There are really few eunuchs who come out of the palace who don't know the existence of their own catties and taels.

As far as Li Kui's identity is concerned, this product is a jinshi, and he will resist the enemy after giving Hao Sui, what is there not to be satisfied with?

What's more, Li Kui still has the relationship of the emperor's relatives, although the low-level emperor's relatives are not a big man in the capital of the Great Song Dynasty. The prince of the Great Song Dynasty, the prince of the county is not popular in the capital, let alone a relative of the emperor? But the problem is that Li Kui is different, Concubine Xian's brother-in-law, that is, the emperor's brother-in-law, this relationship is enough.

But the emperor changed Concubine Xian the most in the palace, and Concubine Xian's father, Liu Taiwei, regarded Li Kui as his own son......

Thinking about it, Hao Sui didn't feel that he still had any qualifications for Li Kui to give him the capital to resist the enemy. If something happened to Li Kui, Hao Sui would not only not be able to get rid of his involvement, but would even have to face the thunderous wrath from the emperor.

Li Kui's coming to the northwest is really not derogatory.

It can't be helped.

The emperor didn't want to arrange any county lieutenant of Yangquan County for Li Kui, how could he show Zhao Xu's importance to Li Kui from the official position of Jiupin? No matter how you say it, you should give a general judgment on the future. But the Queen Mother didn't allow it, and the bad was in the hands of the old ladies. In fact, the Empress Dowager Xiang wanted to kill Li Kui with a bowl of poison, but unfortunately she didn't have a chance.

Therefore, the emperor arranged for Hao Sui and Li Kui to come to the northwest together for only one purpose. The county lieutenant is too small, so small that the officialdom is a pitiful appearance that can be bullied by an official. Hao Sui's appearance was to ask him to help take care of Li Kui, don't let Li Kui be wronged.

Hao Sui pinched the crane top red hidden in his clothes, and his heart was full of emotion. He can't be captured, especially not by a foreign race, and the prison army of the Great Song Dynasty has never had a precedent for being captured by a foreign race. When it was his turn, it was absolutely not. If he was captured, the fate would be so tragic that he couldn't imagine it. Once he fell into a dead end, Hao Sui could only choose to commit suicide, and there was no other way to go.

Of course, the crane top red is not really the venom on the head of the crane, but arsenic. It's just that high-purity arsenic will show a dark red color, so it is called crane top red. I don't know where this thing is found elsewhere, but there is definitely no shortage in the palace.

Facing Li Kui, he kept saying: "Gong Hao is committed to going to Sanchuankou, as long as I, Li Kui, am here, the party members will never catch up with you." ”

"I have wronged Renjie, our family has written it down, and I also ask Renjie to take care of it, stay in the green mountains, and I am not afraid of running out of firewood." Hao Sui just lightly nodded at Li Kui, in case Li Kui is in a desperate situation, he may not necessarily have to kill Shengren. Li Kui is alive and well, this is the most important thing for him.

This is also the reason why Hao Sui wants to coax Li Kui.

If a Jiupin Sesame official dared to die in front of Hao Sui, he would have jumped up and scolded. Even when you're in a bad mood, it's not impossible to hit the board.

But in the face of Li Kui, Hao Sui could only accept Li Kui's arrangement. The cavalry gave Hao Sui two hundred, and Li Kui left three hundred. This is also what Hao Sui agreed, after all, Li Kui is open-minded, and Hao Sui is desperate for his life, and he doesn't dare to make trouble for Li Kui at this juncture in order to save his life. The infantry did not bring it, but took away a lot of captured Western Xia horses, more than a thousand, plus the guards that Hao Sui recruited himself, each knight could be divided into five horses.

With such a large number of spare horses, if the tactical goal is to plunder, as long as the number of troops and combat effectiveness are sufficient, it will be 30,000 or 50,000, and it can be fought all the way from the Great Song Dynasty to Europe.

In fact, the Mongols later went to Europe to bully people, and that's what they did.

After sending Hao Sui away, Li Kui was finally able to tell Gao Yu what he thought and discernment.

For Gao Yu, the battlefield must be on. If he didn't go to war, he wouldn't have merit. It is not impossible for a general without military merits to be promoted to lieutenant. But there must be a prerequisite - the family background is good enough.

It's a pity that Gao Yu's family background has no other use than to inspire him to struggle.

"Alright, Renjie, now it's time for you to tell us what you think, right?" Gao Yu waited until Hao Sui left, and then he couldn't help but ask, it was already very difficult.

Unlike Hao Sui, Gao Yu's understanding of Li Kui is based on the experience accumulated over several years of life. They have lived under Su Shi for more than two years, and it is also the most important two years in Li Kui's growth, Gao Yu naturally concluded that Li Kui had a big plan, but it was delayed because of Hao Sui, a useless guy.

It can't be said to be a delay, it's just that it hasn't been spoken.

Seeing this, Li Kui casually picked up a piece of firewood from the bonfire that was about to be extinguished, and began to write and draw on the ground: "This is the valley, where the party originally stored war horses, cattle and sheep. Now there are still a lot of cattle and sheep, and there are enough horses for each of us to have a surplus, and if we want to leave now, we can definitely reach Sanchuankou within two days. But don't you think this place is a good place to be used as a battlefield? ”

"Battlefield?" If you talk about juju, Gao Yu can say flowers, but it is difficult to talk about fighting. Although he spent a lot of effort to learn, if he really went to the battlefield with real swords and guns, he would definitely be blind.

Li Kui pointed to the place of the river beach and explained to Gao Yu: "Look at this terrain, the river beach and the river bay are surrounded by it, and there is a valley on the side, which is small at the two ends and large in the middle. If it weren't for the fact that I had few people, if I had 350,000, I would have wanted to trap 100,000 Western Xia troops here. If it weren't for the fact that the army of the party had already trapped Jinmingzhai, this place would definitely be heavily guarded. ”

"Of course, the gain and loss is that the party people don't pay attention to it, so they leave us with opportunities. Now that this is a rare opportunity, I am ready to do it here. Look at this place, the cavalry does not have any advantage in maneuvering, of course there is no problem with a few hundred people fighting, but it is difficult to fight with a few thousand. There was no room for cavalry to charge and detour, and cavalry was infantry on horseback, even inferior to infantry. ”

"But we are different, we are infantry, and we are fully prepared......"

Li Kui said quickly, but Gao Yu couldn't help but interrupt Li Kui and said, "Renjie, you said that we are completely prepared, why don't I know?" ”

As the chief general of the infantry, Gao Yu certainly has reason to question Li Kui's nonsense. His infantry had changed some of their weapons in the armory of Jingzhao Mansion, and now they were three-zhang long spears, shields, hand knives, bows and crossbows, and gunpowder...... This kind of equipment didn't show any signs of victory in Gao Yu's eyes.

Li Kui said angrily: "Huogong, Huogong, Huogong, have you forgotten?" ”

"Is that thing reliable?"

Gao Yu fell into doubt, it stands to reason that he shouldn't doubt the ability of his good brother, but the problem is, he just can't help it. The bronze gunpowder that Li Kui made and the granular black powder that he ordered the craftsman to re-dry and brew cost a lot. That is, Hao followed Li Kui Hu, otherwise, there would be no such novelty at all.

But less than 100 catties of fire guns look like an enlarged bamboo pipe, the thickness of the bowl mouth, after the gunpowder is filled, fine velvet is added and pressed, and then a large number of gravel and iron pellets are filled.

When the cannon was fired, the movement was very large, although it did not reach the level of shaking the ground and shaking the mountains that Li Kui imagined, but at least it was the level of thunder on the flat ground.

Li Kui has high hopes for this new weapon, not only that, but he also invested great enthusiasm and personally lit the cannon, and the effect is not visible, but it seems that the power is good.

Structurally, this is still the category of firecrackers.

Li Kui's improved musket is certainly much more powerful than the assault rifle and the like, and the lethality of the rocket that is not used in comparison is real, and the only thing lacking is actual combat.

Without the test of iron and blood on the battlefield, any new weapon will be questioned.

In order to give confidence to the soldiers, Li Kui was determined to practice close to actual combat.

Of course, the training of the firecracker squad is not without it, but it is very rigorous. Under Li Kui's attention, no soldier dared to be lazy. However, the lethality of the firecracker has not been verified by the real thing.

Once there is enough verification, I am afraid that the soldiers will be full of confidence without him saying it.

Thinking of this, Li Kui immediately decided to train his troops.

Gao Yu was frightened half to death by Li Kui's practice of sharpening his gun, but he was helpless. His army is still nominally the main general, but it would be a bit whimsical to think that he can manage everything.

Facing Li Kui's arrogant expression, Gao Yu said helplessly: "Renjie, you say practice if you practice, but there should always be a charter, how to practice?" ”

"With cows!"

Li Kui had already thought of a way.

A large part of the supply of the party members is living creatures. Cattle and sheep are the most indispensable food for the party members. Li Kui has a lot of cattle in his hands, and there are thousands of them. Of course, cattle are an important source of dairy products, and the party members are reluctant to kill more. More of the meat seized was sheep.

It's a pity that Li Kui really can't do it by using a gun of cannon caliber to bully sheep.

The cow was brought in stupidly, and the number was about fifty.

There are many types of cattle, and there are three common ones in the East: the cattle of the Central Plains are not big, weighing five or six hundred catties, and their horns are small, not much bigger than horses, but they are easy to use and intelligent, and they are hard-working; There are also common buffaloes in the south, the size of the buffalo is very large, and the big one is more than 2,000 catties. There is also the common grassland cattle in the grassland, with large horns and slender feet, a physique between cattle and buffaloes, and a temper not as fierce as that of grassland people.

All in all, fifty oxen were brought and enclosed in the clearing.

All the soldiers stretched their necks to look at it, and they thought it was quite a novelty. Gun training is more about loading training on weekdays, so don't think about firing guns, because gunpowder is not enough for Li Kui to squander unlimitedly.

Of course, it is not that there is no actual combat training, but they are all empty guns, and they lack an intuitive understanding of the lethality of firearms.

Finally caught and killed the living thing, and the firecracker soldiers were very excited. When Li Kui was supervising the construction of the gunpowder, he had already weighed the gunpowder before and stored it in small packets. Each pack is a one-time amount.

As long as the gunpowder is filled with a firecracker, compacted, and then filled with a breath-holding filler, the last thing is a small piece of iron and stone with great lethality.

Because it's not a real fight, don't think about the small pieces of iron, and use the smashed stones on the river beach as ammunition.

A row of ten muskets, after being placed, was placed on a carriage, and the muzzles of the guns were aimed at the cattle not far away. Poor God, the cows had no idea what they were going to face, and they were stupidly chewing on the hay in their stomachs, glaring at the fire with their eyes curious.

The black muzzles of the ten muskets were aimed at the poor live cattle. Li Kui didn't want to make any tiger squat cannons, the kind of weapons that were half buried in the soil were too backward. He was a man who had seen the world, and he couldn't afford to lose this man if he had come up with such a primitive thermal weapon. All firearms had two short wheels and a simple gun carriage, which were usually disassembled and placed on pack horses and temporarily assembled during battle. Precision is not required, and this simple structure is easy to build.

The ammunition is a scatter projectile, and if you classify the firecracker, it should be a mortar with a large number of kills and dense formations. The cavalry charge was certainly within its range of destruction.

It's just that the gunner is a little offended, and can only half-crouch on the ground, with spears above his head and shield soldiers on the side.

According to Li Kui's understanding of thermal weapons, when the lethality of artillery is insufficient, it is necessary to use cold weapons, especially long-pole cold weapons, to win time for artillery loading.

This is the case with pikemen.

Their responsibility was to hold off the onrushing cavalry while the guns were being loaded. After the firebolt is fired, the firecracker pulls the firebolt back into the main formation, then reloads and strikes again. Therefore, the firecrackers are loading and attacking in the cracks, and the lack of space is probably their biggest difficulty.

Of course, under such a formation, even if the cavalry attacking from the back side was frightened, it was impossible for the firecrackers to escape. There are people on the side, and they can't run if they want to.

After making preparations, Li Kui ordered: "Prepare!" ”

The moment the flag was raised, the artillery commander roared: "Don't mess around, according to the training on weekdays, if anyone runs blindly, Lao Tzu will kill him!" ”

The words of each artillery commander were different, but the tone was very different.

"Fire!"

Boom –

Boom –

Boom –

A door was lit at the same time in front of the fire, and soon, clouds of flames and smoke filled the front of the army, and the cattle that were used as tests were shrouded in it. With an attack range of 30 paces, it's perfect for shotshots to get the most out of them.

Moo –

The frightened bark of the cow was heard, followed by a cow that was completely unable to distinguish its direction. The frightened cattle went on a rampage, and several even rushed to the firecracker position. Even Gao Yu was startled by such a change, and was about to rush forward on his horse, shouting: "Shoot with a bow and crossbow!" ”

But Li Kui grabbed the reins of Gao Yu's war horse and said confidently: "Don't worry. ”

"Renjie, the party members haven't come yet, if we suffer heavy losses, how can we fight this battle?"

Gao Yu is really anxious, the infantry are all Gao Yu's subordinates, and they are dead, Gao Yu has really become a light general. And what about Li Kui? This thing is not a general at all, and when the time comes, Gao Yu's subordinate forbidden army will be killed, and he can pat his ass and leave, and be his county lieutenant. But Gao Yu was sinned.

The next scene relieved Gao Yu a lot, the ox that rushed to the fire gun position was held up by the spear, and breaking a few gun barrels was also an acceptable loss. But all this made Gao Yu feel a little surprised, the cow can withstand it, what about the horse?

Wouldn't it be easier?

Then the colonel came with good news: "My lord, general, more than a dozen cows have fallen to the ground, and most of them will not survive. After running for a while, Commander Li sent people to chase after him, and several others were stabbed to death. As the adults say, the fire gun has the power of heaven and earth. ”

Li Kuixin said: "I already knew, do you still need to say it?" ”