The next few days were calm, but the weather got colder and colder.
Gu Tao didn't come out to look for trouble anymore, and Chen Kan was happy to be at ease.
It was night, under the moonlight, at the junction of Qutang Gorge and Wu Gorge, at a small pier, Chen Kan took more than a hundred of his men off the ship.
At the edge of the pier, Gu Cheng arranged for the manpower to come to meet Chen Kan.
As for Gu Tao's itinerary, he would take a merchant ship and sail all the way to Kuizhou. At that time, Gu Cheng would send someone to pick him up and then escort him to the Guizhou General Military Mansion.
The people sent by Gu Cheng to meet Chen Kan were all dressed in casual clothes.
Seeing that all the people brought by Chen Kan had disembarked, the leader held up his hands and said: "Master Chen, my humble post is Shan, and I am one of the hundreds of households under the command of Lord Marquis. I am familiar with the situation in Shu. If you have any questions, just ask me."
Chen Kan nodded and returned the greeting: "Shan Baihu, I'm in trouble."
"It doesn't matter, let's go."
Shan Baihu responded. Seeing that the people brought by Chen Kan had already disembarked, a group of people began to climb along the winding mountain road.
Central Sichuan is a basin, but Chongqing Prefecture is located at the junction of the Central Sichuan Basin and the Central Plains, and is full of endless mountains.
Chen Kan had walked this kind of road many times in later generations, and it was natural that he was familiar with it now. However, the captains of the Five Cities Military and Horse Division who followed Chen Kan were used to living in the plains of Jiangnan Water Town. When you come across a small road, you will see a lot of things happening in an instant.
Chen Kan didn't care about them. If he couldn't adapt to this environment, how could he become a great person in the future.
It was Gu Cheng's idea and Chen Kan's idea to disembark midway.
The goal of entering Shu from the river is too big. This time, Chen Kan also plans to play a sinister way.
After walking along the mountain road for a day and a night, Chen Kan and others finally secretly arrived at the place where the Kuimen army was stationed.
Zhu Chun was led by Gu Cheng from Kuizhou and besieged him on the top of the mountain at Kuimen. There was a large army in front of him, a cliff of tens of thousands of feet behind him, and a wide river under the cliff.
It is not difficult to see from the camp where Zhu Chun chose to retreat that Zhu Chun indeed did not understand military affairs.
Although he occupied the Kuimen high ground and Gu Cheng could not attack it, he also trapped himself on the top of the mountain unless he could grow wings and fly across the river.
However, this has nothing to do with Chen Kan.
He has his own things to do.
The hundred households named Shan led the way for Chen Kan, and also explained the situation in Shu in detail to Chen Kan.
Three days later, Chen Kan appeared near Wanxian County in Kuizhou with a weathered look on his face, and only one-third of his men were left.
The missing manpower has naturally secretly sneaked into various places in central Sichuan. Now that Chen Kan has come to Wanxian County, he plans to go straight to the White Lotus Sect stronghold at Qinglong Falls in Wanxian County.
According to Shan Baihu, the Qinglong Waterfall in Wanxian County is the largest White Lotus sect residence in the entire Chongqing Prefecture.
It is also the place where Xifozi stays most often.
If two Buddhists want to kill each other, this is definitely the most suitable place.
Just in case, Chen Kan led people into Wanxian City first.
He needs to prepare something first.
He only brought so many people with him now. If Buddha knew his whereabouts, he would be delivering food to his door.
The gunpowder brought from the capital was not safe, so he planned to get some high-purity gunpowder himself.
tnt He couldn't get it, but it was easy for him to get some gold and black gunpowder that was more powerful than the Ming Dynasty's gunpowder and had a higher purity.
After finding an inn to stay at, Chen Kan locked himself in the room.
Fozi is not an easy enemy to deal with. This was confirmed by Chen Kan when he first fought against Fozi.
This is Shuzhong, not the capital. Shuzhong is not Chen Kan’s home court. Even with Gu Cheng’s cooperation, Chen Kan must be very careful in his next actions. Who knows how many manpower Gu Cheng can mobilize, what if Gu Cheng If the chain is lost, all Chen Kan can use is the more than 100 people he brought with him.
After confirming that all accidents had been taken into account, what Chen Kan needed was exactly in place.
After clearing out a room in the inn, Chen Kan asked Fang Xu and Zhang San for help.
The secret recipe of black gunpowder is no longer a secret since the Song Dynasty compiled the "Martial Classics General Essentials", but the black gunpowder in the early Ming Dynasty was still not too powerful.
Because the people of the Ming Dynasty creatively added many toxic and harmful substances on the basis of their predecessors, the gunpowder of the Ming Dynasty was not only used for muskets and cannons, but also for other uses such as thunderbolts and hundreds of tigers running arrows. Firearms seem very useless.
What Chen Kan wanted to do was to develop the golden ratio of black powder after continuous improvement and testing by later generations.
Instructing Fang Xu to grind the charcoal into powder, Chen Kan began to filter the impurities in the saltpeter. Since he planned to make gold and black gunpowder, he could not omit the purification step. Zhang San was responsible for grinding the sulfide purchased from a nearby Taoist temple. broken.
Add ground saltpeter to water, filter, purify...
After spending a night, Chen Kan finally obtained three raw materials.
Prepare egg whites, sieve, tissue paper...
...
One day and one night later, Chen Kan, Fang Xu and Zhang San walked out of the room with excessive lust, immediately attracting strange looks from their lieutenants.
Chen Kan waved over a table of delicious food, and the three of them immediately started gobbling it up.
Chen Kan struggled to swallow a large piece of chicken, and Wang Long suddenly came forward and whispered in Chen Kan's ear.
Hearing this, Chen Kan's face suddenly became serious: "Brothers, please don't alert others. If necessary..."
Chen Kan made a gesture of wiping his neck, and Wang Long understood: "Don't worry, sir, they are all old brothers from Jinyiwei. In terms of reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, the White Lotus Sect will not be our opponent."
The two were playing riddles. Fang Xu and Zhang San raised their heads and glanced at Chen Kan blankly. They realized that they might have fallen out of favor.
The Lord actually got into a fight with this boy Wang Long.
After Wang Long retreated, Fang Xu came up and asked, "Sir, what happened?"
Chen Kan said calmly: "A brother found that there have been many more people coming to Wan County to purchase supplies recently than in the past. After following them for a while, they found that they were indeed coming from the direction of Qinglong Cliff."
Fang Xu suddenly became excited: "So, the Buddha is really in Wanxian."
"Even if the Buddha is in Wanxian, if we go there, we will die."
Chen Kan poured a basin of cold water on him coldly, and Fang Xu calmed down immediately.
If two Buddhist disciples met in Wanxian, the White Lotus believers gathered there would definitely be more than they could handle.
Thinking of this result, Fang Xu suddenly became angry: "Do I need to summon other brothers?"
Chen Kan said coldly: "No need, they have their tasks."
"Send someone to deliver a message to Gu Cheng. In addition, we must prevent the White Lotus Sect from joining forces with Zhu Chun."
