Dragonborn Spring and Autumn

Chapter 21

Time went back to the afternoon of that day. After Liu Erbo sent someone to deliver the materials and items Li Yuanlei needed, Li Yuanlei arranged these bottles and materials in turn, and turned the study into a simple laboratory. Instead of rushing to start making potions, he went to the pond outside the study and set up several iron pots. After filling up the water, he brought bundles of firewood from the stove one after another, and started a fire in the backyard jerky. Come.

He remembered one of the three great skills of the many time-traveling predecessors in the previous life - gunpowder.

Although the production of gunpowder is not as easy as the one-nitrate-two-sulfur-three-charcoal that the rhetoric says, it is indeed not difficult.The first is to dissolve the soil nitrate, filter out impurities, and then heat to obtain the crystallization of potassium nitrate. The second is to grind and mix the three materials.

Grinding should be as fine as possible. There are many simple methods for mixing, such as adding water to mix and then drying, or more finely, mixing with egg white after drying, and making the prepared gunpowder into uniform-sized small Particles, which facilitate the gunpowder to burn more evenly.

But Li Yuanlei didn't think so much, he just wanted to finish a batch of gunpowder that could explode loudly and with enough fire as soon as possible. As for the power, he didn't have too many extravagant hopes.

According to the memory of his previous life, except for some hunting dogs, most untrained animals are easily frightened and out of control when they experience the scene of gunpowder explosion for the first time. The giant beasts of this era have never seen the scene of gunpowder explosion. of.

Once a close-range explosion occurs. . . . . .

Thinking of this, Li Yuanlei couldn't help but smile on his sweaty face.

Just as he was smirking and flustered, a timid figure flashed in.

"Brother Yuanlei, what can I help?" Little Mianmian asked cautiously, "Brother Lehe is also my brother! I... I ran back after talking to Sister Lianzi..."

Li Yuanlei was a little displeased that he didn't go out of the city with everyone, but he couldn't say anything when he heard the reprimand later.

Besides, with the help of Little Cotton, he can make everything he needs faster.

"Help me watch the fire, I'll add the contents of the pot, you just stare at the fire, use this wooden stick to stir the water inside every few minutes, don't let things fall into the pot, come when the water is only half left Call me, and I'll tell you what to do when you get down!" Li Yuanlei added a large bag of nitrate to several pots, and said to Xiao Mian next to him, "The things in the pot must not be eaten, it will kill people!"

"I'll listen to you, Brother Yuanlei!" Little Mianmian didn't expect Li Yuanlei to agree to stay and help him so readily, and began to stir the solution in the pot vigorously while answering.

Seeing that Little Mianmian was proficient in lighting the fire and stirring it well, Li Yuanlei didn't say much, and hurried into Uncle Liu's study to prepare the potion for the beast.

The more anxious you are, the faster time passes.

Li Yuanlei kept running on both sides. Little Mianmian was helping him look after the nitrate pot in the courtyard. When he heard Li Yuanlei call him for help, he ran over to help. The two of them became more and more proficient in cooperating like this. Cotton is just a boy of twelve or thirteen years old.

From time to time, the two uncles of the Liu family sent someone to ask whether the potion was finished. Every time Li Yuanlei asked, he became more nervous. Fortunately, the making of the potion was not complicated, and the tools and materials that Uncle Liu had prepared for him this time were very complete. The preparation of the potion didn't take much of his time.

More time he spent making gunpowder cans.

After completing the purification and drying of potassium nitrate, he weighed the gunpowder, divided all the gunpowder into catties, and put them into dozens of cloth bags prepared in advance with small cotton, and then connected them The freshly made medicine twister is put into a clay pot the size of a human head, and finally all the gaps are carefully filled with gravel, and the mouth of the pot is sealed with turpentine, and a soil grenade is completed.

The two uncles of the Liu family had come to inquire about the progress several times, until the third time they came in anxiously to urge Li Yuanlei, they finally finished all the work.

But Li Yuanlei ignored a problem. Untrained monsters and soldiers might not be able to resist the impact of gunpowder explosion, so how to use it?

I can only roughly tell the two uncles about the usage and effect of this soil grenade first, and see if they have any good solutions.

"Yuan Lei, this is an urgent matter. We can't make any mistakes. Your uncle and I have never heard of such explosive things. We dare not be careless about weapons, so you can't use Huo Lei." After listening to Li Yuanlei After the introduction of these soil grenades, Liu Erbo, who had no concept of grenades and explosions, thought for a moment and said seriously.

"We understand that you are eager to save people, but you have never been in contact with military affairs. It is enough for you to prepare these medicines this time. Let me and your second uncle arrange the rest. We will try our best to give Lehe You bring it back!"

"Is it possible for us to succeed?" Li Yuanlei was a little confused. After all, this time the city lord moved the time of Jieshou so much earlier, and most of them came prepared. This will definitely make it more difficult for them to save people. .

"We are all doing our best, Yuan Lei," Uncle Liu patted Li Yuanlei's shoulders with both hands, and said in a solemn voice with his lips pursed, "Uncle will try his best to do it even after spending decades of savings, but whether it can be done or not depends on It's God's will, you have to understand uncle!"

Li Yuanlei nodded. Uncle Liu didn't say that he would definitely succeed in order to comfort him. Just try your best, that's all.

The two uncles of the Liu family stopped talking, asked the attendants to pick up the bag containing the pills, and turned around to leave the courtyard gate.

Li Yuanlei felt helpless for a while, this feeling of being powerless was too bad.

The courtyard was quiet again.

"Brother Yuanlei, do you mean that giant beasts and soldiers will be afraid of the sound and fire from this pot?" Little Mianmian had this question after listening to Li Yuanlei's introduction to Uncle Liu's family, but after all, she was too young to He waited until he and Li Yuanlei were the only ones left in the courtyard before asking.

"Yeah, when it explodes, it will make a loud noise, sputtering out flames and broken pottery and stones that can cause damage. In the drama, these things are all rotten for ten miles in one blow..." Li Yuanlei was a little depressed , while looking at the busy ants on the ground, murmured.

"What is a divine drama..." Little Cotton didn't understand.

"Wait, you said fire and sound, right?" Li Yuanlei suddenly seemed to have caught some idea, and stood up in a daze, his eyes fixed on the little Mianmian who was a little frightened.

"It's not me, it's you who said there was fire and sound..." Little Mianmian thought she had said something wrong, and murmured.

"I have a solution!" Li Yuanlei smiled excitedly, "I have a solution!"

"What can Mr. Li do?" At some time, the deaf old man had appeared beside them. Seeing the surprised eyes of the two, the old man smiled and said, "The master is worried that you will not go out of the city, so leave the old man here to drive the car." You are out of town."

"Uncle Liu, can you take me to Jieshou's place?" Li Yuanlei knew this uncle, as Uncle Liu's family member, there was no reason not to be named Liu. He thought for a long time, and finally summoned up the courage to say, " I thought I could help the two uncles a little bit?"

No matter how good an excuse is, it can only convince others, and convincing yourself can only rely on actions.

After he finished speaking, he felt half excited and half apprehensive.Living under the Red Flag in his previous life, he had never experienced war, but today, facing his brother being captured, he didn't want to stand by and watch, but deep down in his heart, he had a natural fear of war and death. After struggling for a long time, he finally made up his mind. For a moment, he was a little relieved.

"Tell me what you think. The old man just listened to it a little bit and thought it was quite interesting." The old man squatted on the ground, looked at Li Yuanlei and said with a smile.

"That's it..." Li Yuanlei also took Little Mianmian and squatted beside Old Man Liu, and told the two of his thoughts, "But I need someone to help drive the beast and help me. It's dangerous, but I can't do it alone, I wonder if the two of you can help me?"

(End of this chapter)