"We don't know, but there are a lot of them on the hill over there!"

A boy pointed to the peak north of 'Huguan', and Min Feihan knew that he had heard Ma Yuexi mention that there was once a volcano.

Thinking of this, Min Feihan's mind suddenly shook, and he took a small piece from the little boy's hand and looked at it carefully. The corners of Min Feihan's mouth slowly curled, and he already knew what this was in his heart.

Sulfur, this is the sulfur that condensed after the eruption of the previous volcano!

"Is there a lot of 'loess' in the north peak?" Min Feihan asked.

The sulfur is red yellow and has a pungent smell, and the locals call it 'stinky loess'!

"A lot, halfway up the mountainside, to the peak, there are quite a few." A few little boys scrambled to speak.

Giving a few little boys some broken silver, Min Feihan asked them to find a cloth belt and collect all the existing sulfur.

At the end, Min Feihan also told these boys that if they went to Beifeng again, they could pick up more and collect them themselves, so that if they got it, they could go to the barracks to find themselves to sell!

Hurriedly returned to the residence in the pass, Min Feihan put away the sulfur, found a shovel, and dug everywhere, especially the roots of the walls of the old houses around, or the corners of the old house foundations, and even the toilet walls.

After digging a lot of earth and rocks, Min Feihan asked someone to get a big pot, soak it first, then isolate the debris, and start to boil the water dry over a high fire.

Li Nazi and the others didn't know what Min Feihan was doing, and they didn't know how to help, and looking at Min Feihan's appearance, they didn't seem to want them to help, so they gathered around and quietly watched Min Feihan busy.

At night, the water boils dry, and many crystals are condensed.

After collecting these crystals, Min Feihan was not idle for a while, and asked people to call the people who managed the kitchen and got a lot of charcoal.

Because it was too late, Min Feihan scraped together enough of these things and rested first.

Early the next morning, after closing the door, Min Feihan tossed in the house, from morning to noon, he didn't eat a bite of food, until dusk, and saw the door opened.

Min Feihan looked tired and came out with a sheepskin cloth.

Li Nazi saw that Min Feihan had been busy for so many days, and he didn't see what they were assigned to help, so he couldn't help but be curious, so he leaned over: "What are you doing, Hanzhi?" Is there anything we can do to help? ”

Min Feihan came out to find someone to help, so "Brother Li, you take someone to chop some 'Dongzhu' back, remember, cut it from the root, don't hurt the other parts, a little more is better!" ”

As soon as Li Nazi heard that he had something to do, he took a dozen soldiers and men to chop bamboo!

Since it was getting late, Min Feihan did not continue to configure the gunpowder, so after putting the sheepskin cloth belt away, he took the opportunity to rest for a while.

When Li Nazi looked at the bamboo back, Min Feihan taught them how to get it, cut it off one by one, drill a small hole at one end, and then fill the configured gunpowder into it, without sealing it first, because Min Feihan did not make a gunpowder twist.

After nearly a night's work, Ma Qianyuan and others also came to help, and finally used up the gunpowder that Min Feihan had configured for the first time, and made a total of more than 200 'wood and bamboo thunders'.

Gunpowder, Min Feihan didn't want to appear in this era, or rather, he didn't want gunpowder to become a killing tool in this era!

Although she was under pressure to make some, she was absolutely unwilling to leak the recipe, lest it cause irrepressible consequences.

Therefore, the preparation of gunpowder was done by Min Feihan alone, and no one was allowed to interfere, let alone watch.

Later, the sulfur sent by those boys, as well as the saltpeter crystals that Min Feihan had refined himself, bought a lot of sundries from the shop to mix up the food and the eyes, and played a role in hiding people's eyes.

With enough materials, Min Feihan made a lot of gunpowder and handed it to Ma Qianyuan to put them into the sharpened Dongzhu, and then Min Feihan began to make cannon twists.

Another mess of things was sent from the shop into Min Feihan's house, and then the door was closed, until two days later, Min Feihan came out with a large pile of gunpowder twist in his hand.

Then, according to the length, they are intercepted separately and packed into the east bamboo filled with gunpowder.

Looking at these self-aware 'wood and bamboo thunder' in front of him, Min Feihan felt mixed in his heart, with both joy and worry!

"Hanyuki, what the hell are you doing all this?" Li Nazi has been helping out for the past few days, and it's okay to have something to do, but now that he's done, his curiosity is driven to harass Min Feihan again.

"Move these into the East House, no one is allowed to touch them, and most importantly, there must be no fire in the place where these things are stored!" Min Feihan explained strictly, and even had a serious warning in his words!

Ma Qianyuan and the others knew that Min Feihan was like this, which must be the most important thing, so they promised not to let people get close to the East House, and they would send someone to guard it.

Leaving three 'wooden bamboo thunders', Min Feihan took a few extra-long cannon twists, and took Ma Qianyuan, Chen Qigang, Teng Di, Qiu Shun, Du Ruming and others out of the customs and went to a place in the forest where there was no one.

"Buy these in the dirt and set aside the cannons."

Min Feihan personally commanded and let them do it.

When everything was arranged, the gunpowder twist was also pulled out at a distance of more than ten meters, Min Feihan: "You must be very strange these days, what I taught you to do, let's see it today, I actually don't know how powerful this is." ”

After saying that, Min Feihan took out the fire fold, and in front of more than a dozen wooden people, after lighting the cannon twist, he quickly hid back.

Although Chen Qigang and the others didn't know why they ran, they all followed when they saw what Min Feihan did.

More than ten meters of cannon twists, 'Zizi 呲呲' all the way to the buried in the ground 'wood and bamboo thunder' burned over, along the soil and stone gaps, after the cannon twist burned out.

"Boom-rumble-" Dusty and gravel!

The huge noise really shook around for a few hours, and the originally flat ground revealed a huge pit after the flying sand fell and the dust dissipated!

Qiu Shun and Zhao Hui had already been frightened by the loud noise and sat on the ground, Ma Qianyuan, Chen Qigang, Wen Xing, Che Yu and others were also dumbfounded, with a hellish expression, looking at the huge pit in the distance!

Lu Benqiu was selected from among the recruits who were transferred to the cavalry construction battalion this time, and he was brave and courageous. At this time, his face turned blue, and he pointed to the big pit: "Protector, what is that thing?" ”

"Something that saves lives!" Min Feihan muttered softly, and then turned his head to look at these people with extremely ugly faces: "This is a secret weapon, let me tell you how to use it, and then Chen Qigang, Lu Weiwu and Du Ruming, the three of you do what I say, and get it done at night!" ”

Min Feihan didn't plan to give a half-word explanation of what gunpowder was, the only thing they needed to do was to bury part of the 'wood and bamboo thunder' at a distance of 300 meters outside the pass according to their own instructions, and then use the hollowed-out Dongzhu to pass through the gunpowder twist and bury it all the way to the pass.

In addition to making this kind of buried in the ground before, there are also some smaller ones, which are kept for later use!

After doing this, Min Feihan asked people to continue to hurry up and make the 'Moon Chasing Repeater', and then waited for the Qiang Houjun to appear outside the 'Huguan'.

Min Feihan has made nearly a thousand 'wood and bamboo thunders' here, with these things in hand, Min Feihan has some confidence, although it may not be able to say that he can absolutely hold the 'pot pass', but at least he can hold on for a while longer.

Coupled with the 'Chasing the Moon Repeater', as long as Xiahou Yan's side is fast, everything goes smoothly to take the county seat of Luzhou, and completely take Luzhou from the hands of the Qiang Hou forces, then the 'Huguan' side will be safe.

Even if the 'Huguan' was broken in the end, Min Feihan was confident that the enemy who came to attack would lose most of the battle and be powerless to threaten the rear of Xiahou Yan!

And at this moment, outside Luzhou County, Xiahou Yan's army has also confronted the Qiang Hou army.

70,000 against 90,000, a difference of more than 20,000 troops.

Today, the camp has just been set up, and the Qiang Hou army is like taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Xiyu army to send troops to attack.

It's a pity that Xiahou Yan has been prepared for a long time, and at the same time as camping, he has secretly ambushed the longbowmen, as well as thousands of 'moon-chasing crossbows' that have been made recently.

Nearly 10,000 troops were killed by a rain of arrows before they could get close to the camp.

In particular, the 'moon-chasing repeater' after the longbowman made the enemy unable to get close to the camp at all, and was constantly blocked by a burst of arrows from a hundred paces away.

No matter how the Qiang Hou generals drove in the rear, they could not let the Qiang Hou soldiers break through the defensive line. Even the well-armored infantry with shields barely approached the fence of the camp before they were repulsed by the hilt of the spear of the West Wing, and on the way they were fired from a distance by the longbowmen and crossbowmen who followed, and the casualties were even worse!

Until dusk and sunset, the Qiang Hou army dragged the remnants of the defeated army and withdrew to the county town in disgrace!

"Bang-"

In the county town, Helian Xiaoshi, the general of the Qiang Hou Army, looked at the defeated generals who returned, and he was angry. If you can't break through, you should have withdrawn earlier, but this person is greedy for merit and advances, and let the soldiers die countless times in vain.

"Get off his armor, put him in prison, and wait until the enemy is repelled, and then make a decision!" Helian Xiaoshi waved his hand.

Helian Xiaoshi is a famous general on the Qiang Hou side, and his ancestors have fought endlessly with Xiyu for generations, although there are fewer victories and more defeats, but he is also one of the people who are most familiar with the Xiyu Army within the Qiang Hou Army.

Luzhou was originally garrisoned by another general, but later due to the mistakes made by the general's family, he was taken off by Qiang Hou, and the distant guard general was also implicated and lost the post of Luzhou town guard.

Helian Xiaoshi took over, and the iron hand rectified the Luzhou army, pulling out many corrupt military officials, and the combat power of the Qiang Hou army in Luzhou increased by leaps and bounds.

Since the Qiang Hou army committed Xiyu again, the marshal of the army was repeatedly defeated, was called back to the rear, and was convicted and killed.

If it weren't for the incompetence of the generals in front, Helian Xiaoshi couldn't move lightly to guard the county seat of Luzhou, how could it be that today's situation of soldiers coming to the city!

In the military hall of the county town, Chen Tong and Xu Huan, looking at the generals who were pushed down, their faces were equally ugly.

It seems that the plan of the two of them fell through, and they did not annihilate the forward battalion of the Xiyu Army in 'Xue Valley', and returned to Luzhou County.

"Today's battle, instead of traumatizing the enemy, it suffered damage from thousands of elites, as if the morale was greatly reduced." When Helian Xiaoshi said this, a pair of eagle eyes surrounded the generals: "What is the best strategy for you to defeat the enemy?" ”