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Chapter XXXVIII

"Ahh Zhu Bayi was stunned, and his body quickly retreated. At the same time, 10,000 alpacas rolled by in my heart.

Muskets! I wasted all my strength, countless money, and I still haven't made the slightest eyebrow thing, and I am actually lying in the wooden box in front of me. The barrel, medicine room, and handle are all available, and the tail is vaguely engraved with the words "Zhizheng XX year"!

Although the most primitive kind, the lead needs to be ignited by hand. But mass production has already begun. That meant the beginning of an age of gunpowder. Large-scale battlefield applications will be on the agenda sooner or later.

God is pitiful, Lao Tzu still thinks that the people of the Yuan Dynasty have not mastered the manufacturing method of firearms, and they still want to be one step ahead of the ancients! The fire guns of the ancients have been developed to the two-handed grip type, and mass production, Lao Tzu is still organizing a large group of blacksmiths to study how to drill holes in wrought iron rods faster! (Note 1)

Thinking of a large number of Mengyuan soldiers armed with primitive firearms, they crossed the Yellow River, and then lined up in a long snake formation and shot the Xuzhou rebels. The white hair and sweat on Zhu Bayi's head oozed out. No, this tragedy must be avoided! But how can it be avoided? Kill this Li Si in front of you and take the fire gun for yourself? The guy surnamed Li in front of him is at most the son of a big family, or the henchman of a high-ranking official in Mengyuan. Killing him will not prevent muskets from going to the battlefield. Moreover, since mass production has begun, killing these people in front of him will not stop the progress of the firecracker's equipment at all. At present, the Mengyuan Dynasty has not installed it in the army on a large scale for the time being, and I am afraid that the problem is either that the cost is too high, or that it is still due to the power of gunpowder

In an instant, more than a dozen plans rolled through his mind. However, none of them can fundamentally reverse the disadvantage of the Red Turban Army's backward firearms exhibition. The ghost genius Li Si didn't seem to see the change in his face at all, smiled and closed the box tightly, and then pretended to be surprised, "Brother Zhu, doesn't Brother Zhu know this thing?" To tell you the truth, the younger brother has just bought more than a dozen of them with a lot of money, and he plans to use them for self-defense on the road. Its specific power has really not been tested! ”

"your grandma, if you haven't tested it, Lao Tzu will take your surname today!" Zhu Bayi scolded angrily in his heart, but he had to pretend to be a harmless smile. "Haha, I really let the virtuous brother guess it. The foolish brother had indeed seen this thing before. It's just that I didn't have enough money at that time, so I couldn't buy a collection. As a result, when I went to look for it later, the man who sold the fire gun didn't know where he had gone! ”

"Oops, that's a shame! I've heard people say it's not easy to build! The ghost genius Li Si grinned, his face full of chagrin, as if the person who didn't buy the handcuff was himself.

"yes, it's a pity!" Zhu Eighty-one continued to sigh, and at the same time kept looking at Li Si's entourage with his eyes. If everyone carries a firecracker, a dozen people are a dozen firecrackers. No matter who is targeted by a dozen firearms, his heart will not be at peace. What's more, as a person who has fused the souls of the afterlife, he is naturally a little more jealous of tubular weapons!

The two of them were talking face-to-face, and they both knew that there must be something wrong with each other's identities, but neither of them wanted to take the initiative to poke through this layer of window paper. The side with fewer people, although it has a fire gun in hand, if it really fights, it may not have a chance to fight out of the encirclement. However, the side with a large number of people did not dare to order his subordinates to do it because they could not figure out the power and effective killing distance of the copper firecracker.

The two were jealous of each other on the official road, but they suffered other hurryers. In just such a short period of time, several caravans have been blocked. One by one, they blew their beards and glared, and protested loudly in the distance, "The proprietor of the Vulna convoy, can you let you get on the road?" You two brothers want to chat, where can't you talk! Block the good avenue and let others climb the mud pit?! ”

When Zhu Bayi heard this, he couldn't help but blushed with shame. was thinking about how to find an excuse to kidnap Li Si and go back to Xuzhou with him, but he heard the other party mention with a smile, "Little brother and Brother Zhu hit it off at first sight today, and they have the heart to make friends." This handcuff flying dragon handcuff should be given to Brother Zhu as a meeting gift. also forgot Brother Zhu's wish! ”

"Hmm!" After all, Zhu Bayi's experience in dealing with people in his two lifetimes combined is not as much as Li Si's life. Therefore, it is inevitable that there are some constraints in front of the other party. At this moment, he heard that the other party was willing to take the initiative to give in, so he simply pushed the boat down the river, "In this way, the foolish brother made a friend of the virtuous brother." The foolish brother's surname is Zhu, and his name is called Chongjiu. In the future, the virtuous brother will have time to visit the mountains and rivers in this area, and if he wants to sit at the foolish brother's house, he will go to the south bank of the Yellow River to find Zhu Chongjiu! ”

"Junior brother Li Hanqing, I've seen Brother Chongjiu!" Li Si immediately put the handcuff on the ground along with the box, and then officially saluted Zhu Bayi.

Zhu Eighty-one is actually far less old than Li Sisi, but his life has been rough in this life, and he has really experienced some vicissitudes. Therefore, he simply held it up, took half a step sideways, and returned it with the courtesy of his peers, "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." Brother Hanqing, there is nothing to pay tribute to you for your brother. This knife was obtained by chance, so I will give it to you! ”

As he spoke, he untied the treasure knife given by Sesame Li from his waist and handed it to the ghost genius Li Si with both hands.

The two brothers, friends and brothers, in front of all the entourages and rushers, staged a good and warm drama. After filling enough, they put away their gifts and waved goodbye. Waiting for Li Si to mix in the middle of passers-by, he rode away on horseback. Xu Hongsan, who had been ordered to copy the back road, returned to his position in a detour. Feeling that the target was gone, he hurriedly ran to Zhu Eighty-one and asked breathlessly, "Dudu, that kid is gone?!" You, why did you let him go like this?!" ”

"I'd like to keep him, but can I keep him?!" Zhu Eighty-one still hadn't recovered from the shock, pointed to the fire box placed on the carriage, and responded helplessly.

"What is this?" Xu Hongsan was stunned and reached out to lift the lid of the box. Zhu Eighty-one, who had always been generous to him, slapped him on the back of his hand and scolded loudly, "Don't move, this is a terrible thing." ”

Seeing Xu Hongsan's face full of grievances, after thinking about it, he added in a low voice, "No one was left, it is enough to leave this thing." In fact, since the other party has this thing in his hand, the secrets we have worked so hard to hide are just a layer of window paper! ”

For more than two months after the end of the battle, the reason why he cooperated with Zhao Jun everywhere, even if the latter did not complain about erasing his contribution to Tianhe in his public proclamation to the outside world, was to prevent the Mengyuan court from realizing the true power of gunpowder and putting this thing into the battlefield more effectively. After all, the Xuzhou army has only controlled half of the land so far, and the several prefectures and counties that are regarded as the targets of extortion by everyone are only two roads of territory. The Mengyuan Dynasty, on the other hand, had more than 180 roads, 33 prefectures, more than 500 prefectures, and thousands of counties. The huge fighter plane is running, even if it still uses that backward garbage gunpowder, it is enough to pile the Xuzhou Red Turban Army to death!

And now, the secret is definitely no longer kept. And in the hands of the Mengyuan court, there are still a large number of muskets in their hands. Although it will not give every soldier a shot, as long as it is popularized to a certain extent, it can still make the current advantage of the Xuzhou Red Turban Army disappear.

Just as he was feeling, he heard his Sicang join the army Yu Changlin and said loudly: "If you stab it, you can stab it, anyway, we can't hide it from our opponent for a lifetime." As long as our soldiers are better than Tartars, don't fight like we did last time. You can still beat them all over the ground to find teeth!! ”

"That's right!" Zhu Bayi took a breath and nodded slightly. The superiority of weapons may not completely determine the outcome of a war. Back then, Li Zicheng was still leading a group of peasants, didn't he also abuse the army of the late Ming Dynasty and fled? ! Judging from what I have learned in the past two months, this Great Yuan Dynasty has reached the end of the period, and how strong can it be compared to the Ming Dynasty? !

Thinking of this, his depressed mood finally perked up again, waved his hand, and commanded loudly, "Hong San, you and Lao Yu, take thirty brothers, and escort the goods to the canal." Twenty-two, you take the rest of the brothers, ride a horse and follow me back to Xuzhou immediately! ”

"Yes!" The backbone officers in the team were all born and died with him that day, so they cooperated with each other very tacitly. A loud yes and a word of agreement divided all the "guys" into two waves. Yibo drove the carriage to follow Xu Hongsan and Yu Changlin to the canal. The other wave picked the best horses, protected Zhu Bayi and the wooden box that he regarded as a priceless treasure, and hurried towards Xuzhou along Route 6.

There are still more than ten miles away from Xuzhou City, and there is a continuous thunder in the ears, "boom, boom, boom", which frightened the war horse under the crotch and kept snorting. Looking up, I saw that the black and yellow smoke and dust covered the entire city, as if there were hundreds of thousands of demons and monsters hidden in that area, and they were piled up, spraying clouds and fog in the sun.

"His grandmother's, we worked hard to get them gunpowder raw materials everywhere, and they don't know how to save a little!" As a disciple of Mr. Su, Wu Twenty-two inevitably has a little family spirit, listening to the explosions around him wave after wave, he couldn't help but pout and complain.

"Yes, yes! Although the money is easy to come by, it can't stop them from being so bad! The other brothers also pouted and whispered in agreement.

Since the last battle, Zhu Bayi led them to turn the tide at a critical moment, and the primitive grenade has become the weapon of choice for all armies. Not only did Zhu 81's Left Army set up a special grenadier squad of 1,000 men, but the other armies were also eager to give each brother a dozen grenades. And with the concerted efforts of Tang Zihao, Mr. Su, Li Mubai and others, the pattern of the grenade was also filled with gunpowder from the bamboo tube, and many fresh varieties were added out of thin air.

There were cast-iron shells with iron slag and gunpowder; There were arson-bombs with wood shells with sulfur, dry sawdust, and gunpowder. There is a wrought iron shell, with three holes in it, filled with inferior gunpowder, which does not explode when the fuse is ignited, but only spews clouds and mist, and at the same time emits a screeching ghost's crying bomb; There is also a kind of yellow pottery shell filled with wolf poison, toad crisp, croton, arsenic, dogwood and Beiyuan kind of inferior gunpowder smoke bombs, not used to blow people, specially used to smoke the eyes of war horses. After lighting the fuse, he smashed a huge bamboo bullet bow towards the enemy's cavalry position, which not only smoked the war horse, but also the cavalry on horseback was so smoky that he couldn't open his eyes in a short time.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhu Bayi had dealt with these guys a long time ago and knew each other's details, otherwise they would have wondered if they were all crossing goods. Otherwise, how could even primitive tear gas canisters be made? And I didn't get anyone's advice beforehand!

Note 1: The Yuan Dynasty handcuffs have indeed begun to be mass-produced. There are physical displays in the Military Museum. It has a length of 43.5 cm, a diameter of 3 cm, and a weight of 4.75 kg. There is an inscription on the time of production.