In the morning, the sun was shining brightly, and a group of prisoners were wearing armor and slings in a small town in the remote suburbs of Hanshan.

They were death row prisoners and were originally unforgivable, but now the government has given them a chance to come here, wear armor, remove shackles, and compete with soldiers with wooden weapons.

If the prisoners who win the competition can be spared from death, they will serve in the army and serve the government, and like other soldiers, they will have the opportunity to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions and climb up.

Among the prisoners, Xu Qi was already well-armed and tidied up his belt. He looked honest, but in fact he was thinking about how to escape.

He has a lot of skills, so he doesn't think that the competition will lose later, as long as the opponent cannot be too strong.

Although he had to join the army after winning the martial arts competition and had the opportunity to kill the enemy and make meritorious progress, Xu Qi was unwilling to be a dog for others. After joining the army, he must find an opportunity to escape.

More than a year ago, he came to Hanshan with the intention of joining the army and making achievements and entered the new recruit camp of the military palace.

But the military discipline of the Xuzhou army is extremely strict. People are in it and are controlled strictly, which is not much different from being imprisoned. Xu Qi can't stand it: The new recruits are like this, and will it be even more uncomfortable to be controlled if they become soldiers?

Moreover, the organization of the Xuzhou army was different from that of other troops. After careful consideration, Xu Qi found that there was no chance for him to form a small team in the Xuzhou army.

Because the Xuzhou Army implemented a system of sergeants in charge of military personnel, sergeants at all levels were in charge of military personnel, and ordinary people had no way to win over the village party and companions and formed gangs.

So even though the military camp had good food, he still left the recruit camp on excuse and stopped his idea of ​​joining the army.

Then he fell into trouble and started a business with a group of like-minded heroes, blocked the road and robbed people, killed people and robbed people, and was free and happy.

Soon, Xu Qi became the leader of the gang through various means, and led his subordinates to wander around, attacking the business and doing whatever he wanted.

In less than a year, I made a lot of money by relying on this uninvestable business and played with many women, but it was much better than working hard as a soldier.

However, the good times did not last long. Under the encirclement of the government hawks and dogs in Xuzhou, his gang suffered heavy damage one after another. At the end of the road, Xu Qijin was imprisoned.

He had a very life on his hands, so he had to die. He had thought of escaping in prison, but could not find any flaws.

Now, there is a chance. He won the competition and became a soldier, and he has the chance to escape.

We continued to gather a team and kill people and rob, but this time we were going to be far away from Xuzhou.

After a while, the thirty-five prisoners were all wearing zithers, armor, holding short wooden sticks or knives, shields, and shackles were also untied, and they walked forward along the passage between the two railings.

Passing through a yard gate, we came to a yard.

There are high walls around this yard, and once the door you enter is closed, there is no way out.

A prisoner stood on the high wall in front (north) and directed the prisoners to stand on a horizontal line drawn on the ground, forming a horizontal line.

Then he pointed to some ladders on the wall under his feet and whispered: "First competition, climb, climb here!"

"The five people who came up finally were eliminated, and the others entered the next round of competition!"

"Start now!"

As soon as the words were finished, the prisoners rushed forward and rushed to the wall, rushing forward and climbing the ladder, and the prisoner on the wall was gone.

Then a whistle sounded, and several objects suddenly stretched out from the top of the city wall, like a common barrel.

Before the prisoners came to their senses, they saw one end of these barrel-shaped objects facing below, and then bloomed like flowers, and a large number of flames fell like raindrops.

The prisoners caught off guard were shrouded in fire and the flames fell on their bodies. Somehow, they couldn't stick to them and continued to burn.

The man tried his best to slap the flame, but after the palms touched it, it was stuck on the flame and burned on the hands.

The more it flutters, the more fires become, and the prisoners are lit into firemen, howling and falling from the long ladder to the ground, and wailing on the ground.

Xu Qi was not spared. He caught fire on many parts of his body, and his face was stained with sticky things, and there were flames.

The hot tingling feeling came, and Xu Qi covered his face in pain and rolled on the ground.

This is not a competition, you are going to torture us!

Xu Qi shouted in despair, but the pain in his body made him have no time to curse the government. The skin on his body seemed to have been stripped off. The severe pain made his head blank and he only knew how to struggle.

Amid the heart-wrenching wailing sounds, the burning smell of meat began to spread, making people feel nauseous.

At the top of the city wall, Jia Cheng looked at the tragedy on the ground and remained indifferent.

Now it is a weapon test. What he wants to do is to look at the killing effect of the test weapon "turtle oil barrel". As for experimenting with living people...

Sorry, you bunch of scum is not qualified to be called human.

Jia Cheng knew that the group of death row prisoners in front of him were not ordinary "murderers". The other party was a robber who killed people and robbed people and liked to kill victims.

The outrageous behavior of catching a pregnant woman, bet to guess the gender of the baby in her belly, then cut off the body alive, or peel the skin alive.

They also forced their relatives to kill each other, even forced their father and daughter, mother and son to have sex in public, and then abused and killed them.

These scums are no longer just killing people for money, but for perverted stimulation, torture and killing victims for fun. They are all inhumane evil spirits.

Therefore, if you are not qualified to die quickly, you are only qualified to be the test subject of various experimental weapons. The best destination is to burn only the residue.

There were several people next to him holding pocket watches and recording books, making notes on the experiment. Jia Cheng explained: "When the flames disappear, clean up."

"Check the wound, record the injury, and see how many days the person who is burned to varying degrees can last."

Everyone agreed, and Jia Cheng turned his attention back to the "testing ground".

More than half of the "people" stopped struggling, and it seemed that they were burned to death. The remaining ones were still twitching, and I don't know how long they could last.

There is no doubt that the "flame barrel" with the new fuel "coal paste oil" has a good killing effect.

Jia Cheng lowered his head and looked at a glass bottle in his hand. The bottle was filled with a black and viscous liquid called "Coal Paste Oil".

Coal paste oil is refined coal paste, while coal paste is the product of coal coking.

Coal paste is a black liquid with a little sticky viscosity and can be ignited, so it can be used as fuel for arson.

Xuzhou produces coal, iron, and coal after it is refined into coke, which is an excellent fuel for iron smelting, so Xuzhou iron and coal mines produce a large number of coking by-products - coal paste every year.

Jia Cheng and his technicians conducted research on coal paste and found that the coal paste obtained from refined coal paste is also flammable, but extremely viscous, like a paste, and it cannot be shaken off when it sticks on.

The burned coal paste and oil cannot be extinguished with water, and will always burn out. The more you beat it, the more sticky it will be everywhere.

Therefore, coal paste oil is an excellent arson fuel, and it can be used as a defensive weapon to make it into various special arson weapons.

Because the output of coke is extremely large, coal paste and oil pipes can be used as general fuel or as defensive weapons.

A large number of defensive weapons were distributed to military farm settlements to assist military and civilians in military farming to deal with the enemy's siege.

Jia Cheng has followed Li Li for more than ten years and has been in charge of industrial matters for the sake of troubled friends. Now he is in charge of the official workshop in Hanshan.

Although he did not go into battle to kill the enemy, he used another way to share Li Li's worries and solve his problems.

The wailing disappeared, and it seemed that there was no one who survived.

The new flame barrel is directed to fire, with a large number of charcoal particles wrapped in viscous coal paste oil burning and splashing out, splashing into the enemy group like rain of fire. Its power is unexpectedly good.

The experiment is over and the scene is about to be cleaned. Jia Cheng did not forget to tell: "When the fire is exhausted, clean up the scene and pay attention to someone who pretends to die."

......

The newly cultivated wheat fields have been harvested and look empty and flat, blending with the surrounding wilderness, and are now constantly being trampled by war horses.

Dozens of cavalry rushed to a fortress surrounded by wheat fields, with Liang flags flying on them, and men, women, young and old holding weapons and guarding the walls.

They looked at the enemy cavalry outside, and their faces turned pale, but they tried to calm down.

At the same time, the Qi cavalry looked at the fortress with a solemn expression.

This is a military settlement in Liang State. It is said to be a "zha", but the one that is not a woodenzha, but more like...

It is like a rammed earth fortress, generally square, but the four corners have horn towers that are protruding outside, as if they are enemy platforms, and archers are on them, and they can attack those who climb the wall.

The fortress is very high, no less than three meters high, and looks at least three stories high. The first and second floors have no windows and have eaves on the top, like a war shed.

Men and women looked out from the window under the shed, but the window was not big.

There are ponds about ten steps away from all four sides of the fortress, and the pond is about twenty steps wide, like a trench protection trenches.

There are small doors on both sides of the north and south, and there is a bridge in front of the door to pass through the pond, but the bridge board has disappeared, leaving only bare piers.

The whistling Qi cavalry circled around the fortress, looking left and right, and had no idea how to start.

The wheat fields that the other party has reclaimed have been harvested long ago, and no farm tools or livestock are left behind. All the people hid in the fortress. The soldiers of the Qi army could not do anything they wanted.

But I saw wars rising from the fortress, warnings to the distant settlements.

Along the way, the military farms and settlements of Liang Kingdom all looked almost the same, all square and high-walled fortresses, with beacon towers inside and ponds outside.

The settlements were crowded, densely packed, warning each other with war, like dogs in the village, one dog barked, and soon all the dogs barked.

It is now autumn, and the Qi army heads south and raids a large area of ​​military farmland in the northwest of Xuzhou.

The Qi army cavalry bypassed the dense ponds around Shanfu City, like hungry wolves, pounced on the settlements in the southeast of the farms, but found it difficult to get started.

When they attacked, the Qi soldiers heard that the settlements in this area were all fat. After attacking, they were shocked to find that these settlements were all hard and difficult to chew, and there was not even a bit of meat residue.

Looking at the towering fortresses, they felt strange: These fortresses are everywhere, and it may take a lot of financial resources to build them?

Where did the Liang Kingdom get so much financial resources? It took so many military fortresses to build in half a year?

"Go ahead and keep going south!" Someone shouted, calling his companions to continue moving forward, "make them restless!"
Chapter completed!