After chasing and killing the Qing army, Lu Xiangsheng summoned all the armies to check the battle achievements. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info finally determined that Yang Guozhu captured 272 levels in this battle, Hu Dawei captured 231 levels, Wang Pu captured 323 levels, and Lu Xiangsheng captured 307 levels. However, these four families together did not have as many as Li Zhi's, and Li Zhijun captured 2,191 levels.

Now that Li Zhi has a strong army, no one has a way to divide his exploits. Li Zhi did not distinguish the merits of defeating Hanjiazhuang, and Li Zhi did not share the merits of more than 2,000 levels this time. However, this time, the three general soldiers and Lu Xiangsheng's standard battalion all had gains, and it was thanks to Li Zhi's defeat of the eastern wing of the Qing army that everyone had such a harvest, and no one looked at Li Zhi for a while.

Lu Xiangsheng and the generals happily surrounded the sergeants with lime nitrate, discussing this great victory.

"I didn't expect that I, Wang Pu, could also hunt down and kill more than 10,000 Tartars! It's so exciting! ”

Yang Guozhu laughed and said, "Thanks to General Longhu for defeating the eastern flank of the Tartars with one drum!" That's how we have the chance to hunt down the Tartars! The soldiers and horses of the Dragon and Tiger generals were really brave, and they actually broke the Tartars with a round of artillery fire. ”

Hu Dawei said with a smile: "One hundred and forty cannons, it is really a salvo of a hundred cannons." Flesh and blood, where can they stop this artillery fire? ”

Yang Guozhu asked curiously: "What kind of marble did the general use?" Can you kill a thousand Tartars in one round of artillery fire? ”

Li Zhi said: "The shotgun I used! ”

"What is a shotgun?"

"It's a loose cannon!"

Yang Guozhu suddenly realized, and said in a loud voice that this was the case.

Wang Pu said: "Go! Let's take a look at the cannon of the Dragon Tiger General? ”

Everyone was full of interest and walked to Li Zhi's army to observe Li Zhi's cannon. The knowledge of artillery is limited, and the types of artillery are only known as the Tiger Squat Cannon, the Franc Machine Cannon and the Hongyi Cannon. As for Li Zhi's iron core copper body technology and billet casting technology, they didn't know anything about it.

After looking around, these generals didn't see anything famous, they just applauded there.

Lu Xiangsheng stroked his beard and said: "General Longhu's cannon is indeed powerful, I don't know how much it costs?" ”

Li Zhigao reported a number and replied, "One door costs six hundred taels of silver!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng calculated and said: "Six hundred taels is also a good deal, after this battle, my supervising battalion also wants to equip some of this kind of Hongyi cannon." When the time comes, I will give 12,000 taels to the general, and the general will cast twenty cannons for me? ”

The cost of Li Zhi casting a six-pounder cannon was only one hundred taels, and if he sold it to Lu Xiangsheng for six hundred taels, he would have a profit of five hundred taels. Li Zhi thought in his heart that this business could not be done, and finally agreed.

"Well, I'll cast twenty cannons for the Governor!"

Lu Xiangsheng raised his eyebrows when he heard this, stroked his long beard with satisfaction, and nodded.

Hearing that Li Zhi was willing to cast cannons for Lu Xiangsheng, several general soldiers hurriedly surrounded him and said, "General Longhu, I also want fifteen guns!" ”

"General Dragon and Tiger, cast twenty gates for me too!"

Li Zhi saw that these three general soldiers had to buy their own guns, and felt that they were selling them too cheaply, and they didn't want to sell them, so he lied and said: "It takes a month to cast one cannon for this, and I can only cast three guns a month when my three workshops go into battle." Wait until I've finished casting twenty gates for the Governor next year, and then I'll cast them for you!" ”

The three general soldiers were stunned when they heard this, but they felt that it was reasonable, it usually takes dozens of days and a month to cast cannons, and Li Zhi's cannons are cheaper, but they will not be faster than others. It's just that you can only cast three doors this month, and I don't know what year and month you can cast for yourself. The three general soldiers looked at Li Zhi's artillery stupidly, very unwilling.

Wang Pu said tentatively: "How many used artillery guns did the general sell me?" Emergency! ”

Li Zhi rolled his eyes and said, "That's not for sale!" ”

The crowd was discussing ordnance when they heard the sound of firecrackers in the distance. Everyone looked back and saw that the gate of Gaoyang City was wide open, and the squires and people in the city carried wine and meat on their backs and came out to sacrifice the army.

There were only 1,000 village soldiers in the city. Those township soldiers and ordinary people guarded the city for five days, and saw that the trap tunnels under the city were filled up by the Qing army little by little, and they all thought that this time it was inevitable. Who knew that Wang Shi came from the north and defeated the Dongnu army with a single drum. The people in the city rejoiced, and they all said that it was the king who saved me, so they naturally wanted to come out to reward the officers and soldiers.

The group of people carried pigs, sheep, livestock, wine, rice and food out of the city gate, and walked towards Lu Xiangsheng with gongs and drums. The people of the city were empty, and they all crowded out of the city gates. They crowded under the city wall to see what the officers and soldiers were like who saved their lives, but they were a little afraid of the officers and soldiers and did not dare to go to the front.

At the head of the line was an old man on crutches. The old man was seventy or eighty years old, with snow-white hair and halberd, but he looked still strong. Walking next to him was a civil official wearing a seven-rank civil official uniform, probably the county magistrate of Gaoyang County.

The old man looked at the layout of the army, looked at the front of the battle, grabbed a few small soldiers and asked, then led the people to Li Zhi's artillery, and found a group of officers and generals who were discussing ordnance.

Lu Xiangsheng saw the people coming over, and took Li Zhi and others to greet him.

Walking up to Lu Xiangsheng, the old man asked, "Which way is this Wang Shi?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng arched his hand and said: "Villager elder, I am the secretary of the Ministry of War, the governor of the world, the king of soldiers and horses Lu Xiangsheng, this is the soldiers and horses under my command!" ”

The magistrate came up and said, "Lord Lu, this is a former university scholar, a scholar of the military department, and a master Sun Chengzong. ”

Lu Xiangsheng suddenly realized, and arched his hand and said: "The younger generation has seen Sun Gong!" ”

Sun Chengzong looked at Lu Xiangsheng and said, "The governor saved the people of Gaoyang City, saved the lives of the old family, and was worshiped by the old man!" ”

After saying this, he slowly bent down, and finally arched his old waist, propped his hands on crutches, and made a deep bow to Lu Xiangsheng and the generals with difficulty.

When the county commander saw that Sun Chengzong had bowed, he also hurriedly bowed to Lu Xiangsheng and said loudly: "The governor is bowed by the lower officials!" ”

Seeing this, the squires and people behind Sun Chengzong knelt on the ground one after another, kowtowed and said:

"Thank you Master Wang for saving us!"

"Master Wang, help, I'm grateful!"

"The king is mighty, save the people of a city!"

Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly helped Sun Chengzong up. After Sun Chengzong bowed, he looked at the military general behind Lu Xiangsheng, and asked: "The old man can see clearly on the city gate, it was an artillery cannon that repelled Dongnu, this cannon is really sharp!" Which general's artillery is this. ”

Lu Xiangsheng let Li Zhi out and said, "This is the artillery of the Dragon and Tiger General Li Zhi!" ”

Li Zhi walked up to Sun Chengzong and said, "Sun Gong, the general is guarding the West Tianjin Road, Li Zhi!" ”

Sun Chengzong said: "General Longhu saved the people of a city, and he was also worshiped by the old man!" ”

Sun Chengzong took the county order and the people of the city and gave Li Zhi a long look. The squires and the people who carried pork and wine in the back knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Zhi. (To be continued.) )