The time when the chili pepper entered the Chinese region was actually relatively late, but the impact was absolutely far-reaching, because for people in many areas of China, this "spicy" word is really too appetizing. In later generations, I believe that for many foodies, chili peppers are a good thing, and even for many people, they are not spicy at all. There are many cuisines in China, among which there are many spicy cuisines.

Of course, this is only for the tip of the tongue to make foodies want to stop. But if you accidentally get the chili pepper in your eyes or get it in your throat, the taste is not very pleasant.

Lu Ren knew very well what it would be like, and in this inconvenient situation, using a "chemical weapon" like chili powder to replace a lethal weapon is a very good choice.

In this way, Ma Chao led the cavalry to shoot "chemical feather arrows" at the Roman soldiers after occupying the upper hand, and the cannons tied to the feather arrows brought up bursts of red dust and mist after exploding, and drifted into the tortoise shell battle formation of the Roman soldiers along the wind.

But it is said that the turtle shell tactics formed by Roman soldiers can block swords, guns and arrows, but where can they stop the wind? No matter how tightly the shield is pieced together, there will always be gaps that the red dust mist that drifts in with the wind can penetrate through these gaps, and then either obscure the eyes of the Roman soldiers, or directly enter the mouths and noses of the Roman soldiers, and hold their airways.

This time the Roman soldiers were miserable. The color of the paprika was as red as blood, and just by looking at the color, you can see that the spiciness, and because it is ground so finely, it can be gently lifted by the wind, but it is also easy for the breath of the Roman soldiers to be guided, and then into the mouths and noses of the Roman soldiers.

These were just the cannonballs that exploded outside the tortoise shell array, and in fact there were many of Ma Chao's cavalry who were good at shooting, and they had the ability to shoot arrows directly into the shield through some small gaps or observation ports in the Roman shield. Although the number of such arrows directly into the shield array is very small, when the cannon on the arrow explodes inside the shield array, the effect of the rising paprika in the almost semi-enclosed shield array is really much stronger than the ones that explode outside the shield array.

If only in terms of the quality of the soldiers, these Roman soldiers are indeed worthy of the word elite, but the question is where will they know the power of these "chemical weapons"? Or even if they know that it is powerful, where do you ask them to find gas masks? Could Rome in the third century A.D. have such a thing?

There were also Roman soldiers who reacted quickly and quickly covered their mouths and noses with strips of cloth and the like, but because of the quality of the warriors, they did not dare to close their eyes, because if they closed their eyes on the battlefield, they were waiting for death, and as a result, their eyes were stinged and tearful by the paprika, and then they couldn't open their eyes even if they wanted to...... If you don't believe me, you can try it. Not to mention using high-spicy chili powder, just cut a few onions and believe you will know how powerful.

I can't open my eyes, my body is full of tears, coughing and wheezing, and the things in my hands will naturally be unstable because of this. And the tortoise shells of the Roman soldiers need to cooperate closely with each other, if it is just one person or two people who have a problem, it may be good to say, a bunch of people fall into such a state, this tortoise shell is almost collapsed, at least it is full of gaps, and it is no longer so tight.

It was at this time that Ma Chao led the cavalry to charge the Roman soldiers. And the turtle shell, which is already full of gaps, where can it stop the rapid charge of the cavalry at this time? Even if a Roman soldier with a mild debuff status wants to resist, he will soon find that his actions are actually hindered by his comrades.

Since it was just a tactical exercise, the spears used by Ma Chao and the cavalry were just long sticks, and after rushing closer, they stabbed the Roman soldiers in the body, leaving a white dot to indicate that the person had been "killed in battle", and it was enough to not really kill the killer. On the other hand, although these Roman soldiers are a bit of a ruffian, they also have the dignity of being a soldier after all, so they will honestly lie on the ground after seeing that they have been "killed in battle", and then find a suitable opportunity to evacuate the war zone, as much as possible not to hinder the next battle...... But seriously, these people who have been withdrawn are also in a hurry to find water to clean their eyes that are so spicy that they are stinging.

After all, there are many restrictions on the drill, and Ma Chao is not like a regular battle, after a gap in the shield array, he leads the crowd to forcibly kill the generals from the gap and then kills again, so he just rushed over from both sides of the Roman soldiers, stabbed some people with long sticks, and then completed a staggered maneuver in the rear, and then fell back from the rear and stabbed the Roman soldiers on both sides. And when you turn back to the upper hand of the start, don't forget to refire another round of paprika cannon arrows to ensure that the Roman soldiers are still in a debuff state.

It should be said that Ma Chao fought decently, but the soldiers in Rome really couldn't stand such a toss, after all, who could stand this kind of thing that could stay in the chili powder all the time and have to guard against the other party's attack? Once their tortoise shells are destroyed, it is difficult for them to regroup under the onslaught of the cavalry, and in order to avoid the paprika attack, the relatively loose personnel position is conducive to the onslaught of the cavalry. So, after a few rounds of repetition, the 500 Roman soldiers were "killed and wounded", and the last few who were left simply threw down their weapons and surrendered...... I really can't stand it, and the rest of the people have to quickly find water to wash their eyes, otherwise there is a possibility of being blinded.

Lu Ren, who was watching the battle, had already guessed that it would be such a result, so he had people prepare water for the Roman soldiers to clean, but Lu Ren didn't expect Ma Chao to fight so quickly. According to Lu Ren's original plan, it may take another half an hour to an hour before the drill can be fruitful. Well, this is actually a judgment of Lu Ren's lack of ability in military actual combat.

But for such a result, Lu Ren is still very satisfied. happily turned his head to look at Paleus beside him, and saw the unusually ugly look on Paleus's face. And Paleus, as a Roman, even if he disagreed with the general who led the army, still hoped to see his army win, but the result was such an embarrassing loss, and even some inexplicable, which made Paleus's face a little unbearable.

Lu Ren only smiled when he saw this, but he didn't speak immediately. After a while, Hermes, the leading general of the Roman army, came to Lu Ren after washing off the chili powder. Although he bowed down to Lu Ren, it was not difficult to see that Hermes was reluctant to salute, obviously losing a little unconvinced.

A pergola was set up at the viewing point, and a banquet had already been set up in the shed, so Lu Ren smiled and led Paleus and Hermes to the table. After they were seated, Lu Ren first toasted before he spoke: "Does General Hermes think that I have won this battle?" ”

Hermes had a black face, and his mouth opened several times before he said with some support: "On the battlefield, if you lose, you lose, and there is no such thing as victory." But the honorable Consul Lu Ren (he is called Lu Ren according to the custom of the Romans), if you hadn't used that strange weapon......"

Lu Ren waved his hand and began to spare no effort to attack Hermes: "On the battlefield, whoever has advanced weapons will be able to take a big advantage. The battlefield is not a dueling arena, the battlefield is about success and defeat, you don't have to do everything you can to kill the enemy in front of you, then your own fate is likely to be killed by the enemy, or become a slave of the enemy. ”

After saying these words, Lu Ren added in his heart: "But it's better not to use those things that violate the spirit of humanitarianism, but there don't seem to be those things in this era, so you don't need to pay too much attention to them." ”

Hermes moved his lips again to say something, but in the end he couldn't say it.

Paleus has always been not very good at dealing with Hermes, and at this moment, seeing that Hermes was aggrieved, Paleus's heart was indeed a little dark, but as a Roman, he still cared about the face of the Romans, so he took over the conversation and said to Lu Ren: "Dear Lu Nanhai, this duel is indeed our loss, but this duel doesn't seem to have much practical significance, if it is replaced by a real battlefield battle, I am afraid that it will ......."

Lu Ren interrupted the other party again: "I know what you want to say, do you want to say that if you fight against the enemy on the real battlefield, you proud soldiers will not be what they are now?" Then I'll tell you, I haven't touched the real character here at all. Let's not talk about anything else, you can eat something and rest first, and I'll have something to show you in a while. ”

Both Paleus and Hermes didn't quite understand what Lu Ren meant, so the two enemies chose to remain silent for the time being after glancing at each other.

After eating, drinking, and chatting for a while, someone finally rushed to Lu Ren's side and said a few words to Lu Ren, Lu Ren nodded, and then took Paleus and Hermes back to the previous viewing point. Looking down at this moment, Paleus and Hermes found that on the battlefield just now, Lu Ren had arranged for someone to set up a large Roman-style shield phalanx, but there was no one in the array, and the shields and everything were supported there with brackets.

And with this large shield phalanx as the center of the circle, a large circle was drawn with white lime in a radius of about 40 meters. Seeing that the circle had been drawn, Lu Ren pointed to the big circle and said, "General Hermes, can your soldiers' dart guns be thrown at such a distance in actual combat?" ”

Hermes is an expert, and he is naturally very good at observing distances, so after comparing and calculating, he shook his head and said: "It's difficult, unless it's the middle-aged soldiers in the back row who can throw such a long distance after running for a distance without interference." And if it is in actual combat, unless it is a rare strong man, he will not be able to throw such a distance. ”

Lu Ren nodded, and said in his heart that you guy is quite truthful. Then Lu Ren's hand stretched out to the side, and immediately an attendant handed a feather arrow to Lu Ren's hand. Lu Ren received it in his hand and handed it to Hermes, but Hermes involuntarily took two steps back when he saw such a feathered arrow...... This is a psychological shadow, after all, just now, Hermes had suffered enough of this kind of feather arrow.

Lu Ren laughed a few times and said, "Just now, because we were engaged in friendly tactical drills, my cavalry only used this kind of feather arrows that do not have direct lethality. And if it's a real battlefield fight......"

At this point, Lu Ren did not go on, but used this feather arrow as a baton, and as soon as he raised his hand, he pointed to the battlefield just now, and that posture was very much the meaning of commanding the commander on the battlefield.

Hermes and Paleus followed Lu Ren's point and looked at the battlefield again, and saw Ma Chao and the hundreds of cavalry reappearing on the battlefield again. It wasn't until this time that the two remembered that they hadn't seen each other's generals at the small banquet just now, and it turned out that they were still preparing for some performances.

On the battlefield at this time, Ma Chao led the cavalry to gallop on horseback, and opened his bow and arrows on horseback, and shot feathered arrows at a distance of seventy or eighty meters from the unmanned phalanx. This distance was definitely beyond the reach of Roman soldiers' dart guns, which was enough to prove just now.

For Hermes, when he saw Ma Chao lead the crowd to shoot such a feather arrow, although it was not another personal experience, it was still inevitable that the chrysanthemums were tightened, and the eggs were also faintly painful. I can't help it, I've really had enough of it just now.

I thought that those feather arrows would explode again and burst into blood-red dust and mist, but unexpectedly, when the feather arrows shot inside and outside the phalanx, they burst out one after another with a huge roar. And with these huge roars, although there was also the dust mist that rose up, but these dust mist was formed by the stirred up sand and gravel on the ground.

And anyone with a little eyesight may immediately understand that these arrows shot now are fundamentally different from the arrows shot before, although the former will be very uncomfortable, but there will be no direct damage, but the latter can know its great power just by looking at the sand and stones on the ground that it stirs up.

Not only the sand and stones, at this moment, the big shield phalanx was simply blown up, and a small number of arrows shot directly into the array, but also blew up the big shields around and above, and even some heavy big shields were blown up into the air for a few meters before falling heavily to the ground.

Seeing such a scene, Hermes's chrysanthemum clamped tighter, and the hidden pain in the egg was more obvious. He knew very well that if someone in the current square shield array, or if he had led the Roman soldiers just now encountered such an arrow attack, then his fate would be ......