Ha’er Wu outlaw, and roared with pathos: “Lost, lost, can’t fight any more, if we fight any more, we’re all finished.”

“But they didn’t say how it would end.”

Without hesitation, Arutai said, “Beg for surrender, beg for surrender at once, have all men dismount, throw down their weapons, and send men there with all speed, begging for surrender.”

Fear rose in both of them for no reason.

They think they are also the men of the desert, they think they are in their blood, flowing with the breath of the brave, but now …… it seems that everything is gone.

This kind of unexplained fear, teach them to finally realize that today’s Ming, no longer the first time you can still fight back and forth opponents, in front of this enemy is so terrible, has reached the point that can not be defeated.

Finally …… after an incense burner, the cannon fire stopped.

Zhu Di stood on the high platform, from the telescope, saw all this in front of him, and by this time, he had already understood that the era belonging to him, had also gone far away.

Only by witnessing, with his own eyes, this way of war, which was completely contrary to the old days, did Zhu feel a wave of pain of being thrown off by the waves of the times.

But …… fortunately, this new way, still still manipulated in their own hands, enough to become the cornerstone of the Daming Jiangshan.

He never spoke, his brothers were around, and he ignored them; the success of a successful commander-in-chief succeeds in the fact that they are inherently perceptive enough and will form their own set of military strategies based on their observations.

With his binoculars, he observed every detail of this battlefield, lest he missed something.

The role of the hot air balloon attack, the new artillery, how to strike at the scattered enemy, and why the infantry fires in such a formation.

And whether the Tartars’ response was brilliant, what measures they took despite their defeat, and ultimately why those measures did not produce such an effect, and if I were a Tartar, whether there was any way to have a fighting chance.

Countless thoughts swept through Zhu Di’s mind as his face clouded over.

……

And behind Zhu Di, the kings were all dumbfounded.

Almost everyone could feel the power of the Model Battalion, and this kind of warfare that was completely beyond common sense, directly striking against more than ten times the number of cavalrymen, only gave people the creeps.

Zhu Zhen even pursed his lips, he is a connoisseur, there is a lot of experience in the suppression of thieves, at this moment, especially when the eyes skimming to Zhu Di, but for no reason, the heart of the heart born of awe.

The rest of the kings, even more so, felt fear, for this era, this was actually the power to destroy the heavens and the earth, in front of this terrifying power, it only gave one an indescribable feeling of powerlessness.

Zhang Anshi came hurriedly at this moment, wearing a suit of armor.

When he arrived at Zhu Di’s heel, Zhang Anshi immediately said, “Your Majesty …… the battle report is out, the model battalion has no casualties, the Tartars and the Woodlawns, seven hundred and thirty-five dead and nine hundred and twenty-seven wounded. Your Majesty, this drill, a great success.”

Immediately after that, it was that Alutai and Ha’er Wu outlaw two people, face miserable was carried by someone.

They were trembling with fear and trembling, worshipping at Zhu’s feet, and at this time had long been so frightened that they could not speak a word.

Zhu looked down at the two of them with a complicated gaze.

Zhu Di said, “Ministers, how are these Tartars and the Woodlanders?”

Not waiting for the others to answer, Ha’er Woodruff has been as gray as death, only said, “unbearable ……”

Zhu Di smiled, but made the same judgment as Zhang Anshi: “No, danger without chaos, can quickly respond, even if the encountered adversity, there are still people in the case of not getting the order to launch an attack. And I see these generals are very robust, when I pacify the time, Uliangha Department with me to pacify, is also like this, braving the vectors and stones, courageous and fearless, absolutely deserve the word elite.”

The words from Zhu Di’s mouth, may be a compliment, but in the ears of Haer Wood outlaw heard, but feel that it is sarcastic.

Ha’er Wu’ou just knocked his head on the ground, only wishing to bury it in the sand and never pull it out, not daring to respond in any way.

Zhu Di sidelong glance, but glanced at Zhang Anshi, said: “model battalion to promote, first from the warrior battalion, the divine machine battalion and three thousand battalion to start, within three years, this three battalions to be effective. All the backbone, are drawn from the model battalion, model battalion hundred, to each battalion directly as a command. Chief flag, directly as a thousand households …… Of course, there is no need to rush …… first let the model battalion expand, and then push and spread, let this model battalion, and then recruit seven hundred people.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Yes.”

Zhu then added, “The production of these firearms, keep up?”

Zhang Anshi then said, “As long as Your Majesty decrees it, I can find a way to expand production.”

Zhu nodded.

Only then did he turn back to the kings and said with a smile, “What do the royal brothers think?”

King Zhou is the head of the kings, and even though his mind is now on his medicine, he cannot help but nod his head and say heartily, “Your Majesty, the foundation of my Daming can be ten thousand years old.”

Zhu Di smiled and returned his gaze to Zhang Anshi, saying, “What does Minister Zhang think about what King Zhou said?”

Zhang Anshi and Zhu Di had a tacit understanding, and immediately said, “Your Majesty, I would think that ten thousand million years …… is only not easy.”

It was taboo to say this, and only Zhang Anshi dared to say it.

Zhu Di, however, smiled and said, seemingly encouragingly, “Huh? What’s the reason for this?”

Zhang Anshi said without any scruples, “If it takes ten thousand years, it is not impossible, just with my Daming’s great clan, it may not be possible. In my humble opinion, rather, the clansmen of Daming should, with one mind, work together.”

“Let’s say His Highness the King of Ning, he is in Luzon, at first but a small port, more than 10,000 generals, but all around the frontier, now, just two years of work, but has built seventeen cities, occupying Luzon’s most fertile land in a circle of three hundred miles, migrating a large number of stragglers, reclaiming hundreds of thousands of acres of wasteland not counting, but also built three ports, now in Luzon, fodder and horses. In my opinion, this is the real vassal, for my Daming clan screen, if my Daming more Ning Wang Wang Your Highness such a clan, this Jiangshan why worry about can not be solid?”

If this had been said in the past, people would only think that this was fooling everyone again.

But now that you really see the scene in front of you, the idea is obviously very different.

Especially the king of Chu, the king of Chu heart is the most clear, the southern natives, fighting strength is not high, at least compared to the Tartars fighting strength is much lower, if there is the support of the imperial court, move the clan outside, may be a few years of pain in the early stage, but think soon can change the situation, then it is not allowed to say and the king of Ning in general.

Zhang Anshi continued with a smile at this time; “If there are any other concerns, you can actually let the clansmen take the army and horses first, and then relocate the families after they have settled down. I heard that when Emperor Taizu was around, he could not bear to see his children and grandchildren suffer, but he was also afraid that they would lose their sharpness because of their pampering. So all the kings before the vassal, let them go to the central capital of fengyang farming, so that the kings know the hardships of the people, but also the kings will be sealed to the various border towns, as my Daming’s vassal screen.”

“Nowadays, the current situation of the world has changed, the Tartars may not be the heart of my Ming in the future, and the future of Ming’s enemies must be on the sea, that’s why His Majesty is well-intentioned, hoping to inherit the legacy of the Great Ancestor’s High Emperor, and give the kings a heavy responsibility to lend them to guard the sea towns of all parts of the world, in case of any mishap ah.”

Zhu Di heard this and was secretly happy.

This guy …… even moved out of the Taizu High Emperor, and this reasoning, reasoning.

That’s right, I am the one who listens most to the words of the Great Ancestor, so naturally I have to continue the law of the ancestors, and whoever doesn’t follow it, then we may have to offer up the law of the ancestors to be severely punished.

Zhu had been smiling slightly, with only the appearance of listening sideways.

The kings saw this Alutai and Ha’er Wu’outlaw two people, woefully kneeling on the ground, face like death.

Goodbye to His Majesty’s spiritedness, and the devastation beneath that high platform.

Good words have been said and threats have been pulled full circle.

And the outlook has been shown that people go out, just to abuse, with little danger.

But I saw Zhang Anshi added: “All the feudal kings who are willing to go out to the town, his majesty, for the sake of brotherly love, has repeatedly instructed that the merchant houses should be allowed to provide the kings’ guards with sufficient armaments and gunpowder. Well …… that’s the weapons of the Model Battalion!”

The gazes of the kings all brightened a few points invisibly.

At this time, Zhang Anshi again and again said, “His Majesty also said, the merchant bank production out, first to prioritize the supply of the kings, and then after that to supply the official army, the kings …… overseas vassals …… in fact, not much, if it is late, can account for the not good land, things should not be late ah.”

When the kings heard this, their hearts were violently tightened, no one was stupid, they immediately realized an important issue.

Yes, so many brothers, so many vassals, this Western side, good place is only limited, if you are lucky, account for a fertile or close to the Daming near some places, it would be good, but if you let other people first, then people have been vassal, they were driven overseas, there is really no good place.

Zhu Di at this time timely laugh: “First do not mention these, do not mention these, today is just to watch the battle, these things, and then mention it later. Model battalion up and down, made a great achievement, come on people, each person give silver hundred taels, teach people to take wine and meat, treat model battalion, this wine …… have to use the best palace imperial brew.”

Gesture set up, said, Zhu Di then did not say anything more, they are excited to set driving back to the palace.

He is gone, but left the kings, and that Haer Wood outlaw as well as Alutai, are a little overwhelmed.

The kings were just starting to think at this time, and in their hearts they were probably thinking, “Your Majesty, didn’t you just say that the matter of transferring the vassalage, you should continue to say ah, let’s see if we can talk about it again.

And Haer Wood outlaw and Alutai, but has been all thoughts, and do not know how to be disposed of by the Ming court in the future.

The Emperor seems to have no interest in any of them.

At this time, the King of Zhou and the King of Chu, however, had tried to come together in front of Zhang Anshi.

Zhang Anshi, however, said joyfully, “Your Highnesses, I still have some things to do, goodbye, goodbye.”

With that, he moved his feet and ran off in a puff of smoke as well.

Talk?

The more you talk to them at this time, the more they will think about it.

But once you’re not going to care about them anymore, they panic a bit instead.

Sure enough, soon Zhang Anshi’s residence was filled with people.

First came the King of Zhou.

King Zhou first and Zhang Anshi bingo talk about medicine, suddenly the words turn: “Wei Guo Gong, the king knows that you know the most about overseas, according to your opinion, this overseas, where to go the best?”

Zhang Anshi s face is calm and comfortable, but his heart is sneering, obviously …… the king of Zhou is trying to find a good place for himself.

After thinking about it, Zhang Anshi said, “If it is the best to go to Tianzhu, where the land is the most fertile, but well …… that place is a little far away, now go …… only afraid that the supplies still can’t keep up, if I ……”

Zhang Anshi did not perfunctorily talk to him, and said, Zhang Anshi let someone fetch the public opinion map for him, and began to point out in a serious manner, and gave him a detailed description of the benefits of each place.

Zhou King Zhu Shengli listened extremely attentively, and in the end, he fell in love with Sumatra’s location and nodded his head with satisfaction, “This place is very good …… Well …… thanks a lot, thanks a lot.”

After a pause, the King of Zhou seemed to have thought of something, and then said, “This king heard that the Duke of Wei is in that southern state, and also has a vassal land, is that right?”

Zhang Anshi immediately said, “Hey, not to hide from Your Highness King Zhou, that place, is a barren land, is really chicken ribs, you can see the Eunuch Zheng’s report?”

King Zhou Zhu Saoxiao then looked at Zhang Anshi sympathetically and said: ”This king also heard that this was claimed by Duke Wei himself. O Duke of Wei, you are really a greatly loyal official! This king is not as good as you.”

He said it sincerely, he himself was not so polite, Emperor you don’t give me a good place, is it still a brother?

But look at the realm of Zhang Anshi ……

Zhang Anshi just laughed: “In the future, Your Highness went overseas, in Sumatra if you are firmly established, we should liaise more, when the time comes, I open a route from Nanzhou to Sumatra, Your Highness more help some, my place …… poverty … …”

The King of Zhou did not even think about it, and immediately said with great bravado, “Good to say, good to say, want grain, want timber, a word.”

Zhou King Zhu Saoxiao answered painfully in the front, and in the back he was asking, “Just this Zhou King Guard …….”

Zhang Anshi was naturally very good at it, so he said, “Don’t worry about the firearms, it’s been prepared for a long time.”

“Well, well, that’s good.”

The King of Zhou was satisfied.

After the King of Zhou, the other feudal kings have been coming to the door one after another, and Zhang Anshi has been able to cope with them one by one.

Soon, Zhang Anshi personally reported what happened in his residence to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di at this time is smiling flowers, haha laughed: “This battle, played too well, really teach me to exhale ah! Those brothers of mine, what is now in my mind, I will not know? Secretary Zhang …… this time you give me a big help, I think well, to give you a thing.”

This was really unexpected, Zhang Anshi was surprised and said, “I don’t know what His Majesty is going to give?”

Zhu Di, however, smiled with a few mysterious meanings and said, “You might as well guess as well. Come on, you tell me, what do you want now?”

Zhang Anshi thought very seriously and said, “What this …… minister lacks the most, should be …… people?”

“Woman?” Zhu Zhu’s tiger’s body shook, and he immediately looked at him with wide eyes.

“No, man!” Zhang Anshi hurriedly replied.