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"I didn't expect that I, Li Yanhong, have such a superb martial arts, and I am even inferior to Zhang Feng, the second-generation disciple of the Iron Shirt Gate, and now my meridians are sluggish, and the injuries I have suffered cannot be healed at all, and I can't return to my master at present, can this sea of blood revenge not be avenged?" Li Yanhong sat on the carriage with a pale face.

"Now I still go south to Zhouzhuang, where my sister is, and I only go south for a thousand miles, so I have to see my bitter land Wan'er again before I die." Thinking of her daughter's lovely face, Li Yanhong showed a rare smile.

"Lao Gu, go south to Zhouzhuang!" Li Yanhong whispered to the driver outside the car.

"Yes, Miss! The old slave obeyed. A low man's voice answered from outside.

"Drive!" A luxury carriage with the banner of Suzhou Mansion Li Zi quickly headed south on the official road.

"Report to the prince, Lu Zhong did hear the news about the Shang Yu brothers when he was in Chuzhou, but recently the prince has recently fought with the Yuan court, so that his subordinates can't report in time, which has delayed the time, please forgive me!" Lu Zhong half-knelt on the ground at this time to report to Zhang Shicheng, and the expression on his face was very sincere.

"Brother Xian, Brother Lu Xian! I have said for my brother, don't bow to my brother in the back hall, you just don't listen! Come, come, arise. Since the beginning of the incident, our brothers have experienced nine deaths and lives, and the Yuan Court actually changed generals when the million-dollar army was besieged, which is a great luck for us! This is the heavens are endless, and I am a great man in the world. ”

After Zhang Shicheng finished speaking, he stood up and walked a few steps and bent down to help Lu Zhong up, with a look of emotion on his face.

After helping Lu Zhong up, he stretched out his hand and patted Lu Zhong on the shoulder and said: "At that time, fortunately, my brother went to the neighboring Chuzhou to ask for help, and also traveled far away to Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming in the north, so that he sent several righteous troops to drag half of the army of the Yuan court, so that he had the opportunity to get out of trouble for his brother from Gaoyou, and you have made a great contribution here!" ”

At that time, Zhang Shicheng was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of legions in Gaoyou, and even if he wanted to surrender to the Yuan Court, he was not allowed, and he even threatened to slaughter everyone in the city after breaking through the city pass.

Zhang Shicheng regretted his previous move to be the king, if he didn't claim the king, with the land of the three cities he owned, he would not become the primary target of the Yuan army, then it would really be self-inflicted.

Fortunately, the Yuan court changed generals in battle, and hundreds of thousands of troops were not under the command of the marshal, and the deployment was not effective, and under the protection of Zhao Qing, the superintendent, he led a group of men and horses to rush out of Gaoyou, and then under the defeat of the Yuan court army by several righteous troops, this successfully attacked and occupied Tongzhou, and temporarily had a place to live.

"Lord, this is a matter that the minister should do, as long as the prince can be safe, the minister will die without regrets!" Seeing that Zhang Shicheng was still commensurate with his brother as before, Lu Zhong felt warm from the heart.

"You don't have to be like this in front of your brother, how can you say a dead word lightly? Come, sit down and talk to Brother Wei about Brother Shang Yu. Zhang Shicheng remembered that Shang Yu, a strange young man, was coming, and immediately pulled Lu Zhong to sit down on the Mosong chair in the study.

After Lu Zhong was a little polite, he saw that Zhang Shicheng insisted on letting him sit down and confessed, but he only sat on half of his body and leaned forward to introduce a series of experiences of Shang Yu to Zhang Shicheng.

It's just that Lu Zhong didn't know that Shang Yu had incarnated as Shen Wansi and kidnapped Guo Tianxu, the marshal of Chuzhou, but he just said that Shang Yu had made a strong bow in Chuzhou, and no second person could pull it away and have a strong lethality, and Zhu Yuanzhang was able to successfully attack Lai'an County with such bows and arrows.

The latest news is what Lu Zhong heard when he returned to Tongzhou in the north, Shang Yu reported to the small court of the Song Dynasty of King Xiao Ming through the Marshal of Chuzhou, and became the official canonized Jiupin County Cheng, located in Lai'an County.

"It's hard to imagine that the little brother Shang Yu can not only refine medicines, but also make all kinds of weapons, and he is currently quite famous in Chuzhou, and he can be regarded as a young and promising official." When Lu Zhong said this, he couldn't help but praise Shang Yu.

After hearing this, Zhang Shicheng couldn't help but yearn for it, and muttered: "I didn't expect that an inconspicuous little scholar at that time was so good now, and his business plan is even more desirable, Lu Zhong, are you willing to take the time to go to Lai'an and recruit Shang Yu brothers for your brother?" ”

After hearing this, Lu Zhong immediately said: "Lord Wang, the minister is willing to go." A few months ago, Zhang Shicheng asked him to find Shang Yu's whereabouts, and he was very remorseful at that time, so he mentioned Shang Yu to Zhang Shicheng at this time, and he knew that Zhang Shicheng would say this.

"Good! I hope you will visit him in your personal name to find out the wind, he is currently a member of the Chuzhou Rebels, the help of the Chuzhou Rebels to us was the most significant two months ago, this matter must not be noticed by the Chuzhou military, if you can't ask the Shang Yu brothers for advice, for the brothers can know how to live in the south of the Yangtze River with the content of it! "The content of the business plan recorded in the place can be described as extremely rich, that is also because of the rich merchants in Quanzhou at that time, each rich businessman has his own business route, tens of thousands of merchants in the hands of the map and the scenery of various places together, that is a large number of general content, but by Shang Yu integration and rationalization into a business plan, you can think of the importance of the content.

That is not only what businessmen want the most, but also what people like Zhang Shicheng want to dominate the world the most, which is why Lu Shaobei scolded Shang Yu after seeing his book "Business Chips".

"Lord Wang, the minister knows! But what if the Shang Yu brothers refused? Lu Zhong asked with some concern.

"If he refuses to allow it, then I will send someone to kill him in the future, and if he is not used by me, it will be a great trouble in the future." Zhang Shicheng's face immediately changed, and a fierce light shot out of his eyes.

Lu Zhong's heart sank after hearing this, but he hurriedly responded: "Obey!" ”

"Come to Anxian County Cheng Shangyu to meet the left deputy marshal, because he forgot the time because he was building a new weapon in the ironsmith outside the city, and asked the left deputy marshal for his guilt!" After Shang Yu made the various parts of this iron tool, he remembered that Zhu Yuanzhang's army had entered the city today, and he didn't even have time to make wheels for that iron tool, so he hurriedly ordered someone to load the parts of this iron tool into a flat carriage with a horse-drawn cart, and slowly assembled it on the way.

Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't seen Shang Yu for several months, and at a glance he could see that Shang Yu's figure seemed to have grown a lot taller, and when he saw Shang Yu bending down to salute, he immediately smiled and said: "Shang Xiancheng, I have also heard a little about what you have done, but what kind of weapon did you order the soldiers to carry into the hall, you will tell me." ”

He loved Shang Yu very much from the bottom of his heart, firstly, because Shang Yu had saved him, and secondly, Shang Yu had no father or mother at this time, and he also witnessed the slaughter of all the people in Lijia Village without an army.

And then Shang Yu asked for the order of tens of thousands of soldiers of the righteous army to hijack Guo Tianxu to distribute grain and grass to the front line, and was almost killed, and in the past few months in Lai'an, not only has the people been arranged very well, but also the trade routes are unimpeded, and the deadlock with several trade routes in the north has been broken.

The cultivated paddy fields have also entered the first harvest season, and Shang Yu actually discovered iron ore a few days ago, and today he claimed to have made a new weapon, which made Zhu Yuanzhang admire Shang Yu even more, and he wanted to see what Shang Yu was doing.

The generals standing on both sides of the surrounding area also looked at each other for a few moments, and then looked at the iron tool placed behind Shang Yu.

"If it's a cannon, the barrel is thinner; If it's a crossbow, but it's too big, how can a crossbow be carried by a few soldiers? ”

"Such a thin barrel is not conducive to firing lethal projectiles, what is this young county prime minister doing?"

For a while, the generals began to guess in their hearts what the function of this so-called earth weapon was, and those who only knew how to fight in front of the battle were even more unclear, so the second monk was confused.

"What is this? It's a little like that, this young little official is not crazy, he actually wasted dozens of good steel knives and goblin iron to make this kind of thing, is it something that is used to offer incense? ”

Shang Yu groaned, he didn't know where to start for a while, and his face actually turned a little red.

"Shang Xiancheng, you might as well put it directly, is this refined iron that you have been refining for the past few days?" When Zhu Yuanzhang saw the bright white light shining on this iron, he knew that it was excellent fine steel, not something that could be obtained from the furnace at one time, and he had been in the army for many years, how could he not easily distinguish the difference between iron and steel?

"Deputy Marshal Zuo, this is not made of iron ore directly, but the lower officials take out the waste weapons in the county government treasury and re-quench them by the steel furnace, and the cement furnace for refining pig iron is being fired into shape, and these stainless steel are made of pig iron and old weapons. Shang Yu saw Zhu Yuanzhang asking, so he said with a red face.

This is the relatively easy to make siege weapon and ballista in his chest, but he has too few gunpowder raw materials suitable for front-end explosives in his hands, and he has only made ten ballistas so far.

"Zhuge crossbow?" Zhu Yuanzhang was immediately in a daze, and couldn't help but turn his head to Li Shanchang beside him and asked, "Shanchang, what kind of weapon is the Zhuge crossbow, do you know?" ”

"Ahem! Left Deputy Marshal, this Zhuge crossbow is a weapon that has long been lost, it was invented by Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Western Shu in the Three Kingdoms era. Zhuge crossbow is a weapon with extremely high lethality, the arrow is made of iron, the arrow is eight inches long, called Yuan Rong, can fire ten bows and arrows at the same time, but it is a thing that one person can hold, and it is easy to damage, not easy to repair, and it has been lost in the Sui and Tang dynasties. Li Shanchang said helplessly.

For what Shang Yu did, he didn't know very well, and he could even say that he couldn't understand it at all, the stainless steel artifact that shone with a silver-white light looked not small on the ground, and it took several soldiers to carry it, this kind of thing could not be used in the army no matter how useful it was, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that Shang Yu had done nothing.

"Shang Xiancheng, you discovered the iron ore and built an iron-making workshop, this commander should remember your great achievements, so that Lai'an County can provide a large number of weapons for our army, but what is the function of your weapon, I hope you can demonstrate it to us." After Zhu Yuanzhang saw Li Shanchang's expression at this time, he knew that he didn't know much about what Shang Yu was doing, and he couldn't help but become more curious.

But look at this iron weapon is really heavy, it is expected that it can send out hundreds of crossbow arrows at a time that is not easy to use in the army, if any weapon can not be moved, then there is no flexibility, this is the era of fighting for hegemony in the world, this kind of heavy crossbow weapon is not suitable for the use of the righteous army at all, and the cost must be very amazing, it is Zhu Yuanzhang first praised Shang Yu, first he discovered the iron ore and began to organize the smelting workshop to make a meritorious achievement, so that the generals are also convinced, so as not to embarrass Shang Yu.

But Shang Yu's next words made Zhu Yuanzhang and the generals couldn't help but be surprised, only to hear Shang Yu blushed and said: "Deputy Marshal Left, if it is used in the county town, I am afraid that too many people will be killed and injured, according to my estimate, this cannon can blast the city wall into a two-foot-wide gap, if the Deputy Marshal Zuo does not mind, then move out of the city with the generals and find a mound to test to avoid unnecessary damage." ”

"What? Brother Xian, you said that this crossbow can easily blast through the city wall? If there are a few more, then attacking the city and plundering the land is not like child's play, how can there be such an artifact in the world? Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes immediately widened and he said in disbelief, the next step is to attack Hezhou, if this strange subway machine next to Shang Yu has such power, wouldn't he be able to take Hezhou like a bag at that time?

All the generals also looked at Shang Yu in disbelief, the thin barrel of the cannon, no matter how many iron projectiles were fired, it was impossible to break the city wall, and the crossbow arrows were even more impossible, and the county government suddenly fell into a silent situation