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What is due to come is always coming.

Looking at the Ming army airships getting closer and closer in the sky, Guo Xiancheng sighed indescribably. Luzhou has not been visited by airships for a long time, which once made Guo Xiancheng feel relieved. According to information, the Ming army in Kunling County did not have large-scale equipment in Laizhou and Changning's Ming army equipment was still the main weapons in the past, which also gave Guo Xiancheng some confidence in victory.

But now, the one in heaven has come.

The ones in the sky are coming, will the ones on the earth be far away?

He saw from the palace newspaper that described the huge damage caused by these big guys flying from the sky after the bombing was dropped, and he also specially found veterans who had experienced bombing to understand. What he didn't understand was that the iron lumps exploded when they landed on the ground, and Daqi's craftsman camp in the capital also couldn't understand. Now the only long-distance gunpowder weapon used by the Daqi army is to ignite the explosive pack and then throw it out with a throwing machine. However, there was no accurate message at all. Sometimes it could fall to the predetermined target, and sometimes it flew in the air and exploded, which was just a sound.

In Laizhou City, he got a Ming army bomb that was dropped by a Ming army airship but did not explode. He immediately escorted him carefully to the Chang'an craftsman camp as if he had obtained a treasure. Dozens of master craftsmen wasted a lot of time on it. After successfully dismantling the bomb, he was stunned by the exquisite and complex design inside the warhead.

They can't understand the design inside at all, or even the principles.

It would be fine if such bombs could not be made, even the fuses were not as good as those used by the Ming people. Daqi purchased a batch of fuses from Ming people through some special channels. Their burning speed was even and continuous. No matter which section was cut from those long plates of fuses, the burning speed was exactly the same. Daqi was completely unable to manufacture them, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and sometimes, it would be extinguished while burning.

The gap in military equipment is so big that it makes people desperate, and what makes Guo Xiancheng even more desperate is that the situation in the entire Daqi is even more desperate than the gap in military.

As a member of the upper core group of Daqi, Guo Xiancheng knew many things that Xian Bisong didn't know. Qi is now supporting the army at the expense of the interests of all citizens, hoping that the army can defeat the Ming Kingdom on the battlefield.

But this wish is so slim, and Emperor Cao Yun also knew that. Although Qi State is big and has many citizens, it will not be long before such killing chickens and retrieving eggs.

Now Qi has completely cut off commercial exchanges with the Ming people, which has alleviated the domestic economic crisis to a certain extent. However, Ming people's goods still poured into Qi people continuously through underground channels. Even if they were caught and killed, they were not ruthless, but such a trend still could not be completely curbed.

What made Guo Xiancheng even more angry was that some people, even though they knew that such a thing was harmful to Yu Daqi, were still doing things that harmed Daqi for their own selfish interests. However, whether it was the law or the authority, there was no way to deal with them.

There are also some people who have no choice but to do the same thing. For example, Xian Bisong from Changning County, in order to raise enough money and obtain some materials strictly controlled by Ming State from Ming State, they are also secretly indulging in smuggling.

Xian Bisong did not embezzle. He even devoted all of the smuggling under his indulgence, even the money he obtained from his troops, or the Ming-controlled materials he obtained through exchanges, and he devoted all of them to the construction of the army.

It is difficult for you to define whether this is harmful or beneficial to Daqi.

Xian Bisong did not hide it from Guo Xiancheng or the emperor. Instead, he said bitterly to the emperor in the memorial that he had to do this, and he could not do this.

Only those in the game can experience the bitterness and pain.

In the distance, the sun and moon flag on the airship became clearer and clearer. Guo Xiancheng lowered his head. It was not until this time that his mind turned back to reality. Hearing that his personal guard commander was ordering the guards to withdraw the commander's flag, he roared angrily: "Stop, the enemy is in front of you, the commander's flag is gone, you don't know what this means? If the commander's flag is there, the army will be at peace, the commander's flag is heavy, and the army will be dispersed."

"General, if the flag of the commander is here, then you must leave the city wall and enter the military cave to avoid it for a while. Then you will guard the flag of the commander from the last future. If the flag of the commander is not dead, the flag of the commander will not fall. Even if the flag of the commander is dead, the flag of the commander will not fall."

Guo Xiancheng stared at his personal guard commander. Seeing that the other party stared at him without any weakness, he finally nodded and turned toward the hidden military cave on the city wall. A border city like Luzhou is exactly the same as Changning County. A layer of concrete was added outside the original blue brick wall, and even the city wall was greatly improved. Ordinary trenchers were basically helpless against such a strong city wall. Even the artillery made by Qi State, after experiments, did not cause much damage to him. Through the battle in Changning County, they proved that they had a very strong resistance to the artillery fire of the Ming army.

On the top of the city, all the soldiers and generals looked at the airships in the sky helplessly. Most of them were already under the command of the officers, looking for some places to hide. On the defense line around Changning County, most of them were creating some places to hide from artillery shell bombings. But on the top of the city, Guo Xiancheng unexpectedly saw a general busy. Looking closely, it was Bian Wenzhong.

Bian Wenzhong was Bian Wushuang's son. At that time, Bian Wushuang could not take over Xiaoshi City, but was strangled to death by that small city. He finally had to retreat to Kunling County to guard the country. Then the Ming army was in a dilemma. In the middle of internal and external difficulties, he finally decided to surrender to the Ming people.

The condition for Bian Wushuang to surrender the entire Kunling County city was that the Ming army would release Bian Wenzhong and other members of the Bian clan to leave and join Qi, while the Ming people agreed to this request.

After Bian Wenzhong led his people into Qi territory, Bian Wushuang surrendered, but at the same time, he raised fire and the couple died in Kunling County.

The Ming people were so generous that they took out some of the ashes of Bian Wushuang and his wife from the fire and returned them to Bian Wenzhong who was in Luzhou.

The Ming people may not take Bian Wenzhong seriously, but in Guo Xiancheng's view, this person's academic origin is indeed a rare general. In addition to the national hatred and the Ming people, there is no possibility of resolving hatred.

At this moment, as everyone in the city knew about it, Bian Wenzhong was carrying a group of soldiers to raise a heavy crossbow high. The shooting angle of the heavy crossbow was not enough, and even if they tried their best to adjust, they could not pose any threat to the airship in the air.

Guo Xiancheng couldn't help but stop.

Because at this time, he saw Bian Wenzhong and another Bian clan member shouting loudly, exerting force together, lifting the first half of the heavy crossbow and putting it on his shoulders. Seeing this scene, several Bian clan members threw themselves under the heavy crossbow, raised their hands high, and worked together to lift the heavy crossbow.

Another crossbow archer was half kneeling on the ground, narrowing his eyes and aiming at the airship that was getting closer and closer in the sky.

Guo Xiancheng looked up at the airships in the sky. He knew the range of these heavy crossbows. If these airships did not lower the height, the heavy crossbows at the top of the city would have no way to threaten them.

Obviously, Bian Wenzhong did some useless work. But he was not ready to stop him. For him, at this time, there was an officer and a group of soldiers who were not scared by the airships in the sky, not intimidated by the deaths that these airships might bring, and were still thinking about fighting back. That was the most valuable thing.

Morale, sometimes, is inspired by such a small thing. Over the years, in Luzhou, hasn’t he been trying his best to do such things?

We try our best to maintain the morale of the soldiers and try our best to make these soldiers have no worries, even because of this, we do things that violate our conscience or even illegal things.

He sent someone to pretend to be a bandit to kill people and rob people and destroy people, so he did a lot of things.

With a low roar, the heavy crossbow's crossbow arrow flew high up from the string, and the strong recoil knocked the crossbowman behind him directly to the ground. The few people holding the heavy crossbow groaned at the same time, and the whole person was shorter. Even though it was not close, Guo Xiancheng still heard the crisp sound of rippling.

The sound of the heavy crossbow seemed to wake up the stagnant Luzhou City. The next moment, the entire city wall seemed to be alive. Countless people began to move, countless people began to shout, and countless people began to run.

Guo Xiancheng saw that many people were imitating Bian Wenzhong and lifting heavy crossbows.

Even at this moment, the crossbow that Bian Wenzhong shot out had fallen from the sky with all his might. But more crossbow arrows flew to the sky again.

At this moment, Bian Wenzhong threw the heavy crossbow aside, half-kneeled on the ground, lowering his head and shoulders and constantly shaking.

He cried!

Guo Xiancheng strode over and patted him hard on the shoulder, "I'll give you a cavalry, go out, go to Kunling County, do whatever you want!"

Bian Wenzhong stood up suddenly and bent down deeply towards Guo Xiancheng: "This time, there is no longer a time to meet each other, General, take care of him."

"Come back alive!" Guo Xiancheng turned around and walked into the Tibetan camp: "The war with Ming Kingdom requires people like you. Even if you are the only one left, you must work hard to come back alive. I will give you another army. Life will continue, and the battle will continue."

Bian Wenzhong took a deep breath and bowed again until Guo Xiancheng disappeared, but he still did not stand up—
Chapter completed!