stubborn thief

Chapter 77
The question of who to defect to can only be seen one step at a time.

After all, they are all on the move, and it's not that they can find anyone who wants to defect.

What's more, Liu Chengzong and others didn't know whether their luck was good or not.

Maybe he was found by Li Bei before he found Wang Jiayin.

On June [-], the deadline for the county government to deliver grain to Liu Chengzu was approaching.

Cai Zhongpan's brother-in-law Chen Ruji is back.

Perhaps it was because of a consonance, Cai Zhongpan's mother-in-law, Chen Shi, urged him eagerly, and followed the grain transport team through Yijun County, and urged Chen Ruji to rush on the road.

A group of more than ten people left the grain merchants team, hurried on the road, and arrived at Heilong Mountain ten days ahead of schedule.

No one would have imagined that as soon as they arrived at Heilong Mountain, Heilong Mountain would not be able to stay.

Chen Ruji was a little embarrassed, and finally waited for Liu Chengzong to return to Heilong Mountain, and hurried forward.

He could see that Liu Chengzong had the final say in the mountains now.

Feeling that I was walking a little too fast, I turned around to retrieve a package, opened my hands and shouted, "Lion, my brother-in-law asked me to bring you a gift from Sanyuan."

Liu Chengzong couldn't take it easy recently because of the complicated affairs.

But hearing that Cai Zhongpan asked Chen Ruji who went to Sanyuan to bring a gift, Liu Chengzong was still very happy, took the package with a smile, and asked, "Is it a book?"

The shape in the package should be three books.

"Yes, Mr. Kui Xin's picture of Yuanxi Qiqi said that it was published in the seventh year of Apocalypse, and the three volumes had to be bought separately, and it was almost impossible to buy them."

Mr. Kui Xin is Wang Zheng, a scholar who called the gentry to form a loyal army in Sanyuan. Liu Chengzong heard Cai Zhongpan mention this name and happily accepted the book.

Wang Zheng was a big man. The Jesuits started teaching in Sanyuan, so they set up the church in his home. The loyal gentry armed only more than [-] people, but they had three [-] catties of red cannons, which were also cast under his guidance.

Then he looked at Chen Ruji suspiciously: "Brother Chen, are you still doing something?"

He and Chen Ruji are not close, so Chen Ruji will stand beside him with a smile, and he must still have something on his mind.

Chen Ruji thought for a while, and stopped twitching, the two walked to the corner and said, "I'm a family, I'm welcome, I came back from Sanyuan and brought two wanted craftsmen. I originally wanted them to be in Heilongshan. stay.

But I heard my brother-in-law talk about the fourth master, and Heilongshan couldn't stay. "

Liu Chengzong felt that this was not a problem, he nodded and said, "Good artisan, let's go to Liujiazhuang, there is a lot of waste waiting to be done, carpenters and masons are all used, even if we leave, we can still live."

"They didn't commit any serious crime, but they didn't finish the work assigned by the government. Their skills could not be used daily, and they could only be cast and forged blacksmiths."

Chen Ruji was a little confused: "Carpenters and masons don't know how."

Liu Chengzong was stunned, and after a while, he came to his senses: "Brother Chen, shouldn't you...bring me back the two military craftsmen?"

The kind of bang bang bang bang armor?

Chen Ruji nodded slowly: "One man named He Xin, he and his son were able to drill two gun barrels on the 25th.

Another person called Shicheng me, and Mihara's three Atlantic artifacts have his credit, but Mr. Kwai Xin only taught him a set of rules for the width of the gun. "

Liu Chengzong was stunned, the corners of his mouth slowly twitched, and great joy flooded into his heart.

To be precise, these two are really useless.

The former father and son are skilled drillers. Cao Yao told him that this is the most difficult part in the production of bird guns. The bore is not well drilled, which directly determines whether a shot is accurate or not, and whether it is durable or not. .

A good gunsmith can drill a gun tube in a month.

The skill of drilling two gun barrels on the 25th, as long as the quality passes the test, is undoubtedly an excellent craftsman.

But the latter is more powerful than the former.

The wide and narrow rules of the gun body that Chen Ruji disliked were actually the secret of the red gun.

It is also the only weak point of Ming Dynasty artillery, modulus.

This set of modules, combined with the casting technology of China's local iron core copper shell, is equivalent to one of the best quality artillery pieces in the world throughout the seventeenth century.

This is a family of two treasures, and Liu Chengzong can't wait to hug Chen Ruji for a kiss.

"No problem, let them live a good life in Liujiazhuang. It's okay if they can't farm. I'll give them food and keep them."

Liu Chengzong agreed very readily.

These two are useless for the time being, and now even if you give him a red cannon, he can only throw it into the cave and hide it.

The Hongyi Cannon is too heavy, and it is powerful in the battle of siege and defending the city, which determines that Liu Chengzong will not be able to use it in recent years.

As long as the city is attacked and defended, it will inevitably fall into the dilemma of resisting a country with a corner.

Liu Chengzong thought very clearly that without the ability to fight against encirclement and suppression, to establish a base is to fight against a country in one corner and take the road of death.

After all, it is not the guest soldiers who encircle and suppress the rebels, but the official army composed of local people in northern Shaanxi. They will not get lost on the mountain road.

After relocating his uncle's family, Yang Yanchang transported all the weapons into the city one after another, but everyone was concerned.

On June 22, the second year of Chongzhen, Liu Chengzong dismounted at Nanguan outside the city wearing an official robe with a crown.

He handed the red flag to his brother Liu Chengzu, who was accompanying him.

The two brothers bowed to each other outside the city, like an ordinary farewell.

He stood outside the dry moat of the moat, looking out at the starving shacks.

Li Wanqing raised his head in the crowd and watched Liu Chengzong stop on the suspension bridge for a long time before disappearing into the deep city gate.

When the undercurrent was surging, the city of Yan'an was still business as usual.

The yamen and Min Zhuang were lethargic and went through the Weng City, only the tea stall Xiaoer greeted the passers-by to drink a bowl of water in the desolate market.

Before the closed shop, Guo Zashi was pacing back and forth wearing a bamboo hat. Finally, when he saw Dongjia entering the city, he turned back and knocked on the wooden door of the closed shop a few times.

The shop was full of people, nineteen men, including Cheng Yun, squatted in the corner, leaned against the wall, and sat at the counter.

As soon as Liu Chengzong came in, everyone stood up, Cao Yao spat out the skin of the melon seeds in his mouth, and a nervous smile appeared on his face: "Lion, shall we begin?"

"Where's the weapon?"

"The six of you are under the counter, and Feng Hao takes it out." Cao Yao said, and raised his finger to the backyard: "Ours were hidden in the hay cart in the backyard, we pushed it under the steps of the city wall, and killed it directly to grab the Wengcheng and the gate of the city. building."

The leader of Cao's team, Feng Hao, took out the large package from under the counter and placed it on the counter with the sound of gold and iron.

The package was spread out, and there were dozens of various weapons inside.

Cai Zhongpan took out the double-barreled handgun, and the hand that filled it with ammunition was not stable, so he shook his head embarrassedly: "I never thought that it would rely on twenty people to seize the city's defense."

Gao Xian took the waist knife, and tore off two other pieces of cloth and wrapped the bow and arrow, one on his back, the other with a wild goose-wing knife, and tied it to Guo Zashi's back: "Come, Zashi, carry it for your boss. Good bow."

Liu Chengzong picked up a pair of short swords and axes, weighed them in his hands, and hid them in the sleeves of his official robes.

He looked around the crowd and said, "Brothers, be careful, survive, we will see you outside the city."

The door opened.

The sunlight slanted into the dark shop, and Liu Chengzong walked out of the shadow.

From today onwards, they will be wandering and merging with the wilderness, until the great empire collapses.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)