A pillar of smoke stood on the beach at the southernmost tip of the island, and everyone stared at it blankly, it was too fucking far away. In a short time, cheers were heard all over the island. Hiding on the roof of the building to watch the lively Xiaoyu, her slap was red.

"Big brother, this thing is amazing." Li Xiao jumped to his feet excitedly.

"That's, your eldest brother and I made something that doesn't cost human life." Li Xiao said smugly.

I just saw the scarecrow as a target, stuck there unharmed. The corners of Li Xiao's mouth twitched, but this was a minor problem. As long as we study the problem of the charge again, it should not be a big problem.

All afternoon, Li Xiao was fiddling with the problem of charges and angles and scales.

Running back and forth to the impact point is a problem, it's so fucking tiring. Xiaoyu came over and was pushed out by Li Xiao. The little girl leaned on Li Xiao's ear and said for a while, and then looked at Xiaobai with bad intentions.

The heralds of the new era appeared, as soon as the Medic cannon went off. Li Xiu would go to the point of investigation and then yell at Xiaobai. Xiaobai would fly to Li Xiao and repeat Li Xiu's words loudly. After finishing speaking, Li Xiao will feed a piece of fish or beef jerky into Xiaobai's mouth.

This product actually knows the truth that food must be obtained by labor, and it is about to become fine!

With the addition of Xiaobai, the surveying and mapping work went very smoothly. In just two days, Li Xiao carved scales on the support pillars of the mortars. After the direction is corrected, the firing hand determines the distance and landing point of the shell.

The sledgehammer finished casting the cannonball, and Li Xiao knew that the cannonball was no different from setting off fireworks. Especially with this thing of mortar shells, the rate of fire is still okay. Theoretically, after the first is discharged, the second can be fired.

The great success brought by the mortar made Li Xiao start tinkering with fixed ammunition. If you want to increase the rate of fire of your weapon, you need to have fixed ammunition. After all, breech loading was time-consuming and laborious, but it took two days to study. Li Xiao reluctantly gave up, and the reason was the same as before. Without precision machining tools, the problem of tolerances cannot be solved. The ability to reduce the error to the millimeter level is already the highest level of craftsmanship on the Phi Island. This level is not for everyone!

As long as it is handmade, large tolerances are almost unavoidable. From ancient times to the present, no one has been able to solve this problem well.

Mortars are a good thing, as long as they are not centimeter-level tolerances, they can be used against them. It's simple and brutal, and in the hands of experienced shooters, the hit rate is good. Li Xiao was thinking about finding a way to miniaturize the mortar after this incident.

Sixty mm mortar, easy to carry and moderately powerful. It is really a must-have for home travel, killing people and goods.

In comparison, the 120-millimeter mortar of the Li Xiao is much more cumbersome. The shells were also very heavy, and Li Xiao couldn't lift a few hands before he became sore.

But things are all relative, the shells are heavy and the charge is more, and the power of the explosion is also huge.

According to the calculation of the scarecrow as a target, it is basically difficult for a person within a radius of five meters to survive. People who are five meters away have little chance if they stand. If you lie down, you have a two- to three-percent chance of surviving.

As the distance increases, the power of the shell decays. Li Xiao once found a sharp shrapnel in the stomach of a scarecrow twenty meters away. You must know that the scarecrows are all wearing the standard cotton armor of the Ming army. The vast majority of Tartar soldiers wore this kind of cotton armor.

This is only a hard kill, the shock wave and the soft damage brought by the sound, Li Xiao has not had time to calculate. Anyway, the follow-up mortar shells all maintained a ration of fifteen catties of charge.

Until the 28th of the lunar month, a total of six mortars were hammered out. There were hundreds of shells, and the factory was still working overtime. Get ready for the upcoming Tartar raid!

Just when Li Xiao was tinkering with mortars, Yu Lao's turntable gun also made a breakthrough. This thing should be considered a repeating rifle, not a machine gun. Ten barrels were arranged in a circle, each of which was loaded. When the shooter fires, he can fire in bursts by simply pulling the trigger.

After the ten rounds are fired, just pull a handle. The barrel will fall out like the cartridge disc of a revolver, just pull out the barrel that is hooped together and reload it into a new one.

These days, the fishermen have been training the musket team, two skilled marksmen, who can be easily operated. With the addition of two people in charge of reloading, one of these things requires four soldiers to wait. Although Li Xiao still felt that it was a bit wasteful, it was much better than what Daofu Youzhi had made up before.

An infantry squad is equipped with exactly two of these things, and only eighteen of them have been drummed up for overtime production. Just enough to form a machine gun company!

Those who had returned home to visit their relatives had already left, and those who remained were told that they needed to take turns on vacation. People's hearts have gradually settled down, and they can spend the New Year on the island with peace of mind, waiting for the first batch of people to come back before the second group can leave.

Since the 28th of the lunar month, the island has been put on alert. Especially at night, it is even more noisy.

Li Xiao's position is on the top of a hill in the middle of the island, where the mortar position is located. At the top of the mountain, Li Xiao can provide fire support to various beachheads.

"Big brother, will the Tartars really come?" Xiao Yulai didn't leave in Li Xiao's arms, and Li Xiao couldn't do anything. Anyway, the mortar position is the core position of Phi Dao, and this is the safest place.

"Whether they come here or not, aren't we here?" Li Xiao hugged Xiaoyu and looked at the curtain-like night sky.

The moon in the sky is so thin that it is almost invisible, and it is no different from nothing. Without the light of the moon, the sea was pitch black, and the real skills were nowhere to be seen.

There are a few dead wind lanterns lit on the pier below the mountain, and you can faintly see several boats floating on the pier. It has been arranged by Li Xiao, and at night the boats on Phi Island are scattered to the surrounding sea. As long as Li Xiao lit the bonfire behind him, all the ships would kill in the direction of Phi Dao and sink all the ships floating on the sea.

This time, Li Xiao was ruthless, and he must let the Tartar soldiers come and go.

After waiting for a night, the dark sky revealed the whiteness of the fish's belly. After a while, the light of day covered the whole sea. The sea was very windy, but there were no ships other than the ships of Phi Dao.

Li Xiao could only let Li Xiu light the wolf smoke and summon the ship back to port. If you are floating on the sea in such a gale, you are sinning!

After breakfast, everyone except the sentry went to bed. I stayed up all night and was so sleepy that I didn't want it, and Xiaoyu in my arms had already fallen asleep. was wrapped in a cotton jacket by Li Xiao, and a little bead of sweat oozed from his small nose.

Carry Xiaoyu to the bed, take off her coat and cover the quilt. Xiaobai came in with a ghostly head, looked left and right, and then got into Xiaoyu's quilt. Close your eyes as soon as your wings close!

Li Xiao shook his head helplessly, is this a fucking bird? Whose bird sleeps lying down!

After staying up all night, Li Xiao was also dizzy. Tomorrow is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and it is the day that Li Xi estimates is most likely to attack. It is necessary to get a good night's sleep today, the next few days will be very dangerous.

I slept all day, and when I woke up, my stomach was rumbling. When I arrived at the cafeteria, I saw sleepy-eyed people. In the past few days, the people of Phi Dao have been tossed day and night, and their habits have changed.

Li Xiao really wants Tartar to come now, do something with real knives and guns, and let everyone have a good year. On this day, I am scared, and the year is not good.

It's going to be the New Year, the food is very good, dumplings, porridge, steamed buns, roasted oil butter yellow chicken. The duck is chopped into pieces, the whole big elbow, and even the sauced beef that was rarely eaten before. In addition to the wine, the meals were more abundant than ever.

But everyone has little appetite, and staying up late is the most exhausting. Besides, on Phi Island, the food is absolutely bargaining. Usually, the oil and water in everyone's stomach are enough, and it is not happy to eat in the face of a table of dishes.

"Why don't you have some wine for everyone to drink? The brothers are listless, and tomorrow will be the Chinese New Year's Eve. Ao Canghai looked at Li Xiao and asked. Man Gui also looked at Li Xiao, his eyes full of anticipation.

After all, it is still organized and disciplined, and these two masters did not drink privately. Instead, please ask Li Xiao first!

Unconsciously, the people on Phi Island have become accustomed to surrounding Li Xiao. Li Xiao's words were orders, especially those who escaped from Liaoyang with Li Xiao. They witnessed with their own eyes how a small island that was almost barren turned into an island with abundant materials and thriving step by step in Li Xiao's hands.

Even unruly people like Ao Canghai and Man Gui take Li Xiao as an absolute order.

"Forget it! As long as your head is still on your neck, you will have time to drink in the future. But my head fell off, and I never had a chance to drink again. Li Xiao's heart only loosened for a second, but in the end he insisted on not serving wine.

"Hey......!" Ao Canghai listlessly stuffed a dumpling into his mouth, and Man Gui viciously stuffed a large piece of beef in his mouth and chewed it. There are not many opportunities to eat beef in ordinary times, and it is the Chinese New Year on Phi Island, so Li Xiao let him kill a few cows.

In winter, it gets dark early, and the night gets dark again. There is no moon to be seen tonight, and it is a little darker than last night. When the ships went to sea, the mines were also densely planted. All the people hid in the house, and the sentry stared at the dark sea.

It was dawn, and Li Xiao looked helplessly at the sea outside the glass window. The waves were still very strong, but the Tartars still did not come. Li Xiao seriously suspected that he had made a mistake, and it was probably his own nervousness. Today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, is it to let everyone have a good year, or continue to squat?

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