Li Xin can't guarantee whether the young patriarch of the Helan tribe will succeed or not, after all, the patriarch of the Helan tribe, Yuwen Jie, has been in control of the Helan tribe for more than a year, and after Yuwen Tao returns to the Helan department, there is only one chance, if he can't kill Yuwen Jie, then it is equivalent to sending him to death in the past.

However, even if Yuwentao fails, Li Xin will not lose much, because Yuwentao will bring back the news of the attack on the Roman field by the people of the royal tent, and whether he succeeds or not, the Helan department will have a gap with the king's tent.

If he succeeds, it will be even better.

Yuwen revealed that the patriarch was supported by Yuwen Zhao, and if Yuwen Tao wanted to completely overthrow his uncle's rule, he would have to overturn all his decisions, and the Helan Department would not only break away from Yu Wenzhao's control, but even turn against Yuwen Zhao.

After Yu Wentao left the Roman field, the sky was almost bright, and after Li Xin and others took a large number of horses from the horse farm, they also took Yu Wentao's sister Yu Wenjing and left the horse farm.

Yu Wenjing is still a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, because her father is the patriarch, she has not suffered much since she was a child, and her face is not as red as most Xianbei people, and she is white in the red.

Li Xin didn't have the heart to pay attention to such a girl now, and after returning to the camp tent, he asked Xie Dai to help watch, and he and Ye Mao sat in their handsome tent to discuss matters.

At this time, in order not to expose themselves, Li Xin's department still didn't dare to make a fire, and Li Xin and Ye Mao were also eating dry food brought out from Yunzhou. Li Xin took a handful of fried rice and stuffed it into his mouth, frowned and swallowed his stomach, and then said: "From the Qigui Department to the Helan Department, we have more than 1,000 casualties, and the Helan Department is not as good as the Qigui Department, so we can't fight with them." ”

Ye Mao also took a big bite of dry food, and asked Li Xin, "Uncle Shi, is that thing...... How many more do you have? ”

Li Xin took a sip of water, and then said: "There are quite a few, not enough for Shen Gang to get some more, but we can't pay too much attention to this, this thing is not as powerful as you imagined." ”

For a long time, outsiders, including Yuan Zhao Tianzi, have imagined Tianlei to be a god, and it seems that with Tianlei, he can be invincible, and as the inventor of this thing, Li Xin knows better than anyone that this thing is not too powerful.

Gunpowder is only the foundation of the era of hot weapons, its power lies in the countless derivatives of later generations, it itself is not particularly powerful, the so-called "heavenly thunder" created by Li Xin now, to a large extent, relies on the pottery shards produced by the explosion to hurt people, not the gunpowder itself.

In another world, gunpowder appeared from the Tang Dynasty, and in the Song Dynasty, the army was equipped on a large scale, with firearms such as assault guns and pear flower guns, and in the Ming Dynasty, there were special firearms for the use of firearms, with guns and artillery.

Li Xin has only made the most basic thing such as gunpowder now, he has not yet made a firearm, purely in terms of power, the power of the so-called "heavenly thunder" is not even as powerful as the firearms of the Song Dynasty, and it is much inferior to the Shenji Battalion of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Li Xin has been using the heavenly thunder very cleverly over the years, he has never used this kind of thing on a large scale in the front, and even in order to exaggerate the role of the heavenly thunder, he also personally made a huge heavenly thunder to scare the current Yuan Zhao Tianzi.

It is precisely because people of this era have never seen what a firearm looks like, that they have a great fear of such unknown things.

To be honest, the biggest role of this thing at present is to surprise it, it can disrupt the enemy's battle formation, and then there will be some miraculous effects when defending the city, and when it is really used elsewhere, it can only be seen how to use it and when to use it.

After discussing with Li Xin for a while, Ye Mao asked, "Uncle Shi, do you think Yuwentao will succeed?" ”

"There's probably a four-fifty percent chance."

Li Xin narrowed his eyes and said: "If he can use the heavenly thunder to directly blow up Yuwen Jie, or seriously injure him, then there is a seventy or eighty percent chance, if he doesn't do it, he can only die in the Helan Department." ”

Speaking of this, the Marquis of Jing'an smiled: "If he dies in the Helan Department, his sister will be handed over to you to take care of, anyway, you are only a mother-in-law until now, you have never taken a concubine, you have not accepted a woman, and you will give Master Ye this incense to spread the branches." ”

Ye Mao smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Uncle Shi, don't be funny, now the Zhenbei Army can be said to be non-existent, and the imperial court has repeatedly doubted the Ye family, this time I go back from Northern Xinjiang, whether the Chen Guogong Mansion can be kept is a question, how to spread the branches?" ”

Speaking of this, Ye Mao first looked left and right, and after making sure that there was no one around, he looked up at Li Xin again, and asked cautiously: "Uncle Shi, after the incident in Northern Xinjiang, what are you going to do next?" ”

"The court can't tolerate me anymore."

Li Xin said lightly: "Not only can't I be tolerated, but even the Ye family may not be able tolerated, my family is okay to say, my family is all in the southwest, and in the end, at most, I will go back to the southwest to be my southwest emperor, but Ye Shi's life's hard work can't be ruined in the Yuan Zhao Dynasty like this." ”

Ye Mao's voice was a little bitter.

"Before coming, the Ye family's family was taken from Ningling to the capital by the imperial court."

Li Xin took another handful of fried rice, frowned and threw it into his mouth, and then said slowly: "This son of heaven in the Great Jin Dynasty is too good at grasping proportions, and now you and I want to live, or you abandon your wife and children and go to the southwest with me, you and I will take root in the southwest from now on, and slowly try to ...... in the future."

"Or, we can only change the emperor."

When Ye Mao heard this, his heart was shocked, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and after taking a deep breath, he looked up at Li Xin: "Uncle Shi wants to... Support another Ji family member to be the emperor? ”

Li Xin smiled coldly: "Change another Ji family member to be the emperor, no matter how obedient he is, ten or twenty years later, today's situation will still reappear, if you want to change, you have to change your own person as the emperor." ”

Ye Mao's heart moved slightly.

His younger sister, who married the first emperor, was named Concubine De Niangniang, and gave birth to a son to the first emperor, who is the fourth brother of today's son, who is almost ten years old this year......

Ye Mao was stunned for a moment, then remembered something, frowned and said: "Uncle Shi, I'm afraid the fourth prince can't do it, even if Uncle Shi lifts him to the throne, but he is also surnamed Ji, and he won't be with us when he grows up." ”

Li Xin sat down again, took a handful of fried rice and stuffed it into his mouth, and once again frowned slightly because of the unpalatable food.

"This is not the place to talk, let's talk about it again when we get back to Kannai."

………………

Just when Li Xin and Ye Mao were discussing the future, Yu Wentao, who was covered in blood, had already returned to the Helan Tribe, he entered the largest patriarch's tent in the Helan Tribe, half-knelt in front of his uncle, and his voice was hoarse: "Uncle, the Roman field was attacked, all the horses in the horse farm were snatched away, and the nephew fought to the death with those robbers, and almost killed them......"

Yu Wenjie, who was sitting in the patriarch's position, frowned and looked at the eldest nephew kneeling in front of him, and said slowly: "Before you, there have been many people who have fled back from the Romana Field, and they say that there is a group of people who have attacked the Romana Field, but they haven't figured out who it is yet. ”

"Back to uncle."

Yu Wentao had several wounds on his body, covered in blood, he barely knelt on the ground, and said, "My nephew heard the conversation of those robbers, it should be from the king's tent...... They said that the king of heaven was short of horses on the front line, and asked them to bring some horses back to Jizhou from my Helan department......"

"It can't be."

Yuwen Jiejie stood up suddenly, strode up to Yuwen Tao, looked at his nephew coldly, and said coldly: "Yuwen Heavenly King has made an alliance with my Helan Department and swore never to invade, how could he attack my department's horse farm?" ”

"Absolutely."

Yu Wentao laboriously took out a clay pot from the burden behind him, put it in Yu Wenjie's hand, he bowed his head and said: "This is what my nephew found in the Roman field, and each of the people in the king's tent has one of these things in his hand, which is extremely powerful, and in just a moment, he attacked the Roman field and killed many warriors of my Helan Department." ”

Yuwen Jie, holding the thing in his hand, frowned and looked at it: "What is this, how to use it?" ”

The news that Li Xin had the heavenly thunder in his hand had already spread to the northern frontier, but there were people in the Yuwen Ministry, including the Heavenly King Yuwen Zhaonei, who had not seen what the legendary heavenly thunder looked like, and Yuwen Jie, naturally, had not seen it either.

Yu Wentao lowered his head and said: "My nephew looks at the people of those king's tents, it seems that after putting it in his hand and lighting it with fire, he will throw it out after ten breaths, and it will have the power of opening mountains and cracking stones." ”

Yuwen scratched his head, stretched out his hand to look at the clay pot in his hand, and after pondering for a while, he shouted: "Take the fire and fold it, I'll try it myself!" ”