Chapter 266: Bomber (Seeking Subscriptions, Seeking Tips)

"Sister, what news did the Young Master send back?" Murong Huang asked Murong Feng with a hint of curiosity.

After reading Xiao Xie's reply, Murong Feng smiled and handed it to Murong Huang, who was waiting eagerly beside her.

Murong Huang took Xiao Xie's letter and read it. It stated: "The Xiongnu are invading. This is an external enemy incursion. When facing foreign invaders, we must present a united front."

"Is the Young Master asking us to step in and teach those Xiongnu a good lesson? That's wonderful! How dare they invade the Central Plains; they deserve to pay a price. But the Divine Might Cannons aren't easy to transport to the border!" Murong Huang said with a troubled expression.

Murong Feng flashed a brilliant smile and said, "Over the past month, guided by the Young Master's insights, we've used Mohist mechanism techniques to manufacture quite a few interesting things."

"Oh?"

...

Half a month later, outside the Great Wall in Shangdang Commandery, Meng Tian led ten thousand fire cavalry and an army of ninety thousand to the Great Wall pass. The hundred-thousand-strong army formed a massive phalanx, casting a oppressive, dark-cloud-like shadow over the earth and sky.

"Tuman, Chanyu of the Wolf Tribe, I am giving you a chance to surrender. Otherwise, my hundred thousand troops will breach the city and take your head!" Meng Tian pointed his long spear directly at Chanyu Tuman atop the city wall, shouting in a chilling voice.

"Shameless boast! I have thickened these city walls by a foot using the hardest rock. Even the most powerful crossbows of the Qin state cannot pierce them. With my sixty thousand troops here, I'd like to see how you plan to break in."

"Hmph! I only need—"

"What is that?" Meng Tian's words were cut off by a soldier behind him.

Meng Tian frowned, just about to fly into a rage, when he suddenly noticed a massive shadow cast over him. Looking up, Meng Tian stared in utter shock. "What... is that?!"

"Chanyu, what is that thing? Is it a giant bird?" A soldier beside Chanyu Tuman asked, looking perplexed.

"That's no bird. It's likely the secret weapon of those southern barbarians." Although Tuman had no idea what it was, he could make a rough guess.

...

"Sister, is this thing called an airship? It's so interesting." Murong Huang looked down at the colossal airship—thirty meters long, ten meters wide, and five meters high—and said with a happy smile.

Murong Feng smiled faintly and explained, "This airship incorporates the mechanism arts of the Mohist mechanical birds. Although it's a bit slow, its load capacity has increased significantly, and it's loaded with plenty of ammunition. The Young Master said this airship has another name."

"What name?" Murong Huang asked curiously.

"Bomber!"

"Bomb... er?"

"It's 'machine' as in mechanism arts!" Murong Feng retorted with an amused laugh. Seeing the conflicted look on Murong Huang's face, she knew exactly what the girl was imagining.

Murong Feng took a wooden megaphone handed to her by a disciple and shouted downward, "Listen up, Meng Tian! Our Young Master has said that with the Xiongnu invading, personal grievances must be set aside for now. We are here to help you this time, so just stand back and watch!"

"Murong Feng, Murong Huang, Ascending Heaven Tower!" Meng Tian gazed at the two sisters on the airship, gripping his long spear tightly as he muttered bitterly to himself.

Five thousand black-armored troops had been obliterated by Murong Feng and Murong Huang leading the disciples of Ascending Heaven Tower. Although the black-armored troops were not under Meng Tian's direct command, they were fellow soldiers of Qin, and Meng Tian regarded them as brothers. Now, seeing the two chief culprits, the Murong sisters, Meng Tian naturally harbored a deep desire to kill them and avenge his men.

Yet, despite his desire to slay the sisters to avenge the five thousand fallen soldiers, Meng Tian knew he could not afford to act rashly. After the previous battle attacking Ascending Heaven Tower, Ying Zheng had issued a strict order forbidding any soldiers under his command from provoking Ascending Heaven Tower again. Without absolute certainty of victory, going to war with Ascending Heaven Tower was sheer folly.

Meng Tian glared fiercely at Murong Feng and the others, deciding to ignore them. As much as he hated Ascending Heaven Tower, since they had come to deal with the Xiongnu this time, they were temporarily not enemies. Furthermore, the airship carrying Murong Feng and her sister was flying at an altitude of three hundred meters; even if the Qin soldiers wanted to retaliate, their bows and arrows could never reach that high.

"General, what should we do?" Meng Tian's personal guard asked him.

"Since they want to take the vanguard, let them. It would be even more perfect if they end up perishing together with the Wolf Tribe," Meng Tian sneered.

"Understood!" The guard bowed respectfully and withdrew.

...

"Sister, Meng Tian didn't respond. What should we do now?" Murong Huang asked Murong Feng.

"Since I have already notified him, if he insists on being tactless, he can't blame us if he gets blown to pieces along with them," Murong Feng sneered. Then, waving her delicate hand, she shouted, "All forces, listen up! Move out!"

At Murong Feng's command, ten massive airships soared toward the airspace directly above the city.

"Chanyu, what are these people trying to do?" The Wolf Tribe soldiers on the ramparts watched the colossal airships hovering above them and asked Tuman with blank expressions.

"No matter what they're trying to do, loose your arrows and shoot them down!" Tuman ordered angrily. He had no idea what these airships were, so naturally, he had no clue what the Murong sisters intended to do.

As soon as Tuman finished speaking, the Wolf Tribe soldiers raised their bows in unison and loosed a volley of arrows at the airships in the sky. Arrows flew like a swarm of locusts, violently striking the ten airships. However, because the airships were flying at an altitude of three hundred meters, the vast majority of the arrows lost their momentum by the time they reached two hundred meters and fell straight back down. Even the arrows shot by the most skilled archers barely managed to reach the underside of the airships, but after traveling three hundred meters, those arrows had completely lost their kinetic energy and failed to pierce the airships' defenses.

"A bunch of ignorant ants who don't know the height of the sky," Murong Feng sneered at the sight. With a wave of her hand, she commanded, "All forces, release the bombs!"

Following Murong Feng's order, the disciples aboard the ten airships immediately pressed their release mechanisms. Gaps opened at the bottom of each airship, and from these openings, each vessel dropped one hundred bombs. A total of one thousand bombs fell like raindrops toward the city below.

"What is that? Are those rocks?" Tuman muttered to himself in confusion as he watched the falling bombs.

"Hahaha! Can these tiny rocks dropped by these foolish southern barbarians actually hurt anyone?" The Wolf Tribe soldiers laughed dismissively at the small black projectiles.

"Hahaha..."

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Amid the scornful laughter of the Wolf Tribe soldiers, the bombs finally struck the ground and detonated. One thousand bombs rained down from the sky, blanketing the city below in explosions. The once-majestic city was instantly reduced to a patchwork of ruins.