This firearm workshop is the largest workshop under the Liao Kingdom Gunpowder Bureau. It looks like an ordinary courtyard. It is surrounded by open spaces, with vegetables planted, and the walls are very high, which looks a bit old. But after entering, I realized that there is another world. After entering the gate, there are wing rooms on both sides. Craftsmen have to change their clothes before they can continue to enter. No craftsmen are allowed to carry fire. Violators will be executed.

When I walked into the inner courtyard, I found that this was a huge yard covering an area of ​​at least ten acres, including the front yard, the middle yard and the back yard, and there were two warehouses on the left and right. One was a gunpowder warehouse, which stored various raw materials for making gunpowder, and the other was a firearm warehouse, which stored various finished products. However, a large number of firearms were not stored here, but were placed in the military warehouse, where some samples were placed here.

At present, the firearm workshop is led by Chen Da and Chen Er and ten high-level Han craftsmen to make various firearms that are urgently needed here.

As soon as Li Yanqing walked into the front yard, Chen Dashou greeted him and smiled mysteriously: "I'll show you something for the governor,"

“What is it?”

"Please follow me!" Chen Da did not answer, but took Li Yanqing to the gunpowder warehouse.

The gunpowder warehouse is composed of five houses. The room is very dry and a thin layer of dust has fallen. Chen Da pushed open the innermost room, "It's here!"

Li Yanqing walked into the house. The house was very wide, at least sixty square meters, narrow from east to west and long from north to south. There were more than a dozen rows of iron racks inside. All the iron racks were filled with dark, flat and round objects, which looked like big pumpkins.

"This is"

Li Yanqing looked at this familiar object and was a little stunned. Isn’t this just a thunderclap?

Chen laughed and said, "These are all shells of the thunder. I was shocked yesterday. Later, I asked the gunpowder maker and found out that the Liao Kingdom was also developing the thunder. They were actually imitating the thunder in the Western Xia, but they have not succeeded yet."

Li Yanqing picked up a thunder shell weighing more than 20 kilograms. He patted the iron shell and made a bang sound. Li Yanqing asked, "Where hasn't succeeded? Is it an iron shell not possible?"

"No! No! The iron shell is completely qualified. Beizhi has carefully identified it. It is exactly the same as our thunder. They just don't know the gunpowder formula. They have been trying it repeatedly in the past two months. It is almost successful, but Yanjing was captured by us."

Li Yanqing secretly felt lucky. If the Liao army had developed a thunder that was shocking before the city was broken, the result would probably be different. There was also a gunpowder formula dedicated to the emperor Zhao Ji, who was forgotten by Zhao Ji and left it high. If he had handed it over to the military weapon supervisor to create new firearms, he would have been obtained by the spies of the Liao Kingdom. Then the outcome of the Liao Kingdom's battle would probably be different. By mistake, various mistakes led to the Liao Kingdom's missing the most sharp firearm in the world.

"How many iron shells are there in total?"

"There are 500 of them in total. The Liao Kingdom built them a month ago, and the gunpowder was successfully prepared."

"How is the gunpowder situation?"

"The gunpowder has been made up, and the quality of the nitrate is OK, which is slightly worse than the nitrate of the Beijing Gunpowder Bureau. I'm afraid it's not possible to make iron fire thunder, but it's absolutely OK to make a thunder in the sky."

When Li Yanqing came to the Intermediate Court, he saw Chen Er and ten gunpowder makers sitting at a large table, busy preparing gunpowder. Each twenty kilograms were added to a paper bag. Li Yanqing grabbed a handful of nitrates and looked at it carefully. The nitrate was about the size of a sesame seed, which was indeed a little larger than the nitrates of the Beijing Gunpowder Bureau. The uniformity was not enough, but overall it was pretty good.

Li Yanqing turned around and asked, "How many thunders can we make today?"

"It can make about a hundred pieces."

Li Yanqing also knew that the gunpowder workshop could not be fired, and it was not operated at night. He thought for a while and said, "Then make a hundred pieces first! We will continue after dawn tomorrow, and strive to make another fifty pieces before noon tomorrow."

Chen Da pondered for a moment and said, "If it is urgent, there is no way. We will first prepare gunpowder, and then change the place to fill the medicine with a fuse, so that we can hang large lanterns in the yard. We will be busy all night tonight and strive to make two hundred by dawn tomorrow."

Li Yanqing was overjoyed, "If this is the case, then please!"

Zhong Shidao was not only the commander of the three armies, but also the temporary prefect of Yanshan Prefecture, but Zong Ze was responsible for the specific government affairs. Since Zhang Shuye and Liu Wei had returned to the court to start negotiations with the Jin Dynasty, Zong Ze had to take charge of logistics and military affairs and government affairs, which made him extremely busy.

In the afternoon, Yue Fei quickly walked out of the official yamen. He is currently serving as the military officer. Zong Ze also gave him full responsibility for the search for spies from Jin Kingdom in the city.

Outside the official yamen, Wang Gui smiled at Yue Fei and said, "I thought you were in the military camp and ran to the military camp to find you. Your colleague said you were in the provincial yamen, and I rushed over again."

Yue Fei smiled and said, "This time, the commander is planning to recommend you as the sixth-rank Zhaowu Captain for your contribution. Congratulations!"

Wang Gui was overjoyed, “Really?”

"I read the draft, it's true. Niu Gao's is a little worse. The general recommended him as the seventh-rank Zhiguo Captain, but it's not bad."

Wang Gui was extremely happy and hurriedly said, "Do you want us to have a drink to celebrate?"

Yue Fei shook his head, "Be careful, kid! The general has just issued a war preparation order. If you dare to drink, you will be seen by the military judge. If you are the sixth rank, you will fly away."

"It's not like going to drink, we're going to have tea, so it should be fine!"

"One other day! There are too many things today."

As soon as Yue Fei said this, a civilian with a couple looked like a couple ran over and said nervously to Yue Fei: "Are you going to catch spies from the Jin Kingdom?"

Yue Fei nodded, "Do you have any clues?"

"Our family opened an inn. There were more than a dozen people living in a month ago. We always thought they didn't know each other, but yesterday they found out that they were actually a group of people, but they just pretended not to know each other."

"Did they stay in the hotel at the same time?" Yue Fei asked again.

"No! No! They all come to stay in the hotel at different times."

"Where is he now?"

"It's still in our inn, but they seem to be ready to leave."

Yue Fei thought about it and said to Wang Gui: "Agui, can you do me a favor?"

Wang Gui waved his hand readily, "No problem, I'll help you catch people."

“But it may be insufficient.”

"There are as many people as you want. Wait, and I'll be back soon."

Wang Gui ran back, and in just a moment, he brought more than 300 soldiers and rushed to the front and smiled, "If you still think there are fewer people, I will go to the military camp to drag you a thousand people."

"Enough! Enough! Let's go."

Yue Fei picked up a spear and ran to the city with everyone. In just a moment, they arrived at an inn, a two-story small inn. Wang Gui waved his hand, and Dutou immediately led a hundred soldiers to the back door.

The inn shopkeeper whispered: "They all live on two floors, and the left row is all."

As soon as he finished speaking, a sharp arrow shot towards the shopkeeper from the window on the second floor. Yue Fei was quick-eyed and swung his spear. With a sound of "Dang!", Wang Gui was furious and kicked the door open and rushed towards the second floor. Yue Fei was very anxious and hurriedly chased after him, "Agui, don't kill them all!"

There was a sound of shouting in the inn, and the soldiers rushed in, and there were a sound of shouting in the inn. Soon, there was no sound in the inn.

Wang Gui pulled a man out of the inn, and Yue Fei also caught one. Except for these two, the remaining dozen bodies were transported out of the inn by soldiers.

Although these people are brave and good at fighting, they are far from being the opponent of Wang Gui and Yue Fei. Especially Yue Fei's shooting skills are superb, assassinating most people, leaving behind two survivors. The soldiers stepped forward to tie the two survivors, then blocked their mouths with rags, and covered their heads with black cloth bags. Yue Fei then said to the shopkeeper and his wife: "Let's go back and you can come to the state yard to receive a reward, one thousand taels of silver, not one or two taels will be missing."

The shopkeeper and his wife were very grateful and thanked each other repeatedly. Only then did Yue Fei ask the soldiers to take the two back to the state yamen for interrogation.

...........

Night fell quietly, but the city was still busy installing various weapons on the top of the city, mainly catapults and fire cannons. Before that, the Liao army had installed some catapults and fire cannons, while the Song army needed to install all the weapons in the warehouse in place.

The trencher is not a giant trencher, it can only be considered a large trencher. It is 100 feet high and 50 feet long, and the throwing pole is 30 meters long. It can throw 50 kilograms of stones away two hundred steps. The predecessor of the fire cannon was a stone cannon. It was originally used to shoot stones and was a powerful tool to deal with enemy nest cars.

However, after the popularization of firearms in the Song Dynasty, fire cannons were mainly used to shoot thunderbolt cannons, while another weapon was used to deal with nest cars, that is, the fierce oil fire cabinet, which is a fire-breathing weapon. There were also five pieces on the top of Yancheng City.

However, the most sharp weapon of the Song army was the thunder and the Thunderbolt Cannon, which replaced the Thunderbolt Cannon. In addition, the Iron Fire Thunder is also a sharp individual firearm.

On the top of the city, Li Yanqing silently stared at the Jin soldiers camp in the distance. In history, the Song army did not fight with the Jin soldiers. I wonder if this battle would become the beginning of the Song and Jin countries tearing up the alliance and entering the beginning of a full-scale war.

"What are Yanqing thinking?" Zong Ze appeared beside him and asked with a smile.

Li Yanqing hurriedly bowed and said, "I am wondering if the Jin Kingdom will attack Song Kingdom in full swing?"

Zong Ze walked up to look at the Jin soldiers camp in the distance and said, "Wanyan Yanxi has not yet been destroyed and is eyeing the Yinshan area. Once the Jin Kingdom and the Song Dynasty have a large-scale war, he can take the opportunity to retake Xijing. The Jin people will not do such stupid things, and the Xixia has not been conquered. There are still many things they have to do. This time it is just a test of each other to gain capital for the next negotiations between the two countries. If the Jin Kingdom really wants to invade Song, it will be a few years later."

Li Yanqing secretly admired Zong Ze's vision. In history, it was indeed a few years later that the Jin Kingdom began to attack Song. Li Yanqing asked again with a smile: "I heard that Yue Fei captured the spy of the Jin Kingdom today?"

"It was Wang Gui who told you! Thanks to his help."

Zong Ze smiled and said, "There are a total of 16 spies from the Jin Kingdom. They plan to cooperate with the Jin soldiers to seize the city. However, they were originally dealt with the Liao Kingdom, but there must be brave men under the heavy reward. They sold them for one thousand taels of silver. This transaction is very cost-effective no matter how you look at it."

"Will they plan to siege the city tonight?"

"They probably have no plans yet, but the soldiers searched the Song army's armor in their room. It was probably because they wanted to pretend to be the Song army and participate in the battle to defend the city, and then look for opportunities to cooperate with the Jin soldiers to seize the city."
Chapter completed!