With this episode of humiliating Hauge, several dignitaries in the Dolgon group obviously added some favor to Li Xin, and he also gained a reputation for courage and resourcefulness, and no one underestimated him since then. Li Xin was actually blessed by misfortune and initially won their acceptance.

However, the trouble that troubled Li Xin soon came, and Dolgon gave him a very difficult task, that is, to order him to create a blossom thunder as much as possible. The Qing army was very efficient, and several old ironworkers were found that afternoon.

The Tartar needs the purpose of the blossom thunder Li Xin knew that he was ready to slaughter the people of the Ming Dynasty, but he could not continue to gain the trust of Dolgon. In the end, Lee Shin-sang came up with a compromise idea and cut corners on the design of the fuse. For example, the fuse of the flower thunder in Gaoyang City is an iron wheel stone ignition device, which is not afraid of rain when it is damp-proof. At this moment, he used a fire rope to start the fire, and sealed the medicine with a paper roll, without taking any moisture-proof measures.

In this way, the technical content is reduced, and the efficiency of the use of flowering mines becomes extremely low. First, the fire rope ignition fuse increases the failure rate and accident rate, or a dud, or an early explosion. The second is that there is no wax seal moisture-proof, once it encounters rainy weather, all the fuses of the flowering thunder are basically in a state of failure, which makes the flowering thunder useless, so that the use of the flowering thunder is greatly limited.

These ironworkers are specially built with the army to build ironware, and it takes only half an hour to build a few iron lumps, and now the Qing army is equipped with an artillery team, and the fire rope and gunpowder are even more common things. Each one ranges from three to five pounds.

When Dolgon heard that the flowering bomb had been made and he couldn't even take care of eating, he immediately summoned Duoduo, Kong Youde and a few other henchmen to the training ground behind the camp, only to see five iron bumps lined up. Kong Youde, as a senior firearms expert in the Qing army, played up and down with all his might.

"This thing is a blossom thunderbolt?"

"Exactly!"

Kong Youde was greatly disappointed, each flowering thunder is counted as three catties, how much brazen strength does it take to throw this thunder to a relatively safe distance for the thrower? However, there is no such problem as zài when used for the defense of the city, so he quickly defined the nature of this weapon, which is a defensive weapon and has little significance for attack!

After listening to Kong Youde's analysis, Dolgon was also a little interested, if this object could be thrown by people at will, it would be a rare offensive weapon for infantry, but now judging from the size and weight of the iron bump, it is impossible to carry it as an infantry offensive weapon.

Seeing the disappointment on the faces of several people, Duoduo suddenly interjected, "Can you use the bed crossbow to be converted into a tool for projecting flowering bullets?" ”

This idea is very creative, but Kong Youde said: "Fifteen Baylor is wrong, why use a bed crossbow to shoot, compared with artillery, isn't it cheaper and more convenient?" ”

Indeed, this is the reason, the deer tendon and leather for the manufacture of bed crossbows can not be completed in a few months, the cost is extremely high, and the formed bowstring is afraid of water, moisture, and fire.

Dolgon looked at the doorless flowering cannon and suddenly said, "Why don't you try to blow it up and see how powerful this thing is." ”

This thing is nothing more than a large firecracker, Li Xin ordered several ironworkers to line up the blossoming thunder, connect the fuse to pull the fire rope to the dirt slope behind a safe distance, and then use a torch to ignite. A moment later, the deafening explosion exploded five times in a row, and Dolgon's ears were buzzing, and Kong Youde and Duoduo were not much better. Only Li Xin and a few ironworkers had prepared in advance, and they looked like they were in good time.

Looking at the place where the flowering mines were lined up, five flowering bombs had blown out a large oval-shaped crater. The shock of power made everyone shocked, and it would be a pity that such a good weapon could not be used for attack.

Dolgon suddenly said: "If we think about it differently, can we find out the weakness of this flowering thunder, and then formulate a plan to fight the southerners based on the weakness?" ”

One of the ironworkers was outspoken, and took out a half-finished fuse in his hand. "This fuse is the weakness!"

Dolgon took the seal letter and looked up and down, but Kong Youde understood: "The fuse can't stand the moisture, once it gets wet, the whole thunder will be wasted!" ”

"What if the fuse and gunpowder in the flowering bomb were installed in advance and then sealed with oiled paper to prevent moisture?"

"It's still not good, granular gunpowder will clump after a long time, but it will become dumb thunder!"

Li Xin denied Dolgon's construction, and it has to be said that Dolgon was a very imaginative person, and Li Xin felt the need to divert their attention in order to stop everyone's collective efforts.

"This kind of flowering thunder is also a firearm, it is a firearm is afraid of water, as long as it launches an attack on the defending side in rainy or rainy and snowy weather, it is helpless for convenience, and the fuse is damp in rainy and snowy weather, and the mute fire rate is very large. Both, under the heavy rain, can there be a fire rope that can be lit? ”

When it was really a word that woke up the dreamer, Duoduo praised without hesitation: "Sir is really insightful! ”

Dolgon was very satisfied with Li Xin's construction, and perhaps all he needed to conquer Gaoyang was a little rain.

That night, Lu Jiu came to see Li Xin and said that he heard the wind from the mouth of the little school, and Dolgon was ready to let the more than 200 people who came with Li Xin carry the Han military flag. In the past few days, Li Xin has been under the semi-surveillance of Dolgon, and most of the contacts around him are Manchurian, and the only Han person is the little school, who is very closed to the news. On the contrary, the treatment of horse thieves brought by Li Xin was completely different, and they had a relatively free range of activities in the Han military camp.

"It's credible!"

Lu Jiu stretched out two fingers, his thumb and index finger.

"Even the clothes of the Han military flag have been sent down, and the water is yellow."

This is a good sign, as long as you gain their trust and take the opportunity to kill Dorgon, then you will be done.

"Brother Thirteen, when will we act? After staying for a few days, I am afraid that the brothers will be reluctant to do this errand of the Han Army Banner and become real tartars! ”

Li Xin was stunned for a moment, grabbed Lu Jiu's placket and lowered his voice: "Remember not to make a big noise?" ”

"There is a thirteenth brother who dares to say it casually, and those who know about it are the old brothers of our village, but then again, everyone doesn't want to stay here for a long time, and they all look forward to the thirteenth brother taking everyone out of the Tartar camp one day!"

It's no wonder that Li Xin lacks trust in horse thieves, he has been locked up in prison since he crossed, and has little contact with most horse thieves, only a few close to Lu Jiu have the trust of comrades and comrades-in-arms. Then he whispered to Lu Jiu: "I'll give you the bottom today, what I plan is the head of Dolgon, he is our future rival of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Lu Jiu has been used to killing people since he was a child, he is not afraid of heaven and earth, as soon as he heard that he was going to kill someone, and the person he killed was still a slave chief, he couldn't control the excitement on his face, and spit on the ground with a big thick phlegm. squeezed out a sentence in a mosquito-like voice: "Damn, I've been holding it for more than a year, and I can finally do it!" ”

"See the wooden sign hanging outside my account? From today onwards, as long as you don't hang it, don't come, and if you see the wooden sign, you must come to see me anyway! ”

Watching Lu Jiu leave happily, Li Xin fell into deep thought: although Dolgon relaxed his vigilance against himself, but according to his own estimation of him, this person would never let himself lead the army, he is very likely to appoint Lu Jiu as the assistant leader, and he will be the strategist by his side for a long time in the future, if the truth is on the throne, maybe only he will have a chance if he sits on the golden dragon throne, but how can he wait until then?

Li Xin spent a long time in the past few days observing the activities of Dorgon's guards, and although the barracks were heavily guarded on the outside, they were tight on the outside and loose on the inside. Dolgon's guards were not so much about protecting their masters as they were about Hauge. It can be seen that the two people have deep grievances, and they are not at ease in the same military camp, for fear that the other party will stumble. But this suspicion is not yet a loophole that can be exploited.

Until one night, Li Xin leaked his stomach overnight, and he went out to squat for a while at the third watch, when there was no toilet in the barracks, and he was done at will. In order to explore the situation near Dolgon's tent by the way, Li Xin squatted behind Dolgon's tent. Unexpectedly, he heard a trace of coquettish sound, and at first Li Xin thought that he had hallucinated after being abstinent for too long, and then there was another sound, which made Li Xin itch.

Li Xin restrained the idea of breaking through the tent to get a glimpse of what was going on, because it was extremely dangerous to do so, and once he was discovered by the Qing army guards in the daytime, he would be the number one suspect. Even if he couldn't find out what was going on in the tent, Li Xin knew that Dolgon had hidden a woman in the tent. The military discipline in the Qing army camp was extremely strict, no matter who strictly forbade bringing women into the barracks, since Dolgon did such an unseemly thing, he must not want to be known by too many irrelevant people.

It was a discovery that excites him.

Sure enough, the guards who were three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry on weekdays were gone, but they all hid where Li Xin was excited and didn't sleep well all night, making him listless the next day. Dolgon also believed that Li Xin was ill and allowed him to return to his tent to rest as a sign of favor. As everyone knows, Li Xinzheng at this time is stumbling on him!

Next, Li Xin discovered the pattern, but this time it was not the third watch, but the fourth watch. Each time it is the beginning of the fourth watch, the end of the fifth watch. And during this period, the guards and guards returned to their accounts for a whole hour and a half, which was really a godsend.

Having made up his mind, Li Xin hung a wooden sign outside his tent, and Lu Jiu sneaked in overnight.

"Thirteenth brother, Tartar Feng I became the leader of the Han army, with more than 300 people!"

"Can't get enough of it?"

"Brother delays for another three days and five days, my brother really wants to be this real tartar, forget it, every day there is enough meat, money, clothes, and return to our officials. It is said that we are the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has not treated us so well. What did the Ming Dynasty give us? If it weren't for the Tartars coming, we would have been all rotten meat for wild dogs in the mass graves. ”