Selling the Divine Fire to Li Lingfu, Li Jing was not worried about revealing the secrets in it. And he didn't sell it cheaply, a hundred cans of Divine Fire Li Jing Lion opened his mouth and asked for a hundred high-grade Liaodong war horses. Li Jing was a little embarrassed to open it at this price, but Li Lingfu bought it without the slightest hesitation. He had already heard that in the battle of Tieshan Port, the detachment of Fengzhang had not yet docked at the port, and nine warships were directly sunk by this extremely powerful divine fire, completely losing their courage and retreating directly.

Qingnipu's biggest enemy is Duli Town, and the strongest thing in Duli Town is precisely their combined fleet, if this divine fire is really so powerful, then no matter how big the price is, it is worth buying. What's more, what Li Jing wants is just horses, and there is a shortage of food and money in Liaodong, and there is no shortage of war horses. As a horse thief, Li Lingpu has a lot of connections in Liaodong, and he has been doing war horse trafficking business in general.

"I heard that this divine fire was given by the Dragon King of the East China Sea in the general's sleep?" Li Lingfu asked.

Li Jing smiled slightly, smiling but not speaking.

The so-called Divine Fire, or the Dragon King's Fury, the Fire of the Sea, and so on, are just some of the more deterrent ones he came up with. In fact, there is no dragon king who bestows divine fire in his dreams at all. Divine fire, in fact, the real name is Greek fire. This is a secret weapon that the Western Eastern Roman Empire has been able to defend for thousands of years, and it is also known as wildfire. It was first invented by a Christian builder named Gallinikos who liked alchemy.

A hundred years ago, the Arab Empire Caliph Muawiyya I, which had risen in Central Asia, launched a joint attack on the Byzantine Empire by land and sea, after the land war was blocked. Concentrate the power of the sea. Captured Kizkos on the southeastern coast of the Sea of Marmara. As a base for launching a large-scale naval offensive. Then the Arab fleet launched a general assault on Constantinople. The Byzantine navy sent small ships loaded with Greek fire and launched a fire attack on the Arab warships carrying siege equipment and soldiers. The commander-in-chief of the Arab fleet, Fadallas, ordered the fleet to withdraw, but about two-thirds of the ships had already been burned.

To avoid the counter-siege of the Byzantine navy, Muawiyah ordered the remaining Arab ships to retreat south. However, the Byzantine navy took advantage of the victory and again used Greek fire near Silevkia, almost completely annihilating the Arab navy. The Byzantines were ecstatic and called the mysterious flame that had saved their fate the "fire of defense" or "fire of the sea".

Fifty years later, the Arab Empire once again launched a two-pronged attack on the Eastern Roman Empire. The Byzantine Emperor Leo III immediately ordered the fleet to go into battle, using Greek fire to destroy the Arab fleet, and in this siege the Arab army used a total of 2,560 ships, and only 5 returned to Syria and Alexandria.

From then on, the Eastern Roman Empire called this secret weapon the fire of defense, the fire of the sea, the fire of Rome, and the Arabs who suffered from it called it Greek fire.

However, although these are all things that happened in the past hundred years, they are too far away. Not many people in Datang know about this mysterious and terrifying wildfire. Li Jing also heard it when he overheard a few Hu merchants talking in a private room in the Sword Dance Pavilion of Gongsun Lan on Changjie Street in Shamen Town, and he suddenly awakened all kinds of Greek fire in his memory.

He was delighted with the discovery. When he returned, he began to secretly create such wildfires. The Eastern Roman Empire kept the flame that protected them extremely secret, and the secret was never revealed, and its recipe was not passed down until later generations. However, later generations of scientists have already studied its ingredients, and analyzed that its formula is composed of naphtha, saltpeter, quicklime, phosphorus, and sulfur, and mixed with a certain proportion of sulfur, asphalt, rosin, resin and other flammable substances, which are dissolved into a liquid with excellent combustion performance through heating, which can float and burn on the water surface, and is easy to attach to enemy ships or soldiers who have fallen into the water.

One of the main materials is naphtha, which is the substance after the petroleum has passed through the distillate, and it is also commonly known as gasoline.

The whole formula is very complex, and there are eight kinds of naphtha, saltpeter, quicklime, phosphorus, sulfur, asphalt, rosin, and resin alone. However, this did not bother Li Jing, because Li Jing happened to see the record report of a successful experiment by a German scholar to restore Greek fire. In his experiments, in addition to the kind of fire that Li Jing is currently using, which needs to be manually lit, there is also a formula that does not need to be ignited, but ignites when touched by water, and the ingredients of this Greek fire contain a certain amount of calcium phosphide, presumably composed of limestone, bone char and even urine. However, calcium phosphide is difficult to extract, which is not conducive to mass production, and Li Jing chose ordinary Greek fire after the first use, but the first time it was used, it was amazingly powerful.

It can be said that this is a weapon that belongs to this era, but it is also a force that transcends the times. This is even more powerful than black powder, and it is more suitable for naval warfare all the time.

The Eastern Romans never divulged a secret about such weapons, because the production process was very strict, the development and production of Greek fire were carried out in the depths of the royal palace, and the Gallinikos family, who were under royal orders and firmly controlled, controlled the entire operating system. Everything about this weapon is kept strictly secret and is not even allowed to be written down. They are even afraid of leaking secrets and rarely use them, and many times would rather let the fighters come forward and fight hard, rather than use them easily.

However, Li Jing didn't have too many worries in this regard, this kind of weapon with a complex formula was not easy to be controlled by the enemy. In particular, naphtha, the main material in it, is quite troublesome, first you have to have oil, and then you have to master the art of distillation. What's more, Li Jing now set up the workshop for the production of divine fire in the new city, and it is a secret underground workshop, and a strong small fortress has been specially built outside, and has been guarded by heavy soldiers, and the formula is controlled by him personally, and the entire production process is divided into dozens of processes and carried out separately, except for him, no one has mastered the complete formula at all.

Li Jing can completely say to Li Lingfu that this divine fire is indeed taught by the Dragon King, because in the entire East, he is the only one who has this formula. And in the entire world, only the royal family of the Eastern Romans, who are more worthy of the West, holds this secret.

Shenhuo changed the war horse, and it was impossible to say who lost and who earned, but at least the two people who traded were very satisfied. Li Lingfu even proposed to buy more divine fire, and even offered a price to the point of exchanging two war horses for an altar, Li Jing was very moved, and immediately reached an agreement with him again, Li Jing rushed to make 500 jars of divine fire after returning and exchanged for 1,000 war horses in Qingnicheng. A number of deals were then discussed, mainly the establishment of long-term trade relations between Ching Nipu and Shamen Town.

Qingnipu has a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, mules, and even military materials such as cowhide and tendon, and even has several large mines under its jurisdiction, and also has a mature slave trading market. Li Jing, on the other hand, guards the most prosperous port in the north of the Tang Dynasty, and also owns an armory shop and several sought-after goods. After that, Qingnipu regularly traded horses, slaves, cattle, sheep, donkeys, mules, livestock, prisoners of war, slaves and maids, as well as various ordnance materials, as well as iron ore, tin ore, copper ore, lead ore, phosphorus, lime, sulfur, saltpeter and other materials.

The town of Shamen will trade grain, cloth, prisoners of war, weapons, and even warships and special commodities of Shamen Town to Qingnipu.

After the transaction was negotiated, both parties were very satisfied. Li Lingfu also took out the set of horse thieves, made an alliance with Li Jing on the spot, slaughtered a good white horse and sacrificed it to the sky, and drank blood and spilled it as an oath. Signed a maritime alliance and established an offensive and defensive alliance.

Before dawn, both sides returned satisfied. The next night, Li Jing's fleet loaded more than 10,000 captive slaves and 100 jars of divine fire, as well as some other items, and exchanged 3,000 prisoners from the ship at Qingnipu, 2,000 young male slaves and 5,000 young female slaves and maids, a total of 10,000. In addition, there were two hundred war horses exchanged for divine fire, one hundred of which were the payment for the goods, and the other hundred were his return gifts for Li Jing's birthday gift. Busy in the middle of the night, finally completed the first transaction. There is still a lot of trading content left, but it is not well prepared, and I will get another trading time next time.

Standing on the wharf of Wuhu Island, Li Jing was very satisfied to see that the more than 10,000 chaotic prisoners were all exchanged for the 10,000 prisoners of war and young male and female slaves from Liaodong. It is also a hot potato for those captive soldiers to keep in their hands, and it is much easier to change them directly. Those who were Da Xie Yan, in addition to Zhang Lie and Wu Qian, were also left behind, and about a thousand soldiers who chose to return to the army were also left behind. The others left were only Feng Ming and other officers. The one-eyed pirate Li Jing was all sold, and even Zheng Mo was not left, these pirates had a deep relationship with them, although they were forced to surrender, but Li Jing didn't want to keep such a group of people by his side.

"General, what are you doing with all this on Wuhu Island?" Li Zuoshi asked, Li Jing has asked people to gather all the people on the islands except for merchants since yesterday. There were more than 2,000 households, including more than 8,000 men, women, and children. There were mostly fishermen and ordinary people, and there were originally more than 10,000 people on the island, but many of them were military family members, and Li Jing directly took them to Qingnipu to replace them. Li Jing does not plan to replace the rest.

"Let them bring their luggage and all of them on board, and we will bring all these people back to Shamen Town."

"Take them all?"

"Take it all, take everything you can bring on Wuhu Island, let's leave an empty island for Fengzhang."

In the early morning of the same day, Li Jing finally set sail with 10,000 prisoners of war and slaves exchanged for Liaodong, as well as more than 8,000 people taken from Wuhu Island and more than 1,000 surrendered troops from Da Xie Yan, who surrendered to Shun. Standing on the deck of the three-story fighting ship of Li Jing's new flagship, the Iron Mountain, Li Jing thought for a long time.

The first step has been taken, and it has been won. Now the most important thing will be the second step, and the news of this battle will not be blocked for long, and he will definitely know the Tao as soon as he returns to Shamen Town. At that time, how Feng Zhang reacted, and how he would deal with it.

Will the war he provoked achieve the results he expects in the end?

Li Jing didn't have much confidence in his heart, but he was ready for an all-out war with Feng Zhang. (To be continued.) )