After the black turban army captured Muyangcang, it was like making a windfall, feasting in Muyangcang for two days and two nights, and then repairing for several days, until three days ago, its former army slowly attacked northward, and did not take the opportunity to attack the cities of Dujun and Xianxi County to the west, but went straight to the Lingling, and it was bound to defeat the Lingling directly and destroy the country, and then take the whole land.

With Zhao Xun ascending the high platform, it was faintly visible that the vanguard of the Black Turban Army had arrived on the shore first, with a number of about 50,000 people, and the scouts of the Xian Army were forced to be cornered, and they jumped down the river to swim across the Yongxing River.

Although the Yongxing River is a river, it is a big river.

At present, the natural environment is superior, the frequency of human activities is low, and the degree of reclamation and development is far less serious than that of modern society, so the width of many rivers is quite amazing.

The section of the Xianjun defense river is located in the middle and upper reaches of the Yongxing River, the capital city of the west of the Lingling, the widest part of the river is up to 260 steps, it is where Zhao Xun is located in the village of the Chinese army, the narrowest part of the river is in Wuping, less than 100 steps, the most dangerous.

Not long after the vanguard of the Black Turban Army unfolded the array, without waiting for the arrival of its front army, it was to give the Xian Army a dismount, and I am afraid that only the Black Turban Army in the world is so fearless.

But the pioneer, should be the sharp of the whole army, the pioneer of the road, move quickly, rare pioneer carries catapult machinery heavy equipment.

The pioneers of the Black Turban Army used horse-drawn simple catapults for more than a dozen units, which were lined up along the river. Although Zhao Xun couldn't see it really when he stood on the high platform more than 400 steps apart, he also knew that the Black Turban Army had set up some kind of large-scale equipment on the other side of the river.

According to its size, principle, and lever length, the range of the trebuchet ranged from 200 to 500 or 600 steps, and the trebuchet erected by the Black Turban Army was far from the high platform where Zhao Xun was located, and it was already outside the limit range, and it was almost difficult for the boulder to fly over the buffer zone with a width of more than 400 paces and fall into the shore camp.

Even so, Zhao Xun was still worried that the Black Turban Army was cheating, so he ordered the defenders along the river to withdraw from the camp and retreat a hundred steps back to form a formation to wait for battle.

About half an hour passed, the pioneer trebuchet of the Black Turban Army was set up in place, and began to fill two large wooden barrels into the iron spoon of the throwing rod, and there was a rope twist at the other end of the big barrel, and the rope twist was ignited, and with a loud mechanical noise, the trebuchet threw the rod into the air, and dozens of wooden barrels flew in the air with sparks.

Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) silently roughly estimated the trajectory and landing point in his heart, and calculated that the unknown object with fire would throw more than 200 steps at most, and it was impossible to land on this shore at all, and more than ninety percent of the landing point was in the river, so what was the point of the Black Turban Army throwing these things?

Without waiting to think about it, dozens of wooden barrels smashed heavily on the surface of the river, and fell apart in an instant under the heavy blow, and instantly ignited a sky-high fire, which burned the hundreds of meters long river section brightly, followed by a wave of wooden barrels smashed into the river, so repeatedly set off a ferocious fire, which suddenly surprised the Xian army.

When it was young, the Black Turban Army shouted in unison from the other side: "Divine fire...... Shenhuo Shenhuo ......" and other highly inflammatory slogans. Even the veteran of the Xian army, who had been in a hundred battles, looked at the amazing fire on the river in disbelief, and no one understood how water could start a fire.

If there is something on the river that causes fire, it should be extinguished if it falls into the water, but such a large fire is not something that ordinary fires can burn, even if it is a warship, it cannot burn such a raging fire.

For a time, the whole army was filled with fear and uneasiness, and the Black Turbans continued to use trebuchets to throw barrels into the river, burning the banks of the river as night as day.

At this time, Bailiyan suddenly realized that the Black Turban Army did this to tell the Xian Army that if they wanted to cross the river, they would burn the river and burn the Xian Army alive, so as to prevent the Xian Army from crossing the river and passively guard the east bank, and second, to intimidate the Xian Army and shake the army's heart.

As the fire filled the air, there was a disgusting smell in the air, Bai Liyan frowned, and finally understood what the Black Turban Army threw into the river, the air was filled with the smell of clarification, and the thing thrown by the Black Turban Army must be oil.

According to historical records, ancient China as early as Qin unified the Central Plains, Qin in Guanzhong with rudimentary technology had drilled oil wells for use in war, the Western Han Dynasty oil exploitation has become a strategic resource, the Sui and Tang dynasties of the militarized use of oil is very frequent, the ancient called "fat water, water fertilizer, fierce fire oil, male butter, naphtha" and so on.

Nowadays, there is no record of oil or other names for oil, at least Bailiyan has never seen any record of the words "grease water", "ground oil", "black water oil" and so on in any classics, and even in the army, there has never been a fire made of oil.

Based on this, the Black Turban Army must have accidentally discovered superficial oil somewhere.

For example, in the Middle East, a few meters or more than ten meters down is an oil field, and Daqing only saw an oil layer after hitting two thousand meters, and it cannot be ruled out that the Black Turban Army accidentally discovered superficial oil and took advantage of the flammability and inextinguishability of oil to throw it into the war.

Now it seems that the defeat of Sun Guo is likely to be a fire array set by oil, once the oil burns, it is almost difficult to extinguish, even in modern times, there are almost no other means to extinguish.

The most primitive means is to cover it with sand and mud, and even then, once it burns on a large scale, it is too late to escape, and where can it be bothered to extinguish the fire.

In the eyes of ordinary soldiers, this kind of black substance that cannot be extinguished with water and burns wherever it sticks is undoubtedly an extremely terrifying "divine fire". It is no wonder that the Black Turban Army is so rampant and worships oil as a divine fire.

Zhao Xun asked all the generals under his command at this time, but no one knew what was burning on the river, some people said it was tung oil, and some people said it was pine oil. But how could there be such a large area, which burned for an hour in a row, and the stinking grease, no one in the world knew what the black scarf military was.

Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) squeezed through the crowd at this time, and whispered to Zhao Xun:

"Zhao Shuai, the incendiary material used by the Black Turban Army, called grease water, or oil, is black and thick, even if it floats on the surface of the water, it cannot be extinguished, it can only be burned out."

Zhao Xun frowned and said:

"How did Mr. Wei know that this is fat water?"

"The smell that Zhao Shuai smelled is the unique smell of fat water, called asphalt, which is the residue of fat water refining."

"Is there a way to extinguish that?"

Bai Liyan shook her head and said with a wry smile:

"Small-scale ignition can still be extinguished by covering soil and burying sand, but if a large-scale ignition is ignited by a fire array, even if it can be extinguished in this way, the army's morale will be chaotic. Moreover, once this grease is contaminated, it is difficult to clean, as long as there is fire, it can be ignited immediately, so it is difficult to extinguish. ”

Without waiting for Zhao Xun to speak, the general on the side reprimanded:

"Who are you that dare to deceive the people here?"

Zhao Xun said sharply:

"General Guan Pu, don't be rude, give this commander to step down."

"Zhao Shuai, this son dares to make a mistake here. How can he know what the people do not know? If we open our mouths, will we not harm our army? ”

"Shut up!" Zhao Xun snapped and said, "Wei Xian is a handsome protégé, and he dares to lie." ”

"Yes!"

"Stand down!"

Guan Pu glanced at Bai Liyan evilly, and took two steps back unwillingly. At this time, Zhao Xun ordered Xue Sheng, an officer in the middle of the Dao:

"Where is Xue Sheng!"

"The end will be."

"Ordered the front camp to go down to the river to salvage the things that caused the fire. Remember, this is extremely dangerous and should be put in a clay pot or pot. ”

"The last will obey."

Xue Sheng is the herald of Zhao Xun's Chinese army, and his position is equivalent to that of the metropolitan governor, except for the sword and axe hand under his command, he does not have much military power, but his power is very great. Those who are afraid of the battle and retreat can correct the Fa on the spot.

The herald of the Chinese army is not a permanent military position, and only a large army of more than 50,000 people has a herald of the Chinese army, or it can not be set up, and Sima Envoy is in charge of this post with full authority.

Xue Sheng ordered the former army to send people down the river to salvage, most of the soldiers were afraid, and it took a long time to recruit more than ten people to sit on a small boat, and use a marching pot for cooking rice to fill back a pot of still boiling river water.

Soon after Zhao Xun and other generals returned to the Chinese army, the rice pot was chained and sent to the Chinese army's big tent. There was a raging fire in the pot, black smoke was emitting, and a pungent and unpleasant smell filled the air.

The generals watched one after another, and their mouths were amazed. Bailiyan found the lid of the pot, tightly covered the marching pot, and finally covered the wet bedding, after a long time, when the flame was extinguished, and opened the lid again, everyone was dumbfounded and looked at the black unknown substance in the pot, and they couldn't hide their shock and looked at Bailiyan.

Zhao Xun stood up and approached the iron pot, poked it into the pot with the wooden stick prepared in advance, and then lifted it to see that the black oil was like viscous oil wax, which could not be washed clean when hung on the wooden stick.

At the next moment, Zhao Xun asked Bai Liyan and said:

"Mr. Wei, is this what you call lipid water?"

"Exactly, the method of extinguishing fat water can only make it isolated and airtight. You can't splash water at all, the more water you splash, the bigger the fire will burn. In the next thought, Sun Guo, Zhiguo, and Changsun Guo have been defeated repeatedly, and the harm of this fat and water may be one of them. Many of the soldiers had never seen such an unquenchable fire, so they must have feared it in the first battle. ”

"Where can I find it?"

"I'm afraid it's hard. Grease water is buried deep underground, under the sea, there is very little shallow soil grease water available, presumably the Black Turban Army found the wellhead and occasionally got grease water, and could not find grease deposits for the time being. ”

At this time, Guan Pu said:

"How different is this from nonsense, neither can this thing, nor can it be extinguished, it is difficult to let the thieves attack it!"

"That's better than not knowing anything." General He Meng retorted: "Since the Black Turban Army uprising, vainly claiming that the magic is invincible and invincible, so that the souls of the soldiers of various countries are not possessed. Now, it seems, that's all there is to it. It's nothing more than using things that we don't know and don't have, to use them to kill soldiers and soldiers, and to dare to call it a miracle, it's ridiculous! ”

He Meng's wording was sharp, and Guan Pu didn't buy it:

"General He said it so easily, that is, there is a strategy to break the enemy, it is better to listen to the generals and see what General He has to break the enemy."

"The surname is Guan, don't deceive people too much!" He Meng reprimanded: "Ben will also crawl out of the pile of dead people, and they are all like you who fear the enemy and fear the war with ghosts and gods, and they should be punished with evil words." Please also ask Zhao Shuai to be clear. ”

He Meng saluted and kicked the ball to Zhao Xun, who said with an unhappy face:

"Whether it's gods and ghosts, or it's good to confuse the public with evil words, now that the matter of the Black Turban Army's divine fire has been clarified, do you still think that the Black Turban Army really has a magic that is different from ordinary people?"

Although Zhao Xun did not directly agree with He Meng's words, he denied Guan Pu's statement between the words.

At least judging from the Black Turban Army's worship of the Divine Fire, the so-called divine art of the Black Turban Army is likely to be something that the world has never seen before, and it has been used on the battlefield, and the other side must not have prepared for the first battle.

At this time, all the generals looked at each other, all discussing the matter of the black water in the pot, Zhao Xun returned to the front of the case, took out a order from the order box, put it on the ground and said:

"The armies obey orders! Tomorrow, Buddha Xiao, each battalion sent ten people to the Yongxing River, with the method of Wei Xianxian, salvaged a pot of fat water to extinguish it, and then the soldiers of the dawn, so that all the soldiers knew that the fire burned by the Black Turban Army tonight was fat water and not witchcraft, and the time limit was half a day, and there must be no mistake. ”

"No, obey Zhao Shuai's military orders." Everyone said in unison.

"Wei Xian, He Meng, Ye Xin, Gao Pei, and Xue Sheng will stay, and the other generals will disperse."

When the generals dispersed, Zhao Xun introduced He Meng, Ye Xin, Gao Pei, and Xue Sheng to Bailiyan.