Lu Xiaoyun rolled her eyes at Lu Yuyan: "Alright, Yuyan, say less. Zhu Yu, these are some ideas we three came up with to improve the armor of the Northern Army soldiers."

Zhu Yu looked at the three people in front of him. They came from the same place, and he couldn't understand a word they were saying. So, he was the one who had to be excluded.

Ha, how could that be?

He is Zhu Yu.

The number one demon king of Shengjing never reasoned.

He raised an eyebrow, stopped looking at the blueprint, and said to Lu Xiaoyun, "Okay, go ahead, I'm listening."

Zhu Dan glanced at Lu Xiaoyun, then gave Zhu Yu a deep look, lowered his head, and picked up a cup of tea from the side.

Zhu Yu snatched the tea from Zhu Dan's hand: "This is ancient tea, you're not used to it."

Zhu Dan: "..." Ha, he's been drinking for twenty years, and Fourth Brother is just using this as an excuse to make a fuss.

Lu Xiaoyun ignored them: "The shields the soldiers use to block the arrows are extremely heavy, which is very detrimental to rapid marches. But the arrows from Chen are not only light, but they are also almost indestructible against the armor the soldiers are wearing now. We were just thinking, why not turn the shields into wrist guards?"

"Normally, it's wrapped around the left arm like armor. When arrows fly in, press a button, and a shield will immediately form. Dozens of people can hold it above their heads to form a large barrier that can protect people under the shield."

"It can not only increase the speed of marching, but also greatly reduce casualties."

Zhu Yu frowned, completely bewildered: "Wait, put the shield inside the wrist guard?"

Zhu Dan continued, "Fourth Brother thinks it's impossible?"

Zhu Yu didn't speak, but just looked at him with his phoenix eyes.

Zhu Dan chuckled and turned to Lu Xiaoyun and Lu Yuyan, saying, "We've both seen Transformers, so we know this thing isn't difficult to make."

"Moreover, these bracers with armor shields are much easier to make than Transformers. Fourth Brother doesn't know anything about these things, so leave them to me. I'll make a few samples out of wood first, and then I'll come back to you at this time tomorrow."

Lu Xiaoyun glanced at Zhu Yu, who looked completely bewildered, and nodded, saying, "Why don't we each make a few, then compare them and make improvements?"

Zhu Dan nodded. Since Zhu Yu had already returned, there was no point in him staying any longer, so he stood up and said, "Okay."

Before leaving, Zhu Dan suddenly turned back, his smile unchanged, and said to Zhu Yu, "Fourth Brother, situations like today will only increase in the future. You will encounter many more things that only Yun'er, Ayan, and I can understand." He chuckled softly, "So, Fourth Brother, why don't you step aside?"

Zhu Yu sneered: "Withdraw? Ha, so what if only you understand? Fifth brother, don't forget, even if the three of you come from the same era, you are now living in the era I have lived in for over twenty years. I know everything here better than you do!"

Zhu Dan's face stiffened.

Lu Xiaoyun rubbed her temples, feeling a headache coming on. She feared that there would be no shortage of clashes between the two of them in the future.

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The British Duke personally led 30,000 soldiers from the Western Hills Military Camp to Mu Town to suppress the civil unrest.

On the tenth day of the second month, when the Duke of Ying led his army to the Beiqiupo Gorge, they were ambushed by the people of Mucheng in the valleys on both sides. Countless boulders and logs rolled down the slopes on both sides, causing the army, which had long been based in the capital and had no experience in fighting the enemy, to suffer repeated defeats.

They were ambushed again at the exit.

The two sides of the Beiqiupo exit are extremely high and the exit is very small, with a maximum of only ten people able to enter and exit side by side, making it a good place for an ambush.

Of the 30,000 troops, less than 10,000 eventually fled in disarray to Mu City, and even the Duke of Ying was wounded.

Zhu Chen was shocked when he heard the news. How could a bunch of lowly commoners, who were just scattered soldiers, have managed to defeat the well-trained 30,000-strong military camp like this?

They fled in panic, and at this moment, after being reminded by Zhu Chen, the Duke of England also realized that something was wrong.

Although those people were dressed in civilian clothes, now that I think about it, they were all brave and skilled in battle, obeyed orders without question, and even their weapons were those of an army.

This is clearly a formidable army!

Where did this massive army come from?

"Someone, immediately send someone to Beiqiu Slope to retrieve some scattered arrows, crossbows, and swords," Zhu Chen ordered.

British Justice: "Your Highness suspects they are from the Chen Kingdom?"

"I don't know, we should check it first. Grandfather, didn't Fifth Brother say that Chen's arrows were mixed with a black ink powder, which made their weapons incredibly hard and indestructible?"

"If that's really the case, wouldn't our Great Zhou become a giant sieve?"

Zhu Chen snorted coldly: "Who knows? What if there's a traitor within our Great Zhou?"

The Duke of England was startled: "Then who does Your Highness suspect?"

"Who? Ha, it's certainly not that pig-brain Zhu Zhi, the second brother? Tch, all he does is chant Buddhist scriptures and eat vegetarian food all day. Does he think that makes him a carefree person? As a prince, he still dares to have such delusions."

"Does Your Highness suspect Prince An or the Fifth Prince?"

"The fourth brother is tyrannical by nature. Although he is fond of killing, he would not go so far as to collude with the Chen Kingdom. The fifth brother, ah, is a hypocrite with a sanctimonious appearance."

Zhu Chen looked at the Duke of Yingguo, whose left arm was wrapped in a white bandage that was seeping blood: "Grandfather, don't forget that he just returned from Nanliang, which borders Chen. He was originally told that he would not leave Nanliang until after the first month of the lunar calendar, but he returned to Shengjing on the Lantern Festival, as if his appearance was specifically to save Father Emperor."

"There's no such thing as a coincidence in the world."

He wouldn't believe it wasn't arranged by the fifth brother.

"Just thinking himself clever," Zhu Chen said coldly.

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