Outside Lin'an City, twenty miles away, eight helicopters landed in succession on an open expanse of land.
After disembarking, Fang Er, under everyone's watchful eyes, released six brand new helicopters with a wave of his hand.
"Huh? Am I dreaming?"
"Awesome! Duke actually conjured six more helicopters!"
"Damn, these six new planes look so formidable!"
"What the hell! Someone pinch me!"
Seeing his subordinates looking as if they had never seen the world before, Wang Xuance glared at them.
"All of you shut up! It's time for your eyes to be useless!"
The Torch team members:..........
The ones Fang Er took out were three Mi-6 and three Mi-10.
Both these types of helicopters were heavy-duty armed transport helicopters with large cargo capacities, making them suitable for transporting fuel.
With the existing eight, the fleet expanded to fourteen helicopters.
It took three days for them to familiarize themselves with the performance of the Mi-6 and Mi-10.
While three days was a bit short, especially without needing to understand the electronic systems, it was enough to master takeoff and landing.
The craftsmen sourced by the Ministry of Works had only produced less than twenty thousand catties of gunpowder these past few days. It was all bundled into explosive packages, which were currently stored in Fang Er's system warehouse.
Watching Ge Luoyang and the others take off in different directions, Fang Er pointed to the remaining two helicopters and said to Wang Xuance, "Let's go too, to the islands of Japan!"
"Duke, why did you give all the good stuff to them?"
Envy existed everywhere. Wang Xuance, who had maintained a composed demeanor earlier, couldn't help but feel a pang of loss as he watched the new aircraft being flown away.
"Oh, oh, oh! Our General Wang is actually feeling jealous?"
Fang Er stared at him for a while before teasing him.
Xue Rengui, standing nearby, couldn't help but chuckle, "Duke, Captain Wang is just pretending to be reserved in front of them. Who wouldn't be envious of such good things!"
"I dare to bet that if His Majesty saw this, he'd ask again how much each one costs."
Wang Xuance's face turned crimson. He kicked Xue Rengui in the behind, "Get out of here! You dare to speculate on His Majesty's thoughts? Are you tired of living?"
Fang Er opened the cabin door and walked up, saying to them, "Alright, I know you're envious, but we can't fly those helicopters this time."
"Don't forget the power of the gold-collecting ships. If we take them, the same incident will happen again."
"Why?" Wang Xuance didn't quite understand.
Fang Er casually explained, "Because many critical components within those helicopters contain gold!"
"These damn gold-collecting ships are merciless when they're working. With them around, you'll crash in minutes!"
Upon hearing this, Wang Xuance shivered, finally understanding why the incident had occurred last time.
Xue Rengui boarded another helicopter, and the three of them flew east.
At this time, Mount Fuji was still dormant, and the nearby Heian-kyō was a scene of revelry and peace.
"Duke, are you going to blow up this mountain again?"
Looking at Mount Fuji before them, Xue Rengui immediately guessed Fang Er's intention.
Fang Er did not answer his question. Instead, he pointed towards Heian-kyō and said, "Go there, find their Emperor, and give him three days to migrate the people. Otherwise, they'll be responsible for their own lives!"
After speaking, he placed ten gold bars onto Xue Rengui's helicopter.
These gold bars were produced by the gold-collecting ships, each weighing 4,500 taels.
At this time, the Iwami Ginzan silver mine had not yet been discovered, and the currency of the Japanese was extremely scarce.
Given the predicament of the Japanese Emperor, this gold was undoubtedly a fortune!
Despite the animosity, Fang Er's core belief was to act with integrity. He wouldn't commit the act of killing a thousand by mistake to spare one.
Under the dual offensive of bullets and gold, the Japanese Emperor had no choice but to follow his orders and issue a decree for the city to relocate.
Although their capital, Heian-kyō, only had a population of a little over ten thousand people.
The Japanese did not have the same attachment to their homeland as the Tang people. The main reason was that these people were desperately poor, and there was nothing in Heian-kyō that was worth their clinging to.
As soon as the Emperor issued the decree, people began to leave Heian-kyō and its surroundings with their families in tow that afternoon.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye. Seeing that there still seemed to be people in the city, Wang Xuance asked, "Duke, what do we do?"
If Mount Fuji were to erupt now, the people remaining in the city would undoubtedly not fare well.
The helicopter took off and ascended to the summit of Mount Fuji. Fang Er casually tossed dozens of explosive packages down.
Such a small amount of gunpowder was like a tickle to Mount Fuji.
Although the effect of opening the mountain was limited, his goal was merely to drive them away from the volcanic zone.
"Boom boom~~!"
The gunpowder was ignited by the high temperature. The sound, amplified by the crater, was clearly transmitted to the ears of the people in the city.
The potential consequences of Mount Fuji's eruption seemed to be deeply ingrained in the hearts of the Japanese people. Even if they had not experienced it, they had heard legends about it to varying degrees.
In an instant, the people scattered like startled birds, fleeing in the direction away from Mount Fuji.
To add some urgency, Fang Er threw another hundred or so explosive packages down.
Each explosive package contained ten catties of black gunpowder!
The bombing on the first day was merely a minor skirmish.
Mount Fuji, like a silent and submissive subject, didn't even sneeze throughout the day.
On the second day, Fang Er increased the amount.
The first wave alone consisted of five hundred explosive packages.
A full five thousand catties of black gunpowder were detonated by the internal high temperature before they even reached the bottom of the crater.
"Boom!"
A fireball accompanied by dense black smoke erupted from the crater. At this moment, Fang Er even had the illusion that Mount Fuji was shaking.
"Duke, it seems the power is not enough!"
Wang Xuance said disappointedly, pointing at Mount Fuji.
This was something Fang Er hadn't anticipated. He had thought that simply throwing some explosives down would cause Mount Fuji to erupt prematurely, bringing out the gold and thorium elements from beneath the earth.
"Damn it, this thing is really patient!"
"Ascend to a higher altitude, I'll give it a real jolt!"
Fang Er gritted his teeth and made a decision.
As the helicopter climbed to an altitude of a thousand meters, he extended his right hand out of the cabin. A B-2 stealth bomber fully loaded with ordnance appeared out of thin air and then plummeted straight towards the crater.
That's right, this was his decision.
Since these fixed-wing aircraft were temporarily useless, they could serve as large firecrackers.
"Boom!"
The explosion this time was louder and more shocking than before.
Wang Xuance felt like crying. He hadn't gotten to fly the new helicopters and now he was being tasked with being a handyman.
He instinctively maneuvered the helicopter to retreat to a safe distance.
Mount Fuji, which had been calm and undisturbed yesterday, finally showed signs of anger this time!
At the same moment the explosion occurred, thick lava, accompanied by plumes of black smoke, was seen spewing from the crater.