When selling the divine fire to Li Lingfu, Li Jing was not worried about revealing the secrets. Moreover, he sold it not cheaply. Li Jing lion asked for a hundred high-end Liaodong war horses. At this price, Li Jing was a little embarrassed to drive it by himself, but Li Lingfu bought it without hesitation. He had already found out that in the battle of Tieshan Port, Feng Zhang's squadron had not yet reached the port, and was directly sunk by this extremely powerful divine fire. He completely lost his courage and retreated directly.

The biggest enemy of Qingnipu is Duli Town, and the strongest one in Duli Town is their joint fleet. If this divine fire is really so powerful, then it is worth buying no matter how expensive it is. What's more, Li Jing only wants horses. Liaodong is short of food and money, but it is not short of war horses. Li Lingpu, who is a horse thief, has many relationships in Liaodong, and he usually has a war horse trafficking business.

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

Li Jing smiled slightly, smiling without saying a word.

The so-called divine fire, or the wrath of the Dragon King, the fire of the ocean, etc. are just some of the more intimidating ones he thought of. In fact, there is no divine fire in the dream of the Dragon King. The real name is Greek fire. This is a secret weapon that the Western Eastern Roman Empire was able to protect the country for thousands of years, and also called wildfire. It was originally invented by a Christian construction worker named Galinicos who believed in Christianity and liked alchemy.

A hundred years ago, the caliph Muawiye I of the Arab Empire, which flourished in Central Asia, launched a joint land and sea offensive against the Byzantine Empire. After the land war was blocked, he concentrated his maritime power and captured Kizkos on the southeastern coast of the Marmara Sea as a base for launching a large-scale maritime offensive. The Arab fleet then launched a general attack on Constantinople. The Byzantine Navy dispatched small ships equipped with Greek fire and launched a fire offensive on Arab warships carrying siege equipment and soldiers. The commander-in-chief of the Arab fleet, Fadallas, ordered the fleet to evacuate, but about two-thirds of the ships had been burned.

In order to avoid the counter-siege of the Byzantine Navy, Muaweiye ordered the remaining Arab ships to retreat south. However, the Byzantine Navy took advantage of the victory and used Greek fire again near Silevkiah, which almost wiped out the Arab navy. The Byzantines were ecstatic and called the mysterious flame that saved their destiny "fire of defense" or "fire of ocean".

Fifty years later, the Arab Empire launched two troops to attack the Eastern Roman Empire. Byzantine Emperor Leo III immediately ordered the fleet to fight and used Greek fire to burn the Arab fleet. In this siege, the Arab army used a total of 2,560 ships, and only 5 were left after returning to Syria and Alexandria.

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

However, although these happened within a hundred years at this time, because the distance was too far away, not many people in the Tang Dynasty knew about this mysterious wildfire. Li Jing also heard it when he accidentally heard several Hu Shangshang from a private room in the Jianwu Pavilion in Gongsun Lan on Chang Street, Shamen Town. He suddenly awakened all the things about Greek fire in his memory.

This discovery made him very happy. After returning, he began to secretly create such wildfires. The Eastern Roman Empire kept this flame that protected them very secretly and never leaked secrets until the recipes were not spread in later generations. However, later scientists had long studied its ingredients and analyzed that the formula was composed of naphtha, saltpeter, quicklime, phosphorus, and sulfur, and mixed with a certain proportion of flammable substances such as sulfur, asphalt, rosin, resin, etc., which were dissolved into a liquid with excellent combustion performance through heating. It can float and burn on the water surface and easily adhere to enemy ships or soldiers who fell into the water.

The most important material is naphtha, which is the substance after oil has undergone distillation, and there is also a commonly known as gasoline.

The whole formula is very complicated. The materials alone include naphtha, saltpeter, quicklime, phosphorus, sulfur, asphalt, rosin, and resin. However, this is not a problem for Li Jing, because Li Jing happened to read a successful experiment of a German scholar in restoring Greek fire in his later generations. In his experiment, in addition to the fire that Li Jing currently uses that requires manual ignition, there is also a formula that does not require ignition but ignites when touching water. The components of this Greek fire contain a certain amount of calcium phosphide, which is probably composed of limestone, bone charcoal and even urine. However, calcium phosphide extraction is difficult and is not conducive to mass production. Li Jing finally chose ordinary Greek fire, but it was amazing when it was used for the first time.

It can be said that this is a weapon belonging to this era, but it is a force beyond the era. This is even more amazing than the power of black gunpowder and more suitable for sea and water wars.

The Eastern Romans never revealed secrets of such weapons because the production process was very strict. The development and production of Greek fires were carried out deep in the palace. The Gallinicos family, who were granted imperial orders and were firmly controlled, controlled the entire operating system. Everything about this weapon was strictly kept confidential and even not allowed to be recorded in words. They were even afraid of leaking secrets and rarely used them. Many times they would rather let the soldiers come forward to fight hard than use them easily.

However, Li Jing did not have much concern in this regard. This kind of weapon with a complex formula cannot be easily controlled by the enemy. In particular, naphtha, the main material, is quite troublesome. You must first have oil, and then master the distillation technology. What's more, Li Jing now set up a workshop for producing the Divine Fire in the new city, and it is a secret underground workshop. A sturdy small bastion was specially built outside and sent heavy troops to guard it. The formula was controlled by him personally. The entire production process was divided into dozens of processes and carried out separately. No one except him mastered the complete formula.

Li Jing could have told Li Lingfu that this divine fire was indeed a gift from the Dragon King, because he was the only one in the East that had this recipe. In the whole world, only the Eastern Roman royal family, who was more suitable for the West, had this secret.

When the Divine Fire exchanges for war horses, it is impossible to say who loses and who makes money, but at least the two of them are very satisfied with the transaction. Li Lingfu even proposed to buy more divine fires, and even offer the price to exchange for a jar of two war horses. Li Jing was very moved and immediately reached an agreement with him again. After Li Jing returned, he rushed to make 500 cans of divine fires and exchanged for one thousand war horses in Qingnicheng. Then he discussed some transactions, mainly to establish a long-term trade relationship between Qingnipu and Shamen Town.

Qingnipu has a large number of military materials such as cattle, sheep, horses and mules, and even cows and cows, and even several large mines under its jurisdiction, and a mature slave trading market. Li Jing guarded the most prosperous port in the north of the Tang Dynasty, and also had military equipment workshops and several in short supply. After Qingnipu came to Li Jing regularly trade war horses, slaves, cattle, sheep, donkeys and mules, livestock, prisoners of war, slaves, and various military materials, as well as iron ore, tin ore, copper ore, lead ore, as well as phosphorus, lime, sulfur, saltpeter and other substances.

Shamen Town will trade grain, cloth, prisoners of war, weapons, even warships and specialty goods from Shamen Town to Qingnipu.

After the deal was negotiated, both sides were very satisfied. Li Lingfu also took out the horse thief's trick and allyed together with Li Jing to slaughter a good white horse to sacrifice to the sky, drinking blood and sprinkling it as a vow. Signing a maritime alliance to establish an offensive and defensive alliance.

Before dawn, both sides returned with satisfaction. The next night, Li Jing's fleet was equipped with more than 10,000 prisoners, 100 cans of divine fire, and some other items, and replaced three thousand prisoners from Qingnipu's ship, two thousand young male slaves and five thousand young female slaves. There were also two hundred war horses that exchanged divine fire, one hundred of which were the payment for the goods, and the other hundred were the gifts he gave to Li Jing for his birthday gift. He was busy in the middle of the night and finally completed the first transaction. There were still a lot of transaction content left, but he was not prepared and got a separate transaction time for the next time.

Standing on the wharf of Wuhu Island, Li Jing was very satisfied when he saw that more than 10,000 prisoners of chaos were replaced by a total of 10,000 prisoners of war and young and strong male and female slaves from Liaodong. Those prisoners of the Great Xie Fort were also hot potatoes in their hands, and it would be much easier to change them directly. In addition to Zhang Lie and Wu Qian, the people of the Great Xie Fort, there were about a thousand soldiers who chose to surrender, and finally they were left behind. The others were Feng Ming and other officers. Li Jing, the pirate of the One-Eyed Dragon, sold all the people, and even Zheng Mo, who did not keep them. The relationship between these pirates and them was deep and frightened. Although they were forced to surrender, Li Jing did not want to keep such a group of people by his side.

"General, what should I do with these people on Wuhu Island?" Li Zuoshi asked. Li Jing started yesterday and asked people to gather all the people on the archipelago who were excluding merchants. These people were more than 2,000 households, men, women, young and old. Most of them were fishermen and ordinary people. There were more than 10,000 people on the island, but many of them were family members of the garrison. Li Jing directly took them to replace them with Qingnipu. Li Jing did not intend to replace the rest.

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

“Take them away?”

"Take everything away, take everything you can on Wuhu Island, let's leave an empty island for Feng Zhang."

Early that morning, Li Jing finally set sail with 10,000 prisoners of war slaves from Liaodong, more than 8,000 people taken away from Wuhu Island and more than 1,000 surrendered soldiers from Da Xie Fort who surrendered and surrendered. Standing on the deck of Li Jing's new flagship Tieshan, Li Jing was lying on his sword and long-sentenced.

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

Can the war he provoked achieve the results he expected in the end?
Chapter completed!