She knew Yun Zheng was intentionally trying to intimidate her, and yet, she was indeed intimidated.
Any general with even a modicum of foresight would understand the immense potential of this explosive. With it, those towering city walls would no longer be insurmountable obstacles. Sieges would no longer require filling the gap with human lives—or at least, they would no longer rely entirely on clever stratagems and brute force of numbers.
If she had possessed such explosives during her previous negotiations with the Guifang, she would have dared to march directly on their royal city, despite having so few men. Wouldn't the benefits of capturing the Guifang royal city far exceed what she could gain through painstaking negotiations?
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