General Liu Changle walked up to Pei Xiaoer with a smile on his face, put his legs together, and performed a military salute.

Pei Xiaoer looked at Liu Changle, who was obviously much taller than before, and sighed. The elders of the Pei family army who first followed Pei Xiaoer from Peijiazhuang were not very old, but the youngest among them was Pei Xiaosan, Liu

Although Changle is one year older than Pei Xiaoer, he is still less than twenty years old. He is a strong young man of eighteen or nineteen years old, and his height is still rising, and he is almost overtaking Pei Xiaoer.

"Okay, it's good to be here. I haven't seen you for a few months and I've grown pretty fast. I'll probably surpass your brother in two days." Pei Xiaoer said with a smile.

"No way, I'm worse than my brother." Liu Changle touched his head and said embarrassedly.

"Haha," Pei Xiaoer laughed heartily, "Okay, okay, it's time to get down to business. Have you brought the twenty red cannons I specially asked you to carry?"

"General, I've brought it here. It's over there."

Pei Xiaoer followed Liu Changle to the artillery camp. All the soldiers passing by along the way stopped, saluted Pei Xiaoer, and said, "General." Pei Xiaoer smiled and raised his right hand, thinking about the soldiers one by one.

greet.

"General, the red cannon is right there." Liu Changle pointed to the side.

Pei Xiaoer walked over. In the open space about half a football field, twenty red cannons were neatly arranged. He lifted up the red gauze covering the cannons and stroked the cannon body. The thick and cold touch felt smooth.

Pass it to the brain with your fingertips.

"Where are the cannonballs and gunpowder?"

"Here," Liu Changle said, walked to the box on the side, reached out and opened the box, revealing the black cannonballs inside.

"Here are the cannonballs, a total of 800 rounds, and gunpowder." Liu Changle walked to the pile of wooden barrels nearby, "There are more than 500 barrels in total, and they are all here."

"Well," Pei Xiaoer came to the gunpowder place and took a look. The inside of the barrel was wrapped in waterproof kraft paper. He reached out and took out the powdered gunpowder inside and rubbed it in his palms. There was no sign of hardening at all, which seemed abnormal.

dry.

Pei Xiaoer nodded, patted some gunpowder adhering to his hand, and stood up, "Not bad, the gunpowder must be protected from fire and moisture, and unrelated people should not approach it at will."

"Yes" Liu Changle nodded.

"Is the gunner here?"

There were originally gunners in Pei Xiaoer's army, but later they were not very skilled at the job. Pei Xiaoer disliked them and told them not to worry about the gunpowder and to practice more. As a result, these people were really obedient and practiced more, but they also

The only cannon was destroyed. Later, in view of the poor military manufacturing level of the Pei family army, it was impossible to build a cannon in a short time, so these gunners were incorporated into the regular army and placed under Liu Changle's command. This is why

Pei Xiaoer specifically explained the reason why he asked Liu Changle to bring people here.

"Bring it here, already waiting outside." Liu Changle walked out quickly and called the gunners over.

Thanks to Pei Xiaoer's instructions to practice more and the sacrifice of a cannon, there were still quite a few people in the Pei family's army who had fought artillery. There were twenty-three people in total. There was exactly one man for one cannon, and there was still a little left.

It's just that one person can't operate the cannon. Not to mention anything else, just pushing the cannon to the gun emplacement is not something that one person can accomplish.

"Ren Mingdao" Pei Xiaoer called out the name of the middle-aged man who fired the cannon when they attacked Shangwangzhuang.

Ren Mingdao was surprised and excited. He never expected that he could be remembered by the general. He tugged on the corners of his clothes with his hands at a loss, and said with a trembling voice: "General, he is just a villain.

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"I haven't seen you for a long time. I wonder if you have lost your skills?" Pei Xiaoer said with a smile.

Seeing that the general questioned his own skills, Ren Mingdao suppressed his blush and whispered for a long time: "Young man, even if you forget who your mother-in-law is, you will never forget your cooking skills."

"That's good." Pei Xiaoer valued this simple man very much. He took his arm and came to the open space where the cannons were placed. He pointed at the cannons and said, "Ren Mingdao, have you seen these cannons? From today on

From the beginning, these cannons are all under your control.

I have decided that you people will separate from the army and form an artillery battalion. You will be the commander of the battalion. If you need anyone, you can go to the army to find it. In a word, I want these artillery to be able to introduce it early tomorrow morning.

Xio's city wall was blown down by me, can I do it?"

Ren Mingdao looked at these twenty cannons, he was ecstatic and said excitedly: "General, don't worry, if these cannons can't fire tomorrow, I hope everyone's head will fall on the ground."

"Okay, if we can knock down the city wall early tomorrow morning, you will be the first to take part in this battle." Pei Xiaoer promised, patting him on the shoulder.

The next day, the weather rarely cleared up, and the warm sunshine shone on people's bodies, making them warm.

As soon as it got dark, the soldiers of the Pei family army had already begun to move. After breakfast, everyone lined up in an orderly manner and slowly advanced towards Jiexiu City.

Ren Mingdao almost didn't sleep a wink all night. Ever since he accepted Pei Xiaoer's order, he had been busy, moving camps, cleaning cannons, and looking for people. He was almost too busy to keep his feet on the ground. The most important thing was to find people.

In order to find hundreds of strong, hard-working people among the severely malnourished refugees, Ren Mingdao almost traveled to the four camps where the refugees were resettled. Once he found them, things became easier. A full meal would suffice.

Let the refugees follow him and leave.

Relying on this method, Ren Mingdao even found a few scholars. In these days, even scholars are not doing well as long as they have no fame and fame. They are often hungry and full. When they are reduced to refugees, they will be even worse.

It's tragic. The powerless scholar is simply the lowest form of existence among the refugees who follow the laws of the jungle. It's a lucky thing that he has survived until now.

Holding a bowl of steaming porridge and eating snow-white steamed buns, the scholars all cried. Ren Mingdao comforted them for a long time before calming them down. These scholars did not need to work like other people, they just

You need to write down all your daily cannon shooting experiences, so that you can trust and learn from them in the future.

After the army was arrayed, Ren Mingdao commanded the 500 artillery battalions that had just been gathered under him, and slowly pushed the cannons up to the gun position. Then he opened the gunpowder barrels, loaded the gunpowder, and loaded the shells. Although each artillery was equipped with a

A gunner who has experience in cannon fire, as a gunner commander, is still in a hurry in actual operation.

The cannon was finally loaded, and Ren Mingdao personally adjusted the firing angle of the cannon one by one. Finally, after a long wait, the cannon was ready, just waiting for Pei Xiaoer's order.

Pei Xiaoer looked at Lao Gao's sun, which was already up, and estimated that it was already past nine o'clock. It took a long time. It seems that he will continue to strengthen training in the future, and now he also has a cannon caster. Even if

It doesn't matter if all these twenty cannons are destroyed, just keep building them.

"Let's fire."

The order came quickly as the messengers arrived. Ren Mingdao looked at the Jiexiu city wall not far away and decisively ordered: "Fire the artillery."

The gunner held the torch and approached the fuse. He only heard a few booms and booms, and twenty blazing cannonballs hit the head of Jiexiu City unstoppably. In an instant, bricks and stones flew flying, and screams continued. Twenty cannonballs were fired.

Fifteen large wounds were left on the city wall, and the rest were also passed over the city wall, trying to hit the unlucky guy behind the city wall.

"What's going on? Why do the bandits have so many cannons?" Long Wenguang no longer looked as calm as before, and huddled under the parapet, fearing that the flying cannonballs would hit him.

Fan Shizhe also hid under the female wall, thinking that he had seen the thief leader opposite him there, but in a moment of panic, he couldn't remember where he had seen him.

Hearing Long Wenguang ask him about the origin of the bandits' artillery, Fan Shizhe couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart and wonder, you don't know, and I don't even know, whether he colluded with these bandits, but since Long Wenguang asked himself

, he had no choice but to reply, so he said.

"Sir, don't worry about how these artillery came here. Let's see how to deal with it first. Otherwise, it won't be long before the city wall collapses and bandits enter the city. By then, Jiexiu will be in Lingchi and the people will be hanging upside down. It's all you and me.
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