If the troops cannot be assembled in time, then Ganzhou is truly doomed and will definitely fall.
Yin Jin'an is currently penniless and powerless, but he possesses the skill of making clay pot mines.
He thought of the living Guanyin again, the one who gave him, and he benefited from her for two lifetimes.
He ordered Wang Can: "Go out now and help me find something."
Various impurities such as nitrates, sulfur, and charcoal.
This includes, but is not limited to, various sealable containers such as earthenware pots, iron cans, and bamboo tubes.
Then they moved everything to a separate courtyard, and no one was allowed to approach it.
They also wouldn't let the heavens get close.
He remembered the proportions, but the purity of the minerals in the Western Xia was different from that in the Great Gan, so it was not certain that they could make the same earthenware grenades with the same power as those in the Great Gan.
He experimented inside, without eating or drinking, for an entire afternoon and evening.
Various noises kept coming from the courtyard. Wang Can came to check several times, but Jiutian guarded the gate and wouldn't let him in.
Looking at Jiutian sitting outside the door, Wang Can wrapped his fox fur around Jiutian and said, "Alas, the prefecture has already fallen."
Looking at Wang Can's exhausted face, Jiu Tian asked him, "Will you surrender?"
Wang Can shook his head and said, "The common people can seek refuge with the Uyghurs, but I cannot."
Will you run away?
"No! I have organized everyone to prepare to fight the enemy. If we can win, that would be best. If the neighboring county falls, you and the young master in brocade robes should flee immediately."
Wang Can, his eyes full of hope, cautiously asked, "Jiutian, can you calculate how our neighboring county can win?"
Jiutian shook his head, saying he didn't know anything about the future.
Seeing Wang Can's red eyes, she couldn't bear it. She took out three divination coins from her small bag, tossed them three times on the table, and pinched them with her small hands.
After a while, she laughed and said, "Magistrate Wang, don't worry, the divination shows a mix of bad and good fortune."
Wang Can's confidence soared, and he picked up Jiutian in his arms, saying, "Jiutian, if we can hold off the Uyghur bandits, I'll build you a Taoist temple."
Jiutian smiled, revealing her white teeth. "Wow, she can even have a Taoist temple now!"
However, she shook her head and said, "The credit belongs to my second uncle. My second uncle was able to defeat the Uyghurs."
Wang Can didn't know how to defeat him, but if Jiu Tian said it was possible, then it definitely was!
As the two were talking, another deafening "boom" was heard in the courtyard. Half of the house collapsed, and Yin Jin'an ran over from a corner not far away.
When Jiutian saw his second uncle's face covered in soot, he immediately lifted the taboo and cried out, "Second Uncle, what happened to you?"
Looking at the collapsed house, Yin Jin'an said happily, "Don't cry, Second Uncle is alright. Damn it, it's finally done!"
Wang Can asked in surprise, "Why did the house collapse? Young Master in brocade robes?"
Yin Jin'an said nonchalantly, "Hurry up and get me some food, I'm starving. Once the new weapons are finished, the Uyghurs won't be able to leave alive."
Wang Can was overjoyed and immediately ran to the front yard of the county government office. Before long, he brought Yin Jin'an a steaming hot meal.
While eating, Yin Jin'an said to Wang Can, "Could you get me some more charcoal, sulfur, saltpeter, and earthenware pots, as well as earthenware pot fragments, iron nails, iron sheets, and so on? The more, the better."
Wang Can said, "After you gave the order yesterday, I sent people to search and collect saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal, earthenware pots and other materials from the two neighboring counties."
As for the small-mouthed earthenware jars, he directly ordered people to bring several cartloads from the brick kiln, which were piled up outside the county government hall.
After finishing his meal in the half-collapsed house, Yin Jin'an still asked Jiu Tian to set a taboo: he would put earthenware pots inside.
After the Uyghurs captured Ganzhou Prefecture, they looted and plundered the city. Because border cities changed hands frequently, when they captured Ganzhou Prefecture, they first burned, killed, and looted.
They stole everything they could, including money, grain, salt, and even women.
They transported everything that could be moved, and killed everyone they could; it was utterly inhumane.
Three days after the Uyghurs seized the prefectural city, Wang Can anxiously informed Yin Jin'an that the Uyghur soldiers had begun looting the surrounding counties.
Yin Jin'an had already made more than sixty earthenware pot mines. He asked Jiutian to lift the taboo and asked Wang Can, "Tell me in detail what the current situation is?"
Wang Can said that three days ago, Ganzhou Prefecture fell. The main force of the Uyghurs did not attack the surrounding counties, but instead advanced rapidly to the northeast, approaching the capital, Xingqing Prefecture.
To put it bluntly, without the Gu family army, the Uyghurs were not afraid of the Western Xia at all and planned to annex the Western Xia in one fell swoop.
"Prefect Luo has fled, Li Zhen has died in battle, and the Uyghurs have sent people to take over Ganzhou Prefecture."
Wang Can said with a headache, "Ganzhou's communication with the imperial court has been cut off, and there are rumors that the Liao Dynasty has attacked Western Xia from the north."
If the Tibetan Empire were to attack from the southwest while the Western Xia were caught in a pincer movement, could the Western Xia still exist?
It is highly likely that the country will perish.
The prefectural city was occupied, the military supervisor was killed, the prefect fled, and the common people who could not escape were like fish on a chopping board.
If the Uyghurs are not driven out quickly, the neighboring county will eventually be taken over by the Uyghurs.
Upon hearing this, Yin Jin'an asked, "How many soldiers do you have under your command?"
"The military officers are all under the jurisdiction of the prefect. I only have two groups of yamen runners here, a total of twenty-four people."
"Loyal?"
"loyalty."
"Go to the streets and shout that His Highness the Crown Prince is going to lead them to drive out the Uyghurs. Any brave and courageous men are welcome to join me in attacking Ganzhou Prefecture."
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