Poor family mother and son

Chapter 1061 Six Days Later

six days later.

On other people's territory, it is basically impossible to guarantee the timeliness of one's own news transmission. Therefore, when the people of Voss heard the news of victory from the Daxuan border and rushed into Kyoto by six hundred miles, they were so shocked that they could not speak.

good news?Are you fighting?Who gave the order to start the fight? !
King Voss' eyes scanned the members of the mission like hawks. They were all representatives of various tribes, but they all knelt down to express their innocence, and even made the most poisonous oath.

in the palace.

The postman was Tan Ma under General Pei at the border. The young man was not tall, very dark and thin, but his whole body was as hard as cast iron.

It's just that no matter how tough a person is, he ran non-stop for five days and six nights, and he was very weak. He collapsed to the ground as soon as he reported: "My lord, the people of Voss have retreated!"

Xu Nianping stepped forward and picked him up from the ground like tearing off the tape. Eunuch Li gently persuaded him: "I know you really want to rest, but don't rest now, the emperor is still waiting for your reply!"

This is a military situation, how can the emperor wait for you to report when you have had enough rest?
Seeing that Tan Ma's mouth was full of skin, it could be seen that he was extremely thirsty, so Eunuch Li turned his head and called to the apprentice outside the door: "Hurry up and bring a bowl of hot ginseng soup!"

The little dowager listened to her orders and turned around and ran away. Eunuch Li followed up with another sentence: "One more bowl of brown sugar and millet porridge! Pass it to the imperial physician!"

The other two young eunuchs turned around and ran away.

After explaining to his apprentice, Eunuch Li continued to comfort Tan Ma: "If you persist, the soup will come right away. Don't worry, I will give you a lot of tonic. Even a woman who collapsed after giving birth will be guaranteed to make it up for you!"

Tanma: ...

Xu Nianping: ...

emperor:……

He was tired from exploring the horse, and his throat was smoky, but he was very excited, and he didn't want to go down to rest now, so he raised his hand with difficulty, trying to pull it into his arms, but his arms and hands didn't obey, and he grabbed the whip all the way The reins were already numb.

Xu Nianping simply reached into his arms, took out a cloth bag, and opened it. It was half of fresh ginseng, which had been bitten.

Tanma licked his lower lip, Xu Nianping hesitated: Can this thing be eaten directly?But seeing Tanma's eyes staring at him, he handed it to him.

Tanma took a big bite, took another big bite, closed his eyes and took a breath, and his voice came out like gravel: "I'm alive!"

Then struggling to reach out to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the army of Voss...hehe, hehehehe..."

Emperor: This man... what's wrong!
Eunuch Li: Aren’t you tired and crazy?Why are you giggling?
Xu Nianping had already raised his hand, ready to give Tan Ma a slap in the face, for a person who is generally insane, if he slaps hard, he can almost slap him back.

Tan Ma still kept laughing, but insisted: "The emperor forgives the sin, but...hehehehe, you should be happy to hear it!"

Happy?The emperor thought, then you can wait, don't worry, and ordered: "Give me a seat!"

The little eunuch over there not only brought ginseng black chicken soup, brown sugar and millet porridge, invited the imperial physician, but also called in two guards in front of the palace.

As a result, the detective enjoyed treatment that even their generals did not have—the little eunuch fed him soup, the imperial doctor took the pulse, and two guards helped massage his arms and legs after he was done.

A quarter of an hour later, the soreness of the muscles probably eased a bit, or maybe it was the effect of chewing raw ginseng, Tan Ma pulled it away before finishing the porridge, and knelt down again: "Your Majesty, the little one has recovered...

Your Majesty, the servants of the Marquis of Linyang brought in five hundred cannons with five hundred men recruited from Linyang County;

The servant said, let us, General Pei, send out [-] soldiers, in groups of two, to be in charge of one cannon, and to fire shells into it in turn;

Our general Pei wanted to deal with that servant by military law, isn't this too sloppy?Where to set off firecrackers during Chinese New Year?
But the servant ran up to the top of the wall and operated it himself... I saw him ask someone to set up the cannon, and then he gave a thumbs up to the people of Voss, just like that..."

The Tanma gave a thumbs up, gestured as if he wanted to give the emperor a thumbs up, and continued: "The muzzle of the cannon is pointing at the sky, and then put the shells in!
When it's over, just 'Ding! ' Then the shell fell to the bottom, we didn't understand what was going on, and more than three miles away, 'boom! With a sound, we will see a circle of dust and smoke rising from the ground when it is over! "

The emperor sat up straight at once: "How far? Say it again!"

Tan Ma: "San Li Duo! It's amazing! Our generals say it's amazing!"

Emperor: "How about casualties?"

Tan Ma: "No one was hurt, there is an open space over there! Your Majesty, Voss soldiers and horses are camped ten miles away, but every day thousands of people are sent to our city to throw stone bombs, saying it is training soldiers;
If we scolded hard enough, the stone bullets they threw would be mixed with gunpowder bullets. Although they couldn't hit the city wall, they would often shake the city wall. "

Emperor: "What are you generals doing for food!"

Tan Ma immediately defended their general: "Your Majesty, you can't blame our general. The general has not received an order, so he can't send troops without authorization!"

Eunuch Li sweated for him: Who led this soldier? He's so gutsy, so fat!If you dare to say that in front of the emperor, do you know that if the emperor gives the order, your general will die?

The emperor didn't think much of it, and angrily said: "The Voss dropped bombs, and it's not like you don't have guns, so why don't you fight back?"

Tan Ma looked aggrieved: "Your Majesty, our 'heartless cannon' is really heartless!
When it was snowing, not only would it fail to ignite the fire, but even if it managed to ignite, it would be a waste of sending gunpowder packs to others, and that thing would not explode at all!

Let the people of Voss pick up hundreds of gunpowder bags for nothing! "

The emperor was even more angry: "They can blow up, why can't yours be blown up?!"

Tan Ma was even more aggrieved: "Then how do I know? Even our general can't understand;
But later I realized that the gunpowder of the Voss is either packed in a stone shell or in a jar, which is not easy to get wet. Our gunpowder bags are all wrapped in cloth, which is easy to get wet;

That's why our generals don't dare to waste gunpowder packs any more. They just disassemble the gunpowder packs in advance, dry them out and repack them;
But if you want to dry it, it takes a lot of work. If it is hot, it will be fried.
Use it for several days at a time, use it for several days at a time, and you won't be able to hit anyone after it's over! "

Emperor: "Why can't you hit anyone?"

Tan Ma: "That thing is less than two arrows away at the farthest. When the Voss saw us put the gun on the mount, they turned around and ran back!

Besides, there was no order to start a war, and we dare not really hit him!
But the two sides keep going back and forth like this every day, and no one can hit the other, but our city is full of stones!

People stole the stone back in the middle of the night, and then threw it with a trebuchet the next day;

But when they came to transport stones at night, we shot some of them with bows and arrows, and they were all under the wall, so why not shoot them?What if it climbs up?

But as soon as they were killed and wounded by our arrows, they immediately threw gunpowder bombs at us! "

(End of this chapter)