The people of Heilong Mountain were shocked by the Happy Stick of Heavenly King Laozi.
It also inspired Cao Yao's love for this thing. The old thief who has been around for ten years really likes this thing.
Liu Chengzong originally wanted the blacksmith to make two, facing both sides of the door bolt, but Liu Chengzu wanted to make four, just in case the explosion was not accurate.
Reasonable.
Cao Yao asked the blacksmith to make eight first, and then eight more after he finished.
He said he could keep it for future use. With this thing, no castle gate could stop him.
He also said that he would give it a random name first, and when the conditions are good, he could renovate it and then name it the Invincible Divine Power Gun.
Liu Chengzong was puzzled, why did you modify this thing?
Cao Yao said that he could modify the steel wheel to make fire. In the future, as the craftsmen become more advanced, he could put the steel wheel from the mine inside and poke people.
The hero has the same idea, and Liu Chengzong has also thought about it, but this is unrealistic: "I have thought about it too, but it can only be used once, how can you hit someone with a broken pole?"
"We're going to fight, brother, let's let a fat-bellied soldier take this position and replace it with a bastard on the other side who's fully armored up to his butthole. Let alone one for one, ten for one will make a lot of money."
Cao Yao didn't consider human nature at all and only calculated economic accounts: "And it's cheap. A waist knife costs five taels of silver, and a suit of armor costs ten taels. How much can you kill an elite soldier with these 12 taels and five taels of silver? How much money do you have?" "One pound of pig iron, three pounds of gunpowder, fifty big coins, and a long stick can save half of the materials for poking people, so it only costs less than five coins."
Liu Chengzong said: "But if your steel wheel catches fire, it will be expensive. If you don't use the steel wheel to catch fire, it won't be able to poke people."
"That's true."
Cao Yao just had an idea, not to mention that this is just the product of Heilong Mountain being used as a logistics base. Without stable conditions and being chased and beaten by the army, they would not be able to do anything.
Then it died down.
However, this distracted Liu Chengzong's thinking, and he asked: "Brother Cao, have you seen the Donglu, do they have double-armored heavy infantry?"
"You want to use this to poke the Donglu?" Cao Yaoyao was amused and shook his head: "Unless you are recruited by the imperial court, how can you go outside the pass to fight against the Donglu? Not to mention that their heavy infantry can not only fight, but also shoot." p>
His expression was very complicated. He closed his eyes briefly and pursed his lips. He seemed to have really considered the feasibility: "You have been recruited. The imperial court transferred you to a foreign country. You were not given food on the way. You were hungry for three days and ate a lot of grass roots. I will give it to you."
The steel wheel was supposed to be on fire but there was only a three-foot stick made of paper twists. When you lit the fire, Donglu killed you. Oh, my five hundred brothers died worse than this."
"I won't talk nonsense to you anymore. I'm going to have a drink. Don't look for me anymore. I have to have fun with your sister-in-law tonight. I've been wasted for several days."
Cao Yao took one step at a time and left while humming an unknown tune, leaving Liu Chengzong with an extremely melancholy figure.
Liu Chengzong really wanted to tell him that recruiting soldiers was not necessary to defeat the Donglu.
I really want to tell him that there are only three steps to defeat Donglu without recruiting him: stay alive, enter the capital, and leave the customs.
In the following days, Liu Chengzu and Cao Yao simulated many unexpected situations that might occur when attacking the fortress, and prepared various plans for success, failure, and failure after entering.
Liu Chengzong did not interfere with this matter. Most of the time he did not express his opinions, but just listened.
Cao Yao has more experience in fighting and plundering, while Liu Chengzu received an orthodox officer education from the imperial court in Yuhe Fort, and they are more professional.
However, he was not idle either. While the blacksmith was making thunder rods, he gathered all the craftsmen, organized them into a team of craftsmen, and specially selected five cave dwellings and an open space for them to rest and work.
The success of making a lightning bolt that penetrated three wooden doors made Liu Chengzong pay more attention to another memory and realize the importance of productivity.
This importance comes from the fear deep in his soul.
He always thought he was brave and fearless, until he used a thunder rod to break through three wooden doors last night.
Not being afraid of death becomes meaningless, steel and gunpowder are less afraid of death than he is.
Productivity is too ruthless. A cowardly person can be extremely brave if he masters it. A vicious person can master it and sweep away the good. A despicable person can defeat justice if he masters it.
Organize your own workers, make better production tools, and dig out another memory to increase productivity.
On the second day of May, Heilong Mountain seemed very quiet.
The young people who usually run around in the mountains all drank too much the night before yesterday and couldn't get up until midnight, which surprised the old people.
It wasn't until the afternoon that people started to get up one after another. More than 40 young people quietly pushed their family's four-wheeled carts, two-wheeled carts and even wheelbarrows to the mountain pass.
Then Liu Chengzong took Gao Xian and other frontier troops to put their armor, bedding, ropes, feathers, arrows, water and food in the car, then rode out of the mountain with light equipment and scattered it to the west.
Not long after, a cavalryman waved his arm at the mountain pass in the dusk, and the waiting young men set off under the leadership of Liu Chengzu.
Liu Chengzu also decided to participate in this operation. He would explore the enemy's situation on the cliff, choose the right time to enter the fort by hanging a rope, and go straight to Wangzhuang to take charge.
The cavalry spread out, with one person standing every other mile. After the team passed by, they led their horses to follow. It was already dark after thirty miles, so the team turned into the mountain pass to rest for a while, and then changed their formation when they started on the road again. p>
The distance between the cavalrymen serving as Tangbao cavalry was shortened to a hundred steps, and the leading cavalryman was changed from Liu Chengzong to a color-blind infantryman from the border army.
The country soldier pushing the cart behind lit a torch at the front of the team, and the carts behind them moved forward slowly, one after the other.
At this time, there is no need to worry about night raids. They should worry more about vehicles falling into ditches or people hanging on trees.
The rural soldiers in Heilong Mountain may be some of the people with a higher average living standard in Yan'an Prefecture.
There are many people with a higher standard of living than them, but those people would not appear in the wild in the middle of the night before, and they will not do it now.
The frontier and guard troops did not eat as well as they did, and generally suffered from very severe night blindness.
They kept walking, taking a break after walking for ten or twenty miles.
It wasn't until the moonlight dimmed and the sky entered its darkest state that Liu Chengzong lit a torch, rode horses to find the valley where he was expected to rest, and guided the team in.
There used to be a village in this valley, located on the lower reaches of the north bank of the Xichuan River. Now it has lost its water source and is in ruins. It is a perfect place for them to hide their carts and rest for a day.
Before going to bed, Liu Chengzong went to the mountain north of Wangzhuang Fort again. In the dark, he did not dare to climb too high, but just looked at Wangzhuang from a distance.
When he returned, the sky had turned white. Liu Chengzu was still awake and asked, "How were the Wangzhuang guards at night?"
"It's quite relaxed. There is one person outside the main gate and two people in the gate tower. I can't see the east wall. The three people sitting on the west wall are not moving. They are probably taking a nap."
Liu Chengzong gave him a beating and heard his brother ask: "Are you sure you can kill the gatekeeper?"
Brother means to kill him silently.
He shook his head and said: "It's difficult. There are torches at the city gate and a brazier twenty steps away. I don't know if there is a hidden whistle. Moreover, the fort wall is too low, so any sound will be heard."
"But at the foot of the fort, I am sure to shoot the people on the fort to death. I will try to trick the door into opening the door tomorrow. If that doesn't work, I will shoot the people on the fort to death and blow the door open with a thunder rod."
Liu Chengzong smiled and said: "Go to sleep, brother. When you wake up, it will be the day when we can do big things. We will no longer be short of money and food."