"Yes, Brother Zheng is right, these two things are produced in the Western Regions, and there are no here. Xiao He, are you mistaken, what you want to say is that this charcoal is here, right, I admit that this can indeed be artificially fired. Supreme Treasure didn't believe what Xiao He said, and the book only recorded that China had two things in Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai, but it was very far to go to these three places, and it was too late at all.

"No, I've really seen it, these things are all in my hometown mountain, everywhere!" Xiao He said seriously.

"Your hometown? Xiao He, aren't you from Wuyue Guangling? It was the little fish who brought you back from there, and we have been there for a long time, but we have never heard of these things being abundant in the mountains of Guangling. Don't mess around at this time, no one will blame you if you don't know where this thing is, and the blame won't reach you. Li Da thought that Xiao He was exonerating himself, so he made up a lie to deceive everyone.

Xiao He was so anxious that he stomped his feet, "Brothers, I'm not in the mood to joke with you here, the hometown I'm talking about is not Wu Yue's Guangling!" I was only after I was fifteen years old, and Yuan County Ling was my father's friend, so I was sent to Guangling to learn to be a bookkeeper in the county grandfather Yuan. Speaking of Guangling, it is my second hometown, but my real hometown is actually Huaiyue. I've seen people dig up these things in the mountains there, but we don't use them to make explosives, and we use them to cure dampness, plague, and skin diseases. ”

"Your kid's hometown turned out to be Huaiyue's, why didn't you say it earlier!" Li Da said.

"Xiao He, is your hometown Huaiyue far away from here? If it's far away, then we won't have time to make any more explosives. Supreme Treasure asked.

Except for Lu Xiaoyu, everyone looked at him in shock, "Uncle, you can't be joking, right?" You are such a smart person, don't you even know where Huaiyue is? Speaking of which, it shouldn't be too far from the hometown of the two, just on the Yangtze River, by the way, on the edge of the river you crossed today, you don't even have to cross the river. ”

"Hey, uncle is just joking with a few brothers to ease the tense atmosphere, why are you still taking it seriously, how can we not even know Huaiyue? Tomorrow we'll go there and collect saltpeter and brimstone! Lu Xiaoyu proposed.

"I'm afraid that tomorrow if we go there to collect, we will attract the attention of the villagers there, and there are many people who usually collect saltpeter and sulfur, and everyone will not come back until the sun sets. The whereabouts of our Flying Tiger Army cannot be revealed now, so I suggest that the general we should act at night! ”

"Without further ado, it's tonight, brothers, do you dare to go?" Supreme Treasure picked up the wine bowl and held it up in front of everyone and said.

"Dare!" Everyone raised their wine glasses together, drank a glass of wine, and immediately set off, leading a group of the most elite soldiers to Huaiyue to collect saltpeter and sulfur.

As Xiao He said, at night, Huaiyue Mountain was silent when there was no lively scene of people collecting saltpeter and sulfur during the day. This place is on the northeast corner where Zheng Ze took Lu Xiaoyu and Supreme Treasure ashore.

What they didn't expect was that this silent mountain area was no longer as quiet as before, as early as half a year ago, a group of people fell into the grass here, and the king of the mountain led by him also did errands in the yamen, he was the official of the dungeon of Jingzhou City, that is, Liu Bang, who was detained and absconded with Yuan Anbang. He relied on his own rivers and lakes to make friends on the rivers and lakes, and finally drifted to Huaiyue, because of the lack of entanglement, he simply fell into the grass here. And because he found that there were precious Chinese medicinal materials saltpeter and sulfur on this mountain, he simply dominated this mountain or others would collect it.

The mountain here is high and the emperor is far away, Xiang Yu will not care about such a small role, and Liu Bang is living a good life here at will. He often robbed the rich and helped the poor, and the common people also protected him and helped him guard the mountain, otherwise the people of the government would take it away.

When they first entered the mountain, due to the darkness around them, they had not yet noticed anything strange around, but when they groped around and began to find a place to dig out saltpeter and sulfur, Liu Bang, who was guarding these mountains, had already spotted them. Seeing that they were outnumbered, the crowd did not dare to act rashly, but secretly went to report to Liu Bang and brought people to catch these "thieves".

And Lu Xiaoyu and his party didn't realize that the danger was approaching at all, Lu Xiaoyu and Supreme Treasure drank a lot of rice wine, and their observation and mana also dropped sharply, and they were no different from ordinary people at all. "General, I dug it! You see, that's the saltpeter and sulfur you want, right? I'm not wrong, am I? Xiao He dug out saltpeter and sulfur according to the method he used when he was a child and showed them to Supreme Treasure and Lu Xiaoyu.

At this time, the torch could not be lit, and the Supreme Treasure saw through the moonlight that this saltpeter was indeed the raw material they were looking for, and was very excited, and ordered everyone to dig up this saltpeter and sulfur as much as possible.

While everyone was digging saltpeter and sulfur in full swing, a torch lit up around them. "Not good! General, someone has spotted us! What now? Xiao He's sharp eyes saw a little firelight exposed around him and shouted first, and then there were more and more firelights, and they were all surrounded inside.

Only then did everyone realize that they were surrounded, "Don't panic, we don't have fewer people than them, if the people are easy to discuss, if Xiang Yu's soldiers are the soldiers, it doesn't matter if we fight to die and run again, we all pick up the guys and get up." Lu Xiaoyu took advantage of the strength of the wine to first lift the big knife and shouted.

Everyone was shocked by the surrounding scene, most of the wine just now woke up, and the Supreme Treasure saw that Lu Xiaoyu was impulsive to fight with others, and hurriedly pulled him down, "Xiaoyu, don't be impulsive, if you want to fight, you can't fight with them so much, let's hide it first and then attack them." ”

Everyone obeyed the command of the Supreme Treasure, and when these torches had not yet shone on themselves and discovered their specific location, they hid in the trees and bushes, and they were very well hidden.

The bandits led by Liu Bang originally wanted to cross the mountain road in the middle of the night just when they were making a big profit, but when they got closer, they pounced on nothing and said angrily to the person who reported the news: "What's the matter with you kid? Have you seen the situation clearly, where is the group of people here, not even half a figure? ”

The sentry looked around nearby, scratched his scalp and said in confusion: "Impossible, boss, I obviously saw the sound of rustling, and many people were digging saltpeter and sulfur here, and they disappeared in a blink of an eye, which is really strange." ”