Chapter 26: Temptation

Riding back to Sucheng, the fire has been extinguished, but there seems to be an invisible forbidden spell outside the house, and your people outside are in a circle and dare not approach. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Ji Xia...... This...... What's going on? ”

Jian Chen apologized: "I must have forgotten to extinguish the charcoal fire before going out, which caused the explosive to explode." Fortunately, there is not much gunpowder, otherwise there would have been damage, and I would have to be ashamed of those who were killed for the rest of my life. ”

After speaking, he seemed to look at another house across the street with palpitations, and everyone followed his gaze, and they were all shocked, it seemed that this thing could blow up dozens of steps away like this?

The gray and black walls, the cracked stones, these things are close at hand, people have to believe in the power of gunpowder, and everyone has a plan in their hearts.

It's best to get this thing from your own clan, and if you can't get it, then you can't let the rest of the clans get it. If Xia Cheng doesn't agree, Xia Cheng will be excluded from swearing an oath, and the nature of being a barbarian outside the alliance is different.

It's just that although this thing is powerful, how can it look so dangerous?

It took a long time before someone asked, "Ji Xia, is this fire medicine so dangerous?" ”

Jian Chen nodded and said, "Like fire, you can burn food to take out warmth, but it is also easy to burn the ashes of the house and burn children." In fact, in general, it is not so dangerous, but it must be mastered. We usually take it with us on our expeditions, and we haven't seen an explosion, but this time I was negligent, and the pot of charcoal before leaving forgot to extinguish it, and it was ignited before this accident. ”

After speaking, he called an entourage, asked him to take out the clay pot he was carrying, played with it in his hand for a while, and said: "You see, as long as it is well kept, it will be fine even if it is in your hand." ”

But as soon as this thing was taken out, a few people immediately took a few steps back, looked at the broken walls with palpitations, and shook their heads again and again.

There were also a few bold people who held it in their hands, looking at the rope on it and secretly pondering, Chen Jian smiled and said, "That's it, something like this happened today, and it was snowing heavily." I often hear people say: no snow in summer, no thunder in winter. I will make an exception today, so as not to worry everyone. ”

The curious person followed out of the city, and Jian Chen asked the person who had been practicing throwing for a long time to follow the prescribed steps and the two of them cooperated to throw.

The first person took the rope from his waist, blew it with a fire breaker, and then stood in front, while the person behind him took it out of his waist, tore off a layer of moisture-proof beeswax wrapped around the lead, and handed it over.

The person carrying the arquebus in front of him followed the prescribed steps, his thumb was stuck on the lead, and below was the edge of the clay pot, and he approached the arquebus to light it, and the person behind him looked down and did not look forward, still skillfully picking off the wax pills wrapped in front of him according to the prescribed action, and the whole process was extremely silent except for the snorting of the lead.

After the person in front lit it, the people watching the excitement next to him swooped back far away, knowing that the thing in his hand could kill people.

However, the person holding the clay pot listened calmly to the sound of burning, waiting for Jian Chen's order.

Everyone's eyes were drawn to the shining light, and a few of those who had heard the explosion before had their ears blocked, and the rest had followed suit, except for a moment when their eyes had not left the burning fuse.

People didn't dare to breathe, seeing that the fuse had burned to the position of the man's thumb, but Chen Jian still did not shout the order to throw, and the pitcher was calm and motionless.

"Extinguish."

Jian Chen suddenly shouted, the pitcher reacted almost subconsciously, he didn't care that the thing in his hand would kill him, he used his fingernails to jam the edge of the fuse and the clay pot with force, and extinguished it, the clay pot was in his hand, and there was a strange smell of white smoke and nitrate that had not dispersed nearby.

Jian Chen turned around and smiled: "Everyone saw it before the explosion, I just want to tell everyone that if this thing is actually used well, it is as safe and simple as fire, and it is not as dangerous as everyone thinks." ”

He said it lightly, but it could be seen that there was a wave of turmoil in people's hearts, not because of the gunpowder he had seen before, but because of these almost numb soldiers trained by Chen Jian......

It already looks like it's hard to throw it, especially after knowing that this thing could explode at any time in your hands.

Compared to this, being able to hold this thing in your hand and extinguish it at the last moment is the most terrifying ......

The young man in front of him was a little wooden, either he was a fool who was not afraid of death, or he had formed a habit like eating and drinking.

There are so many cities and many warriors, there are brave men who can pull out the eyes that have been shot and chew on the battle array, and there are also warriors who can carry two or three hundred catties on one shoulder without bending their waists, but they can never find such wooden soldiers.

This is no longer the category of the brave, this kind of person is like a poisonous snake, usually cold and hidden, not like those tiger wolves who show their strength with teeth and claws, but it is more deadly.

And the Xia Cheng man who stood behind him and handed out the clay pot was even more incredible, as if he didn't care if the person in front of him threw it or not, and only did his own thing there.

It was just two people, and the leaders couldn't imagine what kind of horror it would be if such people formed an army.

All kinds of unbelievable rumors before, at this time, everyone made these believe, don't say that there are strange things like fire pills and chariots that have never been seen, even if there are none, if the people of Xia City are like this, then it is inevitable that the two thousand to break five thousand in the first battle of the guard.

The Taplet, which did not explode, surprised these people even more than the gunpowder that had exploded before, and some leaders waited until the smoke cleared to make sure that it would not explode, and then walked to the pitcher and praised: "The thunder is in hand and the face does not change, it is really a warrior!" ”

The pitcher smiled humbly, "Where am I a warrior?" The person who wins the swords and utensils in the triennial competition of Caohe is the real warrior. I'm not well-known in the competition, and there's no other reason for being able to do this, but it's just that I know it well. Ji Xia said cast, my mind hasn't thought about it, my hand has been thrown out; Ji Xia said extinguish, my finger will also get stuck on its own. ”

The leader smiled, praised in his heart, turned around and asked, "Ji Xia, how many others are like this in Xia City?" ”

He thought that this was just a selection, maybe the people around Jian Chen had such skills, but he didn't want Jian Chen to say: "It's more than two hundred, and I have been trained for nearly three years before and after." ”

"This kind of warrior can be trained?"

In the eyes of everyone, warriors have always been born, such as timidity, fearlessness, brute strength and delicateness, if it is really as Chen Jian said, he can train more than 200 such soldiers in three years...... If the whole city is full of such soldiers, what enemy is there to fear?

"Ji Xia...... Such a warrior is not easy to train, is it? ”

"There's nothing hard to train. I am like a dandelion that flies out more than ten seeds, and these ten seeds become hundreds. It's not difficult to pass ten, ten to hundred, and ten to million. The people of the two cities also sent some people to learn these things, and after a few years, such warriors were commonplace. ”

Chen Jian said it lightly, but in fact, it created an ambiguous illusion. These more than 200 people are the full-time soldiers who exploit slaves and have a developed handicraft industry in the entire Xia City, and it is easy to support them, and only a few cities along the Grass River can afford such a few people, and it is also because the development of Xia City by leaps and bounds does not have so many pure blood nobles and slave owners, so there are such full-time soldiers, or they themselves can be regarded as the first generation of military aristocrats.

Moreover, the people who can be brought with him, how can they be easy to match, which one is not a good guy in a hundred, the new army does have two hundred people, but there are only a few people who can really do not change their faces, in fact, it is still nature.

It's just that what Jian Chen has done and said these days has given people a feeling of great trust, and at this time, he didn't think much about him lying and his face had not changed.

Wendewei and E were sent to Xia Cheng to learn these methods of military training, and several clans who had been fighting all year round were envious, and several clans near the big river in the lower reaches of the Cao River were worried.

Of course, I understand the truth that the building near the water gets the moon first, and this is understandable, but if you are not the building near the water, you must always throw some stones into the water to smash the moon shadow.

So several leaders sighed quite from a lofty position: "Ji Xia has such a training method, he should have shared it with his relatives a long time ago, could it be that Ewei is a kin, but we are not?" Now that Dongyi is stupid and Beidi is stupid, with this method of military training, how many of his fellow clans can survive? ”

Before Jian Chen could speak, Shu Jiu on the side hurriedly continued: "This is also my fault, I'm afraid that when I talked to Ji Xia that day, the words of worrying about the fight of relatives made Ji Xia dare not do this." ”

After finishing speaking, she quietly winked at Jian Chen, Jian Chen was stunned for a moment, and then listened to a few leaders say a few words, and then understood what was going on, so she had to accompany and say, "That's what I think." ”

Those leaders bitterly explained the truth that the murderer is not the knife, and then Chen Jian said with a look of sudden realization: "I'm still too young, and I think so little." Since the ancestors told me these methods of training soldiers and fire medicine, they must have also wanted me to tell my relatives about them. Xia Cheng has always wanted to return to his relatives, and this can be regarded as a small contribution that Xia Cheng can make for his relatives in various tribes. ”

He cleared his throat and said generously, "Since this is the case, this fire medicine Xia Cheng can naturally be exchanged with you...... It's just that you can't change it at this time, this thing is very dangerous, and you've seen it, so you have to learn how to use it. If it weren't for Xia's resignation, I was really worried that something dangerous would happen. As for this method of military training...... The relatives of the tribes can also choose some smart people to go to Xia City to study, and there are also methods such as chariots, water canals, and wheat and bean interplanting......"

He said a lot when he lectured before, and everyone listened to it, and their curiosity was full, and at this time, when they heard Chen Jian say this, everyone couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity that Xia Cheng is too far away, and after all, it is not as good as Wei and E." I often hear people say that it is better to give him fishing nets and fishing methods than to give them fishing nets and fishing methods, can't Ji Xia tell us these methods? Do we have to send someone to Summer City? According to what you Xia Cheng said, this place is more than a thousand miles away from Xia Cheng, and it will take more than a month to ride a horse. (To be continued.) )