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Chapter 185 Chapter 194: Thunderbolt

Then pour the paste onto wooden boards and let it dry in the sun, and that's it.

Although boiling gunpowder is a bit dangerous, if you are careful, there will be basically no problem. Li Hao personally carried out the operation of boiling gunpowder. After working hard for a long time, he finally boiled a large pot of gunpowder, and then poured it on a wooden board to dry.

Now Tingzhou has entered the early summer, the sun is very strong, and the gunpowder has been dried until [-] o'clock in the evening. Li Hao hurriedly collected all the gunpowder in a big jar, and took out those small earthen jars that he had prepared a long time ago.

The earthen pots he ordered to be fired were spherical, about the size of a dragon fruit, but because the walls of the pots were too thick, the space inside was not very large, about the size of a baseball.

The next step is to load the gunpowder. The five beauties wanted to help, but Li Hao refused, and drove them all out of the inner courtyard. What a joke, this step is very dangerous. How could they ask them to help? I thought about it, since it is dangerous, why do I have to do it myself.

That’s right, it’s a gas explosion. The amount of nitrogen and carbon dioxide produced when gunpowder burns is very large. If a large amount of gas is generated in a small space, huge pressure will be generated. When the pressure breaks the space, an explosion will occur. It's actually the same thing as a car tire exploding.

Since a small space is required, the gunpowder must be firmly packed in the clay pot, and there is absolutely enough oxygen without worrying about oxygen.

Li Hao carefully picked up a small clay pot the size of an apple. This is a test pot he specially made to see the power of the explosion. Fill the small pot with gunpowder and bury the lead wire. The lead wire is easy to make. , Just sprinkle a thin layer of gunpowder powder on the toilet paper, then roll it up and twist it into a paper rope, it will be a fuse. He tried it, and it made a chirping sound when it burned, which is similar to the fuse of a firecracker.

Holding the test bomb the size of an apple, Li Hao felt a little uneasy. Although he tried to make a bomb before and succeeded, he was still a novice after all, and he didn't know if it would work this time. Oh no.

In the middle of the night, Li Hao took Lu Yun and his special forces out of the city quietly, and came to a small hillside more than ten miles north of the city. Then he took out the apple-sized bomb and said to all the special forces: "This is my new bomb." I don’t know if it will succeed, but you will be optimistic about it later, if it succeeds, it will definitely refresh your worldview.”

Although they didn't know what refreshing the worldview meant, they all nodded in agreement.

Li Hao took out the lighter, ignited the fuse of the bomb, and then threw it out with force. The crock pot flew more than 30 meters away, and it didn't break after landing. The thick-walled pottery pot was indeed useful.

After the crock fell to the ground and rolled a few times, Li Hao was silent for a few seconds in his heart, and suddenly there was a loud "boom", like thunder, accompanied by a flash of fire, fleeting, like lightning, which scared everyone to exclaim speak out.

Under the moonlight, white smoke was seen fluttering, Li Hao said: "It's a success, go and have a look." He walked to the explosion site first.

When he came to the explosion site, he saw a small crater with a diameter of more than [-] centimeters blasted into the ground. Li Hao nodded in satisfaction. The bomb just now seemed to be as big as an apple, but its internal space was actually smaller than that of an egg. With such a great power, the effect is quite good.

Feiying looked at the pit in the ground in disbelief, couldn't believe his eyes, looked at Li Hao in shock, and asked: "Master, what is that thing you threw just now, and why can it summon the divine thunder from the sky?"

"Shen Lei?" Li Hao was taken aback when he heard the words, and then smiled bitterly. The ancients were like this. Once they discovered a phenomenon that surpassed human power, they linked it to the gods. That's why there are ghosts and gods in this world, until the future of high-tech popularization. In the world, there are still people who believe in ghosts and gods.

In fact, this is also a kind of wish and hope of people, because people are always greedy for life and evil (wu) for death. If there are ghosts in the world, they can exist in another form after death, so many people choose to believe in ghosts and gods.

Li Hao has never believed in ghosts and gods. Even the fact that he traveled through time can be explained purely from physics. He wanted to take this opportunity to teach these special forces a good lesson and let them know that there are no gods in this world. However, thunder and lightning are just a natural phenomenon.

But he gave up in the end, because he was lazy, it was too troublesome to explain this kind of thing to them, and it involved too much, and he had to find a perfect explanation for the bomb.

So he said: "This thing is called Thunderbolt. It is extremely powerful. It was taught to me by an old god in my dream when I was sleeping and dreaming. You must keep your mouth shut and never reveal it."

"Yes!" All the special forces took orders in unison, with extremely solemn expressions.

Li Hao said again: "Just now I have demonstrated how to use it. It is very simple. Ignite the fuse with fire, then throw it out, and then it will explode, killing and injuring people around. The most important thing is that this kind of thing can Effective at creating chaos, it works wonders in war."

Everyone nodded, and a young special soldier who was only 15 years old suddenly asked curiously: "Master, what will happen if you don't throw the fuse after lighting it?"

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "In that case you will be blown up to the point that not even bones will be left."

The special soldier was taken aback when he heard this, shrank his head, secretly feeling terrified.

Next, Li Hao took them back to the city, and went back to the inner courtyard to refill the gunpowder himself. Soon, more than 80 bombs were successfully manufactured. To be honest, [-] bombs are too few. If it is [-], it is estimated that It can still be useful, eighty is really difficult to reverse the situation of the battle, at most it can only surprise the enemy and delay a little time.

Another seven days later, Li Yuanzhong and Wang Yuantai came to Li Hao again and offered some realgar and saltpeter. This time they found even fewer materials, the realgar was only ten catties, and the saltpeter was only more than 50 catties. Don't look for it, these two people are indeed too tired these days, and he can't bear to torment them anymore, besides, there are too few realgar and saltpetre in a border area like Tingzhou.

Li Hao sent the two of them back to rest, while he processed the sulfur and saltpeter, continued to make gunpowder, and then made it into Thunderbolts. Now there are [-] Thunderbolts, a very auspicious number.

Next, Li Hao began to think about how to use these thunderbolts to create magical effects.

After the concerted efforts of the people, the city wall was finally successfully repaired. The current city wall is more than six meters high, and after being seven feet higher, the feeling is really different.

The repair of the city wall was originally something to be happy about, but Qin Wei told him that the [-] shi grains in the state warehouse are now [-] shi. This kind of heavy physical work consumes a lot of energy, so people eat a lot, and the common people don't even want wages. Could it be that Li Hao can make people work hungry?

Worrying about food again, Li Hao felt like his head was going to explode. Just when he was upset, Wang Yuantai came in suddenly, cupped his hands and said, "My lord, a man who called himself Fan Shui came outside the governor's mansion just now. Let Xiaozhi present this letter to your lord."

"Fan Shui?" Li Hao was stunned for a moment, then thought of the beautiful and powerful Western Turkic woman Xiaodi, and hurriedly got up to take the letter, tore open the envelope, and looked eagerly.

There is only one line on the letter paper: "Gaochang borrowed [-] troops from the Western Turks. Your honor is to ask for blessings. From now on, neither will owe you anything. -Xiao Di."

Li Hao froze there immediately, his eyes glazed over, his mouth was slightly opened, and he didn't even notice the letter slipped from his hand, as if he had been possessed by a demon.

"My lord? What's the matter?" Wang Yuantai asked curiously. He really wanted to go up and pick up the letter paper, but he didn't dare.

Li Hao seemed to have lost his soul, fell down on the chair, and muttered after a while: "Gaochang borrowed [-] soldiers and horses from West Turks, Tingzhou...Weiyi."

(End of this chapter)