Xiao Huoer was pinned to the ground by four or five strong Song soldiers. They immediately disarmed him. Under the armor, there were only pants under the armor. Without the belt, they fell loosely, revealing the clothes wrapped around his waist.
He was still twisting his body angrily with the piece of crotch cloth, showing that he would never give in.
Wu Gudu's two layers of armor had long been peeled off. With a huge belly sticking out, he stood bare-chested on the wasteland with his hands on his chest. He looked around in horror at the Song army who captured him, and kept shouting:
"I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender!"
The monkey looked at Wu Gudu with a smile and said: "We speak well. At least these words are spoken in a clear and round tone. They are still pure Beijing dialect. Who did you learn it from?"
Wu Gudu looked at the monkey holding the long knife and kept moving his body back because the monkey's knife tip hit his stomach.
"I tried to arrest you when we were in Shenwu City, but you escaped. You shouldn't be able to escape this time, right?" Monkey said with a smile, tapping Wu Gudu's soft belly with the back of his knife.
"I am willing to pay to redeem myself! General, please tell Yun Shuai that I am willing to pay to redeem myself, ten thousand guan, no, 20,000 guan. I have little family wealth, and I am willing to give it all. I only ask for my life!"
Xiao Huo'er, who had already been beaten and tied up, cursed angrily: "Wugudu, a good man from Daliao will die if he dies. Aren't you afraid of losing the face of the upper three tribes when you beg for mercy?"
The monkey said with a smile: "You don't know, my commander likes to watch stories about heroes begging for mercy. If Wu Gudu begs like this, maybe my commander will let him go if his heart softens. The tougher he is, my commander will say that this kind of person
The harder it is to let go, it doesn't matter if you put the soft bones back, you can still catch them next time, but you can't catch the hard bones. If you try to catch them again, you will hurt the soldiers. Xiao Huo'er, don't you beg for mercy? I heard that your Xiao family has a lot of them.
money."
Xiao Huo'er closed her eyes and stopped making any sound, while Wu Gudu, whose hands were tied, approached the monkey and flattered him, hoping that he could get a chance to redeem himself.
"You can't punish a doctor. This is true in the Song Dynasty, and it is also true in the Liao Kingdom. The villain is the lord of Shenwu City, and he is from the Shangsan clan. He should be a scholar after all. It is not a big problem to redeem himself with money, right?
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"The villain always runs away when seeing Yun Shuai's army, that is, Guo Ruhai, Xiao Huo'er and others are unwilling to surrender, otherwise Yun Shuai wouldn't have to spend so much effort to defeat Xiao Huo'er and would have recovered Xijing long ago...
"
When Lang Tan heard these words, his anger welled up from the bottom of his heart. As a soldier, he couldn't bear to hear such bastard words, and it was hard to say anything. He left the monkey with a groan, leaving him to mess around with Wugudu.
Yun Zheng didn't care much about Xiao Huo'er's life or death. At this time, he was squatting on the ground and carefully looking at the gunpowder bombs that Han Niu had collected from the Liao army. They said they were not many, only a dozen or so. They were made from iron shells.
Judging from the appearance of the shell, these gunpowder bombs were made from a batch of molten iron. The shape of the pineapple-like fragments on the iron shell was not very finely cast. He took apart a gunpowder bomb, poured out the gunpowder, and struck it with a hammer.
The iron shell was broken into pieces after several hits. I took the pieces and carefully inspected the cracks. After looking at the cracks, I breathed a sigh of relief.
The manufacturing process of cast iron has not been leaked. The gunpowder shells in the hands of the Liao people have uneven wrought iron embedded in them. In this way, once the gunpowder cannot explode these iron shells, useless duds will appear.
However, when his eyes fell on the poured gunpowder, his mood became very heavy. It was obvious that the ingredients of the gunpowder were saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, and there were no other substances mixed in. If these three were not included,
The purity of this kind of ignorance is not much different from the gunpowder of the Song Dynasty. The golden ratio of gunpowder can always be researched in a short time as long as you are willing to put in the time and money.
The leaching and purification process of saltpeter is not a secret. The Liao people have even more knowledge in this area than the Song people. After all, saltpeter is an indispensable thing for the production and life of the Liao people. However, the Liao people should not have mastered the sulfur purification process, especially
It was a sulfur gasification recovery process. They probably had no idea that there were tiny yellow sulfur particles mixed in the pile of gunpowder. It looked like raw sulfur was used.
As for the knowledge of gunpowder granulation, they didn't know that Yun Zheng had never expected the Song Dynasty general to be able to keep the secret of gunpowder, so he stuck to these precious craftsmanship. The formula of gunpowder only contains three simple substances.
It can be explained clearly in one sentence, but a complex process cannot mature without the test of time.
Even if the enemy comes to steal, they will only steal the secret recipe. What they don't know is that it is definitely not the formula that determines the power of gunpowder, but the quality of the materials. Yun Zheng does not expect that these processes can be kept secret for a long time. They just need to keep it secret.
It will be enough until a substitute for gunpowder appears. By then, the more complicated nitrification knowledge will definitely not be understood by the Liao people, Xixia people, or people with hair of any color, even if the secret recipe is given to them
They can't understand it either.
Only then can the secret be kept. Thinking of this, Yun Zheng finally felt relieved. As long as he didn't keep the secrets secret and leaked all the details, overall the threat was not big, no matter it was
Neither the Song people, nor the Liao people, nor the Xixia people are good at doing research. Whenever they encounter something they don't understand, ghosts and gods will often appear at this time...
"I don't know if Xiaolin can catch that bug back." Yun Zheng muttered in a low voice and stood up. He glanced at the battlefield being cleaned and became very angry.
Ge Qiuyan, a dignified lady, actually mingled with the sergeants, looking for trophies everywhere. When she found a knife inlaid with gems, she even shouted happily and opened it. Other soldiers would also open it as long as they found something beautiful or valuable.
It was handed into her hand for a while, and beside her, there was already a big bag. The furoshiki wrapping those things turned out to be a pair of trousers ripped off from an unknown Liao man. Once the two trouser legs were tied up,
It's an excellent baggage.
It was so embarrassing. I called Han Niu to ask him to find Ge Qiuyan, but Han Niu said indifferently: "Madam has been worried for many days, and it was only today that she had a smile on her face. It doesn't matter if she is casually happy.
, you always give gifts when you get home, it would be shameful to go back empty-handed."
After saying that, he picked up the gunpowder bombs on the ground and threw them out like firecrackers. Hearing the not very violent explosion behind the bag, he curled his lips and said, "It's far from our gunpowder bombs."
Encountering such a servant who was better than his master, Yun Zheng could only admit that he was unlucky. As long as the war stopped, these bastards immediately returned to their appearance in Tokyo City, walked into the battlefield and dragged Ge Qiuyan back, trying to
Helping her carry the treasure away, but without lifting it for a while, Ge Qiuyan raised one hand with a smile and said with a sweet smile: "Husband, the battlefield is indeed the best place to make a fortune. Look, I'm a little concubine.
I have collected so much, and after a rough calculation, I found that it is worth thousands of dollars, so the Liao people are really rich."
"According to military regulations, these things must be handed over to the army and private individuals are not allowed to take them."
"That won't work. I found this by myself. It's mine. Military regulations are made for people like you, not for little girls like me. To put it bluntly, this battlefield is where our family harvests crops.
In this place, I, the mistress of the concubine, have violated someone’s law by picking up a few ears of wheat in her own crop field.”
After saying that, he walked up to his horse, put his two bulging trouser legs astride the neck of his horse, patted the package happily and said with a smile: "I have the gift for home. Madam asked, I am
In other words, this is the reward of accompanying you on the battlefield."
"Be careful of the trouble you get from joining the army! I won't intercede then!"
Yun Zheng forgot one thing. The soldier in charge of registering the trophies was Su Shi. This guy ran over from nowhere, carrying a bag of property on his shoulders and piled it on the butt of Ge Qiuyan's horse. Ge Qiuyan
Smiling like a flower, Su Shi patted the back of his head as a compliment. Su Shi, who also smiled like a pug, suddenly saw the black face of his husband, shrunk his neck and ran away.
"I have no problem with joining the army. You, the commander-in-chief, won't cause trouble, right?" Ge Qiuyan leaned in front of her husband and sprayed her warm breath into Yun Zheng's ears and eyes, making him itch.
Seeing that her husband's face was a little red, Ge Qiuyan chuckled and led her horse away, no need to ask whether she was going to hide her treasure.
Lang Tan walked over with red eyes, pointed to the ruins of Pianguan City and asked: "Will the general still be stationed in Pianguan City?"
"The cities you fought in are gone, so why are you garrisoned? Rebuild the city in another place. Since the Yellow River changed its course, the importance of the side passes has been reduced. I actually don't mind if you build the city in the meander of the river. From now on, the border passes will need food and grass.
Self-sufficient, Hequ is a good place with abundant water and grass. Whether it is grazing or farming, it is good. This time your Guanghua Army suffered heavy losses, and you always need some compensation. Stationing in Hequ is a benefit for you. In addition, next time you will pay tens of millions
Don't abandon wounded soldiers again. We would rather fight hard in the battle at Pianguan than use this method. You can go back to the Military Law Office and get thirty military sticks to serve as a warning to others."
Yun Zheng knew the pain in Lang Tan's heart at this time. Lang Tan, who never abandoned his subordinates, began to let the wounded soldiers serve as death squads. Although everyone knew that this was impossible, doing so could minimize the casualties and 30% of the battle losses.
The Guanghua Army really can't afford casualties, but the wounded soldiers are sent to do the work that requires death. The saddest thing is Lang Tan, a man who attaches great importance to love and justice. Giving him a little punishment at this time can make his heart even more sad.
It's a little better.
Lang Tan couldn't wait any longer, so he called for a military judge and personally read out the commander's military order. Then in front of his subordinates, he tearfully confessed his fault, and then told the commander's opinion on the matter.
Finally, amidst the pleadings of the Guanghua Army, he took off his pants, exposed his buttocks, and shouted sternly at the executioner's military police: "Hit! Beat hard!" (To be continued)