Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 753 Will you kill me?

   Taikang eighth year in early December.

Even in the southwest, the weather was quite cold. Li Xin was wearing a leather robe at the moment. He was with Ye Mao on the Chenglou in Hanzhou City, watching the army of the imperial court gradually approaching from outside the city. .

   Mu Ying, dressed in iron armor, stood behind Li Xin and took a deep breath.

   "I'm afraid... 20,000 to 30,000 people will attack the city this time."

  Li Xinxin took a few glances in the telescopic mirror, and let out a white breath.

   "There are 30,000 people, but the city of Hanzhou is not big, it is impossible for these 30,000 people to climb the city wall at the same time."

   said, Li Xin looked back at Mu Ying.

   "Can you hold it?"

   "In a short time, there is no problem."

   Mu Ying said solemnly: "It's just the stones on the city wall, the supplies like rolling oil, I'm afraid it won't last too long."

Li Xin narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "Pei Jin sent so many people in one breath, obviously he is in a hurry, this time he will most likely attack the city with the most violent attack, Brother Mu, I need you to help me defend. three days."

   Mu Ying heard the words, patted her chest, and said with a smile: "Since Hanzhou was surrounded, the Mu family has been making preparations, and there will be no problem for three days."

  Li Xin said slowly: "Defending the city for three days is a careful guard."

   "On the first day, we went to fight as normal, how to fight and how to fight. If there is anything on the city wall, just throw it down. It is best to beat these imperial troops and make them fearful."

Seeing that these imperial troops were approaching, Li Xin continued: "But starting from the second day, the wall can no longer be thrown down on a large scale with boiling oil, stones and gold juice and the like, even arrows. , and put less."

   Muying thought about the meaning of Li Xin's words for a while, then nodded and said, "My subordinates probably understand what Lord Hou means!"

  Li Xin said solemnly: "The most dangerous thing is that when defending the city on the third day, Brother Mu must pretend that the supplies in the city are exhausted, and he will not be able to defend it, and he must barely defend Hanzhou City."

   Mu Ying hesitated.

   "In that case, the Hanzhou Army will die a lot."

   Li Xin's face was calm, and he said slowly: "If you don't do this, more people will die. Brother Mu must believe me."

Mu Ying nodded heavily, and was about to speak, when he saw that the people outside the city had already rushed over, he took a deep breath and gritted his teeth: "Master Hou, I'll go to defend the city first, the city wall is dangerous, I Let someone take you down!"

   This time, Li Xin did not hesitate, and simply retreated from the city wall.

   Not long after he stepped down from the city wall, he heard the screams of killing from behind him. Li Xin had no expression on his face, and he rode his Moli horse and walked towards a manor in the city.

Soon, he lived on the horse at the entrance of the manor and walked in. It was far from the city wall, and the sound of shouting and killing outside was not very real. After walking a few steps in the manor, he saw a man resting in the middle of the garden. Lin Hu.

  The Marquis of Jing An walked behind Lin Hu and smiled slightly.

   "Huzi, is your injury better?"

When they entered the city together that day, Li Xin killed five or six people with his sword, while Lin Hu shot and killed nearly twenty people with his ox-horn bow. He opened his feet dozens of times, and when he entered the city, not only were the fingers of his right hand full of blood, but his arms were shaking.

   If he continues to fight, his right hand may be useless.

   After a few days of recuperation, his hands were much better. After hearing Li Xin's voice, he stood up from the seat and lowered his head to Li Xin.

   "Brother Xin, there is nothing serious."

   He stretched out his right hand, which was covered with white cloth, and said with a smile, "The pain is gone for two days."

Li Xin sat down opposite him, then stretched out his hand to signal Lin Hu to sit down as well. The two sat face to face. Li Xin first checked the injury on his right hand and found that there was nothing serious, then he was relieved and slowed down. Slowly said: "Huzi, you can start dispensing."

  Lin Hu's face changed slightly, then he was silent for a while, and said, "I see."

   The so-called dispensing is the dispensing of gunpowder.

Gunpowder was made by Li Xin in his hometown Yongzhou as early as the first year of Taikang, but what he made at that time was just a prototype, both in terms of power and practicability, it was very poor. During the period, when Li Xin really used this thing, he just relied on a large amount of dose to forcefully blast the city gate of Mianzhu.

But since then, Li Xin has also realized that this thing may be of great use in the future, so when Lin Hu returned to Ding You three years ago, he taught Lin Hu the recipe and gave him a group of people to let him At home, he was studying the most powerful mix of gunpowder, while studying how to actually weaponize gunpowder.

   Of course, Li Xin will provide Lin Hu with some general ideas for weaponization, but it is still up to Lin Hu to do it himself.

In the past three years, in addition to being filial to his father, Lin Hu was thinking about the things that Li Xin arranged for him. It took him about a year to study the ratio of the most powerful gunpowder. Years later, in the seventh year of Taikang, an earth bomb about the size of an adult's fist was transported thousands of miles away to the Marquis of Jing'an.

   That night, someone in Yonglefang heard that there was a faint sound of thunder in the Jinganhou mansion. Later, Jingzhao mansion went to the Jinganhou mansion to investigate, but it died without a problem.

  Since then, Li Xin has an extra trump card in his hand, but he has been holding this card in his hand and has no use for it, nor does he want to use it.

To this day, among the more than 100 people in Yongzhou, Lin Hu is the only one who knows how to mix gunpowder. The "earth bomb".

   This earth bomb was called "Tian Lei" by Li Xin.

To this day, apart from the Tianlei that Taikang sent to the Marquis of Jing'an in the seventh year, Lin Hu has no more than ten Tianlei, and Li Xin has none. Said to be a serious peace lover.

   But now, this kind of thunder has to come out on a large scale.

This situation, when Lin Hu was called out of Yongzhou by Li Xin, he had already thought of it. At this time, the child of the hunter who grew up in the mountains, after looking left and right to make sure that there was no one around, he looked deeply. Glancing at Li Xin, he said, "Brother Xin, are you going to be the emperor?"

   Li Xin let out a breath.

   "Huzi, you have a high opinion of that thing. The first time you take it out, you may be able to surprise, but relying on it alone, you can't conquer the world, let alone become an emperor."

   Lin Hu muttered: "But you can do it, Brother Xin."

   "You didn't rely on this thing to get to where you are today. If you have ambitions, it is not impossible to be an emperor."

   Today's Lin Hu, who has been with Yulinwei for five years and has seen the world in the capital, is nothing compared to the hunter who was brought out from his hometown by Li Xin eight years ago.

   Li Xin reached out and patted his shoulder: "Don't think about it so much, just go get busy."

   "In a few days, Tianlei will be famous all over the world. Remember that you can't tell anyone about it. You will prepare this kind of medicine powder, otherwise it will be a recipe for disaster."

   "The more than 100 people under your command, you must also keep an eye on them, and you cannot leave any of them, or you will dispense powder, and soon everyone will know."

   Lin Hu first nodded, then glanced at Li Xin.

   "Brother Xin."

   He took a deep breath and asked, "In the future, will I die because of thunder?"

   He asked if Li Xin would kill him because of this.

   Lord Jingan smiled.

   "If I'm the kind of person who kills at will, I can find someone to do your job. If it's a big deal, I'll kill you later. There's no need to involve you in it."

   "We are brothers who grew up rolling in Qishan together."

   Li Xin's face became serious.

   "Huzi, I believe in you, that's why I gave you this most important errand."

   "Because, in this matter, I can't trust anyone else...anyone."

   (end of this chapter)