After that day, An Jingzhi began his busy life again.
Every day he went to the Craftsmen's Supervisory Office, which was under the control of the military.
As the first inventor of gunpowder, Xu Yanrui would naturally ask An Jingzhi to check it after he made it, and then improve the gunpowder together, such as adding more gravel to it to increase the killing area, adjusting the formula of gunpowder to increase the lethality, etc.
An Jingzhi also helped improve the packaging of gunpowder, but if it was packaged in oil paper, it would easily get damp, so he also got some gunpowder packaged in ceramic bottles.
And the fireworks were something he suddenly thought of.
On the second day, after nightfall, fireworks were also set off in the palace.
The self-confidence of the people of Kyoto reached an unprecedented high.
Such an auspicious sign, may God bless Dajing.
They don’t know yet that they will be able to see “auspicious signs” during festivals in the future.
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Yasukuni border.
Located in the north, the temperature in Dengzhou drops faster.
The grass on the grassland has begun to turn yellow and dry.
The Tieldan tribe lost a large number of cattle and sheep, and was preparing to march south to plunder soon.
After learning of the actions of the Tieldan tribe, Xu Yanrui and Chen Kaishi were sent to garrison the border, bringing with them a large amount of gunpowder.
When the Tieldan tribe assembled and invaded the border city gates to the south, what awaited them was one bomb of gunpowder exploding above their heads after another.
The first attack was a complete failure!
The members of the Tieldan tribe were frightened by the mysterious explosion and thunder and fled.
The tribesman who had just been charging into battle beside him was reduced to half his body in the blink of an eye.
How could the people of the Tieldan tribe, who couldn't even make iron tools, have ever seen such a hot weapon?
"Everyone, run! This is the Wolf King's punishment! The Wolf King will no longer protect us!"
"Run! The Wolf King is protecting Jingguo! We have been abandoned by the Wolf King!"
Even though the supervising officers at the back were killing the fleeing soldiers with trepidation, they could not stop the trend of defeat. In the end, both the supervising officers and the supervising soldiers joined the fleeing team.
King Tierdan, who was caught off guard by the shock, reacted and tried his best to gather the fleeing troops and escape to the grassland.
The battle situation was being observed from the city gate.
When the people of the Tieldan tribe began to flee and disperse, Chen Kaishi opened the city gate and led his officers and soldiers out of the city to kill the enemy, while Xu Yanrui stayed in the city to support the enemy and prevent the Tieldan people from making a surprise attack.
This was a one-sided victory. The Tieldan people, frightened by gunpowder, had no fighting power and only regretted that their parents had not given them two more legs.
The soldiers on the border swore that they had never won such a hearty victory. In the past, when they saw these warlike Tierdans plundering, they could only passively defend themselves.
Once they left the city, they would be no match for these powerful Tieldan people and would be forced to defend.
Every soldier of the Jing Dynasty was chasing after the Tieldan people and killing them to vent their resentment. When winter came, the Tieldan people would go south to plunder, and they could only watch from inside the city as these beasts looted everything outside the city and killed people everywhere.
Many soldiers of the Jing Dynasty were from nearby villages. They watched their hometown being ravaged by beasts but were powerless to stop it. They worked hard for half a year every year, waiting for the harvest, but all the spoils were taken away by these people. The civilians in the border areas were always in poverty and hunger.
Chen Kaishi had fought in wars for more than ten years and naturally knew the principle of not chasing a desperate enemy. Seeing that the Tieldan people had disappeared, he did not continue to chase them.
A desperate dog will jump over the wall. Without the deterrent of gunpowder, he had no confidence in defeating the Tierdan people.
He led the smiling soldiers back happily and sent people to clean up the battlefield.
This was a rare victory! The soldiers who left the city were almost unscathed, except for a few unlucky soldiers who were hit by stray arrows during the initial attack of the Teldan people.
King Tierdan gathered his defeated soldiers and fled deep into the grassland until he could no longer see the pursuers behind him. He turned around and looked dejectedly at the soldiers who were less than half of his original number.
He knew that after today he would no longer be King Tierdan. The army he led had suffered such a devastating defeat. In the Tierdan tribe, the strong were respected, and it was impossible for him to continue leading the tribe.
Now that Jingchao has such a powerful thing, their living environment will definitely become worse in the future.
King Tierdan didn't believe it was a punishment from the Wolf King, but his subordinates believed it, as they had become afraid of fighting against the Jing Dynasty and their military morale was already low.
When they face the soldiers of Jing Dynasty again in the future, they will be afraid before the battle, their morale will be weakened by three points, and they will no longer be able to exert their previous fighting power.
After Chen Kaishi and Xu Yanrui cleaned up the battlefield, they handed in the battle report.
Seven days later.
"Great victory in Dengzhou! Great victory in Dengzhou!"
The young lady with a red scarf riding a fast horse galloped along the road in Kyoto.
In the imperial palace.
"Urgent news! Great victory in Dengzhou!"
The ministers immediately started discussing the news. This victory report was like a bomb dropped into deep water. Everyone was shocked and couldn't believe it.
Ever since the news came that the Tierdan people were going south to plunder, no one was in favor of going to war. They all wanted to spend some money to get rid of them as they did in the past. At most, they could marry a princess or a county lady to the alliance. As long as they could avoid war, all this would be worth it.
Gunpowder was a secret weapon in the army, and the emperor had never revealed it to his court officials.
Although he was very confident in gunpowder, he was not sure until the battle report arrived, and he was always worried. Now when he heard the victory news, he hurriedly called people in. The young cavalryman who came to report the victory weakly handed the battle report to the young eunuch. Quan An went down to take the battle report and handed it to the old emperor with both hands.
"Dengzhou... great victory... our army... great victory!" The young rider traveled day and night, changing horses but not men, and it took him seven consecutive days to reach the capital. After completing the mission, he fainted with peace of mind.
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