Song An's words were full of sincerity.

The old man took a long breath, and his tone was a little softer: "Of course you know these things for your father, and your father's plan to recruit peace is also a way to ride a tiger." ”

Fresh, in the past, I listened to all kinds of experts call beasts to explain the Water Margin, and there is a saying that "Song Jiang Zhao'an is selfish and greedy for glory and wealth"; There is a saying that "Song Jiang is to find a good home for the brothers"; There are sayings such as "Song Jiang is stupid and stupid" and so on, but almost without exception they all scolded Song Jiang, and no one said that he was good!

How did it come to Song Jiang himself, but it became a helpless move to ride a tiger?

Seeing that Song An was suspicious, Dad continued:

"Liangshanbo has nearly 100,000 infantry troops, horse troops, and sailors, and nearly 200,000 including their parents, wives and children. Do you know how much food these people eat every day just for food? ”

"If it is calculated at three catties per person, it will be 600,000 catties per day."

"Although we have 800 miles of water and a 2,000-mile radius of mountainous areas, the fish we catch and the grain we harvest in a year are only enough for the whole cottage to eat for a month at most. At present, our main livelihood is to arrange for our brothers to do short-circuit robbery in various prefectures and counties, although we can get more than 100,000 taels of silver every month, which is completely enough for the expenses of our cottage, but this is not a long-term solution after all. If you don't Zhao'an live on Liangshanbo all the time, I'm afraid you will starve to death sooner or later. ”

Song An was puzzled: "Why don't we set up ourselves as kings and occupy Lufu Prefecture and County like Fang La, Tian Hu, and Wang Qing?" In this way, they can deal in salt and iron, mint their own money, and collect taxes widely. Won't we have to worry about it? ”

"Of course I thought about it as a father, but once it did, it would be a rebellious and self-reliant thief...... More than a dozen of the one hundred and eight leaders of our Liangshanbo are generals of the imperial court, and they are now the main generals of the three armies, and most of them are loyal and righteous.

At the beginning, I gathered them in Liangshanbo under the banner of eradicating traitors for Tianxingdao, and nearly 50,000 of our 100,000 soldiers and horses were brought by them or rushed to them.

If I pull the flag and establish myself as the king, it will be a slap in the face, how can I justify the saying of "eradicating traitors for the way of heaven"? First of all, this is the loss of heavenly principles and morality, and I am afraid that Guan Sheng and Hu Yanzhuo will leave me with their respective people. Once they leave, not to mention that our 100,000 soldiers and horses will be halved, how many of the remaining leaders will be generals? ”

Song An thought for a while, it is indeed true, if Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, Qin Ming, Dong Ping, Zhang Qing and other more than a dozen imperial generals left, Liang Shanbo really did not have a few generals.

Although there are a large number of individual combat super-strong cattle people such as Lin Chong, Wu Song, Lu Zhishen, and Li Kui, it is absolutely impossible to fight the world by relying on the courage of the horseman.

Daddy continued: "If it is better to say, even if they all support me to stand on my own, but we only have 100,000 troops, and the imperial court forbidden army has 1.5 million people, Fang Latianhu and Wang Qing are thousands of miles away from Bianshangjing, and the imperial court whip is beyond the reach to give them the opportunity to conquer the city...... Liangshanbo is only 600 miles away from Bianshangjing, how can the side of the Son of Heaven sleep on the side of the couch for me Song Jiang to sleep soundly, once he stands on his own, I am afraid that the imperial court will send troops to attack as soon as possible, and we will not be given time to attack the city at all. ”

"Then let's fight! Gao Yu Tong Guan has hundreds of thousands of troops to fight, aren't they all defeated by us? Song An disagreed.

"Where will these two ploppy people who can only slap horses fight, if the commander of the previous two battles is replaced by Captain Su, who is proficient in the art of war, I am afraid that our Liangshanbo will be peaceful early."

"Then why didn't this old thing come to fight us?" Song An was puzzled.

"Su Taiwei is the only one of the five first-class officials in the imperial court, he has always been at odds with the four thieves, he was not in command in the previous two wars, mainly to weaken the power of the four thieves by the hand of our Liang Shanbo.

But if we rebel against the court and set ourselves up as kings, with this old man's fierce loyalty, he will definitely personally lead a large army to fight to the death with us, not to mention that he also has two fierce generals, Shidao and Zong Ze. Anti-Song self-reliance, a dead end......"

Daddy shook his head helplessly.

"But once we recruit An as an official, then we will let the four thieves of Gao Yu take care of it, but I am afraid that my father will bear the brunt of their persecution at that time!"

"This is the reason why he had to give him a million taels of silver tickets after he was trying to capture Gao Yu for his father, in order to let him open up the net after recruiting An, but he never wanted to tell a fake all the bitterness, and he also wasted a million taels of silver...... In this way, it really responded to the ending that his father said with the head of the Lin sect, recruiting An is death, and not recruiting An is also a dead ......"

After listening to his father's tirade, Song An realized how much helplessness and helplessness his father hid behind his bent on recruiting An.

"Recruiting An is death, not recruiting An is also death, why not recruit An Tu in the name of loyalty, but also die as ......"

Daddy stared at the dark night sky with a look of despair and sadness.

"Father doesn't have to be pessimistic, let's get rid of the four thieves and then recruit An, then won't it be safe?"

"Nine times out of ten, the civil and military officials inside and outside the court are the henchmen of the four thieves, and Su Taiwei, as the privy envoy in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, can't shake them, how can we get rid of them?"

Song An fell into melancholy: Dad is right, even the old man Su can't do anything about the four thieves, what can I do as a mercenary to kill the four traitors?

Until he returned to Liangshan at dusk on the second day, Song An still didn't come up with an effective method.

"Ahh You handful of birds are in my iron bull's face! ”

As soon as he walked to the door of the cottage, the crow that had been flying over the sky pulled a bubble of and accurately airdropped it on Li Kui's forehead.

The crow fluttered its wings and flew away, leaving Li Kui pointing at the sky and spitting stars flying around for a while.

Looking at the crows in the distance, Song An suddenly frowned, spread his legs and ran all the way into his small courtyard.

He thought of a way to kill the four thieves!

drove a plane to the mansion of the four thieves in Bianshangjing, dropped bombs, and killed the four turtle bastards!

It is impossible for the Great Song Dynasty to have airplanes and no bombs, and Song An has great ability to make this kind of thing in the Song Dynasty.

But there can be alternatives for both planes and bombs.

Airplanes, he thought of paragliding.

In the 21st century, paragliding was Song An's greatest hobby, and he also obtained the "E Class Pilot Certificate" for unpowered paragliding.

This is the highest level certificate for paragliding pilots.

For a paragliding master, DIY a paraglider can still be done, and Song An has done it himself before.

Bombs are not a difficult thing to do, and anything that can explode can be called a bomb.

To explode, you need a core thing, gunpowder.

Gunpowder is the great invention of the Yanxia nation, as early as the early Northern Song Dynasty, gunpowder arrows, fireballs and firetle terrestris have been used, in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, Bianjing Bianliang City specially set up a factory to manufacture gunpowder "gunpowder kiln Zizuo".

In the Western countries of the same period, they still relied on knights with shields, spears, and heavy armor to conquer cities.

During the reign of Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, where Song An was located, there were already some firearms such as earth-shaking thunder and thunderbolt cannons, but although these things moved quite a lot after detonation, they were actually not very powerful, and the killing effect was not obvious, depending on its core part - gunpowder.

The ancients configured the composition of gunpowder very simply, and Uncle Zhao, the old man who loved to smoke dry tobacco in "Mine Warfare", knew it: one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal. Later, they effectively attacked the devils with homemade land mines and guarded their homeland.

But in fact, if you want to build a lethal land mine, you don't just mix these three raw materials and then stuff them into the hole of the stone, pull the fuse and ignite it.

The mines thus created can be blown in half, three, four or five halves at most. Although the sound is loud, the power is small, and the loud noise of the explosion of the person who is bombed is far more likely to be scared to death than to be killed by the collapse.

As a matter of fact, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when the militia was fighting landmines, a group of militiamen went to the arsenals in the base areas to learn about gunpowder purification, which greatly improved the power of land mines.

In the Song Dynasty a thousand years ago, people did not know how to purify the technology, and they did not study the optimal matching ratio of the three raw materials to make gunpowder exert the maximum explosive force. The optimal ratio is 10% sulfur, 15% charcoal, and 75% saltpeter. Unfortunately, this was discovered by Westerners, and it was not introduced to China until the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, although the people of the Song Dynasty made such firearms, even if it was a heaven-shaking thunder loaded with a thousand catties of gunpowder, after detonation, it was a giant version of a cannon battle, although the sound was loud, but the power was not great. It is even very likely that it will not explode, and it will directly become a ceremonial flower.

It is documented that:

In the thirty-first year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin army went south, and the Song general Yu Yunwen counterattacked the Jin army at Quarry Rock.

“…… A thunderbolt suddenly fires in the middle of the boat, covered with paper,...... Falling from the sky,...... Its sound is like thunder, the paper cracks and the lime scatters into smoke, squinting its eyes and horses, and the characters do not see each other......"

Here, the Song army used thunderbolt cannons, similar to earth-shaking thunder. The effect of the battlefield is equivalent to a million cannon shots in the middle of the enemy group.