Chapter 1721: The Uses of White Sugar

It is not difficult to tie explosives to arrows and fire them.

The captain of the Longyan Cavalry soon finished crafting the explosive arrows, and the moment they spotted the enemy, they fired with precision.

Light the fuse, draw the bow, and nock the arrow.

They fired the explosive arrows one after another without any effort.

The sparse arrows flew down rapidly; upon seeing the arrows falling from the sky, the Crusaders did not retreat, but instead assumed a combat stance against the arrows.

In their view, these pitifully few arrows posed no danger to them at all, as long as they could withstand this wave of arrow attacks.

They would then launch an offensive and tear those who dared to attack them into pieces.

Regardless of who they are, those who dare to attack the supply team of the Crusaders will pay a heavy price.

The arrows fell, nailing into the shields.

This wave of arrows did not cause much damage to the Crusaders at all, and just as the Crusader captain gave a cold laugh and was about to launch an attack—

Boom!

An explosion that shook the valley suddenly resounded.

The Crusaders had no idea what was happening and were instantly blown into a state of chaos, with men and horses overturned.

The three-hundred-man team lost more than half their number in this explosion, and the surviving Crusaders were all injured to varying degrees.

Just as the Crusaders were still bewildered about what kind of attack they had encountered—

The Longyan Cavalry rode their War Horses down from the high ground at full speed!

"Kill!"

The battle cries shook the heavens.

It instantly panicked the Crusaders; after losing more than half their forces, they hurriedly tried to defend themselves, but these Crusaders had lost the initiative on the battlefield.

They were no match for the aggressive Longyan Army.

The slaughter did not last long and soon ended with the total annihilation of the Crusaders.

Looking at the scene of devastation, the Longyan Cavalrymen showed heartfelt smiles.

Their harvest this time was very bountiful; a full five or six carts of supplies, all filled with food and important strategic materials.

For their entire Longyan Army, these were extremely scarce supplies.

It was truly a case of getting a pillow just as one was feeling sleepy.

The Longyan Cavalry captain, still by the roaring bonfire, was instantly delighted; he immediately had the Longyan Army use the bonfire to warm up, and after pulling these supply carts away—

They dug pits and buried explosives along this stretch of road.

The Longyan Army was very fast; the previous explosion must have alerted the nearby Crusaders, and their reinforcements might arrive at any moment.

The Longyan Army quickly transported the supply carts to a safe place, and after filling in the remaining Landmines—

One Longyan Soldier asked worriedly: "Captain, we used up so many Landmines earlier; will these be enough?"

The captain glanced at him and said indifferently: "They will, I added white sugar to these Landmines."

"The power will absolutely be no problem."

Hearing this, that Longyan Soldier nodded as if he understood, and they quickly finished setting up the Landmines.

Then they retreated at high speed.

They kept a portion of these intercepted supplies as a supplement for their Guerrilla Warfare behind enemy lines, and decided to find an opportunity to send the rest back to the main force.

They hid these supplies in a mountain cave first.

And at the place where they had attacked the Crusader cavalry team, the scouting Crusader units soon arrived.

Seeing the scene of devastation, the Crusaders were furious.

Someone actually dared to rob their supplies; they immediately made the decision to search and capture them with all their might, and would never let those who dared to plunder their supplies go.

But just as the Crusaders were about to conduct further investigations—

They stepped onto the Landmines that the Longyan Army had buried long ago.

With a loud boom.

A commotion even more intense than the previous explosion spread for a hundred miles around Fang Yuan.

The Longyan Army, having hidden themselves, were already far from the battlefield, but the tremor still reached them, and even the earth shook three times!

The Crusaders who came to investigate did not survive this explosion.

The supply line they were originally transporting was also blown to pieces, completely unusable as a road.

However, the Longyan Army, feeling the aftershocks of the explosion, was stunned.

Although the Landmines manufactured by Longyan were very powerful, they shouldn't have been this strong.

Moreover, the number of Landmines they left behind was likely insufficient to blow up the road.

But hearing the commotion now, that supply line must have been blown to collapse.

Everyone looked at the Longyan Cavalry captain in unison; it was the Landmines he had tinkered with back then.

"Captain, what is going on?"

"Our Landmines shouldn't have this much power."

But looking at it now, the power of these Landmines was simply beyond their imagination.

The Longyan captain looked at them and chuckled: "I can tell you all didn't listen carefully in class."

"Do you know what this is?"

The Longyan captain took a handful of white granules out of his snakeskin bag, and everyone knew it at a glance.

"Isn't this salt or sugar? What does this stuff have to do with bombs?"

The Longyan captain chuckled: "Then do you know why sugar and salt are both strategic materials controlled by our Dragon Flame Nation?"

"Salt is for eating, and sugar is of course for eating too," everyone said without thinking.

The Dragon Flame captain threw a handful of sugar from his hand into the pot and said, "Eat, eat, eat, all you know is how to eat."

"Xiaolaizi, didn't I tell you that I added sugar to the Landmines?"

Xiaolaizi nodded; he had indeed said so.

The Dragon Flame captain said, "During class, our teacher said that sugar contains a large amount of energy, and if you put enough of it into explosives, the power of the bomb can be increased several times over."

"I put sugar in our Explosive Arrows, and I also put sugar in the Landmines; now you know why the power of these explosives is so great."

The crowd was stunned, looking at the sugar that had already dissolved in the water in the pot, feeling even more incredulous.

Xiaolaizi looked at the Dragon Flame captain with great curiosity and asked, "Captain, if adding sugar to a bomb can increase its power, then what is the principle behind this?"

"And if that's the case, couldn't we just stuff the bombs full of sugar?"

"After all, ever since Lord Liu Zheng reformed things, our Dragon Flame Nation is no longer short of sugar."

Hearing this series of questions from Xiaolaizi, the Dragon Flame captain did not know how to answer; he only knew that sugar could increase the power of explosives, but as for the specific principle, the teacher hadn't taught him, and he didn't know why either.

The Dragon Flame captain patted his head and said, "Eat quickly. After you finish eating, you still have to go scout for intelligence and see what kind of reaction the Holy Cross Army has."

Seeing that the captain was intentionally dodging his questions, Xiaolaizi did not continue to ask.

However, he decided that after he returned, he would ask the teachers in the army.

Since they said sugar could increase power, they should know what the principle was.

After Xiaolaizi finished his soup, he did not ride a horse; when scouting for intelligence, horses were too large and easily exposed, so he headed toward the supply line alone. The recent transcoding is severe; let us have more motivation to update faster. Please move your little hands to exit reading mode. Thank you.