Chapter 773: The Identity of the Enemy
This is a musket, not a standard rifle.
It takes time for the ignition to be fired.
Taking advantage of this time, Xu Dingfei jumped into the cave, his body swaying from side to side, walking in a zigzag shape, and the speed was ghostly.
The man from another world couldn't see Xu Ding's reality at all, and shook the muzzle of his gun to chase and lock on Xu Ding's shadow.
"Bang!" With a bang, the bullet came out of the chamber and hit the stone wall opposite.
A small hole the size of a thumb was blown up, flying rocks splattered, and smoke rose.
Then Xu Ding's knife was added to the neck of the man from another world, and he said in the Jianghuai dialect he had learned: "Don't move, if you move, you will die!" ”
The man from another world was stunned, obviously not expecting Xu Ding to speak their native accent.
However, he didn't sit still, so he blocked the gun to knock out Xu Ding's knife, and scolded angrily: "The Western Qin barbarians go to die!" ”
As soon as Xu Dong's figure turned behind him, the knife was still firmly on the opponent's neck, and he still spat coldly: "It's moving, it's really going to die!" ”
However, this warning still did not produce an effective order for this otherworldly man.
The man struck the gun backwards and pulled out a short blade from his waist.
Xu Ding's figure moved to the side, and the blade slashed downward.
With a "poof", the man from another world finally felt the pain, the gun fell to the ground, covered his neck with one hand, stared at Xu Ding for a long time, couldn't make a sound, and then fell heavily to the ground.
"Stubborn! It's hard to mess with! Xu Ding kicked away the person's corpse, picked up his short blade, and pulled it out to see that it was a dagger.
The sharpness is not as sharp as his treasure knife, and the material is average.
After searching his body, only an identity document was found.
The text is made of standard traditional Chinese characters, and Xu Ding is interested in it all at once.
When he opened it, he was a little surprised by the content.
"Nanming Empire, Huguang Province, Huangzhou Mansion, Huang'an City Liu Yidao!"
Xu Ding looked at it for a long time, then closed his identity document and muttered softly: "Interesting, the Southern Ming Empire, Huguang Province, this seems to be somewhat similar to the Ming Dynasty in history, but the firearms of the Ming Dynasty are definitely not so powerful."
This firearm is simply the extreme, if the firearm really develops, it should be a musket rifle, not to ...... Wait a minute. ”
Xu Ding was beating his papers, and then he suddenly came to his senses, and the haze on his face became heavier.
This Liu Yiwan is not a military household, not a soldier, not a national army, just a civilian.
Of course, the weapons of civilians cannot be too good, that is not to say, the firearms of this Southern Ming Empire may be stronger, and it has broken through that stage through development.
Rubbing his temples and shaking his head, Xu Ding knew that he couldn't think about it anymore, and he wanted to find out the answer, and he would understand it once he entered the other world.
But before entering, Xu Ding picked up Liu Yidao's gun and noticed the gloves in Liu Yidao's hand.
This guy must have relied on this thing to load the gun.
Xu Ding hesitated, but still put on it, and then stuffed the lead bullet collected from the two of them into the muzzle, poured it into the gun, and then ignited it.
"Bang!" A cloud of black smoke came out, and the lead bullet shot far away, hitting a tree trunk.
Break the trunk.
Although it was late, Xu Ding had a lot of total perception ability, and found that this gun could really hit a thousand steps away.
Five hundred meters.
This is far beyond the scope of the fire of the world to which he belongs.
Xu Ding put down the gun and put it deep in the cave, there was no one else in the cave here, so he gently pushed open the bronze door and followed the long aisle to the entrance of the cave on the other side.
There are no people here, but there are many traces of human activity in the cave, and there are no less than four or five people.
"It seems that there are more than two people who discovered this cave, Liu Yidao also has accomplices, and the departure of these people has brought a greater risk to the exposure of the cave." Looking at the sky, it was also dark here, Xu Ding did not stop, and came back the same way, buried the two corpses, he went down the mountain with a gun, a gunpowder cartridge and lead bullets, and then went out of the mountain.
When everyone saw Xu Ding returning, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
Xu Dingdao: "Now that the mountain is safe, the two enemy will be killed by me, so they will immediately go up the mountain, establish a new stronghold, and monitor the situation in the cave at any time." ”
"Whoa!" The left guards immediately complied, and then Xu Ding sent a team of people to send the gunpowder and a box of buckshot back to Weiyuan Island overnight, and at the same time handed them over to the Instruments Department.
But he kept the gun and started to study drawing and the like.
After resting for a long time, Xu Ding returned to the mountain.
At this time, the army of guards who had arrived from Weiyuan Island also arrived.
Xu Ding took the guards into the mountain and divided them into three groups, one group to guard the cave on this side of Han'an County, and one group to guard the bronze gate.
A batch was placed in the Otherworldly Cave.
"Guard the entrance of this cave, and if you find a suspicious person or a beast approaching, kill it with all your might, and don't show mercy."
"It's the lord!"
Thousands of people were killed, hundreds of people were killed, bed crossbows and the like were high back to the entrance of the cave, and the soldiers began to build a defense system.
Xu Ding then took the best-equipped weapons of the hundred-man squad to explore outside the mountain.
"Everyone be careful, the birds of prey here are more ferocious than those on my big man's side, and most of them are fast, once they find that there are fierce beasts on the periphery, they retreat to the formation and release arrows."
Xu Ding instructed.
Everyone replied violently: "I understand the lord! ”
Soon Xu Ding and the others encountered several fierce beasts, but they were all scared away by the formation of Xu Ding and the others.
The beasts are not stupid, as long as they are not dizzy from hunger, and they dare not attack the crowd, they all run away and watch.
Xu Ding didn't cause trouble either.
Soon they searched and headed out of the mountain.
Because of the snow, there are not many traces left on the ground.
However, with Xu Ding's carefulness and the elite scouts in the army, he still found clues left by the enemy.
Some of the newly broken branches and the tree marks cut by the knife were still found by Xu Ding and others.
"Keep an eye on the surroundings, I'll go up to the top of the tree and take a look!"
Xu Ding held two knives in his hands, then stepped on the ground, then stabbed into the tree with the knife in one hand, and then jumped with the help of force, and the other knife was also inserted into the trunk of the tree, rising in one leap.
After repeating this, the whole person climbed to the top of the tree very rhythmically and quickly.
Far into the distance.
The snow is white, the mountains are huge, and there is still no end in sight.
However, I saw smoke rising from a long distance.
After visually measuring the distance, Xu Ding guessed that the distance was quite far.
Most likely, it was the enemy's there, roasting the fire, roasting meat, and boiling hot soup.
Xu Ding slid down the straight trunk of the tree and instructed everyone: "No one is allowed to raise a fire today, and no one is allowed to make a sound in the future, let alone discuss." ”
The crowd nodded silently.
So he followed Xu Ding in the direction of smoke.
After nightfall, everyone carried the bitter cold and set up camp to rest.
The next day, when I was walking after dawn, I came across a group of fierce beasts, but I went around it, and then I came to a broken end, and there was no road ahead.
"Head south, I guess we'll be able to meet those guys after dark." Xu Ding led everyone to the south along the broken edge, and soon found a way down the mountain.
And the vicinity is quite suitable for ambushes, so Xu Ding let people lurk.
After a while, the scout in front came back and said:
"My lord! I found the enemy, twenty enemies, dressed in general, without armor, holding that long strange weapon in their hands, camping, I guess they will not continue to go today. ”