In addition to requisitioning weaving factories and establishing temporary military clothing factories, Huo Bao also remembered a big event.

Gunpowder formula with simple grenade.

Artillery became a "magic weapon" used by the imperial court's soldiers. Wouldn't the Chuzhou Army suffer a big loss when it comes to the cold weapons?

As for the circulation of thermal weapons, what negative impacts on the world, Huo Bao doesn't care about it for the time being.

After all, thermal weapons were not created by him, and they were founded in the Tang and Song dynasties.

In the Battle of Fancheng in the previous dynasty, the fifth general also relied on the combination of firearms and cold weapons to resist the Daning army and guarded Fancheng for many years.

But weapons are secrets, Huo Bao did not say it in front of the civil servant Song Lin.

If the king does not lose his country secretly, the ministers do not lose his body secretly, and the few things are not secretly responsible for harming him.

When Song Lin left, only his uncle and nephew were left in the room. Huo Bao said: "Uncle Six, there are only twenty cannons flowing out of Yangzhou City, so they must have kept more than this number..."

The Chuzhou Army now has the advantage in its military strength, but it only wants to attack Yangzhou City, just to worry about this.

"There are also firearms in Suzhou and Hangzhou... Maybe there are also firearms..." Huo Bao said.

Not to mention Suzhou, just talk about Hangzhou. The Qichun army distributed grain and land all the way, which made the people return to their hearts, but was vulnerable to the imperial court's suppression of the rebels and had to withdraw from Hangzhou. If there were no firearms here, the winner would not be so quick.

The counter-rebels not only had firearms, but should also be very wealthy.

Otherwise, it would be like the Shandong army surrounding Bozhou in half a month, but it would not attack because of limited artillery.

It is useful to tackle small cities like Dingyuan County, but it is not useful to tackle big cities like Bozhou.

Even if the Chuzhou Army now has twenty-one cannons (two outside Dingyuan County, ten from Chushan County, and nine from Lingshui County), the cannons today seem like consumables. If they shoot twice in a row, there will be a certain probability of blowing up the chamber three times.

When the leader of the village heard this, he was also worried, but comforted Huo Bao: "Don't worry, the range of firearms is limited... All the generals will go, it will not be your father's turn to charge into battle!"

"Uncle Six, we can't always expect good luck. Do we want to find a way to restrain the firearm?"

"Huh? What's the solution for Xiaobao?"

"My nephew knows the black powder formula!"

“…”

The head of the village looked serious and walked directly to the door of the house. He looked around and saw that there was no one, so he turned around and entered the house.

"real?"

"Um!"

"It is recorded in the "Fifth Army"?"

"...No, but the Fifth Army recorded three methods of making firearms: caltrops, thunderbolts, and thunder!

Speaking of this, Huo Bao couldn't help but regret it.

When he was reading a book, he was thinking about when he could find a way to get these things out.

However, the Chuzhou army was weak at that time and lacked weapons, and even had iron spear heads and iron arrows, let alone doing anything else.

Now in Jinling, weapons can be developed.

"Haha! I am worthy of being a famous general in history!"

The eyes of the Mazhaimaster were glowing.

As a southerner, he grew up listening to the legend of the fifth handsome man, so the leader of the Ma Village naturally heard of these firearms.

Fire caltrops are small individual firearms, thunder cannons are powerful weapons to attack cities and defend cities, and thunderstorms are powerful weapons to attack cities.

The leader of the village was walking back and forth, rubbing his long face: "This is done, but the secret weapon of our Chuzhou Army... is just a serious relationship and must be trusted..." Speaking of this, he looked at Huo Bao with hesitation.

Huo Bao's heart moved: "Uncle Six wants to use a leopard?"

The most important thing in the firearm barracks is the gunpowder formula that Huo Bao knows.

The leader of the village himself did not ask about this matter, but just wanted to keep it confidential.

There are not many people who can get the full trust of Huo Wu and his son and the Ma village master, and the Hu Bao brothers are among them.

But Huo Hu is dull and has no choice but to be good at the battlefield, not a common man. The only person who is most suitable is Huo Bao.

The leader of the village nodded and said, "The most suitable candidate is him... but he will be drawn and you will lose your arms..."

Huo Bao shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter what. Child soldiers were responsible for recruitment before the New Year, not anything else..."

Except for the old subordinates of Tang Guang, led by Qiu Wei, the Tong Soldiers were all direct descendants built by him, so there was no need to leave Huo Bao and divide the direct descendants of the direct descendants.

The leader of the village thought for a while and said, "There is no need to choose another place, just choose a place in the Navy's Office... The formula of gunpowder is just to give Huo Bao one person and also to get an assembly line. The most important thing is to let Huo Bao one person operate it!"

Huo Bao agreed.

The so-called black gunpowder formula is "one nitrate, disulfide and three charcoal".

If you only prepare these three materials, it will be easily deciphered.

It’s good to be in the Navy’s Office, but the military camp there is on the river.

You can choose three or four other "materials" to confuse the situation. When you finally process it, you can sprinkle it directly into the river, which can also cover up your eyes and ears.

...

Huo Bao did not delay. After leaving the Ma Village Master, he directly called someone to call Huo Bao and explained the matter.

Huo Bao experienced the Battle of Dingyuan and saw the power of artillery, so he was very excited when he heard this.

"You have to think about it. You have to go there and you won't be back in a while!"

In addition to fabricating black gunpowder, the firearm barracks will also start to make fire caltrops, thunderbolts, and thunderstorms according to the records in the "Fifth Army".

Huo Bao looked at Huo Bao with a little reluctance, but he said firmly: "Even if I am not under Uncle Bao's command, I am also Uncle Bao's nephew... Who else can I give this to besides my nephew..."

Speaking of this, he paused and said, "It is possible that even Uncle Qing and Uncle Niu Er can take out the kung fu, but my nephew is not relieved... Such a killing weapon can only be controlled by our Huo family..." The last sentence lowered the volume.

Huo Bao said: "Then who do you plan to take over the job now?"

The child soldiers were three points in the battle, Hou Xiaoming led the left wing, Huo Bao's central army, and Qiu Wei's right wing.

Regarding the conscription tasks left by Huo Wu, Huo Bao planned to let Hou Xiaoming be responsible for the territory of Jinling Prefecture, Qiu Wei be responsible for the territory of Taiping Prefecture, and Huo Bao was responsible for the Zhenjiang Prefecture that had not yet been captured.

However, according to the plan, the Chuzhou army almost captured Yangzhou within ten days and went to attack Zhenjiang.

The Central Army was later than the other two, and it was not long.

Huo Bao thought for a while and said, "Wu Yuan, Shi San are good, but Liang Zhuang is a little worse... He can't stand alone yet, but his qualifications are still here, so let him follow me to the firearm camp!"

Only in this way can we make room for the Central Army, otherwise Liang Zhuang's qualifications will be here, and Wu Yuan and Shi San will come here behind him.

Huo Bao agreed with Huo Bao's statement, but it was also difficult to decide between Wu Yuan and Shi San.

"Will you all take the deputy commander then! Take people to Zhenjiang to recruit soldiers separately, and the person with good grades will take the commander!" Huo Bao suggested.

Huo Bao thought briefly and said, "Only Mr. Feng was the only one who was on the road to Zhenjiang. The manpower was not enough. That is, they were going to Zhenjiang to recruit soldiers. Then they would set out tomorrow, and they could still help Mr. Feng!"

After all, this crew is a warrior, and its command ability must be verified on the battlefield.

...

The next morning, Huo Bao summoned the heads of the child soldiers to discuss matters in the side hall of the Taiwei Mansion.

Huo Baogao sat on the Grand Master's chair in the hall, looked at the heads of the child soldiers who were sitting on both sides of the geese wings and said, "The Grand Master's Mansion will draw personnel to form the 'Shenji Camp', Huo Bao and Liang Zhuang will leave!"

Huo Bao and Liang Zhuang quickly stood up.

Huo Bao said: "You two selected 3,000 troops and formed the 'Shenji Camp', Huo Bao was the acting battalion commander, and Liang Zhuang was the acting battalion deputy!"

"Ode to the Lord!"

Huo Bao and Liang Zhuang responded in unison.

The others looked at each other in shock.

Everyone has never understood what "Shenji Camp" is. It is only if Huo Bao, the relative of the Huo clan, is responsible, must be a major place.

It was only before the Children's Barracks that the three-point soldiers were clearly identified, each with its own numbers, namely "Black Wolf", "White Falcon" and "Green Snake".

Now that the commander of the "White Falcon" unit and the deputy commander are vacant at the same time, who can make up for it?

Except for Hou Xiaoming and Qiu Wei, the others had bright eyes.

Li Yuan then looked at Zhu Qiang, and both of them were helpless.

Others have the chance, but they don’t have it.

One of them was a staff battalion and the other was a logistics battalion. After going to the war barracks, there was no room for play.

Zhu Qiang looked at Shi San.

Shi San's acting battalion commander was obviously an overworked job.

His combat power has always been good.

Huo Bao also looked at Shi San, looked at Wu Yuan again, and said, "Shi San, the acting battalion commander of the new recruit battalion, and Wu Yuan, deputy commander of the left wing, came out!"

Two people left the list.

Wu Yuan's eyes were shining, and Shi San was a rare feeling.
To be continued...