The happy stick of Heavenly King Laozi shocked the people of Heilong Mountain.
It also inspired Cao Yao's love for this thing. The old thief who had been around for ten years liked this thing so much.
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.
Makes sense.
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 were better, he would rename it the Invincible Divine Power Gun.
Liu Chengzong was puzzled, why would you modify this thing?
Cao Yao said that he could modify the steel wheel to make fire. In the future, as the craftsman's level improved, he could put the steel wheel from the mine inside and use it to 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 people with a broken pole?"
"We're going to fight, brother, let's let a fat-bellied soldier take this one, 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 can 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 these ten taels and five taels of silver kill an elite soldier? How much money do you have?"
"One pound of pig iron, three pounds of gunpowder, fifty big coins, and a long stick. If you poke people, you can save half the materials, so it's less than five coins."
Liu Chengzong said: "But if your steel wheel catches fire, it will be expensive. If the steel wheel doesn't catch fire, it won't be able to poke people."
"That's true."
Cao Yao just had an idea, not to mention that this was just the result 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 they all stopped.
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 Donglu?" Cao Yaole was amused and shook his head: "Unless you are recruited by the court, how can you go outside the pass to fight against Donglu? Besides, their heavy infantry can not only fight, but also shoot."
His expression was very complicated. He closed his eyes briefly and pursed his lips. He seemed to have really thought about the feasibility: "You have been recruited. The 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, five hundred of my brothers died worse than this."
"I won't talk nonsense to you. 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 delayed 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 behind him.
Liu Chengzong wanted to tell him that recruiting troops was not necessary to defeat 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 get out of the customs.
In the following days, Liu Chengzu and Cao Yao simulated many unexpected situations that might occur when attacking the fort, and prepared various plans for success, failure, and failure after entering.
Liu Chengzong did not interfere in this matter. Most of the time he did not express his opinions, but just listened.
Cao Yao had more experience in fighting and plundering, while Liu Chengzu received the orthodox officer education of the imperial court in Yuhe Fort, and they were more professional.
But he was not idle either. While the blacksmith was making lightning rods, he gathered all the craftsmen and organized them into a team of craftsmen. He specially selected five cave dwellings and an open space for them to rest and work.
The success of only making a lightning bolt to penetrate 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 had always thought he was brave and fearless until last night when he used a thunder rod to break through three wooden doors.
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 conquer the good if he masters it. Even a despicable person can overthrow 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 all over the mountain seemed to have drunk a lot of wine the night before yesterday and couldn't get up until midnight, which made the old people extremely surprised.
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 led Gao Xian and other border 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 headed 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 survey the enemy's situation on the cliff, choose the right time to enter the fort with 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 thirty miles ahead. The team turned into the mountain pass to rest for a while, and then changed their formation when they started on the road again.
The distance between the cavalry serving as Tangbao cavalry was shortened to a hundred steps, and the leading cavalryman was replaced by a color-blind infantryman from the border army from Liu Chengzong.
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 in Yan'an Prefecture who have a higher average living standard.
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 would not do it now.
The frontier and guard troops were not as well fed as they were, 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 moment 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. He did not dare to climb too high in the dark, but just looked at Wangzhuang from a distance.
When he returned, the sky was already filled with white light. 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 city gate tower. I can't see the east wall. The three people on the west wall are sitting still. 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?"
My brother meant 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. Besides, 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."
