Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

"January! Take Shouzhou City in January!" Guo Shao said to the generals with a tie.

Thick smoke is in the wind, and the mist is like the sky is full of haze. The generals were stunned, and there was silence nearby. Maybe everyone thought it was because he watched countless siege equipment burned on his own turf, and he was anxious.

But Guo Shao didn't seem to be talking angry, and then he said solemnly: "The order of the army, please play the official's deadline to break the city in one month. If you can't do it, please use the soup!"

"Lord..." Li Chuyun immediately wanted to persuade.

Guo Shao waved his hand and said: "My will has been decided, if not successful, I will become benevolent!"

With a "pop", a burning piece of wood burned from the trebuchet holder and fell off, shocking everyone who hadn't paid attention to the surrounding scene. Guo Shao turned his head and looked towards Northwest Huai Shui, Li Zhongjin and Li Jixun absolutely must shirk the responsibility on their own heads. One sentence of negligence is enough.

More than half a month ago, Guo Shao did not want to attack Shouzhou; but now, he must not give up Shouzhou. What does it mean to dismiss from here with the shadow of failure? He is going to die here, no matter if it is a hard bone or a stone, it can only be chewed to swallow the bitter fruit; there is no way out.

Only the establishment of an army order to show determination is the most effective way to prevent the emperor from being disappointed to replace the siege master.

But this military order requires additional conditions. There are too few elite soldiers. The right side of the Tiger Jie Army claims that 20,000 elites are outside the city of Shouzhou, but they cannot be mobilized; Guo Shao has seen the combat effectiveness of the unfamiliar army such as the town and town soldiers, and the enemy is panicked and cannot organize a group. There is also Li Zhongjin's servant, always interfering, which makes people very upset and at a loss.

It's like when you draw a bow and shoot an arrow, you are looking for the most appropriate time and direction. Someone is shouting next to you: Shoot, why not, shoot from here, where are you facing, shoot quickly... I shoot|you one face!

Now this Shouzhou city has food, soldiers and walls, and Liu Renzhan is a powerful veteran. Guo Shaozhen didn't think there was any time, and it was not in line with his style to attack without time.

There is no fighter but you can create a fighter.

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Not long after, Li Gu sent someone to say that the first batch of materials prepared for Guo Shao had been shipped to Xia Cai warehouse. Saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal.

Guo Shao left the devastated battlefield in front of him, and turned his head and said to Li Chuyun: "I'll go to Xia Cai, here you see, if you have important things, send a horse to Xia Cai to find me. In addition to cleaning up the battlefield, everything else As usual, the tunnel will continue to be dug, and the tunnels on three sides will continue; but not beyond the city wall...you will also need to dig a trench in front of the city wall to build a wall and build a wall."

Liu Renzhan's use of oil is very effective in defending the city and destroying weapons. Guo Shao didn't know where his oil was dug, and he couldn't find a place to dig it, but many people could find saltpeter and sulfur mines.

There was gunpowder in the Tang Dynasty, but it could not be used to bomb the city. The conventional function of tunnel digging is only to quietly send troops to sneak attacks, there is no other use. It’s impossible to use tunnels to dig down the city walls from the ground; there has been no battle since ancient times, and the ancients used everything to attack the city. If they could dig tunnels to dig down the city walls, there would be a precedent. Zhou Jun besieged two Shouzhou I will use it every month. It is also impossible for Liu Renzhan to think that tunnels are useful for carrying troops and attacking.

Even if a section of the city wall is collapsed, it may not be possible to attack, but no one can expect such a thing now. This is a fighter...

He also had to use the base soil to siege the city to confuse Liu Renzhan. Of course, Guo Shao knew that Liu Renzhan would deploy heavy fortifications on the base soil to be prepared. This method cannot be effective, but Liu Renzhan must be on guard, otherwise the feint will become the main attack.

The only question now is whether gunpowder can blow down the wall?

Guo Shao’s siege strategy is clear at a glance: dig tunnels and build soil. Liu Renzhan is probably laughing at himself, even his own people don't believe that Guo Shao's siege can be effective. But he didn't think it mattered. The more the other party felt that everything was under control, the easier it would be to catch the crucial point by surprise and give Liu Renzhan a hard blow!

Of course, if the gunpowder didn't blow up the city, there would be a sound. That would be a tragedy... The world is really full of dangers. Guo Shao had endured it before, but now he doesn't think he has a way out.

Nitrogen, two sulfur and three charcoal. Guo Shao read it silently on the road several times. He doesn't know whether this ratio is good or not, let alone the precise ratio... It's useless to remember, minerals have a lot of impurities, who knows what ratio is mixed together?

Guo Shao met Li Gu in a grain yard in Xiacai Town.

"What does General Guo want these things to do?" Li Gu said, "Is it used to burn the gates? There is an urn in Shouzhou..."

This sentence reminded Guo Shao that gunpowder is burning, not exploding; the power of burning depends on the speed of burning. He saw that there were only a few sacks in the warehouse. He cut through the opening with a knife and saw that they were gray lumps, the color of konjac. Guo Shao thought for a moment and asked, "Is this saltpeter?"

Li Gu nodded: "Sulfur and charcoal are not a problem. A large number of them have been transported from various places, and they will arrive soon. However, there are not many saltpeters that can be collected in the nearby prefectures. Only the rapid adjustments are made from Guanzhong. The total amount reported by local officials is no less than two thousand jin. , It may take ten days to arrive."

Guo Shao hurriedly said, "I am grateful for Li Gong to be so able to help."

"It's all trivial things." Li Gu smiled. "I used to be a prime minister, and I had official communication with many local officials, and I was often ordered by the officials to organize military supplies. It's just a matter of trivialities."

Guo Shao took a piece of saltpeter out of the sack and took it in front of him to take a closer look. In his previous life, he was a person who had finished high school and went to college. He knew that potassium nitrate should be a salt-like crystal, and the stone-like thing in his hand was not very grey. He didn't know how many effective substances were.

After thinking about it, he didn't want to reveal the military plane, and sent someone to Shouzhou to transfer the three hundred soldiers of Luo Mengzi to Xia Cai, ordering the lockdown of the warehouse and driving away the miscellaneous people.

Then, under Guo Shao's instruction, everyone set up a cauldron in the yard and went to find some needed things. Potassium is an active element at the top of the periodic table. Potassium compounds must be easily soluble in water.

Half a sack of saltpeter is crushed by hammering, and then mixed with water in a wooden barrel, and then filtered with gauze to filter out the water. The filtered water is poured into a large pot and boiled and dried. Finally a bunch of white-gray crystals came out. Is this potassium nitrate? Guo Shao grabbed a pinch in the palm of his hand, and found that the crystals inside were of different rules, some were small particles like salt, and some of the crystals were elongated. This is not a substance, otherwise the shape should be the same after crystallization.

Guo Shao asked people to use a bamboo sieve to sieve and sort them. Then the two crystals were mixed with approximate amounts of charcoal and sulfurized, and ignited to try. It was found that only long crystals can burn sharply.

Then several other pots were set up, and a few sacks of saltpeter were processed into three barrels of saltpeter in a long time in that way.

Zuo You helped, weighing the valuables and mixing them into forty-nine different proportions of gunpowder. It is more troublesome to mix. The dry three kinds of items will ignite spontaneously if they are stirred heavily. However, Zuo You and the others easily thought of a way to mix them with water and moisten them directly, like dough, and then get them into a stone pound for processing grain and grass. After drying for one day, carefully grind into powder the next day.

But at this time, Guo Shao asked them to grind them into powder without the trouble, and directly crush them into granules, and then sift them evenly with a fine sieve.

Everyone worked for three days, and forty-nine packs of dark stuff were presented. Guo Shao stayed behind with Zuo Youluo Mengzi and more than a dozen of his trusted soldiers, and experimented in the house.

The method is very simple, try which one burns fastest.

Forty-nine kinds of gunpowder are subdivided into seven groups, and the fastest burning one is selected from each group; then the winner will be tested together. Similar to the rules of the game. Seven kinds of gunpowder are folded with paper to make a long strip, and then count one, two and three to ignite together, to see which one burns to the end first.

The smoke filled the room soon, everyone coughed, so they had to open the doors and windows for ventilation.

The whole process is actually very simple, Guo Shao waited less than an hour to finish the experiment. I found out the proportion of the pack of gunpowder: seven to five dollars, one or two sulphur, one to two and five charcoal.

Guo Shao vaguely knows that gunpowder particles burn faster than powder~www.readwn.com~ Thinking about the reason, it is estimated that there is a gap in the middle that is easier to burn? However, he felt that the experiment was a way to prove all the conjectures, and it was simple, so he took the same kind of gunpowder particles and powder. As expected, the gap was obvious... The same length of gunpowder bar, the particle gunpowder burned out, and the powder was connected. One third did not burn.

It's almost done fighting here. Guo Shao ordered Zuo You to stay in the warehouse, and Luo Mengzi restrained his soldiers and told them not to reveal the military plane, otherwise the death penalty would not escape. Also sent personal scouts to set up light and dark guards near Feishui, beware of careful work.

Guo Shao returned to Shouzhou City. The next day, the minister sent by the emperor went to Shouzhou. This person is no longer a talkative Wang Pu, but someone Guo Shao knows: Dou Yi, and an entourage Zhao Pu.

Guo Shao gradually remembered that Zhao Pu seemed to be a person who had taken refuge in Zhao Kuangyin, but how he was with Dou Yi now is unknown.

Dou Yi didn't say anything, just wandering around the city, investigating the deployment outside the city. Guo Shao explained his deployment intentions and his consideration of how to prepare for a counterattack in the city one by one, and he did not shy away from saying that Li Jixun did not move his troops, and he was attacked by a sneak attack with insufficient troops, which led to his defeat a few days ago.

Two days later, Dou Yi went to the right camp of the Tiger Jie Army. Then went to Chuzhou to the southeast.

Within two days, Kuai Ma rushed to Shouzhou and ordered Li Zhongjin to move to Haozhou. Li Jixun’s department moved towards Tushan in the northeast. The main force of the Third to Sixth Army of the Tiger and Jie’s Left Wing, which was deployed in the direction of Luzhou in the south, Xiang Shou State mobilization, Guo Shao's temperance in the return room.

The preacher Dou Yi said to Guo Shao: "The official said that although you are not slacking off, but you let the defenders succeed in the counterattack, it is hard to blame! Since the military order has been issued, there is something to say before the generals. Lovers. The deadline is one month. Once the time is up, if there is no progress, Guo Duzhi will bind himself to the Lord and ask for sin!"