Chapter 457: Saltpeter Sulfur

"That's right, don't cower when a manly man does things, it's more than wrong for us people to beat them, right, uncle?" Lu Xiaoyu said arrogantly.

"Xiaoyu, you can't underestimate Xiang Yu, his strength is still very strong, otherwise how could he be called the overlord of Western Chu, and even the Khitans are afraid of him for three points? What we have to do this time is to surround Wu to save Yu, take advantage of Xiang Yu's lack of troops in Wu Yue to occupy Wu Yue, and force Xiang Yu to rescue Wu Yue, so that Henan's garrison is loosened, and the Flying Tiger Army and the Yellow Turban Army inside will naturally have a chance to come out! Supreme Treasure analyzed.

"But what if Xiang Yu wants to occupy Henan and ignore us?" Li Yi asked.

"This is not simple, we will directly target the other areas adjacent to Wuyue to attack, until Xiang Yu can't help but come to the rescue, he will be happier if he does not come to reinforcements, and directly occupy all the other territories except Henan, and then turn around to encircle Henan, see what room he has to fight back!"

"Uncle, you're so good! Fourth brother, didn't you even think of it? Li Da said casually, embarrassed Lu Xiaoyu's old face turned red, and prevaricated: "This is what we thought of together, and it was said by my uncle, in fact, I already knew." ”

"That's right, we thought of it together." Supreme Treasure also excused Lu Xiaoyu to save his image in everyone's minds.

"However, I do feel that after the fourth brother comes back, it seems that there is something different from before, but I can't say what is different." Li Yi also discovered this problem.

"I think Brother Xiaoyu seems to be talking less, you see he didn't talk much just now." Zheng Ze pointed out.

"That's right, Brother Zheng, you're right, even I found that you did talk a lot, is it that there is no news of Miss Chen in the Western Regions, and you are still sad and sad?" Xiao He said while looking at the agricultural holy book that Lu Xiaoyu gave him.

The person who should be sad should be me, Xiaoyu doesn't know anything now, how you let him talk to everyone a lot. He knows less about this march and war than me, and if you want him and you to defeat Xiang Yu, it is really asking the ghost to get the medicine list. Alas, forget it, it's useless to say anything now, let's let Lu Xiaoyu answer them casually according to what was discussed before.

"It's not that I've gone around the Western Regions for a while, but it's still a long way to go deeper into the Western Regions, so I came back early thinking about Wu Yue's situation. I didn't expect to meet my uncle Supreme Treasure who traveled in Western Xia on the way, and I learned about the situation here with him, and I wanted to come back soon. But we still have some reasons to delay in Western Xia for a period of time, and then by chance we went to Mongolia again, and my uncle was valued by the Mongolian Heavenly Khan, so he brought 10,000 soldiers of the Mongolian Eagle Army to reinforce our Flying Tiger Army, so with what you see now, this is roughly how things happened. I thought about dealing with this matter, so I went to the Western Regions with Brother Zheng and Zhang Qian, a student of Master Li, and then went deep into it to find Qingyan's whereabouts. ”

Lu Xiaoyu's half-truths and half-truths frightened everyone, and they all believed what he said. Zheng Ze also promised to accompany Lu Xiaoyu to the Western Regions again, and he also wanted to see the Mongolian Heavenly Khan again.

"By the way, Xiao Yi, is there any explosives left from the explosives that Xiao Yu and I developed before our Flying Tiger Army?" Supreme Treasure asked.

"We used all the explosives that could be used when fighting Xiang Yu's soldiers, and the power of the explosives was strong and lacking in water, although they now knew that they had to prepare water to deal with us in advance, but we still injured many people. If it weren't for these explosives, our Flying Tigers would have been finished. ”

"Alas, it's hard to do without explosives, it's still a little difficult to defeat Xiang Yu's army with this ordinary weapon alone, I don't want these brothers to die in vain." Supreme Treasure said with a frown.

"It's true that the ready-made ones are gone, but the raw materials that the two generals left in the laboratory before are still very well preserved!" Li Da said.

"What! The ingredients are still there, it's so good! Now there's hope! Supreme Treasure said happily.

"After the two generals left, no one dared to enter this laboratory without the orders of the two of you, even when Xiang Yu's army attacked our camp several times, we sent people to defend this laboratory to the death and not let anyone destroy it, so you see that other places here have been corrected, but only this laboratory has not been touched by anyone as before." Li Yi thought that he had done a wise thing and waited for the Supreme Treasure to praise him.

At this time, Supreme Treasure's face turned to the side, "Oops! No one has ever touched them? There is a lot of rain in the Wuyue area, and if no one cleans it up here all the year round, I am afraid that all the raw materials for this gunpowder will be ...... No, I'll have to check it out. With that, the Supreme Treasure rushed into the laboratory full of various experimental materials and gunpowder raw materials.

When he saw the scene inside, the Supreme Treasure almost cried, and the others shook their heads one after another. It turned out that the Wuyue area was rainy every time the Huangmei rainy season, and the Supreme Treasure did not take care of everyone to keep the laboratory dry and tidy when he left, so it was found that a thick layer of ash had accumulated in the laboratory, and all the explosives raw materials were also damp and could not be used. Snakes and rats have built a nest in it, and if it is not cleaned up, it will be extinct and explosives can no longer be developed.

Supreme Treasure shook his head, grabbed a handful of wet saltpeter, and said sadly: "Alas, if you wait until these things are dried and then made into explosives, I'm afraid that Xiang Yu has already captured Henan." Could it be that God won't help us with this? ”

"Uncle is not good for us, at that time, we just guarded this laboratory and didn't come in to see the situation inside, if we found out earlier, it would definitely not be like this. If you want to punish us, punish us, and we will never complain. Li Da blamed himself.

"How can I blame you for this matter, it's all my fault, I left in too haste, and I didn't even explain this little thing, if you want to punish me, you should punish me." The Supreme Treasure also blamed himself.

At this time, Xiao He suddenly picked up saltpeter and sulfur and looked at it for a long time, suddenly his eyes lit up, he smelled it, and shouted, "There you have it!" ”

"What's up? Xiao He, you know something, say it quickly. ”

"I know where to get both." Xiao He said happily.

"How is that possible? I brought these things back from the far Western Regions, and most people would not want to do this because they were transported over a long distance. How can you have these two things as a logistics person? Zheng Ze saw that what Xiao He was holding in his hand was sulfur and saltpeter, which were obviously things that were not available here, and couldn't help complaining.