Xia Hongsheng got the thing that ambushed the fire, and when he arrived at the courtyard of the military machine workshop, which was closely patrolled and guarded by Datang Blade, he found a big bamboo sieve, poured the thing into it, and smoothed it with a dry brush.

If you look at it with the naked eye, you can see that there are a lot of impurities in it. Xia Hongsheng didn't use others, just an assistant, that is, his loyal personal soldier Qi Yong.

The two of them carried the sieve and began to sift out, sifting out the fine texture, and the impurities with large particles remained in the sieve.

After sifting out, Xia Hongsheng asked Qi Yong to go outside, spread out a large piece of paper, and then poured the sifted powder on the paper.

"Qi Yong, go get a piece of long bamboo, light it and bring it over." Xia Hongsheng commanded.

Qi Yong went to the root of the wall and went to the bamboo pole, threw it on the ground and stomped it hard, and with a split of his hand, a piece of bamboo was split.

"Childe, just let the little one go over and order it directly, why use this thing?" Qi Yong was very unimpressed.

Xia Hongsheng rolled his eyes and said to Qi Yong: "Then you go over, when you don't have the life to marry a daughter-in-law and have a son, don't blame my son for not reminding you." ”

Qi Yong smiled wryly, then obediently lit one end of the bamboo piece on fire, and then stretched out the bamboo piece from a distance, igniting the paper.

I saw that the paper burned and rolled it in the middle, and the open flame instantly burned the piece of powder on the paper.

First smoke billowed out, and then sporadic sparks began to burst out. Suddenly, I saw that the spark suddenly became violent, made a "snort" sound, and a burst of black smoke rose, and suddenly burst out of the flames, and then instantly extinguished.

Qi Yong was taken aback, he was very glad that his son-in-law didn't let him go over and point that face with his hand, otherwise he would have burned his face immediately.

However, Xia Hongsheng shook his head.

No, it's too powerful.

After thinking about it, he asked Qi Yong to go over and cut a piece of bamboo tube, took some medicine noodles and stuffed them into the bamboo tube to tamp them, and then rolled the medicine noodles with paper and twisted them in, revealing one end as a fuse, and then stuffed the paper again and sealed the other mouthful. After that, Xia Hongsheng pointed to a big pit and asked Qi Yong to put the bamboo tube in it.

I lit the bamboo piece again, stretched it out from afar, lit the fuse, only to hear a sound of "snort", and then I heard a muffled sound in the bamboo tube, and then the bamboo tube exploded in an instant, was blown into several pieces, and flew out and plunged into the soil.

"Childe, this ......" Qi Yong was taken aback again, ran over and pinched the broken bamboo skewer, took it out, and gestured with his fingers in the depths, and said in surprise: "Childe, it's almost a finger deep when you go into the ground!" ”

"Qi Yong, you say, if you are on top of the battle formation, you will set this thing on fire and throw it into the enemy's army, what will be the power after it is exploded?" Xia Hongsheng looked at the bamboo skewers that were stuck on the ground and asked.

Qi Yong smashed his mouth, looked at the bamboo skewers on the ground, and looked at the fingers that were pierced into it, thought about it, and said, "This...... Childe, if this thing explodes in the enemy's ranks, I'm afraid that everyone within one or two steps will be injured, and those who are three or five steps away should be fine. They are all wearing armor, and bamboo sticks can't be pierced into it. ”

Xia Hongsheng looked at the bamboo sticks on the ground: "Then what if this bamboo tube is replaced with an iron tube, and this bamboo piece is replaced with an iron piece?" Or maybe you mix some sharp and fine iron tips into the medicine noodles? ”

Qi Yong's eyes froze, and he said, "Childe, I'm afraid that within one or two steps, there will be no living people, right?" …… But, Childe, can this thing break the bamboo tube, but can it also break the iron tube? ”

I guess it's enough to choke. Xia Hongsheng said in his heart.

Although this thing is the predecessor of gunpowder, its power is far worse than that of gunpowder. I'm afraid that it won't be loud enough to make firecrackers, let alone blow up the iron shell, blow up the iron pieces, and kill the enemy on a large scale.

"Sure enough, it's not good, the proportion is wrong, there are many impurities, and the degree of carbonization of the charcoal is not enough......" Xia Hongsheng muttered in his mouth, and then turned his head to Qi Yong and said: "Qi Yong, go and bring the three things prepared by this son." ”

Qi Yong nodded, turned around and ran into the house, and then carried out three cloth bags.

Xia Hongsheng himself went to get the wooden board and the rolling stick, got three rolling sticks and three wooden boards, and asked Qi Yong to put some of the contents of the three cloth bags on each of the three wooden boards.

"Qi Yong, crush this thing with a rolling stick, the finer the better." Xia Hongsheng said to Qi Yong, and he also picked up a rolling stick and crushed it.

There was no danger in separating the three things, so Xia Hongsheng rolled them out directly, and together with Qi Yong, he crushed all the three things into a very fine medicine surface before stopping.

"Hurry up and get a medicine twist." Xia Hongsheng rubbed his sour wrist and said, "Qi Yong, bring the nickname, and bring the wine head." ”

Things are prepared long ago, mixed in small scales according to proportions. The use of wine head is to replace alcohol to perform low temperature and wet pressure on the mixed medicine surface. The mixed medicinal noodles are moistened with the head of the wine, which is not only convenient for the three things to be mixed with each other, but also convenient for the gunpowder to be pressed and molded through the mold, and even polished again to make it more fine and uniform, and the fusion is more thorough. Then dry, the alcohol is easy to volatilize, and it is also easy to dry.

When all this was done, the noodles had become a somewhat moist, wine-smelling black thing—only slightly moistened, not too wet, otherwise it would be useless.

Xia Hongsheng carefully spread the medicine noodles on the wooden plate, and then put it on the wooden frame.

"It's done, keep the room ventilated and dry, and when all these things are dry, you can try the power." Xia Hongsheng seemed to be talking to himself, and seemed to be talking to Qi Yong, and then locked the door.

came out of the courtyard and instructed the Datang Blade team members who guarded the yard not to let a little Martian get close to this courtyard, Xia Hongsheng ended today's work.

I don't know if the initial black powder will succeed, let alone what the effect will be.

The blacksmiths of the military machine workshop had already created some things that could be used to hold gunpowder into weapons according to the patterns drawn by Xia Hongsheng. Some hollow iron bumps and the like. Since there was no flintlock device, I had to make a round bomb that flowed out a twist and try the power.

In addition, some explosives bags were made, but they were empty, waiting for Xia Hongsheng to fill them with gunpowder.

Just wait for the medicinal noodles made by Xia Hongsheng to dry.

The weather is cold and the air is dry, which is helpful for Xia Hongsheng to make gunpowder. However, the temperature was too low, which also affected the speed of gunpowder drying. I thought about baking it on a coal stove, but I was worried about the danger, so I gave up and waited for it to dry naturally. (To be continued.) )