In the army of the Kingdom of Jinyang, amidst the mighty shouts of killing and the roar of artillery, General Sima Zhen welcomed a 'distinguished guest' - Qing Hongzi, the great elder of the Nine Suns Sect. In other words, 'Former Nine Suns'
Elder Zongda'.
The current Jiuyang Sect is in extremely miserable condition. Not to mention the loss of the mountain gate, the great elder was almost surrounded and killed. After a period of recovery, Qing Hongzi finally recovered some basic cultivation skills, and can at least appear in public.
The reason why Qing Hongzi came here was because he needed to gather the scattered disciples of Jiuyang Sect.
Previously, the Jiuyang Sect was captured by the army led by Liu Xinyu, and one hundred thousand disciples fled to death. However, Qing Hongzi believed that most of the disciples escaped, and these disciples had no other place to go but to advance towards the Kingdom of Jinyang;
Or hidden in the mountains.
In fact, the Jinyang Kingdom's Pioneer Corps has gathered approximately more than 20,000 Jiuyang Sect disciples. However, most of these disciples are uneasy, so a representative continues to comfort them.
After Sima Zhen saw Qing Hongzi, he suddenly felt an emotion that he could express in his heart. This was once a high-ranking master of the Transformation of God stage, but now he is so weak that he may not even have the fighting power of the Golden Core stage.
The two met with emotion, and then unexpectedly talked about artillery.
"I heard that the Kingdom of Jinyang has developed artillery?" Qing Hongzi's eyes still flashed with anger. When he mentioned the word 'artillery', he felt a little uncomfortable. Because he had seen the lethality of artillery with his own eyes, and even more
I saw with my own eyes that the mountain gate of my house was blown up to the sky by several "iron barrels".
Artillery may not be able to transform into a god-level master, but it is enough to change the pattern of war.
Sima Zhen shook his head slightly: "Our current artillery... is still far from the Qixia Kingdom's. Come on, I will take you to see the disciples of Jiuyang Sect and take a look at the artillery."
Qing Hongzi nodded, and the two of them walked out. After walking for a while, Sima Zhen suddenly asked: "Your Jiuyang Sect has cooperated with the Zhang family and Dayang Group before, but you haven't figured out the situation of the artillery? Or is it?
Got some information?"
"I didn't think so much at that time. Moreover, the Zhang family had strictly guarded against artillery technology from the beginning. Moreover, the previous head coach Guang Yangzi was the one who cooperated with the Zhang family and Dayang Group; but now, Guang Yangzi has broken away from Jiujiu
Yang Zong has fully joined the Dayang Group with more than 900 people."
Sima Zhen sighed, with some indescribable melancholy in his eyes. Only by personally feeling the power of artillery can we understand the importance of artillery and its impact on war.
Arriving at the observation deck on the front line, Qing Hongzi saw the scene of the war.
Not to mention the boundless legions, he had seen too many. But this year's war was different because both sides used brand-new weapons - noisy artillery.
But Qing Hongzi soon discovered a problem: the artillery of the Kingdom of Jinyang was short and weak.
Not to mention the crudeness of its artillery, its shells are very slow and its rate of fire is also very slow - it feels like the Nascent Soul Stage can catch up with them at any time.
Although Qing Hongzi was seriously injured, his physical fitness in the transformation stage was still there, and his eyes were sharp. The artillery fired by the Kingdom of Jinyang was blocked by the soldiers of the Kingdom of Qixia with simple barriers, and none of them exploded.
Iron balls rolled all over the floor.
In contrast, every salvo of artillery fire from the Kingdom of Qixia can cause huge casualties to the Kingdom of Jinyang. Every time a shell falls, it leaves a scar.
The firing distance of Qixia Country's artillery is more than ten kilometers, while the attack range of Jinyang Country's artillery does not exceed three kilometers. And after exceeding three kilometers, the speed of the artillery shells is already terrible.
The accuracy of Jinyang's artillery... was also terrible. Many shells were off-center as soon as they came out of the barrel, and some were crooked as they flew. Their trajectories in the sky were so elegant.
The gap is a bit big.
In particular, the artillery of the Kingdom of Jinyang has to clean the barrel every time it is fired, which is very cumbersome and the rate of fire is naturally affected.
But on the other hand, the Kingdom of Jinyang made full use of the human sea tactics to continuously advance the front. Although the Qixia Kingdom had very powerful artillery, the number of artillery was too small. Facing the almost shameless human sea tactics of the Kingdom of Jinyang,
The army of Qixia Kingdom can only retreat continuously, and then retreat again.
The human sea tactic is really useful! Although it consumes a lot of money.
Qinghongzi looked at it for a while, then pointed at the cannon: "This... feels a bit... child's play."
Sima Zhen shrugged: "There is no way, this is the reality. We got the artillery shells from the Qixia Kingdom, and we also picked up a few dumb bombs on the battlefield recently. But the Qixia Kingdom's artillery is sophisticated, and the composition of its main explosives, we
No suitable material has been found yet.”
Now our artillery here actually has only one purpose: to give our own people a sound and suppress their panic.
Before he finished speaking, an artillery piece suddenly exploded and shattered into pieces. Caught off guard, the surrounding artillerymen suffered heavy casualties; even the soldiers of several surrounding artillery pieces were seriously injured.
This made me panic, let alone panic.
The broken cannon barrel flew more than ten meters, and many soldiers were unprepared for the attack from behind. For a time, mourning was everywhere. The one and a half meter long cannon barrel wreckage shamefully crushed more than a dozen people and knocked over dozens of others.
A large number of artillerymen screamed and dispersed, and many artillerymen moved away from their own artillery, looking frightened.
This sudden change shocked many people, and Sima Zhen was even more shocked. There were three layers of one-way defensive barriers in front of the artillery camp, and the artillery of Qixia Country could never penetrate.
Qing Hongzi frowned slightly: "I seemed to have seen just now that the artillery exploded by itself."
Sima Zhen took a deep breath. He didn't understand what was going on now, but at least Sima Zhen knew clearly: the war is still going on, and the artillery cannot stop!
He immediately roared for the supervising team to come forward and drag down the dead and wounded artillerymen, while the rest continued to fight. As for the artillery that suddenly exploded, Sima Zhen also arranged for people to investigate. This matter must not be clarified.
After arranging these things, Sima Zhen took Qing Hongzi to where the Jiuyang Sect's disciples were. "This is all we have found temporarily. A total of just over 20,000."
Qinghongzi looked at the disciples of the Jiuyang Sect in front of him, and his eyes turned red again. The Jiuyang Sect once boasted a hundred thousand disciples, but now there are only just over 20,000 left, and many of these disciples are injured all over their bodies and have panic-stricken eyes. They
It has become a frightened bird.
Qing Hongzi even saw many disciples trembling every time the artillery roared or the shells exploded.
Qinghongzi took a deep breath, slowly walked up to the high platform, barely raised her true energy and shouted: "Quiet! Are you scared?"
Many Jiuyang Sect disciples immediately raised their heads and looked at the "high-spirited" Qing Hongzi.
Qing Hongzi's tone suddenly softened: "More than nine thousand years ago, a monk took three disciples and settled on a deserted mountain. They cut a long road and opened a cave.
Five hundred years later, the Jiuyang Sect was born. At that time, the Jiuyang Sect had only a thousand people in total.
Today, we still have more than 20,000 people, and there are more disciples, brothers and sisters in Qixia who need our rescue.
Are you going to tremble here and be a nufu! Or are you going to go back, look for your fellow disciples, and seek justice from the Kingdom of Qixia?"
…………
But Zhang Hao returned home in a hurry and immediately called Huang Mingshan and others, and even Zhou Xueyao.
Zhou Xueyao still held a test tube in her hand and sat next to Zhang Hao. She snorted coldly: "You'd better give me a reason. Otherwise...be careful! I'm in the Golden Core stage now, so I won't have a problem beating you ten times!"
With that said, he waved his pink fist at Zhang Hao.
Zhang Hao smiled, took out the jade slips from Liu Dingshan, and related information, and introduced them. This introduction took half a day. Because Zhang Hao did not have the base of the Vientiane Infinity Formation in his hands; the most important thing was that
Zhang Hao proposed the concept of 'banknotes'.
Of course, most of the talk was about Hunyuan Fine Gold and the All-Seeing Infinite Formation; banknotes were only mentioned in a few key points. The concept of banknotes cannot be explained in a few words, and Zhang Hao is just taking a precautionary shot.
After Zhang Hao finished speaking, Huang Mingshan was a little embarrassed: "Master, now all our energy is spent on steel research and improvement, gunpowder purification and production, artillery production and the production of steel giants. Our strength has been very dispersed.
If we continue to study this Hunyuan Fine Gold, I'm afraid it will seriously affect the progress of other research.
Also, according to the data, the production of Hunyuan Fine Gold requires a lot of ingredients. In addition to black iron, it also requires a large amount of red copper, mithril, fine gold, and some precious spiritual materials, such as spiritual realgar.
, Ling Hua Dan Mercury, Ten Thousand Years Spiritual Wood, etc. We lack all of these, and they are all valuable.
Even if we use black iron to trade with others, the amount we can get is limited."
Zhang Hao smiled: "I brought this up today after careful consideration. Well... I want to share a new idea with you today.
Have you ever thought about what materials make up our world?
For example, black iron, iron, rust, wood, tables and chairs, etc. Have you ever thought about what its essence is?"
Huang Mingshan and others thought.
Zhou Xueyao said softly: "This is something that many alchemists want to understand. But they still have no clue."
Zhang Hao took out another wooden stick: "Now I have a wooden stick in my hand. People say that if I cut off half of it every time, how much will be left after ten times? What about after a hundred times, or after a thousand times?"
Zhang Hao took out the flying sword and started cutting it. The stick became shorter and shorter, but there was still a little bit left. Until finally there was only a little bit left and he could no longer cut it. Zhang Hao put it on his fingernail and showed it to everyone: "This is still a piece of wood."
, although it is already very small.”
Then Zhang Hao took out gunpowder again: "This is gunpowder. Gunpowder is composed of some fine powders. So, are these powders inseparable?"
Zhou Xueyao picked up a fine powder and crushed it with real energy. The result was an even finer powder, which was almost impossible to see with the naked eye.
"Into air?" Zhou Xueyao fell into deep thought.
"No, it's because they are so small that they can float in the air. Look, they are here." Zhang Hao poked a hole in the roof with his flying sword, and a ray of sunlight came in, and dust was flying in the sunlight.
Then Zhang Hao turned to Huang Mingshan: "Huang Mingshan, what is the air made of?"
Huang Mingshan said reflexively: "Oxygen, carbon oxide, and other non-flammable gases are currently known."
"So, what is oxygen made of?"
Huang Mingshan suddenly got stuck.
Zhang Hao slowly turned around and opened a roll of gastrodia paper: "What I want to tell you today is not only the issue of Hunyuan Fine Gold, but also... elements!
I call the basic substances that make up the world elements.
Based on my long-term observation, I believe that our world is composed of limited elements. This composition method is similar to the strokes of words, and also similar to the Wanxiang Wuji Array. And I think that the Wanxiang Wuji Array is evolving this way.
process."
After that, Zhang Hao started ‘teaching’.
Heat quicklime, and then inject heated gas into lime water to obtain a precipitate. The precipitate is reheated to obtain lime water and gas.
The product of burning charcoal and breathing air are injected into lime water to obtain a precipitate.
The rust is reduced with charcoal, and the gas obtained is injected into lime water to obtain a precipitate.
The products of gunpowder combustion were injected into lime water to obtain a precipitate.
Use charcoal to reduce the dark brown patina, and inject the gas into the lime water to obtain a precipitate.
The gas obtained after heating the malachite is injected into the precipitate, and the precipitate is dissolved. After heating the malachite, a dark brown powder is obtained, which is reduced with charcoal to obtain copper.
The product of sulfur combustion is injected into the limewater precipitate, and the precipitate is dissolved.
Zhang Hao was busy non-stop. He had been planning this experiment for a long time. Although there were many small mistakes in it, it undoubtedly opened the door to a new world for Huang Mingshan, others, and Zhou Xueyao.
It wasn't until the next day that Zhang Hao walked out of the laboratory. During this day and night, Zhang Hao proposed the concepts of elements, elements, oxidation, compounds, mixtures...
Zhou Xueyao followed Zhang Hao with bright eyes. She looked at the booklet in her hand and thought seriously. Because of her foundation as an alchemist, Zhou Xueyao vaguely felt that she had grasped something, but she couldn't think clearly for a while.
Zhang Hao smiled and took Zhou Xueyao back to her residence. Along the way, the girl lowered her head to study the information in her hands. She didn't look at the road at all and watched Zhang Hao with the corner of her eye.
When he arrived at his residence, Zhang Hao turned around and was about to give Zhou Xueyao a hug.
result,
Zhou Xueyao's pink palm pressed on Zhang Hao's chest, and with a slight force she pushed Zhang Hao more than ten meters away, "Don't make trouble! Go and play by yourself."
Zhang Hao:......
Several maids around covered their mouths hard and their shoulders were cramped. Zhang Hao looked at a black line and said, "You can laugh if you want. But if you finish laughing, this month's monthly fee will be halved."
After turning around and leaving the small courtyard, Zhang Hao was going to go back to his study to sort out the things he had done during this period, and also to practice a little bit. He was so busy during this period that he had no time to rest.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Zhang Hao arrived at the compound, he saw his father standing in the front yard discussing with his second uncle Zhang Shengde, both of whom looked worried.
"Dad, second uncle, what's wrong?" Zhang Hao was curious and a little nervous.
Zhang Shengde glanced at Zhang Hao and sighed: "Xiao Hao, the family...the elixir is not enough. According to the current consumption rate, we can only last for another half month at most."
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