"Damn*, even if it's seven or eight catties or ten catties of stones, it can break your head and bleed, break your bones and tendons, right?" Meng Jiucheng's face changed to a hideous expression again.

If refugees want to produce and live, they will have to build houses and houses in the future, and tools are naturally indispensable, which is what Meng Jiucheng has long thought of. This time, Boss Sun did not send food, but he brought a batch of axes, saws, chisels, planers, shovels, pickaxes and other tools, and there were also a few carpenters among the refugees, and the main material wood was all over the mountain.

Of course, the stone-throwing machine made in this way must be discounted in terms of solidity and power, but Meng Jiucheng felt that it was enough to deal with the rabble composed of ordinary people. Even if the quality is not durable enough, what Meng Jiucheng wants to solve is the immediate crisis. In the future, of course, it will be better and better, and the materials will be more and more refined.

While he was drawing and calculating, there was two knocks on the door, and Mu Xiaowei walked in, saying that Sanming had summoned all the carpenters and waited in the worship hall.

"Wait a minute." Meng Jiucheng hadn't finished painting yet, but it was only a matter of five or six minutes.

Mu Xiaowei casually sat down in the chair, stretched out her head and glanced at it, except for the graphics that could be slightly understood, the rest were actually tadpole characters (Arabic numerals) that she didn't recognize. She couldn't help but glance at Meng Jiucheng with surprise and admiration, and said: "The Taoist painting is like a trebuchet, but this tadpole is written, but the slave family doesn't know any of it. ”

Meng Jiucheng nodded and said, "To be precise, it should be called a stone thrower." The one I drew has been modified to save manpower, it is easy to use, and the same size and shape is more powerful. As he spoke, he pushed a drawn drawing forward for Mu Xiaowei to take a closer look.

Mu Xiaowei looked at it carefully for a while and said, "If the mechanism is ingenious, and the Taoist priest says it is good, then it must be good." But just throwing stones, I'm afraid it's still limited in power, and it can't be called a weapon to defeat the enemy. ”

"That's true." Meng Jiucheng smiled helplessly and said, "It's a pity that there are no raw materials, and you can't make gunpowder thunder anymore." ”

Mu Xiaowei lowered her eyelids and thought for a while, and asked tentatively: "The slave family has no knowledge, and only thinks that the gunpowder thunder made by the Dao Master is amazingly powerful, but I don't know how it compares to the iron fireball of the Jin Kingdom?" ”

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, in the battle against Bianjing, the Jin soldiers won, but they also saw the power of the Song army's rockets, thunderballs and other weapons.

After occupying the Central Plains, the Jin people also began to learn the techniques of making and using firearms, and in the early thirteenth century, they first used the iron-clad explosive firearm "Iron Fireball". Later, the Jin people created and used a more powerful version of the iron fireball, called the "Earthquake Thunder".

There is no doubt about the progress of gunpowder from arson and cautery to explosive performance. However, the formula did not reach the optimal level in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and the power of the explosion was naturally inferior to the "cannonball" designed by Meng Jiucheng.

At that time, there were also popular practices of mixing things into gunpowder, such as croton, arsenic, wolf venom, etc., using burning poisonous smoke to hurt people, which can be regarded as the earliest chemical weapon in history!

"How can the golden man's iron fireball compare to the powder mine I made?" Meng Jiucheng is quite confident, and this is exactly the case.

"The Taoist is really powerful." Mu Xiaowei seemed to believe it, and there was no doubt in her eyes, but she kindly reminded: "The so-called puppet is not guilty, but he is guilty." In these troubled times, conquest and attack, a strange person like the Taoist is afraid to attract the attention of all parties, right? ”

Meng Jiucheng's eyes rolled, rubbed his nose, and felt that Mu Xiaowei was really a smart woman, and he really ignored this point just thinking about defeating the enemy. It seems that the absence of gunpowder mines now is not necessarily a bad thing.

There is a saying that a gun shoots a bird in the head. If it is used to describe the current Yang An'er, it is very appropriate to call Wang Jianguo, who is in the limelight. It was precisely this kind of swagger that when the Jin army counterattacked in the second two years of the Ming Dynasty, it was the first to attack it, so that it was the first to be defeated.

Speaking of Meng Jiucheng, although there is no power yet, it is not uncommon for the name of this gunpowder thunder to spread and cause all forces to covet it.

"Mu Niangzi's words are extremely true." Meng Jiucheng thought quickly, arched his hand gratefully, and said, "I will definitely pay attention to it in the future." ”

"Down?" Mu Xiaowei was stunned for a moment and then laughed, "The title of Dao Chief has changed, is it to return to vulgarity?" ”

It's still vulgar, that's for sure, or how to treat the sister?

Meng Jiucheng grinned, but he didn't answer directly, but his expression could make people guess the answer.

Mu Xiaowei blinked, pursed the corners of her mouth, and said, "Not only do you want to return to the vulgar, but also tell Qiao E that you want to make meritorious contributions, presumably to conquer the Quartet?" ”

Meng Jiucheng stretched out his thumb and praised Mu Xiaowei's intelligence, and said: "Fame is only taken immediately, and he is worthy of a hero's husband." ”

"If that's the case, why don't you join the Red Jacket Army?" Mu Xiaowei asked curiously: "Don't say anything else, Yang An'er has already occupied several states, and his power is flourishing." With the talent of the Taoist, or just offering gunpowder thunder, it can also be reused. ”

Meng Jiucheng shook his head and said: "The red jacket soldiers are scattered, there is no stable money and food, and the good and the bad are uneven, and they are not subordinate to each other, so I am afraid that they will be broken by the disintegration of the Jin army." Besides, Yang An'er, who is called the king system, is too ostentatious, and will recruit the Jin army to besiege him. In my opinion, although Yang An'er claims to have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, most of them are rabble, and it is difficult to withstand the attack of the elite Jin army. ”

Mu Xiaowei thought about it, nodded as if she didn't understand, and said, "It's better to wait and see how the situation develops first." The Red Jacket Army is indeed uneven, and the killing and plundering of some horses and horses are more ferocious than those of the Jin and Mongolians. ”

Mu Yi and his daughter are wandering outside, they have experienced a lot and seen a lot, and some things are indeed not heard, but seen with their own eyes, and what they say is naturally not false.

Meng Jiucheng nodded, deeply convinced.

Historically, it is true that those who rebelled against Jin or defected to the Song Dynasty were groups with their own armed forces, and many of them were like thieves.

Although most of them are in the name of returning to the Song Dynasty, there are not many people who sincerely return to the Song Dynasty and understand the great righteousness of the nation, and most of them are in the war and famine, in order to survive or make profits, and raise the banner of rebellion against the Song Dynasty, the actual purpose is to obtain property and food.

Of course, the Han people in the north were brave and aggressive, and they were familiar with the geographical situation in the north, so they could have been the vanguard of the Song court's restoration of their homeland.

It's a pity that in history, the Song Dynasty defended the interior more than the outside, and was suspicious and suspicious of the northerners, which eventually led to the rebellion of the northern army. In the end, it became the main force of the Mongols to destroy the Song Dynasty - the Han army, and the northerners were therefore ranked below the Mongols and Semu people, ranking third, and above the southerners at the bottom.

And now at the beginning of the war, the forces of all parties are mixed, and the thoughts and components are different, and when the Jin army counterattacks in the future, it will be like a big wave sweeping the sand, and a group of soft bones and people at both ends of the first rat will show their true colors. Those who really rebel against gold will certainly be defeated, but they are still determined to continue to fight.

Although Meng Jiucheng wants to develop independently, he has not been without the intention of taking refuge in powerful forces, but now is not the time. It is always necessary to wait until people's hearts are clear, and they can see who is true and who is false, so that they can decide.

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