Chapter 725: Blow It Up!

Everyone was stunned.

So, this wasn't thirty million gold!

These were all cannons and cannonballs!

This...

Everyone gasped.

Did this Vice Minister Liu want to blow up the mountain?

This...

No one had expected his idea to be so bold!

This...

Xie Fang was dumbfounded.

Xie Ming was also dumbfounded.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Everyone knew how big this mountain was... did Liu Zheng actually want to raze this mountain to the ground?

Nothing like this had ever happened in the entire Longyan!

"This..."

"Vice Minister Liu..."

"Absolutely not!"

"This is a mountain left behind by our ancestors!"

"This will offend the mountain gods!"

Amidst their shock, everyone came to their senses, followed by an uproar throughout the scene, with all sorts of things being said.

Since ancient times, the Longyan have been very superstitious about mountains and rivers.

Especially with a mountain as large as Wangchuan; some even say it concerns the entire landscape of Qingzhou and Liaodong. To be even more mystical, it might even possess the aura of a dragon's rise. The veins! The great mountains of all Longyan are all veins! What if this place is also some kind of dragon vein?

Blow up the mountain!

Absolutely not!

Liu Zheng sneered coldly: "If it blocks people's path, why can't it be blown up?"

"If people cannot pass, why can't it be blown up?"

He pointed at the mountain and roared: "Because of this mountain, how many years has the land of Liaodong been cut off from our Longyan Zhongyuan? You tell me, why can't it be blown up?"

This...

This series of questions left everyone speechless.

Yes.

In fact, the straight-line distance from Taixi Stockade to the land of Liaodong is very short; one just needs to cross this mountain to arrive.

But it is the existence of this mountain...

That forces merchants, farmers, and laborers since ancient times to take a two-month detour just to get across, and sometimes, they can't even make it in two months!

This mountain blocks the entire Liaodong!

This mountain has cast Liaodong out of Longyan!

This mountain has made people almost forget the existence of Liaodong!

What if this mountain were gone?

Suddenly, everyone shuddered.

In terms of traditional concepts, they were resistant.

However, Vice Minister Liu's words did not seem wrong.

"Vice Minister Liu..."

"My Lord..."

"This..."

"But..."

Everyone still wanted to persuade him.

"Set them up!"

Liu Zheng didn't care about that; he waved his hand.

Clatter.

The cannons were lined up.

Clatter.

The soldiers began to dig trenches and bury explosives.

Everyone's expression changed.

They turned and ran, putting some distance between themselves and the site. Because everyone knew that Vice Minister Liu's personality in Longyan was absolutely resolute. And even if others disagreed now, there was nothing they could do. He had so many soldiers here, plus the support of the three big shots: the Prince of Wei, the Prince of Yong, and Tie Mucheng.

"Madman! He is absolutely a madman!"

Xie Fang shouted angrily, but he also hurriedly fled the scene.

Xie Ming also had a sinister look on his face.

The Prince of Wei reminded him from the side: "Vice Minister Liu, that Pei Qianyun..."

Liu Zheng chuckled: "Rest assured, I have it under control."

At this moment.

On the pavilion in Wangchuan Valley.

Ji Yong squatted down, looked at Pei Qianyun in the cage, and chuckled: "Did you hear that? Two hundred thousand troops, that is two hundred thousand troops!"

Click, click, click, click.

The Liaodong Army behind the pavilion was still in the midst of maneuvering and lying in ambush.

"Your Vice Minister Liu should be arriving soon as well..."

Ji Yong laughed wildly: "General Pei, everyone says you are the Longyan First Warrior, the number one fierce general. Then please take a look, in this valley of ours, with these two hundred thousand troops of ours, how many men will you need to be able to stop us, hmm?"

"Let me go! You coward!"

Pei Qianyun continued to roar in anger.

His eyes were splitting, and his hands, gripping the Iron Cage, were already bleeding, but he did not feel the pain at all.

"Trash!"

Ji Yong laughed heartily: "Today I am going to let you see how your master, Vice Minister Liu, dies! Watch obediently, watch obediently..."

At this moment.

The two hundred thousand troops had finished their ambush.

Ji Yong took a look.

He knew of Vice Minister Liu's reputation in Longyan; this fellow moved troops like a god, simply with supernatural skill. Therefore, this time, in addition to the two hundred thousand troops of Liaodong Commandery, he had also summoned the thirty thousand Barbarians in the mountains! With them, it would surely be like adding wings to a tiger, and taking down Vice Minister Liu would be no problem at all!

"General... I heard from their leader that ten Barbarians went missing a few days ago..."

A Lieutenant reminded him from the side.

A look of disdain flashed in the depths of Ji Yong's eyes, and he smiled coldly: "This bunch of Barbarians are born without any sense of military discipline; who knows which female monkey they found to go off and have some fun with? Why bother about them?"

Everyone heard this and laughed loudly.

What they did not notice was.

At this time, the ten Barbarians they were talking about, who had gone missing, had already returned to the ranks. With a thirty-thousand-strong Barbarian army, no one had paid much attention to ten being missing or ten being added. But as soon as these ten Barbarians appeared, they quickly ran to their leader and muttered something.

Naturally, others could not understand them.

But the Barbarian leader's expression changed drastically upon hearing it.

The ten men nodded hurriedly, their expressions very grave.

But at this moment, the Barbarian ranks were truly too chaotic.

The leader pulled these ten Barbarians to the side and said something more. Only then did the ten Barbarians nod one after another, their eyes darting around, and finally, they all landed on the Iron Cage on the pavilion over there.

Blow up the mountain!

They had been told by Liu Zheng that this mountain was about to be blown up!

The thirty thousand Barbarians had to find a way out for themselves, otherwise, they would surely be blown to death in this mountain along with the two hundred thousand troops!

After this period of taming, the ten Barbarians no longer had any doubts about what Liu Zheng said.

Furthermore...

Liu Zheng was willing to reveal this because he wanted to save the lives of these Barbarians!

The Barbarians soon received this information; they had initially started wailing and shouting, but were quickly suppressed by their leader.

What to do?

Run!

When to run?

Run when the mountain is blown up! These Liaodong Commandery soldiers wouldn't be able to escape, but they were Barbarians! At that time, they would also take the opportunity to kill a few of these Liaodong people who had oppressed and enslaved them for so many years!

It was decided!

Ji Yong was still in high spirits, still teasing Pei Qianyun in the cage; no one noticed that the ten "heavily painted" Barbarians were slowly approaching.

Mainly because Pei Qianyun kept roaring, which left Ji Yong with no time to pay attention to this side.

And this bunch of Liaodong Army soldiers naturally would not be on guard against this group, who in their eyes were simply beasts.

"General, their numbers are increasing!"

"General, they have started entering the valley!"

"General..."

One message after another came in.

Ji Yong stood up excitedly: "Wait, wait a little longer, wait for more people to come in!"

He wanted to become famous in a single battle!