Hundreds of big men rushed out from the woods on the roadside. First, there was a big man holding an iron rod. On one end of the iron rod was a dragon that swallowed the rod. This was officially the leader of the Beggar Gang's keepsake, the dragon-headed stick.

"Ai, take your life!" He has been waiting for this moment for more than ten days. Although he can't defeat your Liao Army, I can kill your Liao Army's big boss.

The Beggar Gang has a large number of people, and its ability to get information is unparalleled in the world. In the past two months, they have already found out what is going on with the Liao army in the capital. The reason why Ai Husheng was not touched before was because he did not want to anger the Liao army.

But now that his mind is at this point, he doesn't care about irritation or not. Although he can't do anything to the Liao army, he can still kill the Liao army's big shopkeeper in the capital.

I have been keeping an eye on Ai Husheng for several days, and today I finally have the chance to make a move. Send the dead soldiers to use the gunpowder obtained from the Shenji Battalion to blow up your mother-in-law. Even if you don't die, I can chop you into pieces if I rush forward. Not only will you survive,

You can't let it go, not even the corpse.

The head should be hung on the city wall, and the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys should be removed and placed in front of the grave of the dead brother.

"Protect the big shopkeeper!" The living guard rushed forward with a knife without saying a word.

Hong Qi's dragon-headed stick stabbed the guard's chest, hitting his head with a single blow, and the guard's head exploded. The body fell to the ground with a "pop" sound.

A guard rushed to the front of the carriage, pulled out the bloody Ai Husheng from the carriage, picked him up and ran away.

Hong Qi was not willing to let go of this opportunity and chased with his life. Now he regretted why he didn't ride a few horses to come over. He was entangled by those desperate guards and was delayed for a short while. Now.

When I chased him again, I was already seven or eight feet away.

The strong guards were carrying Ai Husheng. No matter how strong he was, Ai Husheng was still a big living person weighing more than 100 kilograms. Carrying such a person would make him run slower and slower, and he would soon be overtaken by the people behind him.

The door was still more than half a mile away. The two guards tried their best to block it, but they only blocked it for a moment before being chopped into pieces.

"Who are you? Dare to make trouble at the city gate!" Suddenly more than a dozen fast horses rushed out of the city. The people on the horses were wearing flying fish clothes and embroidered spring knives. The leader was officially Xu Xianchun.

"Master Xu, I am the guard of Manager Ai. Save me!" The guard shouted hoarsely when he saw Xu Xianchun. When Ai Husheng invited Xu Xianchun to eat, the guard was also with Ai Husheng.

Xu Xianchun didn't know a single guard, but he knew the Liao army uniforms on the guards. In the entire Ming Dynasty, only the Liao army wore such uniforms.

With the relationship between Li Xiao and Xu Xianchun, it was impossible for Xu Xianchun to watch his men being chased and killed. With a wave of his hand, more than a dozen Jinyi guards drew their embroidered spring knives and urged their horses to charge forward.

Hong Qi was stunned. He didn't expect a team of uniformed guards to rush out at this time.

He dared to provoke the Liao Army, but he did not dare to provoke the Jinyiwei. Any Jianghu gang is like midsummer ice and snow in front of the state machine. The Jinyiwei is the most violent fang in the state machine. If he really kills the Jinyiwei, he will probably run away.

Even if you go to the ends of the earth, you will be hunted down.

"Gang leader! Jin Yiwei!" Seeing Jin Yiwei, his legs were weak even before he faced off against the disciples of the Beggar Clan. There are some people in the Ming Dynasty who are not afraid of Jin Yiwei.

"Grandma's fault! He's lucky!" Hong Qi spat, turned around and ran into the woods.

Cavalry would never enter a place like the woods easily.

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The test firing of the rocket launcher was so successful that Li Xiao was so happy that his nose was bubbling with joy. This kind of weapon of mass destruction is definitely a nightmare for any army.

Two warheads weighing 400 kilograms and filled with nitrocellulose exploded. The scene could only be described as devastating. The air wave generated by the explosion made it impossible to breathe for a time.

The huge explosion made Li Xiao, who had plugged in his earplugs, feel chest tightness.

The two houses built in the center of the explosion disappeared immediately, and the packhorse tied to the pile was torn into pieces. The soldiers searched for a long time before finally finding half of the incomplete hoof.

The hole blasted into the ground was eight feet deep. You must know that the bottom of Changxing Island is hard rock, not soft sand.

The most exciting thing is that the range of this thing reaches a full sixteen miles. In other words, it reaches eight kilometers.

The rocket launchers of later generations were able to hit dozens of kilometers, and eight kilometers was simply a piece of cake. But Li Xiao did not have such high-purity propellant, so being able to hit eight kilometers was already the limit.

As for whether there is a target eight kilometers away, rocket launchers have never relied on the target to make a living. What I fired was a coverage, a group of eight-round salvos. Hundreds of rockets fell into the camp at the same time. I guess there were no rockets in the camp.

There's no one left alive, this isn't a war, this is a fucking massacre.

After crawling out of the bunker, everyone opened their mouths in surprise. Li Xiu looked at his elder brother in surprise. Two rockets were already so powerful. If it was really like what the elder brother said, hundreds or thousands of rockets would fall at the same time.

Come on, that scene...!

Li Xiu shivered all over and didn't dare to think!

Li Hu stuffed his fist into his mouth, his eyes were full of hot light. He liked this thing so much, and the Eight Banners soldiers would be scum if they had this thing.

In fact, he likes anything related to violence!

"It's too expensive!" The fisherman shook his head helplessly as people exclaimed.

There is only so much nitrocellulose produced, and one piece of this stuff would weigh 400 kilograms. Although the explosion is extremely powerful, the consumption of ammunition is also staggering.

Li Xiao looked at Old Yu in surprise. This was supposed to be what Ai Husheng said, but now it came out of the old guy's mouth. It was obvious that he was worried about his apprentice. Once Li Xiao made a crazy request to increase production,

The big hammer has to be worked day and night.

The process of making nitric acid and sulfuric acid is actually somewhat dangerous, and blindly doing it too quickly will definitely cause an accident.

"After all the factories are moved out of Pi Island, the land on Pi Island will be used to produce nitrocellulose. I will send him more manpower. He Kegang sent more than two hundred prisoners of war. Send them all to the island!"

Hearing what Li Xiao said, Mr. Yu nodded. He hesitated in his mind whether to bring up his idea of ​​a super cannon.

"There are mortars in the short range, and these things in the long range. The combination of distance and distance forms a fire net, and it is difficult for gods to escape from here. Damn it, this battle will become easier and easier from now on." Ao Canghai cursed and turned around.

Just go back.

Ao Canghai was already immune to muskets, and the power of mortars was acceptable. But the power of rockets really shocked the well-informed Ao Ye.

The advent of super weapons has completely left no room for personal bravery to be displayed on the battlefield. Before you can get close, you will be covered by this thing in a large area more than ten miles away. The remaining people are not dead, and there are not many left.

Even if you have a large number of people, you can use the reloading time to get through the death zone. A few miles away, you encounter the mortar with the fastest firing rate in the world. With shrapnel flying in all directions, even one person cannot escape.

No matter how good you are, you can survive the mortar. Behind you is the firing range of the musket. With such evil things as dummy bullets, no matter where a person is hit by one shot, he is finished.

When you want to cut someone with the knife, you find that the enemy has fallen down while charging. Uh... on the march. There are only corpses in front of you, and there is no target to kill.

Ao Ye was not the most depressed, but Man Gui, who came all the way from Jinzhou, was more depressed. Originally, the appearance of muskets had dealt a fatal blow to the cavalry. Now with this thing, using cavalry on a large scale is a complete nightmare.

If the formation is dense, two rockets and hundreds of cavalrymen will disappear.

With just one salvo, none of his 1,500 men would survive.

On the way back, my personal mood was different. Li Hu was chirping and talking to Li Xiu, but Li Xiu was just a dull listener, not caring about his brother's hard work.

Master Ao and Master Man were riding side by side, not knowing what they were talking about. But they never put down the wine bags in their hands.

He was too old to ride a horse, so the fisherman sat on the carriage with Inatomi Yunao and Li Xiao. The cement paved road was good, but it was too hard and the wheels were a bit bumpy when driving on it. Fortunately, the soft backrest alleviated the problem to a certain extent.

Got bumpy.

"The barrel problem you mentioned cannot be solved. We can't replace all the muskets. According to the current production, this will take three years. If you promise not to fight for three years, I will get it for you." On the carriage.

, the old fisherman talked about the problem of the gun being unable to fire last winter.

"We can make a fuss about the bullet. In the past, we wanted the bullet to be close to the barrel of the gun. This would ensure that the power of the gunpowder would push the bullet farther.

I think we can make a batch of smaller bullets specifically for use in winter. All we need to do is indicate on the bullet box that they are winter bullets." Inatomi Yuzhi said his idea. In the past few years, his Chinese has improved.

Great progress has been made. Although the accent is still weird, it is still understandable.

Li Xiao's eyes lit up. He had been worrying about this matter these days, but he didn't expect that the old guy Inatomi Yunao had already had an idea.

"This is a good idea. The existing ammunition will be consumed a lot during daily training. It is feasible to prepare a batch of winter bullets specially." The fisherman also thinks that Inatomi Yunao's idea is a good one.

"Then let's settle it. We need to produce more rockets, and we will have to trouble you, Mr. Yu, about the production." Li Xiao made the decision immediately. The good idea needs to be implemented immediately. It's almost July now, and it's about to happen again.

The weather in Liaodong will get cold in three or four months.

"The rocket charge is too large, and our existing nitrocellulose can no longer make ends meet. If we make more rockets, the production of mortar shells and grenades will be affected. As you know, boss, the production of nitrocellulose is

So many. For the sake of confidentiality, we can only produce them on Phi Island.

Even if the manpower you promised has arrived, you still have to wait for equipment and ore. The quality of the ore supplied by North Korea is no longer as good as before. This is another reason why the output of nitrocellulose is not high!" There were so many people just now, and the fisherman

The old man didn't say much. Now only Li Xiao, Inatomi Yunao and Yu Lao have told the truth.

"I asked Ai Husheng to talk about North Korea. He seems to have encountered some troubles in the capital. It is estimated that he will be able to go to North Korea soon. Not only do we need pyrite ore, we also need iron ore and copper ore. We also need pyrite ore.

There are some other ores we need.

I used to think that what we fought in wars were people and weapons. Now I realize that what we fought in wars was money. Just be patient and everything will be fine in two years." Li Xiao is full of confidence in the future.

Daqianmen has opened the market in the capital, and the wine brewed in Hongluoshan is also selling well. Ai Husheng is a guy who can get things done and created a gimmick of five kinds of grain brewing. When he set the trademark as Wuliangye, Li Xiao's

My jaw almost dropped to the ground.

With the support of the two giants of tobacco and alcohol, and real estate development in the capital, Li Xiao is confident that he can feed this army of more than 20,000 people, not to mention that in the future, the vast Liaodong will be able to grow potatoes and corn, two high-yielding crops.

.These two items are enough to ensure that hundreds of thousands of people in Liaodong will not go hungry.

There is even extra feed for feeding pigs. In the cold weather in the Northeast, how can we withstand the cold without eating something high in fat?

The carriage arrived in front of Tang Ruowang's hospital, and the foreign monk insisted on erecting the cross on the top of the hospital. Li Xiao accepted it without much thought. In his opinion, there was no difference between the black cross and the red cross (completely required by the plot, absolutely no

It means to satirize a certain association), that is, there are some differences in the hanging place.

I heard that this guy has invented several new medicines, one of which is miraculous in treating colds.

Colds are the most common epidemic in Liaodong, especially among children. If you play outside in the winter and take off your hat when it gets hot, catching a cold is a common occurrence.

Last winter, Tang Ruowang cured many children. Even during the injection, the children's crying was quite distressing.

In addition, the biggest advantage of Western medicine is in first aid. Even injured soldiers on the battlefield can stop the bleeding as quickly as possible and then treat the symptoms accordingly.

Li Xiao knows too well the value of veterans who have been injured and returned to the battlefield. In the past, only a few two-knife nurses who he taught could sew stitches, but now there are people who can perform operations. Although the technical content of taking arrows and taking bullets is not the same.
To be continued...