1.36 The Great Array
The large ships of Ji Kingdom all anchored upstream of the canal entrance. However, they were not lined up along the river bank as usual. Instead, they were lined up in a row, like a dragon bridge flying frame, blocking the river channel horizontally.
When the Ji Kingdom ships took their place, General Zang Min, the Liao Dynasty, gave an order: "Break the dike!"
When the general was cut off the gate and locked, the Zhang River broke through the dike and came out. The torrent flow rushed out of the old ditch and rushed into the newly dug ditch.
The momentum is like a mountain collapse, and the sound is like thunder.
Although I was prepared for it, the reinforced sandbags piled on both sides of the river and canal were still swept away by the whistling peaks. The white waves surging, and it poured thousands of miles away. The fierceness of the Zhang River is so great that it is ten times more water!
The Zhang River broke from the downstream, and the upstream water was suddenly turbulent. Although the wings of the ship were turned over, the boats were connected. The paddle wheels in Ji Kingdom were still dragged by the turbulent flow.
"Let it go!" The ship officer gave the order. The shipman in the cabin moved the mechanism. The bow position of the bronze hook should have been protruded, but there was another thick and long copper tube that stretched out strongly.
Driven by animal power, the water drawer transformed from water drainage in the trunk stores brown liquid in the jar and sprays it out of the copper tube. This ship is originally used as a waterfront building and ships to extinguish fire. Now it is stored in the cabin, but is not the clean water used to extinguish fire, but "stone water".
"There is water in Gaonu County, which is combustible."
The object is brown liquid. The locals call it "stone paint" and "stone fat", which is used to cook fire and light the lamp to keep warm. It is also called "stone fat water" and "hard oil".
According to the book, stone paint is produced on the banks of the shore of the fern and is mixed with sand, gravel and spring water. The locals use wild pheasant tails to pick it up and put it into the clay pot. This thing looks like black paint and is flammable like a hemp pole. It is accompanied by thick smoke, and even the tents in front of the fire are smoked black.
Later, there was a strange man Shen Kuo, who named it: Petroleum.
Inspired by Zhong Yao's fish oil burning thieves, Jia Xu took advantage of the situation and designed a poisonous plan to burn the city with oil and fire.
However, the fish oil consumed a huge amount last time. Ji State hoarded it for many years, but it was almost squandered by Zhong Yao. It was not enough to be used by Guangzong. The newspaper Longyou Dazhenguan was written. Liu Bei thought of the sentence "There is a flammable water in Gaonu County."
Gaonu County is in Shangjun.
Without further ado, the clans ordered their people to go and buy them. As expected, almost every household of Gaonu had several or even dozens of cans. They were used to cook on a daily basis, burning lights to keep warm, and all of them were bought and shipped outside Guangzong City. The households of Gaonu were sold out. Just like the fish oil in Ji Country, this poisonous plan can be either one or two or three.
It is called "stone paint". It not only has a luster that is similar to lacquer, but also has considerable viscosity. It is easier to adhere to fish oil. It also has liquid characteristics similar to water, and is lighter than water and floats on the water surface.
I saw the black-brown "stone-flavored water" flowing down along the Zhang River, like an evil black dragon, quickly swallowing the channel and pounced towards Guangzong City.
Because it is very easy to adhere and difficult to clean. Therefore, the Ji Kingdom's large lands are all moored upstream of the Zhang River. The "stone fat water" accumulated in the belly is sprayed out along the wind. After the oil enters the water, it flows downstream and leaks into the ditches and will not contaminate the ship.
As for the large oil storage urn in the cabin, it is not a pity to discard it and replace it with a new urn.
Clear water arrives first.
Break out of the ditches and scatter into Guangzong.
Everything is as before.
The ventilation holes are first filled with water and merge into vortexes. The vortex expands rapidly and the ground collapses. The flood peaks pour into the underground corridor and whistle into the city.
With the help of water momentum, the sound of scattered water wheels comes one after another.
When the huge waves surging, the water wheels will turn more and more.
With the rumbling sound, Guangzong city walls collapsed one after another.
The Han army cut wood into rafts, rode the wind and waves, and rushed into the city.
When they passed through the ruins of the city gate, the soldiers on the raft all looked down. They saw that the ground that was hidden underwater was covered with soil, and were washed away by the flood. The neatly laid square floor was exposed. Looking closely, the bricks were paved with iron and were all made of mechanisms. Looking around, the entire Guangzong City was covered with squares of mechanisms.
The Zhang River was overwhelming, flooding Guangzong in one fell swoop. Looking around, the city was covered with white sieve, with only the dome of the tent, which barely exposed the water.
When the water accumulates several feet, it gradually becomes stagnant. It is clear but not flowing, and it will eventually flood everything.
The soldiers who rushed into the city first all looked solemn, without any joy. It was just because the sound of gears rotating, like a roar of war drums, rumbling at the bottom of the water, and their feet were numb.
Something weird.
The flat water surface seemed to be split with one knife and broke into two pieces in half.
Then it became a natural barrier.
The water flowed suddenly and turbulently. The raft suddenly caught off guard and was sucked in by flowing water one after another and fell into the trench. Screams came one after another. Dong Chong, who witnessed everything at close range, was about to break his liver and gallbladder.
The lingering sound surrounds my ears. The screams that had fallen into the abyss suddenly pop up again. They whistled out from under the water.
boom!
There was a loud bang.
The black shadow soars into the sky.
Several soldiers who survived by chance were climbing up on it and climbing straight into the air.
After reaching the top, they slowly stopped. Only then did everyone see clearly that the black shadow before it turned out to be... it turned out to be a bronze arc!
Without any reaction, the arc rushed down again. The soldiers had no way to climb and were thrown into the water.
Immediately afterwards, another bronze arc rose out.
As they rose and fell, everyone realized that this thing was actually a complete bronze ring belt.
The roaring underwater continued. Not far away, the water body was divided again.
Another bronze ring belt roars into the air.
Nested copper rings, one after another, keep rising.
"This is..." It was not until this moment that the left general Huangfu Song suddenly realized: "Armilled Heavenly Sphere!"
In the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (117), Zhang Heng casts the armillary celestial sphere. Its main body is a nested copper ring that can operate on its own in several circles. The outermost layer is 1,4,6 inches in circumference. Each layer is divided into inner, outer yard, south, north pole, yellow, equator, twenty-four solar terms, twenty-eight rows of constellations, as well as “middle”, “outer” stars, sun, moon, five latitudes, etc., and many celestial phenomena. Two leaking pots are attached above, and there are holes at the bottom of the pot, and dripping water pushes the copper rings and rotates evenly according to the scale. Various celestial phenomena are then revealed in front of you.
There are also one jade ring on both sides of the copper ritual, spitting water into the pot, the left is night, and the right is day. On the pot, there are gold and copper immortals and Xu Tu, "all holding arrows with their left hand and carving with their right fingers to distinguish the time of the sky." What's more wonderful is that the mechanism is hidden below the steps, and the pods connected to the two pots are driven by dripping water, and according to the changes of the moon rises and the moon sets, the phases and waxing, and the sun is constantly rotating and opening and closing. It shows that the day of the new, looking, strings, and darkness is like a living calendar.
The armillary sphere was cast and was hidden in the secret room of His Highness Lingtai. The officials in the secret room informed the person who watched the sky at a certain moment. As a result, the armillary sphere was completely consistent with what appeared in the sky.
It's really breathtaking.
However, the armillary celestial sphere cast by Zhang Heng has a circumference of only one meter, four feet and six inches.
The giant ring in front of me is more than a hundred feet. Can't it be made of copper?
The sound is huge and terrifying.
A fishy storm blew on the face, and there was a faint fragrance.
As the formation began to operate, the tent camps that had previously been out of the flood also rose out of the water one after another.
On the middle of the high platform, a man stood in front of the tent. His fairy-like style and water had not touched the drip. He was the great wise and good teacher, and the general of the God of Heaven, Zhang Jiao!
"Ignorance rats. How could you understand the secrets of the sky created by Zhang Pingzi?" The voice came out on the right. One man looked at the black cover and wrote "General Zhang of the Earth" on the big flag behind him. There was another man on the left, and the flag behind him wrote "General Zhang of the Human King" on the big flag behind him.
Needless to say.
The ones that stand on three high platforms are Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang.
"The Huntian Formation, the stars are moving, and the white horse passes by. I know five hundred years before, but five hundred years later. I know astronomy, geography, and I know people in the middle, understand yin and yang, understand the Bagua, understand the Qimen, and know Dunjia..."
"A blink of an eye can make you and others die, and your corpse will remain!"
Chapter completed!