At noon on the seventh day, Qin Chuan stood outside the camp, looking at the endless stream of mule-horse carts and chicken carts transporting money and grain into the camp, and his face bloomed.

"General, if you attack the city, you will definitely capture far more money and food, right?" Liu Wenxiu, who was able to study with the army, asked puzzled.

Ai Nengqi on the side took over and said: "Yes, there are so many landlords and old fortunes in Taiyuan City, as well as King Jin and King Ninghua, they must have a lot of money, why don't you go in and grab it directly?" ”

Qin Chuan patted Liu Wenxiu's shoulder with a smile and asked rhetorically, "What is our strategic goal for this year and next?" ”

"Raid the Hetao area."

"Which is more important than a Taiyuan city or the Hetao area?"

"The Hetao, of course."

"That's right, you can't do things for the sake of immediate interests and ignore long-term strategic goals, although Taiyuan City has a lot of money and food, but if you want to attack it, you must pay a certain price."

"Now we have few troops, not only to fight the Tartars in the Hetao area, to fight the son of Lin Dan Khan, but also to guard against the counterattack of Jiannu, but also to deal with the encirclement of the Ming army, in this case, the most important thing is to preserve strength."

"Fighting Taiyuan City may cost more than 1,000 casualties, or even 2,300,000, although this casualty is not much, but for us, every point of strength drops, there is more danger."

"If you have less money, you can use it, and in the same way, if you have a small number of troops, you will carefully calculate that you have one soldier and one soldier, and you must always keep the strongest strength to face a strong enemy and deal with unknown variables."

"What's more, there are still thousands of Ming troops in Jiaocheng and Wenshui, and there are also Ming troops stationed in Yangqu, Xinzhou and Yanmen Pass in the north, if we suffer too many casualties in Taiyuan City, those Ming troops will inevitably pounce up, even if we are not afraid of them, but we are bound to be contained."

"In other words, we can't go south to fight Siyan City anymore."

"If we preserve our strength, we can still go south along the Taiyuan Basin, all the way to Siyancheng, and the money and grain we grab will not be much less."

After listening to Qin Chuan's words, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi frowned slightly, looking thoughtful.

Qin Chuan smiled again and patted them on the shoulder, and said, "Remember, don't be arrogant when marching and fighting, and think twice about everything." ”

"Well, I remember."

Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi, nodded heavily.

"Okay, from tomorrow, the two of you will first serve as captains in Luo Ba's ten-party battalion, each leading eleven soldiers, and tomorrow will go south with Luo Ba to attack the villages and towns along the way to practice your hands."

"Thank you, General!"

Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi were pleasantly surprised, and they all knelt down on one knee and gave a military salute to Qin Chuan.

"Li Dingguo has repeatedly made military merits and has been promoted to the rank of 100 presidents, and you two should also work hard."

"Yes, it will live up to the general's high expectations!"

"Go get your military badges, and then go to Liu Youzhu to report."

"Yes!"

Looking at Liu Wenxiu and Ainengqi, who were happily leaving, Qin Chuan nodded with satisfaction.

Although it is still very imperfect in terms of system and teaching content, it has trained many young generals in the past year.

The people who were selected to lecture in the martial arts hall were all young people who had experience in war, including Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi, although these two were young, they had already followed Zhang Bingzhong to fight in the south and north for several years, and had some experience in fighting.

These young people must not only be literate, learn military regulations, and learn the art of war, but also teach with the army; whenever there is a war, there will inevitably be a group of young cadets who will teach martial arts to fight with the army, and only then can they teach truly useful officers.

Today, there are more than 40 middle- and low-level officers who have come out of the lecture hall, and in the near future, these people are destined to become the backbone of the Guan Emperor's army.

Qin Chuan did not additionally favor Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi, but treated them as equals with others, and whether they could get ahead or not depended on their own true skills.

Li Dingguo's military talent is becoming more and more apparent, and in history, he seems to have led the troops alone at this time and fought for Zhang Xianzhong in all directions.

There is also Bai Wenxuan, this guy also has some ability, and he has also risen to the top 100 with his military merits, although the pattern is not as big as Li Dingguo, but it can be regarded as a material that can be made.

In short, these people kidnapped from Zhang Bingzhong are very good.

At this time, Zhang Bingzhong should still be bouncing around in Henan, and I don't know how famous he can be without these righteous sons.

……

Taiyuan City compromised and obediently sent the money and grain out of the city and into his camp.

A total of thirteen thousand stone of grain, four thousand seven hundred taels of silver, a lot of one.

Of the two hundred pieces of glassware that had been robbed, five hundred, each of which was tied up with straw rope and sent to the camp intact.

There were also 180 of Wang Zhong's subordinates, who were tightly bound, kneeling beside the camp and weeping bitterly.

They didn't expect that they would be sold by Wang Zhong in a blink of an eye.

Liu Youzhu also rushed over to join him, he brought 2,100 soldiers and horses, more than 7,000 people, more than 1,000 mules, horses, carriages, chickens, and buses, and the harvest was not bad.

The money and grain in Taiyuan City were not transported until the evening, and the carts, baskets and sacks loaded with money and grain crowded the entire camp.

The coachmen and stewards who were responsible for transporting the goods wanted to take back the mule-horse cart and the chicken cart, but when these things were in Qin Chuan's hands, they could never be taken back, including the mules and horses that pulled the cart, and they couldn't bring them back.

Even, there were hundreds of coachmen and porters who were left behind by Qin Chuan's demagoguery, and the officials in the city had to obediently send these people's families and belongings out of the city.

……

Early the next morning, Qin Chuan suddenly appeared outside the north gate of Taiyuan City.

Wu Fu, Wang Zhong and others thought that he had rebelled, and hurried to the north gate, ready to command the defense of the city.

However, Qin Chuan did not attack the city, but escorted Wang Zhong's one hundred and eighty subordinates, lined up, and knelt outside the north gate.

Seeing a group of officials appear in the devastated city, Qin Chuan cleared his throat and shouted:

"Whoever dares to kill me, rob me of my money, there is only one end."

With that, he waved his hand slightly.

Emperor Guan's army, which had been prepared for a long time, raised his sword and fell, and one hundred and eighty human heads rolled to the ground, and blood sprayed like rain.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this grievance will be written off, and there will be a period later."

Qin Chuan arched his hand towards the city, then turned his horse's head and swaggered away with his subordinates.

At the head of the city, Wu Fu was expressionless, only staring closely at Qin Chuan's distant back.

Wang Zhong wiped the cold sweat on his head and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Humph! Dogs can't change their eating, thieves are thieves, burning, killing and looting everywhere, doing all kinds of evil, and being insatiable. I don't know who said it coldly.

"He is no longer an ordinary thief, otherwise, he could have attacked Taiyuan City and looted the city."

"Then why didn't he attack the city?"

"Because his ambition is not in Taiyuan, but in ......"

"Humph! Wolf ambition, bold national thief! ”

This sentence of the national thief seemed to touch the loyal and patriotic heart of the scholar, and a burst of scolding immediately sounded at the scene.

Those who were terrified like quails when they heard that Qin Chuan was going to attack the city scolded the most.

Wu Fu remained silent, just standing at the head of the city, looking at Qin Chuan's movements.

Lord Futai didn't leave, Wang Zhong and the others didn't dare to go, so they had to accompany them in the city.

It wasn't until Qinchuan's army left the camp and headed towards Luliang Mountain in the west that Wu Fu spoke.

"Ordered Shanhaiguan Wu Xiang and Xinzhou Ma to take credit, and ordered them to immediately lead their troops to Taiyuan to listen to the tune."

"Order Liu Liangzuo of Mengxian County, order him to rush to Taiyuan within three days, if he fails to arrive within the time limit, he will be killed!"

"Ordered Jiaocheng Ni Pet and Jiaocheng Zhang Dechang, and ordered the two of them to pay close attention to the movements of the Qin thief, and when the Qin thief divided his troops south, he waited for the opportunity to attack his weak point."

"Spread the word to the states and counties in the south, and ordered the local generals to strictly guard against it, so as to prevent Qin thieves from attacking the city."

"Yes!"

……

Lou Annoy, Fort Montenegro.

After Dong Lisanren and Luo Zixi walked into a house made of reinforced concrete, they opened their mouths wide and looked east and west in surprise.

This is the chemical laboratory that Qin Chuan ordered to build not long ago, it is a single-story building, including the roof, all made of thick reinforced concrete, which is separated by eight rooms, two large and six small, each room has a large window that is transparent from north to south, and there are several strange pits dug in the ground.

"Two, these pits were specially dug for you by the general, saying that they could avoid explosions."

"There are also these cement tables, which are also specially made to prevent explosions, and the forge is making special iron armor for the two of you, and these things are all for the two of you."

Chen Zhan, who was in charge of the reception, pointed to the things in the room and introduced.

Hearing his words, the faces of Dong Lisan and Luo Zixi changed.

Why does this place feel so dangerous?

"Lord Chen."

Dongli Sanren couldn't help but interrupt Chen Zhan and asked, "What does General Qin want me to do?" ”

"Oh, it's Chen's negligence."

Chen Zhan bowed apologetically, then took out a booklet from his arms and handed it over with both hands.

"This is written by General Qin to the two of you, and Chen can't understand what is written on it, and I don't know what it is."

"General Qin said that after the two of you come, you can first explore the manufacturing methods of the three things on the booklet."

"But before that, the general hopes that the two of them will make the glass making method first, he wants pure glass, and he also knows the approximate production method, but he doesn't know the proportion, and he still needs to explore for a while."

Dong Lisan and Luo Zixi did not answer, but frowned, staring at the open booklet.

There were some strange words written on the booklet, what hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, sodium, silver, carbon, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, iron, copper, etc., etc., etc., and there was a bunch of gibberish words underneath.

The next page reads: Smokeless gunpowder, soaking cotton with sulfuric acid and nitric acid to obtain nitrocellulose, that is, smokeless gunpowder.

The next page reads: Mercury Thunderate, the preparation method is related to nitric acid and mercury.

Then turn to the next page, it reads: nitroglycerin-diatom explosives, the preparation method is related to nitric acid, sulfuric acid and diatomaceous earth.

On the next page, there is also a TNT-ladder aluminum explosive, which is related to toluene.

These things were only come up with Qin Chuan racking his brains.

His knowledge of chemical engineering is pitiful, only the names of some elements, fortunately, he used to like to visit forums and read some materials about the history of gunpowder.

But that's about it.

Fifth wheel...... He didn't understand, he had to rely on the two masters to figure it out on their own, and he had to pray that the two wouldn't be blown up.

When they saw these things, Dongli Sanren and Luo Zixi were stunned, stunned and speechless.

"Two gentlemen, General Qin said, these things are not easy to get, and he is not in a hurry, he can afford to wait for three or five years or even ten or eight years, and the two of them can do it with confidence."

"It's just that these things are a bit dangerous, so please be more careful when you two prepare them."

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