"Master, all the catapults are ready! Please tell me whether to attack the target." Gao Yanfu, wearing a star armor and a Pixiu helmet on his head, ran to the four-wheeler with a "bang, bang" and asked Li Xian sitting in the car with his hands.

"Attack!" Li Xian was also wearing a dragon-patterned star armor and a dragon helmet. He tried hard to sit upright and waved on the four-wheeler.

"Get order!" Gao Yanfu responded loudly, then quickly ran to the catapult car twenty steps away. His legs deliberately exerted force, causing his body to run up and down, causing the hem of the Yaoxing Armor to collide with the iron-wrapped boots, and made a "bang" sound along the way.

Emperor Yingtian Shenlong Li Xian was not attracted by the clanging sound of iron armor at all. All his eyes were focused on the five catapults in a row twenty steps away.

These five cars were personally supervised by Zhang Qian, a military supervisor, the military weapon supervisor, and each car had a bronze medal for inspection. The surface of the bronze medal, the numbers of the supervisor and maker, were clearly engraved.

The gunpowder bullet loaded in the catapult cart was also personally supervised by Zhang Qian. Although the war on the side of Sailye was in full swing, Zhang Qian still sent people to transport a total of 100 gunpowder bullets back to Chang'an. He also drew the secret recipe for black gunpowder configuration and the manufacturing process of gunpowder bullets into a picture album with written instructions, and asked Zhang Shuo to send it to the palace.

In his memorial to Emperor Li Xian of the Dragon, Zhang Qian explained very solemnly that black gunpowder and gunpowder bullets were all obtained by his master's knowledge on the way to Shule. The reason why he entered the palace so late was that this thing was too dangerous and that if he was not careful when using it, it would cause a disaster. In order to avoid threatening the safety of the Lord and the Queen of the Saint, he did not dare to let the thing approach the palace before mastering the performance of this thing. Secondly, it was because when this thing was just made, there were many defects, and Zhang Qian himself did not know how effective it was in actual combat. In order to avoid making a ugliness, he needed to verify it many times before he dared to take it out for His Majesty the Dragon Emperor to read it.

Now, through repeated improvements and actual combat inspections, Zhang Qian has explored the complete manufacturing steps, usage methods and practical effects. Therefore, he sent his subordinates to send the physical objects and manufacturing manuals back to Chang'an. He entrusted his old boss Zhang Shuo to present them to His Majesty Yingtian Shenlong Emperor. He asked His Majesty Yingtian Shenlong Emperor to send his confidant to verify it, and then decide whether to make a large amount of manufacturing by the military weapon supervisor? He distributed it to the army.

In addition, in the letter, Zhang Qian was still thinking about reminding Emperor Yingtian Shenlong that black gunpowder is a very evil thing. The method of manufacturing should be read by the emperor and handed over to a special person for proper collection. The specific manufacturing location should be kept away from the palace. The specific manufacturing personnel should give generous rewards and restrict them from leaving Chang'an.

Finally, Zhang Qian proposed without hesitation that the manufacturing department of black gunpowder should not be handed over to foreigners to control it. Moreover, officials of various departments are not allowed to write it into books and spread it to the world. If anyone who seeks fame and reputation has leaked the manufacturing method for his own selfishness? He begs His Majesty Yingtian Shenlong to cut him into pieces and then carve his name and bad deeds on the stone, which will make him infamous for thousands of years!

"This guy? Do you think I am a fool?" Thinking of the "nonsense" in Zhang Qian's memorial, Li Xian couldn't help but smile and curl his lips.

Without thinking carefully, he knew that the so-called "on the way to Shule, based on the knowledge of the master, he could understand what he gained" was Zhang Qian's desire to cover up. The gunpowder bullet in front of him must be the same thing as the fire meteor that blown up the altar that day. Or, at least, it was "uncle and uncle brother".

However, Li Xian did not want to investigate in depth, nor did he want to consider whether Zhang Qian's behavior "deceives the emperor"?

If you are a human being, you will inevitably have some small secrets. No matter how loyal the minister is, he will not show all the secrets to the royal family without reservation. What's more, with Zhang Qian's status and strength at that time, if he hadn't had some powerful "magic weapons" hidden in him, he would have been joined by Buddhism and Princess Taiping, and he would have eaten nothing left. How could he have the opportunity to go to the Western Regions to recover the lost territory for the Tang Dynasty?!

"Forget it, let him compare his merits and demerits. I don't ask about what he had deliberately concealed before, and he can't even get promoted with the formula of black powder and gunpowder bullets." He slowly stretched in the sun, and Li Xian continued to murmur in his heart. "Otherwise, if I really am gone one day, what else can the queen and the prince use to make him grateful?"

Thinking of how Zhang Qian could be arranged as the capable arm of his wife and the prince, the smile on Li Xian's face suddenly became a little mysterious. Back then, Emperor Taizong deliberately demoted Xu Shiji's official position again and again before his death, which scared Xu Shiji so much that he couldn't sleep at night.

After his father ascended the throne, he immediately entrusted Xu Shiji with important tasks. As a result, Xu Shiji became a sword of the Heavenly Reflexology under his father. When used outside, he could plow the Goguryeo to sweep the cave. When used at home, he would intimidate a group of powerful ministers not dare to act rashly!

"If you use the same method to suppress Zhang Qian..." A sudden light of inspiration appeared in his heart, and his thoughts could not be controlled immediately. However, soon, he shook his head again.

It is difficult to suppress, Zhang Qian is so capable of making contributions! He just quelled the Soge Rebellion for him last year, and this year he beat the invaders of the Shi Kingdom to run away. If he made such a great contribution to the country, he would not be promoted to the title, but instead would be demoted. Who would dare to expand territory for the Tang Dynasty in the future?!

"The emperor has an order, aim at the target!" Gao Yanfu's voice rang twenty steps away, deliberately dragging out a long tail rhyme.

Li Xian's thoughts were quickly pulled out of a lot of troubles. His eyes were re-concentrated on the catapult cart, without blinking.

Gao Yanfu asked Li Xian again for advice, but the latter nodded with a smile.

"Attack!" Gao Yanfu no longer made any delays and decisively waved the flag down.

Five well-trained guards bent down at the same time and lit the newly installed leads on the gunpowder bullet with moxa velvet. The five small guard leaders stepped on the mechanism with their feet as Gao Yanfu waved the flag.

"Swoosh" five gunpowder bullets were thrown high into the air by the arms, dragging light green smoke into the sky one hundred and twenty steps away, and many scarecrows were placed. Then, the explosion was shocking.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!" The soil soared into the air with the fire and smoke. On the earth mountain, two tea trees were broken on the spot, and one of them was pushed crooked by the smoke. The trunks were instantly covered with miserable green gaps.

Looking at the scarecrow placed on the earthen mountain in advance, most of the half was torn apart by shrapnel. The remaining half was also shaken, and some even wisps of black smoke came out!

"Okay, okay!" Li Xian shouted excitedly and stroked his palms. Instinctively wanted to walk to the next to the dirt mountain and personally inspect the results. However, as soon as his body stood up, his waist and thighs lost their strength at the same time. With a "thump", he fell back to the four-wheeler.

"Prince, be careful!" Xue Sijian, the right gate general of the gatekeeper, was so scared that he rushed to the four-wheeled car, hugging Li Xian's upper body tightly with both hands, in case Li Xian could not even sit firmly, and fell to the ground and fell to the blue face.

"Get out!" Li Xian stretched out his hand impatiently and pushed Xue Sijian aside. Then, he turned his head and scolded the group of scared little eunuchs behind the four-wheeler, "Are they all dead? Can't even push a cart? Push me to the earthen mountain, I..."

"Master, I will push you, I will push you!" Xue Sijian immediately understood that he had just flattered the horse's leg, and rushed to the four-wheeler and tried hard to make up for his mistakes.

Xue Sijian was a popular man in the eyes of Empress Shuntian Wei Wushuang. Several young eunuchs dared not fight with him and turned sideways. The handrail on the back of the four-wheeler was quickly grabbed by Xue Sijian. Then, the body of the car moved forward steadily and quickly carried Li Xian to his designated destination.

Seeing this, Gao Yanfu hurriedly ordered people to stop operating the catapult car. He walked forward with a "bang" and gently held the body of the four-wheeler from the side.

"Let them continue to prepare. I will see the next round of attacks!" Li Xian's mood immediately began to improve. He turned his head to Gao Yanfu and ordered with a kind look.

"Yes!" Gao Yanfu decisively retracted his hand and quickly turned his body to the catapult cart. "The catapult cart is reloaded, and no leads are allowed to be placed on the gunpowder ammunition. After the preparation is completed, report immediately!"

"As for the order!" The guards agreed in unison, and then began to carry out a series of operations in an orderly manner. Roll the oars, use ropes and pulleys to pull the arms back to the position to be sent, tighten the mechanism, straighten the grenade basket, and place the gunpowder bullets that had pulled the leads one by one into the basket.

While they reloaded gunpowder bullets, Gao Yanfu and Xue Sijian pushed Li Xian to the Tushan Mountain. Although they were prepared in their hearts, Li Xian was still shocked by several huge bullet craters on the Tushan Mountain and sucked several air conditioners. Then, his eyes quickly glanced at the bombed grass man around him, and stroking his palms excitedly again, "Okay, okay, I have this thing, why worry about the immortality of the Turks? Gao Yanfu, push me to the side of the throwing cart, I want to drop the bombs in person!"

"Yes!" Gao Yanfu agreed, pushed up the four-wheeler and left. Xue Sijian, the general of the right gatekeeper, looked at Li Xian's red face because of excessive excitement, and carefully reminded, "Master, the catapult car is a clumsy after all, and the guards..."

"You have nothing to do with this, don't talk too much!" Li Xian turned around and glared at him, scolding him sternly.

"I know my mistake, please forgive me!" Xue Sijian was so scared that she shuddered, and quickly bowed down, blushed and admitted her mistake.

"I have no chance to rush forward like Emperor Taizong in my life." Li Xian looked at him again and sighed softly, "Fortunately, the country's powerful weapon is enough to make the Turks scared. Today I fired a gunpowder bullet with my own hands, just pretend that I have been on the battlefield. Gao Yanfu, after the five wheels are fired, you will send someone to Zhang Renyuan to send these five catapults. Even if you are strong enough for the soldiers of Shuofang!"

As he was talking, two lines of tears flowed uncontrollably on his face. Gao Yanfu felt sad when he saw it. He quickly handed the four-wheeler to Xue Sijian, then took a handkerchief and helped him wipe his tears. Li Xian raised his hand and wiped it with tears, "It's okay, I'm happy. When I just returned to Chang'an, the Turks knocked on the gate, and the queen actually sent Wu Yanxiu to marry! He was born as a man, but Wu Yanxiu didn't feel humiliated, but I was feeling uncomfortable at that time. Now, I want to see which barbarian dares to let my Tang Dynasty man marry into a marriage?!"

"Your Majesty is wise!" Gao Yanfu and Xue Sijian praised at the same time, but they each sighed secretly in their hearts.

Gao Yanfu sighed that Emperor Shenlong probably could not get rid of the shadow of the Great Sage Queen Zetian. Many times, rather than trying to be a wise monarch, he was trying to prove that Empress Zetian's behavior of driving him off the throne back then was very wrong.

What Xue Sijian sighed was that the Dragon Emperor Li Xian did not know the importance of it. No matter how powerful the combination of the catapult cart and gunpowder bullets was, it was just a weapon of war. It could not determine the throne or replace the country. The Tang Dynasty was about to be named Wei, but Li Xian, as the emperor, was unaware of this, or was indifferent.

"Gao Yanfu, have you made the gunpowder by yourself? How effective?" Li Xian did not feel the emotional changes between Gao Yanfu and Xue Sijian at all. He raised his hand and rubbed his face a few times, and asked with a smile.

"If you go back to the emperor, I personally made 100 kilograms, and the effect was exactly the same as what Zhang Zhenshou sent back." Gao Yanfu responded proudly without thinking. "The gunpowder bullets, the old slave also went to the military weapon supervision to supervise the craftsmen to create two. The power seems to be even greater than what Zhang Zhenshou sent back."

"Huh? Why?" Li Xian was happy when he heard this, but instinctively asked.

"According to the report of Guo Nu, the chief of the Gunpowder Department, the craftsmen in the military weapon supervision are the best in the Tang Dynasty, so the shells they made are several times stronger than those of the Broken Leaf." Intentionally trying to make Li Xian happy, Gao Yanfu reported exaggeratedly.

"Oh, I really didn't expect this!" Li Xian was indeed very happy and nodded with a smile. Then, he quickly ordered, "You ask the military weapon supervisor to make more shells and send them to Zhang Qian. When it comes to making weapons, no one in the world is stronger than him. But he is alone after all, and it is probably difficult to find a suitable craftsman in the Western Regions."

"Yes!" Gao Yanfu bowed with a smile.

"Are there any new battle reports from the Sailye side recently? I remember that last time a special service in Shiguo led his troops to invade. After being defeated by Zhang Qian, he immediately led his troops to chase into Shiguo. I wonder where he was chasing him?" Li Xian was happy, and his thoughts began to diverge again, and his words quickly moved to Zhang Qian himself. "Shiguo is just a scabies itch, and there is no need to pay attention to it. He would raise an army earlier to meet Zhang Renyuan, and to destroy the Turks for me, it would be serious."

"If you return to the emperor, there is no war report yet." Gao Yanfu thought for a while and responded carefully, "However, the Baiqisi has heard some rumors recently and is verifying them with all his strength."

"What rumors? But Zhang Qian suffered a loss in Shiguo?" Li Xian's brows quickly frowned and asked nervously.

He was not familiar with the place and only had a few thousand soldiers under his command. Even with gunpowder bullets and bullets, Li Xian was not optimistic about the result of Zhang Qian's rash attack into the territory of Shiguo.

But as the emperor, he didn't want to vent the anger of his soldiers, so he did not express his worries publicly. He rarely cared about the affairs in the court now, so as not to feel like his puppet because of his interference.

"Don't suffer any loss, don't worry. The rumor is that Yi Hu was captured by Zhang Qian and promised to pay 20,000 taels of gold to redeem himself. After Zhang Zhenshou let him go, he immediately turned against him. He also took all the Tang merchants in Talas City to the city wall as meat shields. Zhang Zhenshou was furious and set a fire to burn the city of Talas to white land." Gao Yanfu quickly lowered his head and responded in a low voice. "However, the rumor may not be accurate. Seeing that the situation is not good, the Shi people abandoned the city and fled and set fire to the city by themselves. It is also very likely that the emperor forgives his crimes. Anxi is too far away. Even if it is the Baiqisi, it will take half a month to send the news back."

"Talas, where is Talas?" Emperor Shenlong Li Xian was extremely unfamiliar with the places west of the Pamir Mountains and asked with a frown.

"It is said to be the third largest city in the Shi Kingdom, and it seems to be more than 1,300 miles away from the Sacred Leaf." Gao Yanfu was not familiar with the situation west of the Pamir Mountains. After thinking hard for a long time, he gave a general answer. "It seems to be four or five hundred miles away from the capital of the Shi Kingdom. The king of the Shi Kingdom, at the time of the late emperor, asked to be attached and was named the governor of Dayuan. However, more than 20 years ago, the king of the country was traitor and refused to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty again."

"Has Talas been discussed in the court for being burned? What do you say?" Li Xian was not interested in whether the Lord of Shi Kingdom had ever been an official in the Tang Dynasty, and quickly asked about the movements of the court.

"Old slave, I don't know very well." Gao Yanfu's face showed a look of hesitation and his voice quickly became lower. "Old slave is an in-house minister and dare not care too much about the affairs in the court. However, I have recently vaguely heard that the court had a strong debate on whether Zhang Zhenshou should pursue into the enemy territory. As for the fire of Talas, the official news should not be sent back, so it was not included in the scope of the discussion."

"What are you arguing about?" Li Xian's face quickly became gloomy and continued to dig into the bottom line.

"It seems that someone impeached Zhang Zhenshou and started a war without asking for instructions. But I didn't dare to inquire about the final conclusion in the court." Gao Yanfu pressed his voice lower and his back quickly became hunched.

"Fart! Everyone is farting!" Li Xian was immediately furious and cursed in a very disagreeable language. Then, he ordered in a deep voice: "Who impeached? Gao Yanfu, please find his name? Then, I asked the queen to kick him back to his hometown! Shuye is thousands of miles away from Chang'an, and the message is transmitted for at least one month. If the other party comes to the door, Zhang Qian even needs to ask for instructions on whether to fight back. How could he defend the city?! He was beaten to the door of his house. If he doesn't fight back, what else can I use to intimidate the four barbarians!"

"I obey the order!" Gao Yanfu did not dare to respond and bowed to agree.

"A bunch of idiots!" Li Xianyu's anger was not gone, and he continued to whisper. After cursing, he knew that the problem might not be the censor. He hesitated for a moment and continued to instruct, "Forget it, when the Holy Queen goes to court, I will tell her directly. By the way, what's the big, big? What's the name of the city that was set on fire by Zhang Qian?"

"Talas!" Gao Yanfu whispered.

"Yes, Talas!" Li Xian raised his hand and slapped his head in annoyance, "My memory is really getting worse every day! No matter whether it is big or small, Zhang Zhenshou burned it right. Those who dare to take my people as flesh shields should destroy his country. Burning a city to show punishment is too kind!"

"The Lord is wise!" Gao Yanfu and Xue Sijian listened to relieve themselves, and bowed to praise them at the same time.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a cheer not far away, and the content was vaguely similar to the praises of the two. "The saint queen is wise, and I am ashamed of myself!"

Li Xian, sitting on the four-wheeled car, quickly looked up and saw his wife walking into the imperial garden with a spring breeze surrounded by Princess Anle, Shangguan Wan'er, Xiao Zhizhong, Zong Chuke, Dou Huaizhen, Cen Xi and other ministers!
Chapter completed!