The first regiment and the fourth regiment were sent to Yancheng to assist in the battle, with a total of 3,000 troops, these two regiments were led by Wang Huaipeng and Shan Qingzi, and most of the soldiers in them were recruits, so they needed to be trained the most.

Sending 3,000 troops to assist Yancheng in the battle is already very powerful, and these 3,000 troops, plus Yancheng's own more than 6,000 people, and nearly 10,000 troops are dispatched, which directly scares those small forces that unite against Yancheng. Because they had barely gathered 8,000 people because of their forces, they originally wanted to use the number of people to press Yancheng, but they didn't expect the situation to reverse all of a sudden. In addition, the soldiers of Yuan ** and Yancheng Army are all brave and good at fighting, and their weapons are more advanced than them, and the gunpowder cartridges have begun to be used.

So this battle was completely overwhelmingly successful. The Yanyuan coalition army only encountered three battles with those forces, and it had already killed 300 enemy troops and captured 2,000 people, directly consuming one-third of them.

As soon as the forces saw this situation, they instantly recognized it and ceded all the coal resources to Yancheng. This is a battle without suspense, but it has allowed many recruits of the Yuan Kingdom to be trained. After all, participating in real combat is completely different from regular training. Because it was this overwhelming battle, the Yanyuan coalition army also lost a certain amount of troops, and five people were killed and nineteen were wounded; Because the Yancheng army was the main force, nineteen people were killed and seventy-seven were wounded.

And the reason why this battle was won so smoothly also relied on another advantageous weapon, that is, gunpowder. As early as two years ago, Yancheng was already developing gunpowder, but for the materials in gunpowder, Yancheng's scientists must also achieve the realization from theory to practical application.

However, it does not take a long time to make the coarser gunpowder, but there are two important reasons why it has been difficult to use gunpowder for time applications.

The first is that the Yuan Kingdom did not have better equipment to refine relatively pure materials, such as the three main materials that make up gunpowder: charcoal, saltpeter and sulfur. These materials are not difficult to find, but if you want to make them into gunpowder, you must refine them into relatively pure materials, so as to ensure that gunpowder has good combustion stability and regularity.

The second difficulty is that it cannot be mass-produced. The first difficulty may not take too long after repeated experiments in the laboratory, because the laboratories of the Yuan Kingdom can generally be equipped with some relatively good instruments, but in order to achieve mass production, it is necessary to require the Yuan Kingdom to have a mechanical factory of uniform specifications in order to produce gunpowder faster and better. However, this cannot be achieved in Yancheng at present, because the Yuan Kingdom has not yet been able to industrialize, let alone build mechanized factories.

If you can't do automated production, you can use it manually. Because the effect of gunpowder on the war was too great, Lin Yue did not hesitate to invest a lot of capital, organized a large number of manpower as craftsmen, and used the most stupid methods to make it, and they used some rudimentary tools to make it. However, because it was done by hand, the final gunpowder produced was somewhat flawed.

And after the gunpowder is produced, it is also necessary to make them into weapons. You don't have to think about guns and shells for a while, but it's relatively easy to make into powder cartridges. It's just that detonation is a relatively big problem, and this is the third problem in the practice of gunpowder.

Explosive devices, such as grenades or mines, are usually detonated with a detonator. And now if Yuan Guo wants to make a detonator, it is relatively difficult, although the laboratory can still achieve it, but to achieve mass production, it still involves the problem of materials and standardized production.

Therefore, the gunpowder cartridge used in actual combat in the Yuan Kingdom was still ignited with the most primitive fire rope. Detonators are used only when mines are made or otherwise used in special situations.

Due to the limited manpower and material resources, the production speed of gunpowder cartridges in the Yuan Kingdom was relatively slow, and to the current position, there were only about 10,000 gunpowder cartridges of standard specifications, and even two people could not do it.

When he went to reinforce Yancheng, Lin Yue assigned Wang Huaipeng five hundred of them, and sure enough, these powder cartridges played a very huge role on the battlefield. Individually, the destructive power may not be very great, but when ten fifty hundred powder cartridges are thrown, it is absolutely powerful.

When Yancheng originally asked Yuan Guo for help, he actually wanted to ask for some gunpowder pots from Lin Yue's hands, these things were a kind of destruction for the enemy, whether it was ** or spiritual. Yancheng himself was actually able to start producing gunpowder, but because there were many things to deal with inside Yancheng, and they had to deal with hostile forces externally, coupled with the relatively short time, there was not much gunpowder that could be produced.

In this war, they also purchased a thousand gunpowder cartridges from the Yuan Kingdom, but not all of them were used in the war, and many were left in case of emergency.

After suppressing the surrounding forces, Yancheng was finally able to spare time to manage internal affairs, and he also established a branch city in a place with rich resources, and after all aspects were stabilized, they also established a state on May 1, the third year of the new calendar, called Yanguo.

Yan Guo has always had a good relationship with the Yuan Kingdom, increasing the contacts and transactions between the two sides, and even those small forces between the two countries gradually chose to belong to these two big forces after seeing this situation.

And with the development of the Yuan Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom, the Broken Wolf side actually received some information, and began to send some soldiers to investigate here, but the Yuan Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom also knew that they were destined to be noticed by the big force of the Broken Wolf, so some of the more important information also chose not to be made public, so it was relatively difficult for them to find out any major information here in the Yuan Kingdom.

Broken Wolf never expected that there were already two major forces eyeing them to attack. Because Yancheng unified his position with Yuan Guo, after analyzing the pros and cons, they chose to fight against the broken wolf with Yuan Guo.

After all, if the Yuan Kingdom fails to fight against the Broken Wolf, the Yan Kingdom may become the next target.

It wasn't until June of the third year of the new century that a bumper grain harvest was underway in the Yuan Kingdom, and another better news came to Lin Yue's ears, that is, the experiment of refining drugs from mutated jelly nuclei was finally successful.

This experiment lasted for three years, in which Lin Yue also invested a lot of capital, and the scientists who studied it also went through thousands of experiments before finally succeeding.

This kind of mutated jelly core through the giant bear is the most primitive material, plus the mutated jelly core of the water monster as a contrast, and countless ordinary jelly bodies as auxiliary materials, and finally developed a drug that can briefly break out.

This drug is named energy storage pills, and within a period of time after swallowing, it can quickly increase the strength and speed of the swallower, and how long it lasts, depending on the physique of the swallower and the amount of medicine.

The energy storage acid is different from the way Lin Yue told Wang Hongjun when he was in Yancheng before. The previous kind of refined drug is actually to retain a jelly body relatively intact, and then enter the human body by swallowing, and then excite the stored acid in the jelly body. However, this method not only has low efficacy, but also retains a large number of impurities in the body, which is more harmful to the human body.

The energy storage pill is different, it is through the study of the hormone that promotes the derivation and growth of the jelly body in the jelly nucleus, refining it and synthesizing it with the energy storage acid in the jelly body, and finally ensuring that there is enough energy storage acid in an energy storage pill, and after these energy storage acids are consumed in the body, there will basically be no impurities left. And the kind of hormone that is extracted can also improve the physique of the swallower, but it is not very obvious.

Because the synthesis of energy storage pills requires the hormones contained in the mutated jelly nucleus, the energy storage pills that can be refined are also very limited. Although a mutated jelly nuclear can provide the synthesis of thousands of energy storage pills, because the scientists in Yuan Guo have consumed a large amount of jelly nuclear hormones when they did experiments before, the energy storage acid that Yuan Guo can produce at present is only about a hundred.

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