Chapter 10: The Earthen Artillery Battle (Part II)

"Let's go, hurry up in a while, we'll come back when these two baskets of fish are filled......" Sancang took out two fish baskets from behind the door, holding the fish basket in one hand and carrying the satchel on his shoulder with the other, and his movements seemed very skillful.

"Isn't it enough to bring one?" Fang Yi took a fish basket and asked with some puzzlement, because he found that the two fish baskets were almost a meter high, and it was absolutely no problem to hold dozens of catties of fish.

"Hehe, since it's dry, why don't you catch more fish?" Sanpao Hehe laughed and said, "Let's go to the city and bring some to my father, the fish sold in the city are all fed, and they are not delicious at all......

"So that's ......" Fang Yi nodded when he heard this, when he was with Sanpao and the fat man, he had fewer words, this was because Fang Yi knew that he knew too little about this world, and he could only learn by talking less and listening more.

"Hey, wait, bring this bottle of wine......" When a few people were about to go out, the fat man reached out and put the remaining bottle of wine on the table in his arms, and then followed Fang Yi in the direction of the reservoir.

The reservoir is about a mile away from Weijia Village, and it takes a few minutes to walk there during the day, but at night it is dark and there are no street lights, so the three of them walked for about ten minutes before they came to the edge of the reservoir.

"There are ...... reservoirs under the mountain Is it so big?" Seeing the lake with layers of silver ripples in the moonlight, Fang Yi couldn't help but be stunned, although he hadn't gone down the mountain until now, he could see the reservoir under the mountain on the mountain.

It's just that the distance on the mountain is too far, and this reservoir doesn't seem very big in Fang Yi's eyes, but when he came to front Yi, he found that the reservoir that used to be like a small pond is now beyond the bounds at a glance, far beyond Fang Yi's imagination.

"It was originally a lake, and then it was built as a reservoir......

Seeing Fang Yi's stunned look, the fat man explained with a smile, pointed to the surface of the lake and said: "The elders in the village have said that this lake has never been dry, and the deepest place is forty or fifty meters, and in the early years, someone caught a big fish more than a meter long from it......"

"Okay, fat man, don't talk nonsense there......" The third cannon interrupted the fat man's words, and said angrily: "Didn't you say that no one was guarding it?

"Huh?" Hearing the words of the three guns, Fang Yi and the fat man looked at several small bungalows built on the edge of the reservoir more than fifty meters away at the same time, and sure enough, there was still a light on in one of the rooms.

"No, they should go back...... The fat man scratched his head, turned his face to look at Fang Yi, and said, "Brother Yi'er, you are light on your hands and feet, go over and see if there is anyone in that room......?"

"Okay, I'll go take a look first......" Fang Yi nodded, leaned down and touched the room, and a few minutes later, Fang Yi's head rose by the window of the house with the lights on, and beckoned to the fat man and the three guns.

"I'll just say no one...... the fat man relaxed, laughed proudly, walked to the side of the houses with Sanpao, and said: "It's okay now, even the boat is there, and it saves the fat man from going into the water to catch fish......"

Although it was close to summer, the lake water was still very cold at night, and the fat man had just picked up the bottle of bad wine from the house, probably wanting to take a few sips before going into the water.

"Let's go, let's stay away from this house, I know which side has more fish ......"

The three cannons glanced around and said, "Fatty, you go rowing, Brother Yi and I throw the cannonballs, go back and wait for the three cannonballs to go off, you row the boat again, don't come over......"

"Hey, why should I go rowing?" After hearing the words of the three cannons, the fat man said dissatisfiedly: "I still want to put a cannon fight, didn't you make three, let's just put one each." ”

"Come on, you, it's not like you haven't played, Brother Yi'er is playing this for the first time, let him put one more ......" The third cannon pushed the fat man, threw the two fish baskets in his hand to the fat man, and said: "Turn around and move quickly, this place is too close to the village, maybe someone will come over......"

"I know, it's not the first time, and I still need you to ...... it"

Although the fat man was not happy, he still carried two fish baskets to the edge of the lake, where there was a small wooden boat with a rocking oar, which was used by the people who usually guarded the reservoir to catch plankton and garbage, and the use of polluting speedboats was not allowed here.

"Come, Fang Yi, stand here ......"

After the fat man left, the three guns pulled Fang Yi forward and walked more than twenty meters, stood on the edge of the lake, handed Fang Yi an earthen cannon, pointed to the water in front of him, and said: "Wait until the fuse is lit, you can throw the wine bottle into the lake, throw it as far as possible, there are many fish in the deep water over there, there are many fish ...... there."

Fang Yi weighed the wine bottle in his hand, nodded, and said, "Okay, I can throw a hundred handfuls of rice ...... this bottle."

"Hey, you don't have to go that far, otherwise the fat man will take too much time to row over......" San Pao was taken aback by Fang Yi's words, and said: "Just throw it more than thirty meters, throw three bottles into a triangle, and ensure that not a single fish over there can run away......"

As he spoke, San Pao took out a bag of red plum cigarettes from his pocket, popped one out and handed it to Fang Yi, and said, "Do you want one?"

"Why do you smoke like a fat man?" Fang Yi shook his head and asked, "It won't be the fuse that was lit with a cigarette, right?"

"This thing is not a real artillery battle, it is not easy to ignite, where is the smoke lit?" The third cannon smiled, and after feeling the wind direction on the edge of the reservoir, he took out a lighter from his pocket and said: "See, windproof, I bought it from the city to fry fish......"

Indeed, as the third cannon said, the fuse was not very easy to ignite, and after lighting it with a windproof light machine for more than ten seconds, a puff of green smoke came out of the fuse, followed by the "snort" sound of gunpowder burning.

After the third cannon lit the fuse, he immediately stuffed the wine bottle in Fang Yi's hand, pointed to the water in the distance, lowered his voice and said, "Hurry up and throw ......"

"Ah, won't it be extinguished if you throw it into the water?"

Fang Yi was stunned for a moment, but he still threw the wine bottle out according to the three guns, only to see that the wine bottle drew an arc in mid-air, and then fell into the water more than thirty meters away.

"Hey, it's not extinguished......" By the moonlight, Fang Yi clearly saw that the puffs of green smoke that came out of the place where the wine bottle fell into the water were obviously still burning.

"The second one, throw it ten meters away from that artillery battle......" Before Fang Yi could take a closer look, the third artillery bolt lit the second cannon and stuffed it into Fang Yi's hand, which made the wind on the edge of the reservoir a little lighter, and the fuse only took five or six seconds to ignite.

"Come on, you can order this......" After Fang Yi threw out the second wine bottle, San Pao handed him the wine bottle and lighter in his hand.

Seeing that the three cannons lit two, Fang Yi did the same, and after lighting the third earthen cannon, he threw it next to the first two, covering the water area of more than 20 meters.

"If you kid were to become a soldier, it is estimated that no one would be able to throw grenades over you......"

Seeing that the three smoking places were exactly in a triangle, the three cannons couldn't help but smack their mouths, you know, he can throw a grenade of more than two catties out of thirty meters at most, this wine bottle is much lighter, Fang Yi can easily throw it so far.

"Hmm, why hasn't it exploded yet?" Fang Yi didn't pay attention to the three cannons, his eyes were staring at the water, it had been almost forty seconds since the first earthen cannon battle was thrown down, hadn't the fuse burned yet?

"Boom!"

As soon as Fang Yi's words fell, he heard a muffled sound coming from the water dozens of meters away, as if someone had struck on a broken drum, the sound was not very loud, but Fang Yi faintly felt that the place under his feet vibrate.

Although the sound of the earthen cannon explosion was muffled by the lake, the water surface was blown open, and a huge splash rose seven or eight meters above the water.

Ten seconds later, the second and third earthen artillery battles also exploded one after another, and the water surface twenty or thirty meters away was full of splashes, and the originally calm water surface was flooded with layers of ripples, as if a pair of big hands were stirring underneath.

"Fatty, hurry up and get on the ......" Seeing that the three earthen cannons were ringing out, the three cannons clenched their fists fiercely and shouted at the fat man not far away.

"It's been ready for a long time......," the fat man replied, and jumped on the wooden boat with great agility, and with a few oars on the shore, the wooden boat rowed towards the place where the earthen cannon was exploding, and the speed was not slow.

"Three cannons, this ...... Why are there no fish here?" After the fat man rowed the boat over, the water surface gradually calmed down, but Fang Yi, who had good eyesight, saw that no fish surfaced.

"Isn't that there?"

The three guns smiled and pointed, and sure enough, a fish with a full four or five catties floated up with a white belly, and then more than a dozen fish surfaced, all with their bellies facing up, and they didn't know whether they were killed or stunned.

And Fang Yi also knew why the third cannon took two fish baskets that were so big, because that fish had several catties, and the smaller fish basket couldn't be put into it at all.

At this time, the fat man also took a copy of the net, and fished up the fish floating on the side of the boat, and he was very happy, don't look at other people's fat, but the coordination was really good, the boat swayed left and right, and the fat man was standing firmly on it.

"Fatty, pick up a big suit, be quick with your hands and feet, and we'll go back when it......'s full," the third cannon reminded him on the shore, and from time to time he turned back to look at the village, although the explosion just now was not loud, but maybe it would alarm the people in the village.

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ps: Fried fish was my favorite thing to do thirty years ago, oops, I accidentally exposed my age, isn't it only eighteen to hit the eye, vote for the fat man of eighteen!.