At the beginning of December of the eighth year of Taikang.

Even in the southwest, the weather was quite cold, Li Xin was wearing a leather robe at this time, and together with Ye Mao on the Chenglou of Hanzhou City, he watched the court army gradually approaching outside the city.

Mu Ying, dressed in iron armor, stood behind Li Xin and gasped.

"I'm afraid this time...... Twenty or thirty thousand men besieged the city. ”

Li Xinxin glanced at the clairvoyant mirror a few times, and spat out a mouthful of white gas.

"There are 30,000 people, but Hanzhou City is not big, and it is impossible for these 30,000 people to climb the city wall at the same time."

As he spoke, Li Xin glanced back at Mu Ying.

"Can you hold it?"

"In a short period of time, there are no problems."

Mu Ying said in a deep voice: "It's the stones on the city wall, boiling oil and other materials for defending the city, I'm afraid it won't last long." ”

Li Xin narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "Pei Jin sent so many people over in one breath, it is obvious that he is in a hurry, this time he will most likely attack the city with the most fierce offensive, Brother Mu, I need you to help me hold it for three days." ”

When Mu Ying heard this, she patted her chest and said with a smile: "Since Hanzhou was besieged, the Mu family has been making preparations, and there is naturally no problem for three days. ”

Li Xin said slowly: "Guarding the city for three days is a particular guard. ”

"On the first day, I will fight normally, how to fight, if there is anything on the city wall, just throw it down, it is best to beat these imperial troops and make them afraid."

Seeing that these imperial troops were approaching, Li Xin continued: "But from the next day, it will no longer be possible to throw boiling oil, stones, and gold juice on the city wall on a large scale, and even arrows must be spared. ”

Mu Ying pondered the meaning of Li Xin's words for a while, and then nodded and said, "What Master Hou meant, his subordinates probably understand!" ”

Li Xin said in a deep voice: "The most dangerous thing is that when defending the city on the third day, Brother Mu must pretend that the materials in the city are exhausted and he is about to be unable to defend it, and he must barely hold Hanzhou City." ”

Mu Ying was a little hesitant.

"In that case, the Hanzhou army will kill a lot of people."

Li Xin's face was calm, and he said slowly: "If you don't do this, more people will die, Brother Mu wants to believe me." ”

Mu Ying nodded a little heavily, and was about to speak, when he saw that the people outside the city had rushed over, he took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "Master Hou, I'll go to defend the city first, it's dangerous on the city wall, I'll let you go down!" ”

This time, Li Xin did not hesitate and simply retreated from the city wall.

Not long after he walked down the city wall, he heard the earth-shattering shouts of killing behind him, Li Xin was expressionless, mounted his ink horse, and walked towards a manor in the city.

Soon, he stopped at the gate of the manor, and walked in, which was far away from the city wall, and the shouts and killings outside were not really heard, and he walked a few steps in the manor, and saw Lin Hu resting in the middle of the garden.

Marquis Jing'an walked behind Lin Hu and smiled slightly.

"Huzi, are you better?"

That day they entered the city together, Li Xin killed five or six with a sword, and Lin Hu shot nearly twenty people with a horn bow, the horn bow was quite heavy, it was not easy for ordinary people to pull it apart, Lin Hu opened it dozens of times that day, and when he entered the city, not only was the fingers of his right hand full of blood, but both arms were trembling.

If he continues to fight, his right hand may be useless.

After a few days of recuperation, his hands had improved a lot, and after hearing Li Xin's voice, he stood up from his seat and bowed his head to Li Xin.

"Brother Xin, there's nothing big going on."

He stretched out his right hand wrapped in a white cloth and said with a smile, "It doesn't hurt anymore in the past two days." ”

Li Xin sat down opposite him, and then stretched out his hand to signal Lin Hu to sit down as well, and the two of them sat face to face, Li Xin first checked the injury on his right hand, and after finding that there was indeed no major problem, he also put his mind at ease and slowly spoke: "Huzi, you can start dispensing medicine." ”

Lin Hu's face changed slightly, then he was silent for a while, and then said, "Got it." ”

The so-called dispensing is the dispensing of gunpowder.

Gunpowder, as early as the first year of Taikang, was made out by Li Xin in his hometown of Yongzhou, but at that time he made it was just a prototype, whether it was power or practicality, it was very poor, and during the Western Expedition, when Li Xin really used this thing, he only relied on a large number of doses to blow up the city gate of Mianzhu.

But since then, Li Xin also realized that this thing may be of great use in the future, so when Lin Hu returned to his hometown three years ago, he taught Lin Hu the recipe, and gave him a group of people, so that he could study the most powerful ratio of gunpowder at home, and at the same time study how to truly weaponize gunpowder.

Of course, Li Xin will provide Lin Hu with some general ideas for weaponization, but it is up to Lin Hu to do it himself.

In the past three years, in addition to keeping filial piety for his father, Lin Hu was thinking about what Li Xin arranged for him, and after about a year, he studied the most powerful ratio of gunpowder, and after another year, when he was in the seventh year of Taikang, an earth bomb about the size of an adult's fist was sent to the Jing'an Hou Mansion by thousands of miles.

That night, someone in Yongle Fang heard that there was a hidden thunder in the Jing'an Hou Mansion, and later Jingzhao Mansion also went to the Jing'an Hou Mansion to investigate, but it ended without a problem.

Since then, Li Xin has had an extra trump card in his hand, but this card has been useless in his hand, and he doesn't want to use it.

Until today, among the more than 100 people in Yongzhou, Lin Hu is the only one who knows the ratio of gunpowder, and all the medicines are prepared by him, and then handed over to the rest of the people to produce the kind of "earth bomb" that is filled in clay pots.

This kind of earth bomb was called "heavenly thunder" by Li Xin.

Until today, except for the heavenly thunder that Taikang sent to the Jing'an Hou Mansion in the seventh year, Lin Hu has no more than ten heavenly thunderbolts in his hands, and Li Xin has none in his hands, and the two of them can be said to be serious peace lovers.

But now, this kind of thunder has to come out on a large scale.

This situation, when Lin Hu was shouted out of Yongzhou by Li Xin, he had already thought of it, at this time, this child of Orion who grew up in the mountains, after looking left and right to make sure that there was no one around, he took a deep look at Li Xin, and said: "Brother Xin, do you want to be the emperor?" ”

Li Xin let out a sigh.

"Huzi, you look down on that thing, that thing may be taken out by surprise for the first time, but relying on it alone, you can't beat the world, let alone be the emperor."

Lin Hu said in a sullen voice: "But Brother Xin, you can." ”

"You didn't rely on this thing, you got to this point today, if you have ambitions, it's not impossible to be an emperor."

Today's Lin Hu is a person who has been in Yulinwei for five years and has seen the world in the capital, compared to the hunter who was brought out of his hometown by Li Xin eight years ago.

Li Xin stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't think so much, just get busy." ”

"In a few days, Tianlei will be famous all over the world, and you are in a hurry not to let anyone know, you will prepare this kind of medicinal powder, otherwise it will be the way to get trouble."

"The more than 100 people under your command should also be kept an eye on, and you can't let any of them leave, otherwise you will dispense the medicine powder, and everyone will know about it soon."

Lin Hu nodded first, and then glanced at Li Xin.

"Brother Xin."

He took a deep breath and asked, "In the future, will I die because of the thunder?" ”

When he said this, he asked whether Li Xin would kill him because of this.

The Marquis of Jing'an smiled.

"If I'm the kind of person who kills people at will, I can find someone to do your job, and it's a big deal to kill you afterwards, so there's no need to involve you."

"We are brothers who grew up rolling together in the Qishan Mountains."

Li Xin's face became serious.

"Huzi, I believe you, that's why I handed over this most important errand to you."

"Because, in this matter, others ...... I can't trust anyone. ”