When Zhu Hao spoke, his little eyes glanced at Tang Yin, his meaning was obvious.
I brought up the topic and concluded it for you. After all, you are the commander-in-chief of the army. Only by speaking from your mouth can you establish your prestige among the generals of the Yiwei Department of Prince Xing's Mansion.
Tang Yin really understood what Zhu Hao meant and looked gloomy: "These three groups of bandits all have backgrounds in Prince Ning's Palace, or are simply led by people from Prince Ning's Palace. From the pre-war layout, on-the-job command and aftermath matters, they are all guided or operated by professionals.
Tell me, are they officials or thieves?"
Luo An asked in surprise: "Mr. Tang, why didn't you tell King Xing in detail before... Oh, I understand, you are afraid of causing unnecessary disputes, right?"
On one side, Tang Yin followed Zhu Hao's words and analyzed, while someone on the other side immediately started to make up his mind.
Compared to Luo An's "behind-the-scenes thinking", Lu Song was a sensible person. He could see that the main reason why Tang Yin didn't say it earlier was probably because Zhu Hao didn't come and no one was around to analyze it. Tang Yin didn't expect this.
But behind the three groups of thieves, there is the shadow of Prince Ning's Mansion. It doesn't seem to be a secret, right?
Isn't that why I came to Anluzhou blatantly to cause trouble for you, Tang Yin?
Lu Song said: "In this case, we should handle it more carefully... Mr. Tang, do you think it is necessary to report to King Xing so that King Xing can read a copy of King Ning during the court?"
Tang Yin shook his head: "The relationship between the bandits and Prince Ning's Mansion is not superficial. They are all colluding secretly. Even if Prince Xing's Mansion goes to the palace to impeach him, there will be traitors in the court to excuse Prince Ning. Besides, this is not the land of Jiangxi after all.
Without conclusive evidence, how can the court believe it?"
At present, it is possible to analyze the inside story of the bandit army threatening Anlu, but it is difficult to produce any evidence.
Prince Xing's Mansion is also afraid of being said to be too sharp. Prince Ning is doing well in Jiangxi, so why are you attacking him and saying he is the backer of thieves?
Even if there is evidence, the traitors in the court will not let the evidence be presented to the emperor. There are many ways to obstruct it, not to mention that it is all speculation now.
Tang Yin looked at Zhu Hao with an expectant look on his face and asked, "Do you have any good suggestions for coming here this time?"
Zhu Hao thought to himself, you Tang Yin finally remembered to ask me for advice. He smiled and replied: "There is a suggestion. Even if three groups of thieves are stationed outside the city, connected with each other and seemingly unstoppable, the defenders in the city cannot
Watching them make trouble, we should always wait for an opportunity to attack. If there is a night attack, the thieves will suffer heavy losses..."
Luo An originally thought that Zhu Hao had some clever tricks. After hearing this, he shook his head repeatedly and retorted: "It's easy to say. The bandits outside the city will naturally strengthen their defenses at night. This plan will not work."
Zhu Hao said: "If it is an ordinary night attack, it will naturally not be effective. Sending out a large number of troops will only scare the enemy, and the sneak attack will turn into a direct confrontation. The main purpose of the thieves camping outside the city is to monitor every move in the city... But if
How can it be that just sending a few people to the city can cause chaos and even roar among them?"
"you……"
Tang Yin originally wanted to find out what the strategy was.
But after listening to Zhu Hao's plan, he also had the same doubts. I really want to say, do you have any misunderstandings about war? Do you really think this is a child playing house? Just send a few people there and it can trigger
Enemy riot?
Lu Song asked: "But we want to set a fire?"
At this time, only Lu Song, who admired Zhu Hao so much and had seen Zhu Hao's incredible ability before, would follow Zhu Hao's ideas.
Tang Yin immediately shook his head: "Although the weather is dry now, if a fire is to occur, the fire will spread quickly. Judging from the current situation of the three groups of thieves camping in separate camps, it is obvious that they have taken precautions against this."
Zhu Hao smiled and said: "Mr. Tang, do you have time? I will take you to see something later. I mentioned to you before that it would be best if this thing can help. Otherwise..."
Tang Yin had never been able to find a way to defeat the enemy, and was restless in his heart. When Zhu Hao said this, his heart suddenly moved.
Lu Song encouraged: "Since Master Zhu has come specifically to see Mr. Tang, let's go and have a look. Mr. Tang's short absence should not have much impact on the city's defense."
Tang Yin pondered for a moment. Zhu Hao had twice said that he would take him to see something, and he specified that it was a sharp weapon that could cause chaos in the enemy camp. He wanted to know what it was.
"In that case, I will go back to the palace later to report the war situation to Prince Xing, and I will go with you when the matter is over."
Tang Yin made a decision immediately.
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Tang Yin hurried back to Prince Xing's Mansion, reported the new trends of the bandits to Zhu Youji, Yuan Zonggao and others, discussed countermeasures, and went to the dormitory in the west courtyard to call Zhu Hao after he came out.
Lu Song did not accompany him. Tang Yin was followed by Luo An. Luo An now shoulders the important task of protecting Tang Yin, the former enemy commander-in-chief, on a daily basis.
After leaving the palace gate, Zhu Hao and Tang Yin rode in a carriage together.
Tang Yin roughly explained the situation when he asked to see King Xing: "... now the government has the intention to make peace with the bandits. The sentry detectives in the city have captured the bandits who have returned to Gu, and want to release them and bring out the government's conditions.
, the officials and gentry discussed giving a sum of money and food to allow the bandits to withdraw from Anlu Prefecture on their own."
Zhu Hao felt sad for a while.
The bandits were plundering and committing evil outside the city. The government didn't want to think about how to exterminate the bandits and restore peace to the people, but they actually wanted to negotiate with the bandits? And they offered money and food in exchange for the bandits to retreat?
Where can the bandits retreat to? Shouldn't they just keep wandering around, causing chaos, growing and growing like a snowball, and in the end, can Anlu Prefecture really be saved?
Tang Yin sighed sadly: "I know what you are thinking. There is nothing we can do about it. It is the spring plowing season now. Seedlings have been sown in some fields, and winter wheat is heading. If it is destroyed by thieves, it will seriously affect this year.
Harvest. It coincides with the time when Anlu Prefecture is about to welcome a new prefecture. If the treasury is short and needs to be filled by then... I'm afraid it will make things worse."
Zhu Hao closed his eyes and rested his mind.
Tang Yin sighed and said: "Actually, peace talks are the most unfavorable to me. The thieves are likely to offer conditions and ask Prince Xing's Mansion to hand me over. I don't know what will happen then... You should watch the road carefully and give guidance to the coachman at any time.
You don’t even know where you are.”
Then both of them stopped talking.
When we arrived at the place, it was an open space on the river beach at the end of the street where Zhu Hao's laboratory was located.
Zhu Hao took Tang Yin into the laboratory and took out an iron box the size of two palms side by side. It looked very light, but Zhu Hao was very careful. Tang Yin urged Zhu Hao to walk faster several times, but Zhu Hao did not change his feet.
Frequency of.
Luo An saw Zhu Hao and Tang Yin walking slowly over and asked curiously: "What is this?"
Zhu Hao said: "Let's go to the open space first. You'd better stay away, otherwise something may happen..."
"Ha ha."
Tang Yin rarely laughed heartily, "Zhu Hao, is it filled with gunpowder? With such a small amount, I don't think anything will happen."
Several of the guards from the Imperial Guards Department who followed Luo An were also laughing.
Gunpowder is not uncommon in this era. Both Taizu and Chengzu relied on firearms to dominate the world and were invincible. In the eyes of these guards, the amount of gunpowder Zhu Hao could hold was at most a large two-piece.
Just kick your feet and explode with a "boom" and that's it.
Zhu Hao didn't explain much. He directly put the iron box on a raised mound in the middle of the open space on the river beach. He looked around and made sure it was far enough away from everyone before taking out the lead wire.
Roll after roll of lead...
Zhu Hao tried to be careful not to develop something, and it would not be fun if he got involved in the experiment.
A group of people were hiding behind a slope, about a hundred meters away from the explosion point.
Zhu Hao leaned over and lit the fuse and immediately ran to the back of the slope. Then a group of people watched helplessly as the fuse was getting closer to the iron box.
Tang Yin frowned: "Zhu Hao, what are you doing? Do you know that this little gunpowder can't do anything at all, you..."
"Shh."
Zhu Hao made a "silence" gesture, which meant stop talking nonsense and look down first before talking.
What Zhu Hao detonated ahead was nitroglycerin that he extracted from nitric acid and animal and vegetable oils. Zhu Hao had already passed experiments before and completely extracted concentrated sulfuric acid and concentrated nitric acid. He had no intention of researching any "weapons of mass destruction".
, just to prepare technical reserves for the production of special medicines for the treatment of heart disease.
But when thieves happen to be invading, it's still okay to bring something out... to cause trouble.
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A group of people are waiting boredly.
Someone wanted to stand up and walk to the mound to take a closer look, but Tang Yin called him back.
Although Tang Yin didn't understand the power of the thing Zhu Hao took out, looking at Zhu Hao's cautious look, if it was just a handful of gunpowder, it would be meaningless at all. What's the point of setting off a big firecracker?
The lead wire burned little by little to the gap in the iron box.
Because of its instability, nitroglycerin can be detonated by violent impact and heating. Zhu Hao simplified the complex process and built three glass bottles filled with nitroglycerin, filled with black powder around them to serve as detonators.
When everyone looked over with wide eyes, Zhu Hao shrank his head under the slope.
"boom……"
A loud noise came, and the ground shook violently with the loud noise. Even though Tang Yin and several guards who were watching the excitement were more than a hundred meters away from the detonation point, the huge vibration still shook everyone to the ground.
Shocked!
When several people looked over again, they found that the small raised mound at the explosion point had disappeared. Instead, a pit more than ten feet wide and half a meter deep appeared.
"What...what's going on?"
Luo An's face was full of horror, and he looked at Zhu Hao with confused eyes.
At this time, a group of people came from a distance. They heard a huge explosion and thought that meteorites from the sky fell to the ground. In shock, they rushed straight to the river beach with kitchen knives, fire tongs, poles and so on.
"Go away, let the government do its work!"
A guard stood up to maintain order, but he did not dare to go near the river beach for fear of an explosion later.
These people who came after hearing the news all lived in nearby residential buildings and had not witnessed the explosion with their own eyes. Naturally, they were unafraid. They quickly broke through the barriers of the guards and swarmed in front of the smoke-filled pit to watch the fun. They were also very excited.
Strange, why is there such a big hole in this open space?
Why is there smoke and steam inside, but no meteorite or anything like that?
Zhu Hao walked out from behind the slope, and Tang Yin and others followed him to inspect the scene.
Seeing a large number of people wearing official uniforms appearing, the crowd dispersed.
Tang Yin glanced into the pit and asked, "Zhu Hao, did you prepare gunpowder here in advance? Or..."
Zhu Hao said: "This is what I want to show my husband. Because it is too powerful and difficult to store after production, it can only be made for immediate use. And I am just a commoner. I dare not use it without permission from Prince Xing's palace."
This is such a dangerous thing, so I asked you, sir, to ask King Xing to see if this thing can be used to suppress bandits."
Luo An looked shocked: "How can it be so powerful?"
Zhu Hao smiled.
The equivalent of black powder is only 0.16, while that of nitroglycerin is 1.5, which is a ten-fold difference. And because the explosion speed of nitroglycerin is higher, it does not mean that a pile of ten parts of black powder can be equivalent to one part of nitroglycerin. This extremely powerful
Explosives...if used for fixed-point blasting, are enough to crack mountains and crack roads.
It's easy to blow up his camp and cause riots and even roars in the camp.