Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 439 Opening Pandora's Box ([-]rd)

Chapter 443 Opening Pandora's Box

Jin Nu and Tie Nu looked at each other in blank dismay. They were brave generals, but not wise generals. It was really embarrassing for them to use their heads.

Just at this juncture.Dressed in a white robe, Ge Hong, who had not had time to change after coming out of the operating room, said, "Infinite Heaven, what a sin. What a sin!"

Ge Hong took his apprentices to treat the wounded soldiers.

Jin Nu and Tie Nu asked nervously, "How is Your Majesty doing?"

Ge Hong said with a smile: "The operation was very successful, but His Majesty's injury has dragged on for too long, which has hurt His Majesty's vitality. It is not something that can be done in a day or two if you want to fully recover!"

Xue Tao said: "It's impossible to hold on here, for His Majesty's safety, Tao thought it's better to ask His Majesty and His Royal Highness King Jiaodong to take a hot air balloon first and fly away from the sky!"

"No!" Although the voice was low, it seemed to have a strong tone and a very firm attitude, which made Xue Tao feel very uncomfortable.He is also an official now, and there are more than 1000 people under his command for him to drive. Unknowingly, he has developed an aura.

Looking along the sound, only a thin figure appeared in sight.The face of the visitor was pale and bloodless, as if that face came from hell.The person who came was not Ran Ming, who else could it be?Seeing Ran Ming, Xue Tao was filled with anger and disappeared without a trace.He immediately changed his face and said, "Your Highness, why did you come out?"

Ran Ming is very tired now and needs a rest.He couldn't even stand still.However, Ran Ming knew that he had to stand up at this moment.Ran Ming said: "Father has just had an operation, the body cannot shake, otherwise it will cause the wound to burst, and the injury will add to the injury, the consequences will be unimaginable!"

Jin Nu said, "However, the walls of the academy can no longer withstand the impact of the catapults, and we have very few incendiary bombs left in our inventory. Facing an enemy ten times stronger, how should we resist the enemy?"

What Jin Nu said is the truth, more than two thousand academicians died.Now more than 300 people have been killed in battle, and only [-] to [-] people are intact. Fortunately, the size of this academy is small, and the advantages of the large number of soldiers in the Xifu cannot be fully utilized.Otherwise, there is no way to fight this battle.After two days and one night of bloody fighting, they did kill and wound more than [-] people from the Xifu army.

More than 3000 soldiers and horses seem to be a lot.After the Xifu army stationed in Jingkou (Zhenjiang) arrived in Jiankang, the Xifu army has now assembled more than [-] soldiers and horses in Jiankang, which still excludes the number of Huanwen casualties.Even for the remaining soldiers and horses, everyone can stand against ten with one, but after the war of attrition, Huan Wen will win in the end.

Ran Ming said disapprovingly: "It is better to have a horse out of a horse than a thousand troops!"

Ge Hong was taken aback. Although he was good at martial arts, it is said that punches are afraid of young men, and sticks are afraid of old wolves.He himself must be old, and he would be a bit powerless to instruct his apprentices to keep fit, let alone let him go into battle?I'm afraid any pawn can kill him in front of the battle now.

"Fellow Daoist, you're joking!" Ge Hong waved his hands again and again, evading: "How can a poor Taoist have virtue..."

Ran Ming interrupted Ge Hong and said, "As long as the fairy takes out the Fuhuo Pill, the danger of the academy will be solved by itself. Besides, the fairy doesn't want to see the academy built with all his efforts destroyed!"

Before Ran Ming and Wang Ningzhi had a conflict, Wang Ningzhi invited Du Jiong to deal with Ran Ming.Du Jiong actually took out the original gunpowder later.After detailed inquiry, it was learned that the gunpowder was not invented by Du Jiong, but by Ge Hong accidentally.He also gave a new name called "Fu Huo Dan".

Ge Hong asked suspiciously: "Although the Fuhuo Pill sounds like a huge thunder, how can it resist the enemy? Is it possible that the fellow Taoist intends to scare the enemy away?"

"As long as the fairy takes out the Fuhuo Pill!" Ran Ming said confidently: "Guzi has a way to defend against the enemy!"

Ge Hongdao: "Fu Huo Pill, I still have some in my hand, if fellow Taoists need it, feel free to use it."

Even Ge Hong, the real inventor of gunpowder, didn't know that his invention of Fuhuo Pill brought mankind from the era of cold weapons to the era of hot weapons.

Ge Hong didn't know the true power of this cross-age weapon.

But as a descendant of Ran Ming, he knows.Not only did he clearly know the power of gunpowder.It is even more clear that in the era of prosperous metaphysics in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the appearance of gunpowder will definitely be able to shake the sky.

Ran Ming said: "How many Fuhuo Dan does the immortal have in his hand?"

Ge Hong thought for a while, and said: "This is a failed pill that Pindao made out of boredom in his spare time, and he doesn't have much in hand now. It's only two catties. Dao can refine Fuhuo Pill now, I hope there will be time!"

Ge Hong knew that Ran Ming didn't know much about medicine, so he didn't explain too much to him: "Now, if you use Fuhuo Pill, there is a problem!"

Ran Ming said nervously, "What's the problem!"

"Nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal are all ready-made in the Academy!" Ge Hong said embarrassedly: "It's just that Fuhuo Pill is made from 31 medicinal materials, and there are four or five kinds of medicinal materials, which are not available in the Academy now, and these medicinal materials are missing. , Fuhuo Dan's power may be greatly reduced!"

"Damn!" Ran Ming was about to swear, the real gunpowder is actually the main raw material of Sanwei, but Ran Ming forgot how to purify this key raw material, nitrate.

You must know that the purity of nitrate used in medicine is not the same as that in gunpowder, and there is no pure nitrate in nature. In gunpowder, the higher the purity of nitrate, the greater its power.Ran Ming had a vague impression of the method of extracting nitrate from toilet soil, but Ran Ming didn't know how to do it.If time permits, he can experiment and find out the nitrate.

Ran Ming hurriedly said: "Immortal Old Man, Gu vaguely remembers the refining method of Fuhuo Pill in an isolated and fragmented volume. You can get more powerful Fuhuo Pill by adding seven and a half catties of nitric acid to a catty of twenty-five cents of sulfur and charcoal. Fire pill!"

"Where did you see this, Fellow Daoist?" Ge Hong was invigorated when he heard this, and asked with great interest, "Is it "The Story of Fire?" Ge Hong shook his head. He had read "The Story of Fire" thoroughly. , if there is really the method that Ran Ming said, it is impossible for him not to have the slightest impression.Then Ge Hong tried to ask: "Could it be "Huainanzi Neishu"? "The Emperor's Nine Cauldrons" or "San Tong Qi", are there any fragments of "San Tong Qi" that have not been handed down?"

Ran Ming didn't even know how many books on alchemy there were in ancient times, and he had never even heard the name of the book Ge Hong mentioned.However, Ran Ming was quick to think. When he heard Ge Hong mentioning the fragments of "San Tong Qi", he got off the horse and said, "It seems to be some kind of Qi Nei Shu."

Ge Hong nodded, "If that's the case, you can give it a try!"

Ran Ming was overjoyed and said, "I wonder how long it will take for the immortal to refine a new Fuhuo Pill?"

"Fu Huo Pill is not difficult to make!" Ge Hong said with a smile: "The materials are all ready-made, four hours should be enough!"

After hearing this, Ran Ming said happily: "I remember that if this Fuhuo Pill is refined to the extreme, it will be shocking, and the sun and the moon will change color. I hope the fairy can refine such a powerful pill!"

The main purpose of alchemy in ancient times was to cultivate the elixir of immortality, and to transform base metals into precious metals such as gold and silver.In fact, these two propositions were too advanced in idea to be possible with the technology at the time.But these unsuccessful chemical experiments, Lu Ji was used by those quacks to bluff and deceive.

Ran Ming tricked Ge Hong to refine gunpowder, but he was thinking hard about the countermeasures to win the precious four hours for Ge Hong.In fact, Ran Ming's worry was completely unnecessary. Xi Chao just hoped that the academy's soldiers would take a break. If they were fatigued for such a long time, if they didn't get enough rest, the consequences would actually be more serious.

Of course, the slack academicians and soldiers were sleeping on the ground in disorder. This is the early winter weather. He was wearing thick clothes and still felt cold. This scene made Ran Ming feel distressed when he saw it.

Regardless of his fatigue, Ran Ming patrolled the academy's defensive positions back and forth.At this time, the children of the academy, as well as those poor students with good foundations recruited by Qiming Academy, also spontaneously walked out of the school building.They either struggled to place bags of sand on the city wall, or took off their clothes, or took out their quilts from the school building and covered the soldiers with them.

Liu Laozhi learned basic knowledge from the students in the junior class, and he is now the head of the children in the academy.Children under the age of 14 in these juvenile classes are the key to Ran Ming's future talent pool.

These children are innocent and pure, most of them are orphans, and Ran Ming gave them a chance to survive.The academy not only provided them with food and clothing, but also allowed them to read and write.In ancient times, reading and literacy was the privilege of the gentry.In the process of wandering, these children have seen through the cruelty of the world, and they still know who treats them well.

Seeing that Ran Ming's academy, their home, was in such a dilapidated state, and thinking that they might continue their wandering life, they burst into tears.

Liu Jianzhi said: "Cry, cry, cry. The academy is our home, and now we live and die together with the academy!"

"Yes, we live and die together with the Academy!"

Liu Laozhi picked up the curled knife of a fallen soldier, held it up high and said, "Fight with the enemy!"

The students in the juvenile class responded to Liu Laozhi's call one after another. Some of them picked up the weapons of the fallen soldiers, some looked for sticks, and if they didn't have a stick, they took a brick or a stone.The poor students are all adults, and their minds are relatively mature. Although they know that it is unwise to do so, they are also infected by Liu Laozhi.

The students and faculty members of the academy who did not evacuate began to gear up, ready to move.

In this era, scholars and Confucian scholars are completely different from those in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They learn the six Confucian arts, which are rites, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics.Among them, shooting is archery, and imperialism is driving. The ancient people were not stupid, on the contrary they were very smart.Looking at Zhou Yu, Kong Ming, and Zhang Bin, Wang Meng, Xie An, and Xie Ai, we know that the outstanding scholars of this era are those who can fight on old horses, govern politics when they are dismounted, and have all-round talents in civil and military affairs.

Ran Ming was shocked when he found out the abnormal behavior of the students in the academy.

(End of this chapter)