This firearms workshop is the largest workshop under the Liaoguo Gunpowder Bureau, it looks like an ordinary courtyard, surrounded by open space, planted with vegetables, the wall is very high, it looks a little old, but after entering it, I know that there is another Qiankun, there are wings on both sides after entering the gate, the craftsman must change his clothes before he can continue to enter, no craftsman is allowed to carry fire, and the violator will be executed.

Walking into the inner courtyard, I found that this is a very large courtyard, covering an area of at least ten acres, with a front yard, a middle yard and a back yard, as well as two warehouses on the left and right, one is a gunpowder warehouse, which stores gunpowder and various raw materials for making gunpowder, and the other is a firearms warehouse, which stores various finished products, but a large number of firearms are not stored here, but are placed in the military warehouse, and only some samples are placed here.

At present, the firearms workshop is led by Chen Da and Chen Er, and ten high-level Han craftsmen make all kinds of firearms that are urgently needed here.

As soon as Li Yanqing walked into the front yard, Chen Da greeted him and smiled mysteriously: "I'll show you something for the commander,"

"What is it?"

"Please come with me!" Chen Da did not answer, but walked towards the gunpowder warehouse with Li Yanqing.

The gunpowder warehouse was composed of a row of five rooms, the room was very dry, and a thin layer of ash had fallen, Chen Da pushed open the innermost room, "This is it!" ”

Li Yanqing walked into the house, the room was very large, at least sixty square meters, narrow from east to west, long from north to south, and there were more than a dozen rows of iron shelves in it, all of which were filled with a kind of black flat round object, which looked like big pumpkins.

"It's ......"

Li Yanqing looked at this familiar object, he was a little stunned, isn't this the earth-shattering thunder?

Chen laughed and said: "These are the shells of the earth-shaking thunder, I was also startled yesterday, and then I asked the gunpowder maker, only to know that the Liao State is also developing the earth-shaking thunder, they are actually copying the earth-shaking thunder of Western Xia, but it has not been successful." ”

Li Yanqing picked up a sky-shaking thunder shell weighing more than 20 catties, he patted the iron shell, making a banging sound, Li Yanqing asked, "What didn't you succeed?" Isn't it okay to be iron-clad? ”

"Nope! No! The iron shell is fully qualified, and it has been carefully appraised by the humble position, and it is exactly the same as our Earthquake Thunder, they just don't know the gunpowder formula, they have been trying repeatedly for the past two months, and they are close to success, but Yanjing has been captured by us. ”

Li Yanqing secretly felt lucky, if the Liao army developed the earth-shaking thunder before the city was broken, I am afraid the result would be different, and there was a kind of gunpowder formula dedicated to the Son of Heaven Zhao Ji, which was forgotten by Zhao Ji and put on the shelf, if he handed it over to the Ordnance Supervisor to make new firearms at that time, it would definitely be obtained by the spies of the Liao State, then the outcome of the Liao-Jin War would probably be different, and all kinds of misfortunes caused the Liao State and the sharpest firearms in the world to miss each other.

"How many iron shells are there?"

"There are a total of five hundred, and the Liao State made them a month ago, just wait for the gunpowder to be successfully prepared."

"How's the gunpowder going?"

"The gunpowder has been dispensed, and the quality of the nitrate grains is okay, slightly worse than the nitrate grains in the Beijing Gunpowder Bureau, I'm afraid it can't be used as an iron fire thunder, but it's completely okay to be a sky-shaking thunder."

Li Yanqing came to the middle courtyard, only to see Chen Er and ten gunpowder craftsmen sitting at a large table nervously preparing gunpowder, each twenty catties into a paper bag, Li Yanqing grabbed a handful of nitrate grains and looked at them carefully, the nitrate grains were about the size of sesame seeds, which were indeed slightly larger than the nitrate grains in the Beijing Gunpowder Bureau, and the uniformity was not enough, but in general it was not bad.

Li Yanqing turned around and asked, "How many sky-shaking thunders can you make today?" ”

"I can make about 100 pieces."

Li Yanqing also knew that the gunpowder workshop could not see fire, and it was generally not operated at night, so he thought about it and said, "Then let's make a hundred pieces first!" Continue tomorrow after dawn and try to make another fifty pieces by noon tomorrow. ”

Chen Da groaned and said: "If it is urgent, it is not impossible, let's first dispense gunpowder, and then change the place to fill the fire rope, so that we can hang a big lantern in the yard, we will be busy all night tonight, and strive to make two hundred pieces before dawn tomorrow." ”

Li Yanqing was overjoyed, "If that's the case, then please!" ”

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Seed Master Dao is not only the commander of the three armies, but also the temporary prefect of Yanshan Mansion, but the specific government affairs are in charge of Zong Ze, because Zhang Shuye and Liu Tao have returned to the imperial court to start negotiations with the Jin State, so Zong Ze has to manage logistics and military affairs, and also manage government affairs, making him extremely busy.

In the afternoon, Yue Fei walked out of the official office quickly, he is currently serving as a soldier Cao to join the army, this time the search for the Jin State spy in the city, Zong Ze also handed him full responsibility.

Outside the official office, Wang Gui smiled at Yue Fei and said: "I thought you were in the military camp, I went to the military camp to look for you, and your colleagues said that you were in the state office, and I came in a hurry." ”

Yue Fei smiled and said, "This time, with your merits, the marshal is ready to promote you to the rank of Captain of the Sixth Rank Zhaowu, congratulations!" ”

Wang Gui was overjoyed, "Really? ”

"I read the draft, it's true, Niu Gao's is a little worse, and the marshal promoted him to be the captain of the Zhengqipin Zhiguo, but it's not bad."

Wang Gui was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly said, "Do you want us to have a drink to celebrate?" ”

Yue Fei shook his head, "You kid be careful!" The marshal has just given the order to prepare for battle, and you dare to drink and be seen by the military judge, and the six pins will fly. ”

"It's not going to drink, let's go to tea, it should be fine!"

"Another day! There are so many things going on today. ”

As soon as Yue Fei said this, a couple of civilians who looked like husband and wife ran over and said to Yue Fei nervously: "Are you going to arrest the Jin State spies?" ”

Yue Fei nodded, "You have clues?" ”

"Our family opened an inn, a month ago there were more than a dozen people, we always thought they didn't know each other, but yesterday we found out that they were actually a group of people, just pretending not to know each other."

"Are they staying at the same time?" Yue Fei asked again.

"Nope! No! They all come to the hotel at different times. ”

"Where is he now?"

"It's still in our inn, but they seem to be getting ready to leave."

Yue Fei thought for a while and said to Wang Gui: "Agui, can you do me a favor." ”

Wang Gui waved his hand briskly, "No problem, I'll help you arrest people." ”

"But there may be a shortage of people."

"You can have as many people as you want, wait, I'll be back shortly."

Wang Gui rushed back, and in just a moment, he brought more than 300 soldiers, ran to the front and said with a smile: "If there are still few people, I will go to the barracks and drag a thousand people for you." ”

"Enough! That's enough! Let's go. ”

Yue Fei picked up a spear and led everyone to the west of the city, only a moment, they came to an inn, it was a small inn with two floors, Wang Gui waved his hand, and a capital head immediately led a hundred soldiers to the back door.

The innkeeper whispered, "They all live on the second floor, and the left row is full of ......."

As soon as the words fell, a sharp arrow swished towards the shopkeeper from the window on the second floor, Yue Fei's eyes were quick, and he waved his spear, 'Dang! With a sharp arrow flying away, Wang Gui was furious, kicked open the door, and rushed to the second floor with a knife, Yue Fei was in a hurry and hurriedly chased after him, "Agui, don't kill them all!" ”

There was a shout of killing in the inn, and the soldiers rushed in, shouting and killing, and after a while, there was no shouting in the inn.

I saw Wang Gui pull a man out of the inn, Yue Fei also grabbed a person, except for these two people, the rest of the dozen corpses were transported out of the inn by the soldiers.

Although these people are brave and good at fighting, they are far from being the opponents of Wang Gui and Yue Fei, especially Yue Fei's marksmanship, assassinated most of the people, leaving two live mouths, the soldiers stepped forward to tie up the two live mouths, and used rags to cover their mouths, and covered their heads with black cloth bags, Yue Fei said to the shopkeeper and his wife: "You can come to the state government to receive the reward, one thousand taels of silver, one tael will not be less." ”

The shopkeeper and his wife were very grateful and thanked them again and again, and Yue Fei ordered the soldiers to take the two back to the state government for interrogation.

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Night fell quietly, but the city was still busy installing all kinds of weapons to defend the city, mainly trebuchets and cannons, before that, the Liao army had already installed some trebuchets and cannons, and the Song army needed to install all the weapons in the warehouse.

The trebuchet is not a giant trebuchet, it can only barely be regarded as a large trebuchet, one zhang five feet high, three zhang long throwing rod, can throw fifty pounds of stones to two hundred steps away, the predecessor of the fire cannon is the stone cannon, which was originally used to shoot stones, and is a sharp weapon against the enemy's nest car.

However, after the Song Dynasty began to popularize firearms, artillery was mainly used to shoot thunderbolts, and another sharp weapon was used to deal with nest cars, that is, fierce oil fire cabinets, that is, a fire-breathing weapon, and there were five on the head of Yancheng City.

However, the sharpest weapon of the Song army was the Shocking Thunder, which replaced the Thunderbolt Cannon, and the Iron Fire Thunder was also a sharp individual firearm.

At the head of the city, Li Yanqing silently watched the Jin soldiers' camp in the distance, historically, the Song army did not fight with the Jin soldiers, I don't know if this battle will become the beginning of the Song and Jin countries tearing up the alliance and entering a full-scale war.

"What is Yanqing thinking?" Zong Ze appeared beside him and asked with a smile.

Li Yanqing hurriedly saluted and said, "I am thinking that the Jin State will attack the Song State in an all-out way because of this?" ”

Zong Ze stepped forward and looked at the Jin soldier camp in the distance and said: "Wanyan Yanxi has not been destroyed yet, in the Yinshan area, once the Jin State and the Song Dynasty have a large-scale war, he can take the opportunity to recapture Xijing, the Jin people will not do such stupid things, and the Western Xia has not been conquered, they still have a lot to do, this time it is just a test of each other, for the next negotiations between the two countries to get money, if the Jin State really wants to invade the Song Dynasty, it will be a few years later." ”

Li Yanqing secretly admired Zong Ze's vision, in history, it was indeed a few years before the Jin State began to attack the Song Dynasty, Li Yanqing asked with a smile: "I heard that Yue Fei caught the Jin State spy today?" ”

"Wang Gui told you! Thanks to his help, too. ”

Zong Ze smiled and said: "There are a total of sixteen Jin State spies, they plan to cooperate with the Jin soldiers to capture the city, but it was originally to deal with the Liao State, but there will be brave men under the heavy reward, and they will be sold for a thousand taels of silver, no matter how you look at this deal, it is very cost-effective." ”

"Could it be that they planned to attack the city tonight?"

"They shouldn't have a plan yet, but the soldiers found the Song army's armor in their room, and it is estimated that they want to pretend to be the Song army to participate in the battle to defend the city, and then look for an opportunity to cooperate with the Jin soldiers to capture the city."

Li Yanqing nodded silently, and Zong Ze patted him on the shoulder again and smiled: "Rest early!" Prepare for tomorrow's big battle. ”