Hundred Refinements (4)

What made Wu Zhong's heart even colder was that before he returned to Jianwu, there were already people waiting at his house.

As soon as he returned to the Yamen, Master Su Can nodded and greeted him, took the reins of Wuzhong's horse, knelt in his ear, and reported mysteriously, "Master, there is a distinguished guest visiting."

"What kind of distinguished guest, tell him that the master has no effort today." After losing the battle, Wanhu Wuzhong, the commander of the Jianwu Army who didn't know how to deal with the above, was angry when he saw his master. I heard the roar last night, if it weren't for this damn master who advised him to delay and set off an hour later, he wouldn't have allowed more than a thousand Tanma Red Army to be slaughtered by Wen Tianxiang.

"Yes, I understand", Su Can put away his smiling face and agreed, but his body refused to move, his eyes stared directly at his toes, as if flowers could grow on his boots.

For this master who has followed him for more than 20 years, Wu Zhong has some feelings. Seeing him cowering, he felt pity in his heart, patted Su Can's shoulder, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter, I can't recover the benefits of others, right?" Wu asked himself if he didn't treat you badly on weekdays, but you are still so conscienceless, you dare to accept any money! ”

"Master is wise", Master Su Can hunched his waist, and his head almost hung down to his knees.

"Let him wait for me in the living room, unassuming fellow."

Looking at the back of the master trotting away, Wu Zhong sighed helplessly. The world was so chaotic that he himself did not expect to establish immortal deeds. I only hope that with these 10,000 brothers under my command, I can mix peacefully until the end of the troubled times. Whether the generals are fighting or not, they are all chips in his hands Wu Zhong, and with these people, Da Yuan will also look at him differently.

So knowing that Wen Tianxiang was in Baizhangling, he was unwilling to attack. If all his brothers are gone, General Guang Pole is just a waste in the eyes of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. Who would have thought that Wen Tianxiang would take the initiative to go down the mountain to find trouble for himself, and after not seeing him for two months, Wen Jiajun was like being reborn.

How is it good? Jianwu Army, the commander of the army, Wanhu Wuzhong, depressedly pushed it away and walked into his mansion.

"Adults go home", the family shouted threateningly. In front of the living room, a person dressed as a Taoist priest, accompanied by the master, greeted him with a smile.

"The most important thing in archery is a flat word, and the trick is on both arms. This is true for both bows and crossbows, and the hands cannot tremble. Look at this point on the lookout mountain and the crossbow arm, and the moment the target is fired in a straight line, pull the trigger to be decisive ......."

In the valley, Du Hu, the commander of the second standard, is guiding the recruits of the first battalion to practice steel crossbow shooting, the brand-new crossbow is shining blue in the sun, and the string sounds, a straw man is shot through a hundred steps away, and the crossbow arrows are endless, and they continue to fly for more than ten steps, poofing into the mud, and entering the ground.

The soldiers picked up the broken bows, followed the example of Du Hu, turned the gears, mounted the crossbows, aimed, and fired, and hundreds of crossbow arrows flew out, rolling a crossbow wind in mid-air. Snap, snap, pop, the straw man couldn't withstand the powerful attack of the crossbow arrows, and soon fell apart.

The steel crossbow is equipped with an armor-piercing cone, and the range is about 200 to 300 paces. The most effective lethality is within 200 steps, which is far from the domineering power of the Divine Arm Bow that can wear heavy armor from 240 to 360 steps, but the good thing is that it is relatively easy to make, and ordinary soldiers can manipulate it.

Good crossbow, Du Hu put away the steel crossbow with appreciation, and his eyes landed on the word broken on the crossbow arm, and the serial number of a series of steel hairpins smashed on the back. Lin Laohan took a group of skilled disciples up the mountain, not only speeding up the armament, but also bringing a nice name to the steel crossbow, Breaker.

It has been more than four months since entering Baizhangling, and the heroes from all walks of life who were killed and scattered by the Yuan army on Jiangnan West Road have come to vote one after another, and the broken army has slowly recovered some vitality.

Today's Broken Army has expanded to two targets, with nearly 5,000 people. The second target was personally led by Du Hu, and according to the training method of the first target, he gradually strengthened his foundation and cultivated his source in terms of physical strength and combat quality.

The Broken Army has changed, and so has Lord Wen. As a core figure in the army, Du Hu felt more and more deeply day by day that Wen Tianxiang at this time was different from the original.

Before the defeat of the empty pit, Wen Tianxiang was enthusiastic, heroic, and had the arrogance and arrogance unique to a scholar, but now Wen Tianxiang is wise and calm. Especially those deep eyes, as if they can see through the past and the future at a glance.

Afraid of the blue sky, not shocked when you hear the thunderbolt. This is the evaluation of Wen Tianxiang by core generals such as Zou Wei, Zhang Tang, and Chen Longfu. Du Hu, who is good at observation, knows that Wen Tianxiang's current composure and calmness are not pretended, but prepared for all the wind and rain.

Many heavy blows to ordinary people can't make waves in front of Lord Wen.

When the event was on Jiangnan West Road, the whereabouts of the generals after the defeat of the empty pit were transmitted back one by one, and every piece of news was suffocating.

Zhang Bian fought but failed, and Miao Chaozong hanged himself. Lin Dong and Liu Zhu were arrested, refused to succumb to the enemy, and were killed.

The brothers Xiao Jingfu and Xiao Taofu died in battle.

Wen Tianxiang's other brother-in-law, Sun Li, was defeated in Jizhou, unwilling to be captured by the Yuan army, and jumped into the rolling Ganjiang River.

Wen Tianxiang's wife, Mrs. Ouyang, his second son Fosheng, and his daughters Liu Niang and Huanniang, were conservatively tortured in front of the two armies that day and were seriously injured. On the way to Dadu, the Buddha fell ill and died.

After extinguishing the fire of resistance on Jiangnan West Road with the power of thunder, Li Heng and Yu Du joined forces to go south and move to Fujian Road. In October, Shudu invaded Xinghua and divided the defender Chen Zhanche. On the grounds that the southerners were not afraid, they ordered the slaughter of the city, and no one in the city was spared, from the old man to the baby.

Xingchao drifted to Qianwan (Hong Kong), and there was no place to stay, Chen Yizhong still had time to exclude dissidents and belittled Lu Xiufu to live in Chaozhou. Now the army of the three roads of Mengyuan has gathered in Guangzhou, and the dynasty is in danger.

State affairs are like this, family affairs are like this, every soldier who heard the news was so hated that he gritted his steel teeth, only Wen Tianxiang, the commander of the whole army, received the news that his brother-in-law threw himself into the river and his son died of illness, but he just took a cursory look at the information, turned around and devoted himself to military affairs.

Many people said that the prime minister was ruthless, and only Wen Tianxiang's personal soldiers knew that for several nights in a row, the prime minister's pillow was wet. He kept these national enemies and family hatreds in his heart, and he would not affect his judgment of the situation because of these things. Nor will they be blinded by personal hatred.

This is the demeanor of the commander of the first army, and Emperor Guangwu led his troops to the north back then, and it was nothing more than that. Unknowingly, Du Hu wanted to compare Wen Tianxiang with Han Guangwu and Liu Xiu. When Han Guangwu heard that his brother was killed, didn't he pretend to laugh in front of people. Whether Wen Tianxiang will replace the Song family in the future, Du Hu didn't think so far. What he is now thinking about is how to implement Wen Tianxiang's proposal and turn the whole army into strength.

Each standard has its own approach. Zou Xun and Zhang Tang's first strategy was to let the people who had escaped from the pile of dead people and come all the way to join the soldiers tell the soldiers about the hatred of slaughtering the city. Every time the people on the stage finished crying, the soldiers in the audience would turn into angry lions. Then, Zhang Tang led the group of lions to run and refine the army.

Du Hu adopted a different method, his team was established late, and the soldiers had already witnessed the massacre of the city and how the Yuan army executed the prisoners, and these hateful things did not need to be talked about, everyone remembered them.

"Yang Jun, let the brothers come one by one, the five arrows and four middle schools are qualified, and the unqualified bow arms will be hung with stones, and continue to practice at night", Du Hu shouted at the crossbow and arrow battalion.

"Yes", the leader of the crossbow battalion was a veteran who crawled out of the pile of dead people, and commanded several captains under his command to erect a few targets a hundred paces away, and let the soldiers take turns to pass the level in teams

"Brothers, there are the Mongols who killed your brother and burned your homeland ahead," Yang Jun shouted to everyone, pointing to the grass target in front of him. These words, like pouring oil on the fire, stirred up a blaze, and the soldiers lined up in front of the line in turn, and shot their vengeful crossbow arrows at the wooden targets in the distance, and the arrows hit the target.

The prime minister's method is wonderful, this kid thinks that slaughtering the city can intimidate the people, but in fact, he is digging his own grave. Du Hu smiled and nodded, turned around and left the training ground, he had other arrangements today. Master Wen made an appointment with all the generals and went to the back mountain to see the newly developed sharp weapons of the baggage camp.

Today's ordnance supervisor Xiao Zi is the number one celebrity in the army, and he can arouse a string of envious admiration wherever he goes. In the past four months, under the guidance of Wen Tianxiang and the assistance of Lin Zheng, he has brought countless surprises to the soldiers.

First there was a thunderbolt, then a broken bow (steel crossbow), and then a double-ringed lancet. Lin Zhong knew that the Song people's arm strength was insufficient, and they suffered losses in hand-to-hand combat with the Mongolian soldiers, so he specially dedicated the family heirloom knife making secret. The double-ring willow leaf is made of wrought iron welded steel blades, the knife is two feet three inches long, and the handle is seven inches long, which can be held with both hands. The best part is that the knife has a long groove on the back of the knife, along which the two lead rings can slide. The two lead rings are not ornaments, Du Hu personally tried it, after adding the lead rings, every time he splits down, the center of gravity of the knife instantly moves forward, with the stainless steel rotary welding blade, ordinary people can also split the wooden stake more than a foot high into half.

Some time ago, Wen Tianxiang personally led a team to attack the Taiping Silver Field under the mountain, and as soon as the Tartar Qianhu guarding there took a look, he was split into two pieces by Du Hulian with armor. More than 100 Tartars, more than 1,000 Tanma Red Army were killed by the brothers of the Broken Army like chopping melons and vegetables, and the Broken Army suffered less than 200 casualties. Although it was a small battle, it was a rare victory in terms of the proportion of casualties on both sides. This battle not only opened up the passage between all parts of Jiangnan West Road and Baizhangling, captured more than 10,000 taels of silver that the Tartars did not have time to transport, but also frightened the 20,000 new annexed troops in the Jianchang area to stay in the city obediently, allowing the scattered volunteers from all over the country to move closer to Baizhangling.

The generals of the new annexed army secretly sent their subordinates to the ridge to communicate, and deliberately revealed their own route of transporting supplies to Wen Tianxiang, and then Wen Tianxiang sent people down the mountain to rob the grain, and the new annexed army that transported grain to the front line saw the battle flag of the broken army and dispersed in a hurry.

Relying on the "close cooperation" of the new annexed army of Jianchang, the worry of running out of food on Baizhangling is now suspended. The only pity is that whether it is a lancet or a broken bow, due to the limitations of materials in the mountains, the army has not much equipment so far, and it is barely a battalion to come out, and the other battalions are still the original short knives with wooden handles. The ordnance supervisor was not in a hurry, and was busy researching some new sharp weapons every day, as if as soon as a new sharp weapon was born, other problems would be solved.

I don't know what that guy is going to show you today, is there a weapon more powerful than the earth-shaking thunder. Du Hu thought curiously and quickened his pace.

There are already more than 50 generals gathered on the back mountain, and it seems that Du Hu is the most calm one. Wen Tianxiang hadn't arrived yet, and the old scholar Chen Longfu was directing some soldiers to build a mound of earth on the opposite hillside. The wet dirt was dug up and piled up like a fortress on the verdant hillside.

Autumn is high and cool, and everyone is interested. Zheng Xiao Mingzhe of the second standard infantry battalion rolled his hands into a trumpet shape and shouted at the opposite side across the valley: "Old master, are you okay, do you want me to help you"!

"Brother, you underestimate me too much. I'm too old to wield a knife, but this little matter of digging a pit and building a dirt bag can't bother me." Chen Longfu stuck the shovel on the earthen rampart and touched the new white hair on his bare head. He is Wen Tianxiang's teacher, has been responsible for military supplies, grain and grass and other logistics matters, today Xiaozi wants to try new weapons, the old man can't be idle, take the initiative to ask Ying to help Xiaozi.

"Mr. Chen, don't just say that you don't practice, are you done, withdraw when you're done, we're going to test the cannon soon", there was a hearty laugh from the hillside, Xiao Zi and Lin Laohan took dozens of baggage soldiers and pushed three long black iron pipes up the mountain with a small cart.

"Alright, alright, right away". Chen Longfu agreed, led the soldiers to remove the dirt slope opposite, and ran quickly across the valley.

Xiao Zi instructed the soldiers to unload the cart at the feet of the generals, and carefully placed the iron pipe on the pre-built earthen platform with lifting bars and ropes. Swing open the iron pipe bracket, fix the iron pipe, and stretch out a half-moment bevel.

"This is the large assault rifle taught by Master Wen", Bu Junying Zheng Li Guida asked playfully, although he had seen the power of the thunder and the bow with his own eyes, as a traditional scholar, he was still resistant to strange tricks.

"It's artillery, General Li hasn't seen it. The tartar already has it, but it's made of bamboo, not as fine as ours. Lin Zheng glanced at Li Guida and explained loudly, "Test the artillery today, if you try it, let's organize an artillery battalion to attack the city, and there will be no more tens of thousands of troops nesting under the city wall."

Seeing that Lin Laohan's cowhide was blowing so big, all the generals were a little unconvinced. This sentence poked a little painfully, the generals attacked Ganzhou, and tens of thousands of people's troops couldn't get down for more than a month. Zhang Shijie besieged Quanzhou, but he also failed to enter the city gate for more than two months.

The old man didn't know that he had inadvertently broken everyone's hearts, so he lowered his head and carefully wiped the inside and outside of the artillery, as serious as taking care of his own flesh and blood. The copper gall iron tire cannon is a masterpiece after his consultation with Xiao Zi, which not only takes into account the fact that there is a shortage of copper in the army, but also takes care of the current situation of poor cast iron technology.

While speaking, Wen Tianxiang had already arrived, saw that the artillery had been arranged, visually measured the distance, and asked Chen Longfu: "Master, have you measured this distance, how far is it?"

"Between the two slopes, the straight-line distance is 850 paces, and I have roughly measured it with the sun-shadow method", Chen Longfu replied seriously, half of the sand table map in the army came from his hand, and the old gentleman said that the nearby terrain was like a treasure.

"Try it, can you beat it", Wen Tianxiang turned his head and asked Xiao Zi.

"No problem, I tried it once yesterday with an iron egg, and it will only be farther than this, not closer than this", the ordnance supervisor Xiao Zi is confident. After carrying the powder keg, he scooped two spoons of gunpowder with a wooden bucket with a scale, smashed it with a wooden mallet, and added a twisted projectile as large as the caliber to the muzzle.

Wen Tianxiang nodded, and led everyone to retreat twenty steps away, and the generals had the experience of the last thunder test explosion, and carefully covered their ears.

"I'll fire the first shot", Lin Laohan pushed away the flute, filled the medicine pool on the back of the artillery, covered the copper fire door, and looked back. Wen Tianxiang waved the command flag, the old man pulled the cannon rope, and the flint wheel turned quickly under the traction of the cannon rope, rubbing out a string of sparks.

"Boom", the landslide cracked with a loud sound, the daylight before noon dimmed, and black smoke and fireballs erupted from the muzzle of the cannon, drawing an arc, and smashing heavily into the earthen ramparts on the opposite side. Immediately after that, there was another loud bang, and a cloud of smoke rose from the earthen ramparts, and dirt and stones fell from mid-air. When the smoke cleared, there was no earth barrier on the opposite side, and a huge gap appeared in the mud, and the nearby loess was roasted black.

"Grandma", Li Guida called in a low voice, and his jaw almost dropped. Looking at the generals again, they were all ecstatic, if it weren't for Wen Tianxiang and Zou Xun watching by their side, they couldn't wait to rush over and pick up the artillery and kiss a few mouthfuls.

"Prepare for the salvo of three guns, or hit the vicinity of the crater just now", Wen Tianxiang waved the order flag again.

"Yes", Xiao Zi, Zhang Daniu, and Lin Zheng agreed in unison, and three artillery pieces were installed at the same time. Led the order to fire, and the three fire dragons burst out of the muzzle and landed in the front, left, and right positions of the shell just now. Three shells exploded almost simultaneously, billowing black smoke obscuring the daylight.

The wind blew, and the smoke gradually dispersed. The soldiers, whose ears were almost deaf, looked at the opposite hillside, which was still verdant in the morning, and a piece of scorched earth had been carved out of a radius of about ten zhang. Rocks, broken bamboo, and wet earth littered the crater edges, making the steaming crater look more like the open jaws of the demons of hell.

"With such a sharp weapon, is Da Song really out of luck"? Li Guida, the head of the infantry camp, asked himself secretly, and his eyes became infinitely confused.

"If you attack Ganzhou next time and bring ten broken cannons, I swear, it will be the Tartars who will be chased and run", Zhang Tang laughed and hurriedly stole the naming rights of the artillery.

"Broken", the cheers of the soldiers, accompanied by the roar of artillery test firing, echoed in the valley. A flock of wild geese returning south were startled by the sound of cannons and cheers, quacked, and flapped their wings and flew out of the mountain.

Outside the mountain, the blue sea and the sky, the young Lord Song sat on the big boat, looking at the land farther and farther away in confusion. The master said that there is a hero on land who is still fighting for the fate of the Great Song Dynasty. The young man wanted to know who this hero was and why Prime Minister Chen Cheng did not allow him to come to see him.

Drinker's note: From this section onwards, the dragon sets appear one after another. In order to avoid similarities with other books, please do not appear in other books with the same name. Otherwise, the end of the dragon set will inevitably be, quickly killed, killed, and become a traitor......

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