On the deck of the Don ship, fire control is strict, and there is a special ignition officer, who holds the brazier, and there are two assistants next to him, holding a basin of sand and a wet blanket in their hands, and once the flame goes where it should not go, it will be extinguished. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The ignition officer passed by the rows of guns, and the gunners carried long torches and took fire from the braziers.

Liu Qifeng, the commander of the Lianghe Water Division, had sharp eyes and stood on the command deck of the flagship "Shenhuo", where the field of vision was wide, and he and a group of officers were looking through binoculars, and there were several large barrel-type binoculars on the command deck, which could see far away.

An old sailor on the mast behind the command deck kept shouting, and he shouted about the distance between the two sides.

This sailor's military rank is not high, but his gaze is particularly powerful, and he can measure the distance between two targets on the water.

There are other observers who also report the distances observed by both sides.

There was silence on the command deck, only the observation distance was constantly reported, and the voice of Liu Qifeng giving orders from time to time, but it was mostly "calm" and "steady!" ”

"Two hundred and fifty meters away!" The observer shouted.

"Right full rudder!" Liu Qifeng's eyes lit up and he exclaimed.

The young officer next to him was so nervous that he was sweating and repeated: "Full rudder! ”

Liu Qifeng's order was effective not only for the flagship, but also for the entire formation, the flags on the flagship were rising one after another, and the Tang ships turned to the right, forming a "T" shape with the big cannibal fleet, and we were on the horizontal line.

Then a flag with a white skull on a black background quickly rose to the top of the mast, and at that moment, all the officers of the ships who were looking at the flagship were very happy.

The orders from the ships were transmitted to the cabins from the intercom tubes on the deck: "Open fire on the port side!" ”

The officer in the cabin shouted: "Open fire on the port side!" ”

The gunners on the port side, in accordance with the regulations that had been drilled thousands of times, lit the fuses on the breeches without trembling.

It sizzled and burned out quickly.

"Boom!"

The muzzle of the cannon erupted with fire, and a cannonball whizzed out with black smoke and hit the enemy ship on the opposite side.

Start hit!

The shell hit the left bow of a roar-scratching ship, punching a hole in the deck wall, and sawdust drifting all over the sky, not hurting a big cannibal, but scaring them enough!

The cannons on the Tang ships roared, the flames burst out, and the cannonballs smashed fiercely into the big food boats.

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Artillery!

After years of research, artillery finally came in handy, which involved a huge system engineering and Wei Xi's organization of people to successfully climb the technology tree.

The first is the advent of gunpowder, the Tang Dynasty and the period before, the invention of gunpowder was in the making, and the "firecrackers" at that time were not gunpowder, but the hollow bamboo tubes were thrown into the fire to make them sound and got their name.

Wei Xi has a memory of the gunpowder formula, but he can't give the formula, he is not a chemical student.

When refining the "elixir" of immortality for the emperors, the monks and Taoist priests of all dynasties gradually invented and perfected the formula of gunpowder in the refining process.

However, the Taoist priests cherished themselves, even such a gunpowder formula was not something that ordinary people could touch, and even the emperor could only eat the "elixir" and did not know the refining method.

The Taoist priests spread the word of mouth, and if they were reluctant to say, it was appropriate to give the wrong formula.

Wei Xi is not an emperor yet, but fortunately, he has other capital.

He is the protector of Taoism!

The reincarnation of Li Nezha, the great god of the Three Altars Sea Society, made the Taoist priests naturally have a sense of closeness to him.

In fact, he has a great contribution to Taoism.

Wu Zetian Xing Buddha suppressed Taoism, Taoism's life was not good, Taoist priests had no royal patronage, and even took the government to the Taoist temple, persecuted Taoist priests and deprived Taoist temple property, real estate, and the people were afraid of things, did not dare to go to Taoism, Taoist incense decayed, many factors together, Taoist priests can't even afford to raise themselves!

However, within the scope of Wei Xi's control, the Taoist temple was not discriminated against in any way, and was sponsored by the government.

Many Taoist chiefs were sent to the Western Regions, they had no worries about food and lodging, and those who had the ability or had great backgrounds could open up new Taoist temples, or get sponsorship to travel around the world to avoid disasters, and sometimes the chief of the princess's mansion took the princess's mansion's post to open up the relationship and intercede for the Taoist masters.

Wei Xi has the ability to "squeeze oil out of stones" in another aspect, he can accommodate a lot of manpower, all aspects of manpower, as long as there are hands and feet willing to work, Taoist priests are also helpful to him, used to educate the people, although Wei Xi said that Buddhism is mainly propagandized, but also gave a lot of help to Taoism.

Taoism was greatly benefited by his cause, and with cause and effect, Wei Xi wanted a gunpowder formula, but the Taoist leaders were embarrassed not to give it.

And then he had the help of the Xuanqing Daoist, he helped Wei Xi come forward, summoned the so-called Taoist temples that were refining the elixir, moved them with affection, understood them with reason, and lured them to benefit.

Talking about Wei Xi's origin and contribution to Taoism, what he needs now is the formula for everyone to refine the elixir, but what he wants is a formula that can explode.

Finally, when a recipe presented by Li Xuandu, a Taoist priest from Laojun Mountain Laojun Temple in Sichuan, was delivered to Wei Xi, Wei Xi was overjoyed!

It is the recipe of black powder in memory: eight parts of saltpeter, one part of charcoal, and one part of sulfur, which mixes the dry medicinal materials together, burns very quickly, and sometimes fires.

Wei Xi got the formula, and immediately promised to reshape the golden body of Laojun Mountain and Laojun Temple, and those Taoist temples who were willing to give the formula had a lot of rewards, and told everyone to keep it secret.

He organized manpower, set up a research team, and incorporated Li Xuandu and several Taoist priests into the team, conducted further in-depth research, and began many experiments.

According to Li Xuandu, saltpeter is mainly found in the dry seal, mineral springs and cave walls in alkaline soil areas, or it is scavenged from toilets and old houses, and the obtained saltpeter is crushed, put in a wooden barrel mixed with water and stirred, and then filtered out with gauze for straining tofu. The filtered water is poured into a large pot and boiled and dried. Finally, a bunch of white-gray crystals were fried, among which the long crystals could be burned sharply, this is nitrate!

As concocted, saltpeter is processed, and the long crystals are not wasted, and Wei Xi taught everyone to put it into the crop field, which can increase the fertility of the land and make the crops increase.

Everyone tried it, and it was really like this, and they deeply admired Wei Xi.

As for sulfuric acid, Wei Xi thought it was a natural sulfur stone (from a volcano), was it because of the active geological activity in Sichuan, and the sulfur from the crater was made?

Unexpectedly, Li Xuan said yes! Originally, they built furnaces on the site of iron ore mines, and used symbiotic coal or coal from nearby mines to process sulfur...... It seems that the iron ore is pyrite.

As for the source of charcoal, it is much easier.

After drying the various ingredients, they are selected and refined, all of them are crushed into pellets, sieved evenly with a fine sieve, and then weighed and divided into different portions to see which one burns faster.

In the end, it was found that the composition of nitrate was almost 7 into 5, the sulfur content was 1 percent, and the charcoal was the optimal ratio of 1 to 5.

When the mixed gunpowder is sealed and ignited, this time it is not burning, but a violent explosion!

All the personnel looked stupid!

Wei Xi remembered another incident: "gunpowder granularization", he asked everyone to wet the mixed gunpowder, press it into a cake to dry, and then break it, and the result of the explosion was even more powerful.

At this point, gunpowder was officially introduced.