Hanzhong.

A group of refugees who revolted due to hunger and ignorance swept across the central and western parts of Hanzhong County in a short period of time. In addition to the slow response of Zhao Bi and the local officials of the Qin State under his rule, and the intensification of the freeze, which made the roads difficult to travel and the lack of reinforcements, there was also the problem of the refugee group.

There is a brilliant military commander among them.

Lu Ze.

Numerous generals under Liu Bang, the former King of Han, finally returned to Hanzhong, the place where Liu Bang once fought, after being on the run for nearly two years.

Among the men of the Lu family, Lu Ze's military ability was the most outstanding. Even among the generals of the Han army, Lu Ze's performance was not inferior to that of Li Shang, Zhou Bo and others.

However, after the Han army retreated to Nanjun, there was no room for Lu Ze's talents to be used. Three warships escaped from Yingdu and were robbed and killed by the bandit Yingbu in the river. Compared with Yingbu, Lu Ze was still inferior.

First of all, as for the time when he defected to Chen Yu, because of Chen Yu's distrust, Lu Ze had only 3,000 men under his command. In the big battle involving more than 100,000 people, Lu Ze fell silent.

This time, Lu Pheasant and Ying Shi succeeded in inciting the refugees and Qiang people to riot in Hanzhong. This was inseparable from Lu Ze's strong support in the dark. Groups of leaders among the refugees were sent to Lu Ze for training. In a short period of time,

The teachings made these refugee leaders even more crazy during the subsequent plunder.

To have their own strength and build a Lu family army that truly belongs to the Lu family is a choice that Lu Ze and Lu Pheasant made after learning from the pain, and the refugee armed force in front of them is their greatest expectation.

In the brutal killings, fierce soldiers stand out one by one. Only when these homeless men have their hands stained with the blood of the Qin people will they follow them wholeheartedly.

Capture Jushui Bingzao.

Lu Ze is bound to win.

Now, what Lu Ze lacks the most is soldiers. Women of the Qiang tribe are all big-footed and can carry heavy objects, as long as they can run. They were also lobbied and mobilized by Lu Feiying and others, but what he lacks most is soldiers.

Weapons. Originally, Lu Ze thought that there was only one military branch guarded by more than 250 people, and that he could successfully capture it with just one attack, but the reality surprised him.

The tenacity of the military guards surprised him. These local county soldiers, who were not even considered second-line troops in the Qin army, actually broke out with unusual combat power. What surprised Lu Ze even more was that these guards also used

A mysterious weapon that has never been seen before.

This thing called "Sky Fire" by the refugees makes people talk about it.

It disappeared without a trace.

The enemy only needs to light a fire and use a long hemp rope to guide it into the clay pot, and the solid clay pot can be blown to pieces at once, and the gravel and sharp iron-making impurities contained in it will be scattered.

Come, burrow straight into the body of a person, causing the soldier who was hit miserable.

Fortunately, not all of these earthen clay pots are useful, and most of the time they just give people false alarms.

——.

Peng Sheng looked at the messy pile of pottery cups and pots in the house with a sad face. There was also a pile of nitrate that had been dug out nearly half, a pile of charcoal, and a pile of sulfur at the base of the wall outside.

The saltpeter is produced in the Ziwu Mountains behind it, as is the sulfur, and the charcoal is left over from the time when soldiers made fire. These things were originally one of the raw materials for Peng Sheng to refine the elixir in private. Although he left Shu

County, leaving Peng Zu's inheritance, Peng Sheng did not give up these things he liked.

What's more, Peng Sheng is not fighting alone now. There are also several like-minded alchemists beside him who are studying the elixir together with him.

Of course, this kind of research is conducted in secret.

The invention of black powder was both expected and unexpected. As its inventor, Peng Sheng, a former alchemist and now the head of Jushui Arms Manufacturing, is still a little confused.

In fact, after he surrendered to the Qin State, Li Yuan once asked him in detail some questions about alchemy. At that time, he thought that Li Yuan was going to investigate the matter of the First Emperor's sudden death after taking a fake "elixir of life"

, so you hesitated and didn’t dare to say anything more when answering?

Peng Sheng actually didn't know that he missed an extremely important opportunity. If he could explain the alchemy technique in detail in front of Li Yuan, maybe his identity would no longer be the craftsman of Ju Shui Bingzao, but Da Qin.

He is the actual person in charge of the scientific research institute. Of course, this organization still only exists in Li Yuan's mind. Whether it has a chance to be established depends on the efforts of Peng Sheng and his group of partners.

Although Peng Sheng was half-baked, Li Yuan did not give up. He simply gave Peng Sheng the brief formula of "one part sulfur, two parts nitrate, soil, and three parts charcoal" in the hope that black gunpowder would appear in this place in advance one day.

time and space.

gunpowder.

It is an important symbol of the transition from the cold weapon era to the hot weapon era.

Even the power of black powder is completely different from that of TNT in later generations.

Peng Sheng, on the other hand, had no idea what the effect of the elixir Li Yuan gave him. He thought it was a recipe for studying the elixir of immortality.

Until one day, an explosion occurred suddenly, turning Peng Sheng into ashes. If the ratio was not accurate enough, his life would have been saved.

It was only then that Peng Sheng began to wake up from his fantasy. What Li Yuan gave him was not a prescription for immortality at all, but a prescription for heavenly fire that could be used to develop large-scale murders.

The arrival of the refugee armed forces made Peng Sheng panic and remember that he still had this kind of trump card in his hand. After several trials, although the sky fire was not stable enough, its power still made Peng Sheng suspicious.

Just bury the clay pot in a designated place, and then place an oil-soaked fire line along the ground. The fire at this end will follow the oil line straight to the center of the pot. When the time comes, there will be a loud explosion, and those in the center will be

, no matter how powerful it is, it will be blown to death and injured.

——.

Meng Hu led his army to march day and night.

The frozen mountain roads are extremely slippery. Even after widening and reconstruction, the Baoxian Road in winter is a severe test for any marching army. What is even more dangerous is that Meng Hu ordered torches to be lit at night.

March quickly.

When the news came that the rogue bandits were besieging Jushui Bingzao, Meng Hu was keenly aware of something unusual. This group of bandits was definitely not doing it in a small way, or they were killing Qin officials and seizing the county just for a bite of food. Their

The goal is to overthrow Qin's rule in Hanzhong, and their spearhead has been directed at weapons made by soldiers.

Once the rogue bandits break through the army.
Chapter completed!