Rebirth of The Deer and the Cauldron, Wei Xiaobao Becomes a God

"The Ryukyu army put up a fierce resistance the day before yesterday. More than half of our troops were killed or wounded, with more than 2,000 killed in the battle. Another 3,000 wounded soldiers returned to the expeditionary force base outside the city to recuperate." said Sergeant Gou Bi.

"The casualties are still quite heavy. Didn't the Tokugawa shogunate send reinforcements?" Wei Xiaobao asked.

"The King of Ryukyu has fled to Yaeyama, a hundred miles away. We still have 5,000 soldiers in our army now, and the general plans to recruit soldiers from the ronin to replace the 2,000 who died. After the wounded are healed, we will have a complete dispatched army again, so Genmu does not need to send in reinforcements." The little leader replied.

After listening to Goubijun's answer, Wei Xiaobao had a general understanding of the military situation in Shuri Castle.

Currently, Shuri Castle has 5000 combat troops, plus 2000 ronin, a total of 7000 people, while they only have one regiment of about 1600 people.

1600 people against 7000 people, and they are the attacking party. This is no small difficulty!

Wei Xiaobao sighed in his heart and closed his eyes slightly. The system displayed: Main Mission - Capture Shuri Castle Countdown 28 days 16 hours 42 minutes 31 seconds

The eye-catching red prompt words and the stopwatch that was decreasing at any time made Wei Xiaobao feel pain in his heart. Apart from cursing the evil God and the immoral system, he could only think of ways to complete the task as soon as possible.

As for the copper treasure chest as a mission reward, Wei Xiaobao's reaction was somewhere between that of the iron treasure chest. He had no expectations for the copper treasure chest at all. He only wanted to complete the mission and save his wife.

Wei Xiaobao had no confidence at all about how to complete the task. He just hoped that Hong Shuntang could produce the Zhuge Crossbow as soon as possible. That way, perhaps the impossible could become possible. Wei Xiaobao felt a little comforted.

"Stop!" A shout interrupted Wei Xiaobao's thoughts.

A group of corpse-collecting team came over, pushing several flatbed carts loaded with corpses. The leader was none other than Mr. Wang, who owed money to Wei Xiaobao. The members of this corpse-collecting team were all yamen runners from the Shuri Castle prefectural government.

"Haha, if there is a road to heaven but you don't take it, there is no door to hell but you come by yourself!" Master Wang saw Wei Xiaobao and Shuang'er and continued excitedly:

"Mr. Wei, Wei Xiaobao, and Wei Yingxiong, I haven't seen you for a few days and you still dare to stay in Shuri Castle."

After saying this, Master Wang ignored everything and shouted loudly to the surroundings: "Hurry up, there are anti-Japanese elements here..."

The other yamen runners immediately followed suit and shouted, which immediately alarmed the Japanese soldiers who were patrolling and looting in the surrounding area.

"Baga!" The bastard sergeant who accompanied Wei Xiaobao shopping slapped Master Wang in the face.

Lawyer Wang saw stars in his head and stopped shouting. The yamen runners also stopped shouting.

"You dare to offend Lord Bajo, I'll kill you!" After saying this, he was ready to draw his sword and chop someone down.

Master Wang often dealt with the Japanese and could understand their language.

"Taijun Taijun, he is a Chinese named Wei Xiaobao, and he is the leader of the resistance against the Japanese army." Master Wang said hurriedly, fearing that the sergeant's knife would chop him down.

"Damn it, this is obviously the son of the Hachijo family, a noble family of the Great Japanese Duke." This lousy sergeant was impressed by Wei Xiaobao's pure Tokyo accent and noble demeanor along the way. He was so immersed in the role that he didn't want to believe what Master Wang said at all.

He drew out his knife and chopped at Master Wang.

Upon seeing this, Master Wang immediately dodged backwards, casually pushing a yamen runner to the front to block the knife, and shouted at the dog-assed sergeant: "Taijun Taijun, if you don't believe it, you can find Liu Ye Junbei to confront him. He is the hero Wei who can't be killed by a musket!"

Hearing this, the sergeant hesitated as he raised his sword. He had also heard that a musket could not penetrate the body.

At this time, forty or fifty Japanese soldiers had surrounded them. They all heard Master Wang's shouting, but also heard what the sergeant said. They couldn't make up their minds for a moment and just surrounded Wei Xiaobao and Shuang'er in the middle.

"Sir, are you Ba Tiao Beipiao?" The sergeant also realized something. Although the other party spoke with a Tokyo accent, there were quite a few people in Ryukyu who could speak Japanese.

"Haha, I'm not a Japs! I'm the nemesis of you Japs!" Wei Xiaobao said in Chinese with a laugh.

Then he turned to Shuang'er and said, "Shuang'er, get to work!"

After saying that, he immediately started to move with his magical feet, took out small paper bags from his pocket, and threw them on the faces of the Japanese soldiers and yamen runners when he saw them.

“Ah…”

“Ah…”

What Wei Xiaobao sprinkled was his exclusive secret recipe, quicklime powder + chili powder.

I saw a shadow flash through the crowd, and none of the dozens of people were able to fight. They all covered their eyes and howled in pain.

Shuang'er was too familiar with this routine, one poisoning, the other killing! The husband was still the same husband, and the routine of plotting against people was still so familiar.

Shuang'er was like a killer, killing one person with one sword, having great fun!

"Shuang'er, don't kill them, run..." Wei Xiaobao saw more and more Japanese soldiers running around, and quickly stopped Shuang'er.

Thanks to Wei Xiaobao's words, Master Wang, who deserved to die, escaped the disaster and saved his life.

Shuang'er also learned the art of lightness from the Zhuang family. She took Wei Xiaobao over the city wall, and the two of them safely left Shuri Castle and returned to Longya Village.

The four hall masters were busy with their own things the whole morning and didn't know that Wei Xiaobao had gone for a walk around Shuri Castle.

In the afternoon, Master Qiu of Hongqi Hall came to the meeting room with a soldier carrying a basket.

"Master, the stone that can spontaneously combust is in this basket."

Wei Xiaobao quickly picked up a stone and looked at it.

"Master, you have to be careful. This stone cannot be bumped or it may catch fire." said Master Qiu.

"Haha, that's exactly the fire effect we want." After saying that, Wei Xiaobao picked up a piece of phosphorus stone the size of a thumb and threw it hard on the ground.

There was a cracking sound.

The phosphorus stone shattered but did not burn.

It seems that this phosphorus rock still has a lot of impurities and needs to be purified, Wei Xiaobao thought.

Military fans in the previous life were also very familiar with phosphorus bombs. The purification process was to grind the phosphorus rock into powder using a water mill. Why use water mill? Because white phosphorus has a low ignition point, it has to be ground in water, and it will burn if the temperature exceeds 60 or 70 degrees.

Then use fine yarn to filter out the phosphorus slurry water like making tofu, pour it on a stone platform to dry in the shade, and it will become white phosphorus powder.

Of course, the white phosphorus produced by this primitive method cannot reach the purity of the white phosphorus bombs of later generations, but this does not pose a problem for Wei Xiaobao. Isn't it possible to just put a firecracker in the homemade white phosphorus bomb?

"hehe"

Wei Xiaobao laughed happily at his own cleverness.

After thinking of a solution, Wei Xiaobao personally took Master Hong to develop white phosphorus bombs.

For the next three days, Wei Xiaobao stayed in Hongqitang, guiding the production of white phosphorus bombs and Zhuge Crossbow.

At the same time, Wu Sanniang of Hongshuntang was asked to use the residue after the purification of phosphate ore as fertilizer. Although there is little arable land in Longya Village, the fertilizer formula that has been adjusted now will be a powerful tool for strengthening the country and benefiting the people in the future.