My diary of transcendence from the heavens

Chapter 83 81. Certainty of victory, deadly weapon [1]

Zhao Xuanqi returned to Chang'an City, walked inside the city wall, and continued his daily patrol operations.

The trusted guard beside him looked through the city wall around him towards the rebel camp below. The sky was filled with darkness, and even the sky seemed to be suppressed.

He shivered all over and couldn't help but ask: "General, can we really defeat them?"

Following these words, the other personal guards around him also looked at Zhao Xuanqi one after another, their eyes full of hope, eager to get Zhao Xuanqi's answer.

They are not afraid of death.

As the Ziyun Army, they were already prepared to sacrifice when they came to King Qin of Chang'an City.

But being prepared for sacrifice does not mean that they must die 100%. After all, they still have a desire to win.

Who doesn’t want to return to his hometown alive?
They really want to know how to win.

How to win this war!

The people in the city thought that there were [-] King Qin's troops, but only they knew that there were only [-] in total.

Thirty thousand versus 50.

There is no hope of winning at all.

Hope is extremely slim. Even if the ants have a chance of defeating the elephant, the chance of defeating the rebels is probably higher than the chance of myself and others defeating the rebels!
From beginning to end, this is a war that no one is optimistic about.

Zhao Xuanqi looked at the green faces of these soldiers and replied decisively: "Of course we can win, and we will win surely!"

Confidence and calmness infect everyone.

The voice is sonorous and powerful.

The trusted soldiers suddenly became energetic: "The general said we can win, then we will definitely win!"

Get rid of the previous decadent state and get back on your feet.

Although they didn't know how Zhao Xuanqi would win the war or what method he would use to defeat the enemy.

But they knew that this person was Zhao Xuanqi, and that was enough.

They had unconditional trust in Zhao Xuanqi.

As long as Zhao Xuanqi said he would win, he would definitely win. In these years, Zhao Xuanqi had become so famous that he seemed to be a god in their hearts.

Zhao Xuanqi did not lie to them.

He really thinks he can win.

He had already thought about this problem.

3 against 50.

How to defeat a majority of troops with a small number of troops?

He thought about the Fire Bull Formation.

In China, this formation is famous. Tian Dan used the Fire Ox Formation to defeat more with less and defeated tens of thousands of Qi's troops.

It is said that Wang Xuance also used the Fire Ox Formation, which unexpectedly defeated tens of thousands of Indian elephant troops in one battle.

The principle is very simple. Two sharp knives are tied to the horns of the cow, and a flame is lit on the tail. The crazy cow can run rampant, rush forward desperately, and kill countless enemies.

The dead soldiers rushed up behind the cattle to defeat the enemy. When defending the city, this move was used by surprise, which could play a huge role.

But Zhao Xuanqi finally gave up this strategy.

Why is the Fire Bull Formation called the Fire Bull Formation?
Fire Ox, you also have to have an ox!
There are not that many cows in the city.

Chang'an is a prosperous city. There are countless resources and grains piled in the treasury, but the number of cattle is very small.

After all, there is no cultivated land in the city, so where do so many cows come from?If the number of cattle is not enough, the Fire Bull Formation is just a joke.

So Zhao Xuanqi thought of a more reliable method.

Gunpowder for muskets!

In this cold weapon age, what could be more deadly than muskets and gunpowder?
In the era of cold weapon fighting, everyone went up to fight with knives and guns, and used bows and arrows to shoot cold arrows behind them. It was bloody and cruel. It often required a test of the soldiers' willpower, physical fitness, and combat experience, including various factors such as armor, and their impact on people. The requirements are extremely high.

The more elite your soldiers are, the more victories you can achieve in the era of cold weapon fighting, and the greater your hope of victory.

If you want to cultivate such elite soldiers, you must go through the baptism of the battlefield, eat well, drink well and exercise, which often takes a long time, at least several years.

This kind of soldier is extremely rare. If one dies, there will be one less!
If a large number of elite soldiers are injured, it will be difficult to organize the next war.

However, thermal weapons such as muskets and gunpowder do not have such high requirements on people.

As long as you are a healthy person, even a not very healthy person, you can hold a musket, load it with gunpowder, and after simple practice, just shoot when the enemy rushes over.

Musket will tell you the answer.

No matter how hard the opponent wears armor and no matter how burly his body is, he cannot withstand bullets.

No matter how brave the opponent is, close combat is extremely terrifying. Mo Dao can destroy people and horses. Sorry, if you are seven steps away, the gun is fast. Within seven steps, the gun is fast and accurate. As long as you have enough muskets, I won't give it to you at all. Opportunity to get up close.

The enemy is often shot before he can even get in front of him.

The low requirements on people are also a great advantage of the musket.

This group of soldiers died. As long as the muskets are still there, the next group of people can just pick up the muskets and continue shooting.

Even if the personnel suffer heavy casualties, as long as there are enough muskets, just pick up some young men, and get a little proficiency, the muskets can immediately exert their powerful combat power, and the next war can be organized quickly!
A gun in the hands of a woman, or a gun in the hands of a child, can be as powerful as a strong man!
The biggest advantage of the musket is its long hand.

Able to shoot and damage enemies from long distances!
In the cold weapon age, there were also bows and arrows that could attack enemies from a distance.

If you compare the two sides.

The power of muskets is stronger than that of bows and arrows, and it does not require much physical fitness of the soldiers. They can often shoot within a few days of training, easily break through armor, and are extremely powerful.

The requirements for bows and arrows are too high. It takes at least several or even more than ten years to cultivate an archer. It also requires strong physical fitness of the soldiers. The power of bows and arrows is often not as good as that of muskets, making it difficult to break through. First.

Therefore, the musket is more cost-effective and stronger.

In Chinese history, when muskets appeared, the era of cold weapons came to an end, hot weapons began to become the mainstream, and the battlefield transformed into mutual shooting.

The torrent of history determines the status of muskets!

"I have to go see how it goes!"

Zhao Xuanqi was still a little nervous and muttered to himself.

He moved his steps and walked slowly towards the military workshop.

As early as when he entered Chang'an a few months ago, he was already thinking about how to defeat the enemy and tried to make muskets.

At that time, he selected two types of muskets based on the memory in his mind.

flintlock.

Matchlock.

The flintlock gun has a faster reloading speed, can fire bullets faster, and can be used even on rainy days. The machine is extremely sophisticated and has high accuracy. It is considered a very good musket.

As for the matchlock gun, you need to light the matchlock to start the musket. The shooting speed is relatively slow. A top person can only shoot three or four rounds in one minute. There is also the danger of the chamber exploding. The weather requirements are also very high, such as rainy and windy weather. Very difficult to use.

A musketeer often needs to be equipped with two deputies to help load bullets and gunpowder in order to maximize its effectiveness.

That is a three-person configuration.

When he was in Japan, a certain daimyo used the three-man matchlock system to show his prowess. With almost zero casualties, he easily severely damaged thousands of the enemy's elite heavy cavalry, making the heavy cavalry withdraw from the stage of history.

If you have to choose, of course the flintlock gun is better.

But Zhao Xuanqi chose the matchlock gun.

Because the manufacturing of a flintlock gun is more difficult, the machine is extremely sophisticated, and every part is exquisitely crafted. It takes a long time to make it. Even the most powerful craftsman will have to spend a lot of time to make one.

Zhao Xuanqi was in a hurry for time, so he naturally did not consider the flintlock gun.

The production of matchlock guns is relatively simple. A craftsman can make several of them a month. Although there are various risks, including power limitations and weather restrictions, the production difficulty is low, the parts are relatively simple, and mass production is very convenient!
So Zhao Xuanqi chose the matchlock gun.

As long as you have a large number of matchlock guns in hand, shooting from the bunker can definitely play a huge role in the battle to defend the city!

A few months ago, he handed the drawings to the craftsmen in the military workshop, sent someone to supervise to ensure that the information about the muskets would not be leaked, and then ordered the craftsmen to manufacture matchlocks in large quantities.

You can make the slightly more complicated parts first, mass-produce the parts, and then assemble them later.

The Great Wall is the capital after all. The Northern Wei Dynasty was vast and rich in resources, and the capital was the capital of a country, encompassing countless resources in the world.

One thing that Zhao Xuanqi is very satisfied with about Chang'an City is that there are all kinds of materials in the treasury. These resources and materials are enough to make a large number of muskets.

Military smithy.This seems to be a relatively large camp. It is very lively inside, with the sound of banging and banging, and there are many blacksmiths.

"General!"

Several guarding soldiers saluted Zhao Xuanqi.

Zhao Xuanqi nodded: "I'll go in and take a look."

He took a step forward, crossed the front door, and walked directly into the camp. He saw many tents along the way, and finally walked to the largest room, where he quickly found the master craftsman responsible for making the matchlock gun this time.

This master craftsman is about 40 years old. He has bulging muscles, his hair is tied together to facilitate the ironing, and he is wearing a short shirt. Outsiders call him Gongshu Master.

"Master Zhao..."

"Needless to say, how did you complete the task I gave you?"

"Reporting to Mr. Zhao, in the past two months, I and the guys in the military workshop have successfully manufactured matchlock guns, and we have produced about a thousand arquebuses in batches."

"so much?"

"It's already too slow. There are probably hundreds of masters in the military forge, hundreds more including apprentices, and many deputies. Almost the entire blacksmiths in Chang'an City have already arrived here, and there are still two months left. Only by buffering the manufacturing time can we produce thousands of handles, and I am afraid that you will be blamed for being too slow."

"Take it out and show me."

"As ordered!"

Then someone immediately took out the matchlock gun and showed it to Zhao Xuanqi.

It looks like a stick, primitive in every way.

Zhao Xuanqi kept stroking it in his hand. He looked carefully and found that it was relatively rough.

There is no way, this is what I made in a hurry. Fortunately, there are no major problems. Apart from the ugly appearance, the functions it can play are not lacking at all.

"With these matchlock guns, the winning rate has increased by at least [-]%!"

Zhao Xuanqi had a smile on his face.

The pressure in my heart is also much relieved.

Fortunately, Chang'an City has enough resources and blacksmiths to produce so many matchlock guns. But if they were placed elsewhere, there would definitely be a lack of various resources and it would be difficult to make them.

What's more, it is difficult to find such top craftsmen.

As a time traveler, he himself is a modern person. Why should he fight a cold war with these indigenous people with real swords and guns?

Isn't it a fool to not use a musket when he has one?

He had begun to silently pray for the enemy.

of course,

Even if the matchlock gun doesn't exert as much power as imagined, that's okay.

Because Zhao Xuanqi doesn't put all his hopes in the musket, he also has a more terrifying and deadly weapon!

Since the gun can be made successfully, then another thing can definitely be made successfully too!

He looked at the Gongshu master in front of him with excited eyes, and asked slowly: "Have you made the things I asked you to mass-produce?"

There was a hint of fear in Master Gongshu's eyes: "Sir, it has been made!"

There was some tremor in his voice.

Not because of anything else, but because the things he produced were too terrifying and almost shattered his worldview.

Zhao Xuanqi knew why he was so frightened, because the things he made would shock any human being.

More powerful than a musket, and more brutal.

It can be called the source of killing.

That's dynamite!
The power of a musket is nothing compared to explosives.

There is also gunpowder in this world, but the gunpowder is used in fireworks, and its power is so small that it is almost like a joke, and of no use.

No one used gunpowder for war. Instead, it was used as fireworks to celebrate festive festivals.

Chang'an City has a long-lasting Fireworks Festival. Every time during this festival, dignitaries in the city will set off fireworks. The brilliant fireworks will cut through the moonlight and illuminate the entire Chang'an City brightly and transparently, making it feel like heaven and earth.

Many poets and lyricists have praised the Fireworks Festival.

So the Great Wall actually had a lot of gunpowder, a lot of inventory, a lot of gunpowder piled up in the treasury, and a lot of fireworks.

Including many materials for making gunpowder, such as sulfur and nitre, etc., the number is countless.

When he first heard the news, Zhao Xuanqi jumped up and down with excitement.

With so many ready-made materials, wouldn't it be a pity not to make explosives?
Therefore, Zhao Xuanqi frantically purchased these resources in the past few days. If the resources were not enough, he would send people to chemically extract them himself, and then use the knowledge he learned to successfully reproduce the black powder.

One sulfur dinitrate three charcoal.

This is a rough formula.

The configuration ratio is very important and will have a major impact on the explosives produced. Zhao Xuanqi remembers the correct configuration ratio very clearly to ensure that extremely powerful explosives can be produced.

This is mainly due to a militia training manual I read when I was a child, which clearly recorded the method of making gunpowder.

Therefore, in Chang'an City, the beautiful fireworks and gunpowder that could only be enjoyed as scenery and harmless fireworks were successfully transformed into powerful black powder explosives after Zhao Xuanqi's production and deployment.

This is the difference in time.

If time is like a rolling torrent, getting stronger as time goes by, then Zhao Xuanqi is the guy standing on the lower reaches of this torrent, riding upstream on a group of giants.

Fearing that the deterrent effect of explosives would be limited, Zhao Xuanqi even debugged some surprisingly powerful explosives, such as explosive bombs.

First, put the prepared gunpowder into the tin can, and then place a large number of blades or sharp nails inside, sealing it tightly.

Just light the fuse and throw the explosive bomb out. When the explosion produces violent power, the blades and nails inside will scatter out in all directions at a very fast speed, causing severe damage to everything around it, which is very terrifying.

At the same time, Zhao Xuanqi also asked people to produce a large amount of white phosphorus.

He was able to know how to make white phosphorus. It was a coincidence. He had read a short story in his previous life.

[In 1669, in order to refine gold, a German man spent all his savings to buy 5000 liters of urine to "boil" it. He never expected to accidentally obtain a new substance that would benefit the world and later be made into a terrorist weapon.

The man's name was Hennig Brand. There was a gold rush in that era, and many people fell into the obsession of "turning stone into gold", and he was no exception.

But he was short of money and couldn't afford the ore, so he turned his attention to urine. In his opinion, urine was also golden yellow, so might it also contain gold.

Since then, Brand has begun to find another way, boiling urine in the hope of refining gold.

But his family's property was almost wiped out by him, and he still failed. In the end, he decided to go all out, pawned all his furniture, went to the military camp to buy 5000 liters of urine, and wanted to try it one last time.

However, he did not get the gold he wanted. Instead, he got a pile of darkly glowing solids. When he touched it lightly with tweezers, it quickly ignited spontaneously and was difficult to extinguish. This was white phosphorus. 】

Because this story is quite funny, Zhao Xuanqi recorded this information to understand that a large amount of white phosphorus can be brewed using urine.

So during these times, he sent people to collect a large amount of urine and made a lot of attempts to boil it. After some time of experiments, he successfully boiled the white phosphorus.

Moreover, the amount of white phosphorus is very considerable, almost filling the warehouse, which can support at least several wars.

The purpose of collecting white phosphorus is very simple. It goes without saying that it is to make an extremely terrifying and cruel explosive.

White phosphorous bomb!
During this time, craftsmen added a lot of materials and successfully developed white phosphorus bombs in large quantities!

"Take me to see how many there are."

"As ordered."

Master Gongshu took Zhao Xuanqi to the treasury without hesitation.

Inside the treasury, Zhao Xuanqi managed to see a large number of bombs accumulated as well as batches of muskets.

If a musket increases the chance of victory by [-]%.

So these explosives have doubled this probability, several times more!
The tide of the times has allowed hot weapons to crush the era of cold weapons.

Now, with the help of these things, isn't victory easy?

When Zhao Xuanqi saw the warehouse full of ammunition, he finally relaxed in his heart.

What he fears most these days is that the physical rules of this world are different, and bombs and muskets cannot be made.

Facts have proved that all this worry is in vain, it can be made!

If you learn physics well and travel around the world, you will not be afraid. Fortunately, mathematics, physics and chemistry are useful in this world!

(End of this chapter)