Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Prophet of the Unknown

Cao Ang laughed wildly, even squeezing his cheeks together, and layers of wrinkles appeared. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Yuan Yun had a look of disdain, coupled with a very helpless look.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Several loud noises came in succession, only shaking Yuan Yun's eardrums to the point of pain, and the gunpowder bullets thrown out by twenty catapults at the same time immediately bulldozed half of a hill, and huge craters on the ground were still billowing smoke.

"Ma Jun is really a talent, once this small catapult is replaced with a steel bone, it immediately increases a lot of range, and the most important thing is that it is very light, with these catapults, even in the face of thousands of troops, we have no worries." Cao Ang was very happy, and he seemed a little trembling when he spoke.

Bumpkin! Yuan Yun cursed in his heart, and then walked to the side of a basket of grenades.

The grenade inside the basket has been reduced a lot again, and the iron shell on the outside has also been treated, in addition to pressing out a lot of iron wire textures, but also adding a thumb buckle, so that as long as it is thrown, the hook and loop attached to the thumb can be automatically pulled apart, and the flint extracted inside can immediately ignite the lead.

It seems that the use of firearms on the battlefield several times has allowed Cao Ang to reserve a lot of experience, and now these firearms that have been redesigned and improved according to actual combat have indeed increased a lot of power.

Although it is still very primitive, even so, it is a force to be reckoned with in this era.

"General Xiahoudun has been on the expedition for so long, and there is no news coming back, and when will your father prepare to go on the expedition?" Yuan Yun put a grenade back into the basket, and then asked Cao Ang, who was still laughing maniacally beside him.

Cao Ang restrained his smile a little, and then said with a straight face: "When Uncle Xiahou comes back this time, he will definitely thank you well." ”

Yuan Yun was stunned and wondered: "Thank me for what?" Could it be that he also brought gunpowder to the front? ”

Cao Ang smiled and pointed to his left eye and said: "Uncle Xiahou and Gao Shun fought for fifty rounds, and in the end the other party was defeated and left, but after Uncle Xiahou chased after him, a villain hid behind a tree and released a dark arrow, which happened to hit Uncle Xiahou's left eye, and the reinforced face armor was strong enough, which made the arrow bounce to the side, so that Uncle Xiahou kept his eyeballs, so I have to thank Brother Yun." ”

The corners of Yuan Yun's mouth twitched, this feeling of cheating was inexplicably a little ridiculous, but he just happened, or it happened under his own arrangement, but it changed the history a little bit, not tight, well, not tight.

"Sometimes I really think, Brother Yun, you have the ability to predict the future, this seems to have happened several times, but each time it feels a little coincidental, but it's too strange to be so coincidental every time."

Cao Ang muttered, stared at Yuan Yun for a moment and continued: "You are honest, can you predict what will happen in the future?" Is this the secret skill of the children of the Immortal Family? ”

Yuan Yun was shocked, this kind of cheating should be more careful in the future, Cao Ang began to suspect it, it is difficult to guarantee that Guo Jia, who was also present at the time, does not suspect it, in case Lao Tzu is labeled as a demon, and then burns it, then Lao Tzu will lose a lot.

After thinking about it, Yuan Yun stretched out his middle finger seriously, and then frowned and said: "If Lao Tzu can predict the prophet, the first thing he does is to predict the course of action of some bastards, and then bury the gunpowder bomb in advance, and then it will be boomed, and there will be no troubles." ”

Cao Ang laughed, shook his head and said, "Brother Yun, are you still angry about Dong Bi's matter?" Look at your stingy appearance, is it a shame? ”

Yuan Yun smiled bitterly and said: "Xu Yi and the three of them came up with such a good way to deal with Dong Bi's three bastards, you are good, Dong Bi Laozi Dong Cheng came forward to beg you for a few words, you betrayed Xu Yi and they lost the lawsuit, is there any Wang Fa?" ”

Cao Ang's brows immediately furrowed when he heard this, and he said unhappily: "You think I don't know, those few people who really won the lottery couldn't redeem lottery tickets, so they sold them to Xu Yi and the three of them, and then these three guys deliberately delayed until the time passed, and then asked Dong Bi to compensate them four times, it's not a copy of your method, these three guys are really getting worse and worse the more they learn from you." ”

"Hey, hey, how can you wronged me so much, besides, Dong Bi and they sell lottery tickets, and they sell them without trust, where do such people need to pity them, they should be allowed to learn a lesson, and it is best to make them bankrupt, this is all deserved." After Yuan Yun finished speaking, his temper was finished, so his face immediately became much more comfortable.

Cao Ang sighed and said: "You got the lottery to tempt Dong Bi and them, almost bankrupt them, and also brought a large number of nobles in Xudu to follow the bad luck, now there are strange things in Xudu, the bigger the nobles, the more downtrodden, some families have begun to eat chaff, these have to be given by Yuan Hou." ”

"Come less, if they weren't greedy at the beginning, where would they suffer this big loss, Lao Tzu didn't force them to hand over the money, it's not that they think of me as a marquis who has just entered the seal, and they don't have to worry about the consequences if they provoke it, so they have the audacity to bully the door, who is to blame?" Yuan Yun finished arguing and took two steps back, because Cao Ang obviously had a look of preparing to grab him by the back collar.

Cao Ang saw that Yuan Yun had escaped from the scope of his demon grasp, so he could only frown and continued: "Those nobles' money naturally doesn't have to be returned, but you have also offended many people this time, especially Dong Bi and his son, be careful of their revenge in the future." ”

Yuan Yun nodded when he heard this, but he was thinking in his heart whether to burn Dong Cheng's mansion to the fire, so as to ensure that their father and son would not dare to come to their own troubles again, and Lao Tzu would not be able to scare you to death, damn!

Cao Ang picked up a grenade at this moment and threw it far away in an instant, and soon there was an explosion on the opposite land, followed by billowing smoke.

This loud noise suddenly made Cao Ang excited again, and changed the topic: "I also tied gunpowder bullets to the bow and arrows, although they are not as powerful as grenades, but they are also quite destructive when they explode, and the two days are to test the effective shooting range of this kind of bow and arrow, and we should be able to equip a batch before we go on the expedition." ”

Yuan Yun buttoned his chin and asked, "Your father allowed us to use firearms on such a large scale?" Didn't you say before that you were going to use it when you were going to deal with Yuan Shao? ”

Cao Ang shook his head and said: "Today's firearms are really immature, and they must go through a lot of actual combat to become more powerful, and my father can also see it, so he encourages us to do more tests, this time it is to use Lu Bu's men and horses to test, and I am sure that after this crusade against Lu Bu, firearms will be on a higher level." ”

Hearing Cao Ang say this, Yuan Yun was happy, since he went to Wancheng to crusade against Zhang Xiu, Cao Cao began to restrict the use of firearms, and now that this opening has been opened again, then this battle of Xuzhou can make black powder shine.

After all, when Zhang Xiu was crusaded, the use of firearms was still very immature, but because of that battle, both firearms and people who use firearms have become more skilled and mature.

"Now my gunpowder army is still 500 people, I don't plan to expand it for the time being, these are veterans, unless someone dies, there will be new people to join, otherwise blind expansion will reduce combat power." Cao Ang added.

Yuan Yun nodded, looking at the soldiers who were testing various firearms in the distance, they no longer had the surprised and incredible expressions they had at the beginning, but became very indifferent, even if there was a loud noise, they just covered their ears in twos and threes, and then laughed at each other a few words, it seemed that they were indeed mature.

"Why did your father ask me to suddenly start building a house in my house? Wen Ji said that she didn't plan to marry me until two years later, so isn't it too early to start building now? Yuan Yun no longer had any doubts about gunpowder and the gunpowder army, so he asked elsewhere.

Cao Ang suddenly laughed mysteriously when he heard this, Yuan Yun saw Cao Ang smiling like this, he suddenly had a bad premonition, frowned, and continued unhappily: "What do you say quickly, don't hide it, is it interesting?" ”

Cao Ang didn't suppress it directly this time, and laughed: "My father said that he is going to let Wen Ji and Qinghe move to your house now, and as soon as your new house is completed, you will wait to receive the beauty." ”

Yuan Yun's cheeks immediately twitched, and he subconsciously said, "It's not good, your father's old foxes are probably ready to disgust me again." ”

Cao Ang was stunned and wondered, "Where did Brother Yun guess it?" ”

Yuan Yun shook his head with a wry smile and replied: "I just heard you say this, and I subconsciously feel that there must be Guo Jian's bastard behind this, but I don't know how they are going to disgust me?" ”

Cao Ang didn't care, thinking that Yuan Yun was careful of an eye attack, could it be that others must have a purpose when he gave him benefits? This is too villainous to be jealous of the belly of a gentleman, so he decided not to pay attention to the villain in front of him.

In an instant, I saw a few people running in the distance of the river island military village, and they seemed to be very anxious, so they took a very big step, and it was not until these three people arrived in front of them that Yuan Yun and Cao Ang saw clearly, it turned out to be the eunuchs in the palace.

This is strange, the eunuchs in the palace did not have Cao Ang or Cao Cao's edict, how dare they appear in the river island military village, before Cao Ang used the eunuchs to do gunpowder experiments, I don't know how many people died, here has basically been passed by those eunuchs as if dead, and no eunuch dares to land on the island by himself.

With doubts, Yuan Yun looked at one of the three eunuchs, and the man immediately trembled, and quickly took out an edict from his arms, and did not read it, just stuffed it into Yuan Yun's hand, and reminded in a low voice: "When Cao Sikong came, he specially explained, no need to read it, just hand it over to Yuan Hou." ”

After saying this, the three eunuchs seemed to have gotten rid of the big problem, and hurriedly fled into the distance, for fear that if they stayed here for a long time, they would be arrested by Cao Ang for some kind of test, which would be very fatal.

After several eunuchs left, Yuan Yun unfolded the edict, screamed angrily after just one glance, and then threw the edict directly to Cao Ang.

Seeing that Cao Ang had finally finished reading the edict, Yuan Yuncai said angrily, "What am I talking about? Your father's gang of perverts, absolutely not according to any good intentions, damn, actually assigned a Luoyang order to me, Lao Tzu is fifteen years old, uh, already sixteen years old, in short, what Luoyang order is assigned to me a young man is not too child's play? ”

Cao Ang looked at the edict in his hand, and immediately smiled bitterly, and said, "Brother Yun, I think you really have the ability to predict the future, and this can be felt by you, isn't it too amazing?" ”

Looking at the edict in his hand, Cao Ang glanced at Yuan Yun, who was scratching his ears and cheeks, and immediately smiled bitterly, and then comforted: "The date of your appointment is not written on it, it is estimated that it is just a name, Brother Yun does not need to worry too much." ”

Yuan Yun took back the edict again, and then pointed to the text on it and said: "They didn't write the date because the construction of the new city is inseparable from me, but this is not a difficult thing, and when they think it's okay, it's just another edict, maybe I will take office the next day, Luoyang is now a ruin, is it for me to go there to take care of the beast?" ”

Now it seems that Yuan Yun can only complain in his heart, but it will not help, because once Cao Cao moves this thought, it is estimated that he will be assigned to Luoyang anyway, and he only hopes that it will not be too desolate now.

For Yuan Yun, as long as there are people and labor in Luoyang, then there is hope for development, but after checking the information, it was found that Dong Zhuo moved all the population of Luoyang to Chang'an, which is, no one will take anything to develop?

Cao Ang looked at Yuan Yun's uncertain face, and only laughed after a long time: "Brother Yun is worried about the desolation of Luoyang?" This is not necessary, when we clean up Lu Bu, and then it must be Li Dao in the west, I have an idea in my heart, I wonder if Brother Yun is willing to listen to it? ”

Yuan Yun was stunned and wondered, "What do you think?" Brother Cao Ang said that even if it is ridiculous, it can't be more ridiculous than the one I proposed to attack Wancheng that day, right? ”

Cao Ang shook his head and said, "It may be even more ridiculous than the decision to attack Wancheng. ”

Yuan Yun was silent for a moment, looked at Cao Ang carefully, and found that this thing really seemed to have some kind of plan in his heart, so he nodded very dryly, and said, "Brother Cao Ang, no matter how ridiculous it is, I will definitely accompany you." ”

Cao Ang showed a grateful look, patted Yuan Yun's little shoulder, and said indifferently: "If the crusade against Lu Bu wins, how about our two brothers go and destroy Li Dao?" ”

Yuan Yun was slightly stunned, laughed for a moment, and gasped for a long time before he gasped: "Brother Cao Ang and I think the same, I had such an idea before, but I was worried that you would not agree, now it's okay, let's go and destroy Li Wei, so that Chang'an and Luoyang will be developed together, this is a fat difference, haha." ”

After speaking, Yuan Yun was secretly happy in his heart, and opened up Chang'an, then there was the Xiliang boundary, that is, the area of Gansu, and further west was the so-called Western Regions.

On the vast earth, deserts, mountains, ravines, swamps, wastelands, and various complex geographical environments have seriously hindered human communication.

However, even in the days when the natural dangers are dangerous, the pace of human communication and exploration has never stopped, and even in the era when it can only be walked, human beings can still cross thousands of mountains and rivers and create one miracle after another.

An ancient trade route was gradually formed, and Zhang Qian, a Langguan during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, made his first mission to the Western Regions, thus opening this historically famous Silk Road.

Now, Yuan Yun was thinking about this trade road in his heart, a road that could be devoured by himself.

Cao Ang would not understand the importance of a trade route, he did not have Yuan Yun's far-sighted vision and thinking about the future, and his current main concern was the war in the land of China and the future of the Cao clan.

Yuan Shao's oppressive force is getting stronger and stronger, the main reason is that Gongsun Chan is constantly shrinking, and Yuan Shao can already withdraw his hand and arrange his strength at the junction with Yanzhou.

These increasing military forces in the north have formed a posture of eyeing the Cao family, even if the Cao family pacified Xuzhou, but Chang'an's Li Dao is still a big trouble.

Fortunately, after several blows, Li Dao has now reached the point where he is still breathing, and Cao Ang feels that even if he has the strength in his hands, he can fight hard, so he has the ambition he just mentioned.