My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

However, those who knew news from the military all had family members who were officials in the imperial court or held important positions in the military.

They quickly confirmed the authenticity of the message.

After learning that Ji Yunshuang had indeed led a hundred new recruits and utterly defeated the Qi army, many people sighed in amazement.

The eldest patriarch of the Han family stroked his beard and said, "What does it mean to be a master strategist? This is what it means to be a master strategist!"

Master Han was also overjoyed, "First there was Elder Xie's help, and now there is such a talented person in the army. Prince Rui is truly the chosen one!"

The two brothers sighed for a moment, then asked the young man in the family, "By the way, tell me quickly, what methods did General Ji use to defeat the Qi army?"

Han Liang said, "According to the soldiers who went to fight, the main method is to use fire. When the enemy ships reach the middle of the river, then set them on fire..."

The Qi soldiers who had fled back were now talking about that battle.

However, unlike the Great Zhou, they suffered a crushing defeat in this battle, not even figuring out who the opposing commander was.

General Xu knelt on the ground, looking disheveled. "General, the Zhou army is not led by a human being; they have invited monsters to help them."

He was followed by a group of soldiers who were just as disheveled as he was.

They all barely managed to escape back from that battle.

Upon hearing General Xu's words, they all began to speak, recounting the strange aspects of that battle.

"I don't know what kind of sorcery they used, but suddenly a lot of smoke rose from the flat ground, making it impossible to see the people on the other side."

"Our arrows were shot at as if they had encountered a wall, which blocked all our arrows."

"And those rockets that were shot at us, they burned very quickly after hitting the water, they weren't even afraid of the water, what else could this be but sorcery?"

……

The more the crowd talked, the more agitated they became, while General Yao's face grew increasingly dark.

He sneered, "If you're not skilled enough, you can't beat them, so what's with the sorcery! As a general, you should reflect on your defeat instead of trying to escape responsibility by invoking sorcery."

"General, it really is sorcery!" General Xu said anxiously, "I'm not trying to evade responsibility, it's true that they invited monsters to help them, they really used sorcery."

"Instead of saying that the Zhou Kingdom invited monsters to help them and defeated you with sorcery, you should think about whether the Zhou Kingdom used some advanced weapons."

General Yao said with a stern face, "Calm down and think about it carefully. Are their rockets different from the ordinary ones?"

Was it simply that the other side used advanced weaponry?

The soldiers who had escaped looked at each other, their eyes filled with the fear and disbelief of surviving a disaster.

Things happened so fast and were beyond their comprehension that everyone panicked.

Now, thanks to General Yao's reminder, everyone recalls the scene again, and it seems that what General Yao said is true. That rocket was indeed different from ordinary ones. It was probably because the opponent's weapons were more advanced, rather than some kind of evil force.

But besides rockets, what else? How do you explain the other things?

General Xu asked on their behalf, "That rocket was indeed different from ordinary rockets, but how do you explain the sudden smoke?"

General Yao said, "Could that smoke have been prepared in advance? As for how they produced it... we should have the Ordnance Department come and take a look; we might find out then."

He immediately summoned the accompanying officers from the Ordnance Department and questioned them, asking if there were any weapons that could suddenly produce thick smoke, making it impossible for people to see clearly and causing them to lose their way.

The officer accompanying the army from the Ordnance Department this time was Cai Huanzang, the Director of the Ordnance Department.

Cai Huanzang, who was usually keen on researching new weapons, said after hearing General Yao's words: "I have also thought about this and wanted to make such a weapon, but I have not yet figured it out."

General Yao said, "So, it's possible to make such a weapon?"

Cai Huanzang glanced at the kneeling soldiers, then at General Yao's expression, and asked suspiciously, "Could it be that someone did it?"

General Yao looked at General Xu and said, "Tell Doctor Cai a good account of what happened during this battle."

General Xu then recounted in detail the course of the battle with the Zhou state.

After listening to General Xu's account, Cai Huanzang exclaimed that Zhou Guo was full of geniuses, having actually made several of the weapons he had envisioned earlier.

General Xu murmured, "So, it really is just that the Zhou Kingdom has new weapons, and not evil spirits?"

Upon hearing this, General Yao said coldly, "What kind of demons or evil spirits exist in this world?"

He couldn't concern himself with dealing with General Xu for the time being, and asked Cai Huanzang, "Could our army possibly make such a weapon?"

Cai Huanzang stroked his short beard and said, "If we can see the enemy's weapons, perhaps we can figure something out."

Upon hearing this, General Yao immediately dispatched men to the battlefield to search for weapon fragments left behind by the Zhou state during the battle, attempting to decipher the Zhou state's weaponry.

But how could Ji Yunshuang have left anything at the scene?

When she evacuated, she used her telekinesis to store all the weapons that might expose her in her spatial storage.

General Yao's men, of course, came up empty-handed and found nothing.

As for Ji Yunshuang, after being promoted to the rank of brigade commander, in addition to training her own soldiers, she also focused on developing weapons.

Weapons like smoke grenades in space are definitely not something you can use frequently.

There's also the rocket. Although she had Chen Wu and Xia Biao do the hard labor for her this time, she can't bring her own weapons every time she goes to war! And doing this for a long time would easily expose her.

Therefore, the development of new weapons must be put on the agenda immediately.

What pleased her was that, although the three thousand men assigned to her were all new recruits, Lu Wuzheng and Wang Erniu were also assigned to her.

After Ji Yunshuang summoned the two men, her first task was to have them select skilled personnel from the new recruits who were proficient in iron and woodworking to form a small weapons research and development department.

When Lu Wuzheng and Wang Erniu first met Ji Yunshuang, they were still a little taken aback.

The two were filled with shock and disbelief.

Both of them were new recruits and not well-informed, so they had no idea that Ji Yunshuang had defeated the Qi army with only a hundred new recruits.

At this moment, the two of them were filled with doubt.

How did she end up in the army, and suddenly become a brigade commander, leading them from now on...?

Seeing the two of them standing there dumbfounded, Ji Yunshuang said, "This is the military, don't expect me to show any leniency."

Lu Wuzheng was the first to come to his senses, and bowed, saying, "Yes, Lieutenant General, we'll go right away."

Wang Erniu followed suit, bowing to Ji Yunshuang and saying, "Don't worry, Lieutenant General, we will definitely complete the mission."

Ji Yunshuang said, "Go ahead! We can discuss any questions later."