The young man closed the flask tightly with a lid, he observed that Li Jing had a lid when he took out the flask, then opened the lid, and then covered the mouth of the bottle with a glass sheet, and when the fire of the wood wire was at its peak, he opened the glass piece a little just enough to put the iron sheet in, and then closed it as tightly as possible with the glass sheet, but there was a little gap between the iron sheet and the bottle mouth.

Then he saw that the iron pieces began to burn violently, although he didn't know what the principle was, but he estimated that there was something invisible in this bottle, this kind of thing can help combustion, he took these things all the way to the south, passed through Di'anmen Street, walked into Di'anmen Gate and entered the imperial city, and then passed through Jingshan, and came to a very conspicuous place where there were many small courtyards, where he collected all kinds of interesting things.

"Broad & Bright, find a wire and split a few more small pieces of wood," the young man turned back to a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy of his age.

"No," the young man bowed. Carefully pick up a dagger with a cold light, cut out a few small wooden sticks from wooden blocks on the table, and then wrap the end of the wooden stick with a wire. He is clever and very respectful, and he is deeply loved by his own young master, he was also present just now, and he saw the beautiful young man casting a spell, and understood that the young master wanted to repeat it.

The boy opened the cap of the bottle, covered it with a glass piece, then lit the wire handed over by Broad & Bright, took out the zipo from his arms, and tried to hold it with four fingers like Li Jing did, and open the lid with his thumb. With a crisp clang, an orange flame appeared, and he repeated it several times, discovering the roller and the spark below.

The young man said happily: "It's done, hahaha, it turned out to be a flintlock device with rollers, nothing mysterious." I knew that that brother Tai didn't use demon methods, but those villains were just confused. “

After saying that, he lit the small wooden wire, and put it into the flask when the fire was at its peak, because the platform had filled the flask with oxygen several times, and at this time there was about half of it left. Soon, the wire began to glow violently, and it burned violently. The boy and Shi Bright both looked at this strange phenomenon in amazement, after a while the wire was not burned, but slowly the flame became smaller, weaker, and finally completely extinguished, the boy quickly took it out and put it on the new wire, lit it and then released it, but it couldn't be lit.

"Alas, no, there is something in this bottle, we can't see it, otherwise there is no need to use such a precious bottle, it is estimated that it is not a cheap item, such a pure bottle, I don't know if it is made of crystal or glass, how can it be thirty or fifty taels of silver, and it will be thrown away, which shows that the family is rich." I don't know if I'll ever meet it. “

The boy frowned for a moment, "There is"

After speaking, find out the paper and pen, and begin to use the brush drawing method to depict Li Jing and the eighth senior sister Ruxin, more than an hour later, a pair of colorful gongbi drawings jumped on the paper, Li Jing's expression on the paper was vibrant, and the senior sister of the heart was elegant. The two are very similar and lifelike. I didn't expect this handsome young man to have such a good painting skill, although it is not artistic, but it is brilliant in realism.

"Broad & Bright, take this painting and ask someone to check it to see if it is the son of that noble minister and rich businessman."

"No" Broad & Bright bowed and retreated.

At the same time, in the distant Liaodong, it was already the second lunar month at this time, and there was a military important place called Fengjibao on the periphery of Shenyang. Located in the northwest of Shenyang city forty miles, this fortress is built on the hill, boxy, the city wall is ten meters high, the side is one mile long, just one mile square.

On another hill fourteen miles northwest of Fengji Fort was built a gourd-shaped stone mountain city, called Tashan Mountain City. The height is about seven or eight meters. It is made of irregular stones and clay.

The two mountain cities face each other from afar, watch and help each other, it is an important defensive fulcrum on the periphery of Shenyang, in the middle of the two mountain cities ten miles forward, there is a small village adjacent to the river, there is a six-meter-high earthen wall outside the village, there is a three-meter-deep and ten-meter-wide earthen ditch outside the wall, which is filled with small river water, but at this time it is the end of the severe winter in Liaodong, and the river surface is frozen very strong.

The entrance of the village is a ferry, there are some earthen houses and wooden fences on the side of the ferry, a wooden fence against horses, a flagpole fluttering, and the flag reads Tiger Skin Station.

Less than fifty miles across the river is Fushun Pass, after the defeat of Salhu, Jiannu autumn wind swept away the leaves and generally captured Kaiyuan, Tieling and more than 70 cities around it. Both Fushun and Fushun Pass have been occupied by Jiannu. In order to facilitate the continuation of the offensive, Nurhachi had moved the capital from Hetuala (now Xinbin County, Fushun) to Salhu, and simply built the Sarhu Wooden City. The new capital of Jiannu, Salhu City, was fifty miles behind Fushun City, so Fushun and Fushun Pass became the front line guarded by heavy troops. It is across the river from the Tiger Skin Station.

This tiger skin post station has become the first line to face Jiannu. At this time, tents were spread around the small village around the Tiger Skin Station. The 4,000 Youyang Tusi soldiers who had been transported to Lushunkou were stationed here, Bai Zaixiang's Chinese army tent was set up in the tallest building in the village, and in the ancestral hall, the Youyang soldiers were camped around the village.

Around the post station, next to the entrance of the village, there was another army, which was not very many, only seven hundred men, and although the soldiers were thin, shabby, and without armor, they looked very strong. They wore uniform cotton robes dyed blue and wore dogskin hats. Hanging a goose sword around his waist, carrying a horned bow on his back, and carrying a four-and-a-half-meter spear in his hand, the most distinctive thing is that their quiver, made of hairy animal skin, in order to prevent the arrows from falling out when running and jumping, there are ropes in the middle and at the exit to restrain and tighten, so as to form a gourd-shaped fur quiver.

This army is the famous Mao Hulu Bing, referred to as Mao Bing. These Mao soldiers all came from the mountainous areas of southern Henan, and the main components were mountain people, hunters, and miners. These people are displaced people who are outside the effective jurisdiction of the government. It's isolated from the mainstream society.,It's brave and ruthless to survive.,Very tough.。 Since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to suppress peasant uprisings in various places, the imperial court also prevented these displaced people from making trouble, and usually recruited the strong into the army and formed a separate formation, called "Mao soldiers".

The government sent veterans to serve as junior officers of the Mao soldiers, and assigned officers at the garrison level to serve as battalion officers to lead. Mao soldiers are generally a group of seven people, and this Mao barracks is composed of one hundred groups of Mao soldiers. In addition to clothes, the government only gave Mao Bing a spear, a waist knife, a horn bow, fifty arrows and a quiver. Plus a handful of rattan cards. With no cavalry, no armor, and no firearms, he was the cheapest mercenary in the Ming Dynasty.

Mao Bing and the Ming Dynasty have always been in the same direction, from suppressing peasant uprisings in various places, leveling the southeast and southeast, and suppressing the Tusi rebellion in the southwest. They have always been active, knowing that in the last years of Chongzhen, there were more than 6,000 Mao soldiers in Henan who had been defeated repeatedly, and the idiot imperial history in the court, on the table, wanted Henan to besiege on four roads, and Mao soldiers were alone all the way, as a result, these frightened people who were beaten by Li Zicheng cowered, did not save when they saw death, and killed Zhang Fengyi. Zhang Fengyi had few soldiers and was besieged in Houjiazhuang, Yonglin, Henan, and finally the whole army was annihilated, and Zhang Fengyi died in battle.

However, at this time, the Mao soldiers are still very capable of fighting.

Bai Zaixiang was dressed in men's clothes at this time, and her daughter Ran Tianyi leaned on her affectionately, and her two younger sisters Bai Zaiying and Bai Zaiyun. Two sons, Ran Tianyu and Ran Tianyun. Uncle Bai Bangming was playing around a map on the table of the Eight Immortals to study the strategic confrontation situation between the enemy and us.

At this time, the soldiers came in to report that Nanao Town, the general town of Fujian and Guangdong, had sent five people to say what kind of war observers. I want to see the handsome. The generals of Youyang were stunned, isn't this Li Jing's person, why did he come to the front line in Liaodong.