Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 112: Military Order
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"January! Take down Shouzhou City in January!" Guo Shaotie said to the generals.
The thick smoke is in the wind, and the mist is like a haze in the sky. The generals were stunned, and there was silence nearby. Maybe everyone thought it was because he watched countless siege equipment burned on his own turf, and he was anxious.
But Guo Shao didn't seem to be talking angry, and then he said seriously: "The order of the army, please play the official deadline to break the city in one month. If you can't do it, please use the soup!"
"Master..." Li Chuyun immediately wanted to persuade.
Guo Shao waved his hand and said: "My will has been decided, if you fail to succeed, you will become benevolent!"
With a "slap", a burning piece of wood burned from the trebuchet bracket and fell down, shocking everyone who hadn't paid attention to the surrounding scene. Guo Shao turned his head and looked towards Northwest Huai Shui, Li Zhongjin and Li Jixun absolutely must shirk the responsibility on their own heads. One sentence of negligence is enough.
More than half a month ago, Guo Shao did not want to attack Shouzhou; but now, he must not give up Shouzhou. What does it mean to dismiss from here with the shadow of failure? He is going to die here, no matter if it is a hard bone or a stone, it can only be chewed to swallow the bitter fruit; there is no way out.
Only the legislative order to show determination is the most effective way to prevent the emperor from replacing the siege master due to disappointment.
But this military order requires additional conditions. There are too few elite soldiers. The right side of the Tiger Jie Army claims that 20,000 elites are outside the city of Shouzhou, but they cannot be mobilized; Guo Shao has seen the combat effectiveness of the unfamiliar army such as the town and town soldiers, and the enemy is panicked and cannot organize a group. There is also Li Zhongjin's servant, always interfering, which makes people very upset and at a loss.
It's like when you draw a bow and shoot an arrow, you are looking for the most appropriate time and direction. Someone shouts next to you: Shoot, why not, shoot from here, where are you facing, shoot quickly...I shoot |You look!
Now, in Shouzhou City, there are grains, soldiers and walls, and Liu Renzhan is a powerful veteran. Guo Shaozhen didn't think there was any time, and it was not in line with his style to attack without time.
There is no fighter but you can create fighters.
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Not long after, Li Gu sent someone to say that the first batch of materials prepared for Guo Shao had been shipped to Xia Cai warehouse. Saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal.
Guo Shao left the devastated battlefield in front of him and turned back to Li Chuyun and said: "I'll go to Xia Cai, here you see, if you have important things, send a quick horse to Xia Cai to find me. In addition to cleaning up the battlefield, Other things are business as usual, the tunnel will continue to be dug, and the tunnels on three sides will continue; but don’t cross the city wall...you must dig a trench in front of the city wall to build a wall and build a wall."
Liu Renzhan uses oil and defends the city and destroys weapons very effectively. Guo Shao didn't know where his oil was dug, and he couldn't find a place to dig it, but many people could find saltpeter and sulfur mines.
There was gunpowder in the Tang Dynasty, but it could not be used to bomb the city. The conventional function of tunnel digging is only to quietly send troops to sneak attacks, there is no other use. It’s impossible to use tunnels to dig down the city walls from the ground; there has been no battle since ancient times, and the ancients used everything to attack the city. If they could dig tunnels to dig down the city walls, there would be a precedent. Zhou Jun besieged two Shouzhou I will use it every month. It is also impossible for Liu Renzhan to think that tunnels are useful for carrying troops and attacking.
Blasting down a section of the city wall may not be able to attack, but no one can expect such a thing now. This is a fighter...
We also need to confuse Liu Renzhan with the siege. Guo Shao certainly knows that Liu Renzhan will deploy heavy fortifications at the position of the bastion to be prepared. This method cannot be effective, but Liu Renzhan must be on guard, otherwise the feint will become the main attack.
The only question now is whether gunpowder can blow the walls down?
Guo Shao’s siege strategy is clear at a glance: dig tunnels and build soil. Liu Renzhan is probably laughing at himself, even his own people don't believe that Guo Shao's siege can be effective. But he didn't think it mattered, the more the other party felt that everything was in control, the easier it would be to catch the key points by surprise and give Liu Renzhan a hard blow!
Of course, if the gunpowder didn't blow up the city, there was a noise. That would be a tragedy... The world is really full of dangers. Guo Shao had endured it before, but now he doesn't think he has a way out.
One nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal. Guo Shao read it silently on the road several times. He doesn't know whether this ratio is good or not, let alone the precise ratio... It's useless to remember, minerals have a lot of impurities, who knows what ratio is mixed together?
Guo Shao met Li Gu in a grain yard in Xiacai Town.
"What does General Guo want these things for?" Li Gu said, "Is it used to burn the gates? There is an urn city in Shouzhou..."
This sentence reminded Guo Shao that gunpowder is explosive, not explosive; the power of explosive depends on the degree of combustion. He saw that there were only a few sacks in the warehouse. He cut through the opening with a knife and saw that they were gray lumps, the color of konjac. Guo Shao thought for a moment and asked: "Is this saltpeter?"
Li Gu nodded: "Sulfur and charcoal are not a problem. A large number of them have been transported from various places, and they will arrive by the day. However, there are not many saltpeters that can be collected in the nearby states. Only from the emergency clearance, the local officials report the cumulative amount. No less than two thousand catties, it may take ten days to arrive."
Guo Shao hurriedly said: "I am grateful for Li Gong to be so able to help."
"It's all trivial matters." Li Gu smiled. "I used to be a prime minister, and I had official communication with many local officials, and I was often ordered by the officials to organize military supplies. It's just a matter of trivialities."
Guo Shao took a piece of saltpeter out of the sack and took it in front of him to take a closer look. In his previous life, he was a person who had finished high school and went to college. He knew that potassium nitrate should be a salt-like crystal, and the stone-like thing in his hand was not very grey. He didn't know how many effective substances were.
He thought for a while, not wanting to reveal the military plane, and sent someone to Shouzhou to transfer the three hundred soldiers of Luo Mengzi to Xia Cai, ordering the lockdown of the warehouse, and driving away the miscellaneous people.
Next, under Guo Shao's instruction, everyone set up a cauldron in the yard and went to find some needed things. Potassium is an active element at the top of the periodic table. Potassium compounds must be easily soluble in water.
The half-sack of saltpeter was crushed by a hammer, and it was mixed with water in a wooden barrel and stirred, and then the water was filtered out with gauze for filtering tofu. The filtered water is poured into a large pot and boiled and dried. Finally a bunch of white-gray crystals came out. Is this potassium nitrate? Guo Shao grabbed a pinch and pondered it in the palm of his hand, and found that the crystals inside were of different rules, some were small particles like salt, and some of the crystals were elongated. This is not a substance, otherwise the shape should be the same after crystallization.
Guo Shao asked people to use a bamboo sieve to sieve and sort them. Then the two crystals were mixed with approximate amounts of charcoal and sulfurized, and ignited to try. Now only long crystals can burn sharply.
Then several other pots were set up, and a few sacks of saltpeter were processed into three barrels of saltpeter in a long time in that way.
Zuo You helped, using the zizi who weighed the valuables, and mixed them into forty-nine different proportions of gunpowder. It is more troublesome to mix. The dry three kinds of items will ignite spontaneously if they are stirred heavily. However, Zuo You and the others easily thought of a way to mix them with water and moisten them directly, like dough, and then get them into a stone pound for processing grain and grass. After drying for one day, carefully grind into powder the next day.
At this time, Guo Shao asked them to grind them into powder without the trouble of grinding them directly into granules, and then sift them evenly with a fine sieve.
Everyone worked for three days, and forty-nine packs of dark stuff were presented. Guo Shao stayed behind with Zuo Youluo Mengzi and more than a dozen of his trusted soldiers, and experimented in the house.
The method is very simple, try which one burns fastest.
Forty-nine types of gunpowder are further subdivided into seven groups, and each group selects the fastest burning one; then the winner will try again together. Similar to the rules of the game. Seven kinds of gunpowder are folded with paper to make a long strip, and then count one, two and three to ignite together, to see which one burns to the end first.
Smoke quickly filled the room, everyone coughed, so they had to open the doors and windows for ventilation.
The whole process is actually very simple. Guo Shao will finish the experiment in less than an hour. I found out the proportion of the pack of gunpowder: seven to five dollars, one or two sulphur, one to two and five charcoal.
Guo Shao vaguely knows that gunpowder particles burn faster than powder. Thinking about the reason, it is estimated that there is a gap in the middle that is easier to burn? However, he felt that the experiment was a way to prove all the conjectures, and it was simple, so he took the same kind of gunpowder particles and powder. As expected, the gap was obvious... The same length of gunpowder bar, the particle gunpowder burned out, and the powder was connected. One third did not burn.
Here we are almost fiddled with, Guo Shao ordered Zuo You to stay in the warehouse, Luo Mengzi restrained the soldiers, and told them not to reveal the military plane, otherwise the death penalty would not escape. Also sent personal scouts to set up light and dark guards near Feishui, beware of careful work.
Guo Shao returned to Shouzhou City. The next day, the minister sent by the emperor went to Shouzhou. This person is no longer a talkative Wang Pu, but someone Guo Shao knows: Dou Yi, and an entourage Zhao Pu.
Guo Shao gradually remembered that Zhao Pu seemed to have taken refuge in Zhao Kuangyin, but how he was with Dou Yi now is unknown.
Dou Yi didn't say anything, so she wandered around the city to investigate the deployment outside the city. Guo Shao explained his deployment intentions and his consideration of how to prepare for a counterattack in the city one by one, and he did not shy away from saying that Li Jixun did not move his troops, and he was attacked by a sneak attack with insufficient troops, which led to his defeat a few days ago.
Two days later, Dou Yi went to the right camp of the Tiger Jie Army. Then went to Chuzhou to the southeast.
Within two days, Kuaima arrived at Shouzhou, and ordered Li Zhongjin to move to Haozhou, and Li Jixun’s department moved to Tushan in the northeast; the Tiger Jie Army left third to sixth army deployed in the direction of Luzhou in the south The main force was transferred to Shouzhou, and Guo Shao, the capital of the return room, was restrained.
Dou Yi, who passed the decree, said to Guo Shao: "The official said, although you did not slack off, but let the defenders succeed in the counterattack, it is hard to blame! Now that the military order has been issued, there is something to say before the generals, officer The family is not a person who is not affectionate. The deadline is one month. Once the time is up, if there is no progress, Guo Duzhi will bind himself to the king and ask for sin!"