owlsbooks Chapter 247 Sending Troops to Qiantang County
Chapter 247 Sending Troops to Qiantang County
Chapter 247 Sending Troops to Qiantang County
Zhu Wei went to Qianxi Village to look for Yu Ji and his party this time, and it can be regarded as a rewarding experience.
Zhu Wei really didn't expect that although Yu Ji himself didn't know how to make alchemy and gunpowder, his disciple Xu Tuo knew how to make explosive pills similar to gunpowder bombs.
Although according to Xu Yu's introduction, this kind of explosive pill can explode a ball of flames, in fact, it doesn't have much damage power, it can only scare people by surprise, and use the natural instinct of wild animals to be afraid of fire to drive away wild animals.
It is also in line with folk flame juggling techniques. If it is done well, it can also be pretended to be a thunderous method of the Taoist palm.
In fact, the use of gunpowder among the Chinese people has a long history. It is only because of the harmfulness of gunpowder that under the constraints of Confucianism, the government has no idea of developing gunpowder into weapons.
It wasn't until the Song Dynasty that the Huaxia people had no choice but to face foreign horses and shooters, so they suddenly realized that they still had such a sharp weapon as gunpowder. Therefore, gunpowder gradually began to be developed into weapons in the Song Dynasty.
Especially in the Ming Dynasty, the Shenji Battalion specially used gunpowder weapons appeared to fight against Yuanmeng cavalry.
It is a pity that in the Qing Dynasty, in order to maintain the oppressiveness of the Manchu Eight Banners cavalry over the people of the Central Plains, the government deliberately curbed the development of firearms.
This is also to explain why such things as hot pills appeared at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. If you study the history of gunpowder development, you can know.
Anyway, now Zhu Wei felt that Xu Yu had mastered the basis of using black powder to make bombs. As long as Xu Yu was brought back to his camp, he could naturally develop a black powder bomb.
So under Yu Ji's favor arrangement, Zhu Wei took Xu Yu back to his camp. As for Yu Ji sending people to help Xu Yu preach in Yuzhang in the future, it was naturally a matter for Zhu Wei to return to Yuzhang in the future.
In this way, Zhu Wei's training in Shanyin County to prepare to attack Zhu Zhi in Qiantang County became more and more intense.
In particular, the research and development of black gunpowder was developed earlier than the one-month time limit that Zhu Wei originally expected. Zhu Wei took it to the mountains to test it, and the effect was good.
Based on Zhu Wei's later experience, the black gunpowder was sifted into powder, the large cohesive particles were removed, and then it was milled and pressed to dry in the shade, turning it into a lump of gunpowder, and its power was greatly improved.
Then wrap them in cloth respectively, press them and stuff the cloth-wrapped gunpowder into the hollow tube of moso bamboo to make a relatively powerful explosive bamboo tube.
Zhu Wei used it to try to blow up rocks, which was enough to break mountains and crack rocks. In this way, let alone blasting the gates of a city, even the walls of some small county towns would not be a problem.
With this big killer, Zhu Wei's preparations to attack Qiantang County were completed.
Although the movement of Zhu Wei experimenting with the gunpowder explosion tube was also noticed by the people of Shanyin County, Zhu Wei only reasoned that he found Taoist priests to learn the palm thunder technique, and now it has achieved results, all of which are the result of palm thunder means.
As a result, in the rumors of the people in Shanyin, it became Zhu Wei's search for immortals to visit Taoism. He learned Taoism from the old god Yuji in Ganxi, and learned the palm thunder Taoism of suppressing evil and demons with one hand. Now it has become the Tao of Taiping. The real Dharma protector or something.
This rumor, Zhu Wei felt that Yu Ji might also push a few hands in it, but Zhu Wei reluctantly accepted it, at least it was a little deceptive to the outside world, so as to maintain the mystery of gunpowder.
But Wang Lang heard that Zhu Wei was looking for a Taoist at the beginning, and after hearing such rumors, he really thought that Zhu Wei wanted to find Taoist methods and used Taoism to break through the water gate of Qiantang County. As a master of Confucianism, Wang Lang almost He came to the door and wanted to teach Zhu Wei a lesson.
Isn't this nonsense about military warfare?
But after Wang Lang came to the door, he knew that Zhu Wei had developed a blasting tube that opened the water gate in Qiantang County, and after seeing the power with his own eyes, he was relieved a lot.
But he was afraid of this kind of black powder blaster, and felt that this kind of thing was harmful to nature and should not appear in the world, so he persuaded Zhu Wei not to use it too much, so as not to play with fire and set himself on fire.
Zhu Wei naturally agreed with a laugh, but Wang Lang's statement of playing with fire and self-immolation is not completely unreasonable. After all, this kind of black powder itself is indeed very dangerous.
In addition, Zhu Wei can only develop the fixed-point blasting effect of this black powder blasting tube, and has not yet developed a grenade-like method. The main reason is that the fuse cannot determine the ignition time. If it is not exploded in a confined space, the power is not strong enough. Wait for the shortcomings, so it can't play more functions for the time being.
But no matter what, after the successful development of this black powder blaster, it was time for Zhu Wei to send troops to Qiantang County.
In fact, during the previous period, Zhu Wei also sent a lot of people to watch Zhu Zhi's actions in Qiantang County, and Zhu Zhi naturally sent a lot of people to Shanyin County to inquire about the news.
Zhu Wei knew that Zhu Zhi seemed to be strengthening the city walls and guards in Qiantang County, and Zhu Zhi also knew that Zhu Wei was training soldiers in Shanyin County, so he obviously wanted to beat him.
But since Zhu Wei already had the black powder blasting tube in his hands, he naturally didn't worry about Zhu Zhi's increased defense in Qiantang County. As long as Zhu Zhi was still in Qiantang County, he would not be afraid of what he would do to Qiantang County. of the city.
And Zhu Zhi sneered when he heard that Zhu Wei was learning about Taiping Dao and palm thunder, and felt that he was a little high on Zhu Wei. A cranky child.
So one morning in early November of 195, Zhu Wei mobilized troops outside Shanyin County and set off.
This time Zhu Wei was divided into two parts, land and water, and dispatched to Qiantang County at the same time. There was also a river between Shanyin County and Qiantang County, which could directly reach the water gate of Qiantang County and the West Lake in Neizhong.
For this reason, Zhu Wei recruited [-] large and small ships from Shanyin County, and then called Wang Lang's [-] soldiers and horses to sail on the boats. Most of these Kuaiji soldiers also knew how to swim, so it's okay to serve as a temporary navy. question.
On land were Zhu Wei's 1000 Shanyue soldiers and [-] Wanglang infantry, plus more than [-] infantry brought by Dong Xi who had recently joined Zhu Wei, and [-] civilian husbands recruited from Shanyin County.
Although the soldiers brought by Dong Xi were poorly trained and prepared, at least they were all strong men. It is still possible to let them follow suit and kill the enemy. What's more, after Dong Xi joined Zhu Wei, Zhu Wei discovered his loyalty. The speed reached 100, which shows that he is really a loyal person with one heart and one mind.
Although Dong Xi's other abilities were mediocre, Zhu Wei valued him more for his loyalty.
In this way, Zhu Wei brought more than 1000 soldiers and horses, plus [-] civilian husbands, known as an army of [-], and attacked Zhu Zhi in Qiantang County, who was conspiring against him, in the name of Yangzhou Mu Liuyou.
It took more than half a day to get from Shanyin County to Qiantang County...
(End of this chapter)