Unparalleled Concubine

This person was Li Xin's younger brother, Lin Hu who had disappeared from the Southwest Group for many years.

Since he was tied up by the Plum Blossom Guard, he has not appeared in public again.

"It's not hard."

Lin Hu smiled plainly.

Lord Jing'an said in a deep voice, "How are things going?"

"It's almost there."

Lin Hu restrained his smile and said in a low voice: "According to Master Hou's request, the time is almost right, but we haven't really tried it yet. We need Master Hou to come and give us a try."

Chapter 1037 Li Xin's Confidence!

Gunpowder is the foundation of the era of thermal weapons, but the power of gunpowder itself is far from that great.

Nowadays, whether it is the capital city or the Yuwen Department in northern Xinjiang, gunpowder is very important, but in fact, the "sky thunder" in the southwest is just the most basic application of gunpowder.

A thermal weapon is like a big tree, gunpowder is the trunk of this tree, and countless branches and leaves extend out from the trunk of this big tree.

Limited by their vision and knowledge, it is difficult for people in this era to see farther scenery. They have only seen the sky thunder, and the current limit of imagination is nothing more than imitating the sky thunder.

Every bit of improvement in thermal weapons will take an era of ten or even decades, advancing bit by bit.

But Li Xin is different.

He has seen distant scenery.

He knew very well what would come out of gunpowder. Soil bombs like sky thunders were the simplest things, and then there were firecrackers, birdcracks, cannons and even... flintlock guns.

But it's a pity that Li Xin was a liberal arts student in his previous life. He knew what gunpowder would become next, but he didn't know anything about how to make these things.

Originally, he didn't intend to really get these things out. Li Xin is a man with no ambitions. If he didn't fall out with the Ji family, he even planned to bring gunpowder into the coffin, so as not to change the original state of the world. process.

But because of a series of conflicts of ideas and interests, he and the royal family finally came to the opposite side. In the ninth year of Taikang, Lin Hu was tied up by the Plum Blossom Guard. After a lot of effort and rushing from the capital to Jincheng, he was able to rescue the bruised Lin Hu from the hands of Mei Huawei.

From that time on, Li Xin knew that there was a point where he and the Ji family had to decide who was superior.

So... simply relying on gunpowder, or simply relying on the sky thunder that he figured out a few years ago, is not enough.

There are only 31 state capitals in the southwest, with less than one million households. At most, it can support 15 troops like it is now. No matter how many, Zhao Jia will not be able to afford the military expenses, and the people in the southwest will suffer because of too many conscriptions. complain.

Simply put, the 31 state capitals in the southwest can only support about 15 people.

At that time, Li Zhijie and Li Shen and his son had been operating in the Southwest for more than 30 years, and the Pingnan Army was no more than this number. Li Xin was not a genius general, nor did he have the talent of Crouching Dragon. It is impossible to win more with less and enter the capital, and it is impossible to increase the southwest by hundreds of thousands of troops out of thin air.

Therefore, he must continue to push the thermal weapon down.

Back then Lin Hu was tortured badly by Meihuawei, and Yulan, the only woman who walked into his heart, couldn't get together with him. After he had been recovering from his injury in Jincheng for a few months, he suddenly disappeared.

Even Zhao Jia and Mu Ying didn't know where Lin Hu had gone, but these two people were also very smart, they never asked Li Xin about Lin Hu's whereabouts, they just pretended not to know.

It is now the fifth year of Yuanzhao. During these five or six years, Lin Hu has been in a manor on the outskirts of Jincheng with more than 100 craftsmen. Reappear what has appeared in the past.

For example, firecrackers, artillery... and bird guns.

Because Li Xin knew nothing about these things, he could only give ideas, so the process progressed very slowly, but as long as the time was long enough, there would always be something to gain.

With gunpowder, it is not difficult to make firecrackers. Only a few blacksmiths can make a prototype. The difficulty lies in accuracy, filling speed, safety of the holder, and effective killing distance.

Lin Hu and others had already produced the firecracker in the first year of Yuanzhao, and after four or five years of silent improvement, they are now quite mature in the field of firecrackers. The steel balls and lead bullets in the firecracker can shoot nearly Two hundred steps, the effective killing distance has reached about fifty to one hundred steps.

But other than that, the artillery and the bird gun are almost no progress at all.

Even though Li Xin drew them a simple schematic diagram, these people still couldn't come up with a more practical bird gun. The progress is very slow and cannot be used in combat for the time being.

But no matter what, the weapon workshop led by Lin Hu has made great progress in the past few years. These craftsmen hidden in the dark are also Li Xin's confidence to dare to rebel!

Before Li Xin went to Beijing last year, he transferred Lin Hu and his craftsmen from Jincheng to Hanzhong so that Hanzhong could be used as a weapon base when fighting. At the same time, Li Xin gave them another task .

That is to make a "projectile version" of Tianlei.

To put it simply, it is to thicken the thickness of the clay pot so that it can be thrown out by the catapult.

The catapult is a mature weapon in this era. Whether it is Ye Mao or Mu Ying and Li Shuo, they will use the catapult skillfully. If the sky thunder can be used as the "stone" of the catapult, it will be very simple to attack the city .

This kind of improvement is not very difficult, as long as there is an appropriate amount of thickened Tianlei clay pot, the difficulty is that this thing needs to be ignited before being thrown out, which requires precise timing of the burning of the fuse.

What Li Xin asked just now was the sky thunder that could be thrown by a catapult.

Craftsmen in this era need patience the most. In a few months, they have almost figured out this thing, but they haven't practiced it. That's why Lin Hu told Li Xin that he wanted Li Xin to get a few. Real guys give it a try.

Li Xin lowered his head and pondered for a while, then said: "This is in the city, so it's inconvenient. In the past few days, I'll ask someone to build a hill for you outside the city, open it up as soon as possible, and then get a few catapults there. You experiment."

Having said that, Li Xin lowered his head to calculate, and said, "Huzi, I need to get this thing out as soon as possible. I think I will use it in a few months."

Lin Hu patted his chest with a smile, and said, "Don't worry, Lord Hou. With the catapult, I can debug it in a month at most."

Li Xin nodded, and then patted Lin Hu on the shoulder: "You don't need to bite one by one, you can still call it what you used to call it."

Lin Hu grinned.

"Brother Xin."

Li Xin also smiled, and said: "You are one year younger than me, and you are more than 30 years old. You haven't been married for so many years. Do you want my brother to find you a wife, and you have a son for Uncle Lin? incense."

Lin Hu shook his head.

"This matter is not urgent. I still have a lot of things to worry about here. It won't be too late to talk about my affairs after I finish my brother's affairs."

Li Xin patted Lin Hu's shoulder silently.

"Brother, still can't forget that woman?"

Lin Hu bowed his head and was speechless.

Li Xin sighed, and said, "I should still be able to find her now, or else I'll bring her to you?"

"No."

Lin Hu shook his head resolutely, and said: "Brother, I don't see her, it's good for both of us, it's not easy for you to save her life back then."

This dark-skinned mountain man smiled honestly: "I don't miss women very much now. It's very interesting to work here."

Li Xin sighed slightly: "It will take another two years, but no matter what, you must marry a wife and have children. If you don't worry about this matter, I will explain it to you, otherwise you will come to the underground, Uncle Lin The first one will not spare me."

"I listen to my brother."