The important town in the south of the Yangtze River, the land of gold powder in the six dynasties, was broken by the long hair overnight, the news reached the mountain town has been a month later, it is said that the long hair soldiers are fierce, after winning Wuhan in one fell swoop, only more than a month later, the whole army was pulled out, down the river, and went straight to Jinling.

The original plan of the imperial court, the plan to gather and annihilate the long hair in the Central Plains failed, made a directional mistake, caught off guard, and urgently deployed troops to intercept it, it is rumored that the long hair soldiers were 'head-on' by the imperial army when they arrived at Jiujiangkou and Anqing Mansion, and fought endlessly, and their words were magnificent! However, from Wuhan to Jinling, two thousand miles away, only more than 30 days, the whole line is dyed, it can be seen that the long hair is sharp, and the so-called interception of the imperial court is weak.

Jinling City changed flags in a sudden situation, and the capital city south of the Yangtze River was only more than 10,000 banner soldiers, green battalions and Lian Yong, which was wiped out in an instant, and it was embarrassed.

Jinling was designated as the "national capital" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom by Changmao, renamed Tianjing, and vowed to inherit the mantle of the Han people, but also worshiped God's religion and practiced the heavenly system.

In addition, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong will make trouble, mobs attack and harass, and the local government is tired of coping, and it is rumored that the White Lotus Sect, the Heaven and Earth Society, and the Southern Hongjiao have surfaced, and the world is becoming more and more unpeaceful, fulfilling the old saying that 'disaster does not go alone'.

What's wrong with this Qing Dynasty, it's not so unbearable, right?

Fortunately, the mountain is quiet, Zhang Yingquan knows that this situation has not yet reached the time when the tide is about to fall, and the imperial court has not yet reached the time when the oil is exhausted.

In the past few days, Zhang Yingquan has been pondering a sharp weapon to defend the city - grenade. Is it a grenade that chooses the afterlife? Or choose the wooden-handled grenade that will be familiar to future generations? In fact, these two types of thunder (bullets) have similar technical difficulty and different weapon performance, and the grenade with a wooden handle is easy to throw and the throwing distance is long. Grenades, on the other hand, are portable and can be used extensively. In the end, he decided to choose a grenade, but the ignition method is a bit like a wooden-handled grenade, which is a pull valve type, and the advantages of this design are, first, simple, safe and portable; second, it is convenient for local mines; Third, it can be changed to a gun grenade.

Melon type, cast iron casting, round bottom, a small flat top with a protrusion in the upper part, iron screw cap (stamping part), unscrewed cover, a hole consistent with the outer diameter of the muzzle, next to a pull ring with a short line in tow, inside is explosives and fuse. Among them, the fuse is the most complicated, the traditional way can not detonate the grenade, it must use mercury material, there is John, and the experience accumulated by the firecracker factory for more than a year, this is no longer a problem, what pressure valve type? Pull valve type? The foreign fire can be rubbed forward and the fire can also be pulled backward to catch the fire, the principle is the same, all the way. As for the principle of detonation, it is simpler, it is nothing more than using a small firecracker to detonate a large firecracker, not to mention a small grenade, even a large cannonball is no problem, of course, the explosion power can not be compared with the grenades of later generations, but in the Qing Dynasty, it is enough to use 'thunder' to describe.

On the test ground, a single person, raising his hand, pulling the ring, throwing, and a metal tear sound not far away.

"Boom!"

Everyone was stunned!

Another gunner, loaded, held the gun, put the grenade on the muzzle, hung the pull ring on the crosshair, raised the gun diagonally, and fired.

"Boom! ………… Boom! "There was a flash of fire in the distance.

"Oh God!" John drew a cross in which God gave mankind wisdom and the power to destroy himself: "O my lord! What went wrong there? ”

After testing, this grenade can be thrown at a distance of forty or fifty paces by manpower, and when the gun is used to retain ammunition, through the thrust of the bullet gunpowder, the maximum throw distance (45 degrees angle) is 150 steps away, the detonation time is one and a half breaths, and the explosion hurts within 15 steps around the explosion point.

A weapon to defend the city, worthy of the name!

Zhang Yingquan seems to have seen the introduction of this kind of 'gun grenade' in later generations, an old antique from the First World War, with many shortcomings, and it was not promoted at all, and it was speculated that it could only be thrown 200 steps away, which was about the same distance as the bullet killing, nothing new, but this was remarkable in the Qing Dynasty, it was definitely an invention and creation, this is a small cannon!

At noon that day, the big tiger came to Zhang Yingquan in a hurry, and he also learned to chatter.

"Big shopkeeper, take the step to speak."

"What's the matter?"

"Received a letter."

"Huh?"

"The letter of the Heaven and Earth Society."

"Oh? How do you know it's a letter from the Heaven and Earth Society? ”

"In the past, the people in the team were more or less involved in the rivers and lakes, and the old class master was also my master, and the heaven and earth would be divided into the master of Jingshan Hall, and I and Erhu also worshiped under Jingshan Hall."

"Mountain Town also has a hall of the Heaven and Earth Society?"

"No, Jingshan Hall was originally a separate hall, it has not yet landed, there is no hall, the master is the hall master, the master takes our senior brothers, the rivers and lakes are wide, ready to land in Quzhou Mansion, and run Jingshan Hall well, and then you know, in case of accidents, Jingshan Hall exists in name only."

"What about faith?"

This letter is a bit strange, it belongs to the kind of hero posts that are widely distributed, many words are strange, it belongs to the incision category, and the non-congregation can't understand it at all, inexplicable?

"How did you receive this letter?"

"Coincidentally, the day before yesterday, I went to Hangzhou Mansion with the goods, and inadvertently saved an old passenger who fell down on the dock, and gave him a ride, the old guest had a ring from the main hall of the Heaven and Earth Society, and when there was no one, he made an incision, and he didn't ask about the current situation of Jingshan Hall, but left this letter, inviting me to attend the meeting with the hall master, and didn't say anything else, the rules of the Heaven and Earth Society were big."

"What is written in the letter?"

"It is said that on the third day of the first month of next month, the hall masters will hold a meeting in Ningbo Mansion to discuss the righteous act of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, and also said that the head of the hall Liu has been promoted by all walks of life as the chief helmsman, and he will personally lead the small knife club to form a unified army, cooperate with the Taiping army, and attack Shanghai, Zhejiang and Fujian."

"Do you have a detailed address for the meeting?"

"Heaven and earth will have their own secret symbols, which can be seen if you go to Ningbo and observe carefully."

Underground organizations are like this, gods and gods are chattering.

"Let's have a good time and let's take a look!" Zhang Yingquan is interested, he is not interested in the Heaven and Earth Society, but in the underground organization, he has always hoped to establish an intelligence organization, which will definitely be of great use in the future, and it is okay to borrow a ready-made organization for the time being!

The organization of the Heaven and Earth Society is not very strict, it has intersected with the Southern Hongjiao, the White Lotus Sect, and the Northern Cao Gang, and it is widely multiplied among the people of the lower nine streams, and it is said that it is also linked to the local government, and it is extremely incendiary among the people, and it is one of the underground organizations that the government is determined to eradicate.

Zhang Yingquan was holding a top hat and dressed in a dress, and his hair style was more foreigner than a foreigner. In the place where Ningbo opened its port, there are many fake foreign devils, so you might as well dress up. The big tiger is also not good, dressed in a Western hunting suit, carrying a Western-style horse suitcase, but with an extra braid, revealing the identity of the Qing people, it is too obvious, but one master and one servant, the master who goes in and out of the foreign company.

As soon as they stepped on the Ningbo wharf, the two found that something was wrong, there were government spies staring at everything around, not staring at Zhang Yingquan and the two of them, but staring at the people around, it is understandable that they are too authentic in their dress, there is nothing wrong with them, so many of the spies' actions do not avoid them, all of them are exposed in front of the two of them, not that they have received any special training, as long as they are not stupid, they can detect it, and those who are watching behind their backs may not know.

Not far away, an old man came over and whispered, "Follow me!" ”

"Master?"

"Without further ado, find a safe place to hide first, something is going to happen here!"

“……”

This person is Tan Zhengchuan, the master of the big tiger.

Since the bandits tied Tan Lao Ban Master into the mountains, because of his age, he was arranged in a workshop for making tobacco paste, this place is in the center of the bandit village, tightly guarded, suddenly a fire broke out in the village, and the gunfire was loud, he took the fire stall to sneak out of the cottage.

After Tan Lao's class owner escaped from the cottage, he went to Hangzhou Mansion to find friends to help, and he delayed a lot of time, and he was going to gather a group of people, and then entered the cottage to find the survivors in the class, but he didn't expect that the time was not long, and the bandits dismissed the kidnapped coolies, and everyone in the class was scattered, and there was no way to explore, but he inadvertently found the big tiger at the wharf of Hangzhou, because it was not easy to recognize each other at the time, and only found out that this was a person and goods from the mountain town.

So, one day, Tan Lao Ban Master quietly disguised himself as a mountain guest and came to the mountain town, and suddenly saw Erhu and Ximenjia again, very excited, and planned to recognize each other and take them away together, and suddenly found that they were not coolies in the mountain town, whether it was from their clothes or their faces, it showed that they lived very well, and their thoughts were a little selfish? Knowing that I can't give the younger generations a better life, it's better not to see it. So, Old Tan left the mountain town in a huff.

Unexpectedly, the old head of Tan's squad saw the big tiger again at the Ningbo wharf, and he could have discognised it, but the old man in the main hall who accompanied him pointed out that the foreign descendant in a hunting suit was the one he invited to the meeting, and he was surprised! When did this big tiger get involved in the Heaven and Earth Society by himself? There was a traitor in the meeting, and the meeting was temporarily canceled, and the news was too late to spread, but the big tiger couldn't help but save .......

"What's going on?" Zhang Yingquan asked.

"The inside revealed that there was a traitor in the meeting, the patrol room had already laid a net, the meeting was canceled, and Liu Lichuan, the chief helmsman, had gone to Shanghai in advance to organize the knife meeting to officially start an incident." Old Tan's squad leader figured out Zhang Yingquan's identity and was also very respectful.

"What can we do for you?"

"Is there any way to attract the attention of the patrol, we are preparing to evacuate other unsuspecting people on the docks."

"Where's the patrol house?" Big Tiger asked.

"What? You're not going to attack the patrol house, are you? ”

"Hey, hey! Wait. Dahu laughed evilly and said to Zhang Yingquan: "Big shopkeeper, Hanzhang Foreign Bank is not far from here, let's go to meet in the line after we are done." ”

"Boom! …… Boom! …… Boom! …… Boom! ”

Not long after, there was a piercing explosion sound from the patrol room, and there was chaos outside, Zhang Yingquan sat on the chair of Hanzhang Foreign Company and smiled.

I heard that no one is dead, and half of them are ghosts, and the patrol room can no longer work, and it needs to be renovated, saying that the bandits actually shelled the patrol room, and used the most advanced flowering bomb in the world, God! This Ningbo Mansion is in chaos, and the patrol room has become a hell on earth.

That's right, this is the masterpiece of the Great Tiger.

When Dahu and Zhang Yingquan went out, they each brought two grenades, which were later put on Dahu, and none of these four grenades were ruined, and they were all fed into the patrol room.

In order to attract the attention of the patrols, the big tiger circled around the patrol room, and found that a group of patrols entered the training to listen to the training, as if to arrange some tasks, the opportunity came, he flashed to the corner of the wall, saw that there was no one around, touched the grenade, threw it one after another, after four loud noises, patted his ass and left, what happened inside? Who knows? What a love!

On the way back to the mountain town, I saw the old head of Tan again.

"I'm old, I'm just a guest house in Hangzhou Hall, and it's time to leave."

"Ready to reopen Jingshan Hall?"

"No! I have also seen through it, this is anti-Qing, it goes back, foreigners benefit, what about regaining sight? Aren't the people suffering ordinarily? ”

"Old class master, this is transparent!"

"Shopkeeper Zhang, do you want to accept me as an old man? I want to eat with my apprentices, and I want to take a good look at the big tigers, the two tigers, and Ximenjia, and live quietly for a few years. ”

"Okay! I just want to invite you out of the mountains! ”

"Me? What do I ask me to do? ”

"Restart Jingshan Hall!"

"Huh?!"