The small windmill made of colored paper turned in the wind on the mango pole, and Li Xi looked at the "Glo handle" in his hand, and the song of the silver bell seemed to sound in her ears again, which was the "Glo file" [1] that she sang when she returned to the light two days ago. Although his voice was low, it was still crisp and bright, hooking his mind back to the time before the crossing, when he was in Pai Yao's "singing hall".

"Tang Eleven Gui Tang Twelve Gui, hey, today, our sisters are making paper red glo files......

"Today, our two sisters started to make paper white gloo ropes, and we shouted so much that our mouths were bleeding......"

"Wait, wait, I don't see you coming, why do you dislike my sisters so much? Why are you so critical of our sisters......"

As soon as the song started, the silver bell was silent, and the bronze mirror in his hand fell down, with a faint smile on his face. Pan Jinling closed her eyes, and the scarlet sores had scarred on her round face.

"She was cured, and she asked me to find an opportunity to bring her back to her hometown......

Pan Jinling muttered lowly.

At that time, Li Xi had already withdrawn from the cabin, he couldn't bear to witness this scene, and as soon as he came to the deck, he heard the cheers on the mine, and the cannon was cast.

Unconsciously waving the relics of the silver bell, Li Shi's heart was like the river water outside, flowing through an inexplicable sour coldness. Lei Gongteng is indeed effective, and Pan Yinling also died of an overdose of medicinal soup in a hurry, he should not feel guilty, but the feeling in his heart always lingers.

Liability......

I have crossed over by myself, and the people around me, whether they are alive or dead, have already been connected with themselves, and their fate has changed because of themselves. What makes Li Xian mixed is that now he can't grasp these changes, and he doesn't know what direction it will end up in. It's really confusing to bear such a responsibility.

"Look at you like this, you really have a heart for that Yao girl!?"

The rough voice sounded, it was Xiao Sheng teasing him. Li Xi cheered up, at least this guy's fate track has been screwed into a completely different direction by himself.

Pan Yinling's death was two days ago, and now Li Xi and Xiao Sheng are driving a rushing boat, heading towards the upper reaches of the Tianxin River, and the boat is also carrying two freshly cast cannons, which are going to test the cannons.

"It's almost to the ground, fire the rope!"

Xiao Sheng ordered in a deep voice, and the twenty or so flood soldiers on the ship began to prepare, and Li Xian sighed leisurely: "Old Xiao, it's just a test cannon, can you be so nervous?" ”

Xiao Sheng snorted, sounding quite entangled: "You kid is weird, I don't know what tricks you're playing, in short, it's best to be prepared!" ”

Li Xian smiled secretly, this shotgun has been trained by him to have a rebellious mentality, and it was by this that he led Xiao Sheng to this place in the first place, and he still clearly remembers the whole process.

"Let's try it in the mine, it's nothing ...... if there are more people."

"How's that going to work!? With so many people coming and going on the river, do you want to let half of the British and German know that artillery is being fired here? ”

"Okay then, head east?"

"East!? That's on the Lianjiang River! Go to the west, upstream of the Tianxin River, where there are few people. ”

"It's okay, find an empty space everywhere and put things away, I guess there are no abandoned houses and temples there."

"Hey...... Not to mention, there are really any! Just test how powerful the cannon you are creating! ”

"Listen to you, you bring three or five people, and a few boys from my side will also go to see the excitement."

"Three or five people? You thought it was to hunt wild ducks? Safe! Everything has to be safe! ”

This is the origin of Xiao Sheng bringing out the No. 20 shotgunners and carrying a rushing boat.

At dawn, when the head was high, the boat turned into a reed, carried a cannon, and separated the reeds that were high, and in a short time came to a gentle slope, and a small fortress appeared. The surrounding earthen walls are still intact, surrounding a tulou in the center with a number of bullet holes exposed, and the gate is empty and wide open in the direction of the riverbank, and the door panel is missing.

"More than 100 years ago, there was a ferry here, and this road was still taken from Dipping Tan in Qingyuan to Yingde, so the government set up a fort here to prevent thieves in the mountains in the north......"

Looking in the direction indicated by Xiao Sheng, Li Xian's heart jumped, isn't the outline of the undulating mountains in the north the Cockscomb Mountain? Before the crossing, he was there to interview, and then he was chased by the gang, and then he had an accident at the location of Fengtian Village.

"What a providence......"

Li Xian sighed in his heart.

"Then it was abandoned, and the fortress became a den of bandits. A few years ago, there were even remnants of red-headed thieves who were active here, and after the former general Rong led troops to clear them, he patrolled the river from time to time, and no one came here again. My predecessors have told me that there is no need to patrol this place. ”

Xiao Sheng was still chattering and explaining.

"Use this fortress as a target today, and practice it well!"

He rubbed his palms together, his face excited. As the head of the shotgun gun, firing a cannon is more enjoyable than shooting a gun, and it is also a bombardment of the house, so he naturally will not let go of this opportunity, and the cannons and gunpowder received from the general soldier Bai are sufficient.

The two mountain-splitting cannons were placed thirty or forty steps away from the gate, about ten steps apart, Li Xian nodded, and Jia Gouzi, Wu Shishi and other boys began to charge. This time he brought out all nine boys, each with a five- or six-foot-long wooden stick in addition to the short sword on his body. Xiao Sheng didn't know the situation of their general armor, and thought that this was a weapon used as a guarantee, so he didn't care.

The two cannons were loaded with medicine, and the cannon facing the gate, Jia Gouzi wrapped the solid iron bullet with a layer of oilcloth, and then stuffed it into the cannon mouth, and then pressed it down with a wooden stick, which made Xiao Sheng frown.

"The medicine is not counted if it is filled with three taels, and it is still wrapped in cloth? Are you intent on letting this cannon blow up? ”

When he asked, Li Shi also put on a professional sneering posture.

"What makes you cool, are you still afraid?"

His cannon was cast from high-quality pig iron, and it was cast with an iron core, and even if the bore was smooth enough, it still took two days to grind. "Smooth as a mirror" is no longer an adjective, but close to a descriptor.

According to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, the artillery charge was four taels per 100 catties, and this small mountain splitting cannon was only 60 catties, which could only hold two taels and five cents. But Li Xian felt that with the quality of this cannon, it should be no problem to load more five-dollar medicine.

Originally, this cannon did not play a single shot, but only used a group, that is, a shotgun. But Li Xi and Xiao Sheng both wanted to see the power of this cannon, and as soon as they fired this head, they directly used Fengmenzi as a single bullet to hit. 【2】

It's just that Xiao Sheng doesn't know much about cannons, and he always feels that if he stuffs the cannon chamber so solidly, it's easy to explode. He had been exposed to low-quality cannons before, and this understanding was also in line with his experience.

"It's okay, if you don't blow it up this way, it's no problem to read it briefly. It's really going to blow up, look at the speed at which you can produce two guns in January, and it's too late to make up for it. ”

Xiao Sheng comforted himself, squinted his eyes and adjusted the direction of the muzzle, and then put a few stones under the muzzle. took the fire rope handed by Li Xi and inserted it into the fire door with his own hands. Behind him, Zhang Ying handed over the fire rope on the shotgun, and Liang Deguang had already led the soldiers to retreat in an uproar.

"! What is there to be afraid of! When he was fighting Liu Ke in Taiwan, the artillery around him was blown up, and five or six people flew away, and Lao Tzu never frowned! ”

Xiao Sheng scolded and pressed the fire rope on the fire door, and then heard a small sound, white smoke floated up, and the two of them rushed back like cunning rabbits.

On the other side, Li Shi also took the boys to lie on the ground, covered his ears, opened his mouth, and thought in his heart, don't be afraid next......

Boom ——!

Accustomed to hearing the sound of cannons in later generations, Li Xian sounded a little strange at the moment. It is not so thick and gloomy, it looks a little high-pitched and empty, and there is a crunchy hissing sound, mostly because the gunpowder is mixed with too much nitrate, and the ingredients are mixed unevenly.

Disheveled...... Boom...... Syllable......

The cannon was followed by three abnormal noises in a row, Xiao Shengtuo's muzzle angle was a little floating, and the fist-sized cannon penetrated a round hole above the gate, and then shot diagonally into the central fort tower, and after tearing out a hole in the earthen wall, it drilled directly from the top of the building, shooting high into the air, and faintly you could still hear the sound of breaking the air.

"Grass! It's fucking cool! ”

Xiao Sheng jumped up, waved his fist, and shouted with pleasure on his face, and the three clouds of smoke and dust in the fortress tower in front of him were gradually spreading.

The next moment, his fist froze in mid-air.

Several heads poked out of the door below the tower, followed by a cacophony and a shout with great clarity.

"Officers and soldiers! Officers and soldiers are coming——! ”

Uh-oh...... There are really bandits.

Li Xian got up idly, his face was full of hypocritical surprise, he had long known that there were people here.

Lao Er's gang of mountain bandits is here, this guy is entrusted by someone to monitor Pan Jinling and their leprosy on the side. Li Shi let Pan Jinling and Lao Er come into contact and set up their place to stay. Originally, I wanted Xiao Sheng to directly lead people to arrest, but according to the normal procedure, Xiao Sheng and the other flood soldiers had to report to the police, and at the same time, they needed a local document to be dispatched, which was too easy to leak the news.

That's why he abducted Xiao Sheng here by testing the gun, and deliberately provoked Xiao Sheng's rebellious mentality, so that he could bring enough people and make enough preparations.

I hope that this guy can really shock the scene next, Li Xi also sighed at this time, when will he be able to establish an armed force that truly belongs to him?

"More than a dozen people are afraid of a bird!"

"Shotgun! Snatched their shotguns! ”

"And the boat! Haha, a great gift from God! ”

"It's the other way around! Kill officers and soldiers! Guys side by side——! ”

The shouts that followed made Li Xi feel a little bad.

A large group of people poured out of the fort tower, waving long and short blades, and rushed straight towards Xiao Sheng and Li Xian. Seeing that these people were dressed in mixed colors, some looked like tattered outfits like beggars, some looked like fast hands who were rushing to the dart, and the guys in their hands were also messy, their feet were fast or slow, some were resolute and some were hesitant, and they looked like several gangs of bandits.

Putting his arm down with difficulty, Xiao Sheng turned his head to look at Li Shi, his eyes were so entangled that he could almost twist out the surging river, and he realized.

"You expected a thief!?"

He asked angrily, and the surprise on Li Xian's face turned into a fake.

"Accident...... It was a surprise......"

A steady stream of people poured out of the castle tower, and at a cursory glance, I am afraid that there are not as many as 100!

Li Shi looked back at Xiao Sheng, and his face was also stiff.

"I didn't expect so many ......"

[1: "Geluo File" is the same as "Ausa Waist", both are Pai Yao love songs. 】

[2: The Ming and Qing artillery fired shotguns, and a large bullet would be added in front to block the medicinal gas, which was called sealing the door. 】

[Last night's cool breeze blew my belly, and I can only barely change it today......]