Wu Yunzhu seemed furious. She laughed wildly, her laughter changing the color of the sky. However, she did not attack Jian Ning. After laughing, her eyes swept sinisterly over the Yan army camp behind Jian Ning, and then said, "It's easy for me to kill you, but if you die quickly, how can you bear the heartache of losing your loved ones?"
"Evil disciple! You want to die, but I want you to live well. I want you to watch with your own eyes all the people you care about die one by one in front of you! This is the price you have to pay for betraying me for them!"
With a flick of her long sleeves, she disappeared into the grass. Jian Ning also quickly rode her horse back to the camp. Halfway through her run, she heard a roar behind her. She turned around and saw that Wu Yunzhu had actually driven a fighter-bomber towards the howitzer position.
"Fire! Fire!" Jane Ning shouted desperately. She shook the reins hard, and Hao Jifeng let out a long neigh and leaped into the air.
Before Jian Ning could ride his horse to the howitzer position, Qin Yifan completed the deployment of the air strike by changing the charge and trajectory, and directed his subordinates to fire at the bomber with the 911 howitzer.
Qin Yifan could be considered a mechanical genius in ancient times. Jian Ning was not able to explain the working principle of the howitzer clearly. When Wu Yanxu was still around, he had humbly asked him for advice out of personal interest. Although Wu Yanxu did not directly say that the 911-type howitzer could shoot down airplanes and tanks, he told him in a joking tone that it could shoot down birds in the sky by changing the charge and trajectory.
Because he was interested in mechanics, although he was not as good at shorthand as Ding Youtian, he was willing to study hard and put in the effort. Wu Yanxu was also good at drawing mechanical drawings. He was willing to learn and he was also willing to explain patiently. After firing a few shells, although they failed to shoot down the bomber, they successfully shattered Wu Yunzhu's plan to blow up the howitzer.
Wu Yunzhu had not expected that these ancients actually knew how to bombard planes. Furious, she turned her bomber towards the Yan army's infantry positions and dropped bombs. The Yue army then launched a massive attack with their guns and cannons.
The sound of cannons roared and blood rushed into the sky!
Jian Ning also released several unmanned bombers. This battle was extremely brutal. Wu Yunzhu drove the bomber to avoid the howitzer's attack range. The Yue army rushed to wherever her shells were thrown. The howitzers on the Yan army's side also caused countless casualties to the Yue army. The battlefield became a purgatory on earth, with thousands of horses neighing and howling everywhere!
Later in the battle, due to the melee between the two sides, the bombers and howitzers became useless, and both sides began to fight with bayonets. Wu Yunzhu was the first to go straight for Ding Youtian, but was intercepted by Jian Ning, Tong Bajin, Xu Dali and Erlangzi. King Pingnan also followed suit and rushed over.
The King of Pingnan had been fighting for many years, and he wielded his iron spear with great vigor. Moreover, he was protected by the royal aura. Even Wu Yunzhu, a great immortal cultivator, could not do anything to him. The two fought until the sky was dark and the sun and moon lost their light.
In the evening, the setting sun is blood-red.
After a day of fierce fighting, corpses were everywhere, both sides suffered countless casualties, and one third of the 300,000 troops of the Dayan Army were lost.
In order to prevent Wu Yunzhu from bombing again at night, King Pingnan ordered the troops to withdraw to Haoyi City after consultation with all the generals. Jian Ning set up the howitzer on the city wall, and the Yan army switched from offense to defense.
Because of the unmanned bombers ahead, neither the Yan Army nor the Yue Army expressed much surprise at the flying iron bird capable of dropping explosives. After helping Jian Ning treat the wounded, Ding Youtian called her aside and asked, "Why don't you have that big thing in your arsenal? I've never heard you mention that you're in the military before, so how come you have all those powerful things?"
Jane Ning was stunned. She hadn't thought about this for a while, but now that he mentioned it, she thought about it carefully and said, "There is only one possibility. She was also a secret agent in the past, and she was trained abroad. She used weapons from World War II."
I really didn't expect this. Before traveling through time, Jian Ning didn't know that Grandma Wu was a cultivator. When she gave her Baicaojian, she only thought that her master had some supernatural powers. She didn't expect that she was actually a veteran agent!
"What does 'World War II' mean?" Ding Youtian didn't quite understand. "Does it mean two wars?"
"That's understandable. Besides, it's a world war, a war involving multiple countries." Jane Ning thought for a moment and added, "It takes time to learn to fly planes and tanks. She's alone, so this is to our advantage."
"Having her help from the Moon Nation is a problem after all. And I'm worried now. Your Baicaojian was given by her. If she takes it back, we will lose those firearms, but she will have them. What will we do then?"
"I think... if I hadn't traveled through time and was still in the original time and space, she would have taken it back in a snap of her hands. But now, that might not be possible."
"Oh, what do you mean?"
"Originally, Baicaotian only had the medicinal fields, apple orchards, and spiritual spring pools. The weapons and medicine depots only appeared after I traveled through time. I just guessed she might not be able to take them back. If she could, she would have taken them back long ago, when Brother Qin bombarded the plane."
Regardless of whether Wu Yunzhu could take back Baicaojian, Jian Ning felt upset. Although she told Wu Yunzhu that their relationship as master and disciple had ended, how could this relationship be really severed when she respected her mentor whom she had treated like a family member for many years?
"I hope it's as Madam says. Otherwise, countless of our soldiers will die in vain. In my opinion, it would be best if neither side has any of your old stuff."
Jian Ning turned to look at him, and he raised his eyebrows, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Nothing, I just find people's hearts hard to understand. Before she showed up, we fought all the way from Jishui to Haoyi, but I never heard you complain about that."
"Madam, your words are biased. From Jishui to Haoyi, which city wasn't taken down by general against general, soldier against soldier, sword against musket? Although artillery was used, it was only used in limited bursts, and never at densely packed soldiers. Before she came, did I ever have Madam use those flying bombs to drop explosives into the city? They were only used to blow up their guns and cannons."
That was true. Ding Youtian generally disapproved of using howitzers unless absolutely necessary. Jian Ning was simply expressing her feelings. She couldn't understand why Grandma Wu had become like this. She'd lived for thousands of years, so why would she become so obsessed with love? What kind of unforgettable love could endure for millennia and remain so strong?
Sighing softly, she murmured, "Although she used to be cold and seldom smiled, she had a kind heart. Whenever someone came to her seeking medical treatment or medicine, if she was short of money, she would half sell them some precious herbs, half give them away. And if someone couldn't pay for the consultation, she never said anything. Sometimes she even asked me to pick up the medicine and deliver it to their door."
On the city wall, there was a guard post every three steps and a sentry every five steps, and there were soldiers on duty with torches. In the light of the fire, Ding Youtian saw confusion in her eyes. He raised his hand and pressed her shoulder lightly. Her master was also his great-grandmaster, so he didn't want to say anything. Looking up at the night sky, he couldn't help but think of Blind Liu.
"I wonder where Master is now?"
Jian Ning turned to look at him, then followed his gaze to the cold night sky. "If Uncle Liu knew she was here and was helping the Moon Nation invade the Central Plains, I wonder what he would think. Sometimes, it's better not to meet."
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