Tang Dynasty: Father, if you don't rebel, I will!

"Boom boom boom..."

Hou Qianya turned her head, her gaze falling on a spot no more than three or five hundred meters away from them.

While they were engaged in fierce fighting, somehow, pairs of neat square formations suddenly appeared.

Three square formations, each with a thousand men, can be vaguely seen, divided into four columns.

Each formation was accompanied by rhythmic drumbeats and carried a banner bearing the image of the sun, moon, and stars of the Tang Dynasty.

As the drums beat, the army advanced in orderly ranks towards them.

They stopped when they were about 300 meters apart.

"Firing formation!"

"First line, prepare! Raise your rifles!"

"Wow!"

The newcomers were none other than the newly formed Bingzhou Army, which had only been in training for less than three months.

These men, dressed in new light green military uniforms, with canteens and waterproof cases containing ammunition at their waists, were now following an order from a temporary officer.

The new army soldiers in the first row, without hesitation, straightened their bodies and raised the Bingzhou muskets in their hands, which they would not have recognized as weapons just a few months ago, as they had been trained before.

"Aim at the enemy!"

"Fire!!!"

"Bang bang bang..."

A crisp, sharp explosion rang out as a plume of white smoke rose from in front of the three rows of troops.

Those evil Buddhist monks, brandishing axes, hammers, and other miscellaneous weapons, charged toward this place with ferocious expressions.

Suddenly your head snaps back, or you feel a sharp pain in your chest.

Carrying the momentum of his charge, he instantly fell to the ground.

In an instant, the evil Buddhist monks who charged at the forefront were like rice cakes with one side cut off, and at least a thousand of them died instantly.

However, the new army's temporary officer who witnessed this scene was only stunned for a second.

He then brandished his Tang sword once more.

"One column retreats; two columns fire."

"Wow!"

The new soldiers, who had just finished their first round of firing, were still unable to hide their excitement and shock. After retreating to the last column, they quickly took out a paper-wrapped ammunition from the ammunition box behind them.

They bite open one end, pour in gunpowder, and load in a bullet...

"Aim at the enemy—fire!!!"

"Bang bang bang..."

Another wave of evil Buddhist monks who charged at the forefront instantly fell backward to the ground, or were pierced by bullets and collapsed to the ground, howling in agony.

"Second column retreats ~ Third column fires ~"

"Bang bang bang..."

The evil Buddhist monks, who were about to bypass Hou Qianya's resistance and head towards the armory, seemed to have encountered the most fortified city defense in the world.

Now they were facing a completely unfamiliar army and weapons.

Faced with the terrifying strength of the new army of Bingzhou in the Tang Dynasty, which could complete a round of shooting in almost ten seconds.

It's no exaggeration to describe it as a case of throwing an egg against a rock.

Since following Li Chengqian to Bingzhou, Fang Yi'ai, who had been in charge of the steel mills around Taiyuan Prefecture, has finally realized his dream of becoming a soldier.

Through his indomitable spirit and relentless hard work, he earned the position of temporary battalion commander through a series of secret training exercises in the new army.

Looking at these Buddhist monks screaming in panic...

Fang Yi'ai, who had received the order from his own Crown Prince to "kill without mercy, leave no one alive," was now left with a pile of corpses and a seriously wounded bald monk after several rounds of shooting.

He immediately swung his Tang sword.

"Forward march! One, two, one, two..."

The drumbeats sounded from the rear of the army formation, and the orderly footsteps made the new army at this moment resemble a city wall approaching the evil monks of Buddhism.

Hou Qianya finally snapped out of her shock upon seeing this scene.

Her expression then changed.

"Quickly! Follow me back! Don't let them escape through the other path!"

however.

Just as she was urging her warhorse forward, about to lead her men to charge towards the other side of the valley and block the path.

A series of fierce, thunderous roars, like thunderclaps in a clear day, suddenly came from the other side of the valley.

Looking at the new army that had advanced to both sides of their formation, Hou Qianya finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fang Yi'ai? Hey! Fang Yi'ai!"

Upon seeing an acquaintance from Chang'an, Hou Qianya hurriedly spurred her horse and galloped away.

Fang Yi'ai saw Hou Qianya, who had just been through a battle and whose armor was still stained with blood, looking exactly like a female demon from Chang'an.

His expression changed involuntarily.

He thought of the other party's bad reputation among the second-generation elites in Chang'an.

"What's your situation? Are the people on the other side of the valley also yours?"

Hou Qianya was excited, her eyes never leaving the soldiers. She wasn't even wearing armor, and she was holding an iron rod that could emit smoke, but she still managed to beat these evil Buddhist monks and make them run away with their tails between their legs.

His eyes were full of light.

"Hmph, you're not very knowledgeable, are you? We are the newly established Bingzhou Army by His Highness the Crown Prince."

With his subordinates right beside him, Fang Yi'ai coughed twice, trying his best to appear unafraid of them.

"As for the other side, His Highness the Crown Prince is over there..."

"What?! His Highness the Crown Prince has arrived?!"

On one side of Shixia Mountain, led by several local farmers, Li Chengqian walked into the valley through a narrow path and thanked them.

Looking at the messy river excavation site in front of him, littered with corpses and signs of battle, he saw...

His face was extremely gloomy.

The Crown Prince's six heavy cavalry units did not come over; they were dispatched to other sections of the river to provide support.

As for him.

"kill!"

The lightly armed musketeers lined up in formation on this side of the valley.

As Li Chengqian issued the order with a gloomy expression, the officers in each formation raised their guns and aimed at the evil Buddhist monks who were being driven back from the other side.

"Fire!"

"Bang bang bang..."

Li Chengqian, clad in full armor, stood with his hands behind his back on one side of the military formation.

The gloomy expressions on their faces, along with the private warnings from the officers along the way, caused the more than three thousand new recruits from Bingzhou to display more accurate shooting and more orderly coordination than during their usual training.

"Bang bang bang..."

White smoke billowed from the gunpowder.

It seemed to symbolize that after each shot, a life, its fate unknown, was destined to depart for the heavens.

"Ahhh! Don't kill me! Please don't kill me! I was wrong, I know I was wrong!"

"I'm willing to work, I... uh!"

Some of the severely wounded and fallen Buddhist monks, as the new army advanced, begged for mercy, tears streaming down their faces.

In this regard.

Without Li Chengqian needing to speak, the Imperial Guards who accompanied him, resembling chilling demons, stepped forward.

Amidst the other person's piercing screams, a finger was inserted directly into their wound.

"Tell me, who instigated this riot?"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

The new army on both sides of the river, north and south, is squeezing the living space of these riotous and evil monks from the Buddhist temple towards the middle.

When it came to the very end, the evil Buddhist monks were completely surrounded and had no way out.

Finally, they all knelt down and begged to live.

Li Chengqian's gaze was icy.

"Leave the ringleaders for interrogation, the rest..."

Li Chengqian waved his hand, and immediately, gunshots rang out.

"Bang bang bang!" The intense gunfire was accompanied by cries of agony.

moment.

The riot was thus quelled.

Li Chengqian was waiting for the interrogation results from the Embroidered Uniform Guard with a gloomy face when Hou Qianya, whose armor was stained with blood and whose hair was still damp with sweat, came quickly over.

He knelt down in front of Li Chengqian with a thud.

"This humble general has failed in his duty; please punish me, Your Highness!"

Beside Li Chengqian stood Li Dejian, son of Li Jing, dressed in the Bingzhou New Army uniform. Li Dejian's expression changed.

He quickly leaned close to Li Chengqian's ear and whispered something.

"Your Highness, she is Hou Qianya, the only daughter of Duke Hou Junji of Lu State..."

"There is no daughter of the Duke of Lu here. I am registered in the Ministry of War and Yanmen Pass, and I receive military pay from the imperial court. I am the General of the Cavalry at Yanmen Pass!"

Li Chengqian raised an eyebrow, looking at the woman in front of him.

Women serving in the army were largely disbanded after the death of Princess Pingyang, Li Xiuning, and there were virtually no more women serving as generals in the Tang Dynasty army.

However, she is, after all, the daughter of that old scoundrel Hou Junji. She comes from a military family, and if she passes the assessment and does not violate military discipline, it is not difficult for her to enter the army.

"Get up. Whether you have done good or bad things can be discussed later. The important thing now is to quell the riot. Right now is the time when the people of Yanmen County need to harvest their grain. We can't afford to delay!"

Upon hearing this, Hou Qianya immediately bowed and greeted him.

"Your Highness, we've managed to get these people to talk, but they've only confessed that someone has been secretly contacting them by delivering supplies and food to the construction site, saying that the Zhao State Duke's Association has recently arranged a batch of iron tools for them."

"They also said that the new army established in Bingzhou was intended to intimidate them..."

Li Chengqian's expression immediately turned terrifyingly cold.

"Investigate! Investigate thoroughly! I want to see who else in this world dares to cause trouble on my territory!"

On the same day, riots broke out at six or seven river excavation sites along the Yellow River within the territory of Bingzhou Road. It is impossible to say that no one was secretly colluding with each other.

No one would believe that.

Changsun Wuji's control over these people could be described as harsh.

Every day, apart from eating and sleeping in the prison built near the construction site, they worked tirelessly on the construction site.

Food was rationed to ensure they wouldn't starve, and there were supervisors who would beat and scold them from time to time.

Their sole aim is to destroy these people.

however.

However, just as the new Bingzhou army was established, Changsun Wuji wanted to speed up the project a little and distributed a batch of iron tools, but this was thwarted by these sneaky rats.

They found a loophole!

With several gunshots, the ringleader, one of the evil Buddhist monks who had just endured a brutal interrogation and was on the verge of death, was killed.

He died on the spot.

"Notify the people at the nearby monasteries to come and dispose of the bodies! Chop off the heads and make a mound of skulls, chop the bodies up and use them to fertilize the fields!"

Everyone was shocked.

They wanted Buddhist monks to dispose of the corpses of these evil monks and even make them chop off their heads themselves...

however.

Seeing Li Chengqian, who seemed ready to order a massacre at any moment, no one dared to speak up and risk their life.

Although the Taiyuan Military Factory is now operating at full capacity to produce Bingzhou flintlock muskets.

However, within two or three months, less than 10,000 of the 50,000 new troops from Bingzhou had received weapons.

Now, all of them have been transferred from training to Yanmen County by Li Chengqian.

While Li Chengqian was leading his men to other sections of the river to quell the uprising...

Li Chengqian rode his horse to Fang Yi'ai and Li Dejian's side.

"Is Hou Qianya Hou Junji's only daughter? Why was she allowed to stay in the army?"

Upon hearing the Crown Prince's question, Fang Yi'ai coughed lightly, but his gaze turned to Li Dejian beside him.

Facing Li Chengqian's gaze, Li Dejian glanced at Hou Qianya, who was still some distance away.

"Your Highness, you don't know, she is one of the most prominent women among the noble ladies of Chang'an. Her nickname is 'Female Rakshasa'!"

Li Chengqian opened his mouth, glancing at Hou Qianya, who was leading the army at the front, carrying a long spear.

Female Rakshasa?

"Your Highness, you are the Crown Prince, so she behaves obediently in front of you. You don't know..."

Li Dejian seemed to sense that Li Chengqian did not trust him, and his voice became a little anxious.

"She's a crazy woman. Not only is she good at fighting, but she also constantly talks about taking other people's lives. She herself is a suicidal person."

"It is said that when she was a child, she wanted to learn martial arts. She stood on the roof and threatened to kill herself, saying that if the Duke of Lu did not teach her martial arts, she would jump off. The Duke of Lu did not believe her at the time, and then..."

Li Chengqian's eyes widened: "She jumped?"

Li Dejian nodded, but then hesitated to exaggerate: "Okay, I think so. Anyway, that's what's being said in Chang'an. They say he jumped, but his clothes got caught on the eaves, leaving him hanging in mid-air, and he survived..."

Li Chengqian was skeptical, but he nodded nonetheless.

However, when he turned to look at the figure in front of him again, a smile inexplicably appeared on his lips.

"Has she done anything illegal or disorderly?"

Upon hearing this, Li Dejian hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice.

"If her own father goes to a brothel and she chases after him with a spear and stabs him, and then even demolishes the brothel, does that count?"

Li Chengqian: "......"

Hmm, it seems I've strayed too far from these second-generation rich kids' circles. There are so many interesting things to ask about in my spare time.

Li Chengqian rubbed his chin, thinking of Hou Junji, that scoundrel, who frequented brothels and was chased and beaten by his own daughter in public.

The smile on his lips was hard to suppress.

This rebellious general who followed him in rebellion in history actually had a time when he couldn't rebel.

However, Fang Yi'ai and Li Dejian were stunned for a moment when they saw this scene.

The next moment, the two exchanged a glance, thinking about the prince's character.

Qi Qi gasped inwardly.

It’s bad!

After Li Chengqian led his men to quell two separate uprisings along the river, he finally met Changsun Wuji in the last place.

This fellow, a mere civil official, was now leading a group of soldiers who had surrounded thousands of rebellious Buddhist thugs in a low-lying area.

"Throw away the kerosene! Throw away the kerosene for me!!!"

"Burn them to death!!!"

"You're all eminent Buddhist monks, aren't you? Today, I'm going to use your relics as prayer beads!"

"burn!!!"