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Chapter 135 Chapter [-] The Elm Cannon

It turned out that the big households in the city saw that their servants and village households were not strong enough to fight, so they had to spend a lot of money to hire the hunters, the mountain people in the city.These mountain hunters are quite similar to Xiao Qinhu. They all lived in hardship, or lost their land, and had no way of making a living, so they had to hide in the deep mountains.They secretly opened up a little wasteland in the mountains. On the one hand, they can avoid the tax burden of the government, and on the other hand, they can supplement their living needs through hunting and gathering.

These people usually hunt furs and pick mountain products, then pick them up in the city, and sell them to the big households in the city for money.Due to the pressure of life, these people are rather like Liaodong Jurchen and Hetao Tartars, tough and hardworking, with superb shooting skills.

Just because Zhang Shun and the others broke through Zezhou City, such a group of mountain people were trapped in the city.With nowhere to go, many people can only take shelter of big families in the city. "Zijinliang" Zhang Shun and others were originally outsiders, and they didn't know the reason, so they ignored this force.

Originally, Han Tingxian had a big plan, and originally wanted to use this power to deal with the "Nine Dragons" left behind by the "Zijin Liang", but it turned out to be a disadvantage.Before he had time to "revolt", he was beaten up by Wukong and hurt his body; and when he and others started to riot and planned to take the "old miscellaneous hair" flag of "Optimus Prime" family, they were beaten by Wukong again. Destroyed by one person.

After finally escaping, they heard that the troops sent to deal with Zhang Shun's "mother-in-law" met Zhang Shun again and "deployed hundreds of troops".Only the main force left to attack the camp was inexplicably defeated by a "violent general" of the opponent.

A few days of connection and painstaking efforts, before they have time to stir up wind and rain, are they about to be extinguished?This is really unbearable. My family's life and wealth are all in exchange for this life. If it is worthless, wouldn't I just be a thief in this life?

Thinking of this, Han Tingxian gritted his teeth, and gathered all the mountain dwellers in the city, hunters, and two or three hundred powerful and bold servants, ready to strike Zhang Shun's camp to the death!Don't miss this opportunity, if "Zijin Liang" or Zhang Shun comes back in a few days, it will be difficult to handle this matter.

He already has a perfect plan for this incident, and he is not afraid that Zhang Daojun will not give him credit for it!Thinking of this, Han Tingxian personally ordered the Orion, the mountain people under his command, to fire a round of arrows at Zhang Shun's camp. Seeing that several soldiers under Zhang Shun's command were shot down, Han Tingxian's resentment was much refreshed.

While ordering the mountain hunters to suppress Zhang Shun's supply camp, he ordered the servants to cut down the fence.Although the wood used for these fences is relatively thick, almost as thick as the mouth of a bowl, it cannot support them to cut it like this.

Seeing this, Chen Jindou and Zhao Yutou were also anxious, and quickly organized a team to counterattack, but because of the support from Jianyu on the opposite side, several counterattacks failed.They fell into a predicament for a while, and the three had no choice but to invite Ma Yingniang out again to discuss, but Ma Yingniang had no good solution.

After all, it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. They seem to have a lot of people under their command, but they are just like the other party, almost ordinary people with weapons.Fortunately, Ma Yingniang's performance just now boosted their morale, so they didn't collapse in an instant.

At this time, Chen Jindou and Zhao Yutou couldn't help but secretly complained about Li Shi'an. He obeyed the command of the lord, not only brought all the artillery, but also specially dispatched a dozen soldiers with combat effectiveness to escort the artillery. It really sent them to grandma's house.

They had no choice but to go to Liu Gang, the head blacksmith, to see if he could make a cannon in time.That Liu Gang had just smelted a good piece of iron with "orchid charcoal", and was about to wait for Zhang Shun to come back and go to ask for credit.Hearing that these three or four "great immortals" wanted to make a cannon immediately, they couldn't help but stare, threw the hammer in their hands to the ground, and said, "Come on, let me give you the hammer, and you can do it! It's done!" , I can call you Patriarch!"

The four of them had no choice but to return dejectedly.Walking on the road, Chen Jindou sighed and said: "Could it be that the sky wants to kill me, if I don't make me the founding father of the country, I won't be a hero from the dragon?"

Ma Yingniang was also speechless after hearing the words, thinking: If the camp is broken, she must not be humiliated by others, she can only kill herself.

While he was downcast, Xu Ziyuan accidentally saw the remaining wood for the fence in the camp, which looked like the body of a cannon, and he couldn't help lamenting: "It would be great if these elm lumps could be used as cannons, bang bang bang, bang his mother!" !"

"You want to eat farts!" Chen Jindou was in a bad mood, and cursed at the words, "Iron cannons will blow up if they are not strong enough, let alone elm guns? Before you blow people up, blow yourself up first Are you dead?"

Xu Ziyuan sneered upon hearing this, but was also speechless.On the contrary, Zhao Yutou heard the words, his eyes lit up, and he said: "This matter may not be impossible. I used to be a boatman all the year round, and I repaired the fishing boat by myself. I am quite familiar with wood. This elm is far harder than pine and poplar. Mu, if you can fire a cannon or two, it would be good to bluff people!"

"When is this, and you're making trouble for me?" Chen Jindou said angrily, "If you injure your own people and your morale collapses, wouldn't it be all over?"

"Left and right are going to die, it can't be worse, can it?" Zhao Yutou smiled.

After hearing this, Ma Yingniang also had a glimmer of hope in her heart, so she said, "At least give it a try, it's better than sitting still and waiting for death!"

The four of them discussed and made a decision, so they hurried back to look for the blacksmith Liu Gang, and discussed the matter of making the elm cannon.Liu Gang actually didn't believe that this matter could be accomplished, but he heard that the situation outside was urgent, so he couldn't care less.He quickly asked the other blacksmiths to take out their tools, and picked out a short, hard elm trunk.Dig out the heart of the tree, and then use iron bars to hoop the outside seven or eight times before it is completed.

Thus, a simple elm cannon was completed.At this time, the situation is extremely urgent. After this delay, the outer fence has already been cut off, and the enemy may rush in at any time.

The four quickly ordered the soldiers to carry the elm cannon to the gate of the camp.At this time, the enemy was already wildly cheering for the arrival of victory.Chen Jindou hurriedly ordered the soldiers to load gunpowder and shells into the cannon, and because he was worried about exploding the chamber, he specially arranged for the soldiers to put less gunpowder into it.

After the artillery was loaded, everyone realized that they were in a hurry and didn't get out of the fire door.He hurriedly ordered to intercept a length of long medicine twist and lead it into the medicine room from the gun entrance.

It was so easy to finish loading, but you looked at me and I looked at you, and no one dared to light this elm cannon.

At this time, some enemies had already crawled through the gaps in the cut fence, and the arrow had to be fired on the string.Ma Yingniang thought to herself: "Left and right is a word for death. If the heaven blesses me to get through this pass, the artillery will kill the enemy; if the sky is not open, then let me be killed together, saving myself the pain of suicide!"

Thinking of this, Ma Yingniang somehow got the strength to kick off the hesitant soldiers in front of her, picked up the torch herself, and lit the fuse of the elm cannon.

(End of this chapter)