different devil life

"Tell me what's going on." Wang Zhong nodded to Sun Jitian.

"This time we came back with cloth from other provinces, and it was the same way as before, but this time, three masters came, and they all covered their faces. I could barely deal with it."

"Is it Ma Dahu's gang of bandits?" Wang Zhong asked.

"Ma Dahu is also here, but he is not my opponent at all. I doubt we know each other among the three masters this time, so they all covered their faces."

"Three brothers from the Zhao family!" Sun Xiuxiu gritted her teeth!

There are three brothers in the Zhao family, the eldest is Zhao Shouzheng, the second is Zhao Shouyi, and the third is Zhao Shouqiang. They are all martial arts practitioners.

However, these three people are not as good as Sun Jitian in terms of force. If they are added up, it is not necessarily the case.

"A few years ago, Zhao Shouyi and Zhao Shouqiang were studying martial arts abroad. Could it be that they are back?" Sun Xiuxiu said.

"They hurt Jitian now, and they will definitely hide for a while." Wang Zhong thought for a while and said, "But it doesn't matter, I have a way to deal with them."

In the days that followed, the Sun family stopped importing cloth and only managed their own advantageous industries.

Wang Zhong has been at home these days, no one knows what he is doing, only saw crates and crates of firecrackers being moved into the house.

Blacksmith Huang, a former villager, also sent iron pipes owed to Wang Zhong. He brought a total of ten iron pipes. In addition, Wang Zhong asked other blacksmiths to make iron pipes of different lengths, and he moved them all to his home.

No one knew what he was doing, only some servants of the Sun family heard the sound of 'bang bang bang' coming from the yard from time to time.

The sound is so loud that it scares people every time.

It was rumored that the son-in-law of the Sun family started to have no business. He only knew how to play firecrackers and let his wife take care of everything.

After half a year, Sun Jitian's injury finally stabilized and he was able to get out of bed.

And Wang Zhong finally designed something he was satisfied with, the flintlock gun!

That's right, these days, he has been designing a murderous weapon, a flintlock, and some people call it a musket.

He had thought about this idea in the year after the disaster. After the disaster, the common people were in dire straits, thieves rose up, murders and robberies occurred in many places, and refugee riots occurred in places farther away. Some local warlords took advantage of the chaos to establish themselves as kings. , The corrupt and incompetent court has no time to manage.

The body in this life is too weak. In order to protect himself, Wang Zhong thought of a gun. With a gun, he can easily deal with horse thieves like Ma Dahu without any effort.

So he asked blacksmith Huang to build the main body of the gun, the iron pipe.

Because he also participated in the design of muskets in Dalong Chao, so he knows how to make this thing.

After the iron pipe was manufactured, because there was no modern industry, he could only choose a flintlock gun with bullets and gunpowder separately. Although it was troublesome, it was actually quite useful as long as it was operated skillfully.

Wang Zhong remembers that in the 18th century, the main weapon used by Western expeditions was the flintlock gun. First, gunpowder was stuffed into the tube, and there were small iron beads in the mouth. Then pull the trigger.

The firing pin hit the flint, the spark ignited the gunpowder, and small iron balls were shot out.

Therefore, the flintlock gun can also be regarded as a shotgun, because the bullets fired are scattered.

This is much easier to use than the musket barrels in ancient my country. The reason why muskets in ancient my country have not been fully developed is because the aiming rate is too low, but if the bullets are scattered, it will completely solve the problem of poor aiming.

The disadvantage of the flintlock gun was that besides the trouble of loading it, it also had a short range. It was only effective at a range of 40 to [-] meters, but this was enough for Wang Zhong.

Manufacturing these flintlock guns is actually not that easy. In terms of materials, gunpowder, flint, and barrels are all available, but small objects such as firing pins are more difficult.

Therefore, Wang Zhong asked the craftsmen to design and polish a lot of time before they managed to produce dozens of them.

After this period of time, his yard has also been transformed into a place for blacksmithing.

But the effect is also gratifying. He assembled a total of 58 flintlock guns, ten of which are short-barreled flintlock guns, and the rest are rifle-like flintlock guns.

"Very good, the next step is to train them how to use it." Wang Zhong went to Sun Jitian's place immediately to discuss his next plan to go into the cloth himself.

Chapter 14 Personal Escort

"Have you heard that the son-in-law of the Sun family, Wang Erping, is said to be escorting Sun Jitian to a neighboring city in person?"

In the lobby of the Zhao family, Zhao Shouqiang said as soon as he entered the room.

Inside the house, Zhao Wu, the father of the three brothers, was sitting in the high hall, with Zhao Shouzheng and Zhao Shouyi sitting on both sides.

Zhao Shouzheng sipped his tea and said with a smile: "Since Sun Jitian's arm was cut off by the three of us more than half a year ago, the Sun family's cloth business has plummeted. Now it seems that they can't keep it going, and they are going to take risks and continue."

"Hey, Sun Jitian ran away last time, and this time he even killed that Wang Erping." Zhao Shouyi said coldly, "I've dealt with the two men from the Sun family. I'll see how a woman like Sun Xiuxiu can fight us."

Zhao Wu smiled: "Get up quickly and report to Ma Dahu, but remember, don't let anyone see your appearance, so as not to alarm the government."

"I know my father."

The three brothers left quickly.

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"Master, this journey is far away, you must be careful."

Sun Xiuxiu held the child, looked at Wang Zhong who was sitting in the carriage and said worriedly.

"Cough, cough, cough..." Wang Zhong coughed a few times. He spent so much time researching and developing flintlock guns these days that his health deteriorated a lot.

"Lady, go back and take good care of your son. At night, remember to let the guards move around more, so as not to be attacked by thieves."

"Well, listen to my husband."

"Okay, let's go!"

Wang Zhong got into the carriage.

"Stand up!"

The groom swung the rope, and the carriage drove out.

This time, Wang Zhong and Sun Jitian led a total of five carriages and three large flatbed carts, followed by more than 20 people as guards.

Many passers-by frowned after watching this battle.

Everyone knows that there are a lot of thieves outside these days, and usually when some big families go out to escort the darts, they always bring a lot of people, at least three or forty people.

But this time, the Sun family only brought more than 20 people.

The Sun family is gone! ! !

Everyone was emotional, but they also prayed that the Sun family would be fine. After all, the Sun family had a good reputation in the county, and everyone didn't want anything to happen to them.

No one noticed that after Wang Zhong and the others left, a young man quietly left after counting the number of people.

Fifteen days later, Wang Zhong and his convoy finally got a batch of goods in other provinces and started to return. They came to a forest they had passed before, and the convoy stopped here.

There was no way, just in front of them, a big hole appeared. If the carriage wanted to pass, the big hole had to be filled.

Sun Ji got off his horse and came to Wang Zhong's carriage: "Erping, the front is where thieves often haunt."

Wang Erping got out of the carriage, coughed a few times, and looked around.

The surrounding was very quiet, but it was just because it was so quiet that it made him vigilant.

"Everyone be alert." Wang Zhong warned, walking to the edge of the big pit: "This big pit has just been dug, I'm afraid we are being targeted."

"What?" When the coachmen heard this, they looked around in horror.

"Hahaha, Wang Erping, I always thought you were a nerd, but I didn't expect you to be smarter than Sun Jitian."

At this moment, there was an arrogant laugh, and a group of people on the left and right suddenly emerged from the grass and surrounded the carriage in the center.

There are fifty of these people in total!

Before and after, more than ten people appeared. Obviously, they were surrounded.

Four people rode out from the woods slowly. One of them turned into ashes and Wang Zhong knew each other. It was the horse thief boss Ma Dahu who killed him and Chen Yu in the second game. The boss died, so he became the boss of the horse thief logically. He has been doing well in the past few years, and he has gained weight.

On both sides of Ma Dahu, there were three people with their faces covered. They could be guessed without looking at Wang Zhong. They were probably the three brothers of the Zhao family.

Sun Jitian walked out with a big knife, pointing the knife at the three masked men and shouting: "Take off the mask if you have the ability, you are a hero if you cover your face."

Ma Dahu sneered, "We don't need to be heroes, just killing you is enough."

"Prepare!"

Just when the group of horse thieves were about to kill them with their sabers, Wang Zhong gave an order, and a group of guards suddenly took out a long barrel that was almost as long as a saber.

These people quickly stuffed gunpowder into the tube, and finally stuffed marbles into it one by one.

This scene made Ma Dahu a little confused. What's the situation, if you don't take the weapon, what are you doing with this kind of pipe?

But before they could react, Wang Zhong himself took out a flintlock gun. After loading it, he aimed at the nearest masked man and shouted, "Let it go!"

When the simple trigger made of wood was pulled, the sound of "bang bang bang" gunshots sounded, and white smoke filled the sides of the shooters.

"Ah ah ah..."

The thieves were shot and fell to the ground. Ma Dahu was shocked to find that his men fell to the ground one by one. Even several horses fell to the ground for no reason.

Ma Dahu and the three masked men were also hit by stray bullets and fell to the ground because they received intensive care.

Although these people were only injured and fell to the ground, stray bullets had already been shot in their bodies, and these people had lost their ability to move.

"What is this?"

"Why do I have a hole in my shoulder, who can tell me why."

A person called out in horror.

Wang Zhong remained expressionless and shouted, "Reload!"

"Evacuate, evacuate!"

Ma Dahu was in a hurry. In the blink of an eye, almost half of his people fell down, and he and the three brothers of the Zhao family were injured. What a fart, so he waved his hand and wanted to leave.

How could Wang Zhong let him go so easily, shouting: "Let go!"

"Bang bang bang..."

The gunshots sounded, and Ma Dahu was beaten into a hornet's nest on the spot. After they fired a few shots, the surviving horse thief walked away and gave up hunting.

After all, the rest of the people are mobs, and they can't make any big waves.

"Erping, I didn't expect your invention to be really useful. It's much more useful than my kung fu practice to kill people."

Sun Jitian was very excited.

Holding a gun, Wang Zhong walked up to the three masked men, "It's time to see who these three are."

"Don't kill us, I... I'm from the Zhao family." Zhao Shouzheng took off his mask: "I'll give you money, let me go."

"go to hell!"

Sun Jitian held a big knife and stabbed at these three people.

"what!"

There was a scream, and the three brothers of the Zhao family died.

"Victorious, we beat the thieves away."

"Hahaha, this is the power of Master Wang's flintlock."

The guards held their flintlock guns one by one, shouting and excited.

Chapter 15

The news that the horse thief was exterminated by the Sun family spread quickly.

At first, the people in the county didn't believe it. After all, Ma Dahu had been entrenched in the mountains around the county for decades. The officers and soldiers had organized several times of manpower, but they didn't even see anyone.

But when Ma Dahu's body was hung on the city wall, everyone believed it.

What made everyone even more surprised was that beside Ma Dahu's body, there were still three corpses of the Zhao family brothers.

The Zhao brothers are fellow horse thieves!

The news spread like wildfire and spread throughout the city.Everyone pointed their fingers at the Zhao family.

"It's no wonder that Ma Dahu hides every time the government sends troops. It turns out that it was the Zhao family who tipped off the news."

"Down with the Zhao family, down with the Zhao family."

"Since the Zhao family brothers are accomplices, their father, Zhao Wu, must know that he must be an accomplice as well."

The people all speculated that the government did not dare to neglect, and the county magistrate Yu Qing immediately sent officers and soldiers to surround the Zhao family.