Chapter Thirty-Nine: Before the Cannon Rings (Part II)
Wu Yuanming's ancestral cemetery, which was targeted by everyone, is located in the lower part of a single mountain in a small mountain range in Changlingou, Hanliu Town, Gaoyou, because Wu Sangui betrayed the country to seek glory and offended the Han people all over the world by leading the Qing soldiers into the customs, and the people had no choice but to use Wu Sangui, who was holding heavy troops, but they were not so polite to the ancestral tomb of Wu Sangui's family. Over the years, the ancestral grave of Wu Sangui's family has suffered much damage and excavation, and it is impossible to calculate, countless graves have been dug up and flattened, rotten coffins and rotten trees are exposed in the wilderness, and there are many bones in the thorn bushes, which are all from the bones of the ancestors in the ancestral tomb of Wu Sangui's family. Seeing this scene, Wu Yuanming, who was the first to arrive at his ancestral cemetery with Ren Weichu, couldn't help but cry - after all, Wu Yuanming also had Wu Yingxiong's consciousness. Wu Sangui governed the army in a good way, and was deeply loved by his soldiers, and Wu Yuanming brought the two veterans of Wu Sangui's army who were also in tears, crying about the fate of Wu Sangui's ancestral grave.
"Childe, take care of your body, don't be so sad." Seeing Wu Yuanming crying to death, Ren Weichu, who was in charge of public security in this area, panicked and hurriedly persuaded Wu Yuanming to stop crying. Who knew that it was okay if he didn't open his mouth, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he annoyed the two veterans brought by Wu Yuanming, and the two of them pulled out steel knives together and roared at Ren Weichu: "Dog official, as the commander of Gaoyou County, you dare to let the thugs dig and destroy the ancestral tomb of our prince, and accept your life!" Roaring, the two veterans actually swung their knives and slashed Ren Weichu who was so scared that he wet his crotch, although the servants brought by Ren Weichu hurriedly stopped the two veterans, but Ren Weichu still knelt down with a plop of snot and cried with tears, "Childe spare your life, Childe spare your life!" Damn it! Damn it! ”
"Forget it, spare Ren Weichu, you can't blame him entirely." Wu Yuanming wiped his tears and said: "This place is in a remote area, even if he sends someone to guard it, he just can't prevent it. Wu Sangui's command was strict, and the two veterans had to listen to Wu Yuanming's orders, so they had to hate and put away their swords. Wu Yuanming threw himself on the cemetery and knelt down, crying and crying, "Ancestors, I'm sorry for you." It's all my fault that your remains are exposed in the wilderness! One day, I will definitely come here in person and bury you again! Ancestors, your souls in heaven have knowledge, bless you...... Bless me ....... Wu Yuanming added in his heart: "Bless me to overthrow the corrupt and dark Manchu Qing and drive the Tartars out of China!" ”
"Uh......h Woo....... Wu Yuanming's heartfelt crying infected everyone, and the two veterans also cried bitterly, and Ren Weichu, who had already joined the door of the King of Pingxi, couldn't help shedding a few tears, and no longer had the slightest doubt about Wu Yuanming's identity. After crying for a long time, Wu Yuanming actually fainted from crying, frightened the two veterans and Ren Weichu's souls scattered, and he was busy pinching people and rubbing his chest in a vain attempt to wake up Wu Yuanming. What happened to Childe? "Brother Wu, what's wrong with you?"
"General, are you here?" The two veterans looked back and saw that Li Xiongfei and the others had arrived, so they hurriedly greeted Li Xiongfei and said, "General, come quickly, our son-in-law is so sad that he has already fainted from crying." Li Xiongfei and Zheng Xin were taken aback, and hurriedly rushed over, and Zhu Fangdan, who came with them, walked unhurriedly and said, "Didn't you just cry and faint?" With me here, what are you afraid of? ”
"What a big breath, who are you?" A veteran of Wu Sangui's army yelled at Zhu Fangdan. Ren Weichu pointed at Li Xiongfei and the others inexplicably and asked, "The two military masters of the Pingxi Palace, who are these people?" ”
"I am a third-grade general under the command of King Pingxi, and I am on a business trip to Jiangnan under the order of Wang Yejun." Li Xiongfei introduced himself to Ren Weichu, so frightened that Ren Weichu hurriedly took ten servants to kowtow to say goodbye, Li Xiongfei and the two veterans for the reason why Ming Wu Yuanming cried and fainted, and hurriedly greeted Zhu Fangdan: "Doctor Zhu, this is our master, please wake him up quickly, we will be grateful." ”
"Thank you for it, as long as Miss Zheng doesn't pay the bill." Zhu Fangdan hummed and pulled out a silver needle, grabbed Wu Yuanming's left hand and stabbed it hard at the tiger's mouth. Zheng Xin hurriedly pounced on Wu Yuanming and asked for warmth, which made Zhu Fangdan's eyes red for a while, and he snorted: "Damn, the little white face is popular." ”
"Doctor Zhu, please be careful with your words, this is Wu Gongzi is a noble figure in our Pingxi Palace, and his status is high." Li Xiongfei frowned and said to Zhu Fangdan. Zhu Fangdan rolled his eyebrows and said disdainfully: "The honorable person of the Pingxi Palace? No matter how noble he is, can he lead me to see Chen Yuanyuan, the world's first beauty that year? As soon as Zhu Fangdan's words came out, he immediately caused a big disaster, not only the three veterans of Wu Sangui's army brought by Li Xiongfei, but also Li Xiongfei, who was quite calm and fine, also changed color, and drew his weapons and shouted: "Bold fanatics, dare to insult our princess? ”
"Stop!" Wu Yuanming stopped Li Xiongfei and the others, stood up and smiled at Zhu Fangdan: "Doctor Zhu, as long as you don't follow Wu Ciyou's gang to mess around with me in the future, when you get to Yunnan, I can lead you to see the current Princess Chen Yuanyuan of Pingxi." In addition, I can also recommend you to the King of Pingxi to be the chief medical officer of Yungui. Speaking of this, Wu Yuanming asked Zhu Fangdan, who was drooling, to stand in front of him, and whispered in Zhu Fangdan's ear: "When you arrive in Yunnan, maybe you will have the opportunity to meet the other two princesses of King Pingxi, the four-faced Guanyin and the eight-faced Guanyin, Chen Yuanyuan is already old, they are the new first and second beauties in the world?" ”
"Really? Can you really do it? Did you lie to me? Who are they, you say you can see me if you let me see them? Zhu Fangdan's saliva flowed down to his chin, and he asked Wu Yuanming in a loud voice. Wu Yuanming smiled and said to Li Xiongfei and the others: "Tell Doctor Zhu, what is my status in the Pingxi Palace?" ”
"Under one person, above ten thousand!" Li Xiongfei and the other three veterans replied in unison. Zhu Fangdan was stunned for a while, then knelt down for Wu Yuanming, and shouted loudly: "Wu Gongzi, in the future, my Zhu Fangdan's fate will be handed over to you, not to mention going to Yunnan with you, even to the ends of the earth, I, Zhu Fangdan, will also follow you." Ren Weichu used his brain next to him, and said in his heart that there are more than 10,000 people under one person in the Pingxi Palace, so it should be Wu Sangui's son, right? Could it be that he is not the son of Wu Sanmei? But Wu Sangui's son? But these words can only be thought about in Ren Weichu's stomach, but he doesn't dare to say them.
"Okay, Nan Huairen's foreign devil should be almost here, let's go to the woods and hide and wait for them first." Wu Yuanming pointed to the woods in the distance and ordered. Everyone didn't dare to disobey, and followed Wu Yuanming into the forest to hide. During the period, Wu Yuanming asked Zhu Fangdan by the way why he was mixed with Wu Ciyou's hardcore traitor, and after Zhu Fangdan's reply, Wu Yuanming learned that Zhu Fangdan and Wu Ciyou and others met in Huai'an Mansion, at that time, Zhu Fangdan became famous because he cured hundreds of patients on a whim in Huai'an Mansion, Wu Ciyou asked him for treatment in order to cure his tongue, but Zhu Fangdan, a pervert doctor, coveted Li Yuliang's beauty, and proposed the shameless condition of using Li Yuliang's fragrant kiss as a medical treatment, Wu Ciyou was noncommittal. And Li Yuliang, in order to recover his sweetheart, actually agreed to Zhu Fangdan's shameless condition.
After listening to Zhu Fangdan's explanation, Wu Yuanming couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "Li Yuliang, Li Yuliang, I really don't know what to say about you." Can't you really see that Wu Ciyou, that hypocrite, is using you? Wretched! Hateful! Lamentable! Wu Yuanming was sighing, Li Xiongfei suddenly pulled out his feet and rushed to the dense woods, Wu Yuanming, Zheng Xin and others thought that Li Xiongfei had found the enemy, and hurriedly drew out weapons and muskets to be on guard, who knew that Li Xiongfei came out of the dense again after a while, and said to Wu Yuanming apologetically: "Childe, the last general is too timid, it turns out to be just a hare." ”
"It's okay, just be careful." Wu Yuanming smiled and put the musket back into his waist, and beckoned: "Everyone find a place to hide, and the artillery team of foreign devils should arrive in a while." As he spoke, Wu Yuanming glanced at Li Xiongfei and the others, and said to the servants brought by Ren Weichu, and Li Xiongfei nodded knowingly......
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Because the red-coated cannon was heavy and difficult to transport, although Nan Huairen and his entourage set off before Li Xiongfei and others, they arrived at Changlingou nearly an hour later than Li Xiongfei and his entourage. This team is the forbidden army of the capital, and the leading officers are also Kangxi's confidants, so the degree of arrogance is far from being comparable to that of ordinary troops, along the way, the officials and people along the way were driven to the ground, not to mention, after arriving at the scene, all the people within a radius of five miles were listed as martial law, and the people who worked in the fields were brutally driven out of the scene, and were beaten and injured by punches, kicks, and injuries. The local local security guards also spoke out impartially, protesting on the grounds that they had not received martial law orders from the prefecture and county, but they were personally cut off one of their arms by the hardcore traitor Donkey and driven out of Changlin Ditch.
"Go to your mother's official document in the county and county, Lao Tzu's words are the king's law, tell the people here to get out, and if you dare to delay, Lao Tzu will hack you to death for nothing." Without Li Yuliang's troublesome uncle nagging beside him, the donkey had no scruples when he moved his hands, and the appearance of licking the blood on the knife was really like a fierce ghost, which frightened the villagers who came to protest everywhere and urinated, and the ground guard who had broken his right hand and fled in embarrassment. Nuoda had a long forest ditch, and soon only Nan Huairen and his party and Wu Yuanming and his gang were left hidden in the woods.
"Damn, you guys, I'll go to the ancestral grave of Wu Yingxiong's dog thief to pee first." drove away the people of the land, and the donkey couldn't wait to start his revenge plan, which Wu Ciyou couldn't ask for, so naturally he wouldn't stop him. It was Nan Huairen who stopped the donkey, "Lord donkey, if you want to take revenge, it is better for you to personally charge the medicine and fill the ammunition, personally light the fire and fire the cannon, and open the mountain and break the rocks as soon as the cannon goes down, wouldn't it be more painful." ”
"Okay, but I don't know how to shoot, so please teach me more." The donkey agreed, and under Nan Huairen's guidance, he adjusted the beam in the cannon position, loaded the gunpowder bag, and planted the lead, and finally loaded the cannonball into the red-coated cannon. At the end, Nan Huairen handed the torch to the donkey and said with a smile: "Lord donkey, now you only need to light the fuse, and you can see the power of the world's most advanced artillery." ”
"Okay, I'll light the fire!" The donkey snatched the torch with his only left hand, and put the torch on the lead, and the cotton thread wrapped in black powder made a cheerful sizzling sound, and quickly drilled from the cannon hole into the body of the red-coated cannon, and the cannon body made a loud "boom", the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the solid cannonball flew out with a bang, and smashed on the mountain peak along the parabola with a loud noise, and the dust was filled, and the mountain composed of shale suddenly collapsed a lot. The donkey, Nan Huairen and the Qing soldiers applauded loudly together, although Wu Ciyou also wanted to raise his arms and shout, but his tongue was picked and he couldn't make a sound, so he could only wave his arms frantically to express his excitement.
"Damn, it's so enjoyable! I'm going to have a few more shots! The donkey cheered and was about to carry the propellant bag again, Nan Huairen stopped him, personally picked up a wooden pole with cotton yarn wrapped in cotton yarn at the front end and dipped it in water and leaned into the muzzle to scrub it, and explained: "After the cannon is fired once, there will be gunpowder residue and unburned sparks in the barrel, and the fire must be cleaned and extinguished with cotton yarn dipped in water, otherwise if the charge is immediately charged, the sparks will ignite the gunpowder and cause an explosion." ”
"It's really troublesome, but I still haven't used a knife to cut people." The donkey shouted dissatisfiedly. Wu Ciyou dipped a brush in water and wrote on the cannon: "If the red-clothed cannon is not so troublesome, can I sweep away Zhu Ming and Li Zicheng?" How can you win this flower? The donkey and Nan Huairen laughed, and they both said that this was the truth.
In a moment, Nan Huairen ordered the cannon barrel to be cleaned up, reloaded and reloaded, and the donkey personally lit the lead and fired another cannon, which hit the trees and grass on the mountain, causing the branches and leaves to fly, and the end was extremely powerful. Lede didnkey shouted, grabbed the cotton yarn stick and cleaned up the cannon barrel indiscriminately, personally stuffed the propellant pack, and resisted another shell and stuffed it into the cannon, Nan Huairen's eyes were sharp, and he hurriedly said: "Wait, why is there a small hole in this cannonball?" "But the donkey moved too fast, and had already stuffed the shell into the barrel of the redcoat cannon, which was a front-loading smoothbore gun, and it was very troublesome to take out the shell after entering the barrel. Nan Huairen had no choice but to do it, and just muttered: "Strange, the cannonballs I bought from the English should all be solid cannonballs?" ”
"Mr. Wu, how about you take care of this shot?" The donkey smiled and handed the torch to Wu Ciyou, who took it with a hideous face and lit the fuse viciously. I could only hear a sizzling sound, and the fuse quickly drilled into the cannon body, "Boom!" "Boom!" Two loud bangs rang out......
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"It's done!" Wu Yuanming slammed his fist on the ground! Wu Yuanming confessed that Ren Weichu rushed to make the hollow cannonball overnight, which had already been filled with gunpowder - the gunpowder came from Wu Yuanming's puncture of the propellant pack, and the gunpowder in the propellant pack was mixed with white phosphorus, and the fire ignited when it was hot, and the hollow shell exploded in the cannon body before it flew out of the muzzle, and twice as much gunpowder exploded in the cannon body at the same time, Kangxi spent a lot of silver to buy a new type of artillery from the British, and the barrel was immediately blown up, not to mention, the flying fragments of the cannon body were also shot into Nan Huairen, Wu Ciyou and the donkey who were closest to the red-coated cannon, The three immediately collapsed in a pool of blood and struggled in agony**. Ren Weichu, one of the initiators, didn't understand these truths, and trembled and asked Wu Yuanming, "Wu Gongzi, why did the new-style red-coated cannon that the emperor bought at a great price blow up?" ”
"It's very simple, it's all the credit you gave me for casting that hollow cannonball." Wu Yuanming smiled at Ren Weichu and said, "Lord Ren, congratulations, if the emperor knows that this is a good thing you did, the emperor will definitely reward you heavily." ”
"Ahh Ren Weichu was dumbfounded, and after a while, he was sweating profusely and pleaded with Wu Yuanming: "Wu Gongzi, the lower officials are all for the service of King Pingxi, today's matter, I hope that Wu Gongzi will keep it secret for the lower officials, otherwise, ...... Otherwise, it will be difficult to protect the head of the lower officials. ”
"Why?" Wu Yuanming smiled even more gloomily, and said with a cruel smile: "When you killed Jiangnan students like Jin Shengxian and Ni Yongbin, did you ever think about the time when it was difficult to protect your head? ”
"What? You're not the son of Pingxi Palace? Ren Weichu jumped up and just wanted to scream, but Li Xiongfei clasped his arms and held his mouth, and all the words he wanted to say were blocked in his mouth, Ren Weichu struggled to call the henchmen and servants he brought to rescue, but suddenly found that the people he brought were all crawling motionless in the grass, and blood was slowly oozing from under them - they had all been killed by Zheng Xin and Li Xiongfei and others just now. Although there are ten people brought by Ren Weichu, these people are just ordinary servants, and it is okay to bully ordinary people in ordinary times, but when they meet Li Xiongfei and Wu Sangui's elite veterans in the army, they were quietly killed one by one without even having a chance to make a sound.
Wu Yuanming took out a dagger and pointed it at Ren Weichu's nest, and said viciously: "Ren Weichu, to tell you the truth, this son did not lie to you, this son is indeed a distinguished figure in Pingxi Palace, but Pingxi Palace's Mansion is not a place to hide filth and dirt, and I don't accept traitors and butchers like you!" This knife of mine is for the stabbing of those Jiangnan scholars who were wrongfully killed by you and the family members who were sent to Ningguta to be slaves! After that, Wu Yuanming handed out the dagger, which immediately ended Ren Weichu's life.
"Phew, dirty Lao Tzu's knife! Waste! Wu Yuanming spit on Ren Weichu's corpse with a mouthful of thick phlegm, didn't even bother to pull out the dagger, turned to Zhu Fangdan, who was already trembling with fright, and said with a smile: "Doctor Zhu doesn't have to worry, I'm just doing harm for the people, and you are not like this dog thief with the blood of your compatriots on your hands, we won't hurt you." ”
"Yes...... Yes, thank you Gongzi Wu. Zhu Fangdan replied with a trembling question. Wu Yuanming smiled and patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "Don't be afraid, I mean what I say, as long as you don't give your life to the Tartars in the future, and help us fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty to expel the Tartars, even if you have a small mistake, your head will be relieved to resist on your shoulder." ”
"Brother Wu, the new cannon of the Tartar has been destroyed, we have also slaughtered this dog officer, and Sister Daiyan is still waiting for us by the canal, should we go?" Zheng Xin asked Wu Yuanming. Wu Yuanming shook his head and said: "Don't panic first, Dai Yan's long-shot musket fell into Nan Huairen's hands, I want to see if there is a chance to get it back, and I can't let that musket go overseas." ”
Although Wu Yuanming's abacus was good, but the sky did not fulfill people's wishes, although the red-clothed cannon was blown up, but the heavy barrel offset most of the impact of the explosion, Nan Huairen, Qiang Donkey and Wu Ciyou were only injured by the shattered cannon barrel fragments, and were not killed on the spot, Nan Huairen brought a large number of Qing soldiers, Wu Yuanming's little strength in his hand could not contain so many Qing soldiers no matter what, he could only watch the Qing soldiers rescue Nan Huairen and others, and send them back to Gaoyou City for first aid.
"There's no way, let's go." Wu Yuanming shook his head helplessly and gave the order to retreat, and at the same time comforted himself in his heart, today's action had ruined Kangxi's plan to bombard his family's feng shui and shake the hearts of the Yungui army, and he also took the new cannon that blew up Kangxi and avenged the innocent Jiangnan scholar who died innocently in the Weeping Temple case. Li Xiongfei, Zheng Xin and others agreed in unison, and hurriedly rushed to the nearby canal river with Wu Yuanming to meet Dai Yan and others who were waiting there.
Not long after Wu Yuanming and the others left, a person slowly walked out of the woods, but it was the chivalrous Li Yuliang who followed Li Xiongfei and Zhu Fangdan and others to rush here, at this moment Li Yuliang already knew the truth that Wu Yuanming was actually not dead, but Li Yuliang, who hated Wu Yuanming to the bone, did not chase after Wu Yuanming and break Wu Yuanming's body into pieces, but first looked at the corpse of Ren Weichu on the ground, and then looked at the Qing army team in the distance, and finally looked at the back of Wu Yuanming and others leaving, two crystal tears slowly crossed her haggard face and dripped to the ground......
If you want to know what will happen next, please see the next chapter "Yangzhou Thin Horse"