nycdaug Chapter 1372
Chapter 1372
Seeing that the other side seemed poised to regroup, Xu Huizu sensed something was wrong.
But before the other party had even finished uttering that arrogant and boastful remark, the expressions on their faces changed again—their eyes widened, their expressions shifted in disbelief, fear, terror, and even despair, becoming more than ten times stronger than before!
Xu Huizu and the other Huaixi generals, who were looking at him with an air of certainty, frowned slightly, somewhat puzzled: "We're about to kill someone! What's wrong with you two? Have you gone mad? Why are you acting like this?"
As they spoke, the others followed the gaze of the man and looked behind Xu Huizu, including Xu Huizu himself, who subconsciously turned around to look.
If you don't want to look at it, then so be it.
At first glance...
The expressions on everyone's faces froze completely at that moment! — Wide eyes, disbelief, fear, terror… even despair…
For nothing else.
Instead, a whole bunch of "firearms" suddenly appeared around the young emperor, behind him, and even on the walls of the Alchemy Bureau!
It wasn't the kind of musket they were familiar with.
Instead, it was a musket almost identical in design to the one the young emperor held! And those wielding these muskets were none other than the group of men who had been standing beside the young emperor, dressed in what appeared to be the attire of artisans!
now.
Although their attire remained unchanged.
But when they held those strange, standard-issue muskets, their eyes seemed to carry an invincible and fierce aura... Just looking at them made one feel as if an invisible mountain was pressing down on them, making it hard to breathe!
And such people.
The arrogant people brandishing their muskets—just a cursory glance at their formation reveals that there are at least a thousand of them! There might even be several thousand!
Not bad!
This was naturally the Divine Machine Battalion that Zhu Yunwen had been planning for a long time!
Originally, they had all taken their positions, and only needed Wang Jinnian, Kang Yunxiang, and Wu Zhenhai to give the order to act immediately. However, Zhu Yunwen had given the instruction to "injure but not kill." If the order to act were given directly, countless soldiers and officers under the command of the Huaixi nobles would likely die.
This naturally required Wang Jinnian and his team to put in more effort to explain things to their subordinates.
While Zhu Yunwen fired a second shot at Sang Jing and continued to draw gunpowder to prepare for a third shot, he had already finished explaining what needed to be explained.
Then all the flintlock muskets in the Shenji Battalion were brought out.
"Those are so many people over there holding...muskets!?"
"It's a musket! And it's the same type as the musket the young emperor has!"
Several key generals from Huaixi who had witnessed the power of the flintlock musket in Zhu Yuntong's hand were completely stunned by the array of troops surrounding and behind him.
The group of people who had been eyeing Xu Huizu were now at odds with him.
They all gasped in shock, momentarily speechless: "Hiss... How... How... How could there be so many?!"
"Does this mean..."
"Those thousands... even tens of thousands of people over there, do they all possess the same abilities as the young emperor?! They can wield those inexplicably terrifying 'muskets' and, from such a distance, kill whomever they want amidst the chaos of battle?!"
"Then how can we fight this war?"
"Don't panic! Don't panic yet! If that young emperor really has such a force and ability, why didn't he reveal the 'muskets' these people were carrying earlier? Perhaps... maybe... things aren't as bad as we think?"
"It's over...they're all loading gunpowder into the muskets!"
"We can't fight anymore! We simply can't fight anymore! You and I... are both facing our deaths!!"
"..."
Faced with this sudden and unexpected major change, the main generals of Huaixi lost all interest in fighting. They all stared intently at the musketeers beside Zhu Yunwen, and just watching them load gunpowder made them feel as if their livers and gallbladders were about to burst.