Chapter 132 Liu Hui Niang: If the Flying God Thunder is still there, how can it capture me?
Chen Xizhen and his daughter were trapped and died in Yuanbi Village, but Cao Jie didn't care much.

If they cause chaos in Yizhou, wouldn't they attract the attention of the government? Then it would be perfect for Liangshan to continue to survive and develop slowly.

As for Chen Xizhen's request for amnesty and an alliance with the government to fight against Liangshan, the court would not issue an amnesty unless they had fought for three years and beaten their brains out.

Without the ability to capture a provincial capital, the imperial court won’t even look at you.

Putting aside the fact that Yuanbi Village was caught in the chaos of war, Ruan Xiaoer, Shi Xiu, Deng Fei, Lu Fang and the persuaded Lin Chong went to the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun after the spring.

There were only six people who stayed in Yizhou: Cao Jie, Gongsun Sheng, Chao Gai, Ruan Xiaoqi, Liu Tang and Shi Qian.

That day, the six of them kidnapped Liu Guang.

"The Outlaws of the Marsh" says that he was the reincarnation of the Five Thunder Courtyard Lord of the Guangzong Lei Mansion, and had two sons, Liu Qi and Liu Lin, and a daughter, Liu Hui Niang.

Cao Jie really doesn't care about Liu Guang and his two sons.

You said that you are the reincarnation of the True Lord of Thunder, so does that mean you are the reincarnation of the True Lord of Thunder?

Then Ruan Xiaoqi is the reincarnation of the King of Hell!

is it?

Maybe, maybe not, it’s just that he has acquired some skills and his soul is a little special.

But Cao Jie was extremely curious about Liu Hui Niang, wondering if she really had the ability of Huang Yueying in the late Han Dynasty.

"Hey!!! I opened this mountain and planted this tree. If you want to pass through here, leave some money for passage! If you say no, I will kill you with a knife!"

Liu Tang stood in the middle of the road with a machete in his hand and shouted loudly.

Liu Guang was feeling depressed as he sat in the carriage, but when he heard the loud shout, he perked up. He thought to himself that he was unlucky as he was robbed by bandits.

He was afraid that his two sons would act rashly, so he immediately got out of the carriage and clasped his fists towards Liu Tang, saying:
"I am Liu Guang from Linyi. I have been a chief clerk and have made friends with many heroes from different mountains. May I ask which mountain the hero is the king of? Here is a silver note of three hundred taels, which can be exchanged in the city. I hope you will give me some face and let my family go."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Liu Tang burst into laughter: "Liu Zhubu, it's not that we don't want to let you go, but you have committed a crime!"

"What have I done wrong?"

Liu Guang was silent for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said, "The governor has already dismissed me from my post, but you are not going to let me go?"

"Is Liu Zhubu prepared to fight to the bitter end?" Liu Tang asked curiously when he saw his two sons each holding two maces.

"My whole family is here, don't force me!"

"I want to see what you are really capable of. If you two boys can withstand three blows from Grandpa, I will spare your lives."

After saying that, Liu Tang stepped forward with his shakuhachi legs and rushed over at great speed.

The ordinary machete in his hand swept through Liu Qi and Liu Lin's troops.

The two men raised their double maces, and were suddenly pushed back by the violence.

"Ha ha……"

Liu Tang strode wildly and swung his sword. The brothers Liu Qi and Liu Lin turned pale. The shock of the sword sweeping across their bodies had already made their arms numb. They felt as if their whole bodies were hit hard by a sledgehammer. Their blood was boiling and their faces were red. The knuckles of their hands were broken and bleeding.

How could he be a match for the Red-haired Demon?

He gritted his teeth and raised his double maces to receive a powerful vertical blow.

His legs went weak and he fell to one knee on the ground, his arms draped limply at his sides.

"It seems like you can't block Grandpa's three sword strikes! Liu Zhubu, why don't you also block one strike?"

Liu Guang's mouth twitched, and he said with a bitter smile: "You are a man of many talents, why do you have to make things difficult for my family? I have been in a war recently, and I don't have much money. I only have three thousand taels of silver notes and a box of jewels. Take them all."

"Today, Grandpa is not only going to rob money, but also people..." At this time, a female voice like a silver bell came from the middle carriage: "It is better for the good man to take the silver and go away. Don't ruin your life because of greed."

"what!"

Liu Tang raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "I guess you are the third daughter of the Liu family! It is you that Grandpa is robbing today..."

At this time, a black iron pipe stretched out from the door curtain of the carriage and pointed at Liu Tang.

"This is a sudden musket. If you are a brave man, you are not afraid. There are still a swarm of bees in my carriage. At worst, we will die together."

In "Wujing Zongyao" written by Zeng Gongliang and Ding Du, the musket and the swarm of bees can be regarded as the ultimate application of gunpowder in this era.

At the same time, these two things were known for being unreliable. There were countless cases where muskets were unable to fly out due to poor cast iron or were blown off, and ended up hurting their own people instead of others.

"Clap clap clap..."

Cao Jie clapped his hands and walked out of the woods with everyone else, saying with a smile: "Since Miss can play with these killing weapons, we can't let you go."

In a flash, Chao Gai took a step forward, and with his palm as big as a cushion, he violently smashed the carriage into pieces and captured the young girl.

Cao Jie looked at Liu Hui Niang, who was very graceful, like a lotus just emerging from the water, and was so beautiful that it was hard to describe her beauty.

But her expression was a little frightened and her face turned pale.

Shi Qian quickly searched all the carriages and only found a musket on Liu Huiniang's carriage.

Cao Jie had seen the arquebus before. This thing was used as a hidden weapon by many soldiers. It was like a large firework. The sparks it sprayed out had no purpose at all. Because the casting process was not up to par, it injured itself more often than it burned the enemy.

But this musket seems different, at least the casting process of the barrel is much higher quality.

"Will it explode?" asked Cao Jie.

Liu Hui Niang gritted her teeth and said nothing.

Cao Jie fiddled with it for a while and then fired a shot at a tree trunk ten meters away.

There was a "bang" sound.

The waist-thick tree was hit by a solid iron bullet, leaving a deep hole the size of a baby's fist.

"It's not that powerful! I'll teach you how to increase the range and power of the musket. For example, you need to find the right ratio of gunpowder, carbon, nitrate and sulfur, and then granulate them through a special process...

Granulated gunpowder burns much faster than powdered gunpowder and is moisture resistant...

Oh! I can’t teach you so much.”

Liu Hui Niang listened to half of what he said, and after thinking for a while, she finally asked with her cherry lips: "Why is granular gunpowder better than powdered gunpowder?"

"Because it burns faster!"

“Why is it burning faster?”

"Because combustion requires oxygen, the granular form can be exposed to more oxygen..."

"What is oxygen? How do you granulate powder? What is the best formula for gunpowder? Why ..."

"..."

Are you one hundred thousand whys?

Cao Jie had a blank expression on his face and did not explain further.

"Humph!"

"I see that you only half understand, half a bottle of water..." Liu Hui Niang raised her chin proudly: "If my flying divine thunder is still there, you thieves will never be able to capture me."

(End of this chapter)