After a test firing, 48 flowering bombs drew a beautiful parabola from the walls of the East Gate to the heads of the charging thieves, and then exploded into whizzing pieces of iron.

Where had the thieves been subjected to such fierce artillery fire, and more than a thousand people fell in pools of blood, to say the least, after this artillery fire.

"Retreat, retreat, you fucking hurry up and mingle gold", Zhang Xianzhong was furious when he saw this scene in the rear, and the horsewhip in his hand was almost pinched out of the water by him, and finally it was thrown directly on the herald.

The sound of "Dangdang Dang" instantly spread throughout the battlefield, and the thieves who originally rushed to Pengzhou City like a tide began to retreat like a low tide.

Seeing this scene, He Duan's men and horses had already begun to celebrate, but the people in the Longxiang camp did not stop, because the second brother's order had not yet been issued.

The artillery unit quickly increased the angle of fire of the artillery, and a new round of shelling followed.

The artillery of the Longxiang battalion has long been improved by Liu Ximing many times, and has long since become the appearance of wheels and hand rockers in later generations, and it is also equipped with an angle ruler, which is not only convenient for loading and unloading, but also conducive to controlling the firing range.

"Grass damn it", Zhang Xianzhong burst into angry eyes, "Bring that Fan Da to me." ”

Fan Da was staying not far from Zhang Xianzhong to watch the battle, in order to stabilize people's hearts, Zhang Xianzhong did not send the people of the Yuan Sect to also, hearing Zhang Xianzhong pass on him, Fan Da came over with anxiety.

Seeing Zhang Xianzhong raise his whip and want to whip it, Li Dingguo pulled him in a flash, and whispered in Zhang Xianzhong's ear: "Grandpa, the military heart is important. ”

Zhang Xianzhong's eyes flashed with anger, and then he pinched the horsewhip in his hand vigorously and looked at Fan Da, "The official artillery fire is so sharp, why didn't you say it earlier." ”

Fan Da looked confused and immediately cried and said: "The king, the little one has already returned to the official army, and the firearms are fierce and invincible." ”

"Into your mother, no matter how fierce you are, you can't be fierce like this, even Hong Chengchou's old man doesn't have such artillery, grass your grandma."

Zhang Xianzhong wanted to cry without tears, Fan Da told him about it, but how did he know that this so-called firearm ferocity turned out to be like this.

Sun Kewang and the others also all hung their heads in frustration, this night was really stealing chickens and rice.

"Grandpa, are you still fighting?" , Li Dingguo saw that Zhang Xianzhong had calmed down, and asked carefully.

"Hit? Hit a hammer, collect the troops, sleep, and wait for the fire to go out and snatch the body back. ”

Zhang Xianzhong looked distressed, in order to succeed in the sneak attack, the people who were sent out to take the lead tonight were all his henchmen, who were commonly known as old thieves.

He took so many people to fight thousands of miles without falling, relying on the support of these old brothers, as for other thieves, as long as they hit one place, they will naturally have a gathering of people who can't survive

, he doesn't feel distressed about how much he dies.

Suddenly losing so many old brothers tonight, Zhang Xianzhong already had the intention of retreating in his heart.

At the head of the city, He Duanbu, who was already cheering, was making even more noise at this moment, and the Long Xiang camp also joined the cheering ranks under Liu Xi's order, and the hearts of the people of Pengzhou, who were originally huddled in their own homes, were put down again.

Pengzhou City can no longer withstand the toss, many people think of their own situation is sour, God kills the Yuan Sect, because of them, how many people have died in the city.

"Brother, what kind of fairy cannon are you that you made yourself?"

He Duan looked at Liu Ximing as if he was looking at a peerless beauty, and with his salivating expression, Liu Ximing couldn't help but shudder.

"What do you want to do?" , he looked at He Duan vigilantly.

He Duan rubbed his hands with a smile, "That, you don't tell my brother some of these sharp weapons, if I have these things, my brother and I will have to be promoted by one liter." ”

Liu Ximing smiled and slapped his outstretched hand back, "Okay, one thousand taels and one door, if you can afford it, I'll sell you now." ”

"Hey, brother, you're not authentic, what kind of thing is worth one thousand taels and one door, is it made of gold?"

Seeing that He Duan's face was a little unsightly, Liu Ximing hurriedly explained with a smile: "This is really not a little brother, I earn you, Brother He knows that the imperial court bought a cannon from the Francois back then, and the Hongyi cannon is not one thousand taels and one artillery, and their cannon is not as good as mine." ”

Liu Ximing's words are not fake, and of course he did not say that the cost of making artillery was only 22 to 50 taels of silver, which was far lower than the cost of making artillery in China and the West during this period.

You must know that the cost of four-pounder guns such as the Raven Cannon manufactured in Europe in these years is about sixty taels, and the larger the caliber of the artillery, the more the manufacturing cost will increase sharply.

The main reason why it is so expensive is that the scrap rate of making cannons is too high, and it is said in "The Essence of Fire": "Those who can get two or three can be used for casting ten guns with big guns, and they can be called masters." ”

However, under the guidance of Liu Ximing, Tang Hong and others from the Liujiacun Ordnance Bureau improved the quality of steelmaking on the one hand, and innovatively used the internal mold water cooling technology on the other hand, which greatly improved the yield by making the cooling rate of the inner and outer tubes of the gun barrel consistent.

He Duan snorted and couldn't make up his mind when he heard Liu Ximing's data, "It's too expensive, it's too expensive, I don't have much money to move, brother, you have a little less." ”

Liu Ximing smiled and tilted his head and said: "My brother has been in Shunqing for so long, and he must have received a lot of filial piety, wouldn't it be right to take out some to buy two?" ”

"Am I fucking crazy", He Duan looked at Liu Ximing like a fool, "Lao Tzu doesn't owe the court, he has to spend his own money to buy armaments, you are cheaper, cheaper." ”

Liu Ximing smiled

, he forgot about this, He Duan's soldiers and horses are not his own private soldiers like the Long Xiang Battalion.

Although after Yu Yongkai sealed 100 households, Bao Ningwei also allocated some money and grain, but the amount was simply miserable.

The account office of Liujia Village calculated that if such a little money was raised according to the imperial court's guards, it would raise a maximum of thirty or forty people, and if it was according to the standards of the Longxiang camp, it would be at most a dozen or so.

However, Liu Ximing had no objection to Bao Ningwei's group of officers, not only did he not ask for the arrears of military salaries, but he also sent five hundred taels of silver to Huang Rui and others of Bao Ningwei's thousand households.

This Huang Rui is also an old acquaintance of Liujia Village, the thousand-household official who was surrounded by him and Baoning guards after Liu Jianhou fled to the village that time.

This amount of money went down, and Liu Ximing took Yu Yongkai to say in front of the officers of more than a few hundred households in the Thousand Households that he would never add any burden to Bao Ningwei, where did Huang Rui and the others care about any grudges with Liujia Village, and a group of people almost pulled Yu Yongkai to cut off the head of the chicken and burn the yellow paper to worship.

The benefits of this are quite obvious, how Yu Yongkai tossed in Shunqing, Huang Rui and the others just didn't see it, otherwise Liu Ximing was really a little blind, after all, he still had the name of the guard.

"That's like this", Liu Ximing saw He Duan's snorting appearance, and knew that he couldn't squeeze much oil and water.

"Eight hundred and two gates, no less, you have to think about it, with this thing, the chance of going to the battlefield in the future is greater, isn't it?"

"Hmph", He Duan still has some pain in the flesh about this price, but when he thinks of the power of the artillery he saw tonight, his heart is really a little itchy.

"Then come ten, you can give me more shells, and you have to send me more telescopes."

"Hahaha, no problem", Liu Ximing almost kissed He, eight thousand taels of silver, this is really a big customer.

There are now more than 30,000 people in Liujia Village, and more than 20,000 taels are spent every month on salaries and other expenses.

Although the commercial house has been rolled out in Shunqing Mansion, agents such as Longyi Firm have also helped the Liu family extend their commercial tentacles to Baoning, Shunqing, Chongqing and other prefectures and counties.

But again, the commodity economy was not developed in those years, and the urbanization rate was even lower than that.

Liujiacun industrial real estate is considered to be high-end, mid-end products, the market is not large, such as fine weaving of high-end goods, only Xie Cheng Zhou's agent of 10,000 horses per month basically meets more than half of Sichuan's consumption.

At present, the good things sold by the Han and Yuan firms are mainly a few things, such as all kinds of iron farm tools produced by the Smelting Bureau, ordinary cotton cloth produced by the Textile Bureau, and Xiangong rice produced by the farmhouse.

Liu Ximing had already made up his mind, and when this was over, it was time to find another way.