Water Margin people

Chapter 316
Ling Zhen quickly calmed down and continued to make his own gunpowder.

After more than half an hour, Ling Zhen stood up holding a clay pot, which contained the gunpowder he had prepared.

"Brother, are you doing a little less?"

Shi Qian looked at Ling Zhen's jar, and then at the paper bag in Sun Lei's hand. He didn't understand the power of gunpowder, but the difference in weight was nearly five or six times, so it must be a disadvantage in comparison.

"This thing is not only based on weight!"

Sun Lei smiled and said that he was very confident in the gunpowder he made.

"Brother, are you really done?"

Ling Zhen still looked at Sun Lei with some disbelief, he thought that Sun Lei was just talking big and didn't understand what gunpowder was.

"Try it now!"

Sun Lei put the gunpowder in his hand into a small jar and said with a smile, there are three catties of black gunpowder in his jar, the power of this explosion is already frightening, if he gets more than ten catties like Ling Zhen, he will Worried about too much movement, some dare not detonate.

"Master Lu, help us dig out the two holes!"

Sun Lei looked at Lu Zhishen and said.

Lu Zhishen didn't ask any more questions. He swung his Zen stick and dug out two deep holes in front of the two trees. He was also very interested in gunpowder.

Each buried the small jars and pulled out the leads.

"Brother Ling Zhen, why don't you come first?"

Sun Lei looked at Ling Zhen and smiled.

"it is good."

Ling Zhen didn't refuse, and immediately told everyone to back away, while he lit the fuse himself, and the fuse was ignited and burned slowly.

"boom!"

With a loud noise, the earth pit where Ling Zhen buried the gunpowder was blasted open, fragments of soil flew, flames and black smoke rose into the air, the momentum was astonishing, and the tree with a diameter of one foot was already crooked.

"Not bad!"

Sun Lei nodded with a smile. Ling Zhen is indeed very talented. He can make such powerful gunpowder with a "wrong" formula and poor materials, which is far beyond his reach.

Lu Zhishen, Shi Qian, Zhang San, Li Si and the others were shocked when they saw the momentum, the power of Ling Zhen's gunpowder was extraordinary, if it exploded close to him, they might be smashed to pieces.

"elder brother!"

Shi Qian looked at Sun Lei worriedly. Sun Lei is Liang Shanbo's talker. This face is very important, and he must not lose easily.

"Don't worry, he's not as sure as you see brother?"

Lu Zhishen patted Shi Qian on the shoulder and said with a smile, there is nothing Sun Lei can't do that he's sure of.

"Brother Ling Zhen is optimistic."

Sun Lei looked at it with a smug smile and ignited the fuse, and he called everyone to step back.

Although Ling Zhen didn't want to retreat any longer, but seeing that everyone was retreating, he could only take two symbolic steps back. He knew the lethality of gunpowder very well. Just now more than ten catties of gunpowder were safe here. Sun Lei's three What is the amount of catties?
"boom!"

There was a huge explosion, and even the ground shook a little. The tiles and soil were burst and flew out, and the black smoke of the fire also rose. The black smoke was not as big as Ling Zhen, but the fire was even more amazing.

"Boom!"

The ground was cracked, and the same one-foot-thick tree behind the explosion point fell down with a bang, and the roots were pulled out of the ground.

"This!"

Ling Zhen was so frightened that he was stupefied, and looked at everything in front of him in disbelief. He didn't have such great power with more than a dozen catties of gunpowder. How did Sun Lei do it with three catties of gunpowder?
"Brother won!"

Shi Qian, Zhang San, and Li Si clapped their hands and applauded. The result is self-evident, and Sun Lei won completely.

"So powerful!"

Lu Zhishen was also full of astonishment, this kind of power was no longer something anyone could contend with.

"Impossible, impossible! You only used three catties of gunpowder, how could it be so powerful!"

Ling Zhen kept shaking his head. The gunpowder made by Sun Lei has overturned his cognition. The materials and utensils are all brought by him. How could there be such a big difference in power between the two?Could it be that his gunpowder skills, which he is proud of as the best in the Song Dynasty, are so unbearable?

"Brother Ling Zhen, this gunpowder is not alchemy, so it needs so many materials?"

Sun Lei patted Ling Zhen on the shoulder to comfort him, he knew that Ling Zhen must be shocked and lost at this moment.

"Please brother teach me!"

Ling Zhen bowed to Sun Lei, he really likes gunpowder so much, he thought he had reached the stage of mastery after studying for many years, but now it seems that he has not even gotten started.

"You don't have to be so polite, I'm picking up people's teeth, and I didn't research the correct formula."

Sun Lei supported Ling Zhen and said.

"Could it be that my combination is wrong? But I made it according to the formula in "Wu Jing Zong Yao", and the ingredients are carefully selected. "Wu Jing Zong Yao" can't be wrong."

Ling Zhen still doesn't understand, "Wu Jing Zong Yao" is the essence of the art of war, formations, weapons, and respective skills of all members of the world, how could there be a problem with the formula in it?
"Brother, why is your can so powerful?"

Lu Zhishen looked at Sun Lei and asked curiously, this power was much greater than what he had seen in the army, if it were placed in artillery, the power would be devastating.

"This gunpowder only needs sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal. The rest are superfluous. Adding them will only affect the power. As far as the three components of gunpowder are concerned, saltpeter is an oxidant, sulfur is a combustion agent, and charcoal is basically stable. It also participates in the combustion. The ratio of the three is extremely important, and the best ratio is [-] parts of saltpeter, [-] parts of sulfur, and [-] parts of charcoal. A little error will greatly reduce the power."

Sun Lei looked at Ling Zhen and said, there is no intention of hiding anything. This formula was only developed after the rise of Western chemistry. The best ratio was found out, and many magazines were added, which led to the inventor of gunpowder being surpassed by the latecomers, and being left farther and farther away.

"It turned out to be so!"

Ling Zhen is a professional, and he knew the truth when he heard it, and thinking that Sun Lei really only used three kinds of medicinal ingredients just now, it turns out that the secret recipe he regarded as a treasure has always been wrong.

"Actually, this medicine is a bit complicated. If it is purified, it will be more powerful."

Sun Lei pointed to the bottles and cans containing medicinal ingredients.

"Thank you brother for imparting the supreme secret recipe! From now on, my younger brother will serve as my teacher! I will follow my brother to the death!"

Ling Zhen bowed down to Sun Lei. Ling Zhen knew the value of the secret formula of gunpowder very well. Sun Lei gave it to him so directly, which showed that Sun Lei was sincere. With this formula, it would be a waste of time for him to stay in Jiazhanku. Follow Sun Lei It was the right way for Lei to learn gunpowder, and as for falling grass, it was nothing. His identity as a gunner was no different from that of a soldier.

"You don't need to be a teacher. We are all brothers and discuss with each other."

Sun Lei looked at Ling Zhen with a smile and said.

"It's really amazing, the combination of three things can have such power?"

Lu Zhi was deeply curious. Saltpeter and sulfur are common substances, and they are even used as medicines. Charcoal is even more common. The mixture of these three things can explode.

"Haha, in fact, there is nothing mysterious about it. Isn't this thing made by alchemists in the early years? Go back and ask Daoist Gongsun, maybe he knows it too."

Sun Lei said with a smile, beside him there is Gongsun Sheng who is "profound in Taoism", and he must be proficient in this "alchemy".

(End of this chapter)