"Why did you stop the attack?" Farhad Pasha angrily asked Mahmad.

"Our gunpowder is gone!" Mahmad cried out loudly: "Our gunpowder is gone!" ”

"Ahh Yes! Farhad Pasha woke up, and in the morning, Mahmad had reminded him.

It's been blowing up all these days, and maybe even the most firepower ever since at least Farhad Pasha joined the army!

Cannons, stone throwers, and panzergrenadiers go into battle together, gunpowder is used for cannon launching, black powder bombs are thrown by catapults, and panzergrenadiers throw black powder bomblets, which are blown into a ball, regardless of the cost, at all costs, and the use of gunpowder has skyrocketed!

Even black powder does not come from white, it is not something that you want, you have to produce it.

The composition of black powder is made by mixing potassium nitrate, charcoal powder and sulfur powder, of which charcoal powder is the easiest to obtain, and charcoal can be burned, where the green area is large, and the trees all over the mountains provide inexhaustible charcoal.

As for sulfur powder, which big country does not have volcanoes and hot springs within its borders?

Sulfur is produced there, and the production is not a problem, or even endless, and the source of potassium nitrate is troublesome enough.

In ancient times, the production of soil nitrate was extracted from the soil laid down from the old wall foundation, and soil nitrate can often be produced in the soil near the pigsty and toilet in the countryside, and potassium nitrate is obtained by adding an appropriate amount of plant ash to the soil nitrate.

However, the production of nitrate by manure is very slow, so people come to recruit soil to make nitrate, the method is also simple, according to every 1,000 kilograms of wet, loose, sandy soil, add 150 kilograms of urine or dilute manure ratio, mix well and put it in a humid place to ferment, after more than 20 days to become nitrate, you can refine saltpeter from it, its output is one percent, that is, 100 kilograms of nitrate, at most 1 kilogram of saltpeter.

The yield is very low and it doesn't count, and the point is that it stinks!

That era was not a period of large-scale production of science and technology, and the ordinary Ottomans were not hard-working people, and the productivity was weak, after all, believing in God was the right way, and the hard-working workers were non-mainstream, and those noble Ottomans were goose-plucking feathers, and they didn't even let go of dung!

As a result, the price of black powder was high, and it was used for a while, and then all work was stopped sadly!

Only Chinese people in the world have amazing productivity, and this ability is a unique skill of the Chinese!

It can be said that as long as the productive forces of the Chinese are brought into play and the army is properly trained, it will be like a tiger with wings and a bumper harvest of material and spiritual goods, and the Chinese nation will enter the fast lane of expansion!

Farhad Pasha had already cultivated to his home, and his joy and anger were invisible, but now he looked at the new city of Cairo in the distance with a blank face, and the constant sound of explosions there reminded him that the Chinese were using black powder to bombard his army!

Compared to the Ottomans, who had no medicine to stop working, the Chinese's firepower output was still stable, indicating that they had sufficient reserves of black powder.

Of course, manure has always been a big business in the southeast, whether it is human manure or livestock manure, it is extremely sought-after, and the contract price of public toilets auctioned by the government has repeatedly reached new highs!

Some people even set up cattle farms, pig farms, etc. in order to obtain a stable and more source of manure, and the manure produced is used for crop topdressing, and more importantly, potassium nitrate.

There are many uninhabited islands in the southeast, where there are dotted with nitrate factories set up, which will not stink to others, and the smell does not affect the vigorous enthusiasm of Chinese producers at all.

The leaders of the southeastern country are well aware of the capabilities of the Chinese, as long as you provide them with good conditions, they can make the products of any industry into cabbage prices!

This is the case with nitrate plants, where producers produce and pay taxes in accordance with national laws, and the government does not make any representations, and even gives them various tax and financial support because they are engaged in the operation of important industries for national defense.

The higher the output of the nitrate plant, the lower the tax revenue, so the producer produced a large amount of potassium nitrate, which in turn obtained a huge amount of black powder!

Although the smell is stinky, the sound of silver dollars is pleasant.

The output of black powder in the southeast is increasing year by year, and the output of black powder in the Ming Dynasty is a rising star, but the growth is full of momentum, and you can't believe the productivity of the Chinese?

The production of black powder in China is more than three times that of all countries in the world combined, and the cost is one-third of the cost of black powder in all countries!

In other words, the cost of transporting black powder from the far east to Egypt was much lower than that produced by the Ottomans themselves.

The Chinese and the Ottomans fought black powder, sorry, I'm the Chinese who beat them the Ottomans.

Farhad Pasha, who had just tasted the sweetness of black powder, learned the news that the medicine had been cut off, and struggled to the death for half an hour, hearing the explosion of the Chinese was always stable, and seeing that the losses of the army were increasing under the attack of the other party, he had no choice but to order a truce!

As the Ottomans retreated in drool, Farhad Pasha looked bitterly at the distant city, as if it felt that it was getting taller and more majestic, and that the Ottomans were getting farther and farther away from victory.

In his mind, there was a heart-wrenching pain that he had discovered that the God he sincerely believed in was not omnipotent!

Gathered so many troops to attack, used unprecedented military spending, sent out a huge amount of black powder, and was extremely fanatical about the gods, but he was still defeated.

Lost soldiers and generals, gunpowder turned into smoke.

The Chinese Xiongcheng is as solid as a rock, as impregnable as a copper wall!

God, forgive me, I am lost, may God show me a way to victory!

Unconsciously, a line of turbid tears came out of the veteran's eyes, and he quickly wiped them away with his hands and rode back to the camp!

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The military flag at the head of the city is jubilant, the soldiers are excited, the artillery is calm, the power is unlimited, and as far as the eye can see, the Ottomans in the desert are in a single line, and I don't know how many people and horses there are.

The enemy army is besieged by a thousand pounds, and our army is proud to move!

The staff officers around him complimented Li Laiheng: "The leader is far-sighted, let the military seat guard the new city of Cairo, such as Li Musheng, the Qin army is difficult to move an inch, Li Guang descends to the world, but make the dragon city fly, not make Hu Ma do Yin Mountain!" ”

That staff officer will be a sycophant, compared with Li Mu and Li Guang, it just so happens that Li Laiheng is also surnamed Li, thousands of years ago it was a family, and they are all good!

Li Laiheng was very happy in his heart, he fought this battle, and he should be famous in history!

There is a huge risk in this battle, after all, the Ottomans are known as the kings of land warfare, and our side adopts the tactic of "flowering in the center", leaping thousands of miles and taking Cairo directly, just like taking the head of the enemy general in a million army, and is heroic!

Stationed in Cairo, with the help of the fortified city to consume the Ottomans' vital forces, the inside and the outside should be combined, the center blossomed, and the enemy fought a decisive battle, creating favorable conditions for our main force to annihilate the enemy's heavy army group, so as to settle the country in a battle!

But who will enter the fortified city?

The leader made a final decision and chose Li Laiheng as the main general!

Speaking of which, Li Laiheng seems to be a "thief" in the eyes of some old winters, he comes from the system of King Li Chuang, and King Li Chuang is the culprit who buried the Zhu family!

The leader set Li Laiheng, and the huge resources of the entire Southeast Army served him, and the training of elite soldiers was under his command, and a large number of materials were used by him, and finally achieved a great cause!

The Ottomans ran out of gunpowder, and although there were still shipments, it was like a drop in the bucket, and the offensive slowed down.

Not only that, but they have other troubles.