"I have to admit that I don't know enough about the brain circuits of these brutes."

Guo Jiao drove the 'triplane' out of Hetuara early in the morning and carried Xu Bing for reconnaissance. The two women brought back an extremely bad news - several Jurchen generals led a cavalry of about 1,000 people to kill Fushun. The leader is a guy riding a big lizard, and according to Zhou Qingfeng's confirmation, it is Mang Gurtai.

This cavalry team of 1,000 people did not carry any baggage, and the speed of the attack was extremely fast, and it could reach Fushun in a few hours. Zhou Qingfeng could only self-examine, thinking that he had made a dogmatic mistake - only considering the difficulty of the enemy's large army to move, but he didn't expect that the barbarians would fight like a street brawl, and send a small elite to kill him the next day.

"Fortunately, Lao Tzu is still prepared." Zhou Qingfeng breathed a sigh of relief after confirming the enemy's situation. It also took a day for Mang Gurtai to gather thousands of elites, and this day was enough time for him to do a lot of things.

Yesterday, Mu Sinian, the head of the Propaganda Section of the Administration Department, accepted the important task and sent people to the villages outside Fushun City to mobilize, informing them that the Jurchen barbarians were about to attack, and asking all the personnel to take refuge in the city, and at the same time fortify the walls and clear the wilderness. All food, livestock, and other items that might be of interest to the enemy were taken away. Even the houses were burned down and destroyed, and there was not even a shelter from the wind and rain for the enemy.

Mu Si is a handful of years old, living in the countryside all the year round, and he knows very well what the people at the bottom are afraid of. As long as it is made clear that the Jurchen barbarians are coming to 'grab money, food, and women', the common people will find a way to escape in panic. As for the burning of the house, it was naturally done by some pioneers of the 'Jurchen barbarians' after the people fled.

Seeing the continuous black smoke rising from the manor outside the city, the people who fled into the city wept bitterly, and hated the enemy even more. The residents of the city also wanted to flee to Shenyang in panic, but the 'Jurchen Pioneers' had already begun to block the way, and those who wanted to escape were quickly frightened and shrank back.

In the city, the people of the propaganda department kept walking the streets and alleys to reassure the people to unite around the urban defense team with Zhou Baihu as the core, and just wait for the rescue in the direction of Shenyang with peace of mind - speaking of which, Zhou Qingfeng's reputation is much better than Li Yongfang's, and he also gave considerable help to the people who fled into the city. Under the pressure of foreign enemies, the number of his prayers suddenly increased and easily exceeded 10,000.

After stabilizing the interior, Zhou Qingfeng had to find a way to deal with external enemies. When he learned that Mang Gurtai had come over with a large number of men and horses, he knew that he would definitely not be able to defeat the 'Road Tyrant' by himself, as long as the other party came to attack two masters, he would definitely be defeated. But if you only mobilize the city defense, it is too passive to simply defend it.

Defensively, defensively, nine empty.

If you don't have a certain ability to fight back, it is easy to turn into a dead guard. But when inspecting the city defense, Zhou Qingfeng and others had no confidence in going out of the city to fight back.

"We still have a lot of black powder in our hands, or do we make explosives bags or plant mines?" Xu Bing came up with an idea.

Zhou Qingfeng immediately vetoed the idea, "Who will throw it away if it is made into an explosive bag?" Where are the mines buried? And how to detonate? It's so impractical. ”

Li Shuwei asked Fu Seal again, can magic weapons and the like hoard some enemies. Zhou Qingfeng shook his head and said: "Those are all used when fighting alone, and battlefield battles can only be used to assist." When we face Nurhachi now, it is a bit like when the national army faced the Japanese devils. The enemy is well-trained and well-equipped, and we only have demoralized rangers and a large number of pig teammates officers. ”

Guo Jiao asked, "I see that Hetuala has a few people riding cranes to release spells in the sky, can your explosives be thrown from the sky?" ”

Well, that's a constructive suggestion .......

Zhou Qingfeng looked at Xu Bing, and Xu Bing looked at Li Shuwei. Li Shuwei muttered: "I got a lot of gunpowder from Shenyang a few days ago, and I didn't use much in the first battle of Gule Mountain, and there are still one or two thousand catties left. ”

Zhou Qingfeng immediately slapped his face and said, "It's a good idea to control the land with air." We can get a few iron-hulled ......, I'm afraid it's too late for iron-hull, wood-hull bombs. A bomb stuffed it with twenty or thirty kilograms of black powder, mixed with some hard gravel to act as fragments. Airdrop it and blow it up to ensure that it has enough power. And the airdrop has good mobility, unlike mines that can only be left to chance. ”

Guo Jiao didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement, and when she heard that her opinion was accepted, she was even more happy: "My father's storage bag is here, at least dozens of bombs can be loaded, and I can drive the 'triplane' to throw it in the sky." I can do it, I can do it! ”

"But how do you detonate the explosives?" Li Shuwei asked again.

Guo Jiao's eyes rolled, and she pulled Zhou Qingfeng up again and said, "This is not easy to do?" It's good to refine some first-grade thunder beads. It's best for him to do it. "She dragged Zhou Qingfeng to the Danfang of the bookstore, and the 'Zijin Bagua Furnace' hadn't started to move yet." Speaking of which, the gunpowder you got was also refined by the Fang Shi Seeking Immortals in the past, why don't you also refine it? ”

"I'm afraid this thing will blow up when it enters the Dan furnace, right?" Zhou Qingfeng was very skeptical, but decided to give it a try. There was some black powder in his storage bag, and he found out and got about a dozen grams of experimental and sent it into the Dan furnace.

Zhou Qingfeng's alchemy relied on Yin Yang Gui to cheat, and it only took him a minute or two to refine the thunder beads with the materials provided by Guo Jiao, and the refining of gunpowder was completed in a breath. More than a dozen grams of black powder did not explode when it entered the Dan furnace, and it did not change any chemical properties after it came out. It's just that the ratio is physically adjusted, and it's all granular. This simple change can make black powder much more powerful.

Finding that this refining was feasible, Zhou Qingfeng went to Li Shuwei to refine all the remaining gunpowder. In order to facilitate transportation, he poured the contents of his storage bag into the Guo family's Dan room and filled the bag with gunpowder. And when he came back with gunpowder, he saw Guo Jiao looking through various items he had fallen to the ground like a curious baby.

"What are you doing?" Zhou Qingfeng asked.

Guo Jiao snorted twice with disdain, and sneered at a large number of things that Zhou Qingfeng regarded as treasures: "You really collect all kinds of rags, all of them are useless things." I can't even see it. ”

Zhou Qingfeng was so angry that his inventory was naturally not as good as Guo Budo's daughter, who could be called Bai Fumei's daughter. He was busy refining the black powder and didn't bother to care about Guo Jiao. But when he finished processing more than 1,000 catties of black powder back and forth, he found that Guo Jiao took out a large stack of cloth flags from his storage bag and seemed to be thinking about something.

The cloth banner was dug up by Zhou Qingfeng when he was digging other people's ancestral temples when he was in Ekhkulun, and it is said to be a good material for drawing talismans. It's just that Zhou Qingfeng has never learned how to draw talismans, and the cloth flags have naturally been stored. Guo Jiao picked this thing out, and he said next to him: "It is said that this thing is suitable for drawing talismans." ”

...... sneering, Guo Jiao expressed her contempt in a mocking tone, "If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense, this kind of spirit flag has been refined by incense for one or two hundred years, and even my father doesn't have such good things in his hands." You actually want to use it to draw talismans, it's really a terrible thing. ”

Zhou Qingfeng was thick-skinned, and he didn't care about Guo Jiao's ridicule, and asked directly: "Then what can this thing be used for?" ”

"I didn't think about it for a while, I had to go and check the books my dad left behind. This spirit flag will be left with me first, and I will ponder it again, and maybe it will come in handy. Guo Jiao was not in a hurry to deal with it, but just put away the spirit flag.

At this time, Xu Bing hurriedly ran to the Guo family bookstore and shouted: "Mang Gurtai has led people to Fushun Pass south of the Hunhe River, and the soldiers at the pass have fled. According to your arrangement, our men in charge of luring the enemy in the south are already feigning confusion. As soon as Mang Gurtai crosses the Hunhe River, as long as he is not blind, he will inevitably attack our southern city gate. ”

Zhou Qingfeng's face sank and asked, "Did the people who asked for help from Shenyang set off?" ”

"The third batch has been dispatched, and I asked Mu Sinian to lead the team personally, and the old man has a smoother mouth."

"How's the granulated black powder assembled?"

"There weren't so many suitable carpenters for a while, so I asked people to use wooden boxes, anyway, we'll just throw them down with the detonated thunder beads later."

"Okay, since the enemy is here, let Li Shuwei pretend to be a ghost and lead the people of the city to ask for help from me, an immortal. I'll go to the Spirit Gathering Array to start activating the city defenses, and you two will take to the skies to fight. Remember not to fly too low when dropping boxes from the sky, and be careful of being shot down by others. Zhou Qingfeng arranged everything, and went to the underground hall of the Guo family's bookstore, whether he could bear it or not depended on him.

Guo Jiao played this battle as a game, and happily used her father's storage bag to fill more than a dozen boxes of granulated black powder. This time she flew with Xu Bing, who served as a backseat observer and bombardier.

Mang Gurtai is leading the team to kill with great momentum. Thousands of people raided and crossed the Hunhe River, and the rumbling horses' hooves kicked up a lot of dust on the ground, and it looked like a landslide from a distance.

Mang Gurtai led the team to rush to the front, and the huge earth dragon ran no slower than the horses. This fierce man and one rider expanded rapidly in the eyes of the Fushun defenders, and the military households that were originally arranged outside the south gate to lure the enemy were really panicked now, and they were all crowded at the city gate.

When he was only two or three hundred meters away from the city gate, Mang Gurtai could not restrain the ecstasy in his heart. You must know that Nurhachi has raised troops for more than 30 years, and has fought to break countless walled cities, but none of them can compare with Fushun. Only this settlement built by the Han people can really be called a city, and it has the ability to guarantee the life of tens of thousands of people in the city. Most of the barbarians' 'cities' were stockades.

Thinking of the countless slaves, wealth, and even glory waiting to be taken by him, Mang Gurtai couldn't stop laughing on the back of the Earth Dragon. He raised a big iron gun in his hand, kept waving the head of the gun and shouted to the elite of the blue flag behind him: "Go up with the master, Fushun is ahead, and the gold and silver mountains are waiting for us to grab it." ”

Behind Mang Gurtai, Dai Shan, Amin, and Huang Taiji were following closely. They didn't expect it to be so easy to kill all the way, the expected Fushun city defense didn't seem to be opened at all, the city gate was not closed, and the slackness of the defenders' defense was simply appalling - it was no wonder that such a city was not breached.

The last 1,000 elite soldiers were even more jubilant, riding their horses and whipping, and the sound of killing was bursting. The word greed was written on all the excited faces. Isn't it true that what you want to go around with your master is money and women? The Fushun in front of them is richer than any of the stockades they have robbed in the past, can it not inspire their strong enthusiasm for fighting?

But just as a thousand Jurchen soldiers were getting closer and closer to the city gate, a strange thing in the sky swooped down with the sound of a whistling wind, and a small wooden box was thrown out. This box is aimed at the leading Mang Gurtai, but it is in the middle of the Jurchen elite soldiers who are following closely behind.

No one cared about the box at all, but it exploded as soon as it hit the ground.

Mang Gurtai couldn't close his mouth when he was laughing, and when he heard the loud noise, he hurriedly turned around, and his expression changed drastically-ah? What's going on? Who's beating my people?

Huang Taiji and the three of them were full of jealousy that Gurtai was going to grab the first credit this time, and the loud noise and air waves behind them impacted, they could only shrink their heads and look back, inexplicably surprised - yes? What's going on? Where did this explosion come from?

A thousand elite soldiers ......, there is no need to look back, and there is no need to guess what is going on. They have been bombed on their backs, crying dad and mother.