Chapter 17: Matches and Gunpowder

Lu Chen decided to lead the crowd to Hanoi to defect to Zhang Yang, and neither his family nor the generals had any opinions.

Uncle Zhang Yangzi Ya, a native of Yunzhong in Bingzhou, is half a fellow countryman with Lu Chen and his father Lu Bu. What's more important is that Lu Bu and Zhang Yang worked under Ding Yuan's account together back then, and their relationship was extraordinary. LΓΌ Bu escaped from Chang'an that year and took refuge in the princes of Shandong, so he went to Hanoi to rest temporarily, and then LΓΌ Bu was invited by Zhang Miao of Chen Palace to seize Cao Cao's Yanzhou.

Not long ago, when LΓΌ Bu was surrounded by Cao Cao in Xiapi, Yuan Shu watched the fire from the other side, and Yuan Shao also turned a deaf ear, only Hanoi Zhang Yang sent troops to Dongshi to echo LΓΌ Bu.

Where is East Market? Dong City is in Yewang County, which is a county seat under the rule of Hanoi County.

In other words, although Zhang Yang sent troops, he never stepped out of his own one-third of an acre, let alone violated Cao Cao's boundary. He just pretended to attack Luoyang, hoping to contain Cao Cao's soldiers and horses. This fake attack is really fake enough, so fake that Zhang Yang himself didn't believe it, and Cao Cao naturally didn't take him seriously, and concentrated on besieging Lu Bu.

In fact, Zhang Yang really wanted to save Lu Bu, but he had more than enough heart but not enough strength. Hanoi was too far away from Xuzhou, and Zhang Yang was only a county guard, so he did not have many soldiers and horses, and his generals were also opposed to Cao Cao's enemy.

Lu Chen chose to go to Hanoi, on the one hand, because Zhang Yang was reliable, and on the other hand, because going north from Hanoi was a merger, and after returning to Lu Bu, he could go directly to Yanmen Yunzhong.

It is a long way to go to Hanoi for more than 1,000 miles.

Lu Chen and his entourage drove lightly, although they took their families and servants, but the speed was not slow. The soldiers of the Long Xiang Army and the Tiger Ben Army were the elite of Lu Bu, and each of them brought more than one horse, and at this time, they gave some to the servants of the Lu family, except for a few carriages, and even the newly trapped camp with Gao Shun became cavalry. It is a spacious official road, and there is no big problem in traveling hundreds of miles a day.

(Note: 1 li in the Han Dynasty is about 0.7 li now, 0.35 km)

Lu Chen took more than 2,000 cavalry and 300 servants, ate all the way, and took some before leaving, which can be regarded as a beautiful scenery in Cao Cao's hinterland.

Cao Ren followed closely with 8,000 Qingzhou soldiers, and there were more and more "baggage" to help escort, and almost all the baggage soldiers and horses of the entire Qingzhou soldiers were consumed on this. But Cao Ren didn't care, but was very happy, and every morning he got up and pinched his fingers to count the days.

Lu Chen, who was opposite, pinched his fingers to count the days every morning when he took Xiao Meow to do radio gymnastics.

Guo Jia is like a timer, every day he plays chess with Chen Gong, he has to report the day, and there are probably a few days left, Cao Ren will have a catastrophe, so that Chen Gong has no mind to play chess. Chen Gong insisted that he always lost to Guo Jia in chess, not because his skills were inferior, but because he was disturbed, absolutely so!

On the eighth day, at noon, Lu Chen's department passed through Pingqiu.

"Hah! I won! ”

In the carriage, Chen Gong finally won a game against Guo Jia, and he was so happy that he slapped his hands and laughed.

Guo Jia messed up the chess pieces, pouted and said, "These five-in-a-row chess pieces are boring, let's continue to play Go." ”

"Hmm...... Backgammon is small, lean, varied, and the most interesting, and Bo Chao says that this can exercise reflexes. Go is too time-consuming, and Gong has a dense phobia, and when I see a dense game of chess pieces, I will be nauseous and retching, otherwise I would have won you in Go a long time ago. Chen Gong has also asked Lu Chen several times in the past few days, of course, to inquire about Cao Ren, Lu Chen does not tell the truth every time, but fools Chen Gong to learn backgammon and know about dense phobia.

Guo Jia rolled his eyes and sighed: "Tomorrow, I'm afraid we'll see it soon." ”

"What's the difference? Oh! What do you say about Bo Chao's deal with Cao Ren? No, I asked Bo Chao several times, and he only said that he had been tinkering with some things recently, and he wanted to ask Cao Ren to help test it, but I didn't hear that there was going to be a war? ”

"Humph! Do you test on human life? ”

"Bo Chao shouldn't mess around! Feng Xiao has a lot of heart, and now that Jun Hou is recuperating from his injuries in Xiapi, how dare he attack Cao Zixiao in a rebellious way? ”

"Last night, Jia Wen heard the sound of thunder in front of Bochao's tent, which was earth-shattering, and there was even more fire! Does Mr. Gongtai know? ”

"I know, this is what Bo Chao has been tinkering with recently, saying that it is used to replace firecrackers, it seems to be made a little too big, and the movement is a bit excessive. No, it's almost the New Year! Although he is on the road, Bo Chao is a child, and I am afraid that he wants to be lively. ”

Guo Jia opened his mouth and said in his heart, this Chen Gong is very intelligent, but he is too dull, how can it be a firecracker? Although Guo Jia couldn't guess what it was, he was terrified. These days, once he arrives and sets up camp, Lu Chen must let the elite of the Cao Xing faction guard the surroundings of the big tent, and no one else is allowed to approach, except for Lu Qi, even Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and others cannot enter. There must be quirks!

"Where will I go tomorrow?" Guo Jia asked suddenly.

Chen Gong said with a smile: "Tomorrow to Suozao County." Then, he slapped his head again, "Oh, by the way, Bo Chao asked me to meet the family near Pingqiu today, I almost forgot." ”

Guo Jia's eyes lit up, looking at the back of Chen Gong who turned over and got out of the carriage and gradually moved away, and muttered: "Sour dates? There is Wuchaoze in the south of the sour jujube, and the army will inevitably march along the Ze, near the water, how to attack by fire? I want to see how Lu Bochao burns! The terrain here is flat, and it is close to the lake, there is nowhere to set up an ambush, 2,000 cavalry, and 8,000 Qingzhou soldiers are burned? ”

Chen Gong came to Lu Chen's broken carriage, but did not see Lu Chen.

Lu Zhan drove the broken car forward leisurely, and when he saw Chen Gong, he stopped the car and got down to salute. Xiao Meow curled up in the car, holding a pottery bowl in her arms, not bird Chen Gong at all, she was grinding some black powder in the pottery bowl, and adding rice water to it.

"Where is Bochao?" Chen Gong asked.

Lu Zhan replied: "Mr. Gongtai, Xiao Junhou went to learn to ride a horse with Miss early this morning, and he has not come back yet." ”

The fool Lu Chen's body is very good, and the injury on his butt will be healed in a few days, and he can ride a horse. A few days ago, he had a martial arts experience with Zhang Liao, Cao Xing, Gao Shun and other generals, and found that he could make a draw with the strongest Zhang Liao, but there may be some suspicions that the other party released water. But Rao is like this, Lu Chen is also very happy, and began to find Lu Qi to teach him to ride a horse, Lu Qi is good at riding, and has a lively personality, and likes to run around the most, so he is happy to be this teacher.

Chen Gong was furious when he heard this, and pointed at Lu Zhan and scolded: "You little guy, how can you be an errand?" Let Bo Chao run around? Can you afford to go on a business trip? ”

Lu Zhan trembled, and Nuo Nuo didn't dare to speak.

Little Meow poured the black, sticky object from the pottery bowl onto the wooden board of the carriage, flattened it, and dried it.

Chen Gong suddenly pointed to Xiao Meow's thing and asked, "What is this?" Why is this thing drying on the roofs of all family carriages these days? Someone takes it away once it's dry? ”

Xiao Meow ignored him, and on the other side of the carriage were dozens of two-inch-long wooden sticks, which were soaked in wax and black at one end. She picked one up, looked at it, it seemed to be dry, and then looked at her own clothes, which were new clothes made by her brother, green and beautiful, and embroidered with flowers, she was reluctant to get dirty. Tilting her head and thinking about it, Xiao Meow saw the fluffy old man leaning over, as if to see the "wrath of the immortals" she was hanging. She took the little wooden stick and scratched it on the hairy old man's clothes, and the stick suddenly burst into flames.

"Ah......h What is this? ”

Chen Gong was so frightened that he almost rolled around a few times, and accidentally even Lu Chen's mantra came out.

Xiao Meow also ignored him, the old man with a hairy face was always a fierce brother, Xiao Meow didn't like him the most, he hated him more than that lame uncle, she was going to bite him, but his brother didn't let him. Xiao Meow quickly blew out the small wooden stick, and knew that it was dried, so he put away dozens of other sticks.

"This is the Zhurong Scepter!"

Lu Zhan said to Chen Gong with a huff on the side, and forcibly snatched a Zhurong scepter from Xiao Meow's hand, Xiao Meow, the little miser, whined and wanted to bite him, but was kicked away by Lu Zhan.

Lu Zhan took the small wooden stick and showed it to Chen Gong, and explained with a cold expression: "Mr. Gongtai, this wooden stick is made by soaking the blood of the white dragon for eighty-eight or ninety-one hours, oh, the blood of the white dragon is wax, Xiao Junhou said." This pointed black object is a secret object extracted by Xiao Junhou from the flint that makes the fire sickle, mixed with the anger of the immortals, made of zuΓ², and ignited when rubbed, which is extremely magical! Xiao Junhou said that this was a secret technique that he won by watching the stars at night and playing backgammon with the immortals, and it was a thing that stole the heavenly realm, so he had to keep it secret. ”

Chen Gong: "Eighty-eight ninety-one...... Playing backgammon with the immortals......"

After Lu Zhan explained the Zhurong scepter, he pointed to the black sticky substance that Xiao Meow had sunned on the wooden board of the carriage, as well as the slightly dried powder next to it, and said, "Mr. Gongtai, look, this is the anger of the immortals. ”

"Gentlemen...... Immortal...... It...... ...... angrily, "Chen Gong's face cramped," this ...... What's the allusion? ”

"Mr. Gongtai Mingjian!" Lu Zhan straightened his chest and back, and said with a look of reverence, "This is the demon dragon blood that Xiao Junhou drew from the Demon Realm Big Bosh, oh, it is the demon dragon blood that can breathe fire, and it is dried in the sun." Forehead...... Xiao Junhou also learned to make zuΓ² with bitter salt, sulfur, flint, charcoal and other materials, which can explode, such as thunder. ”

"Uh...... The blood of the demon dragon, why is it called the wrath of the immortals? Does it have anything to do with God? Forehead...... What is the relationship with the gods? Chen Gong wanted to slap himself, why did he always inadvertently learn Bo Chao'er's nonsense?

Lu Zhan said: "Because the demon dragon is very powerful, its blood will burn, and as soon as the immortals hit it, as soon as it bleeds, it will burn and explode in various ways, and then the immortals will be injured and have to flee." The immortals had no way to take the demon dragon, and they were very angry, so they called the anger of the immortals. ”

Chen Gong was sweating profusely: "%*Β₯@#+&......"

Lu Zhan handed over a handkerchief and said, "Is Mr. Gongtai okay?" ”

"Huhu ......" Chen Gong took a deep breath, calmed down, and then took the Zhurong scepter in Lu Zhan's hand, feeling that this scepter seemed too small, but he didn't bother with these, probably Lu Bochao had another rhetoric, what kind of immortal things can become bigger and smaller. Chen Gong asked, "How can I use this thing?" ”

"Just rub it on your laundry." Lu Zhan said with a smile.

Chen Gong pinched the excessively small scepter, looked at it, pulled Lu Zhan, and scratched it on his buttocks, and sure enough, it burned, Chen Gong was stunned: "Is it really a fairy thing?!" ”