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Chapter 562: Chuang Wang Bao

When Yuan Chonghuan guarded Ningyuan in the former Ming Dynasty, he used gunpowder built into quilt to ignite and thrown it to the city to kill the enemy, which was called "ten thousand enemies". This method killed the enemy troops entering the city gate, because after the fire quilt burned, a large amount of smoke would be generated, causing the enemy troops in the door to be smoked (choked) to death. Even if they could run out, their eyes would not be able to open their eyes for a short time, so they would be easily shot and killed by the defenders in the city.

During the Hegong riots in Huaiyang the previous year, the rebel Li Shiyuan's troops took advantage of the chaos to attack Huai'an City. The Ming army used this "ten thousand enemies" to successfully curb the rebels' breaking the city.

However, the real "enemies of thousands of people" are not this simple quilt gunpowder, but a firearm made of mud that appeared in the seventh year of the Apocalypse. It has a hollow ball with small holes around it. After drying, it is filled with gunpowder and mixed with toxic substances. The whole is fixed with a wooden frame, which is very large.

When the enemy attacked the city, it ignites the fuse and throws it to the city. The flames will erupt from all directions and rotate continuously to burn the enemy. Therefore, the Ming army called it an enemy of ten thousand people, or a burning bomb.

At first, the Qing army under the city probably thought that the "enemies of ten thousand people" they had seen before were thrown on the city, because they seemed to be made of quilts, but soon the Qing army realized that what they had thrown down was not the enemies of ten thousand people, but a powerful firearm they had never seen before.

This firearm will explode!

Some "cotton bales" were still burning when they landed under the city. Some Qing soldiers could see that the thing was not a quilt, but silk!

It is a piece of square size, and the outside is covered with silk.

Because the Qing army had never seen this thing, it was called "Chuangwangbao" by Shunjun.

Because this thing was made and tested by Lu Wenzong, the king of Dashun Jianguo.

Although Lu Si was unable to achieve the leapfrog development of military technology due to the technological level and hardware implementation of this era, he still knew some killer tools that were simple to make and easy to use.

For example, explosive packs.

Lu Si also mastered the secret of silk-wrapped gunpowder and its stronger power after explosion.

So, in order to strengthen defense and attack ability, Lu Si specially took a afternoon to ask his nephew Lu Yiliang to go to the Baoding Fanku to bring two rolls of silk, and then asked dozens of kilograms of medicine from the Make Department to start testing the explosive pack.

But all the tests that day failed because the gunpowder of this era was black gunpowder. Even though it was very strong, the power generated after the explosion was far from the explosive packs imagined by Lu Si.

There is no need to think about anything else, and it is necessary to solve the problem of insufficient explosive performance of black gunpowder.

But Lu Si knew "coarse" but not "elegant". It was like he knew the Maxim machine gun, but if he wanted to make it, it would be better to give him a knife.

So, Lu Si, who didn't understand, began to flip through the book, wanting to find the answers from it.

In the late Ming Dynasty, China's firearm technology did not lag behind Western countries, and many manufacturing methods were even ahead of the curve. As long as you are willing to look for it carefully, there will always be answers to find it.

The first thing Lu Si translated was "The Creation of Things in Heaven", which is a treasure book that must be pressed under his pillow every day, just like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

However, there are everything in "The Creation of the Heavenly Mansion" but there is no way to improve the power of gunpowder.

Just as he was depressed, Lu Si thought of the "Wu Beizhi" he once brought to his nephew Guangyuan, so he hurriedly asked his nephew Lu Yiliang to find the book.

After searching through most of Baoding City, he finally found the book in the family of the former Ming Wuju family who was killed.

After searching page by page, I found it.

This book says that there is a method to make gunpowder, that is, "to make gunpowder, use five kilograms of nitrate, one kilogram of yellow, and one kilogram of eggplant ash. A total of seven kilograms of nitrate, yellow, and ash, divided into three troughs, and crushed 5,500 times to the trough. Each 3 kilograms of medicine, use one kilogram of soybean wine, make mud, and then crush it into the trough, and then crush it for a hundred times to the trough. Mix it into particles, such as the size of yellow rice or mung beans, and it must be put into the palm of the person's palm and it will not feel hot before it can be done."

The method mentioned in the book made the four words "granule gunpowder" appear in Lu Si's mind.

At that time, he slapped his own head and cursed how he forgot about this method!

What is the difference between powdered gunpowder and granular gunpowder? Lu Si, who was a man of two lives, knows it. He didn't have time to study it himself, so he asked his nephew Lu Yiliang to study it.

In the end, with the help of Wu Beizhi, Zu Kefa, who was proficient in gunpowder manufacturing, and dozens of gunpowder craftsmen in the army, Lu Yiliang spent two days to make a batch of granular gunpowder.

Then, these uniformly sized gunpowder was filled with a silk bag, compacted and left a fine hole to stuff it into a fuse for fuse, and tested on the riverside outside the south gate of Baoding.

As a result, the power of the explosion shocked everyone.

Lu Yiliang's eardrum was so shocked that he couldn't hear what the fourth grandfather said for several days.

Zu Kefa and the craftsmen were also shocked on the spot and could not stand up. A thin man was shocked to take a few steps back.

However, because the Mako Department did not have much medicine, it was finally made only 85 packs. Zukefat asked the King of Chuang to give him a name. Lu Sida waved his hand and said, "I think it's called Lu Jiabao."

Why is it called Lu Jiabao? Because it was what Lu Si thought of.

Zu Kefa and the others felt that it was inappropriate, and finally the generals reached an agreement that this thing must be called "King Wang Bao" to show the reputation of King Chuang.

Lu Si had no objection to calling it Lu Family Bag or Chuang Wang Bao. As long as this explosive bag could make Dorgon realize the power of his Dashun Jian Guowang.

Because I am a little bitch, the King of Breaking can be said to be Lu Si’s bottom of the box, and it will not be used until the critical moment.

Originally, Lu Si didn't plan to use it now. The artillery was used to attack Manchus, so the explosive pack had to be used to blow up two white flags.

This is called treating differently and winning the majority.

But after thinking about it, Dorgon probably had no food left, and he could not conquer the Qing regent, and he would not be foolish and continue to push the real Manchu into the impossible city of Baoding, which was impossible to win. Most of them would immediately run away and rush back to Beijing.

Then, this King of Breaking has to be used.

Lu Si must severely injure the Qing army mentally and physically, so that they can change their emotions like the Ming army in the past.

The explosions that Dorgon and the others heard in the distance seemed to be continuous, but Lu Si only let him throw 20 of them under the city.

The first medicine bag was thrown out of the city by Lu Yiliang himself. The reason for throwing it was because the medicine bag had a long rope so that it could be thrown farther.

Lu Yiliang's target was the Manchu soldiers wearing iron armor.
Chapter completed!
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