So, the helpless director could only take out a thick thread from the box, and then beat the fire sickle, and then Anna saw that the thread did not burn with fireworks as usual, but sparks were violently sprayed out in the director's hands, and with a sound, it instantly turned into invisible, "like countless tiny stars rushing out, which is very beautiful and terrifying." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" This is what Anna later recorded in her diary.

"I'm so scared." The mouth fetish of the little sunfish also came out involuntarily.

But what was even more terrible was still to come, and I saw that the director took out a tube from the box, and Anna craned her neck to see that it was not made of leather, but was actually wrapped in layers of Seleucian reed paper, one was sealed, and one was left with holes, and the thick thread stretched out from the outside was the same thick thread just now, which contained black gunfire salt.

With a sharp whistling, the thread outside the leather tube burst into flames, and a miserable white tail flame like a spear of gunfire erupted through the hole, and then Anna and the little sunfish ignored their reserves, and grew their mouths, only to see it pass through the gap in the canopy, soar straight to a very high place, and then fall down with a smoke, "What is this power that makes it fly!" Completely different from the principle of arrow chords? Anna was amazed, this was completely different from the spear just now—because the spear itself was fired by a ballista, and the "salt" in it only served to burn.

"Your Royal Highness, this is the power of the Salt itself, it spews fire and gas during the combustion, and it can drive objects to fly out. Please cover your ears this time! After the director had finished explaining, he took out from the box a coffin that was also made of reed paper wrapped in multiple layers, and then lit it with the same thread, and when it was about to be burned, he hurriedly threw it out with his arms, and then even though her ears were covered by the little sunfish, Anna felt the whole canopy and her own chair tremble a few times, and a ball of fire with smoke and dust flying everywhere appeared in the place where the fire hit the ground.

"This is also a fire salt?"

"Yes, Your Highness the Princess, it's just the effect of different distributions. The former can quickly jet and burn to produce great power, while the latter uses sulfur to burst in an instant, spreading shock and lethality from all directions, like countless clusters of arrows. ”

"Then among these recipes, the 'master' is the fire salt? The counterweight is constantly changing through it to produce the two different effects you are talking about. "Anna is smart and quick to draw inferences.

The director nodded, "But in any case, our conclusion is that the specific gravity of the fire salt must be more than half, otherwise it will be like the Venetian spear, which can only be ignited by a burning iron cone." ”

"Then we need a lot of gunfire salt, the more the better!"

"This is very difficult, Your Highness the Princess, we can collect some of the finished products from the merchants in various ways and store them for use in battle. But how exactly this fire salt is made is really unclear. After speaking, the director stood in place with a sad face and clasped his hands.

This made Anna also disappointed, she turned her head to look at Agnes, who was the most proficient in equipment, but the other party only shook her head: Agnes is a person who knows a lot about machinery, but she does not know how to make nitrate.

"What about these Saracens and Persian technicians?" Anna asked menacingly, "Didn't anyone in their previous country know how the gunfire was made?" Is it in the mines, or in the lakes? Tell them all, or I'll tell Staurachos to castrate you all—our empire is much more sophisticated than yours in this technology, so try it! Frightened, the group of foreign technicians hurriedly knelt down and cried, saying that when His Royal Highness Gawain was still the Grand Duke of the Empire, he promised not to harm us, and also guaranteed our senior salary, "This kind of thing is called 'Khitan Snow' in our place, and the prince's ordnance engineers will make it, and there are also a small number of high-priced sales, but the formula is absolutely secret, where do we, the peripheral technicians, know?" ”

In fact, Anna also knew in her heart that there must be one or two "core technicians" lying here, because their Qur'an once said that in the last resort, the crescent believers can lie to other scripture believers or kafelers, and even eat unclean pork to cover up their identity, let alone keep this mysterious Khitan snow secret. However, Anna didn't really have a seizure, because the torture hurt the entire "Ordnance Division team" in Seleucia, and many skills were inseparable from this group of aliens.

So the princess could only sigh slightly, wave her hand, and say to the director, "Then it is better to use a small amount of gunfire at the critical moment of the camp fortifications of Milio Sefalon, and frighten the enemy." Then, try to preserve Seleucia by means of a combination of military and political forces. Just when the depressed purple-clothed princess was about to leave with the support of the little sunfish, Samuelfa suddenly approached, holding a letter in his hand, this guy actually laughed, "This is actually His Royal Highness Gawain before leaving, specially asked me to forward it to you - sorry, just a joke with you, this kind of Khitan snow required for gunfire, His Royal Highness Gawain has already instructed the Ordnance Department to operate and manufacture!" ”

After speaking, the group of Saracen and Persian technicians also bowed their heads and smiled awkwardly at each other, and stood up, indicating that they had just cooperated with the director's role.

"Ahhh Anna bared her tiger teeth, looking at the director of the Ordnance Department who was still heartless, and thought that the abrupt and blunt sense of humor of this group of engineering technicians sometimes really made her feel the urge to castrate them all—but Anna quickly calmed down, and she whispered to Samuelfa, "When did Khitan Xue's manufacturing workshop start operating, why don't I know?" ”

"His Highness has always set aside part of the money sent by the city of Bari, and the workshop has been built at the entrance to the valley of the Mut, where six hundred Syrians are working, and the outer cover is a Pauline water-powered mill."

"It's him and the dark-skinned female fox again." Anna couldn't help but feel a little happy and a little resentful, "Tomorrow I will personally go to patrol and make that female fox ready to meet me." There is also - the formula of Khitan Snow is top secret, and the Ordnance Department has strengthened access control and secret protection, and if technicians and craftsmen dare to leak it, the whole family will be executed. ”

After nightfall, the two curious female princesses went to the delivery room on the lower floor, to take care of the widow and the newborn little Mesadeni, after all, women are more interested in babies, Anna did not go, sat alone in the study in the curtain, and looked at Gawain's letter:

"I'm sorry Anna, it took so long to tell you about Khitan Snow. The main reason is that you don't want to cause too much trouble, especially the mouth of the small sunfish, and you should try to avoid the small sunfish in this letter. At this time, a small glass bottle rolled out of the sealed letter box, and inside was the salty "Khitan Snow", "Now please put it aside as I said." ”

Seeing this, Anna saw the basin in front of her, in the middle of which was also filled with water, mixed with some Levantine cane sugar, and then she uncorked the glass bottle, and sprinkled the Khitan snow into the basin, and then a miraculous phenomenon appeared, the jug soon formed a thin layer of frost, and the cold mist swirled, and soon Anna took out the jug, and put the mouth of the canister down, and the pleasant sound sounded, and the water in the jar turned into a crushed ice cube that only exists in midwinter...... (To be continued.) )