After the marriage, the cousin was spoiled by the whole family of the Marquis's Mansion

Chapter 133: Transporting Gunpowder

As soon as Ji Yunzhang changed his clothes and walked out of the tent, the soldiers in the camp started running.

He was pushed by the military leader to pack up his weapons.

In the last tent of the camp, in addition to boxes of weapons, there were five cannons and several boxes of ammunition.

Ji Yunzhang's eyes darkened. The cannon that Da Qi had spent several years and a lot of money to make was now easily copied by the Western Jin Dynasty.

The Western Jin Dynasty had no iron or gunpowder, so where did these come from? They were all handed over to us by Prince Qing!
The other two soldiers saw him staring at the cannon in a trance and said, "Bayan, you have never seen this big thing before."

Ji Yunzhang came back to his senses and turned to look at them again, his eyes full of confusion. He shook his head.

A soldier with a longer face put the scattered weapons on the ground into the box and said, "The people of Daqi are really smart. They can build such a powerful big guy."

Another bearded soldier sneered, "What's the use? You just have to deliver the goods to me."

"Mr. Mu helped us debug for a few days. When the Khan tested the explosion that day, I was the one who operated it."

"The cannon fired so hard that my ears were almost deafened. It was really powerful. Those 300 sheep were blown to pieces!"

Ji Yunzhang's pupils widened. No wonder Muchun seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.

It turns out that he had already hidden in the Western Jin Dynasty!
The soldier with the long face chuckled twice, "The Khan said that Daqi will be our territory in the future. I want to marry two women from Daqi and take them home to herd sheep for me. I heard from Lord Tuge that women from Daqi are the most beautiful. The sound of their voices can make you itch to the bone!"

The other bearded soldier looked at the long-faced soldier and also laughed.

Perhaps the two of them laughed too loudly, which attracted the military leader.

The military leader, with a cold face, kicked the bearded man who was still unaware.

The bearded man fell to the ground and landed in the mud.

"Don't you understand what I'm saying? Hurry up and leave! If you make any mistakes, you'll have to go see the Khan with your head on your shoulders!"

The long-faced man immediately fell silent.

The military leader waved his hand, and immediately soldiers came over carrying a bunch of things that looked like leather but not leather.

The military leader pointed at these things and said, "Put everything away, and then blow up these air bags."

After the military leader finished speaking, he left the tent, leaving behind only two soldiers with pale faces and Ji Yunzhang who seemed to be in deep thought.

The airbag is made from whole cowhide, which is dehaired and degreased, tanned and then sun-dried.

Sew the cowhide belly together, tie the four legs and neck tightly, and leave only a hole at the tail for blowing air.

After inflating the cowhide airbag, tie the opening tightly and tie four or five cowhide airbags together to form an airbag raft that can carry people and cargo.

If we follow the regulations of Daqi, with one camp for a thousand people, there would be at least seventy or eighty camps here.

Such a small airbag raft is definitely not enough to save people.

His eyes fell on the cannon. The inflatable raft was used to carry the cannon.

As night fell, thick fog slowly covered the land of the Western Jin Dynasty.

Torches were lit in all the camps.

If you stand in Fengqing, you can clearly see the strange scene here.

But Feng Qing on the other side of the river was silent.

There is only one possibility, that the Western Jin Dynasty has already occupied Fengqing.

The military leader led a team of a hundred men to carry out all the weapons and cannons in the tent.

The waves on the river bank were very strong. If you were a smaller person, you might be blown away.

As he got closer, Ji Yunzhang discovered that a rope as thick as a baby's arm had been stretched across the river at some point.

The air bags they inflated in the afternoon were tied together in two layers, top and bottom.

The raft was pushed into the water, one end tied to the raft and the other to a rope.

Several people worked together to lift the cannon onto the raft. The raft slowly sank, just enough to carry the cannon.

After fixing the cannon on the raft, the military leader gave an order and the team of a hundred men tightened the ropes at the same time, and the raft carrying the cannon actually moved forward automatically.

Ji Yunzhang looked carefully and found that there was another thinner rope on the rope. The pulling of the thin rope drove the raft to move.

The military leader immediately pointed at Long Face and Big Beard and asked them to jump onto the raft and escort the cannon across the river.

Seeing this, Ji Yunzhang wanted to follow.

The military leader stopped him and said, "Bayan, you have never been there before, so just keep an eye on the gunpowder."

Ji Yunzhang gritted his teeth and had to agree for the time being.

It took nearly an hour to deliver one cannon, and by the time all five cannons were delivered, it was almost dawn.

The long-faced man and the big-bearded man who came back on the raft were exhausted.

When they got off the raft, their legs and feet went weak and they both fell into the water.

The two were dragged up in a hurry.

There was still a box of gunpowder and several boxes of weapons that had not been delivered.

A group of soldiers pulled the ropes all night, and all of them were exhausted. The army leader frowned and said, "It's too late. The army must cross the river today. Weapons can be carried across the river after they are distributed, but gunpowder cannot be carried across the river. We must deliver it now."

Ji Yunzhang, who had been guarding the gunpowder box, stood up immediately.

He pointed to himself.

The military leader frowned, "You can't swim, no."

There were few lakes in the Western Jin Dynasty, so almost no one knew how to swim.

Ji Yunzhang immediately demonstrated a swimming posture to show that he could do it.

The military leader immediately frowned, "Can you?"

Ji Yunzhang remembered that General Cheng had said that the lake near the city of Kulemeng in the Western Jin Dynasty was called Sai'er Lake. He immediately pretended to be anxious and made the shape of Sai'er Lake several times.

The military leader understood now, "You learned to swim in Lake Saier."

Ji Yunzhang's beard was very thick, so the military leader couldn't see his expression clearly. He could only see his very bright eyes.

"Okay, you go."

As he spoke, he solemnly instructed, "The gunpowder must not be wet!"

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Ah Xiu wrinkled her little nose, "It smells good."

Haitang took a bite of the lamb leg and said, "No, your father's cooking skills are still as good as ever."

Little Ah Xiu shook her head and pointed outside, "It's the smell outside."

Rong Peilan's eyes narrowed. Ah Xiu's nose was unusually sensitive, and she could smell whoever was coming.

"A Xiu, have you ever smelled those smells?"

Ah Xiu covered her nose with her hands and frowned, "No, it stinks!"

"It stinks even more than the sheep farmer in town!"

Rong Peilan suppressed the uneasiness in her heart, put down the dishes and chopsticks, and urged the two children to hurry back to the tunnel.

"Hurry, Amu, take your sister and hide."

Amu's eyes flashed with panic, and he grabbed Rong Peilan's hand, "Sister Lan, let's hide together, it's very wide down there."

He fears.

He was afraid that Sister Lan, who was as good as Sister Tong, would also be killed by bad people.

Rong Peilan touched Amu's head and said, "Be good, they won't hurt us. You guys hide first, someone will come to rescue us soon."

Just as the two children were settled, there was a knock on the door.

Wan Lie's face was calm. "Miss, please pack your belongings. If the situation changes, I will take you across the river to Xijin tonight."

(End of this chapter)