The outer wall of Mingyue Fort has not been repaired, but the original area of Mingyue Village has changed greatly.

There is almost no vacant space south of the creek, and dense two- or even three-story brick and stone buildings are replacing the former fenced courtyards.

Xiong Chengwen and Zhang Zhanjun estimate that after a while, the newly obtained Zhuang people with yellow household registration will not even have land to build a single-family house, and they can only build a small building together.

New houses have long been not allowed to be built north of the river, and there are only a dozen core workshops except for more than 100 old households living there.

Weapons and armor workshops are located in the northwest corner, where a small two-story dam was built to steadily propel six waterwheels. Li Xiang spent two years and tens of thousands of dollars and grains, and constantly recruited trustworthy Zhuang people to build several top-secret workshops, located in the northeast corner of Mingyuezhuang, which Li Xiang called a laboratory.

The new council hall has a distance of more than five meters from the ground to the big roof.

Li Xiang sat on the owner's chair, politely greeted his subordinates, protégés, and old Zhuang people for a while, and then rushed to the top-secret workshop in the northeast corner of Mingyue Fort to check on an extremely important thing.

Li Xiangping retired from the guards and came to the foot of the mountain, hiding far away, watching the performance of Radar and Four-Eyed Boy.

The four-eyed boy with crystal glasses used a copper rod to mix three powders in proportion and put them into the clay pot in Radar's hand.

Sweat on his forehead, Radar carefully pressed the powder and stuffed a piece of cork into the mouth of the can.

There was a small hole in the middle of the cork, and Radar wound a half-meter-long hemp rope around the copper wire, inserted it into the hole, and then pulled the copper wire out. Then the twine was fixed to the jar with fish glue, and the radar completed all the preparations.

Seeing Li Xiang nodding, the four-eyed boy swallowed his saliva and lit the hemp rope, and Radar hurriedly threw the jar into the distance. The clay pot was very sturdy, and it rolled down the small slope for more than 50 meters before stopping.

Two minutes passed.

Li Xiang was strange and asked the two embarrassed protégés beside him, "Why hasn't it sounded yet?" Is it out of the fire? ”

Radar shook his head, "This kind of hemp rope was specially rubbed out by begging Grandpa Zhen, and it burns very well." This little piece of interception shouldn't be a problem. ”

The four-eyed boy lifted his luxurious glasses, "The disciple takes sulfur powder, saltpeter powder and charcoal powder, and mixes them according to the ratio given by the master, and they can ...... before."

"Boom~~~" Before the four-eyed boy finished speaking, a loud noise came.

Li Xiang only felt his heart pound before returning to normal, and his ears were buzzing with a loud sound. "When I suddenly encountered such a thing, Lao Tzu was frightened, let alone the horses?" Li Xiang thought proudly.

Four-Eyed and Radar looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief. The two have been competing on weekdays, but they don't want to make a fool of themselves in front of the owner.

Li Xiang took a piece of hemp rope, lit it, and asked the radar: "Take a closer look, what's the difference between it and before the snow?" ”

Radar clapped his hands, "Slow, it's burning slow now!" Could it be that when it's cold, the hemp rope burns slowly? ”

Li Xiang had a black line on his face, and said in his heart: It's not all, if there is a lot of moisture in the air, the hemp rope will burn more slowly, burn to half, and it is possible to extinguish it directly. If you don't figure this out, you will probably not be killed by the enemy if you take out the gunpowder rashly!

Patting Radar on the shoulder twice, Li Xiang said bitterly, "Young man, if you find something different, you have to watch more, think more, and remember more." Especially when it comes to desperate things, you have to be more careful and careful, if it's a bad one, do you know what will happen? The mission assigned by the owner of the village is only one aspect......"

Seeing that Radar was being taught seriously, the four-eyed boy took a lead rod to write and draw there, and Li Xiang nodded with satisfaction.

Li Xiang stepped forward, looked at the remnants after the explosion, frowned, and said in his heart:

"It's strange, I haven't heard of black gunpowder, there will be so much residue after the explosion? There are still several colors of powder remaining, which is really rubbish, and the ratio and process must be continuously improved. ”

Black powder does not mean that you can mix the powder of sulfur, charcoal and saltpeter to ignite and blow up people. The particle size of the powder and the purity of the powder can affect the power very much, and it is necessary to keep groping, Li Xiang did not remember the best ratio of black gunpowder, and could only let the two protégés continue to improve.

It's okay that Da Zhou has a prototype, but the carpenter and others improve it quickly, but it's so difficult to make something new.

Dading Mansion, Han Minguo, a member of the Han people of the Jin State, is taking the examination for his two sons in the hall.

The wife of the Republic of Korea died early, and it has not been renewed. The Han family has only one son-in-law, and he is also the eldest son, Han Daochang.

Han also has a second son, born to a concubine, named Han Daoji.

In order to increase the knowledge of the two sons, the Republic of Korea used the friendship formed when he supported Aguda when he ascended the throne and sent the two sons to work in the Jurchen army.

Han Minguo first asked his eldest son, "I have been in the Jin army for a month, what has Daochang gained?" ”

Han Daochang was just about to say how the Jin Kingdom was, but he was interrupted by his own Lao Tzu, and hurriedly changed his words, "My Dajin's iron horseman, all men and horses are heavily armoured. Once it starts, it is like the power of a thousand jun, and what Liaoguo iron riding has seen before is as straight as a local chicken and a tile dog. ”

In the battle of Zhongdu, the Jurchens used the strength of the whole clan to fight the 450,000 Liao army with more than 50,000 people and defeated them in one fell swoop.

The reason why there is a saying that "the Jurchens are less than 10,000 and 10,000 are invincible" is because less than half of the Jurchen coalition forces that participated in the war were true Jurchens; The second reason is that in order to boast of the strength of the country, the Liao State shouted the slogan of slaughtering the Jurchens with a million soldiers.

An embarrassing thing happened, the Liao State was defeated, the god of war was killed, and the Jurchens took advantage of the situation to spread the saying that "the Jurchens are not satisfied with ten thousand, and they are invincible". Aren't you called an army of 700,000? I will break you with 20,000 and 700,000, see who dares to resist?

The Battle of Zhongdu devastatingly destroyed the morale of the Liao troops. The Jurchens broke through three of the five capitals of the Liao State, captured the entire Saibei and Liaodong, and occupied more than half of the territory of the Liao State.

The heavy-armored iron cavalry mentioned by Han Daochang was one of the three-plate axes relied on by the Jurchen coalition army to win during the Battle of Zhongdu. The so-called three-plate axe is the Iron Floating Slaughter, the Bow and Arrow and the Heavy Armored Hard Army.

The Jurchens rose like the sun and established the Jin State, placing more emphasis on defeating the Liao State's three-plate axe. Relying on the wealth copied from the powerful and wealthy merchants of the Liao State, the Jin State expanded the Tiefutu to 10,000, which was directly commanded by the emperor.

In the barracks, Han Daochang was deeply touched when he saw the scene of Tiefutu stepping on the ice field during training.

Han Minguo nodded slightly, stroked his beard and thought for a while, and then looked at Han Daoji, "Daoji, what about you?" ”

"The essence of my Dajin step array is the best in the world. The Jurchen warriors were heavily armoured and armed with hammers, broadswords, and maces, and were invincible. Han Daoji was originally a good son with red lips and white teeth, and he stayed in the Jin State military camp for more than a month, but he looked a little haggard, and his face was a little angular.

Recalling the scene of the Jurchen dead soldiers rushing like a tiger during training, Han Daoji's hair stood on end.

The Jurchen warriors who lived by fishing and hunting in the old forest were better at foot combat than cavalry combat. Walking through the old forest, the Jurchen warriors have to fight for their lives with tigers and bears at any time, and the embarrassing thing is that they can't ride horses in the deep mountains and old forests.

It's miserable.

When the Jurchens were ruled by the Liao State, the Jurchen young and strong, who were dressed in animal skins and fish skins, held crude weapons, and could only use bone arrows, encountered the bear blind man's first reaction was not to calculate the combat power to see if he could fight, but to go up directly and fight hard.

Luckily, the Jurchen hunters who hunted fought to kill and wound a few and kill the blind bear. The tribal elders can use bear paws, tiger skins, and old mountains to curry favor with the nobles of the Liao State, so that the tribe can be spared heavy punishment;

Bad luck, the Jurchens who hunted suffered heavy casualties, and they did not leave any prey, and they were miserable when they returned to the tribe. The Jurchen tribe is short of materials, and they have to be exploited by the nobles of the Liao State, and I have never heard of any crippled young man who survived the next winter......

Many Jurchen tribes have worked hard to accumulate good things all year round, just to suffer less sin and hand in fewer female dolls and young people. If you can not go hungry and not freeze to death in winter, you will be blessed by the god of Changbai Mountain.

After the Jurchens raised their troops, the soldiers who grew up in the old woods quickly showed their ferocity by virtue of their fearless spirit, resentment accumulated over a hundred years, and ample food.

After the Jurchen warriors captured the first Liao city, they suddenly found that the Khitans were already so weak!

In order to quickly defeat the Liao army's formation and reduce casualties, Ah Guda concentrated the iron armor and created a heavily armored infantry army, which the Jurchen soldiers called the heavy armored dead soldiers. The heavily armored dead soldiers are desperately moving forward, either the enemy dies or they die.

The heavily armored dead soldiers repeatedly opened the gap in the Liao army and made great contributions in the Battle of Zhongdu.

When the Jurchens founded the country, Meng'an Mouke at all levels paid more attention to the heavily armored dead soldiers, and Wanyan Xiyin also gave a name to the heavy armored dead soldiers, "heavy armored hard army".

The heavily armored hard army, which is heavily armored and armed with heavy weapons, and the heavy cavalry of Tiefutu, who are wearing heavy armor and marching like a wall, are about to become the killer weapon for the complete destruction of the Liao State.

Han Minguo took out the sandalwood box that was regarded as a treasure, took out a vial of mutton fat jade, put it in the palm of his hand, and rubbed it carefully, "Da Lang, Erlang." Then what do you think, why do the Jin soldiers repeatedly win more with less? Iron Floating Massacre, Iron Armor Hard Army, and Hard Bow, which one do you think is the most powerful? ”

Han Daochang and Han Daoji looked at each other.

Neither of them had seen the scene of the Battle of Zhongdu, and they were not together when they were working in the Jurchen army. Han Daochang doesn't understand the power of the heavy armor army, and Han Daoji doesn't understand the horror of the Iron Floating Massacre, how can he answer?

There are also bows and arrows, and the Han family children in the north also have a lot of practice, and Han Daochang is a master of this way. In the Jurchen army, the old foundation of the clan has an average pulling force of one hundred and thirty catties, Han Daochang knows that this is very scary, and Han Daoji also knows it.

Asking which of the Jurchen's strong bows, Tiefutu, or heavy armor is more powerful, is like asking a warrior, which is more powerful, your spear or shield, how to answer? The Jurchens will not attack and kill each other, how do the two sons of the Republic of Korea know that they are the most powerful?

Han Minguo took advantage of the sunlight to watch the warm color of the mutton fat jade bottle, and said, "I still don't open my mind." Since His Majesty raised his army, he first broke 20,000 with 3,000, then 10,000 to 100,000, and finally defeated Emperor Tianzuo with 50,000 soldiers and horses. Not counting the Murowei and Xi people who are attached, they are worthy of breaking 700,000 from 20,000. ”

"The Jurchens only have more than 100,000 people, but they have repeatedly defeated the Liao State, which has more than 10 million people and millions of troops, and it does not rely on the small ways of strong bows, iron floating slaughter, and heavy armored hard armies." Han Minguo shook his head and put the jade bottle into the box, "Think about it again, what is the foundation of the Jurchen state?" ”

Han Daochang was shocked. Father said that Tiefutu is a small way?

When Han Daoji heard his father's words, his body was shocked, and he made a comparison between the Jurchen soldiers and the Liao soldiers in his mind, and blurted out: "Perseverance, fight for your life!" ”

Han Minguo raised his eyebrows, and finally had a smile on his face, "Yes, the Jurchen clan climbed ice and snow in the old forest, was bullied by the Liao State for a hundred years, and survived with perseverance. Now that Dajin is a country, the Jurchens are rising, and everyone is working hard, this is the foundation of the Jin country! ”

"During the battle of Zhongdu, the old man was not far from His Majesty. 50,000 to 450,000, if the Liao people can have one-tenth of the perseverance of the Jurchen warriors, they will not be defeated. ”

"Although the Liao army is scattered and distrusts each other, the heritage of the Liao State is indeed terrible. The god of war like Yelu Muzhong, as well as rising stars like Yelu Ming and Xiao Zhen, are all outstanding people...... The Liao army almost turned the tables on the battlefield several times, and in the end, His Majesty had to go down in person to scare Emperor Tianzuo away and lock the victory in one fell swoop. ”

"There is no distraction and perseverance forward, this is the foundation of the Jurchen's strength."