Time Travel: After Seizing the Throne, I Lead the Ming Dynasty to Take Off

And at the same time.

On the other side, behind the Huaixi nobles' camp.

The dukes, marquises, and military officers, led by Lan Yu, were not quite able to see the situation on the battlefield clearly for a while. After all, once the two sides' forces were mixed together and attacked each other, the whole area fell into great chaos. You cut me, I cut him, one moment you fall off your horse, the next moment someone else falls down...

Who can even tell who's who anymore? Let alone capture the many details on the battlefield.

Of course, another point is that they simply didn't think there was any possibility of losing today's battle.

With this mindset, one is bound to become careless.

So they basically just chatted and laughed casually, seemingly unconcerned, while observing the battlefield situation where their side had the upper hand, completely relaxed and at ease.

Then a gunshot rang out.

Then, after a short while, they saw and heard their own drummers going crazy, frantically pounding their drumsticks on the drumheads of their war drums. Of course, they also saw that their elite troops seemed to have an even greater advantage.

"Hahahaha! With Xu Huizu's meager forces and just him alone... what the hell can he possibly fight? Xu Huizu is just asking for trouble, insisting on getting involved in this mess!"

"But Sang Jing seems to be in a real hurry too!"

"With such a huge advantage right now, he's still in such a hurry to launch a quick attack! He's just a young man, a bit impatient!"

Clearly, amidst the chaos of battle, they were unaware that the order to "attack quickly" was given by the remaining key generals in the army under duress, and even less aware that Sang Jing's head had already been riddled with bullet holes.

"So what if I'm impatient! It's not like we're in a real war, we need to conserve our energy."

"It doesn't matter if we're a little hasty in today's battle. At most, the soldiers will be a bit tired. On the contrary, it can end this farce sooner so we can escort our Emperor Kaiqian back to his Qianqing Palace. After that, we can drink and eat meat. How delightful! Hahahaha!"

"Hey! You old codger, you're already thinking about drinking and eating meat!"

"Of course! Today's matter is that simple, isn't it? We'll see who has another cow that fell to its death later... Now that the weather's getting warmer, we won't have hot pot, we'll have braised beef!"

"Ha! You're thinking too narrowly!"

"Think about it carefully. In the future, whether we eat beef hot pot or braised beef, do we still need to wait for the cow to die? Even if we say that we kill the cow directly to eat the meat, look at those scholars in the court who have been plagued by the plague, who would dare to give us advice?"

"Hahahaha! Yeah! We completely forgot about that! After today, we brothers will be the biggest in the entire Ming Dynasty! Hahahaha..."

"..."

A group of nobles and military officers from Huaixi were chatting and laughing; they didn't look like they were here to fight at all. Anyone who didn't know better would think they were just riding out of the city for a leisurely stroll...

Laughter rose and fell among the crowd, filling the air with a joyful atmosphere.

However, at this very moment...

"boom--"

"Bang bang bang-"

"Bang—bang—bang bang—"

"..."

A single gunshot amidst the chaos of battle couldn't shatter their laughter, but a series of crisp, deafening gunshots rang out incessantly... eventually interrupting their merriment.

To know.

Even though the place was spacious and they outnumbered each other, the ones who fired the shots at this moment were Wang Jinnian and the hundreds of skilled musketeers who were originally in the firearms department of the Alchemy Division... plus the two thousand-household units each commanded by Wu Zhenhai and Kang Yunxiang—there were nearly three thousand people in total.

How could this be anything but a large-scale operation?

The gunshots, once they started, were like a raging storm, creating an oppressive atmosphere that almost terrified anyone.

Of course, what's even more terrifying is...