Qin Official

When human beings face unknown things they see for the first time, they often have two emotions.

One is curiosity, the other is fear.

When faced with the fireworks that first appeared in front of the world, it was more of the latter. After all, the violent noise, pungent smoke, and even the dazzling visual effects all showed that this was an extremely terrifying weapon, which made people even more excited. Connect it with the meteor shower in thirty-seven years that terrified people all over the world!

"Hei Fu was transformed by the star Yinghuo. This is also his magic."

"Chu people believe in witches and ghosts and attach great importance to obscene worship. This is definitely the witchcraft of Chu and Yue..."

Who would have thought that these are just ordinary flying monkeys and small firecrackers?

Speculation and panic filled the guards, and the Northern Expeditionary Army on Heifu's side was actually not much better. They were also frightened by the fireworks. The people of Jingchu were superstitious, and there were many people who bowed down and prayed.

Fortunately, Heifu had already sent people to notify the battalions in advance:

"Let the second and third sons prepare for the battle with peace of mind. This is the appearance of Lord Danyang Shuibo, using Meteor Fire Crow as the support of Marquis Wu Zhong to help the righteous army break this pass!"

The Fire Crow Meteor is naturally nonsense. To put it bluntly, this thing is what every household likes to shoot into the sky during the Spring Festival. It was he who ordered Xu Fu to develop a secret weapon in Wudang Mountain for more than half a year...

By-products.

As a police academy student in his previous life, Heifu, who had played with guns, naturally remembered a certain mysterious formula and was prepared for a rainy day. After launching an army a year ago, he decided to use Alchemist to conduct a secret experiment.

Based on Heifu's understanding of the alchemists, they are the people who are most like "chemists" in this era. It is said that the earliest black gunpowder was learned by these guys and was made by chance during alchemy. Saltpeter, sulfur and other substances are necessary items for alchemists to make alchemy.

The alchemists of these days have attached great importance to saltpeter, constantly exploring its properties, saying that it is "born of the breath of sea brine, and is the most divine thing in heaven and earth... It can turn seventy-two stones into water, soften metals, and make... "If you refine the Eight Stones, even if you are a great elixir, you will not give them up." He is regarded as the "Yin Lord" of elixirs.

The use of sulfur requires more burning. This may be due to the lack of natural sulfur in the Central Plains. Alchemists don't know much about this scarce item. They only say that it "can turn gold, silver, copper, and iron into rare objects."

Although Xu Fu was more interested in seeking immortality overseas, the magicians must be versatile. Xu Fu also dabbled in the art of burning mercury and refining alchemy. After he raised his army, he also recruited many magicians from the southern Chu region under the orders of Hei Fu.

Now we have the ideas and development personnel. Heifu has merged with the southern counties. There is no shortage of money, silk, and manpower. What is missing is only materials.

The collection of materials cost Heifu a huge amount of money. Considering that if gunpowder is to be used in war, its purity and quantity must meet a certain level, scraping saltpeter from the toilet is unreliable. Fortunately, there is a saltpeter mountain (Jiangyou Laojun Mountain) in Zitong County, Shu County, which is famous in Liangzhou. At that time, the magician Fang made elixirs for Qin Shihuang. The cinnabar came from Ba County and the saltpeter came from Shu County. After Shu County surrendered, Heifu's request to the Shu County Governor was to transport a few ships of saltpeter.

Sulfur is more difficult to obtain than saltpeter. It is said that it is available in the Western Regions, but it is too remote after all. Fortunately, the Northern Expeditionary Army has a huge fleet of flat ships, so they find ways to trade with the local deer-hunting cannibals from Yizhou, an island outside Fujian and Vietnam. A little sulfur was brought in...

These two things traveled thousands of miles and gathered in Wudang Mountain. After including the material and freight, the price was almost the same as gold. In addition, plus the charcoal obtained from burning wood locally, Xu Fu started his experiment. In the past six months, there began to be huge production in that area. Rumors of roaring beasts and thunder in clear skies...

Heifu had long told Azhong, the Mohist, that one has to climb the technology tree one level at a time, and an invention can only be realized when several prerequisite technologies reach the standard at the same time, so forget about artillery and guns. Xu Fu has spent most of the past six months After tinkering, he took out two things, one was black gunpowder with low purity and worrisome effect, and the other was the "Meteor Fire Crow" made under Hei Fu's instigation.

But don’t mention it. The first time this thing was used, the effect was really good. It caused an uproar among the Wuguan defenders. Heifu understood this. After all, foreigners came to China during the Spring Festival and listened to the series of explosions outside, with sparks flying everywhere. Shooting, most people would think it was a war, let alone ordinary people in the Qin Dynasty...

However, the gorgeous fireworks in the sky are just a cover, and the real killing move lies underground.

"Commander, during the day, two tunnels on the left and right have been dug underground to the city, one on the west side and one on the east side."

"Let's get started."

Seeing that the enemy was in chaos and had to strike while the iron was hot, Heifu asked someone to give an order to the three armies: "Block your ears! Prepare to charge!"

Don't think of black powder as TNT, let alone making explosive bags. It took humans hundreds of years to leapfrog technology, but Xu Fu was just a bad alchemist. Just purifying it could stump him, and what he produced was the lowest quality black powder.

A few months ago, Heifu went to Wudang Mountain to inspect the progress of black powder. At that time, it was a large two-kick gun. At that time, its power was only enough to explode cow dung, and it could not even connect a thin wall. Even a small earthen wall cannot be knocked down.

However, even if it is a two-kicking kick, as long as the quantity is sufficient, it still has a certain power. After discussing with Xu Fu, Heifu decided to combine this thing with the "hole siege" that had appeared long ago and call it "Ao Fu" This technique led Xu Fu to do a lot of experiments in Wudang Mountain. The specific methods are:

First dig the ground to the foot of the city wall, then dig a horizontal corridor slightly outside the center of the city wall, and install a coffin of inferior black powder in the corridor.

The amount of charge depends on the strength of the city wall. The unit is "load", which can range from several loads to ten loads. Of course, the gunpowder must be wrapped and sealed in a coffin or other equipment to prevent it from moisture, and it is also easy to explode after burning violently. Then he sealed the medicine letter and led it out of the tunnel, then set it on fire and detonated it...

Although this usage is old-fashioned and troublesome, in later generations, when the Turks attacked King's Castle and the Taiping Army swept across the south, this technique performed many miraculous feats.

However, Wuguan is a three-piece earthen wall with a thickness of three feet at the bottom, which is different from ordinary Guancheng. Xu Fu has been tinkering for several months. By constantly increasing the amount or adjusting the position of the coffin, he has succeeded a few times. He feels that That was enough, so he hurried north with several large carts of secret weapons...

Now Xu Fu has gone to ignite the immortal, and everyone else has been ordered to cover their ears, except Heifu. He looks expectantly at the Wuguan walls reflected in the firelight from both sides, looking forward to the sound of the sky falling and the earth shattering!

In Heifu's imagination, there was a loud noise next, thick smoke rose into the sky, bricks and stones flew into the sky, and a gap was opened in the city wall. The soldiers shouted the horn of charge and immediately charged towards the gap with the smoke and flames...

From then on, the great city of Xiongguan could no longer defeat the attackers. The "Famous City" that Qin Shihuang longed for was to remove the world's defenses, and Hei Fu finally completed it in this way.

How romantic this is!

Time passed by second by second. The torch was raised in front and kept shaking. The people at the entrance of the tunnel tried their best to retreat. It was already on fire...

At this moment, it was only a while before the fireworks and firecrackers of the Sky Monkey were released at Chaowuguan, and the enemy was still panicked and did not notice it.

Heifu mentally calculated the speed at which the fuse would set off.

"three."

"two."

"one!"

There was a slight delay, then there was a "bang", a dull loud noise came from the ground, and a tremor, and the Wuguan city wall!

it!

After shaking it for a few times, it was still as stable as a rock and had not moved at all!

Not even a piece of wall paint fell off!

"Damn it!"

Hei Fu glared at Xu Fu fiercely, and the wall that was several feet in length collapsed suddenly! ? This warlock is really unreliable.

Xu Fu was so anxious that he bit his fingers. Experiments and actual combat were different after all. Fortunately, there were more than one explosion points in the cave. In the blink of an eye, there was another muffled sound underground!

This time, after a while of shaking, I don't know whether that section of the wall was poorly built, buried in the right place, or the attackers and defenders fought tunnel battles to hollow out the foundation underneath, and that section of the wall actually collapsed. More than ten feet...

But it only collapsed vertically, causing the person standing on it to stumble. There was still a huge gap between the explosion and the sky above the city wall.

"It's really a double kick."

Heifu was cursing in his mind, like a player who failed to cheat, but the soldiers of the Northern Expedition burst into loud cheers after covering their ears and seeing this.

"The ground is shaking! The ground is shaking!"

"My army is really blessed with divine help!"

On the contrary, there was silence on the guard's side, and soon there were dogs barking and people crying, making it more and more chaotic.

"I can't wait any longer!"

Although things were not as expected, the arrow had to be fired. We could only take advantage of the enemy's shock and attack the city immediately!

So Heifu asked the three armies to take advantage of the chaos and shouted:

"The First Emperor has appeared!"

"Marquis Tongwu has appeared!"

"Meteors and fire crows rain down from the sky, and the earth shakes. Help me enter the pass!"

It's really funny that this is a scientific method, but in the end it has to be covered in superstition to win.

The offensive coach was very panicked. Fortunately, his subordinates were all very motivated and their morale was greatly improved. However, the opposing team was ten times more panicked than Hei Fu when facing the coach down to the soldiers...

Countless ladders were erected high by the stormtroopers led by Dongmen Leopard, preparing for the ants to attack. Hei Fu drew his sword and gave the order for a general attack:

"Enter the customs!"

"Enter the customs!"

"Enter the customs!"

…

June 16th was a magical night, with many visions that shocked the world. The parties involved had different opinions. Fortunately, after the imperial scholar Shusun Tong watched the whole process, he was already holding the excitement when the leopard at the East Gate climbed ahead and passed the barrier. And with a trembling pen, he wrote this record:

"In the thirty-eighth year of the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, on the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, Marquis Wu Zhong led his troops to the Northern Expedition and surrounded Wuguan on three levels. Hundreds of camps were lined up, and cloud chariots were more than ten feet tall. They looked over the city, with flags covering the fields, and dust rolling into the sky. The sound of the drums can be heard for hundreds of miles. It may be a tunnel, rushing into the city, but the rebel army is stubbornly resisting in the corner, fighting with trapped animals, accumulating crossbows and firing arrows like rain, and the righteous soldiers are not allowed to enter."

"All the righteous commanders and generals have lost their spirit and are timid and want to retreat. But Wu Zhonghou thinks that this pass must be taken down, and the success is at a loss. His mood is very relaxed, and everyone is puzzled."

"On the night of the 16th, a meteor fell into the city. Tens of thousands of fire crows flew into the city, spitting fire from their mouths and emitting smoke from their wings. They whistled without rest. The guards screamed in surprise and bowed their heads."

"During the day, fire sputtered from the ground again. The sky shook and the earth shook with loud noises like thunder. The Wuguan wall broke down in response. It collapsed for more than a hundred steps. The officials in the city were frightened. They thought they were gods and did not dare to fight with their troops. The righteous teacher Then they came out with a loud noise, shaking the heaven and earth, and the rebel army was defeated. More than ten thousand people surrendered, and countless people abandoned the city and fled. The hundreds of thousands of people behind the pass also retreated in despair. Those who walked rushed to each other and ran for more than a hundred miles. …”

After describing what he saw, Shusun Tong looked at the white fish belly in the sky, thoughtfully, and added a personal story of his own:

"You should be virtuous and accept it, and you should not judge how it is. In the past when King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty crossed the Mengjin River, six horses roared together, shooting stars were like red crows, and white fish came in from outside. Isn't this destiny? Now Wuzhonghou enters Wuguan , divine fire rains down from the sky, the earth shakes and the walls collapse, isn’t this the destiny of heaven?”

After finishing writing, Shusun Tong scratched his face in embarrassment: "I originally thought that if the prince is dark, it is appropriate to inherit Qin's water virtue, but now, it is the fire from the sky and the collapse of the earth. He should be regarded as the fire virtue. Or Tu De?"

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ps: It’s just morning and I’ve gone out for some fun, so I’d like to say good night in advance.