After the team entered the range of fifty miles from the city, the number of Jin cavalry patrolling the sentry became obviously, and the figure of the cavalry team was seen from time to time in the distance, and even there were Jurchen cavalry on the official road, rushing past them, but no one asked about this grain transportation team, or because it was dark under the lights, the Song army walked under their noses, but no one cared.

About thirty miles away from the city, on the opposite side of the dust and snow flying, a large Jin cavalry team was galloping head-on, only a moment, a Jurchen cavalry of five hundred people rushed to the front, led by a fierce-looking Jurchen general, he suddenly stopped his horse, pointed to the team and shouted what is it?

He said the Jurchen words, no one could understand them, and everyone's hearts were raised, could it be that there was a flaw in the team?

At this time, Luo Shi reminded the main general Wu Hailing in a low voice: "Show him the arrows and military orders!" ”

Wu Hailing nodded, hurriedly took out the arrow and handed over the military order, and said loudly: "I was ordered to send military rations and materials to Beidaying!" ”

The Jurchen general glanced at the order and the military order, he was obviously not interested in this, but continued to point at the soldiers and scold, everyone looked at each other, but they didn't know what he was talking about.

At this time, a person came out of the Jin cavalry and said in Chinese: "General Asu is saying that there are only fifty or sixty people guarding so many materials and forage, and if half of them encounter the Song army on the road, they will suffer heavy losses, saying that you are too careless." ”

Wu Hailing knew what the other party was talking about, and he hurriedly explained: "We also said that there are too few guards, but General Liu said that we don't need too many guards to transport forage, and leave the guards to the team that transports the armor!" ”

The powder kegs of the Song army were already hidden under the hay pile, and the three hundred little donkeys also carried the forage, which was completely a team transporting forage.

The soldier translated in Jurchen dialect, and the Jurchen general immediately pointed to the south and scolded, although he couldn't understand what he was scolding, everyone could guess that he was scolding Liu Daliu, the Han general in Jiexiu County.

The Jurchen general said a few more words to Wu Hailing, and the soldier next to him translated: "General Asu asked you to be vigilant, if you encounter the Song army and launch a rocket immediately, he will come to the aid in time, in addition, he will report to the deputy marshal and severely punish you General Liu for negligence!" ”

At this time, the Jurchen general waved his hand, and five hundred cavalry followed him and galloped south, and in a moment, they disappeared, leaving only the snow and dust that filled the air for a long time.

Wu Hailing said with a smile: "Actually, I'm really worried that he will look at the military order carefully, although there is no number of soldiers on the military order, but there is the number of goods delivered, 200 carts, 30,000 loads of forage, these 300 donkeys can't be explained." ”

"It's all Chinese characters, and this kind of rough person probably can't understand it, and of course he won't let his subordinates see it, showing that he is ignorant, so the general doesn't have to worry about it at all."

Jiao Wang also smiled: "I really hope that he will send fifty cavalry to follow us, so that we can earn fifty war horses again, what a good thing, it's a pity!" ”

Everyone laughed together, they sped up, and after a short time they saw Taiyuan City in the distance.

At this time, the coachman Zhang pointed to the fork in the road in front and said to Wu Hailing: "General, every time we transport supplies, we must go east when we reach the intersection in front, if we go further north, we will be suspicious, this place general should be careful." ”

Wu Hailing asked, "How far is it from the city?" ”

"There's still about fifteen miles!"

"Then it's time to speed up."

Wu Hailing immediately shouted to the soldiers and the convoy: "Everyone work hard, speed up, let's rush over!" ”

'Drive! Drive! The drivers waved their long whips, and the convoy suddenly picked up speed, and for a while, the official road was dusty, and the transport team rushed towards the city.

At this time, several rockets suddenly shot out not far away, flying straight into the sky, flashing dazzling firelight in the sky, and several golden cavalry appeared on a bare small dirt slope a few miles away, and they stood on their horses and looked at this side, seeing that their armor should be the cavalry team just now.

It seems that they are still suspected, the Jurchen general just now seems rude, but in fact he is very suspicious, and he still doesn't worry about them, so he sends someone to follow them secretly.

Wu Hailing immediately made a decision and shouted: "Speed up!" ”

The coachmen were all frantically whipping their donkeys and mules, and running desperately towards the city, when a cart jolted and suddenly threw out the hay on the overturned cart on the side of the road, and several barrels of gunpowder that were hidden under the wagon rolled out.

Several soldiers hurriedly stepped forward to untie the cart, helped up the mule pulling the cart, picked up the powder keg, and continued to run along the official road.

The soldiers turned around and were taken aback, but in the distance, there was dust flying, and a Jurchen cavalry was speeding towards this side a few miles away.

The leader of this Jurchen cavalry is the commander Wan Yan Asu just now, he still doesn't feel right when he runs for more than 20 miles, a big car with a soldier is the rule set by Marshal Du, so many logistics transport teams, Liu Daliu has never violated the rules, how can he not pay attention to the rules in this transport team, is he not afraid of Yan Zongbi's punishment?

The more he thought about it, the more suspicious he felt, so he sent several of his men to follow and observe, and he himself stopped going south, waiting for news from the soldiers, and as he expected, the soldiers sent rockets to call the police.

Wanyan Asu realized that he had been fooled, he was so angry that he immediately led the cavalry to chase after him, he must kill all the Song army that deceived him, and leave no one behind.

In the distance, Wanyan Asu also saw the convoy carrying forage, and he yelled excitedly: "Rush up and kill me completely!" ”

The five hundred Jurchen cavalry shouted wildly, pumped their horses violently, and gradually caught up, Wu Hailing secretly complained, is he really going to be planted here this time?

At this moment, thousands of Song soldiers suddenly appeared on both sides of the official road, as if they came out of the ground inexplicably, there was no sign before, thousands of Song soldiers brushed the ground and raised their crossbows, and the front row half-knelt and squatted, aiming at the Jurchen cavalry who were rushing wildly.

Wu Hailing was overjoyed and shouted hissedly: "Our reinforcements have arrived, everyone work hard!" ”

Everyone was also in high spirits, and once again accelerated the speed of running, the soldiers of the Song army were wearing white old sheepskins, and the snow on both sides melted into one color, it was indeed not easy to find, the Jin soldiers until they ran close to fifty steps, Wanyan Asu suddenly found the Song army on both sides of the official road, he was shocked, and shouted: "Retreat quickly!" ”

But it was too late, a bang sounded, and thousands of crossbow arrows shot at the five hundred cavalry like a storm, although the cavalry had shields, but the shields were carried behind their backs, and there were kettles, arrows and other items suppressed, and it was not convenient to take off the shields, not to mention that it was too late.

The crossbow arrows rained into the cavalry group, and suddenly the people turned over on their backs, and Yan Asu was hit by more than 20 arrows in a row, and his body was like a hedgehog, and he died on the spot.

When a round of dense arrow rain was fired, only dozens of people left behind the five hundred cavalry were still on horseback, they were so frightened that they turned around and ran for their lives, and the Song army did not chase after them, and simply cleaned up the battlefield, killed the undead soldiers, and led the horses and armor back to the city.

At this time, the leader of the generals stepped forward and said with a smile: "Commander Wu, do you still know me?" ”

Wu Hailing immediately recognized the other party, it turned out to be the commander of the high pet, he hurriedly turned over and dismounted and saluted, "The last general will see General Gao, thank you General Gao for the timely rescue!" ”

"The capital has been worried about you, so he sent me to meet you."

Gao Zhong smiled again and asked, "How much gunpowder did you bring this time?" ”

"A total of 600 barrels, a total of 30,000 catties."

"What a send-off! They are all united in joy, and they will come with me into the city. ”

Gao Zhong ordered the soldiers to break off and escorted the convoy to the city gate several miles away.

Li Yanqing personally waited at the city gate, the earth-shaking thunder is currently recognized as the sharpest firearm, but the power of this firearm to the extreme is only the Jingzhao army, it is also the key to Li Yanqing to hold Taiyuan City at the lowest cost, eight days ago he used the eagle letter to inform the Jingzhao Mansion to find a way to send some gunpowder over, after waiting for a few days, finally waited for the gunpowder to arrive, which really made Li Yanqing overjoyed.

Wu Hailing and the three of them came forward to salute, and Li Yanqing greatly praised everyone, regardless of the officers and soldiers, each of whom recorded a great merit, and at the same time rewarded them with 50 taels of silver, in order to praise them for transporting key materials in this adventure, everyone was overjoyed, and followed the soldiers down to receive the reward and rest.

At this time, Hao Er stepped forward and opened a barrel of gunpowder to look at it for a while, and said to Li Yanqing with a solemn expression: "I thought it was gunpowder that had not yet been prepared, but I didn't expect it to be prepared gunpowder, and there was actually ignition gunpowder, it seems that Jingzhao Mansion is still not thoughtful enough, if it falls into the hands of Jinren, the consequences are really serious, next time please be sure to make it clear, you can't transport prepared gunpowder, especially can't transport ignition gunpowder, it's too dangerous." ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "This time I didn't think it through, I didn't explain it to them clearly, I am still a little scared when I think about it, and thanks to the leader of this team, he broke through the blockade and sent gunpowder, so I will reward them again." ”

Hao Ercai realized that he had said something that he shouldn't have said, and hurriedly said: "The next step is to build a shell, the technology is already very mature, as long as the pig iron raw materials are sufficient, thousands of shells can be cast in a day, please wait for the good news." ”

There are millions of catties of pig iron stored in the Taiyuan warehouse, which is also a strategic material collected by Jin Bing from the states of Hedong Road, because of the inconvenience of transportation, so it is temporarily stored in the Taiyuan warehouse, but I didn't expect it to become the trophy of the Song army.

With an abundance of raw pig iron, it was much easier to make a Shocking Thunder shell.

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "I look forward to the good news coming soon." ”

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