/*Boil, the modernization process has begun*/

Just when Zhang Guanghua was about to despair, an unexpected person arrived, this person was Huang Da, and he also brought thousands of explosives bags and grenades!

Zhang Guanghua, who was desperate for his life, instantly cried with joy, and he immediately commanded the rebel army to fight the Yuan army on the city wall again with the last strength.

Then he instructed Shen Li to let the bowl mouth gun explode behind the Yuan army's line as much as possible, so that they had no way to retreat but to rush down the city. The ladder that had been set up outside the city wall was too late to be pushed down, and it was just enough to attract the strength of the Yuan army. As more and more Yuan troops piled up under the city, more than 100 craftsmen led by Huang Da also formed a temporary demolition team, and their main task was to place the burning oil pot in front of them, and then ignite them and throw explosives packets.

"Dynamite pack, dynamite pack! Why don't you vote yet! Zhang Guanghua shouted and looked around, and saw that Huang Da on the right was actually shot to the ground by an arrow.

"Grass! Listen to me, pack explosives, throw! Zhang Guanghua decisively ordered, and grabbed an explosive bag and personally lit the fuse and threw it down the city, and as the first explosion came, the other demomen scattered around the city wall also set fire to all the explosive bags around them and threw them down. The rebels next to him saw that it was so easy to throw explosives, and they all picked up the nearest explosives bag or grenade, and moved forward in a decent manner.

"Boom, boom, boom......" Explosions came from under the city walls, shaking everyone on the city walls to the ground. When Zhang Guanghua stood up and looked down at the city, he found that it was simply Shura Hell below, countless Yuan troops were lying in blood and struggling, and more Yuan troops were shocked to their eardrums and stayed in place with a demented face, and the ladder that was originally erected on the city wall was also blown apart and fell to the ground.

Barbed Sha originally thought that Anxi was already fat at the mouth this time, and finally pressed most of the troops to the front line, but he didn't expect that in the end, more than 10,000 people were killed or injured in this way, more than 10,000 people! Even if you just cut off your head, you have to cut it for half a day! All of a sudden, it was gone.

Zhang Guanghua stood up and looked into the distance, and found that the Yuan army in the distance had begun to retreat in panic and inexplicably.

Crying with joy, he hurriedly asked Lu Guangfu to organize the remaining cavalry who could ride horses out of the city to pursue. And just waiting for Lu Guangfu to rush out, there was also a huge shout from the valley in the distance, it turned out that Li Da heard one explosion after another and knew that Anxi City was in a hurry, and immediately broke out of the Golden Valley, and at this time, the Yuan army defending them in the Golden Valley had been transferred by the barbed sand to attack the city, and they easily broke through successfully. When Li Da and Lü Guangfu gathered together, there was no suspense about the outcome of the victory, and the Yuan army fled back to Quanzhou in embarrassment after leaving more than half of the dead and wounded soldiers.

"Ou! Europe! Europe! The victory was accompanied by the joyful cheers of the soldiers in the city. It was a miracle that the city was about to be broken just now, but the outcome was rewritten in this instant.

And the subsequent imperial history will also record this battle as the most classic first battle of modern hot \ weapon warfare. The powerful lethality of explosive weapons to the gathered army in this war allowed the emperor to open a new mode of war, so that they put artillery support in the first place in various wars in the future, so that before the war began, even each of them was full of grenades. Of course, that's for later.

On July 20, 1354, the Battle of Anxi came to an end, and when the dust settled, a night of revelry ensued.

The protagonists of this night do not belong to Zhang Guanghua, Li Da, or Lu Guangfu, but to Huang Da, who was born as a prisoner, and Shen Li, who was born as a merchant, because they did not belong to the army, but Zhang Guanghua's personal subordinates, so they could not accumulate military merits, so Li Da had to give them rich rewards, and Shen Li gave all the rewards to those meritorious craftsmen.

This night, the wine in the entire county was consumed, and when Zhang Guanghua woke up with a hangover, it was already noon, and he handed over the aftermath to Lu Xian and other staff to handle, and went to the workshop to reward the craftsmen. During the time when Zhang Guanghua was gone, Shen Li recruited another twenty or thirty craftsmen, and although Shen Li was smiling all day long as a businessman, he was quite disciplined in doing things. Zhang Guanghua gave him 40 taels of silver is only equivalent to 20,000 yuan in later generations, it is far from enough to spread out such a big business, he decisively borrowed 800 taels of silver from the new magistrate Zhao Shan, which can complete the modification of more than 1,000 guns in such a short period of time, which also confirms his ability from the other side. But even so, the funds in his hands are stretched.

Knowing that Shen Li was already facing a serious cash crisis, and even the craftsman took his own reward last time, he immediately went to Li Da.

"General Li, how powerful is the Gun and Explosives Pack this time?" Seeing that Li Da was training soldiers on the school ground, Zhang Guanghua pulled him aside and whispered.

"Then what else is there to say, leverage!"

"Then does General Li still want to have more such good things in the army in the future?" Zhang Guanghua said with a wicked smile.

"Why did the military advisor say that?" Li Da finally felt a little wrong.

"General Li, you see, this time, the 'arquebus' and the explosives package were all provided by my subordinate chamber of commerce, which cost thousands of taels of silver, and this is still a loan from the treasury bank, and the interest must be repaid every day, and now my craftsmen are almost unable to open the pot." Zhang Guanghua finally got to the point of the matter.

"And such a thing?"

"Of course! You don't know that you are fighting outside, how can those craftsmen in the county government make such a sharp weapon, this is provided by the Chamber of Commerce. And in the future, the Chamber of Commerce will definitely be able to come up with better weapons for you. ”

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Under Zhang Guanghua's deception, Li Da finally agreed to pay for this "weapons procurement"; more than 1,000 quasi-arquebuses transformed from firecrackers were repurchased at a processing fee of 2 taels of silver each, and more than 1,000 explosive bags and grenades were purchased at a unit price of one tael of silver, and several thousand explosives were also ordered from Zhang Guanghua.

As for the specific contract, Zhang Guanghua handed it over to Shen Li to sign with Li Da. Seeing that it had only been more than ten days, Zhang Guanghua had brought four or five times the profit to the Chamber of Commerce, and paid off the loan, he simply staged an ancient empty glove white wolf, which was justified, Shen Li, an obscene fat man, suddenly admired Zhang Guanghua so much.

When the money is in place, there is no doubt that the next thing will be the carnival of the Chamber of Commerce.

Huang Da has recruited more than a dozen craftsmen in the past few days in Anxi, and he has also joined Shen Li's team, and now there are thirty or forty people in the entire Chamber of Commerce.

Zhang Guanghua decided to reward Shen Li, Huang Da and dozens of craftsmen with a unique dinner, this victory, they rushed to make weapons overnight, but this matter has to be discussed with Shen Li and them.

When he came to Shen Li's residence, Zhang Guanghua found that there were many more people in the yard, and he couldn't find the two of them at all. It turned out that Shen Li thought the same as himself, and he was also going to reward the craftsmen tonight, because there were many people, this time the cooks and those who helped with the cooking invited more than a dozen, no wonder the courtyard was so lively.

Seeing Zhang Guanghua coming, Shen Li also showed joy, because there were too many people, the house was too small to sit down, he was worried, and now he just threw this burden to Zhang Guanghua.

Zhang Guanghua listened to the inspiration, patted Shen Li's shoulder, smiled mysteriously, and said Don't worry, I have my own arrangements. He went out to buy some dates, plums, peaches and other seasonal fruits, found some tables, stools and chairs of similar height from his neighbors, and came back with two barbecue stoves in the blacksmith shop.

When the dishes were almost ready, the craftsmen arrived one after another. Shen Li saw that Zhang Guanghua borrowed a table and chair, so he pulled him to discuss how to put it, who was in the first seat and who was in the second seat, etc., Guanghua laughed after hearing it, and said that he would not do it like this today, listen to me! He set the table into two, one for food and one for people.

Shen Li came over to take a look after being busy, and he had a big headache, and then he kept nagging around Zhang Guanghua, saying that how could this work, it was out of order. "Why not, we're not readers, so it's decided!" Zhang Guanghua pushed him back with a word.

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"Hurry up, everyone!" Carpenter Liu's forehead was already covered with fine sweat, and he kept urging the craftsmen who were hurrying behind him.

Carpenter Liu's name is Liu Li, but everyone calls him "Carpenter Liu", and he is the same batch of craftsmen recruited by Zhang Guanghua and Shen Li after breaking through Anxi. Zhang Guanghua taught them "mechanical drawing" when only Shen Li had the highest talent, followed by Liu Carpenter, after Zhang Guanghua left, under Shen Li's hand-in-hand teaching, he was better than the blue in a very short period of time, and finally became the person with the most profound understanding of mechanical drawing in the entire Yuan Dynasty, no one. Because Shen Li wanted to coordinate the overall situation of the Chamber of Commerce, he became the specific person in charge of the arquebus.

At the moment before receiving the notice of the dinner, he was still in the blacksmith shop with his subordinates to carry out the final technical research on the new arquebus, and when everything was done, he found that it was dark, so he hurried over.

I thought I was late and wanted to apologize to everyone present, but after Carpenter Liu entered the door, he found that this was not the case. First of all, there is a row of tables in the courtyard, on which are placed all kinds of fruits, dishes and hot pots, and the smoke next to the table is so thick that it is the military advisor who is roasting meat there with skewers! After the doorman wasted a lot of words, he knew that this was a "buffet", and after serving the meal, he could go to another row of tables to eat, sit and eat as he pleased, but there were two items, which could not be left and could not be taken away.

Stunned! Carpenter Liu saw this novel way of eating for the first time. The most lively scene was Zhang Guanghua's barbecue stall, where everyone lined up to get the meat skewers.

Seeing Carpenter Liu coming, Zhang Guanghua handed over the knack of skewers to the cook behind, took two skewers himself, took a plate and walked to the dining table.

Carpenter Liu held the plate, his face was full of excitement, this is Zhang Junshi! is his benefactor, if there is no military advisor to give him this high-tech career, his children and wife will be hungry.

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