Chapter 259

The remaining people were either missing an arm or a leg!

"This... what is this?"

At that moment, Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu was utterly stunned; his face filled with shock and disbelief as he stared at the scene before him, his head buzzing!

Countless Xiongnu Generals and soldiers dropped to their knees with a thud, shouting "Doom!" while others cried out "Heaven's Punishment!"

Others shouted, begging the Eternal Heaven for mercy!

"The Eternal Heaven is magnanimous and benevolent; we Xiongnu people have never shown the slightest disrespect to the Eternal Heaven!"

"Eternal Heaven, spare our lives!"

"Eternal Heaven, spare our lives!"

"The Eternal Heaven is generous; spare our lives! Spare our lives!"

At that moment, everyone knelt on the ground, bowing their heads repeatedly, prostrating themselves again and again!

At the same time, they cried out repeatedly, begging the Eternal Heaven for mercy!

Some chanted spells, others slaughtered horses on the spot, and some even began killing people to sacrifice to the Eternal Heaven!

This was not their fault.

After all... this was a cannon!

Although gunpowder had appeared during the Han Dynasty!

However, the use of gunpowder, first for setting off fireworks, appeared no earlier than the Tang Dynasty.

It was only after the Song Dynasty that it was officially applied to military use!

Fire lances and cannons only began to appear at this very moment!

When these things first appeared, even the Han people regarded them as divine beings.

When the first shot was fired, countless soldiers, commoners, and nobles knelt and bowed, worshipping the heavens!

This was in the Central Plains, and among those Shijia Sect families who frequently studied books!

But now?

What time is it now?

It is the Qin Dynasty!

Although gunpowder had been discovered, it had not yet been used at all!

Even when explosions occurred, people did not know why they exploded!

No one could utilize or control gunpowder!

In this era, the appearance of such a miraculous thing as a cannon, with people regarding it as a deity and believing it to be the wrath of the heavens, was not strange at all.

After all, such things were truly too difficult to understand.

No matter how fierce Li Yuanba was, he was still just a human; being able to fight off hundreds of thousands of soldiers could be understood as innate divine strength, and people could still accept it!

But what about gunpowder?

It appeared mysteriously among the crowd!

Then, with a boom, dozens or even hundreds of people died!

What principle is this? What is happening?

Completely unclear!

Completely incomprehensible!

It had never been seen before!

This thing was truly too miraculous, far exceeding the knowledge of the grassland people.

At this moment, even Chanyu Modu Chanyu Modu Chanyu, the wisest, most ruthless, and most valiant person on the grasslands, seeing this scene, was immensely shocked; he looked into the distance, his knees involuntarily bending, involuntarily about to kneel and prostrate himself!

But... at the very moment he was about to kneel, he forcibly stopped himself.

It was not that he sensed something!

Nor was it that he did not believe in the Eternal Heaven!

It was just... it seemed absurd!

We grassland people worship the Eternal Heaven; the Eternal Heaven is even our grassland people's guardian deity!

But why would the Eternal Heaven help the enemy to attack the grassland people?

"Eternal Heaven, open your eyes and look; here, all are your people!"

"They are not your enemies; they are all your most loyal believers!"

He shouted, then looked up to the sky, raising his hands, meaning to offer everything he had to the Eternal Heaven!

However, what greeted him was a cannonball!

Boom!

Another explosion rang out!

A cannonball landed among the crowd once more!

A dull thud, more shocking than thunder!

In that instant, dozens more people were blown flying!

Dozens more people died miserably!

"Ahhh!"

At that moment, many Xiongnu people lost all hope.

They shouted and began to flee rapidly backward!

Others shouted that the Eternal Heaven intended to destroy the world; if they did not run now, it would be too late!

"The Eternal Heaven is not refusing to help us, but intends to use its divine power to destroy this vast area!"

"Run!"

"Run!"

"If we don't run now, it will be too late!"

At that moment, they shouted, each one fleeing madly toward the rear!

The great army was in utter chaos; almost everyone was fleeing for their lives!

Even Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu's heart trembled with fear.

At this moment, staring at the exploding shells in the distance, he kept asking himself in his heart: What is this?

Is the Eternal Heaven truly unleashing its wrath?

He understood even less why, if the Eternal Heaven was angry, it would not use its divine power to kill the Qin Army, but instead come to kill his grassland people?

He understood none of this at all!

But... staring into the distance, staring at the marshland not far away, he ground his teeth in fury!

What were these two hundred thousand men rushing into this marshland for?

Was it to kill Li Cunxiao and Li Yuanba?

Was it even more to capture Facing Ying Su alive?

But now... are they just going to run away like this?

"Kill!"

"Charge through this marshland! We will kill Facing Ying Su, kill Li Cunxiao, kill Li Yuanba!"

At that moment, he shouted loudly!

But... everyone on the grassland believes in the Eternal Heaven; everyone is the Eternal Heaven's most loyal believer!

Now, believing the Eternal Heaven is angry, every single person is afraid to fight!

All the armies only think of fleeing; even Chanyu Modu Chanyu Modu Chanyu could hardly command this army anymore.

At this moment, truly, everyone was fleeing!

But Chanyu Modu, as the leader of the grassland and as the current Chanyu Modu Chanyu Modu Chanyu, still possessed some ability!

Seeing the army in such utter chaos, he flew into a rage on the spot, then shouted aloud: "Whoever is the first to charge out of this marshland shall be rewarded with ten young women from the Central Plains!"

"Whoever cuts off the heads of Li Yuanba or Li Cunxiao shall be rewarded with one hundred young women from the Central Plains!"

"Whoever captures Facing Ying Su alive shall be rewarded with ten thousand young women from the Central Plains, granted the title of Left Xian Wang, given command of ten thousand slaves, one hundred thousand head of cattle and sheep, and three thousand li of grassland territory!"

He shouted loudly!

And under such heavy rewards, at this moment, some hearts were stirred, and the great army began to stop its turmoil!

But there were still countless loyal believers of the Eternal Heaven fleeing for their lives, shouting for the Eternal Heaven to destroy the world!

Such a cry made the already panicked crowd even more panicked; some fled, while others knelt on the ground, begging the Eternal Heaven not to unleash its wrath!