Chapter 157: Meet Your Father-in-law
It turned out that a troop of soldiers and horses came from the north of Luodu, and the scouts didn't know whether they were friends or foes, so they could only report to the commander to make a decision. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThat's right, it's the soldiers and horses of the Weibei battalion who came.
Weibei Camp, Li Deyi After several months of continuous pondering, he finally had a flash of inspiration in the sea of knowledge, which made him come up with a strange thing. Li Deyi and the blacksmith worked together to make an egg-shaped iron can. Originally, according to the picture that appeared in the sea of Li Deyi's knowledge, this egg-shaped iron pot should be made of a few steel plates, and when he discussed it with the three blacksmith masters, the blacksmith masters shook their heads again and again and said that this was absolutely impossible, unless the mold was cast. Later, Li Deyi still listened to the advice of the blacksmith and chose to cast the mold in two halves, with an egg-shaped iron shell at the casting place. In the end, according to Li Deyi's description, the blacksmith master made a hollow iron egg and came out.
Holding this iron egg slightly larger than his head from the Steel Academy, Li De was worried as soon as he returned to the house. For the sake of secrecy, Li Deyi didn't tell the three blacksmith masters what the iron egg was used for, so the three blacksmith masters didn't know that the hollow iron egg was going to be filled with things, so they didn't leave an opening at all.
Helplessly, Li had to take a hacksaw in the house every night to process the sealed iron egg, and saw a fist-sized hole for the iron egg, so as to stuff the fire lin stone into it. This hacksaw was also invented by Taizu of Ping Zhou, but the quality of this made by the Iron and Steel School was too poor, and in order to saw the iron eggs, Li Deyi sawed off three hacksaws.
After making this first iron egg roughly look like, Li De had a number in his heart, and then asked the three blacksmith masters to make more than a dozen of them according to this iron egg, all of which Li De opened again as soon as he returned to the house. After the iron egg was ready, Li Deyi held a handful of smaller pieces of Huolin Stones, found the master, and asked the old man to pour the original qi into the Huolin Stones to stimulate these Huolin Stones. After exploding the stone Huolin Stone, Old Medical Officer Sun finally grasped the trick and successfully poured the original qi into the remaining dozens of Huolin Stones, which were less than the size of a finger's belly. After going back, Li De repeatedly put the fire lin stone into those iron eggs for the time being and put the lid on it.
Next, under the personal escort of his senior brother, Li Deyi packed a few iron eggs in a basket, brought enough food, rode a "Humvee", walked into the depths of Qingyuan Mountain alone, and began the explosion test.
At the beginning, because he didn't know the specific power of this Huolin Stone, Li De dared to stuff a piece the size of his finger into the iron egg. Since this iron egg was personally requested by Li Deyi, the three blacksmiths and masters did a lot of work when casting, and the quality was very good, and a small piece of Huolin Stone was placed in it, and even the iron egg could not be exploded. Later, after repeated trials, Li Deyi finally mastered the amount of Huolin Stone needed to explode an iron egg, and on this basis, he slowly increased the amount of Huolin Stone, and finally was able to control the power of the iron egg explosion relatively well.
Another time, Li Deyi stuffed the fire lin stone into the iron egg, and when he was holding the iron egg and was about to go to the test, because all his attention was on the iron egg at that time, he was not paying attention to his feet, and he was tripped by the root of the tree. This iron egg fell down directly, and Li Deyi's face turned green with fright. Fortunately, there weren't many Huolin stones stuffed that time, and even the shell of the iron egg was not shattered, so nothing fatal happened.
Since then, Li Deyi has found that after the iron egg is stuffed into the Huolin Stone, it is also a big problem to transport. In case you cross a ditch or a hurdle, and accidentally shake violently, once the fire lin stone inside is impacted enough, it is easy to explode on the spot. After thinking about it, Li Deyi finally thought that the explosive arrows of the Tuliao people were all placed in special quiver bags, so as to avoid this problem. Inspired by this, Li De initially tried to stuff some hay into the iron egg and use it as a soft cushion to wrap the fire linstone, so that even if the iron shell outside was collided when it was transported, the fire linstone would not be easily exploded by the collision.
But in this way, how to detonate the iron egg has become a big problem, and ordinary vibrations are no longer enough to detonate the iron egg. In the end, Li De's head turned, remembering the unique skill given to him by Wang Zhuangbiao, he put the iron egg dozens of steps away, and began to try to smash it with a stone, trying to use this trick to detonate the iron egg.
After skimming a few stones to practice, Li Deyi had a plan in his heart, and quickly smashed a stone according to the iron egg dozens of steps away, and then quickly fell to the ground. With a loud bang, he was hit by a rapidly flying stone, and the iron egg suddenly exploded violently, directly blasting the surrounding rocks into pieces.
That night, Li Deyi hurriedly returned to the Weibei camp with the remaining iron eggs and fire lin stones, and came directly to the master to report his success. Li Deyi also asked his senior brother to call him by the way, wanting to let his senior brother also know the news and follow Meimei together.
After seeing Li Deyi, Medical Officer Xiao Liu listened to the power of the iron egg from his junior brother. Frowning and pondering for a while, he asked, "Senior brother, can your iron egg blow up the city gate?" Li Deyi was stunned by his senior brother's question, and after thinking for a while, he nodded and said: "It should be possible, when I am in the mountains, this iron egg can blow up all the boulders that are one person high, and it should also be able to blow open the city gate." When Dr. Xiao Liu heard this, he asked again: "What if you bomb a city gate like Luodu City?" ”
Li Deyi had been to Luodu City, so he naturally knew how huge the Luodu City Gate was. With a sigh of teeth, Li Deyi shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that an iron egg can't blow up the gate of Naluodu." Dr. Xiao Liu hurriedly said, "If one doesn't work, just put a few more." Li De nodded, and then shook his head again: "Senior brother, I have never tried to detonate multiple iron eggs at once, in case the time comes, ......" Xiao Liu Medical Officer said: "Tomorrow, you will return to the mountains and try it." ”
"Well, I'll run again tomorrow, Master, Senior Brother, I'm tired, go back and rest first. Tomorrow morning, I will go into the mountain again. Li De nodded in agreement, and then went back to rest first. As soon as Li De left, there were only two masters and apprentices left in the house.
Seeing that the little apprentice was gone, the old medical officer Sun opened his mouth and asked the big apprentice, "You want to attack Luodu?" Doctor Xiao Liu nodded and said his reason.
On the one hand, he promised Li Xiuming three years ago, and on the other hand, he also meant to beat the water dog. The big fat meat of Luodu City was placed in front of him, and Doctor Liu had already been thinking about taking a big bite of it.
After listening to the apprentice's words, the old doctor Sun didn't speak, and reached out to light up the oil lamp in the room. Sitting at the table, Old Doctor Sun reached out and took out a wine jug out of nowhere, and then took out two small wine cups, all of which were placed on the table. Medical Officer Xiao Liu took the flask and poured a cup for the master and himself.
After taking a sip of wine, the old doctor Sun opened the conversation: "That Wang Songcheng is really stupid, sitting on the anointed land of Xijing Luodu, the foundation of the heaven-sent emperor, and it has been in business for a few years, and it has actually become like that." Doctor Liu raised the wine cup and touched one with the master, and said, "If he is not stupid, where will we have this opportunity to make a fortune." This time to break Luodu, you will definitely take a big bite. ”
Hearing this, Old Medical Officer Sun stared at the apprentice tightly, just staring at it all the time, and didn't speak. Medical Officer Xiao Liu has been with Master for so many years, so he naturally knows his old man's thoughts best, and said, "Master, our strength is insufficient now, even if we break through Luodu, we won't be able to occupy it." Naluo Capital City is dozens of miles in radius, Dingkou is millions, we have less than 10,000 soldiers now, and there will be no more than me, junior brother, and Wang Zhuangbiao, but we can't eat such a big city. ”
"You tell you the truth, do you have any resentment against Master for putting such a mess in your hands in the first place." Old Medical Officer Sun came up with such a sentence for no reason. Doctor Liu was stunned by Master's words, and suddenly didn't know how to answer. It took a long time for Doctor Xiao Liu to hold back a sentence: "Anyway, Master, you got me another junior brother, and you didn't let me take the lead alone like you did back then." ”
Old Medical Officer Sun didn't expect the apprentice to say this, so he was immediately happy, and then reached out to wipe his cloudy eyes and said, "Hey, the teacher knows what you mean." Naluo Capital City is a first-class anointed land, a heaven-sent king's inheritance. Now Wang Songcheng has made a fool of himself again, and has sent ready-made excuses to people's mouths. is so fat and sweet in the mouth, but you can't eat it, and you have to see that the Li family has this piece of fat alone, no one will be reconciled. But our Weibei camp has developed to this day, and its strength is not more than Erer, even if it can defeat Luodu City, I am afraid it will not be able to occupy it, and it will not be stable. Doctor Liu hurriedly added wine to the master, and drank another one with the master.
"We listen to it well now, there are nearly 10,000 elite soldiers, and they have won successive battles, fighting Shimaizhou in the east, bullying Songcheng in the south, and Tuliao grassland in the north, and never losing in several wars. But fighting a war and ruling a place are two different things. Old Doctor Sun continued, "Our 10,000 soldiers, put in a big city like Xijing Luodu, I'm afraid we won't even be able to make a splash." When the time comes, there will be no foreign enemies, and the wealthy families in Luodu City will put their families together and make trouble every day, which is enough for us to bear. Not to mention that the Li family is still eyeing the side, and they always want to eat this Luodu City. ”
Medical Officer Xiao Liu took a sip of the wine cup and took a sip of it, sighed, and said, "Master, I also have this concern, so I didn't dare to completely occupy Naluo Capital City. But I couldn't swallow this breath without taking a bite of such a large piece of fat. That's why I decided to send troops to Luodu, and I can't let the Li family take all the benefits, I have to let him know how powerful our Weibei camp is. When the time comes, his Li family will occupy Luodu, his strength will swell, and there will be no one in his eyes, and he will be like Shimaizhou, which will add a lot of trouble to us. I have no good impression of the big families in this world. They are all greedy people who have long hopes all day long, it is difficult to be satisfied, and their desires are difficult to fill, but they never weigh their own catties. Relying on the family business accumulated by the ancestors, gathering troops to stand on their own, in fact, there are not many people who really have the ability. ”
It's a pity that the master and apprentice said something tonight, Li Deyi is not here, if Li Deyi is here, he will definitely say: "Master, senior brother, what are you worried about?" Wait for the capture of Luodu, arrest all those disobedient families, find out the bad things they have done, and slaughter all their brains, I will see who dares to make trouble! When the time comes, only the people who will be left to work honestly will be worried, and they will be worried about the instability of the city? Li Deyi did a lot of these things, from destroying the entire clan of the earthquake half of the county back then, to breaking through Xin County, according to the case files in the county office, one by one to raid the families and exterminate the local wealthy families in Xin County, Li Deyi did these things smoothly.
Moreover, in Li Deyi's heart, there is no concept of the number of troops, over the years, every battle of the Weibei battalion has been won more with less, and Li Deyi has long been accustomed to the enemy's strength being several times his own.
It's a pity that Li has to go back early tonight to rest.
Now that the battle in the Weibei camp is all decided by Medical Officer Xiao Liu, he decided to send troops, and the next day, the three generals also agreed. It's just that the three generals are too old to fight with the army anymore, so they can only stay to look after the family.
After a few days, everything was ready. Before the army left, Doctor Liu specially discussed with Li Deyi again, and the content of the discussion was how to use this iron egg to blow open the gate of Luodu City. After asking Senior Brother Li Deyi to be absolutely sure, Medical Officer Xiao Liu was relieved to send some soldiers.
This time, Li Xiuming asked to go with her, and Doctor Liu thought about it for a while, it has been more than three years, and it is time for her to go home and have a look. Besides, Wang Songcheng is now about to fall, and there is no need to hide anymore, so he nodded and agreed. Li Xiuming saw that Liu Yishou agreed, and offered to bring those female nurses from the wounded barracks with him, and Medical Officer Liu frowned, and finally promised her to take the twenty or so newly recruited women who were not yet married. Don't bring it if you get married, those eldest sisters have a family, after all, there are no eyes on the battlefield, in case of another accident, the Weibei battalion will have to add a lot of widowers. When the time comes, it will be easy to talk about the veterans who have their daughters-in-law, and they will come to make trouble again.
In the end, Xiao Liu's medical academy ordered 5,000 elite foot soldiers, and asked Li Deyi to personally lead the newly trained 200 cavalry, Wang Zhuangbiao, Li Wuving, and Li Xiuming and her female nurses, and marched towards Luodu City in the south. On this trip, Li Deyi also brought the eight older children who began to cultivate their original qi, and promised to take them to Luodu City to see them, and this trip happened to be brought together.
In this battle, the soldiers of the Weibei battalion each carried dry rations for 20 days, and the subsequent supplies were personally transported by the three generals, while the old medical officer Sun stayed at home to take care of Dingbei County. Ever since the Weibei camp made the dry food into a light cake with a hole in the middle, it has deeply felt the convenience of this method. Nowadays, wartime dry food is made into bare cakes in the rear, and then transported to the front. Thirty pieces of light bread made with enough lard and a string of straw rope was ten days' worth of food, which was easy to transport and quickly distributed to the soldiers, which greatly saved the manpower of logistics.
Now Weibei Camp has just built a horse farm and a new mine, both of which are the most important places, and someone must keep an eye on them at all times, so that nothing can be missed. Therefore, Medical Officer Xiao Liu only brought 5,000 elites and left the rest of the soldiers to take care of the family.
The soldiers of the Weibei battalion marched for eighteen days and finally arrived at the foot of the city of Luodu. The reason why it was slower than before for Medical Officer Xiao Liu to go to Luodu City was because the army could not rush with all its strength like a merchant, and it had to leave enough physical strength every day to be ready to fight at any time. When the army is out of the house, unless there is an emergency, or fleeing for their lives, they must take into account the physical strength of the soldiers at other times and march slowly. Otherwise, although the road is fast, when it is time to fight, the soldiers have no physical strength to fight, and they will be crushed by the enemy.
At this time, the men and horses of the Li family had already arrived under the city of Luodu, and the four sides of the city were full of scouts.
The purpose of Xiao Liu's trip was Luodu City, and he was still holding the daughter of the Li family, his future daughter-in-law, of course, he couldn't make it difficult with his father-in-law, so he didn't let his junior brother pick up those Li family's scouts, and only let them investigate.
The Weibei camp marched slowly all the way to the north of Luodu City, and began to set up camp. Li Xiuming found Liu Yishou and asked to go back to see his father. Doctor Xiao Liu didn't say a word, called his junior brother, Wang Zhuangbiao, Li Wuving, accompanied Li Xiuming, and rushed all the way to the west of Luodu, the Li family's camp.
When Li Xiuming saw her own soldiers and horses from afar, she had not seen her father for three years, she couldn't help it anymore, and came to the side of Xiao Liu's medical officer, said a few words to him, and hurried to the Li family's soldiers and horses camp.
Doctor Xiao Liu hurriedly grabbed her, and in a hurry, he only had time to ask: "Did you bring the jasper flute that my master gave you at the beginning?" Li Xiuming nodded and took out the short flute from his arms. When Dr. Xiao Liu saw that Li Xiuming was carrying the short flute, he immediately understood her intentions, and a stone fell to the ground in his heart. This short flute was originally left by the master to the future apprentice's daughter-in-law, and Li Xiuming gradually understood this in the past three years in Weibei Camp, and still carried it with him, obviously with his heart.
Waving his hand to beckon Li Wudi to come over, Dr. Liu commanded, "Go back with your sister and have a look." Li Wushu nodded, rode a big black horse and rushed towards the Li family's camp with his sister.
When Li Xiuming entered the gate of the Li family's camp, Xiao Liu's medical officer seemed to suddenly remember something, and rushed towards the Li family's camp, followed by Li Deyi and Wang Zhuangbiao.
The sound of galloping horses' hooves, as well as Wang Zhuangbiao's mountain-like momentum when he ran, naturally attracted the attention of everyone in the Li family. Li Si Nai raised his head and glanced outside the camp.
At this time, Medical Officer Xiao Liu also saw Li Sinai, who was wearing a helmet and armor and dressed as a commander, and immediately shouted loudly: "Son-in-law to meet my father-in-law!" ”