"Big boss, what are you going to do?"

Li Hongji looked at Liu Yifeng and Ma Chen, who were dressed in black clothes and trousers with their heads covered with black cloth, and wondered what they were doing up in the middle of the night if they didn't go to bed.

"I went next door to ask them to get up and pee." After saying this, Li Hongji was left with a confused look on his face and jumped off the camp wall along the rope.

Then came Ma Chen. He smiled uprightly at Li Hongji and went down. Li Hongji noticed that the military bow that was gathering dust in the warehouse was actually on his back.

Although in the Ming Dynasty, firecrackers began to be used on a large scale since the Central Ming Dynasty. In the Wanli Dynasty of this era, firearms have directly caught up with the world's first-class level, and their popularity has even surpassed that of the West. However, bows and arrows have not been eliminated.

The Ming Dynasty's frontier troops liked to use the Kaiyuan Bow. The Kaiyuan Bow was made of bamboo and ox horn, with a base made of mulberry elm wood and a bow made of ox horn and solid wood. It was a soft bow and could be used to shoot arrows even on galloping horses.

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This is the imprint left by the Mongols on the Han people in the Central Plains.

You must know that the bows of the Song Dynasty were generally hard bows. The so-called hard bows and soft bows are the difference in bow power. Hard bows naturally have greater bow power and have a harder bow body, while soft bows have the opposite effect.

After the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, many things from the Yuan Dynasty actually remained. This is an inevitable development of history. The Han people are not a pedantic nation. It is the wisdom of our ancestors to take the essence and discard the dross.

The soft bow thus became the standard bow of the Ming Dynasty's frontier army.

However, the effective range of soft bows is almost the same as that of fire guns. This led to the reform of Zhang Juzheng in the Wanli Dynasty. Firearms gradually replaced bows and arrows. After all, the cost of training a fire gun player was much lower than that of training an archer.

But bows and arrows still have an advantage that fire guns cannot replace, and that is concealment.

"Buzz!"

"ah!"

"Enemy attack!"

"here we go again!?"

"Did you see the direction it came from again?"

"You bastard, put out the fire quickly!"

"Buzz!"

"ah!"

Two arrows killed one and injured one. Ma Chen and Liu Yifeng were crawling in the bushes. Their black clothes were covered with broken branches. They might be able to tell something unusual at a glance during the day, but at night, don't get close and use torches to shine.

, it was impossible to tell that there were two people lying there.

After the camp finally calmed down, Liu Yifeng whispered to Ma Chen: "Take another arrow and shoot the fifth tent from the left."

Liu Yifeng saw Xia Jie go in just now, but he hasn't come out yet.

Ma Chen nodded, carefully stood up and slowly took out his bow and arrow and started looking for the target. They were about 70 steps away from the tent where Xia Jie was, which was basically the limit of Ma Chen's shooting range. It would be difficult for him to guarantee a hit any further away.

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After confirming the target, Ma Chen nocked an arrow and fired his bow, and another "buzz" sound pierced the night sky. The already somewhat nervous explorers were immediately awakened, waiting for a scream to confirm that they had indeed heard the sound of the bow and arrow breaking through the air.

, rather than dreaming.

The screams didn't come, but Xia Jie roared: "Go and catch him!"

According to the agreement, Ma Chen immediately ran towards the camp after shooting the arrow, leaving Liu Yifeng to continue lying on the spot.

Many explorers, who had been harassed to the point where their nerves were about to be burned out by rage, never thought that in this situation there was someone lying down so close to the camp, chasing Ma Chen with a bow on his back with all his strength.

Ma Chen was born as a hunter. Those who dared to compete with Siberian tigers in the Taihang Mountains could only catch up with the agility in the woods of the man surnamed Li and his gang who had experienced in the jungles of the Annan Protectorate. And that gang is currently hiding

Silently observing the battle between Xia Jie and Liu Yifeng in the dark, the other explorers were quickly thrown away by Ma Chen.

While they were discussing whether to disperse the search, there was the sound of a musket being fired from the direction of the camp.

Liu Yifeng straightened up and ran towards the darkness outside Xia Jie's camp like crazy without even checking whether he was hit. The people chasing him were obviously much smaller than those chasing Ma Chen. After all, he fired his bow while running.

Archery is almost impossible, but it is completely possible to load an arrow while running and then suddenly turn around and shoot.

If you are hit by a bow and arrow, you can still be saved as long as it is not a vital part. If you are hit by a fire blunderbuss, even if it is not a vital part, there is a high chance of death.

The explorers who knew this well did not think that the pursuit of Liu Yifeng was huge enough, but in fact few actually made efforts to pursue him.

People from Dongshan Bank rushed into the tent where Xia Jie was, but were quickly kicked out, leaving only a few leadership members because there was a French machine gun inside.

"How's it going? Is there any help?"

"Shopkeeper Xia, he is dead."

"Bastard thing!"

Xia Jie was really mad. Liu Yifeng shot and killed one of his two furlong cannon craftsmen. But Liu Yifeng did not intentionally shoot the craftsman. He simply shot three poles against the tent because he had no dates.

A shot came. Just like that, it hit the craftsman.

The commander of the Fire Gun Team knew what Xia Jie was angry about. Even if they successfully captured the gold mine, they still couldn't explain it to the young master, because strictly speaking, these two craftsmen were not from their Dongshan Bank system, just like the Franchise cannon.

They are all borrowed. Now that a person has died, how can we make up an excuse? What if the other party is determined to investigate and finds out some clues?

Liu Yifeng had been eyeing this tent yesterday. When he and Ma Chen made a sneak attack yesterday, he discovered that Xia Jie would always take people to protect the tent as soon as possible. He even saw Zhang Xianzhong among the protection personnel.

So he made a plan to attack the tent today.

For this reason, he asked Ma Chen to sleep all day long, just to be energetic at night. In fact, neither he nor Ma Chen cared about the outcome of the attack. Anyway, this wave of sneak attacks was enough to devastate Xia Jie's camp.

It’s not like those explorers who had been fooled had never thought about fighting an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth, but Li Hongji threw a torch in front of the camp every two quarters of an hour on average. These explorers were not regular soldiers and had a firm will to fight. They might be exposed at first sight.

He returned obediently.

Looking back now, Li Hongji's judgment at the beginning was really accurate. Regardless of the large number of people, Xia Jie was a ragtag group except for the gunmen. The biggest characteristic of the ragtag group is that they can only fight with the wind, but they are useless when encountering difficulties.

Gone.

Liu Yifeng and Ma Chen met on the camp wall. Their faces were full of excitement and adrenaline was still taking effect. However, they were about to do it again when they were stopped by Li Hongji.

"Big boss, you have been sneaking up on them for two consecutive nights. It is impossible for them to be defenseless!"

Li Hongji stopped Liu Yifeng from attacking again not because he was worried that Xia Jie and the others were prepared, but because he felt that this kind of thing should not be done by Liu Yifeng. You, Liu Yifeng, are equivalent to the commander-in-chief of an army and cannot do everything personally. Besides, you are on the front line.

Take risks, what if you are caught or killed?

Liu Yifeng listened to his persuasion and took Ma Chen back. But half an hour later, he came back again with Song Xiance and Ye Xiao who were still awake.

"What is this?" Li Hongji looked at the food he had never seen before strung on two wooden thorns. At first glance, he thought it was a bug because it was so elastic.

“Grilled seitan.”

Gluten has appeared in Chinese recipes a long time ago. It can be traced back to the late Eastern Han Dynasty, but because there are no written records, many people only admit that the earliest written records of gluten in Chinese history were in the Song Dynasty.

However, during the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, gluten was not a popular way of eating throughout the country, because the amount of flour consumed in the production of gluten was not small, and only wealthy people could afford it. In addition, most of the gluten at that time was made into gluten slices or balls.

Liu Yifeng is the only one who is accustomed to cutting into strips and stringing them into spirals with two wooden skewers.

These glutens are by-products of the Hu Xin soup in the morning, and the batter water washed out is the water used to cook the Hu Xin soup. The gluten was collected by Liu Yifeng, cut into strips and skewered, steamed and dried in a pot, and is now being roasted.

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As far as his taste is concerned, this roasted gluten is extremely unpalatable, but Li Hongji and Song Xiance ate it very well. The taste was average, but the unique texture of gluten was something they had never tasted before.

"By the way, counting the days, it's almost time for Lao Zheng to arrive at the Fleet Chamber of Commerce."

Liu Yifeng nodded and said: "If the people from Dongshan Bank didn't set up a card to intercept it on the road."

Mentioning the initiator of this crisis, Song Xiance, who knew nothing about Dongshan Bank, couldn't help but ask: "Big boss, do you know who is behind Dongshan Bank? They can actually use so many guns at once."

Liu Yifeng shook his head: "No matter who is behind Dongshan Bank, when they covet our gold, we will fight them to death. The Maritime Safety Administration has not discovered gold in the East, so how can our gold mining methods be replaced by the Maritime Safety Administration?

Come forward to help us solve the background of Dongshan Bank, at least protect us from death."

"What if the Maritime Safety Administration doesn't guarantee it? Or what if the Maritime Safety Administration doesn't want to offend the backend of Dongshan Bank?"

"Probably not."

Liu Yifeng thought of Song Yingxing. He recalled the conversation he had with Song Yingxing when he was at the Nanyang level and in Tuoshan City. Song Yingxing must be many times tougher than the people behind Dongshan Bank. After all, Emperor Wanli himself said that he was looking forward to his "

"Tiangong opens things".

As for the backstage, unless the backstage of Dongshan Bank is cabinet-level people, the county magistrate is not as good as the current manager. Ordinary officials in the court will definitely not be able to control Song Yingxing, the manager of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau who is in urgent need of gold.

It's not a big problem to save your own life and that of others, as long as you can survive this crisis.

(Update one chapter first. I think I may be an asymptomatic infected person, because I have not been in good health recently and have cold symptoms, but I recovered. But I feel like I really want to fall into a state of brain fog. Looking at the details
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