Wu Du saw such a good opportunity where it was impossible to pursue, at this time the Qing army was dragged for a day and half a night, and just ran ten miles hard, and now it has entered a decline, so on the way to escape, half of them were caught and killed by the other party.

Wu Duyan returned to the cottage to interrogate the captives only to learn that someone was framing him, Wu Duyan was half dead in anger, and while sending people to find the person who framed him, he summoned his subordinates to discuss a charter, but after discussing and discussing, this killed the officers and soldiers and killed a garrison, and he couldn't run away.

When Wu was worried about one-eyed, Li Qingyuan had already returned to the crow's cottage, and the two parties exchanged ideas, Li Qingyuan took the rescued more than two hundred blacksmiths to move towards his lair, and before leaving, Li Qingyuan instructed Wu Sanniang to spread the news of Wu One-eyed's destruction of the official army.

After going back, Li Qingyuan himself was not idle, and sent Hou Zhengye to publicize it on the rivers and lakes, saying that Wu Duyan wanted to lead everyone to rebel together, in short, he picked up Wu Duyan and publicized it, there is one word to describe it, that is, to kill.

And after having these two hundred blacksmiths, Li Qingyuan's firearms workshop instantly tripled, thinking that he could produce more than 1,500 firearms in a month, Li Qingyuan trembled with excitement.

As long as he is given a year, he is absolutely confident in rebelling, Li Qingyuan calmed his mood while calculating how to escape a year in peace, and his intention to instigate Wu One-eyed rebellion became even more firm.

After the number of people expanded, the short-barreled firearm that Li Qingyuan had always wanted to make could also be put on the agenda, the short-barreled firecracker, except for the shorter barrel and grip, the long-barreled gun was basically the same, but the power did drop a lot, so the first thing Li Qingyuan wanted to pursue when there was no quantity was quality.

Now that the number has come up, then the short-barreled firearms that are rationed to officers and the Tianli Society can start to be manufactured, and the Tianli Society is generally involved in sneak attacks and assassinations and other work, so the long-barreled firearms are heavy and long, and the length is very hindering, so the ideal firearms of the Tianli Society are short-barreled guns instead of long-barrels.

Of course, some sharpshooters still have to use a long tube, but most ordinary shooters are enough to have a short tube, and the limited range of the short tube is also relative.

Li Qingyuan's new-style firearm is about 1.2 meters long, plus the grip is about 40 centimeters, and the bayonet is nearly 2 meters long, which is the same length as the general spear of the Qing Dynasty, so after sawing the gun tube short, the short gun tube is also 40 centimeters, plus the bonus of rifling, there is still hope for maintaining a range of 100 meters when using slow bullets.

Li Qingyuan felt that his short gun was at least twice the caliber of the pistols of later generations, and the barrel was three times that of the pistols of later generations, so there was no reason why he could not reach an effective firing range of more than 50 meters with fast ammunition.

As long as the firing range exceeds fifty meters, even against the bird gun, it will not lose too much, of course, this kind of gun is for the use of the Tianli Society, and under normal circumstances, the Tianli Society will not be head-on with the large army of the Qing army.

Therefore, it is enough to use a short-barreled firecracker, and more importantly, the production of this short pipe is fast, and the short pipe is not really sharpened and the long pipe is sawed short, think about the labor saved by making the short pipe and drilling the short pipe, it is estimated that it can be improved by at least three or four times compared with making a long pipe.

As soon as he thought of it, Li Qingyuan immediately transferred a firecracker production group to produce short-barreled firecrackers, and it only took three days for a short-barreled firecracker to be produced, especially the speed of drilling the firecrackers was almost five times faster.

After Li Qingyuan tried the gun, he found that when the ammunition was fully loaded, it could still penetrate a two-inch-thick wooden board for 100 meters, and when it was loaded with fast ammunition, it could be embedded in the wooden board for 50 meters, and the buckle could not be buckled, and this gun was indeed enough to use.

Li Qingyuan immediately mobilized more than 20 blacksmiths to specialize in the production of this kind of short pipe, and it is estimated that these more than 20 blacksmiths plus other personnel who cooperate with them can produce at least 300 short pipes per month.

Just when Li Qingyuan was producing his own firecracker in the fart, Wu Duyan, who was hundreds of miles away in the north, was really painful and happy, living in dire straits, a garrison died, and an official workshop was robbed, which was a big deal for the Qing court, plus this garrison was still pursued across the state capital, so the matter was quickly stabbed.

Wu Duyan wanted to explain at first, but suddenly he found that his reputation in the rivers and lakes rose instantly, and the streets and alleys were spreading the news that Wu Duyan was fighting against tens of thousands of officials and soldiers, and there were many bandits who couldn't get along and rushed to defect.

Wu Duyan found that his explanation was in vain, first, he was not wrong that he was a bandit, and secondly, that Lin Garrison did die in the battle with him, and the rise of the status of the rivers and lakes, Wu Duyan himself was also a little fluttering.

The number of Wu Duyan soared from 800 to 1,56 in just over ten days, and his ambitions also soared rapidly, and the Qing court also began to mobilize troops to clear the conquest, but the north wind suddenly came, and it snowed heavily.

Under the influence of Wu Duyan, even Handan's side became nervous, but fortunately, Li Qingyuan had already made arrangements, and three of the more than ten people who entered the mining town succeeded in becoming the president, and under the corrosion of more than ten people, a secret transportation channel has been opened.

This breakthrough in the mining town, coupled with the assistance of Huang San in the town, enabled Li Qingyuan's fire gun workshop to start construction smoothly, and after the heavy snow closed the mountain, Li Qingyuan also breathed a sigh of relief, at least before the snow melted, the Qing army would not make a big move.

Now Li Qingyuan's strength is growing every day, so Li Qingyuan hopes that the later he is discovered, the better, the only unhappy thing is that Sanniang came to the meeting with a crow, and that Meng Can was once again courteous.

Meng Can still worked very hard during this time, and successively sent more than 20 blacksmiths, so that Li Qingyuan's firearms workshop was further expanded, and now the second musket battalion has been successfully formed, and in another half a month, Li Qingyuan will be able to form three musket battalions in one go.

Everyone returned to the nest and held a meeting, but fortunately, the charcoal kiln has not stopped working before the snow, so that everyone can use the brazier luxuriously when they have a meeting, and after the house is warm and coaxing, everyone's mood is also hot.

The first to speak was the crow, looking at Li Qingyuan's crow's color was very complicated, in the crow's heart, he thought that Li Qingyuan's so-called development village was just the main village with hundreds of people, and she thought that Li Qingyuan's strength was comparable to Wu Duyan's, but she didn't expect to come to this so-called nest, which gave her a considerable shock.