Chapter 64

Liu Zhongyong's words made Liu Bu silent.

Red cannon or red cannon?

Hongyi cannon is a kind of cannon made in Europe at the beginning of the 15th century a hundred years ago. It was introduced into the Ming Dynasty 20 or 30 years ago, also known as the red cannon.

The so-called "red barbarians" include the Netherlands and Portugal. Therefore, many people believe that the red barbarian cannons were imported from the Netherlands. In fact, at that time, all the front loaded smooth bore cannons imported from the West were called red barbarian cannons in the Ming Dynasty. Court officials often covered these cannons with red cloth, so they were falsely called red clothes.

According to textual research, only a small amount of Hongyi cannons imported by the imperial court at that time were imported from the Dutch East India Company. Later, due to the Taiwan issue, they had a bad relationship with the Dutch, and most of them were traded with the Portuguese in Macao. The imperial court had a huge demand at that time, and the Portuguese also acted as an intermediary to sell British shipborne cannons to Daming.

Most of the Hongyi cannons are about three meters long, with a caliber of 100 to 130 mm and a weight of more than two tons.

The earliest Hongyi cannons used in the battle of Ningyuan had an effective range of about 500 meters and a maximum range of less than 15 meters.

After that, it continued to improve, so that the effective range reached 1500 meters and the maximum range reached 2500 meters, which can basically cover the whole battlefield.

The Ming army achieved unprecedented success with the Red Army cannon. It hit the leader of JianNu, Nuerhachi, and almost killed him in the battle of Ningyuan.

How happy Huang Taiji, the second generation leader of JianNu, was when he got the red cannon. He went out of the camp for ten miles to welcome Kong Youde and the three of them, and named them Sanshun king, that is, the level of Prefecture king.

Many commanders and generals of the Ming Dynasty have made many contributions, but they have never made anyone a princess. Only after they die can they be made a princess. For example, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and Zhang Yu are all made a princess after they die.

The worst part of the Wuqiao mutiny was not that it slaughtered 300 Li and killed 100000 people, but that all the red cannon of the Ming Dynasty belonged to JianNu.

This means that all the cannons and Western technology introduced by Xu Guangqi and other reformers have been turned into nothing. This is equivalent to cutting a piece of meat from Daming and putting it on JianNu. How miserable it will be.

Liu Zhongyong was also aware of this. Once JianNu had a red cannon, the Ming army would have no advantage.

What's more worrying is that they not only got the red cannon, but also captured the craftsmen and technicians sent by the Portuguese at that time, that is, they have the ability to imitate the red cannon. Once JianNu succeeds, Daming will be miserable.

Now, when commenting on JianNu's combat ability, Liu Zhongyong added the factor of red cannon, and then raised their combat ability to a higher level.

What he said, Liu Bu, he had nothing to say.

This is true. JianNu without guns is so powerful. When they have red cannon, they won't fly in the future?

So Liu Bu felt a little heavy when he thought of these things. It was really hard. After cleaning the battlefield, they found that more than 400 bandits had been killed here, and all the rest had been captured. There were more than 470 prisoners alone.

All the captured bandits were tied with ropes and drove away to their Jufeng mountain stronghold.

They defeated the main force of Jufeng bandits in the first battle of yinxingpo. What they have to do now is to capture Jufeng mountain stronghold. After capturing the stronghold, they won a complete victory. They won the largest group of bandits in Laoshan area.

In Liu Bu's initial idea, they included Laoshan in their strategic idea. Laoshan is too big. It is hundreds of kilometers across, with high mountains and dense forests, dangerous peaks everywhere, and its back is close to the sea. If they can't carry it against the government, they can escape into the mountain. They can use the area of hundreds of kilometers of mountains and forests to carry out strategic guerrillas with the government, This is also a way.

Liu Bu and his men also followed the troops and ran directly to Jufeng mountain, but he had a horse to ride.

When they met at yinxingpo, it was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and then there was a fierce battle. After the fight, it was close to five o'clock.

Liu Bu immediately ordered Liu Ning to lead 500 soldiers as leaders. They trotted forward while eating dry food. Finally, they arrived at Jufeng stronghold at midnight.

Under the leadership of Guo Shan, the giant thieves went out to attack the Liu family mansion with all their strength, leaving only a small number of people here to defend.

When he crossed the mountain, he was confident. He was the only one who bullied people in this area. No one dared to move him. In addition, Goutou mountain and Beidou peak, which posed a certain threat to him, were attacked by Liu's servants, so he felt there was nothing to worry about. All the troops went to attack Liu's mansion. If they did, they wouldn't have to live in the stronghold, Directly moved to the Liu family's Fushan mansion, or lived in the Fushan office.

Jufeng mountain is behind a mountain pass. It's very steep and steep. The other side built a stronghold close to the mountain, which has the potential of one man holding the pass and ten thousand men are invincible. However, it's midnight here, and the defense is empty. After Liu Ning's troops quietly touched it, they directly touched into the stronghold, killed the sentry and opened the gate of the stronghold, More than 200 people poured into the stronghold, caught the remaining bandits one by one, killed them tenaciously and bound those who surrendered.

They successfully occupied the stronghold, and Jufeng mountain fell into their hands. Jufeng mountain is a good card. They used his fame to attack Jimo County before.

They also have a plan, that is, once they win, they will keep the name of Jufeng mountain. If the government embarrasses them, he will use the name of Jufeng stronghold to fight back against each other and deal with their government. Therefore, Jufeng stronghold is very important here.

Only after taking Jufeng stronghold can they play the game of soldiers on their left hand and thieves on their right hand, and then compete with these big men in Shandong.

You should know that although they are not within the system, they are powerful roles, but they can fight against Governor Chen YingYuan of Dengzhou. As long as Governor Chen YingYuan embarrasses them, they can send them to deal with Chen YingYuan.

At midnight, Liu Bu and Liu Zongyong led the remaining main soldiers to Jufeng mountain and entered Jufeng stronghold.

Because they successfully captured the mountain stronghold, there was nothing to hide. They lit a torch and entered Jufeng mountain stronghold with great fanfare, becoming the master of Hurricane mountain stronghold.

Liu Ning led the soldiers to meet him. He said, "congratulations to the general. Congratulations to the general. Jufeng mountain has become something in the general's bag."

He drove all day and night, which was equivalent to driving in the middle of the night. He was very tired and very hard, because he was OK. At least he had a horse to ride. Most of his men still walked over, and his shoes were worn out.

However, it was not easy to ride a horse. The skin on both sides of his thighs was worn out, sour and tired, and the whole person had to fall apart. However, he was still supported by a strong will and said, "really take it down. Are you sure there are no bandits hiding in the mountain?"

Liu Ning said: "the small ones have been searched several times before and after, and they have questioned the sentinels. The main people have gone out, and the rest have fallen into our hands. Now there are no bandits on the mountain. We have detained dozens of bandits up and down, but my Lord, I have something to show you."

Liu Bu said, "what do you want to show me?"

Liu Ning took them to the back mountain. There is a cave here. There are more than ten sentinels at the door of the cave. They saw Liu Bu and saluted at attention.

Liu Ning took them in. When they looked inside the cave, they were shocked. It turned out that there were hundreds of women squatting in the cave. Most of them were ragged and haggard. They were very embarrassed. When they saw Liu Bu coming in, they looked frightened.

Liu Bu said with a gloomy face, "what's going on?" in fact, he had almost guessed what had happened.

Liu Ning said to him, "I've been interrogated. They're all killed by heaven. Feng Feng sent his bandits to the nearby countryside. This is the brothel in Jufeng mountain. When the bandits are all right, they come here to deal with these poor women."

Liu Bu looked at the haggard faces and frightened eyes of the women. He couldn't bear it. He withdrew.

Liu Bu was very angry about this matter. Not only Liu Bu was indignant about this kind of thing, but also the hundreds of officials around him were very angry. They hated and scolded the bandits one after another: "it's heartless and inhuman."

Liu Zhongyong was upset when he saw these women. How to arrange them became a big problem.

Liu Bu said, "they were robbed by robbers. Their families should be very worried. They will arrange some tolls to let them go home as soon as dawn tomorrow."

Liu Zhongyong said, "it's not so simple. Although it's said that these women were captured by robbers, they all seem to have lost their virginity. The people in their family should be ashamed. They won't want them anymore. Instead, they hurt them."

Liu Bu couldn't believe it. He said, "how could it be? His woman couldn't keep it and was kidnapped by others. He didn't blame himself. Did he blame the woman?"

Other people looked at it with strange eyes. They all felt that the adult's thoughts were different from the mainstream of the contemporary society. How could they jump so much and be so different?

Liu Bu ordered, "Liu Kang has arranged to send the woman back early tomorrow morning. If there is no place to go, please arrange to do some washing and tonic work and raise chickens and ducks in the stronghold?"

Liu Kang said loudly.

Liu buta said: "At present, we can only do this. We are not unscrupulous bandits and bandits. We can't do it like giant peak bandits. These people are sent home. If the people in his family don't want it, they can stay in the stronghold or Liu's farm and give them a meal. I didn't expect these bandits to be so damn and unscrupulous. See how I deal with them tomorrow!"

Liu Bu was so angry with these bandits that he decided to clean up these people tomorrow.