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Chapter 143 0140 [Seat... sweeping the world? 】

It's funny to say that Han Zhen's enlightenment on explosives originated from a military education film "Landmine Warfare" he watched when he was a child.

The so-called one nitrate, two sulphur, three charcoal formula was learned from this movie.

At that time, I lived in the countryside, my family was poor, and I had no toys.

Therefore, homemade explosives and landmines became his childhood pleasure.

As soon as the holidays came, I ran around the village with a broken bowl, scraped the dirt on the wall, and then went home to purify it.

This hobby continued until the third grade of junior high school.

Until one time, after blowing up his own kitchen due to an operating error, he was ruthlessly contained.

At this moment, I was making explosives again, and the memories of my childhood in my previous life suddenly flooded my mind.

Heh, now finally no one can stop himself from making explosives.

The sun was setting and night was covering the sky.

Liu Kai was very curious, and tried to come over to take a look over and over again, but was stopped by Nie Dong.

After working hard for more than an hour, I finally purified the saltpeter and sulfur.

Holding a wooden pestle, Han Zhen gently ground the three ingredients into powder.

This step is important and dangerous.

The finer the grind, the better.

After grinding, Han Zhen poured the prepared egg white into the gunpowder.

This is to prevent the dust from rising and causing an explosion when it encounters an open flame.

In the [-]th and [-]th centuries, when Europeans made gunpowder, they mixed water or urine into the gunpowder in order to avoid explosions caused by dust.

Egg whites can also have the same effect, and the viscosity of egg whites can turn powdered gunpowder into granular gunpowder.

In fact, the power of granular gunpowder is not stronger than that of powder. The advantage of granular gunpowder is that it is relatively safe during transportation and there will be no stratification.

Because gunpowder is a mixture of three material powders with different densities, the vibration during transportation will cause the three powders to gradually stratify, thereby reducing their power.

It's okay if the war is not tight, you can re-stir before use.

But if the battle is urgent, how can I have time to mix the gunpowder slowly for you...

Han Zhen held a sieve and kept sieving it back and forth.

Soon, black particles appeared one by one in the screen, and with constant shaking, the gunpowder particles gradually became compact.

The small particles fall into the tub along the holes of the sieve, leaving only the large particles in the end.

No way, in the case of pure handwork, the uniform particle size cannot be guaranteed.

The remaining large particles are not unusable, and can be kept to make explosive packs.

If there is white sugar, add some to the gunpowder to increase the power of the explosion.

But that must be the white granulated sugar of later generations. The white sugar he made now is too rough and has strong water absorption. If it is mixed into gunpowder, the effect of gunpowder will be greatly reduced in a humid environment.

Until the climax of the moon, Han Zhen made three barrels of gunpowder.

Other materials are okay, but a lot of eggs are used.

Looking at the egg shells all over the floor, Han Zhen couldn't help frowning.

I have to think of a way to use something else instead of egg white as the glue.

The cost of eggs is too high. The key is to expand the scale of production in the future. I am afraid that thousands of catties of eggs will be consumed every month.

How could there be so many eggs for him to squander right now.

It seems that urine was used in Europe, and wine was used in the Ming Dynasty. In contrast, the cost of urine is obviously lower.

Go back and try using urine as an adhesive.

After taking the three barrels of granular gunpowder to Baihutang and letting it dry slowly, Han Zhen went back to the barracks to sleep.

The next day.

Early in the morning, after breakfast, Han Zhen walked into Baihu Hall.

After checking and found that the gunpowder was completely dry, he picked up the bamboo tube prepared yesterday and started to fill it.

After compacting the granular gunpowder, stuff it into the lead wire, and then seal it with yellow mud glue.

Han Zhen thought for a while, took a piece of iron armor and put it on his body, and then brought the five manufactured explosives to the open space behind the barracks.

When he came to the clearing, he picked up the torch on his waist, lit the fuse, and immediately threw it far away into the woods.

boom!
There was a deafening bang.

Immediately afterwards, a thick white smoke floated up.

The loud noise was so sudden that it startled the soldiers who were practicing on the school field.

The cattle, horses and livestock in the barracks were also frightened, especially the war horses, which rushed out of the stables one by one neighing and ran around in the barracks.

For a moment, people shouted and neighed, and the scene was extremely chaotic.

"What are you panicking about!"

Nie Dong roared.

Soon, under the response of Wei Da and others, the barracks returned to calm.

Not long after, Nie Dong and Liu Kai walked over quickly following the sound.

Nie Dong asked: "County magistrate, what just happened?"

"Tried a new firearm!"

Han Zhen raised the explosives in Yang's hand.

Hearing this, Nie Dong was taken aback for a moment, and said incredulously, "The sound just now was a firearm?"

He knows best what a firearm is.

Besides, I personally lit one yesterday, and the sound when it exploded was not that loud.

Han Zhen didn't answer, and walked towards the explosion point, and Nie Dong and the two immediately followed.

Near the explosion point, there is a strong and pungent smell of gunpowder, and the smoke has not completely dissipated.

This is the disadvantage of black powder, the smoke and dust are too large, so don't think about flintlock guns unless you can create smokeless gunpowder.

However, smokeless gunpowder is much more complicated than black gunpowder. Under the current conditions, the difficulty is comparable to that of penicillin.

The forest was in a mess, and a small pit with a diameter of half a meter was blown out on the ground, and the charred soil was still emitting bursts of smoke.

On the surrounding trees, there are many broken bamboo pieces.

Seeing this scene, Han Zhen couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction. Judging from the power displayed so far, it has already met his expectations.

Nie Dong pulled out a piece of bamboo from the tree trunk and couldn't help but gasped.

Although there are some thunderbolt bombs in the army, when they explode, they can also shoot out the caltrops, but these are bamboo splinters now.

It can be nailed to the trunk of broken bamboo, and one can imagine how powerful the explosion is.

After observing for a while, Liu Qi set his sights on the explosives in Han Zhen's hands, and eagerly said, "County magistrate, this is the firearm just now? Can I try it too?"

Han Zhen ordered: "Go and get some clay pots and caltrops, and a pair of heavy armor by the way."

"Order!"

The two immediately clasped their fists in response, turned and left excitedly.

Soon, the two returned with heavy armor and two cans of caltrops.

Han Zhen greeted: "Go, go to the mountains to try."

The three went all the way to the depths of the forest. Under Han Zhen's command, Nie Dong cut down a few wooden sticks and stuck them firmly on the ground, and then put the heavy armor on the wooden sticks.

Han Zhen stuffed two sticks of explosives into the pot, leaving only the lead wire outside the mouth of the pot.

"Magistrate, let me have some."

Liu Kai said expectantly.

Glancing at the iron armor on his body, Han Zhen warned with a serious expression: "Look at the fuse and run immediately, don't stay."

"The magistrate is relieved, I'm not an idiot." Liu Qi assured, patting his chest.

Han Zhen and Nie Dong hid behind a big rock ten meters away, with only half of their heads sticking out.

Liu Kai was quite excited at first, but when he saw that the two of them were so cautious, he couldn't help feeling a little guilty.

But after thinking about it, it's not like he hasn't seen the firearms in the army before.

Coupled with the fact that he was wearing iron armor, he should be fine.

Thinking of this, Liu Kai bravely lit the fuse with a torch.

"Run!"

Not far away, Han Zhen reminded.

Without saying a word, Liu Kai turned around and ran away.

After running seven or eight meters away, the guy stopped and turned around to appreciate it.

Han Zhen was startled, and was about to shout.

boom! ! !
The deafening explosion rang in my ears.

咣 咣 咣!
"what!"

A series of metal crashes, mixed with Liu Kai's screams, resounded in the forest.

After the explosion ended, Han Zhen and Nie Dong rushed out immediately.

At this moment, Liu Kai was lying on his back on the ground, with five or six barbed thorns pierced on his armor.

Han Zhen squatted down and checked carefully, and found that although the terrestris was stuck on the iron armor, it did not penetrate, so he couldn't help but secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

If Liu Kai died, he would not be able to explain to Xie Ding and Liu Zhongwu.

At that time, don't talk about taking advantage of the situation, I'm afraid there will be two more life and death enemies.

However, although the caltrops did not pierce deeply, the force of the lasing was not light at all. Liu Kai felt as if he had been hit by five or six copper hammers, and his whole body ached.

Han Zhen said sharply: "I tell you to run faster, why stop?"

"I... I didn't expect it to be so powerful."

Liu Qi shrank his neck and laughed.

This firearm is completely different from what he saw in the frontier army.

Han Zhen ordered: "Take off the iron armor quickly and check it."

These caltrops are basically rusted. If the wound is punctured, the blood must be squeezed out quickly, otherwise there is a certain probability of getting a tetanus infection.

"Oh."

Liu Kai responded, got up and took off his armor.

Pulling off his clothes, he saw several lumps of redness, swelling and bruises on his body, which showed how strong the force of the caltrops was.

Seeing that there was no wound on his body, Han Zhen didn't bother to deal with it, and walked towards the explosion point.

The ground was still a small pit, and the charred soil was smoking.

The wooden frame supporting the heavy armor has fallen down, and there are seven or eight barbed thorns pierced on the heavy armor, each barbed thorn penetrates deeply into the nail leaf, and the spikes sink into it.

"hiss!"

Nie Dong gasped, his expression horrified.

Liu Qi who rushed over was full of disbelief, and muttered to himself: "It's... so powerful!"

This is heavy armor!

Heavy armor that could not be pierced by a crossbow, but at this moment in front of firearms, it was as fragile as paper.

If the two armies are at war, throwing hundreds of firearms at the enemy's formation, I am afraid that hundreds of lives will be harvested in an instant.

Thinking of this, Nie Dong only felt short of breath, and his hands trembled slightly with excitement.

Han Zhen asked, "What do you guys think of this thing?"

Liu Kai swallowed his saliva, and said solemnly: "It's as powerful as a divine weapon. If I had this firearm in the Song Dynasty, I'm afraid I would have regained the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun."

"This thing is too domineering, such as God's punishment."

Nie Dong had a faint premonition in his heart that the future wars might change drastically because of the appearance of the thing.

Just as the popularity of heavy armor led to the decline of Ma Chan.

This kind of firearm will definitely change the pattern of warfare.

Suppressing the turbulent thoughts in his heart, he hurriedly asked: "County magistrate, may this thing be mass-produced?"

"Naturally."

Han Zhen smiled slightly.

"hiss!"

Nie Dong took a deep breath again, an uncontrollable ecstasy welled up in his heart, and said excitedly: "County magistrate, if this firearm can be installed in large numbers in the army, it will be easy to sweep the world!"

"That's right!"

Liu Kai nodded and echoed excitedly: "With this thing, no matter if it is a Xixia or a Jinren, it can be broken with a flick of a finger. At that time, I will take advantage of the situation and rise, Xi..."

As he spoke, Liu Kai's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally fell into silence.

and many more.

Xi... sweeping the world?
(End of this chapter)