The hatred of killing his mother and taking his wife are not shared, Li Xin didn't expect this seemingly rough man to have such a painful experience, and the feelings of the people gradually became excited, and they were gradually pulled back to the painful memories of two years ago.

"Fathers and brothers, I, Li Xin, did not deliberately uncover your scars and sprinkle salt on them, but to remind everyone that the Tartars are already in Zhuozhou, two hundred miles away, and this time they will intensify their efforts, not only sweeping the countryside, but also attacking the city. Once Zhuozhou falls, Baoding Mansion will face the Tartar soldiers. ”

It's not that they don't know that the Tartar is coming again, maybe they have subconsciously saved luck and escape, Li Xin's words are like a big drum and a heavy hammer, the startled people are speechless, and the excited and noisy air seems to have frozen again in an instant.

"That's why you're here today! Not for those two years of forced labor, not for the sake of the court, but for yourself, for your family, to avenge the dead souls, let them turn their eyes away, protect the living, and never let them repeat the tragedy of two years ago! ”

The air continued to solidify, and the atmosphere was extremely depressed, and the county priest Zhou Jin looked at Li Xin with a frown and surprise, scanning up and down, as if he had seen him for the first time. Lu Zhifan secretly praised, good means, I can't see that this person is still a good material for leading soldiers, but it's a pity that he has no background.

"Teach you, I can't compensate you, it's not right for me at noon, now teach us to practice, and kill the Tartars after practicing......"

Zhang Shi actually knelt on his knees with an ordinary sound, holding his head high and almost shouting. Li Xin hurriedly stepped forward and helped Zhang Shi with both hands, "Brother Shi has tormented Li Xin, I and everyone have the same mind, that is, to kill the Tartar!" ”

"Kill the Tartars!"

I don't know who took the lead in shouting, and soon everyone shouted, and in a moment the shouts filled the sky over the entire Beimenli County Treasury. It seems that this is no longer a strong team of hundreds of people, but an elite soldier who has experienced a hundred battles and is like a rainbow.

Lu Zhifan looked at the excited crowd, his eyes were also a little moist, and he muttered: "The people's hearts are available, the people's hearts are available!" ”

……

For several days from the next day, the open space outside the county treasury reverberated with the slogans of one, two, three, and four from morning to night. Six hundred mouths spoke in unison, and the momentum was earth-shattering, and even the old house of the Sun family in the city could hear it clearly.

Sun Chengzong summoned Sun Ji and asked, "Erlang, what's the sound outside?" ”

"Back to my father's words, it's Li Xin who is training!"

"Training?"

Sun Ji told Sun Chengzong how Lu Zhifan recruited the people and how Li Xin motivated morale. Sun Chengzong sighed when he heard this: "This son is really a wizard with soldiers, is it right or wrong for the old man to deliberately suppress him before?" ”

The old man came to the door of the hall with a trembling crutche, straightened his back, and tried to look north, but he could only hear the sound of the slogan. Sun Ji hurriedly draped a large piece of cloth on the old man's body, and stretched out his right hand to support the old man's arm.

"The child only knows that if Li Xin can really train a sharp warrior who can fight with the Tartars, it will be a good thing for Gao Yang and the people!"

The old man's back shrunk back, and he slowly walked back into the hall and sat down.

"I'm afraid that the court won't be able to tolerate him! Erlang, you go and sue him, if you have any need, just ask. Doesn't he want a firecracker, you go and ask how much you need, and the old man will figure it out! ”

Sun Chengzong has been in the center for a long time, and the imperial court is very clear about the defense and distrust of military generals, and let a bandit who has no name take charge of the army, and the crime can be investigated in the future.

"The child understands." Sun Ji responded, thought for a while and said: "Father don't have to worry too much, Lu Dianshi is very measured, Li Xin is only teaching in name, and the power of dispatching the Minzhuang team is in the hands of Lu Dianshi, and he also used Zhou's teachings to be the supervising army, even if someone investigates it in the future, there will be no problem in terms of reputation." ”

Sun Chengzong sneered, with his understanding of Li Xin's ability, it may not be difficult for this sect to seize the command of that Minzhuang. However, this Lu Zhifan is also very measured, although he has made a non-trivial prison army to come out, to fit the system of the imperial court!

When Sun Ji came to the county treasury, he couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise, only to see the people lined up in a long column, holding the brand-new muskets in the county treasury, and Li Xin holding a whistle in his mouth. With the repetition of the flute, the people repeatedly made the action of lying down and standing up, and looked at this posture was still very neat. When I walked in, I found that the ground of Nuoda was painted with white gray with zigzag figures, and the people were doing various actions according to the whistle in the frame of the figure.

Li Xin noticed Sun Ji who was walking slowly, and he felt a little breathless in his heart, and he couldn't see his head when he wanted to see the Sun family. The Sun family wants to come and see themselves, but they can come and go freely, anytime, anywhere. Far away, Sun Ji had already begun to give up.

"I didn't expect Li Jiao to practice and train soldiers, disrespectful, disrespectful!" Let's just point to the gray line on the ground. "I wonder what is the use of these threads sprinkled with white ash?"

Li Xin smiled: "The second prince praised it falsely, it is nothing more than some stupid method, and the line drawn by the white ash is the section of the city wall after it has been renovated." Now the city wall is still under construction, and this is also done to train the people in advance to be familiar with the defensive battle of the city wall. ”

Sun Ji was thoughtful. "I see, cutaway, the word is new." Looking at the white ash line on the ground, there is really a bit of the outline of the city wall, which generally presents a "mountain" shape.

"Second son, please look!"

As soon as Li Xin waved his arm, the flag in his hand waved left and right twice, and he saw that the people in a column began to trot along the gray line until the entire "mountain" shape was filled, and then the whistle sounded again in Li Xin's mouth. Sun Jiao's eyes were a little dazzled, and a team was divided into two in an instant, lined up on both sides of three vertical and one horizontal. On closer inspection, it turned out that every other person left the original queue, and a new team was formed.

This kind of trick is unheard of and unseen by Sun Jie, he has read a lot of military books and battle strategies, but he does not remember that there is a book that records the drill of this kind of formation. No wonder his father didn't dislike him and valued his identity as a horse thief so much. It's just that he still has a little worry, training soldiers is a very energy-consuming and time-consuming errand, will the errand of supervising the construction of the city wall be delayed?

He didn't forget the purpose of his trip, "Li Jiaoxi is training a firecracker?" ”

"Exactly, it's a pity that there are too few firecrackers in the county treasury, which is far from enough to defend Gaoyang."

"How much do you need?"

"That's the number!"

Li Xin stretched out the thumb and little finger of his right hand. To be honest, he didn't have much hope for this newspaper, where did he get so much stock on 6,000 muskets?

Sun Ji gasped after confirming that he had heard correctly, he originally expected that he would need a thousand rods at most, but who knew that this guy would open his mouth widely, would he be able to conjure up tricks? It's almost an impossible task. But thinking of his father's explanation when he came, he sighed secretly, and tried his best to get it, as much as he wanted. In a blink of an eye, he thought of another question, 6,000 firearms, wouldn't it take 6,000 people?

"Could it be that Li Jiaoxi is going to train 6,000 firecrackers?"

Li Xin shook his head and said, "There are 2,000 real musketeers. ”

"So, isn't 2,000 guns enough?"

Li Xin still shook his head.

"There must be no shortage of firecrackers, because there are still four thousand specialized loaders."

"Loader?"

Li Xinyi waved his hand and called Zhang Shi and Hu Ergou over, "Let's demonstrate to the second son and prepare for live shooting." ”

"Okay!"

Zhang Shi and Hu Ergou were elated, and not everyone could have the opportunity to appear in front of the second son of the Sun family.

Li Xin had previously trained the people in order to verify the feasibility of this three-hit tactic, but two of them learned things very quickly, and basically mastered the essentials of loading gunpowder and projectiles in a few times.

Three muskets were placed in front of the three men, and as soon as the horn sounded, the three men began to load the muskets, took out the powder keg rolled in leather paper from the cloth bag, bit it with their teeth and tore it, poured a small part into the waist pot that ignited the fire, and poured all the rest into the muzzle, and then stuffed the projectile into the muzzle and compacted it with a whole strip. After the musket was loaded, Li Xin took out the rope head from the bundle of fire rope he was carrying on his shoulder, lit it, and clamped it on the arquebus. Finally, the gun was raised to shoot aim, and the explosion of the shooting and the white smoke rushing out from the side of the gun made the scene very shocking.

After the shooting, Li Xin took the musket loaded with stones, clamped the fire rope, and repeated the shooting action. After the shooting, he took the musket loaded by Hu Ergou, and so on and so on, firing ten rounds in a row.

The sky above the county treasury was filled with the strong stench of white smoke and sulfur fired from the muskets, and Sun Ji was shocked again, with his knowledge of the fire guns, this thing could only be shot once before the enemy, and then it was of little use, and the rest had to be killed by the infantry. The reason for this was that the firecracker could not shoot continuously and effectively, and Li Xin's demonstration just broke the traditional use of the firecracker in his consciousness.

"This method of shooting evolved from the three-stage shot, and the walls are limited by the narrow space, so it is perfect for one person to shoot while the other two are full-time loading."

In addition to being shocked, Sun Ji realized that if the city wall was full of such three-stage firefighters, who would be able to break through the city with such a powerful firepower? I have to go back and report to my father as soon as possible. But Li Xin continued: "This kind of shooting formation also needs to be modified with the city wall to play the greatest role, so there is still a problem, that is, there is not enough manpower. ”

The people who could be recruited were all recruited early in the morning, and Sun Ji was also very embarrassed. How could Li Xin not see that he was embarrassed?

"Relocation, as long as the problem of manpower can be solved!"

Sun Ji didn't agree with the relocation of the people, but when he heard Li Xin's old story mentioned again, he waved his hand and shook his head: "No, no, the relocation of civil affairs is complicated, Sun Ji can't be the master of this matter, what do so many people eat and where do they live?" No, no, no......"

Li Xin didn't expect this good gentleman, who had always only nodded and not shook his head, to refuse so simply. The relocation of the people is not only to solve the problem of manpower, but also to avoid the looting of the Tartar soldiers after they arrive in Gaoyang, and to avoid the misery of the people, once they have nothing to rob, the supply line will inevitably be lengthened, which will cause a great obstacle to their siege. The second son's sentence was blocked, and how could he be willing? The tone began to become irritable.

"The second son can't be the master, the cabinet lord should be the master, I'll go see his old man!"

Just when Li Xin and Sun Ji were arguing, a terrible horn sounded out of thin air, and the faces of the two people changed. Since the last incident in which the displaced people crossed the border and were mistaken for the rogues, Sun Chengzong arranged for a special person to give an early warning, and once a suspicious large group of soldiers was found, he would blow the horn to warn. At this moment, the continuous sound of blowing horns is a warning to the city.

But Gaoyang City is in the preparation stage, and there are not even decent soldiers, how should they deal with it?