The Young and Vigorous Eighth Prince

Jiang Fan glanced at the two brothers, smiled mysteriously and said, "Don't worry about the banditry. We will take down two large bandit dens tonight. However, before that, I have to do something first."

The two brothers were stunned when they heard this, but they didn't say anything. The recorders were shocked beyond words and looked at each other, thinking they had heard wrongly.

We are going to destroy the bandit's den tonight. Does the Eighth Prince think he is a god descended from heaven? We are going to destroy the bandits occupying the natural and dangerous terrain just like that? You are just kidding!

Seeing the interesting expressions of several recorders, Jiang Fan smiled playfully and ignored their looks.

He ordered his personal guards to begin grinding materials for making gunpowder.

When watching dozens of stone mills grinding sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter powder, several recorders were stunned, and the Chu brothers were also stunned.

They all knew what these three materials were. Although the sulfur had been refined, the recorders could still see that this was produced from the sulfur mine that Jiang Fan had taken them to before.

As for the white saltpeter powder, they looked at each other and remembered the scene when Jiang Fan boiled manure. Their stomachs churned and they almost vomited again.

However, they realized that Jiang Fan was not boiling manure for fun, but was really doing something. This white thing might be of great use.

While they were surprised and confused, Jiang Fan brought the ground materials into the room and began to mix them.

The formula for gunpowder is a strategic weapon of the future, and Jiang Fan doesn't want it to be leaked.

By noon, Jiang Fan had prepared about 2,000 kilograms of gunpowder. He asked his personal guards to load the gunpowder and take it to the site where the workers were making bamboo tubes and elm cannon barrels.

The Chu brothers and several recorders stared blankly at the black fans that Jiang Fan had created, all with puzzled expressions on their faces. What was the use of this thing?

Soon, the group arrived at the construction site selected by Xia Qianxing.

This place is located in a remote and abandoned courtyard in the north of Huaining County. At this time, the inside has been cleaned up and can be used as a workshop and for living.

Jiang Fan took out the gunpowder he brought and began to teach the craftsmen how to make bamboo bombs, filling the bamboo tube with gunpowder, and then using gunpowder to make primers and oil-soaked and dried paper as fuses.

Jiang Fan tried the bamboo tube and the elm cannon barrel and found that each bamboo tube fit the cannon barrel perfectly. These craftsmen did a very good job.

After Jiang Fan demonstrated it himself, he asked the workers to start making bamboo mines, primers and fuses. After all the materials were ready, the workers worked carefully and quickly under Jiang Fan's instructions.

In about an hour, two thousand kilograms of gunpowder were produced, more than three thousand bamboo mines, and more than three thousand primers were ready.

Amid the puzzled gazes of the crowd, Jiang Fan asked Chu Chengxiong to move an elm barrel to the outside of the yard, find an open space, and put the primer into the elm barrel.

Then he lit the fuse of the bamboo mine, and then the primer. With a loud bang, the bamboo mine was ejected from the elm barrel and flew hundreds of meters away in an instant.

Not long after landing, there was a loud bang, and the ground was blown up with smoke and dust. The soil was splattered and a big hole was blown out.

The scene was dead silent, and all the visitors stood there in a daze. The Chu brothers felt their hearts stop beating, and only fear remained in their eyes.

Several recorders were so frightened that they collapsed on the ground, with nothing but shock in their eyes.

By the time they reacted, they all looked at Jiang Fan in fear, with deep admiration in their eyes. They finally understood that they had misunderstood the Eighth Prince yesterday.

They are not just boiling feces for fun, they are making weapons of mass destruction.

The thing obtained from boiling manure was actually combined with other things to create a weapon of such great power.

If it exploded next to them, they believed that they would be blown to pieces on the spot.

"Old Eight, this... this... this thing is too powerful, haha... With it, it will be like a piece of cake to take down two large bandit lairs tonight. No, you have to let me order a few."

Chu Chengxiong smiled so hard that his teeth were showing, his eyes were full of excitement. He looked at the cannon in front of him as if he was looking at a beautiful woman.

Chu Chengrui's eyes also flashed with brilliance, and he looked eager to try. Even the few recorders who reacted wanted to have a try.

Jiang Fan looked at them with a smile. He called over fifty personal guards and taught them step by step how to fire cannons, including the Chu brothers. They were also taught once, and each of them got a chance to learn with live ammunition.

There was no other way. Although this thing was simple and easy to operate, they would always feel unsure if they didn't try it once. Jiang Fan didn't want to make any mistakes.

As for the few recorders who wanted to play, Jiang Fan was too lazy to give them the test. Although he had more than 3,000 shells, they were not enough after all, and he could not give them to these people to play with casually.

Ignoring the resentful looks of the recorders, Jiang Fan quickly had his men load the elm cannon onto the truck.

He originally wanted to make a copper gun barrel, but conditions did not allow it. The production of a copper gun barrel took too long and he could not wait, but elm wood was tough enough.

As long as a layer of iron ring is tied around the outside and it is only sprayed with a primer, the hardness of the elm wood can withstand the power of the spray and there is no need to worry about exploding.

Of course, the main reason is that elm wood is quick to make. Although only fifty are produced now, it is enough.

After pulling up everything, it was already dark. Jiang Fan led more than 600 of his personal guards and headed towards one of the bandit camps in Huaining County.

He had 1,101 guards, and apart from the 100 soldiers stationed at each of the four mines, there were still dozens of people on their way back to transport grain.

Among these six hundred people, there was one who was led by Niu Zheng to meet the grain team. However, the grain team had not arrived yet, so Jiang Fan asked Niu Zheng to come back to help suppress the bandits.

Just as Jiang Fan rushed to the bandit camp at night, several recorders looked at each other and gave up the idea of ​​sending the news back. They decided to wait until Jiang Fan had wiped out the bandits before sending the news back.

After all, they wanted to see with their own eyes how Jiang Fan suppressed the bandits.

On the other side, in Huai'an Prefecture, today is Chu Yan'er's first day of suppressing bandits. The number of people in several bandit dens in the surrounding area is about several hundred.

To her surprise, she managed to put an end to the banditry without much effort.

As long as her army arrived, without even any negotiation, the people in several bandit camps would all raise white flags and surrender.

She was filled with confusion and surprise at this, and vaguely understood that the fact that these bandit dens could be wiped out so easily might be related to those people in the capital.

If I'm not mistaken, the people from the capital must have threatened these bandits.

Facing the threats from the princes and court officials in the capital, they knew very well what to do in a bandit den without a geographical advantage, unless they were stubborn.

A surge of anger surged in Chu Yan'er's heart. She did not feel relieved after suppressing the bandits. Instead, she felt like she had been tricked.

"Miss, shouldn't you be happy that the banditry was quelled so easily? Are you worried about His Highness?" Chu Xiaolan, who was following beside her, looked at Chu Yan'er worriedly.