(19) Earthquake
At the foot of Panlong Mountain, nearly half of the territory of the Jiuzhai 18 Alliance in the past has been completely subverted. The iron mountain gate established under Bai Yunqi's leadership has disappeared, and it has been replaced by a natural barrier made of huge stones.
Although half of it was overthrown and destroyed by the previous explosion, half of the buildings remained intact, but now they are empty. Apart from the mess and the broken limbs and broken legs, there are no other creatures here.
The air was filled with a slight smell of gunpowder and blood. The huge stones at the mountain gate were moved away one by one, revealing holes of varying sizes. At this time, the Huns seemed to be very careful. The sun had already set in the west and it took most of the day. It was not until the afternoon that the project of opening the road had finally seen the end.
After the explosion, the mountain road was blocked, and the Xiongnu army could not attack the inside, nor could it attack the outside. The Xiongnu army knew that time was urgent. As long as the time was long, the opponent's reinforcements would arrive, and it would be even more dangerous to be attacked on both sides. So they mobilized the entire army to clear the mountain roads and move away the big rocks piled up together to block the road. This rapid battle, from last night to this morning, nearly 10,000 soldiers were killed or injured. Even if they won, it would be a miserable victory. However, Duanmu Xuan was very excited when he thought of those weapons. If he could not defeat here this time and could not get ready-made weapons and raw materials, he would not think about the position of Duanmu Ming's crown prince.
When the road finally opened, everyone was careful to move away from both sides, waiting for a fierce counterattack inside, but after a long time, there was no movement inside. Suddenly, Mu Xuan, the middle-aged man sent a team of people in. Soon, the team shouted safely at the intersection of the mountain gate: "General, there is no one inside!"
"No one?" Duanmu Xuan was puzzled when he heard the news. According to the information, there were at least 5,000 permanent troops here, so how could there be no one? Moreover, this is a valley that can be said to be very dead. The exit of the secret passage during the 18th Alliance of Jiuzhai was already blocked by his own sending people to escape. It is unlikely that these Chinese troops could escape.
"There must be an ambush!" Duanmu Xuan murmured, but after a while, there was still no movement inside. Duanmu Xuan was relieved to let some of the main force enter. This time, he had already expected to build up the enemy's strange weapons with the advantage of the number of people. Duanmu Xuan also investigated in Duanliang and confirmed that many of the weapons in Panlongshan were transported to Duliang before he dared to bring 50,000 troops to attack the enemy.
Among the children of the Hun Khan Duanmuqiong, the second son Duanmu Xuan can be said to be a versatile civil and military talent. He received the true teachings of Tian Lingzi at a young age. However, because his mother was not favored by Duanmu Qiong, he missed the position of crown prince. He was so angry that he had to make some contributions. However, at that time, the four countries were stable and the Huns had no place to use troops. Duanmu Xuan had to obey Tian Lingzi's arrangements and stayed in Jiezhou City for a year with a pseudonym Li Xuan.
Later, he turned to the Meishan Sect, which had good relations with the Great Qi State, and secretly placed spies in the Great Qi court. He knew that pleasing Tian Lingzi was more powerful than catering to Duanmuqiong. In many aspects of the Huns, Tian Lingzi's prestige was even more powerful than Duanmuqiong. If Duanmuqiong was the chief, then Tian Lingzi was a god envoy who believed in religion, and his prestige was not comparable to Duanmuqiong.
Unexpectedly, Daqi released Bai Qi, uprooted Duanmu Xuan's eyeliner, and all kinds of plans were destroyed, and the changes in things became even more uncontrollable. The Bai family completely drove Daqi, Bai Qi died suddenly in the middle of the way, Bai Qi and Bai Yunfan killed Su Yuncheng and Baiyunshan again, leaving Duanmu Xuan unable to find a chance to revenge.
After the founding of China, Duanmu Xuan began to fight in Meishan, differentiating men and women, and using evil techniques to guide most male disciples and a few female disciples to his sect. He accumulated enough power and divided Meishan into two sects in one fell swoop. His sect respected Tian Lingzi as the head of the sect, and he secretly sneaked into the Chinese palace with some successful martial arts disciples to collect designs of China's mysterious weapons and investigate the place where the weapons were made.
Some of the manufacturing sites were placed in the territory by Baiyunqi, and only Panlong Mountain, the vast birthplace, is outside the pass. Duanmu Xuan thought that instead of manufacturing them in the grassland where there are few minerals, it is better to pick up some ready-made ones and have the current battle.
Although the position inside was large, it could only accommodate the activities of tens of thousands of people. The army could not all move in. After confirming that there was really no one inside, Duanmu Xuan followed a team of ten thousand people and asked everyone to search carefully. He felt something was wrong in his heart, as if all of this was in the enemy's calculations.
During the search of the Hun warriors, a violent vibration suddenly came from the ground, just like an earthquake. Of course, no one here had experienced an earthquake, but they had indeed seen the explosion at the mountain gate, and a fear enveloped everyone's hearts. Duanmu Xuan finally thought about what was wrong, that is, the explosion at the mountain gate was about to repeat.
No, it was even louder. The rumbling sound came from under your feet, shaking every inch of land and everyone's body. The horse neighed in panic, and could not be soothed no matter how much it was.
Many people rushed to the small entrance of the mountain gate frantically, but it was too late. The explosion appeared on the entire mountain, continuously covering all places, and everyone, whether it was Duanmu Xuan or a soldier, all the people, all the rocks, sands and soil, flew into the sky in the explosion, and before falling to the ground, they were pushed into the sky again by continuous explosions. What flew around were earth, stones, smoke, blood, heads, brains, internal organs, and broken weapons. Duanmu Xuan's unwilling life also ended in this explosion.
The remaining 30,000 troops outside the mountain saw countless explosions. The whole mountain was trembling and shaking. Countless rocks rolled down the mountain and fell from the sky. The entire Panlong Mountain was boiling and the entire Hun army was in chaos. The consequence of this explosion at the beginning of the mountain was that the peak of Panlong Mountain was shorter for no reason. It was not until many years later that the white clouds came up that they sighed at the cruelty of killing and war.
Another consequence is that when the 50,000 troops of the Huns returned to the Huns in despair, less than 10,000 people were left.
In the distance of Panlong Mountain, everyone looked back at the peak at the end of their sight. The peak that they had been there for several years was moving violently at this moment, shaving her head shorter, and there were also tens of thousands of Huns and hundreds of Chinese soldiers buried there.
Shi Wei turned over and landed from the horse and shouted: "Brothers, let us observe five minutes of silence for the soldiers who defended their homes, sacrificed themselves, and died with the Huns. Our emperor's past arrangement saved us and allowed us to escape successfully. Our emperor's wisdom and wisdom will determine the future, thank you for your kindness!"
Everyone knelt down and looked at the direction of Panlong Mountain and bowed three times. Shi Wei's battle strategy was one of the several plans that Bai Yunqi and Kong Beihai had planned by several generals back then. Panlong Mountain was easy to defend but difficult to attack, so there was no need to retreat, even a 50,000 army might not be able to capture it.
But after all, it is outside the pass, and it is taken from the former Xiongnu spies. The internal roads may be leaked and it is difficult to take care of reinforcements. Therefore, Baiyun once decided that if the enemy had more than three times the strength of the troops, he would retreat and destroy the mountain. This is a weapon factory, and there is a large amount of gunpowder all year round.
Shi Wei also wanted to wait for the reinforcements from Jiezhou to come, but unfortunately Duanmu Xuan's attack was too fierce and his ammunition was insufficient. He had no choice but to take the lead in destroying the mountain.
In the room, Bai Yunqi and Jiang Wendi were dressed in the quilt, but Linglong was not allowed to escape from the scene. She stood aside awkwardly, and was familiar with each other. Linglong was not someone from Bai Yunqi after all. In other words, how could a gangster just disobey the imperial edict?
Jiang Wendi helped Bai Yunqi get dressed a little while. Every day, Bai Yunqi didn't do anything by himself. Everything was done by his wife. He just needed to go to bed to satisfy the person who served him.
Bai Yunqi glanced at Linglong from time to time, teasing Jiang Wendi, "When did Qingqing get up? Why didn't you wait for your husband to come back to fight again?"
Jiang Wendi spat with a slightly red face: "Go, we don't want to lie on the bed yet, you pervert!"
Bai Yunqi glared at him: "What, you dare to call me a pervert? Do you want to lose your head?"
Jiang Wendi, who was tying a button of Bai Yunqi, stretched her head and said coquettishly, "Come on! I'll scold you, pervert, I'm not all yours, I'll give you my head!"
Bai Yunqi suddenly laughed and said, "Okay, I'll ask you to beg for mercy tonight. Let's see if you dare to speak stubbornly!"
While speaking, Jiang Wendi had already put on her clothes for Bai Yunqi. Then Bai Yunqi looked at Linglong, who was embarrassed and looked down, and snorted in her nose: "Linglong, you are so bold. You dare to dismantle the secret military information privately. Do you know that you are guilty?"
Suddenly he changed his face. This time, even Jiang Wendi was shocked. Seeing Bai Yunqi's face turned pale, she didn't know what to do. It's been a long time since she saw Bai Yunqi really get angry.
The Linglong sister was shocked by Bai Yunqi's sudden shouting, and was panicked for a moment. She looked at Bai Yunqi in surprise and was at a loss. Bai Yunqi raised her tone again and shouted: "Not only that, she also tried to break into my bedroom. You still have me in your eyes. You regard the rules of the palace as nothing, and you are bold and arrogant. A mere grass man is so rude, don't you know the crime?"
The Linglong sisters were immediately scared by Bai Yunqi's loud scolding and knelt down, and said with a tongue: "Caomin...Caomin..."
"Your Majesty, don't be angry. It's not good to hurt your body. They didn't mean it. The emperor just thought that they were young and ignorant..." Jiang Wendi didn't dare to do anything at this time, so she had to gently stroke Bai Yunqi's chest and comfort her softly.
Although I can't figure out why Bai Yunqi was so angry, there has been a saying that being with the king is like a tiger since ancient times. Since Bai Yunqi has taken the air of the emperor, he has not been tempted to her for no reason, Jiang Wendi has no need to touch Longyan and lose Bai Yun's foundation. If Bai Yunqi really gets angry, it will be difficult for her to live.
Bai Yunqi opened his eyes angrily and suddenly glared at Jiang Wendi, "Can you do whatever you want if you are young and ignorant? Wendi, go out first, don't even think about pleading for them today."
"Your Majesty!" Jiang Wendi called out weakly, but was once again glared at by Bai Yunqi. She had to leave the room in disappointment, looked at Linglong with sympathy, and said softly as she walked by: "Linglong, don't be afraid, sister, let's go find others to plead with you."
"What are you still saying? Go out quickly!" Bai Yunqi shouted again, and Jiang Wendi quickly walked out of Bai Yunqi's bedroom in three steps and rushed to Xue Feihong and others' bedrooms. Before leaving, she heard Bai Yunqi's thunder and anger from inside: "See the secret documents in private and forcefully break into my bedroom, and you should be punished for your crime. Do you know that it is a crime? Even if I destroy your Meishan Sect, do you know?"
Bai Yunqi's words immediately scared the two beautiful girls to death, knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, tears in their eyes were already flowing down, and their words were sobbing, and they couldn't cry. But after Bai Yunqi said that, listening to Jiang Wendi staying away, he hurriedly took two steps forward while helping up the Linglong sisters, and said, "Get up quickly, get up quickly, scare you! It's so heartbreaking! Okay, okay, don't cry first! It's all my bad, it's all my bad!"
Bai Yunqi's sudden change made the Linglong sister look at Bai Yunqi in surprise, and she had no idea what was going on. Bai Yunqi helped the two sit down on the chair beside her, comforted her softly, and reached out to wipe the tears of their eyes: "Oh, look at you crying, you scared you like this just a few words. It's really, come, don't cry, don't cry! It's all my fault!"
The Linglong sisters still didn't understand what the hell was selling in Bai Yunqi's gourd, but they had stopped crying. Ruan Long sobbed slightly and said, "Emperor...Um...Um...Um...Don't kill Meishan...Um...Is it okay to kill Meishan Sect? It's all Linglong's fault. If the emperor wants to blame...it's better...I'll blame Linglong. Don't blame Meishan Sect, okay?"
As he said that, Ruan Long got up and was about to kneel down again. Ruan Ling also wanted to kneel down when she saw him, but before she could speak, Bai Yunqi immediately pressed the two of them on the chair and said, "You are so stupid! If I want to kill, do you still have to talk to you? That was acting just now, okay, I have a lot to ask you!"
"Acting?" Sister Linglong looked at each other and repeated in confusion.
Seeing that the two of them recovered, Bai Yunqi stood up and stood in front of them and said, "I can't explain clearly for a while. I remember that I seemed to have done something in my dream just now. It felt very real. When I woke up, I found that you were here. You shouldn't..."
Chapter completed!