The sun was setting in the west, and the students were leaving school one after another.

Passing through the back door of Minglun Hall and going out is the Tixue Yamen where Zhang Rulin lives, Lao Si Yan is already familiar with Wang Xingping, and Zhang Rulin's instructions in advance did not stop him. The carriage that Wang Mingde helped him rent had been waiting at the gate for a long time, Wang Xingping went out to get into the carriage, and the carriage went to the direction of the Holy Spring Gate in the west.

As soon as he got out of the urn city, Wang Xingping asked Xiao Liu, who was waiting in the car, to report the situation.

"Young master, don't worry, Fourth Brother Liao over there in Shuiwo Village, they took the brothers to keep an eye on it early in the morning, and with the Li family's father and son as eyeliner, they will never get out of one. The food is now safe and secure in the stockade, as long as this side is over, you Wu and the few killers don't want to run away. ”

"Liao Si, they didn't go to the private house yesterday?"

"How dare you, what the young master explained."

Wang Xiaoliu secretly wondered in his heart, the young master of his family didn't know when he started talking in private so boldly, but he was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and he even had a clear door to comb his little daughter in his private house, he had never left Wang Xingping in the past few months, but he didn't know where the young master learned these things. What's even more annoying is that Wang Xingping only said these words in front of him in private, he is still a good scholar outside, so he has nowhere to reason if he wants to say it, and neither the old housewife at home nor the guys outside will believe it.

Wang Zhongde and his entourage arrived in Guiyang yesterday when the sun was about to set, but they did not enter the city, but settled down in the card on the northern suburbs.

There is a Zhuangzi of the Wang family, which has been idle for a while, but it is the Ye family who was dispatched before who is guarding it, and more than a dozen people under Wang Zhongde have lived here but there has been no leakage.

Wang Zhongde came here to get Wang Xingping's package ticket, Guiyang Wei and Guiyang Qianwei can be accommodating at that time, if there is really something to do, the officials of the two guards will not investigate their crime of leaving their posts without permission, Wang Zhongde knows that the Wang family and Commander Gu have some affection, naturally they will not be too careful, as long as there is a grain base in Shuiwo Village, no matter how they say it, they will not run in vain. So after resting for the night, Liao Si was sent by Wang Zhongde to monitor the southeast.

Although this time it is not a nest, but after listening to Wang Xingping's situation, Wang Zhongde and his entourage are still fully prepared, not only are they ready to benefit from all the swords, cards, and firearms, but they also have a few sets of armor in the arsenal of the Xifeng Institute.

Ding Deshui was still waiting for news from the owner, but Wang Xiaoliu arrived first.

As usual, the two servings of wine and food, even Yang Shunqing and Monk Xu were also summoned to eat.

Yang and Xu did not suspect fraud, and they went happily.

After a while, several people had already fallen to the ground, and Wang Xiaoliu spat at Yang and Xu, who had already fallen asleep, "Two fools, you can't sleep to death." ”

Wang Xingping finally came to the warehouse, and the time was already a little tight.

"Everything is done?" The young master asked with an expectant smile at Ding Deshui.

Ding Deshui hurriedly asked Ding Yi to go to the back room, took out a four-foot-long leather case and handed it out.

Wang Xiaoliu took it first, estimating that it was about thirteen or fourteen catties, he guessed what kind of weapon it was, but the sword used in battle, rarely more than three catties, so heavy even if it was used for riding and fighting, it would not move, but if it was used for practice, it would be too inexplicable, and it would feel like two burning sticks and not like a bow and arrow, so he became curious, "What is the weight of this thing, I don't know what kind of treasure it is." ”

"Lu Mi Gong......" Wang Xing is straightforward.

Open the holster, inside are two long-barreled firecrackers, it looks like the official army commonly used bird guns, the streamlined wooden support looks new, presumably it has just been replaced, more delicate and beautiful than the official army's firecrackers, Wang Xingping took out one and took it in his hand to try the amount, it was more than six catties.

This firearm called Lumi was made into a new type of firearm by Zhao Shizhen, who was a scholar at the time in the 26th year of Wanli, according to the construction diagram and production method of the musket provided by the envoy of the Lumi Kingdom [note: that is, the Ottoman Empire], and it was named after the name of the country. Due to the improvement of the process, compared with some earlier equipment of the Ming army, the bird gun has a longer range and stronger power, and its gun tube is usually made of integrated cold forging, so it is not easy to blow up, and the safety is much better than that of the bird gun.

Now Wang Xingping's hand and the one in the holster was found from the armory of Guiyang Wei by Wang Mingde, and it was two of the two that the army brought to the southwest when he conquered Bozhou.

Wang Xingping told him that he wanted to design a new firearm in the original form, and when he saw Zhang Heming a few days ago, he also explained it to Futai, which was regarded as an endorsement in the official face. It is a big crime to privately possess firearms by the people, but the study of firearms itself is nothing, Zhao Shizhen was also unable to fight with weapons when he was in charge of the Zhongshu Sheren, but he was still able to make achievements in firearms, and he also won the endorsement of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Crime, and he was also widely famous in the Beijing camp. He has a stubborn temperament, and he has offended many people in the officialdom, but he has never seen anyone talk to him with a private firearm.

Although the local iron in Guiyang is not good, it is not impossible to buy good iron from outside, and he will not attract any suspicion if he buys dozens of catties of Guangzhou Iron in the name of inspecting raw materials. And he can also see that this Ding Deshui is really a good hand at striking iron. Although this subway metallurgy is limited by materials, the means of making iron tools are all skillful, and Wang Xingping always mentions the principle, and he personally drew more accurate drawings according to the drawings on the "Artifact Spectrum" written by Zhao Shizhen, and also recreated a few simple measuring tools.

With these full preparations, Ding Deshui set up a small furnace in the Wangjia Zhuangzi in the card, specially renovated the firecracker, and when all the repairs were completed, they brought it to the grain depot one by one, and assembled it in the house last night.

When Wang Xingping looked carefully, he found that the gun tube was much shorter than before, presumably because this gun had been used in battle, and after a long time, the fire door was a little bursting, Ding Deshui also said when he first got the gun, at this time, the usual practice is to cut off the gun pipe from the fire door by seven or eight inches, and the body tube will be shortened, and it will also affect the range and power from a common sense point of view, but for the sake of safety, such a sacrifice must be made.

And if the body tube is too short, it will be connected to the front of the gun, and the current one in the hand obviously does not do this, it looks like this fire gun is a little short and funny.

And a slot bed has been dug out of the place where the fire door should have been newly opened on the barrel, which is ......?

Wang Xingping hurriedly asked Ding Yi, who had just come out with a fire gun, "What about Zi Gong?" ”

Ding Yi touched his head and said 'oh', "The owner really knows everything...... There is indeed a box. ”

After speaking, he went to the room and found two leather boxes, opened one of them and saw that there were six neat iron pipes arranged in two rows, and there was an opening at one end.

Wang Xiaoliu was puzzled, "What is this?" ”

"It's the son of this gun." Wang Xingping didn't say much, took out one of the guns and tried it on the tube groove bed, and when he heard a crisp sound, he really stuck it tightly.

At this time, he explained to Wang Xiaoliu unhurriedly, as if he was answering his doubts.

"This Lu Mi gun should have been changed by Uncle Ding, and the shape of this gun tube is like an electric gun."

"Switching?"

"Well, it's actually a kind of Lumi gun, but it's an improved gun tube, and the fire door is made on the sub-gun, which is easy to disassemble and replace, and the filling of the sub-medicine is much faster than the ordinary fire gun, but it breaks faster."

Ding Deshui on the side bowed when he heard this, "The owner is well-informed, because of the tight construction period, the villain didn't have time to ask for instructions, so he could only change it to the style of this electric gun. ”

Wang Xingping didn't care, "Uncle Ding, you did the right thing, it should be like this, and besides, there are only four guns of a gun on the "Artifact Spectrum", and you have changed it to six, which is much stronger than Zhao Sheren." ”

Although it is convenient to continuously replace the sub-guns, the frequent firing of the guns will also be unbearable, so it is necessary to rest for a while to cool down the guns for four bullets at a time. Since he attaches so much importance to the safety of the launch, he does not even let go of some cracks on the fire door, and he will not increase the number of guns at will.

"It's all the owner's drawings that are well drawn, and the villain has been playing iron for half his life, but he has never seen such a fine pattern, and it is much easier to do."

Ding Deshui is not very literate, but Wang Xingping's drawings are clearly marked, and the sizes correspond to the measuring tools one by one, which looks extremely intuitive. Of course, the new type of firecracker designed in this way, because there are more combined parts, the stability is definitely not as good as the one-piece Lumi gun, and it can be regarded as a product of urgency.

"That's it, I'm afraid this firearm won't last long."

"As long as it's useful, it's not a decoration, where do you want to go so far for a long time."

Wang Xingping's words immediately caused everyone to laugh.

Wang Xingping thought that there was no one here, so he tried to shoot three shots at random on a dead tree in the courtyard, and the distance of fifty steps was a little out of the mark, it seems that the accuracy of this gun is really discounted because the gun tube is shortened, at least not as powerful as the book says to go to the enemy for a hundred steps, and the renovation that passed through the middle obviously affected the power of this firecracker, but the two shots on the thirty and twenty steps hit the target, and the dead tree trunk was pierced.

Although such a result is reluctant, if it is about killing the enemy with one shot in more than 20 steps, Wang Xingping asked himself that he should be able to do it. After all, what he wants is only the right head, and the difference between killing people in the battle and shooting targets in peacetime is only in people's psychology, and Wang Xingping, who has killed people several times, is of course not a problem. So as long as the accuracy is reasonable, the lethality of this gun must be above that of modern firearms, after all, the kinetic energy of lead bullets is too strong, as long as it hits the human torso or head, the enemy has no chance of living.

And the preparation for all this only depends on whether the other party will make a move tonight.

As for whether someone will come to do something tonight, Wang Xingping has now believed it.

Otherwise, when he tied a few minions of the Gu family into the warehouse, how could he find so many full oil cans in the corner of the granary? Maybe Yang and Xu didn't know what Gu Fengming had in mind, but at least it was true that he didn't have a good heart, and it seemed that his defense was really not an exaggeration.

Yesterday, he was able to sleep peacefully in bed for half a day, completely because the time limit had not yet arrived, and if someone wanted to target the Wang family, he would never leave him an extra day to turn around. And until today, Gu Fengming has never come to him again, let alone mentioned the grain that was moved to Shuiwo Village, this is clearly harboring evil intentions, really think that he is an idiot?

Tonight, whether there is anything or not, you must be fully prepared, if no one comes, you will start on Shuiwo Village early tomorrow morning, and it will be good to slip down here to deliver. If something really happened to the granary, it would be considered to be in Wang Xingping's arms, and it would not hurt to make things bigger now.

The grain in the warehouse has been packed with sacks, and the surface kung fu library has not done less in the past few days.

Seeing that it was not early, Wang Xingping ordered everyone to move a lot of sacks full of rice outside, firmly enclose the place facing the gate, and move all the oil cans outside the warehouse, and poured a lot of them on the side of the wall, and the courtyard suddenly smelled fragrant.

The straw laid on the top of the warehouse was also poured with water again, and the oil tank hidden in the granary made Wang Xingping a little afraid of setting fire, but fortunately, the granary was low, and all the accumulated straw was moved out and the warehouse was put outside to cover it tightly.

Then they used ropes and bells to warn them in several important places and inside the back door, and Ding Deshui and the brothers had already taken out the knives and sticks used to guard the treasury and divided them one by one.

Wang Xingping looked at it and said, "Go to sleep, there will be nothing wrong in the first half of the night." ”