The artillery commander Wan Hu Zhan Siding personally commanded the craftsmen to load ammunition on the spot, which was a delicate job. Because the Mongols still don't know the secret of granules - this should be related to the harshness of Mongolian military law and the high price of saltpeter and sulfur. In the eyes of Kublai Khan, a poor ghost and a great sweater, saltpeter and sulfur are simply gold dust and gold sand, precious as anything, if it is soaked in moisture, the officials and soldiers who manage the H medicine warehouse will be severely punished! If the circumstances are serious, there will be no forgiveness!

In this case, of course, it is not easy for the Mongolians to find that the powdered saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal mixed together are wet and then dried and ground into granules, which can still be used and have better performance.

Because there is no granular H medicine, the Mongolians can only take the method of storing saltpeter powder, sulfur powder and charcoal powder separately, and then mixing and preparing H medicine before the battle - because the specific gravity of these three powders is different, no matter how evenly mixed H medicine is in the hands of craftsmen, as long as it is shaken and bumped for a long time during transportation, it will cause the charcoal to float to the surface layer and the nitrate and sulfur to sink to the lower layer. It seriously affects the quality and efficacy of H drug.

It is obviously not an easy task to make saltpeter, sulfur powder and charcoal powder into a well-mixed H medicine according to the correct recipe before the battle. However, it is not difficult for the craftsmen under Junstin's command to configure the mixed H medicine. These color-eyed craftsmen didn't even use their scales, and just by feeling, they mixed and concocted H medicine, which was no less powerful than granular H medicine. It is then filled into the muzzle of the gun, the muzzle, and then stuffed with specially polished lead, and then pressed with a poke bar.

Finally, the craftsmen aimed their muzzles and muzzles at the steel armor hanging from two wooden stakes twenty paces away, and two craftsmen each held a red-hot iron fiber. His eyes looked at Junstin.

Junsdin looked back at Kublai Khan, "Great Khan." Can we get started? ”

Kublai Khan looked left and right and saw that everyone was stretching their necks. Holding one’s breath. Then he nodded triumphantly.

Junsdin waved his hand violently, and several craftsmen pressed the lifting gun and the small copper cannon hard at the same time, and the two latte fiber craftsmen immediately stabbed the red-hot iron fiber into the fire door of the lifting gun and the small copper cannon. Two flashes of light erupted suddenly, and then there was a deafening explosion! Almost at the same time, when two loud noises rang out, the front of the two pairs of steel armor hanging on the wooden stake thirty paces away was a hole in one large and one small!

A medium-carbon steel plate as thick as one minute (about three millimeters) is as fragile as a thin piece of paper! This is also worn on people, I am afraid that it will be two bowls of blood holes immediately!

"Well played!"

"Awesome!"

"I'm not afraid of thieves now!"

The Mongol generals who were watching around immediately cheered. Junsidin said loudly: "Great Khan, his subordinates have finished firing, do you want to try firing another shot?" ”

Kublai Khan shook his head, this was not the first time he had seen a fire bolt test-fired. Today's demonstration in front of the generals was just to boost morale, and the cheers of the audience seemed to have reached the goal. He walked in front of everyone, turned to those beaming generals, and said loudly: "We in Great Mongolia now also have H medicine and fire guns!" It's not just two doors, it's three thousand! ”

"Hooray!"

"Immortal Heaven bless the Mongols!"

The Mongol generals cheered at the same time. Three thousand firebolts! In the battle of the Daqing River, only a hundred guns almost crushed the army of Ming thieves. If it is thirty times more, what reason is there not to defeat Chen Dexing?

Kublai Khan's face had sunk. The tone also became solemn: "Huojiao, I gave it to you, if three thousand is not enough, five thousand." If 5,000 is not enough, 8,000, I am smashing the pot and selling iron. and made for you! But with this firecracker, it does not mean that Chen Dexing will definitely be defeated...... Because. No matter how good a weapon is, it depends on the warriors to use it!

I think that when our Great Mongolia was just emerging, the generation of the great Genghis Khan, they had neither Uzi steel scimitars, nor forged fish scale iron armor, nor H medicine fire guns. But they laid a great Mongolian kingdom for us unworthy descendants! What do they rely on? It is tenacious, tenacious, fearless, and not afraid of hardship...... Don't be afraid of death! With these things, our warriors of Great Mongolia can use wooden bows, bone arrows, bamboo knives, and even fists to flatten the country of the Han people!

Now, we must not only pick up the fire gun, but also pick up the magic weapons of our ancestors. Starting from me, we will endure hardships and work hard together in the Great Mongolia! From tomorrow onwards, none of us will live in Kaifeng City, and we will all go out of the city to live in yurts! Tell you women not to wear any silk and satin, what rouge gouache to use, we are Mongolians, this is not uncommon! ”

The Mongolian generals nodded solemnly, Kublai Khan's prestige, at least for now, can still suppress these Mongolian thousands of households...... And who of them does not want the Great Mongols to pick themselves up and return to the time of Genghis Khan, able to endure hardships, endure wars, be indomitable, and be fearless in death?

Now the pseudo-Tang Dynasty can rise like this, and the reason is not all because they have H medicine, heavenly thunder, big guns, and steel armor...... It's about the degradation of the Mongols themselves! This is not caused by Chen Dexing's butterfly effect, but exists in the original time and space. In the civil war between Kublai Khan and the Mongol kings such as Ali Buge, Haidu, and Naiyan, the Mongol Han army played a great role, and the same was true in the rebellion of Li Pu and the peaceful destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty. The Mongol army's performance on the battlefield became increasingly disappointing, and Kublai Khan's dependence on the Han army grew. And Ali Buge, Haidu, Naiyan and other Mongolian generals became defeated generals of the Han army in three days!

And at the moment, if the Mongols, who have few Han troops available, do not regain their ancestors' abilities. In the following battle, even if there were 3,000 guns and camel cannons available, most of them would not be able to defeat Chen Dexing's Northern Ming army.

Although Kublai Khan had already made a clever plan to defeat the enemy, he also knew that it was not enough to have a strategy alone, if the Mongols let the Ming army be defeated on the battlefield, Li Pu would not be able to send troops to fight Yanjing, he would only take advantage of the fire to loot and launch an offensive on the territory of Dayuan.

The Mongols, at least on the battlefield, have to draw with Chen Dexing's Ming army!

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The pier in Tanggu is now full of teams that have come to greet them. With most of Hebei falling into the hands of Chen Dexing, the function of the military fortress of Tanggu has also changed. From a military fortress turned into a huge construction site - a new northern commercial trade and financial center is in full swing.

Yanjing is obviously one of the capitals of the future Ming Empire, and the Ming Dynasty is now showing the momentum of dominating the world. Then this Tanggu, which is close to Yanjing, with the canal on the left and the sea on the right, will definitely be the northern commercial and trade center in the future! Now, it's nothing more than a fortress, a port, and a desolate plain.

In the eyes of a discerning businessman, this is clearly the best place to invest - maybe in ten or twenty years, this desolate seaside plain will become another Quanzhou! Land that is not worth much now will become a prime location with many shops and every inch of land. It's the same as the street markets in Quanzhou and Lin'an.

At least, the Jiangnan maritime merchants, who were close to the Chen Dexing regime, firmly believed this.

Therefore, when the Daming, with white sails and a dark hull, appeared at the Beitanggu Wharf at the mouth of the Haihe River. What came into Chen Dexing's eyes was a patch of construction sites, which was a little hotter than when he left a few months ago. Even though the weather has cooled down and the northwest wind has brought several snowfalls, it has not reduced people's enthusiasm for investing in construction.

New streets, new wharves, new warehouses, new workshops, new residential areas, new schools, new government offices and council halls are all appearing in Tanggu at a magical rate. Countless strong craftsmen, mostly refugees temporarily resettled on both sides of the Hai River, were coming from the south under the direction of their masters, doing all sorts of carpentry and masonry work.

There are also some hired workers from the Tanggu Municipal Government, all of whom wear uniform gray clothes. Some paved stone roads or dug ditches for drainage in the open plains, others cleared garbage from city streets that were beginning to take shape, and still others were busy working near the docks.

Tanggu City, like other county-level places in the Ming Dynasty, also implements the autonomy of the gentry and gentry - the first governor of the city and the chief official of the city government is of course appointed from above, Chen Dexing appointed a member of the Huang family (Huang Zhishen's family), Huang Zhiyong, who was originally in charge of the Huang family's business in Japan for a long time, became the governor of the city, and also selected some talents from the two major businessmen of "Changguo Deng" and "Jiamen Shen" (the Changguo Deng family is now also in business) family to serve as the chief official of the city government.

He also elected a council for the gentry and nobles who settled in Tanggu, and exempted Tanggu from commercial taxes for five years - not that there was no tax on trading in Tanggu, but that Tanggu City did not have to pay money to the top. Of course, the customs tariff is not under the control of Tanggu City, which is the central tax of Beiming - and then nothing is left...... In fact, it can't be managed, how can he, a seafarer in the 21st century, understand what a commercial city in the 13th century was all about? And he didn't have any spare money to invest.

On the wharf, a group of officials and councilors from Tanggu City, who already knew about Chen Dexing's return, gathered at the wharf to greet them. There were also some Tanggu City third-class catchers with long knives in their waists to maintain order at the scene. The garrison of Tanggu Fortress also sent soldiers and horses to guard everywhere under the command of the commander of the fortress. There are also many merchants, workers and other people here in Tanggu, who have also heard the news and know that the future Son of Heaven, the current king of the Ming Dynasty, has returned from the victorious class in the south. Everyone spontaneously gathered on the pier or the main road, stretching their necks, just to get a glimpse of Chen Dexing, the legendary god-like king, from afar! (To be continued......)