139: Chapter 139 Detonate 3,600 Bunker Explosives in a Cluster!

To make the military parade more effective, especially to highlight the deterrent power of the Iron Pagoda heavy cavalry he had spent a fortune on, Zhao Fusu felt he needed to let the world see with their own eyes just how domineering the Iron Pagoda heavy cavalry—armed with striker shotguns, revolvers, and steel sabers—could be in this era.

He decided to purchase tens of thousands of black pigs and then, under the drive of the troops, let those tens of thousands of black pigs charge the three thousand Iron Pagoda heavy cavalry to simulate an infantry charge.

The killed black pigs could then serve as an extra meal for the soldiers.

Zhao Fusu summoned Li Si and gave him money to go buy the tens of thousands of black pigs.

Furthermore, he instructed Li Si to continue leaking this news through the newspapers.

When the nobles of Xianyang City learned that Zhao Fusu had such an arrangement for the military parade, they found it increasingly interesting.

The scene of tens of thousands of black pigs charging was a rare event, not just in ancient times where entertainment was severely lacking, but even in modern times.

The people of Xianyang City grew more and more expectant of the National Day military parade.

Zhao Fusu arrived at the main camp of the three thousand Iron Pagoda heavy cavalry, gathered all three thousand of them, and addressed them.

"I have purchased ten thousand black pigs."

"These black pigs were bought for everyone to eat."

"If one pig provides a hundred grams per person, it's enough for a million people to consume."

"Our troops in Xianyang City total one hundred and ten thousand."

"If we hunt all these black pigs, each soldier can receive over nine hundred grams of meat."

Hearing Zhao Fusu say this, both the three thousand cavalrymen and the soldiers protecting Zhao Fusu became excited.

Over nine hundred grams—that was nearly two catties of meat.

In ancient times with food shortages, getting any grain was difficult, let alone eating meat.

Two catties of meat was enough to drive these soldiers into a frenzy.

"The prerequisite for all this is that you can hunt those ten thousand black pigs!"

Zhao Fusu raised his voice and asked, "Do you have confidence?"

"We do!"

The three thousand cavalrymen roared loudly.

"Good."

Zhao Fusu looked at these three thousand high-spirited cavalrymen and said with a stern face, "I hope you aren't just talking; prove it to me with your actions!"

"We swear to complete the mission even at the cost of our lives!"

The three thousand cavalrymen shouted in unison, their voices shaking the heavens and the earth.

The influence of the Thought Steel Seal, combined with the fact that how much meat the troops could eat depended on how many black pigs they could hunt, made their fighting spirit even more fervent.

Zhao Fusu gathered over a hundred Thousand-man Commanders and formed a Training Corps.

"One, two, one. One, two, one."

He came to teach the Training Corps how to goose-step and march in formation.

The Training Corps would then teach the goose-stepping and formations they learned to their subordinates.

"Same hand, same foot!"

"Same hand, same foot!"

...

Unsurprisingly, the people of this era experienced the pain that people of later generations felt during military training.

Many people successfully managed to make the instructors of the Training Corps lose their rhythm, causing quite a few laughs.

After inspecting the situation, Zhao Fusu suddenly felt that if he just brought fifty thousand people up to march, not only would it fail to create the feeling he wanted, but it would also look like Xie Baoqing's ragtag bandits.

That would be a failed attempt at imitation.

After some thought, Zhao Fusu decided not to have all fifty thousand infantrymen march at once. Instead, he selected the 352 best goose-steppers from among them to form an Honor Guard Phalanx, with 25 people across, 14 rows deep, and 2 leaders.

Afterward, he selected another 352-man Infantry Phalanx.

To make these people look more murderous, Zhao Fusu decided to have them all wear buren armor coated in black lacquer, and he designed a three-stage saber-slashing routine for them: drawing, raising, and slashing down.

Since they were all wearing buren armor anyway, even if the people in the back row accidentally slashed the people in the front, it wouldn't matter.

In Zhao Fusu's mind, the image of an entire phalanx in buren armor slashing their sabers in unison made him excited just thinking about it.

That synchronized, murderous movement would surely bring an immense sense of shock to those watching the parade.

The effect Zhao Fusu wanted to create was naturally that of the soldiers in various phalanxes performing three-stage bayonet drills with murderous expressions during the 1984 military parade.

From the three thousand Iron Pagoda heavy cavalry, 352 were also selected to form an Iron Pagoda Phalanx.

Next were the Revolver Phalanx and the Artillery Phalanx.

He also had to arrange military music.

Playing the stirring 'March of the Steel Torrent' while marching with a swaggering, unstoppable gait, rolling forward to crush all opponents—that was the feeling Zhao Fusu wanted.

Zhao Fusu was too familiar with the melody of the 'March of the Steel Torrent,' so he summoned musicians to hum it for them while they transcribed the score.

As for the instruments, Zhao Fusu had obtained a batch of military musical instruments through his daily check-ins over the past few days.

Without this batch of military instruments, he wouldn't have had the mind to arrange the 'March of the Steel Torrent.'

Once the musicians became familiar with the instruments, they began to perform according to the tune Zhao Fusu hummed.

"Deng-deng-deng, deng-deng-deng..."

The stirring and surging military march was performed by them.

"That's the one!"

"That's the one!"

Zhao Fusu's face was full of excitement.

In his mind, he couldn't help but picture the scene of the National Day military parade.

To make the sound of the footsteps louder when the phalanxes goose-stepped, Zhao Fusu specifically went to the Great Qin Empire's royal workshop to order special boots.

These boots were exceptionally loud when the soles struck the ground.

Zhao Fusu spent an entire month working on the military parade arrangements.

If the Honor Guard Phalanx, Infantry Phalanx, Iron Pagoda Phalanx, Revolver Phalanx, Artillery Phalanx, and the three thousand Iron Pagoda cavalry withstanding the charge of ten thousand black pigs were only considered appetizers...

...then the concentrated fire of the meiliangxin cannons in front of the four city gates would be the main course Zhao Fusu served to the anti-Qin nobles.

He had prepared a total of 3,600 twenty-kilogram explosive packs.

Nine hundred gasoline drums were arranged at each of the four city gates.

He planned to have 3,600 artillerymen ignite 3,600 meiliangxin cannons at the same time as soon as the signal flare went off, launching all 3,600 explosive packs.

This was a cluster explosion of 3,600 explosive packs!

Concentrated bombing on a wall area of 400 meters by 400 meters.

One could imagine the effect of that explosion!

Zhao Fusu felt that the effect of this bombing could cause an earthquake across the entire land.

For the anti-Qin nobles of the Six Lands, this would certainly be a massive earthquake to their worldview.

Without even thinking, Zhao Fusu knew that once the anti-Qin nobles of the Six Lands saw the 3,600 explosive packs, they would be in for a rough time.

After all the anti-Qin forces in Great Qin saw this 'art of explosion,' their worldviews would suffer a massive earthquake!

Of course, in this military parade, Zhao Fusu did not intend to reveal the mortars; one shouldn't expose all of one's assets.