Ma Shumou's logistics military tent is also next to Yang Er's central military tent, which is authorized by Yang Er, Ma Shumou's military tent enjoys the same level of security as Yang Er, and Yang Er even specially configured a team of bodyguards for Ma Shumou to ensure Ma Shumou's personal safety. The bodyguards were instructed that in times of crisis, they only needed to ensure the safety of Uncle Ma's life, and they could do nothing else, that is, they would make a great contribution. At this time, Ma Shumou's status in Yang Er's heart was no less than his own life.

"Brother, brother, I'll give you a life-saving thing in times of crisis, for you." Uncle Ma saw that there was no one in the tent, and even Zhong Jian and Chuchen were sent by Yang Er on a business trip, and when he was not by his side at this time, he took out a cloth bag from his arms and stuffed it to Yang Er.

Yang Er was inexplicable, he didn't know what was in the bag, he looked at Uncle Ma and asked blankly, "What's the matter, it's so mysterious." Or is it something that saves lives? With that, he took the cloth bag that was handed over. Yang Er took it in his hand and pinched it, and suddenly his heart was ecstatic, and he was about to scream.

Sure enough, as he had guessed for a moment, in the cloth bag was a single-barrel gunpowder gun about a foot long. The whole body of this gun is polished with silver shiny, and the wooden handle and wooden parts are also finely made. Yang Er couldn't put it down, even if he was from a later life, he had never played with such a fine "pistol", so he hurriedly grabbed it in his hand and tried it. It doesn't feel heavy, but it feels very good.

"Brother Ma, when did you get it? If this thing is just used to scare people, it's not okay, the people here haven't seen it, even if my brother and I hold an AK47, I can't scare the people here. Can it start? Yang Er asked casually while raising his gun for aim.

"This short fire, brother, I made two handfuls with my own hands, you see my handful." As he spoke, Uncle Ma lifted the hem of his clothes, revealing his short powder gun pinned to his waist. Then he continued:

"The gunpowder iron sand has been compacted inside, and before firing, the firing hammer should be pulled like this, and the trigger should be pulled on the target." After Ma Shumou took the short fire from Yang Second-hand, he took his right hand and demonstrated it to Yang Er.

"Huh! Okay! It's that simple. Can it only be fired once? Yang Er then asked, learning to shoot is very simple, just say it.

"That's where this gun is inconvenient, there's a round in it, and you keep it for when it's most critical. It's a hassle to get a second bullet, and there's no time to get on in a crisis. After a shot, it's basically a burning stick. Uncle Ma said helplessly, and he didn't want to teach Yang Er how to get the second bullet.

"Okay! Once I've fired a shot, I'll give you the gun, and you'll be responsible for giving me the first shot. It's best not to use this thing, there are many fierce generals around the brothers, and it is estimated that there is no chance to use this thing in battle. When you have free time, you can take it to the back mountain to play. After Yang Er finished speaking, he wrapped the gun with a cloth again. I wanted to ask if there was a holster again, but after thinking about it, I still forgot it, this thing should not be seen by outsiders.

"Huh? By the way, why can a short fire be made, isn't a long gun just a long barrel? Why can't it be made? Yang Er suddenly remembered this thing that he had always wanted Uncle Ma to make.

"The main thing is the barrel manufacturing, the short gun is so-so and can be used, and the longer barrel has been tried many times, but it can't meet the requirements. Even this short musket barrel is also a hard wound, you must not easily pick out a shot in the chamber of this gun, you must wait for the enemy to enter the distance within 20 meters. Otherwise, even if you hit, you won't be able to die. Uncle Ma said helplessly. Yang Er also nodded after hearing this.

"Then this thing still has to be tried constantly, the short fire is not very useful at the moment, the range is too short, you and I have two defenses is enough. However, in the future, when conquering the world, there will be many sieges, in order to reduce the casualties of soldiers, the performance of gunpowder should be continuously improved, and it is best to make more gunpowder packs, so that they can be used to blow up the city gate or directly collapse the city wall. Shouldn't it be too difficult? "Yang Er knows that it is difficult to make gunpowder, and with gunpowder, you can make a lot of hot weapons, which is Uncle Ma's strength. Of course, if you let yourself make a gunpowder bag, I made it when I was in junior high school, I made gunpowder myself, made a simple gunpowder bag, and even used it to fry fish in a small river ditch. It's just that the amount of charge I make myself is smaller. And these skills are learned from Brother Ma, who is a few years older than him, and making large gunpowder bags is familiar to Brother Ma, as long as all kinds of materials are complete.

"It's not impossible, it's already available, and it can be provided in large quantities, and it's simple, but the ingredients can't be supplied in large quantities now, and there is no such thing in this era. Brother, the amount I have refined now is not large, enough for our two short fires. Uncle Ma sat down on the chair next to him and said unhurriedly. It can be seen that he already has a lot of refining methods.

"Brother Ma, don't beat around the bush, say, what do you need a brother to do?" Yang Er also sat on the chair next to him, reached out and pinched a handful of melon seeds on the tea table, and asked while sipping. Yang Er had thought about sulfur when he heard Liu Xuan talk about saltpeter last time, but he couldn't think of how to get it for a while. But he never thought that Brother Ma, who only had a beginner level of Chinese, had already made this kind of thing, which had to make Yang Er impressed by his brother's ability.

"Brother, do you remember what is the most in Wenchuan County, Sichuan?" Ma Shumou also knocked on the melon seeds and asked softly. This stopped Yang Er, the most in his hometown is a person with Qiang blood like him? Also, there are the most tourists who come from the city to travel to escape the summer, so shouldn't you ask this?

Before Yang Er could answer, Ma Shumou replied to himself: "There are many bosses, the most small coal mines, and some mountains are basically hollowed out, brother, I went into the small boss black coal mine after I graduated and dropped out of school, and you were still in high school at that time!" This is a derivative of coal mines, but when the coal is dug out, it flows out in liquid form, and even forms a small golden river with a high sulfur content that flows down the hillside into the local river. I guess you have an impression of the golden river, right? That is, the river water polluted by the sulfur of the coal mine, which exudes a special rotten egg smell. Ma Shumou slowly recalled and said, he knew that Yang Er must not know much about the black coal mine in the mountains of his hometown, because he was still a student at that time, but a small river was not far from the school, showing the golden river water and unpleasant smell, I believe Yang Er must have a deep memory.

Yang Er couldn't help but nod after hearing this, and asked, "Brother Ma, are you saying that this can be decomposed from the coal mine?" ”

"No, just build large pools near the coal mines, and divert the golden water from the coal mines into the pools, and make them in almost the same way as yours, you should understand, right?" Uncle Ma looked like a master, looking like Yang Er, a primary school student, and said.

"Oh! That's it! Hehe! This is easy to do, I will give Zezhou Lu Zhaolin an order in this matter, let him cooperate with you, this time you don't want to go with Tuyuhun, peace of mind to make gunpowder muskets and other things here, oh, by the way, it's best to get some melon grenades to use, this thing is quite easy to use against the enemy cavalry when the two armies are fighting, or the infantry, and it is very shocking, please do this, if you get it well, it will speed up the time for our buddies to dominate the country, and there will be fewer deaths. Yang Eryi grabbed Ma Shumou's arm and said sincerely. No one else can do this, and he has to do it himself with his own brother.

"Okay! Who is our brother with whom, besides, who else in this world will do this except my brother. Don't worry, after you write the letter, I will personally bring it to Zezhou, and then let Lord Lu Fuyin, who has never seen the world, cooperate with me. Still, brother, I suggest that a refinery be built with him, and that the finished gunpowder should be made in a separate and secret place. If you let your opponent learn this thing, you and I won't have to suffer from it! Right! Ma Shumou readily agreed, during this period of time, the logistics equipment department in charge of his own organization has become larger and larger, and the personnel are also very neat, the wages in this era are not much, and the people are particularly diligent and real, Ma Shumou never shrinks back in the personnel arrangement, and each workshop in his hands has placed a large number of management personnel, accept his own training, and recruit dozens of people from these people to start a refinery in Zezhou with him, it is not difficult at all, he is just running a trip to move his mouth. However, knowing that gunpowder is powerful, he is still most worried about the leakage of technology, if the monopoly is not realized, it will be troublesome at that time, so he thought Yang Er suggested.

"My brother is right, this thing must not be learned by outsiders. In this way, the safest place in the hands of the brothers now is in the Shaohua Valley. It's the most enclosed place, and no outsiders are allowed to enter. There are a lot of caves there, it is better to set up the gunpowder factory there, and the finished gunpowder products are also good to choose a dry cave for storage, and the entrance of the cave is guarded by soldiers, foolproof, what do you think? After listening to Ma Shumou's reminder, Yang Er thought about it for a while, and then thought of his guarded Shaohua Valley, which originally had tens of thousands of garrisons because of its own Guangtong warehouse, and it was a very ideal place to find a large cave to open a gunpowder factory and a primary military factory.

"Yes, when the time comes, my brother will let the factory transport the finished ones to Shaohua Mountain, and I will personally go to the valley to choose a cave to use as a military factory building and warehouse. MD is really a bit of a dirt road to build a military factory, making earth guns and cannons to beat the little devils. By the way, say hello to Pei Sima before you leave, and allow me to call resources. Don't go to you from afar. "Uncle Ma is still very quick to be able to use his own abilities in this world, and there is a sense of accomplishment in it.

"Okay, that's it. This expedition will take about two months, and I hope to see that you have something new in your hand for me when I come back, and it seems that I can't catch up with Tuguhun this time, alas! ”

The two brothers chatted easily for a while, and Uncle Ma wanted to hurry back to his office in the logistics equipment department to listen to the report of his subordinates, so he took his leave. Yang Er was also in a good mood at this time.

On the second day, Yang Er convened a hundred officials in the palace. Luzhou civil and military from the four grades and above all the civil and military will be listed.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this king played his father a few days ago, saying that this king wants to lead the soldiers and horses in Hedong to support Wuwei City, in order to prevent Tuyuhun from committing a big attack. The king expected that his father and the hundred officials in the court would not stop him, and at most he would be able to usher in his father's decree in a few days. This time, this king should lead the troops to conquer Tuyuhun in person, I don't know if you have anything to say? After that, Yang Er looked around at every Wenchen general present, and saw that everyone was talking about it, and the military generals such as Yuwen Chengdu and Xiong Kuohai were very excited. It's just that the civil officials are still calm, and they started a whispered discussion in twos and threes. Yang Er is not in a hurry, after all, it is still relatively sudden to directly find out this matter to everyone, and only Pei Shiju and Pei Yun can guess from some of Yang Er's arrangements that they will move troops in the near future.

"Your Highness, the old minister thinks that my Hedong army has been training for a long time, and the soldiers are available, so it's time for them to go out and practice. It's just that how many soldiers and horses are used is debatable. "As the chief of staff, Pei Shiju must first speak on behalf of the civilian officials.

"Yes! Your Royal Highness, this official believes that the soldiers must be out, but they should also pay attention to preserving their own strength, and should not be too ostentatious. Second, it is not appropriate to let the surrounding feudal towns have the intention of being defensive against our Hedong. Pei Yun, the main bookkeeper, got to the point at once, which was also the most difficult thing for Yang Er to grasp these days.

"The king intends to control the number of troops at 50,000 this time, if there are too many, it will arouse the suspicion of the princelings, and it will not be conducive to the future development of our Hedong. This point of soldiers and horses should not be enough to attract the attention of the surrounding vassal kings, of course, it also depends on the outcome of this war. If this king defeats Tuyuhun in a short time, it is not beautiful, and it will inevitably attract the attention of many sides, it seems that this war is also an art, not only to win, but also to keep a low profile. Hehe! Yang Er couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this, causing the civil officials to laugh with it.

"Okay, the generals will obey the order!" Yang Erjian said almost, and after thinking about it comprehensively, he was about to send a general. The hall suddenly fell silent, especially the generals all looked at Yang Er, hoping to hear their names called.

"General Yuwen Chengdu listens to orders." Yang Er first called the name of his chief general, if he didn't send him out this time, it was estimated that he would be grinded to death by him.

"The end will be." Yuwen Chengdu was very happy when he heard his name called, and hurriedly got up and replied loudly.

"I ordered you to be the general of the Chinese army, and I went to the Luzhou camp to select 10,000 elite horsemen, and set out with this king as the Chinese army." After Yang Er finished speaking, he took a token and handed it to Yuwen Chengdu.

"Order." Yuwen Chengdu happily took the token and returned to the military general train.

During this period of time, Yuwen Chengdu stayed in the pioneer camp every day to assist Xiong Kuohai and other generals to train 10,000 horse troops and 20,000 infantry troops, which greatly boosted the morale of the whole army, and the enthusiasm for training was unprecedentedly high, especially the generals including Xiong Kuohai have significantly improved their martial arts, and Xiong Kuohai's own dark diseases have also been well adjusted, and his qi and blood have become more vigorous. But all of this needs to be reviewed by a big battle, and the long-awaited opportunity has finally arrived, and he is leading the army alone.