I rebelled in the Song Dynasty

"The food comes out of the treasury first. If it's not enough, tell me."

Liu Sheng originally wanted Qi Guanhan to give a memorial to the Khitan court regarding food adjustments, but he was afraid that something would be discovered, so he gave up in the end.

When a peasant works for a day, he is given five kilograms of grain and additional meals. This treatment is quite good.

Adding some wild vegetables, and excluding the rations for a strong labor force, five kilograms of grain is enough for a family of five in this era.

The result was just as Liu Sheng expected. As soon as the notice was posted, the door was quickly blocked by people who came to sign up before the government officials could drive them away.

Shuozhou has a Qianqian market, where all kinds of materials are available.

In order to keep it secret, Liu Sheng directly used assembly line operations. Even in the last process, they didn't know what was put in the jar.

After the manpower kept up, the production of gunpowder was still very fast.

In order to increase the lethality, Liu Sheng ordered Wang Liao to purchase various porcelain fragments and hard objects such as iron slag.

After the first batch of gunpowder cans were completed, Liu Sheng deliberately tested its power.

I tried it with a scarecrow first. It shattered into pieces within five meters, and it could break through leather armor within two meters. As for the iron armor, even if it exploded close to it, it didn't break the defense.

The people watching with Liu Sheng were so shocked that they were speechless.

After a long time, someone said: "This... what kind of divine object is this that has such power?"

Liu Sheng did not answer this question because the explanation was too complicated and their knowledge was not enough to understand what a chemical reaction was.

He said directly, this thing is called Zhentian Lei. It is a treasure given to me by God. It must not be publicized.

Liu Sheng wanted to add some halo to himself, and he had also thought about it. In the future, Liu Sheng would explain all kinds of knowledge beyond this era that God had given, and it was best to make himself a son of God.

A small can weighs about five kilograms, and gunpowder accounts for four kilograms. Compared with four kilograms of gunpowder, this is a bit less powerful.

However, Liu Sheng did not believe that the iron armor could not break through the defense. The Khitan people could cover themselves with iron armor from head to toe.

The power of gunpowder is small, and many things are not done properly. For example, egg white is used to make granular gunpowder, but it is not that eggs are reluctant to be given up.

In this era when all materials are scarce, the number of chickens is not large, let alone in the north where animal husbandry is the mainstay?

After searching the whole city for eggs, they only had enough for a few hundred kilograms of gunpowder, so Liu Sheng gave up immediately.

Stack the quantity with all your strength. If the quantity is too large, the same will happen.

More and more civilians are signing up, mainly from Mayi City. It will take time for other cities to catch up.

Liu Sheng couldn't wait that long, and he needed manpower to enter the big gap in Shuozhou.

All the civilian husbands who signed up were pulled over by Liu Sheng. In the end, in order to make gunpowder, women had to be recruited and given three kilograms of grain a day.

After all the preparations were done, Liu Sheng rushed into the military camp. The hundreds of people who had been training in the previous few days reluctantly left the army.

Two thousand Huairen's young men were divided into a class of 20 people, with [-] people in each area. It should not be difficult to train simple military discipline.

In this way, I trained for physical fitness in the morning, stood in a military posture when the sun was shining in the afternoon, and Liu Sheng trained as an instructor in the evening.

Fortunately, everyone practiced very seriously and nothing happened.

During this period, Wu Ze came back with more than a hundred cavalry and took back more than 50 heads.

Wu Ze was quite excited and ran to Liu Sheng to ask for credit, but Liu Sheng threw him into the military camp together with more than a hundred cavalry. Huairen, a young man, didn't know who Wu Ze was, which made him complain endlessly.

The Khitans did not give Liu Sheng much time. Liu Sheng, who had just practiced military training for two days, received a report from Liang Shouyi that the Khitans sent troops.

7 people. Twenty thousand cavalry and fifty thousand infantry started from Yunzhou and headed south.

When Liu Sheng heard the news of 7 people, he ordered his people to pack up their belongings and prepare to go west, or to Xixia, without even thinking about it.

He thought it was just Shuozhou's headquarters troops returning to defend, but he still had the confidence to withstand one or two.

He couldn't resist 7 people without any consideration.

No matter how powerful gunpowder is, it is not a mature thermal weapon. It is impossible to kill 7 people at once.

Liang Shouyi analyzed with him: "Xiangong Cai is still in Yingzhou at this time, and the Khitan people should be heading towards them."

"They are building the city wall. In the past few days, many civilians have sent luggage. They seem to be defending Yingzhou."

"The most important thing is that us people are not worthy of the Khitan sending out 7 people."

Liang Shouyi's analysis was spot on, and Liu Sheng also listened. Although he didn't want to belittle himself, if the Khitans attacked them, they would not need to send out 7 people. It was not worth it.

But Liu Sheng didn't believe Cai You was determined to defend Yingzhou, also because it wasn't worth it.

It's just a city, there are no natural dangers, and it's not an important place. There's no point in defending it.

However, various evidences show that Cai You was indeed preparing to fight the Khitans in Yingzhou.

With Cai You's fear of death, it is extremely unreasonable, unless it is the order of Emperor Zhao.

Liu Sheng was not surprised.

Both armies were defeated in the Northern Expedition, and the Song Emperor also wanted to lose face.

No matter what, we have to occupy some land in order to be able to explain to the country.

This gave Cai You a reason to defend Yingzhou.

Liu Sheng felt relieved when he thought of this, but he still said to Liang Shouyi: "Continue to explore the movements of the Khitan people.

Liu Sheng did not dare to take it lightly. If when he went to fight Cai You, he came to Shuozhou and killed him, there would be no place to cry.

Liu Sheng strengthened his defenses and was ready to run away at any time.

Liu Sheng also took the time to inspect the Dachakou. Various pits and large rocks were scattered irregularly on the land.

The most important thing left was to bury the gunpowder cans. Liu Sheng was not prepared to bury them until he had figured out the Khitan marching route.

If there was a fight, Liu Sheng was not going to let his newcomers who had been trained for several days and the Khitan people attack each other with cold weapons. He would just put the gunpowder in the can, light it and throw it out.

An explosion that does not belong to this era will definitely bring surprises to the Khitan people.

Liu Sheng had already simulated the war with the Khitans in his mind.

The only thing to do now is the gunpowder fuse. The simplest way to do this is to rub gunpowder in a paper bag, but it consumes a lot of money and is easy to break.

Liu Sheng tried to make a few grenades that exploded by pulling the string, but the success rate was not high because the phosphorus was made in a hurry and the phosphorus was not purified and there were too many impurities.

In the end, Liu Sheng chose to use vines to make a fire trap.