The leisurely days passed for another four or five days.

In the past four or five days, he did not go out again, but stayed in the house to talk and chat with a few ladies, and sort out the luggage that they were about to bring to the south of the province.

Soon after, Song Qingwan and Murong Yue were going to take their children south to Chuzhou City and Huainan to visit their father-in-law, while Chen Chao was to lead a large army to conquer Goguryeo.

On this day, while talking to the ladies, the porter trotted to report that the champion had arrived.

"Champion Hou? Who is it? "Someone's brain didn't turn this corner.

"It is Yue'er's eldest brother Murong Chong, he led 20,000 cavalry, went deep behind enemy lines and stepped directly on Beidi Wolf Mountain, with outstanding combat results, and was canonized as a champion Hou."

Chen Chao saw Murong Chong in the front yard, his daily training armor had not been taken off, and his face was splashed with mud, it seemed that he had just arrived from the military camp outside the city.

"What are you doing at this time?" Chen Chao asked puzzled.

If Murong Chong came to bid farewell to her sister Murong Yue and her niece, she should have waited a few more days, and it would take a few days to set off for the south.

Murong Chong spread out his hands and replied helplessly: "Xiangye, I don't want to come either, the brothers pushed me onto the horse, so they had to let me come." ”

"What's the matter?"

"It's not a matter of going on a campaign yet. Goguryeo took advantage of the fire to rob and the news of the expedition to Goguryeo came out, and the brothers couldn't wait one by one, and they couldn't wait to set off now, day and night, and rushed to Jinzhou. ”

Murong Chong looked excited.

I can't wait.

Presumably, the soldiers under his command are in the same state as him.

One by one, they all wanted to grow wings and fly to Jinzhou to fight with Goguryeo.

"What's the hurry? This time, we are going to use weapons and equipment to comprehensively crush Goguryeo, and the artillery fire will be pushed all the way over, and the craftsmen of the Metallurgical Construction Department are rushing to produce bullets and shells day and night. ”

After speaking, Chen Chao patted Murong Chong's shoulder and said, "But don't worry, there is a chance for the soldiers to spread fire." ”

Murong Chong suddenly agreed, and said with a smile: "That's good." ”

Chen Chao had high hopes for Murong Chong and his eldest brother.

In fact, he has always wanted to train Murong Chong to be an excellent young general.

Murong Chong also lived up to Chen Chao's expectations of him, and was recognized by the Daji military as the first person of the younger generation.

The military exploits he has made are beyond the reach of other generals.

"I don't plan to bring too many people with me on this expedition to Goguryeo, you choose carefully when you go back." Chen Chao suddenly became serious, looked at Murong Chong and said very seriously: "In addition, the artillery is a hundred catties at a light weight and a thousand catties at a heavy weight, which is very cumbersome and slow, so we can let the artillery battalion set off first in a few days, and we will bring the shells later." ”

"The last will know." Murong Chong hugged his fists. He went about it as soon as he returned, and the artillery battalion was all reorganized and set off on the same day.

Chen Chao lowered his voice and reminded: "Remember, this matter must be kept secret, and Goguryeo's fine work must not be known in advance." ”

"Xiangye rest assured." Murong Chong said very confidently: "Beidi has accepted the conditions of our dynasty, and the soldiers of the Changsheng army will go north with the Beidi army, and outsiders will only think that the task of the Changsheng army is to escort the Beidi prisoners, and they will not think that our target is actually Goguryeo!" ”

"What's more, Goguryeo would never have thought that we had just fought a tough battle with Beidi, and we would send troops to attack them at this time."

……

Murong Chong's analysis is very reasonable.

Goguryeo would not have thought that Daeki would do it to them so soon.

But Chen Chao still felt that if he was careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, he had to keep it secret.

When Goguryeo relaxed its vigilance, the Daki soldiers attacked in one fell swoop, and their casualties would be much smaller.

Of course, even if Goguryeo knew that Daji had sent troops, they would have nothing to do.

Daji and Beidi fought fiercely around the capital, and Goguryeo tried to open the passage from outside the gate to the inside of the pass, Jinzhou City!

Unexpectedly, the Goguryeo army, which had an absolute advantage in numbers, was blocked outside Jinzhou by the Jinzhou army and civilians!

The military and civilians of Jinzhou have paid an extremely tragic price for this!

The population has plummeted by eighty percent, and ten rooms and nine empty rooms.

Goguryeo is also uncomfortable, the population of the small country is already small, and a big heel has been planted outside Jinzhou City, and there are not many soldiers left in the country.

The Daji army came to take revenge at this time, and even if it didn't use firearms, Goguryeo couldn't resist it.

Speaking of firearms, in the afternoon, Chen Chao rushed out with Murong and went to the Smelting and Manufacturing Department in Qingshan County.

Walking slowly along the official road, on both sides of the official road, there are several huge arsenals under construction, and the factory area that has been built, strands of black smoke are rising from it, and firearms are being made.

Barracks are stationed around the arsenal to keep on guard.

Neither nobles nor ordinary civilians were allowed to come within a hundred steps of the arsenal, not even to stand at a distance and watch.

This is an absolute forbidden place!

"Who's in charge here now?" Chen Chao asked.

"Lei Xingkui! He is also the chief weapon caster here, after so many years, this old man's temper is still as stubborn as ever, and he usually doesn't come out to take care of things, just stay in his production room to study new firearms. ”

"Okay." Chen Chao answered, and rushed to Lei Xingkui's production room with Murong Chong.

In an inconspicuous shed in the factory area.

The two met the gray-haired Lei Xingkui.

The old man had his back to the two of them, sitting in front of the operating table, dressed in ordinary linen clothes, with a leather apron around his waist, bending over and polishing the utensils, and he didn't know that someone was coming.

"Let's go, let's see!"

Chen Chao and Murong Chong stepped forward and looked at Lei Xingkui's operating table, which was very messy, there was everything, there were several flintlock pistols, all kinds of grenades, but the most eye-catching thing was the gun that Lei Xingkui was polishing in his hand now.

It was a very long gun, and the caliber was also very large, much larger than the caliber of the flintlock pistols that are now equipped with the army.

And a long-barrel-shaped scope is mounted on the gun, which resembles a sniper rifle of later generations!

"What kind of gun is this? Why haven't I seen it before? Murong Chong couldn't help but ask.

Lei Xingkui glanced at Murong Chong.

Ignore this general star love.

Murong Chong was not surprised by this old man's temper.

"This is the latest developed gun, the range is more than three times that of ordinary flintlock pistols, but the accuracy is still a little lacking, and the bullets also need to be specially made."

"You can't play with this kind of gun, go and go...... There's a spear over there, you go over there and look. ”

Lei Xingkui didn't bother to talk to the two of them, and waved his hand casually.

Lei Xingkui's apprentice on the side was stunned.

This is the prime minister, and the champion Hou!

is the top handful of people in the power center of Daji, and the master is good, he doesn't want to deal with others, and he drives people away.

"Don't blame the Prime Minister and the Hou Ye, Master is this temper, once he delves into it, he won't even sleep if he doesn't get a result." The apprentice bent over and said nice things to the side.

"The two of you, please come here, this is also a new weapon made by the master, it is very small and can be carried around."

The apprentice handed a small guy style and hands to Chen Chao.

Chen Chao took the thing and looked at it carefully, weighed it several times, and was extremely happy in his heart.

This is......

Pistol!