Chapter 1386: How to Arrange

"Regarding their Heavenly Thunder, do you have anything else to say?"

Seeing Jiebing's intense thirst for knowledge now, Jiang Ming explained everything clearly: "Based on our experience, we cannot huddle too closely together; try to disperse as much as possible. This way, a single Heavenly Thunder will not cause us too severe damage, and one blast of Heavenly Thunder won't kill many people. If we huddle too close, too many people will die instead."

Jiebing stroked his beard and said, "Good, then that is settled. We will choose a suitable night, one where the moon is not so bright, and then let the women go in front first. We will disperse; the women in the front, the Soldiers in the back."

"As long as they release the Heavenly Thunder, it will hit the women first, and more men will be able to be preserved."

"Furthermore, perhaps their Heavenly Thunder cannot be fired continuously. If the women exhaust it, that would be even better. If they don't waste Heavenly Thunder on the women, then let the women kill them. As long as they hold a Weapon, even a child can kill a person."

"As for women, if they die, they die. We can just seize their women later; they surely brought women with them too."

"I will have the Shaman perform divination to see which day will be overcast, and we will act at night."

Jiebing perfected the plan, and once the Jiang brothers heard it, they agreed, as there was truly no problem. They had no other choice; to win the war, they had to make sacrifices. Whether to let women die or Soldiers die, they could still distinguish the gravity of the situation.

It was just that they could not turn back now, because the people on the opposite side had already cleared the Traps all the way to the foot of the mountain. There were no more Traps there, but they seemed uneasy and continued to advance. Such a bold move made even the Soldiers of the Jiebing Tribe at the very front feel a bit panicked.

Although they were numerous, they were also afraid of the Heavenly Thunder. Were the people on the opposite side relying on something to be so unscrupulous?

But in reality, those Soldiers felt that since they had cleared the area up to this point, it was best to clean it out completely at once. What if the enemy had left some safe zones in between and then set up more Traps? Safety first. At this distance, it was still safe for the Jiebing Tribe, and if they discovered the enemy's intention to charge, they could quickly retreat without fear of being left behind.

Only after they were certain there were no more Traps, because it was the zone where the enemy would have to charge first, did the Soldiers of Huaxia and the Xuanyuan Tribe begin to retreat. They had cleared all the Traps; now it was safe.

The ambushing enemy had been discovered, the Traps had been cleared, and the first enemy force that came to cut off their rear had been repelled. The crisis for the Huaxia and Xuanyuan Tribe Alliance was temporarily resolved, but since they were unfamiliar enemies, they dared not let their guard down.

Regarding the number of enemies currently faced, the Explosives brought from Huaxia were completely sufficient. After all, it was not the era of full firearms; the Bomb was just a tool for dividing the battlefield, deterrence, and large-scale strikes, not a sniper rifle that required killing everyone one by one. But the problem was that it was only the beginning of the year, and this was the first wave of enemies they had encountered. Although they were very strong, if they used up all the Bombs on them, what would they do in the days to come?

They would certainly advance. As long as they advanced, they would definitely encounter the people of the Shennong Clan, because they were heading toward Changyang Mountain, and as they got closer, they would encounter more and more enemies.

Sending a letter to Huaxia City by pigeon, asking Huaxia City to hand the Bombs to the Xuanyuan Tribe, and then having the Xuanyuan Tribe send the Bombs over—this would take more than half a year. By the time they really needed them, it would be too late.

Moreover, without people from Huaxia watching the whole time, the Bombs could not be casually handed over to the Xuanyuan Tribe. After all, the people of the Xuanyuan Tribe were very "eager to learn." Once they secretly obtained a little, and if someone with a special talent—like someone with a dog's nose—cracked the composition of the Explosive, it would be a huge loss.

This time, the Explosives were delivered under the personal watch of Huaxia Soldiers. It was only after reaching the Tribal Alliance that they brought some people to help transport the Bombs, but it was basically under the eyes of the Huaxia Soldiers. Furthermore, they did not know what those things were and would not think to take them. Unlike the Soldiers of the Xuanyuan Tribe, who might have each received a mission: as long as they could get a pinch of Huaxia's Explosive, they could enjoy eternal wealth and glory.

Under the cooperative relationship, there was still endless scheming, so the Bombs had to be guarded by their own people. Every box containing Explosives had a seal on it, specifically to prevent it from being opened.

After opening, whatever was not used had to be counted, registered, repacked, and then resealed. There were specialized Soldiers responsible for this; it concerned the foundation of Huaxia and could not be handled carelessly. It was precisely this strict system that kept the hands of the Xuanyuan Tribe at bay. Xuanyuan had truly arranged for people to investigate what the Bombs were.

Such a powerful, such a terrifying thing—his brothers had it, his neighbors had it, but he did not, and he couldn't even figure out what it was. How could this let anyone sleep? No one could help but have ideas.

Regarding the current situation, the idea of Xuanyuan and Lu was to stabilize first and see how the opposite side would move and what they wanted to do. Because the move Jiebing made had already been countered by them, this high slope had become the greatest advantage again; if they didn't take it, there was no way to fight.

The Alliance, occupying the advantage, naturally focused on stability. Moreover, they were not worried about food for the time being, and the Logistics Team would continue to send supplies over. The ones who couldn't sit still would definitely be the enemy.

As long as they moved, they could dismantle their moves; it just depended on what the enemy prepared to do. Lu also sighed that while the Telescope he made could see what the enemy was doing, there was no object that could hear what others were saying from a very long distance.

Previously, he had asked Wang, and Baifeng said there was indeed such a thing, but he didn't know how to make it; the technical difficulty was truly too great. In Huaxia, the Telescope had only been updated a few generations.

From the simplest two lenses, it had increased to several lenses, making the imaging clearer, though the production difficulty was greater. But the development of technology was just like that; if you don't research and don't explore, how can you progress?

The progress of the Telescope was not also the progress of optics? Although further progress wouldn't be of much help to Huaxia, it could pave the way for future development.

Especially now, Huaxia had equipped ordinary people with the Convex Lens because it was more convenient for starting fires. Carrying it with them meant they didn't need to consider the issue of replacing the core of the Fire Tinder, but the Fire Tinder could not be completely replaced; after all, at night and on overcast days, the Convex Lens was useless.