Chapter 436: The Power of Gunpowder

"Thunderbolt? What's that? After discovering that Zhang Liang was also confused, Zhong Liwu asked more actively. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"It's this." As soon as Ziyan's hand flipped over, a small black iron ball appeared in her palm, and Xiang Yu, who had witnessed this little thing in an instant, killed a piece of terracotta warriors and horses neatly, and his face turned dark.

"Can it be manufactured on a large scale?" Speaking of the things of the Hidden Family, there are actually a lot of things that are both practical and lethal, but the reason why Ziyan basically ignores these things is the material limitations. In short, one word, expensive.

For example, everyone knows that bamboo leaf green poison, a little snake venom is enough to make people laugh and go crazy, but the venom that a bamboo leaf green can spit out can poison three or five people at most, no matter how much it is, there is nothing that can be done, if you want to poison the 100,000 army, I am afraid that it will take tens of thousands of people to catch snakes to death! And there is no place to find someone who has money!

It's not that poison is not used on the battlefield, but except for a few sneak attack generals who can use a weapon that can be extravagant, in fact, the most commonly used poison on the battlefield is gold water, and even wolf dung is a luxury. Gold water is a mixture of boiling biological excrement, and the name of modern Chinese medicine is human gold, and if you are properly infected by this thing, you will die properly in this era, and if you don't die completely, you will die nine times out of ten.

But everyone knows that excrement is a good fertilizer, so even this kind of thing is only used in siege warfare in big cities, and ordinary small cities don't have that capital!

However, if weapons can be made on a large scale, they cannot be taken lightly.

"I can't do this, I can't do it with their technology, but this mainly depends on the recipe and process, and if you sacrifice volume and unit power in exchange for quantity, it is feasible. This, but the Yu family's family rules are absolutely not allowed in the world! Even if the Yu family was destroyed back then, my father didn't think about taking this thing out! ”

In this era of relying on quantitative changes to cause qualitative changes, what is terrifying is not a high-precision weapon, but what can rely on quantity to win is truly terrifying! There is only one Xiang Yu in the world who can break 30,000 or 200,000!

"Can we force our way through, can't we?" Yingbu frowned, he didn't think that such a thing could have any big effect, he didn't understand seeing them so nervous.

"Master Yingbu, you don't understand, such a thing will explode. Because it resembles a thunderbolt, we dare to give such a name, the fire and the huge sound have a very big impact on the war horse, in front of the untrained war horse, the war horse will run around because of fear, and he can disrupt his formation first! What it means that the cavalry formation is disrupted, the division commander should know better than me. ”

"And the destructive power of this thing is very large, the terrain of Hangu Pass is two mountains and one valley, if there is really a certain number, not to mention blowing up the two mountains, but it is still possible to put rolling stones and wood on the mountain to block the way out."

Think of that scene, their faces are all white!

"Is it really that powerful?" Zhong Liwu was skeptical.

"Go back and find an open place with no people, no horses, no stones, catch up with some livestock, I'll try to show you, the raw materials of this thing are not valuable, you can find a bunch of them anywhere, although I don't know if they have this process to this point, but always prepare for the worst." Purple Smoke smiled bitterly.

"When I came out, I dug up a little sample, and you can see how it goes." Mrs. Qianqing is still very prepared, "Ziyan is right, they are indeed using this idea to blow up the mountain, and the mountains on both sides of Hangu Pass have been dug up by them. ”

Mrs. Qianqing took out a bamboo tube from her arms and handed it to Ziyan, but was stopped by Xiang Yu. Looking at Xiang Yu's frowning appearance, Ziyan instantly understood: "Don't worry, it doesn't matter if there is no open flame, this is not poisonous." ”

In this way, Xiang Yu reluctantly gave things to Ziyan.

That being said, Ziyan still had to be careful when she was pregnant with the child, she took apart the pile of black and yellow powder poured out of the bamboo tube, picked up a pen and slowly picked it up, and was relieved when she looked at it: "The materials they use are very good, but the proportion is a little worse, the technology is not up to par, and the power is not as powerful as mine, but the explosion and combustion problems are not hit, if it is in a siege war, it is not a problem to deal with war horses." ”

"Is it saltpeter and brimstone? Is this gunpowder? Zhang Liang asked, and the smell of these two things was relatively obvious.

The word gunpowder is not a product of modern times, it appeared as early as the Warring States period, although not many people know it, but it is not uncommon for Zhang Liang, who eats by his brain, to know.

"That's right, there is charcoal, their saltpeter and sulfur are not pure enough, they don't have a purification process, and they don't have the last step of the process, and the shape and structure are not right, if this is the case, it doesn't hurt for me to show you here, bother the master to light a brazier." Judging from the tricks, they are all very positive, although the brazier is really a bit of a brain pumping suspicion in early autumn, but fire is a very common means in war, and there is no shortage of things to ignite in the barracks.

A brazier was quickly lit, and by the way, the field was cleared, and no one approached for a hundred meters around the tent.

Ziyan put his thunderbolt into the space ring, picked up a little bit the size of a fingernail and threw it into the brazier, only to hear a "boom", and the flames that were originally obediently lying in the brazier suddenly jumped up more than a foot high, directly burning a hole in the tent!

Although it was only fleeting, looking at the sunlight shining through the top of the tent, everyone's scalp was still numb! You know, the purple smoke is just a little bit the size of a fingernail!

Everyone looked shocked, but they didn't notice that Ziyan's brows were slightly furrowed, the gunpowder of this era seemed to be much bigger than her original era! Although Ziyan is a girl, and she rarely played with firecrackers in her previous life, she also knows that it is just a small cannon in the countryside in her previous life for five cents a box, and there is still a bit of a problem with the purity ratio, even if it explodes in the palm of a child's hand, it is just a scar, and it will not hurt anything if it doesn't blow up to the eyes, just listen to it, where is there such a great power?

This thought flashed in Ziyan's heart, and he didn't have time to think about this, the top priority now is how to solve Hangu Pass.

"So, this Hangu Pass really can't be attacked?" The faces of the people were very ugly.

But Ziyan noticed that Xiang Yu's reaction today was very strange. He is not a deep person in the city, and he is still a little far from being happy and angry, why are they all in a hurry when they hear such news, Xiang Yu is still such an old god? He's not in a hurry?