After making a plan with Zong Botai, Bailiyan was not in a hurry to rush to Liang State, the commander's departure from the army was very important, and he still needed to arrange the armies and inform Lu and Zhao of the news.

At the same time, the position of the Third Army was crucial, and Zong Botai needed to stay behind to open up the situation, so Bailiyan planned to transfer Guan Longxiang from Lu Gao's Second Army and go to Liang State together, accompanied by someone to discuss, while waiting for King Xian's final attitude towards Zhong Ting's self-reliance.

Guan Longxiang, Zong Botai, and Zhao Anling have their own strengths, Zong Botai has a wider field of vision, and Zhao Anling is open-minded by nature, and he has his own uniqueness. Guan Longxiang cares more about fame, and his vision is not as good as Zong Botai and Zhao Anling, but he is more refined in calculating specific things, and he is generally on the same level as the Chengdao faction.

On February 20, King Xian's reply was delivered to the camp, asking him to act cheaply, and the bottom line was still to follow the goal of capturing the three counties of Changsun before the war, and the others might as well be exchanged.

But in fact, the situation has changed fundamentally, and the Wei Guo side has repeatedly promised to hand over the seven counties of Changsun to Xianguo for disposal, but behind his back, he must have made another plan with Changsun and Liang Guo, otherwise Changsun would not be so calm. If Xianguo loses the initiative on the western front of Changsun's land, it means that the battle will be fought in vain, so it is conceivable that this war will not be too smooth.

On the twenty-third day of February, Long Xiang finished handing over all the affairs in the army and rushed to the camp of the Lingchang Xian army, and Bailiyan and 500 people first went to Gu Ruquan's camp fifty miles east of Tianyun in Guanling County.

On the road, Bailiyan didn't dare to go too fast, let alone rush to the night, the reason was that Jiang Jie had buried tripping mines along the way and threw triangles, and it was not ruled out that there were still sporadic ones that had not been cleaned up and triggered.

Before arriving at Gu Ruquan's camp, Bai Liyan secretly made an appointment with Zhou Kong.

"What about the casualties on Jiang Jie and your side, is there enough ammunition and food?"

"The casualties are not large, more than 500 people have been killed and wounded since the invasion of Liang State, the Liang army has been operating the border for a long time, and there is plenty of food and grass when entering the city, but the ammunition is a little tight. In order to suppress Gu Ruquan, a lot of empty cannons were fired. ”

"But didn't you capture Liang Jun's baggage, there should be black powder among them. Jiang Jie, a stupid person, only knows how to let it go, but he doesn't use his brain. ”

"It was the black powder of the Liang army that was captured, but I don't know what was mixed in the medicine, the smoke after ignition is very powerful, the fire is peculiar, and after a few uses, there will be a layer of things in the gun chamber, and the muzzle will be narrowed, and our shells will not be stuffed."

"Hey, there's something else!"

Hearing this, Bai Liyan couldn't help but feel incredible, but it was certain that Liang Jun had added other substances to the black powder to enhance the power of the gunpowder.

The basic formula of black powder is that the ingredients are not immutable. Historically, it was not uncommon to use black powder as a base recipe and add other elements to enhance its power.

However, Bai Liyan would definitely not have thought that Liang Guo added black powder to enhance the power of black powder.

The layer of unknown substances formed on the wall of the cannon barrel was actually the result of the excess sugar sticking to the barrel of the cannon after using Liang Jun's black powder.

However, this situation does not exist in the Liang army's artillery, not that the Liang army's gunpowder needs to be cleared, Jiang Jie also needs to be cleared when he uses black powder to load the Xianjun artillery, but the Xianjun artillery caliber casting is precise and the projectile accuracy is high, so the gap between the projectile and the artillery caliber is small. After repeatedly using Liang Jun's gunpowder, it is not easy to notice the thickening of the pipe wall, and it will not be noticed until the projectile is not plugged in the future.

The Liang army's artillery does not have this kind of problem, but the reason is surprising, because the Liang army's artillery is of inferior quality, with a large gap between the caliber and the projectile, and more importantly, the Liang army uses copper cannons, and the Xian army uses platinum-based copper-nickel-iron-based alloys, which are steel.

However, the thermal expansion coefficient of copper is high, the thermal expansion coefficient of iron is low, and the thermal expansion coefficient of the barrel material is required to be lower, so after the Liang army artillery becomes cold from heat, the sugar on the inner wall will be broken and fall into the gun chamber due to excessive thermal expansion and cold contraction, while the thermal expansion and contraction of the Xianjun artillery is poor, so the sugar will not break and will continue to stick to the gun breech, and then tighten the gun caliber.

And Liang Jun's sugar is partly self-produced, and more comes from salty countries where sugar prices are lower.

Due to the low industrial and mining capacity, the ability of countries to mine sulfur and nitrate is limited, and the price remains high. However, after the increase in sulfur and nitrate, the princes were in turn blockaded and most of them used for their own use and did not export, so they restricted the use of black powder in large quantities, so all countries were looking for alternative methods, and sugar and phosphating minerals became potential options.

In the early years, because of the rebellion of the black scarf, the Central Plains accidentally clicked on the "chemistry" of the technical path branch, although it still has a typical witchcraft nature, but it is undeniable that the black scarf has a certain amount of research on the early primitive "formula chemistry", the emergence of triacids is enough to synthesize many substances, and let a few people realize the cognition of chemistry.

Although it is impossible to recognize sugar as a weapon fuel in advance, Bai Liyan still greatly ignores the curiosity of today's people.

Because the set of chemical methods mastered by the black towel is not correct, it is easy for people to go astray, so the stupid method of constantly mixing various substances with each other has become the origin of the current mainstream formula chemistry.

In order to reduce the cost of black powder, Liang Guo was also forced to embark on the mode of constantly adding other substances, during which everything was added to black powder, until one day after discovering that sugar could also be used for explosions, Liang Guo finally developed his own new black powder after pondering and reformulating it several times.

In the early days of solid rockets, sugar and potassium nitrate were used as propellants, and even propellants used in rockets for war purposes.

Liang Guo has seen this point in view of the fact that Liang Guo imports a lot of sugar from Xianguo under different names and through different channels every year, most of which is used in gunpowder.

Since there was no physical object, Bailiyan couldn't figure out the clues for a while, so she stopped thinking about it. He also commanded with Zhou Kong:

"When the time comes, I will ask Jiang Jie to bring more Liang Jun's black powder back for testing, and I will know soon if there is anything."

"Can you really know?" Zhou Kong asked curiously, Bai Liyan nodded and said affirmatively:

"Well, not only can we know what is added, but if it is beneficial, we may not be able to imitate it."

"How long will this battle last?" Zhou Kong said worriedly.

"Hold on for another month, at most two months, you and Jiang Jie can get out, but Jiang Jie can't withdraw yet, you can disperse and withdraw with the brothers, and I will arrange people to pick you up in advance."

"Wouldn't that be revealing?"

"Yes, but you're not big, Jiang Jie and they may be exposed, but Jiang Jie and they don't show up directly, even if they want to check, they can't find their heads."

Zhou Kong led the righteous army to fight guerrillas near Gu Ruquan, Gu Ruquan did not move, she did not move, Gu Ruquan moved, she withdrew, Jiang Mingcheng pursued, and Zhou Kong drove a counterattack. Gu Ruquan was never given a chance to withdraw and retreat, and after a few tosses, Gu Ruquan was nailed to the ground and couldn't move.

Of course, Gu Ruquan had previously suggested that Xiangguo Jia Zhou spend a lot of money to buy off the "Guards", but the money has not yet been delivered.

One of the reasons is that the treasury is in Jinye, the Son of Heaven is in Boyuan, it is not convenient to mobilize, and it is not a small amount of money. Since it is inconvenient for the Son of Heaven to use money, Boyuan Jun Jifeng is so rich, can't he borrow it first and then pay it back.

Although it is an uncle and nephew, there is nothing more difficult in the world than to borrow money, the Son of Heaven opened his mouth to borrow 500,000 silver first, he said that no matter how rich he Boyuanjun was, he would not be able to take out 500,000, even if he had, he would not dare to say that he had 500,000. Besides, this is not a small amount, even if the nobles of the whole country pledge to donate, it will take time.

Second, the transportation of such a large amount of money is very inconvenient, not to mention the safety, but the transaction is to hand over the money with one hand and the city with the other, and the door will not be opened if you don't see the money.

After the expansion of Fang Liang and Tian Peng's Sixth Town, half of the additional soldiers were the new generation of the new vassal people of the Central Plains, as well as the teenagers of the year and some of the old soldiers at that time, and the new force accounted for the majority.

The other half were mercenaries hired from the country and the families of their children, who were originally patriots, and according to the original promise after the black scarves were wiped out, these people were automatically granted the nationality of the Xianguo country and enjoyed the same treatment. As a result, he obtained land and equal rights to life, and was integrated into the Xian country. However, due to the short period of time, it still retains a strong West Sea accent.

Jiang Jie's composition of the Eighth Town Army of Zhoukong is also very complicated, and the original team of Zhoukong when he surrendered could have continued to be maintained, due to heavy bribery and a large amount of money, seventy percent of the established generals of Zhoukong's headquarters took the money and left, squatting in Zhaocheng, Wang's family, and Chenling to enjoy Qingfu, so the original system was gone, and then only Sun Guomin could be prepared to supplement the system.

After that, the training of the new army supplemented many Xianguo recruits and officers, and the composition changed greatly, and after the establishment of the system with Xue Sheng, the composition was completely disrupted.

Such a group of teams with mixed accents are compiled, as long as there are no high-level mutinies and major leaks, small-scale intelligence leaks and mid- and lower-level mutinies, it is not enough to identify the attributes of this army, after all, this accent and style are no different from the guards.

Although it is possible to expose the stuffing, but Liang Guo knows what can he do, I can't admit it. Of course, I don't admit that you can do it, but can you do it?

The next day, Bai Liyan and Guan Longxiang continued to rush to Gu Ruquan's camp, at this time Gu Ruquan was in a hurry, in addition to the trouble caused by the "Guards" seizing the three places, the "Guards" cut off the road to the west, and Gu Ruquan's army was nailed to the border, and it was difficult to divide the troops, so the first news was extremely unsmooth.