According to the information obtained by all parties, Zhang Chu had a general understanding of the current situation, and now it should be September of the first year of Chongzhen, and his location is within the scope of Guanzhuang Town in Yanchang County, Yan'an Prefecture, and it is fifty miles away from Yanchang County. Now that Shaanxi has been experiencing drought for many years, peasants everywhere who have failed to harvest grain have no choice but to leave their hometowns and wander around. Some of the landlords everywhere ran to the county seat to take refuge, and some continued to build walls to build forts, and hid in the forts themselves in order to protect themselves. The landlord kept accumulating food like a rat, but refused to give it to the victims. The only way to get more food was to lay down the landlord's fort. But Zhang Chu's current strength has no way to deal with the larger Zhuang Bao. He could only attack the smaller Zhuangzi, so Zhang Chu sent personnel to conduct a careful reconnaissance of the surrounding situation, and Zhang Chu finally selected Wenta Village, which was not far from here, as the first target.

The landlord of Wenta Village is surnamed Zhou and his name is Zhou Lianming. is very stingy, Zhang Chu's mind immediately made up the image of Zhou Papi. The landlord of Zhou has nearly 1,000 acres of land, and has also built a fence in the village to enclose his residence, and has raised more than a dozen thugs who take care of the house. However, there is no ditch to protect the village, so the difficulty in laying down the fort is how to climb over the wall.

Since Zhang Chu and the others only killed the bandits in the valley and did not act outside the mountain, they did not attract the attention of all parties. All the money found from the bandits' bodies was concentrated in Zhang Chu's hands, and now it could come in handy. Zhang Chu ordered Yang Biao and Yang Liu, the sons of Yang Blacksmith, to take people out to purchase some materials, mainly to buy some iron materials, and it would be better if they could buy gunpowder, sulfur, nitrate, and the like. What is more important is to buy oil that is unique to the Yanchang region. Shen Kuo, a famous scientist in the Northern Song Dynasty, investigated and studied the oil in the Yanchang area of northern Shaanxi during his tenure as the envoy of the Yanlu Shrine, and wrote in the "Mengxi Writings": "There is oil in Yan, and it is said that Gaonu County produces fat water, that is. The first oil well in Chinese mainland is located in the playground of West Petroleum Hope Primary School in Yanchang County, the predecessor of Yanchang Oil Mine, "Yanchang Petroleum Official Factory", founded in 1905, is the earliest onshore development of oil fields in China. During the Ming Dynasty, oil began to be used in military affairs, known as fierce fire oil.

When the procurement personnel left, Zhang Chu was not idle, while urging He Jin to lead people to train and make mobilization preparations before the war. On the one hand, he took two newcomers with a little kiln burning experience and two children, Li Qiang and Zhang Guo, to start their careers as charcoal burners. They built two simple earthen kilns, one for charcoal and one for ceramic vessels. Thick smoke rose in the valley, Zhang Chu and the others smoked their faces black, and after burning out the waste products of one kiln after another, they finally burned out the usable charcoal and the watertight wine jug. Although the number is small, it should be enough, and more importantly, Zhang Chu made a detailed record of the whole process, remembering the criteria for success and the reasons for failure.

A few days later, Yang Biao and others came back from shopping, and some iron materials were bought, but gunpowder was not bought, but sulfur and nitrate were still bought, and a cart of oil was pulled back in wooden barrels. With these things, Zhang Chu was very happy and arranged for people to continue to go out to purchase, and the purchased things needed to be further processed.

Zhang Chu burned some charcoal from willow branches in an earthen kiln, and asked people to grind the charcoal into powder. This time, Zhang Chu didn't dare to bring anyone else, so he could only find a cave far away from the village and set up a sentry to prevent people from approaching. Everyone said that the master was alchemy inside. Sure enough, soon he saw the fire rising in the cave, and the master walked out of the cave with a dark face, and his hair on his head was finally a little longer, standing on end and curling with burnt yellow. Zhang Chu secretly thought to himself that it was good that the dose was small, or he would really have to go to see the sages. However, otaku have the advantage of being an otaku, and the time-traveling novels that used to be read at the starting point without sleep still worked, and the best formula for gunpowder has become a necessary skill for every time-traveler. Zhang Chu still remembers that ratio after seeing more, but because the purity of the raw materials is not high, he tried many times to get a little less powerful finished product, and only used all the raw materials according to the proportion of the test There are more than a pound of things, Zhang Chu looked at the porcelain jar containing the black things, and thought that with these things, there will always be fewer deaths.

Then Zhang Chu really started alchemy, a large water tank was put on the fire, the tank was added with oil, and a large iron funnel with a curved iron pipe was buckled upside down, and the pipe of the funnel passed through a water tank filled with water, and the opening of the pipe was connected by a small water tank. Zhang Chu silently chanted a mantra against this strange device, in fact, Zhang Chu was silently chanting as long as it did not catch fire. Zhang Chu carefully controlled the size of the fire, and finally a liquid flowed out of the nozzle and flowed into the small tank below. Zhang Chu dipped a little bit of the liquid with a branch close to the source of the fire, and the branch caught fire all of a sudden, whether he was gasoline or diesel, Zhang Chu handed over this nondescript Lian Dan furnace to others to take care of, telling everyone to pay attention to fire prevention. But he brought a jar of liquid to the back mountain and set it on fire, and before leaving, he had to leave the sugar in the kitchen.

The oil bought after a day's smelting quickly ran out, and several cans of what Zhang Chu called "gasoline" were obtained. Ordered people to seal and store the "gasoline" in porcelain jars, and Zhang Chu summoned Yang Biao, He Jin and others to prepare for war.

Zhang Chu decided that all the people were divided into two teams, led by Yang Biao and He Jin respectively, and on the table, Zhang Chu used dirt and branches and other things to pose a simple model of Wenta Village Fort, and asked Yang Biao and He Jin to repeatedly try how to attack, how to defend the people in the village, what kind of accidents are likely to happen, and what countermeasures to take, until all the possibilities are arranged to deal with it.

Previously, Zhang Chu had gradually revealed to the people in training that he was going to attack a Zhuang Fort, and everyone was both excited and a little worried, and after Zhang Chu continued to cheer everyone up, they looked forward to the upcoming battle.

Everyone was gathered under the leadership of He Jin and Yang Biao, after these days of training, the team has some appearance, Zhang Chu looked at the team and didn't say much, and said directly: "Today we have to go out and work hard, what reward we can get depends on whether we are brave on the battlefield or not, and the discipline has been memorized, and then emphasize two rules: the killing of **** women and the killing of those who hide private property." Let's go," Zhang Chu issued an order.

The team set off silently, followed by three carts pulling things for attack, the first car was a beam and some ladders for climbing, and the second car was according to Zhang Chu's requirements, Wu carpenter They carefully selected an elm tree, dug a hole in the trunk from the middle, and made an elm cannon with an iron hoop outside, Zhang Chu filled the elm cannon with gunpowder and iron sand, thinking that as long as it could be sounded once. On the third car were all kinds of strange-shaped wine jugs and firewood and grass fired by Zhang Chu.

At noon, they arrived at Wenta Village, and as planned, they would enter Zhuangbao if possible, but Zhuang Ding saw that someone was approaching Zhuangzi and immediately closed the gate of Zhuangzi, and the gong for the alarm sounded. Zhang Chu immediately ordered He Jin and Yang Biao to attack, under the cover of a simple shield, everyone approached the Zhuang Gate, Zhuang Ding on the gatehouse saw this and immediately shot at everyone with a bow and arrow in his hand, several arrows were nailed to the shield, the people outside the wall had approached the gate, several wine jugs filled with Zhang Chu's specially prepared "gasoline", the mouth of the pot was stuffed with cloth strips, the fire flashed, the burning wine jug was thrown on the gatehouse, a Zhuang Ding who was putting arrows was hit, and fell from the gatehouse with a scream on fire, and the fire of the gatehouse burned at the same time, Zhuang Nei has long been prepared to set fire to the door, and a water tank to extinguish the fire was prepared above the gatehouse, and Zhuang Ding immediately poured water to extinguish the fire, but a strange thing happened, the fire actually floated on the water, and the water flowed there and the fire went there. The wine jug kept being thrown up from under the gatehouse, the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and the villagers had to flee from the gatehouse, and the cart with the beams outside the door was pushed over, and the beams hit the door of the village hard, and the door shook but did not fall. The crowd pulled back the cart and prepared for the next impact.

Although the landlord of Zhou was over 50 years old, and his pampered life made him obese, he was extremely heroic at this moment related to the safety of his property, and personally took a knife to the front of the village to organize Zhuang Ding's defense.

"Guarding Zhuangzi will reward each person with five taels of silver!" Although the flesh hurts, the landlord of Zhou still offered a reward.

Zhuang Ding climbed the wall again under the supervision of the landlord of Zhou, and two Zhuang Ding with bows and arrows shot arrows outward with bows, and two people outside Zhuang were immediately shot down by bows and arrows and screamed in pain. The flask that was on fire outside the wall soon flew over, and Zhuang Ding, who was shooting arrows, tumbled down the wall with a fire. The villagers hid on the wall and did not dare to show their heads. The sound of banging on the door is still ringing, seeing that the door is about to be unable to support, the landlord of Zhou immediately organized Zhuang Ding to block the door with knives and guns to prepare for a counterattack. With a loud bang, the Zhuang door couldn't help but crash and fell down. Zhuang Ding inside the door clenched his knife and gun and prepared for the next fight, the strange thing is that the thieves outside did not rush in immediately, but just blocked an elm with an iron hoop at the door, Zhou Dizhuang saw the opportunity and shouted: "Go and block the door." Zhuang Ding immediately stepped forward to block the door, at this time the fire on the elm flashed, and a large amount of iron sand erupted from the hole in front of the elm forest, and Zhuang Ding in front of him was knocked down several times by the splashing iron sand, and the people outside rushed in from the door with shouts. Yang Biao and He Jin were in groups of three or five, armed with guns and knives and Zhuang Ding began to fight, although Zhuang Ding usually practiced martial arts, but with the cooperation of the other team, there was no advantage, and both sides had casualties. One of them should be the middle-aged man of Zhuang Ding's martial arts is very good, with a spear in his hand, killing the people besieging him retreated, and soon two people were pierced by his spear, at this time Zhang Chu also rushed in, after entering the village, Zhang Chu did not join the fight, but held two wine jugs in his hand and observed, followed by a companion with a torch. Zhang Chu saw that the leader of Zhuang Ding was brave and immediately raised the wine jug, and the people behind him lit the cloth strip on the wine jug with a torch, Zhang Chu raised his hand and smashed the wine jug at the leader of Zhuang Ding, the leader of Zhuang Ding was really powerful, shaking the big gun to smash the wine jug, but the splashed liquid turned the spear into a torch, and the flames that followed the spear forced the leader of Zhuang Ding to throw away the spear, but Zhang Chu's second wine jug did not smash it on him, and the wine jug was thrown directly at his feet. The flames made him jump and jump, and the distraction deprived him of his chance, and two spears thrust out and crucified him to the ground. Seeing this, the other Zhuang Ding completely lost the will to fight, screaming and running towards the village, Yang Biao and others did not follow the scattering to chase, but maintained the cooperation of the group to solve the Zhuang Ding who fell behind one by one, the Zhou landlord knew that the general trend had gone, but he was still unwilling, and rushed up with a long knife in person, and could only sit on the ground and wail after being pierced by a spear in each leg with a hole. Everyone shouted: "Kneel and don't kill!" While he began to clear the remnants of the Zhuang Ding. All those who resisted were killed, and those who knelt on the ground were disarmed and concentrated in the empty field of Zhuangzi.

Zhang Chu immediately led people to check the casualties of his own people and treat the wounded.

He Jin and others began to count the belongings in the village, and when they saw that more and more belongings were piled up, the landlord of Zhou, who was sitting on the ground, stopped wailing. Looking at his belongings that are about to change hands, he is distressed, and he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead.