To create an explosion of this magnitude, the Great Zhou forces had directly dumped half the gunpowder they had brought along into it.
This was not merely to blow up a few Snake People.
To be frank, expending so much gunpowder just to inflict those few casualties on the Snake People would have been utterly uneconomical.
Thus, they had another extremely important objective.
As the explosive shockwave spread madly, countless fireballs splashed out from the camp at the center of the blast like fireworks blooming across the sky. They traced long parabolic arcs before landing at various points across the plain.
Yet, astonishingly, after these fireballs struck the ground, they did not go out. Instead, they quietly continued burning.
This was a method that Li Ce, Zhou Ye, and Wei Qing had thought up in a flash of inspiration half a month ago, when the three of them had gathered to discuss tactics.
The Snake People basically launched their attacks at night, so night vision was extremely important to their troops.
Setting up a line of fire directly, as the Smith Kingdom had done, was too conspicuous and too easy to destroy.
At that moment, Zhou Ye had suddenly thought of a brilliant method.
They would place a highly concentrated kerosene mixture used for starting fires near the barrels of explosives.
As long as the barrels exploded, the blast would ignite the kerosene mixture and send it flying outward, scattering it across the surrounding land.
This specially formulated, highly concentrated kerosene mixture could burn steadily for a long time even when there were no other flammable materials nearby.
With that in mind, a single fireball could provide only limited illumination—but what if countless such fireballs blanketed an entire area around them?
This blast had scattered the fireballs like flowers cast