He looked at the circles of sparks ahead and couldn't help but sweat running down his back. The courage he had just mustered before the battle was almost gone. "What's going on?" he asked the deputy general beside him. "None of Beichen's soldiers have come out, and isn't Rong Chengxuan, the commander, still in the city? Why did the thunder explode? Or are they launching a sneak attack?"

After finishing his words, Jiang Younan felt that there was a loophole in his words. "But even if it was a sneak attack, shouldn't we be able to see a figure? Why can't we see a single person from the Beichen army? Could it be that Rong Chengxuan is really a god descended from heaven? Nowadays, they all come to war without a trace?"

The deputy general was also confused. He stared at the fire in front of him and said in a daze, "Yeah! In the past, the Beichen people threw the thunderbolts by hand. How come this time, the thunder exploded without even a shadow of a person? Could it be that... the thunderbolt is underground this time? It's not a thunderbolt in the sky, but a ground mine instead?"

Jiang Younan still found it a bit hard to believe. After all, the Beichen people's ability to possess sky thunder was already outrageous enough, and beyond their ken. Now they'd invented a land mine. Wasn't that simply making the battle unnecessary? No matter where they stood, they would be struck by the Beichen people's thunder.

Jiang Younan's deputy general guessed correctly. He had made sufficient preparations long before Rong Chengxuan and his men decided to go to war. He asked Yun Wanwan to set up a formation with mines ten miles south of the camp. The formation was thought up by Yun Wanwan when she was in Cizhou. After drawing it, he showed it to Rong Chengxuan, who corrected a few shortcomings. This was the first time it was used on the battlefield.

However, judging by the reaction of the Western Zhou people, it seems that the effect of this minefield is still considerable. In fact, this minefield is not difficult to set up. As long as the positions are clearly marked and people are assigned to bury the mines in the sand, they don't need to send out troops at all.

As long as the people of the Western Zhou Dynasty dared to approach and stepped on a landmine, the minefield would be immediately triggered. Once one landmine was detonated, the following landmines would be detonated because of that landmine, sending the soldiers of the Western Zhou Dynasty to death without hesitation.

Rong Chengxuan and Yun Wanwan maximized the effectiveness of the formation. A single strike could wipe out at least 10,000 Western Zhou soldiers. But Jiang Younan didn't understand! Neither did the Western Zhou people! Initially, the soldiers didn't even realize the mines were buried underground.

They thought the weapons in Beichen's hands were thunderbolts, because they seemed to have fallen from the sky. But they never imagined that the Beichen people possessed not only thunderbolts but also landmines. They also never imagined that a landmine's impact wouldn't kill just a few hundred people like a thunderbolt, but tens of thousands.

The Western Zhou army now believed Rong Chengxuan was a deity sent down from heaven to bring about a thunderbolt strike. Otherwise, they couldn't explain why, whenever they stepped on the sand, they would hear a rumbling sound similar to that of heavenly thunder, even more powerful than thunder.

The Western Zhou army was frightened and dared not move forward, for fear that they would accidentally trigger the switch of the thunder, which would not only kill themselves but also their companions.

Jiang Younan, however, refused to accept this. He never believed the legend that Rong Chengxuan was a deity descended from heaven, and he also felt that the thunderbolts in their hands were just for frightening people. As long as they were not afraid and survived the thunderbolts, then it would be Rong Chengxuan's troops who should be afraid. So he shouted at the soldiers, urging them to continue charging forward, otherwise they would be punished according to military regulations and killed!

The soldiers standing at the front were the most unlucky. They couldn't decide whether to charge or not. They would die anyway. If they charged too far, they would be killed by thunder. If they didn't, they would die by the general's sword. Since they were going to die anyway, it would be better to die later. At least they could live a little longer. So they chose to stand still.

Jiang Younan didn't understand why they were hesitating. Seeing that the soldiers ignored his words, he simply drew his bow and shot several arrows at the back of the heads of those soldiers who were hesitant and unwilling to move forward.

In the blink of an eye, several people fell down. People became numb and realized that those who died later might have been killed by thunder. The one standing there would still be the one who died the fastest.

In that case, it would be better to just get struck to death by lightning. After all, that would be a different kind of death. At least there would still be a group of courageous people. And when you go to the underworld, you can brag to others that you were killed by lightning. It is obvious that there is a story behind it and it is a dignified way of dying.

After figuring this out, the remaining soldiers stopped standing there and rushed forward with their weapons in hand, not caring about formations or anything like that. The final outcome was death anyway, so they had already accepted it.

So because of the "bravery" of that group of soldiers, there was a burst of rumbling sounds in the minefield, rumbling and rumbling, just like a symphony, which never stopped.

Gradually, the minefield was completely turned into a bloody sand because of the mindless charge of that group of "heroic" Western Zhou soldiers.

Jiang Younan felt that something was completely wrong. Didn’t they say that Rong Chengxuan and Yun Wanwan returned to Shaping City today?

Why can Beichen people still fight so fiercely?

Could it be that he has fallen into Rong Chengxuan's trap?

The deputy generals beside him naturally knew that Rong Chengxuan and Yun Wanwan were no longer in Daxing City. However, looking at the offensive momentum in Daxing City today, it didn't seem like they were away. So someone bravely suggested to Jiang Younan, "General, today is not a good day to attack the city. Maybe Rong Chengxuan has set an ambush for us, waiting for us to sneak in!"

As soon as these words were spoken, countless people immediately followed suit. It wasn't that they didn't dare to fight, but how could they fight a war with such a huge disparity? In the past, it could at least be considered a battle between two armies, a war of mutual stabs, but now, there was not even a trace of the Beichen people in sight.

Beichen just stood in the city, waiting for the thunder from the sky to strike down. This time was different from the previous times. Landmines were used this time. When they stepped on the sand, a piece of their 300,000-strong army was instantly cut off. This was not on the same level at all. If they fought again, their entire army would be wiped out!

They remembered clearly that this battle involved nearly half of the Western Zhou army, a desperate battle. If they lost, they wouldn't have to fight for the remaining cities, and could simply surrender and let the Beichen people take them.