Xu Zhi specially hired a teacher to teach them from the most basic characters. Later, she also invited some old teachers from the paper mill to explain the theoretical knowledge of each process. At first, the villagers were willing to come and cook and work, but after they started learning to read, some people backed out. Xu Zhi did not try to stop them and let them leave. The village head looked at Xu Zhi's expression and knew that if these people left now, it would be very difficult for them to come back in the future. However, these were their own choices, and they could only bear the consequences themselves.
When Xu Di and his men built the irrigation canal into the village, the villagers were overjoyed. The village was close to the boundary river and had abundant groundwater resources, but it was difficult to irrigate the crops with the groundwater. Now, with this irrigation canal, it was much more convenient for both daily water use and crop cultivation.
While Xu Di was busy helping Xu Zhi build a workshop and repair irrigation canals, he kept an eye on the activity on the other side of the river. On the second day of the second lunar month, he suddenly heard several loud noises in the middle of the night. Xu Di was awakened from his sleep and led his men to rush to the edge of the cliff.
He saw many torches lit on the opposite bank of the river, and heard painful groans from afar. Xu Di stood on the high cliff, coldly watching those people on the other side. Some were dead, some were injured, but they did not know that this ending had been decided several days ago, and they, these invaders, could only give up their lives on the road of invasion.
Xu Di took out a megaphone and shouted loudly across the river, "Those who do many evil deeds will surely perish. This is God's punishment for you. Don't continue down the wrong path. Turn back before it's too late."
Xu Di shouted several times. At first, the people on the other side were terrified. But when they saw their companions, who were perfectly fine one moment and were either blown away or had their arms and legs broken, they came to their senses and saw the devastation all over the ground. When they heard Xu Di's shouts, some of them scrambled back.
The generals walking behind were also terrified by the commotion in front. They knew that these were hidden weapons that the people of Daliang had placed at some unknown time, but they did not know what they were or how powerful they were. Even the legendary thunderbolts could only injure one or two people. They had never seen anything like this before, which could kill a large number of people with a single explosion.
Although Xu Di's landmines were simple to make, they used the explosives he had used to carve mountains and build roads, and also contained a lot of steel needles, making them more powerful. Even if they were not within the blast radius of the landmines, they were still within the range of the steel needles. It can be said that the elite troops that the military advisor An had originally planned to cross the river and infiltrate Daliang were basically wiped out.
Seeing this, Xu Di felt a surge of joy from the bottom of his heart.
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