Chapter 4 Gunpowder

"Fourth uncle, you have fought a big battle with the Manchu Tartars in Liaodong, is there any good way to deal with them?"

Li Rui's prestige is less than 1,000 points left after exchanging the white medicine bandage, and it is not enough to exchange for an extra shuttle of pistol bullets.

"The Tartar cavalry is very powerful, and the Bayala soldiers wear three layers of heavy armor in close combat, and only firearms can be restrained, but these firearms in our hands ......"

Zhao Laosi said, and looked at the fire gun that was thrown aside by the soldiers.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the armament was lax, so most of the weapons were built by cutting corners, and the explosion rate of the fire gun was almost 100 percent.

Li Rui frowned and touched the pistol on his waist, but then his eyes lit up and he asked, "Fourth uncle, you can't use firearms, gunpowder can always be used, right?" How many are in our fort? ”

"The gunpowder can be lit, about forty or fifty pounds."

"Hurry up and let people collect it, find five other sheets and hemp rope, it is better to have broken porcelain pieces and rotten iron nails, how many you want, whether you can resist the Tartar soldiers, it depends on these!" Li Rui said in a deep voice.

Zhao Laosi was a little unsure, but after listening to what he said, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the military households to collect items according to Li Rui's requirements.

The women and children who were hiding, hearing that the fort needed help, joined in, and some of the children even ran home to take the food and broke it into pieces, and then ...... Squeaky and screaming by adults.

Everyone worked together, and it didn't take much effort to prepare for it!

Li Rui divided all the gunpowder into five parts, wrapped one in a torn sheet, and bundled it into an explosives bag, filling it with countless broken porcelain pieces and rotten iron nails.

"Isn't that the same as a thunderball!"

Zhao Laosi had seen the world after all, and after watching it for a while, he understood what Li Rui wanted to do, handed over the rest to the women, and said to Wu Meiniang: "Look at your face is a clever woman, Brother Rui should have learned how to tie it, and instructed them to tie up the other four." ”

"Well, don't worry, Uncle Si."

Wu Meiniang nodded in agreement, and immediately took the women under the inner wall of the fort and began to bundle the remaining four gunpowders.

"Step, step, step~!"

At this time, the sound of the hooves of the Tartars outside the fort was clearly audible, and when they were about one hundred and fifty meters away from the fort wall, six or seven half-grown children in ragged clothes were suddenly driven out of the Tartar camp.

"Isn't that the spring birth of the fourth uncle's family?"

"It's Li Rui's dog......"

When the soldiers saw those children, they immediately exclaimed.

Several children are military households in the fort, including Zhao Laosi's youngest son, as for why he was caught by the Tartars, in fact, it is not difficult to think that the military households have no food and clothing on weekdays, and it is common for them to go up the mountain and down to the sea to find food to fill their stomachs.

"Fourth uncle, let's kill it and get the child back!" The soldiers clenched their weapons and asked Zhao Laosi for battle.

"No, you are a decoration as a cavalry of the Tartars!"

Zhao Laosi categorically refused, but looking at the thin little son who was driven forward by the Tartars, he couldn't help but reddened his eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "This is their life, I wish I had a good birth in the next life, and I don't want to follow our bitter life again." ”

"Fourth uncle, I can't help it, let Li Rui take half of the people out to try...... If you have a shield and a spear, go out of the fort with Li Rui to save the child! ”

Li Rui picked up the gunpowder bag and shouted down the fort wall, the soldiers heard it clearly, and those with shields and spears immediately followed, about 60 people.

The remaining more than forty people also wanted to follow, but were stopped by Zhao Laosi: "You all leave it for Li Rui, do you want the family in the castle?" ”

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"Squeak~!"

The dilapidated gate of the fort opened with a tooth-aching creak, and more than sixty military households, holding shields and spears, mixed with ten Tartar horses captured from the ruined temple, poured out of the fort.

"Gather tight, don't scatter."

"If you scatter, you will be charged by the Tartar cavalry......"

Li Rui kept shouting loudly, reminding the military families who were eager to save people.

When the Tartar soldiers saw the gate of the fort wide open, there was a slight commotion, and they seemed to be about to rush to kill, but when they saw that the soldiers who poured out were huddled together like hedgehogs, they turned to their bows and arrows and threw them at them.

"Bang bang bang~!"

At this time, Li Rui no longer saved bullets, and fired at the Tartar again and again.

He let go of the shot, but the firepower of one person was also fierce, and the Tartar soldiers did not dare to approach the soldiers when they heard the sound of gunfire like bursting beans.

Past experience tells them that when facing the Ming army's firearms, it is best to wait for a round before charging, otherwise even if they are wearing three layers of heavy armor, as long as they are hit all at once, it will be the life of 'the middle one should fall down', and the companions who keep planting horses in the gunfire also confirm this very well!

When the two sides approached about fifty meters, the Tartars' cavalry exerted their power, even if there were shields to cover them, there were constantly arrows from the military households, and the screams came one after another, and the half-grown children did not need to be greeted at all, and they had already fled to the military households.

The Tartars drove these half-grown children away in order to force the castle to open the door to meet the battle, so when they saw the soldiers coming out, they stopped paying attention to these children, and when they saw that they were about to flee into the army's array, they immediately had a murderous Tartar soldier fire arrows at them.

"Whew, puff~!"

A skinny child was shot in the thigh by a feather arrow and immediately fell to the ground, but because of his desire to survive, he still crawled to the side of the military household crying, dragging out the blood marks on the ground: "Woo woo, don't leave Li Rui ......"

"Worough Nima, bang!"

Li Rui was stunned, fired several shots in a row to kill the tartar of the bow, and then rushed directly out of the array, picked up the child who was hit by the arrow and ran back.

"Ding Ding Ding~!"

Almost instantly, Li Rui was hit by four or five arrows in the back, fortunately covered by iron armor, he endured the sharp pain in his back, fled into the formation with other children, and shouted: "Let go of the war horse!" ”

The ten war horses that were surrounded in the center by the military households were immediately released.

The horses were blindfolded, and their tails were lit with torches, neighing and charging at the Tartars.

"Withdraw, withdraw!"

As Li Rui shouted again, the soldiers who were gathered suddenly dispersed and ran back desperately.

The Tartars were superb in riding, and in order to prevent a volley of firearms, the formation was already scattered, so ten crazy horses rushed over, and the Tartars didn't bother to dodge, but when they saw the soldiers running, they raised their blades and were about to rush to kill.

"Boom~!!"

An earth-shattering thud erupted from the loose formation of the Tartars, and firelight and black smoke rose into the sky, mixed with a sharp whooshing sound, all of which were bursts of broken porcelain and rotten iron nails.

It's the powdered powder pack tied to Crazy Horse's back that makes it happen!