Chapter 199 Alright, now Daqing wins!
Deng Zhong was holding the "sugar fire thunder". The shell of the fire thunder was cast iron, and it was filled with two taels of gunpowder, one tael of sugar and one tael of broken iron nails.
Among them, the sugar and gunpowder were ground into powder and mixed together fully. A handful of rusty iron nails were mixed with a large handful of rusty iron nails. The reason for this was that Shi Lang, Deng Zhong, the best sugar workers in Zhangzhou and the snack master spent nearly a month to test and try again!
At first, they directly mixed the granular sugar and gunpowder together, but it was not very powerful. Later, they thought about using granular gunpowder to mix the gunpowder and sugar together with water. But it was not very good. If there was less water, the sugar could not be melted, and if there was too much water, it would become a soup.
As for the dim sum master who put the sugar on the fire and then added gunpowder and was forced to do this, he had become a loyal and wise man in the Qing Dynasty, so he did not insist on doing it anymore.
In the end, the manufacturing method of mixing powder and adding iron nails and putting iron balls is good. After all, the main component of gunpowder is fire and nitrate! Moreover, the iron nails and iron shells all have rust, and rust is a catalyst.
However, this powdered powdered sugar is prone to detonation, and the powdered gunpowder and a large amount of catalysts have two problems.
First, it is too easy to explode, and it can explode with one Mars!
Second, it is too easy to get damp. White sugar and hot salt are very easy to get damp. If they are boiled into "military sugar cubes", they will absorb less water and are easy to prevent moisture. However, grinding them into powder will make them too easy to absorb water. If you accidentally turn them into a pool of water, it will not be fried.
On the way from Beijing to the south, Deng Zhong encountered two explosions of unknown reasons, both of which occurred in Zhili, killing four Han troops with the "Fire Thunder Ginseng" and two horses.
So when the team crossed the Yellow River, the "fire and thunder soldiers" under Deng Zhong no longer dared to take the risk of continuing to march with those fire thunders that might explode at any time, so they secretly soaked dozens of fire thunders made in Beijing with the water of the Yellow River, making them completely ineffective.
When this incident reached Tu Hai's ears, he made General Kou of Ning Nanjing so angry that he even made people tied up Deng Zhong and pretended to be beheaded.
Later, Shi Lang, who went south with the army, said a lot of worthless words, and then spared Deng Zhong's life. But he still asked Deng Zhong to pay for money to buy sugar and gunpowder in Wuchang, and asked a blacksmith to cast dozens of hollow iron balls.
However, Deng Zhong also learned his lesson and never dared to fill the sugar, gunpowder, and iron nails into the iron shells, but packaged them separately and transported them. There was no accident again, but after entering the humid south, Deng Zhong encountered new troubles. The sugar was too easy to get damp, and it was difficult to dry after being damp, and it was easy to get lumped.
In the end, Deng Zhong had to take the caked sugar to the chef and then pay for it and then buy it himself. After buying it, he carefully preserved it.
It’s almost a loss of trouble throughout the journey Deng Zhong and Deng Dasan are in charge!
Deng Dashen Ling, who had finally arrived in Guangdong and had learned how to preserve sugar, shivered and ground the powdered sugar with his own hands in the barracks of Luojiadu defense, assembled a fire thunder.
At this moment, he was chanting a "fire avoidance curse" that he asked the Taoist priests of Baiyun Temple when he was in Beijing. He held a fire thunder he assembled by himself and appeared in front of Shang Zhidian, Kong Sizhen, Sun Yanling, Jin Guangzu and others who rushed over with their horses.
Tuhai did not let Deng Zhong's men stay idle, but asked them to build two earthen trunks parallel to the Wuhe River on the north bank of Luojiadu.
After Shang Zhidian, Kong Sizhen, Sun Yanling, Jin Guangzu and others crossed the Wuhe River and saw the great power of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers "unmoving as a mountain", Tu Hai personally led the two earthen troughs and squatted down to listen to the sound.
Seeing that everyone had squatted, Tu Hai shouted: "Deng Zhong, light the fire!"
"Yeah!"
Deng Zhong responded first, and then lit the fuse with the fire squeegee in his hand. After igniting, of course, he turned his head and ran behind a pile of earth. As soon as he squatted down, he saw a woman with pretty and charming facial features, white and tender skin, rosy and crystal lips, and an indescribable charm between his eyebrows and eyes. The woman was also squatting there, and when she saw Deng Zhong running over, she smiled slightly at him.
When Deng Zhong was thinking about who this woman was, a voice that sounded a little gloomy suddenly rang out, "What are you looking at? You dog slave, don't you kowtow when you see the princess?"
Ah, she is Kong Sizhen, Princess Heshuo Dingnan!
Deng Zhong was about to kneel down and kowtow when a loud bang came from the direction of the river beach!
This is the sugar fire thunder that exploded!
Now Kong Sizhen had no intention of waiting for Deng Zhong to kowtow, and stood up in front of Deng Zhong. At this time, Deng Zhong realized that the figure of this woman looked better than her face. Although she was covered by clothes, it was still obvious that her figure was bulging and raised back.
"This General Ruan Rice is very lucky!" Deng Zhong thought of this, and looked up at the hat on the head of a tall man standing beside Kong Sizhen, which was still red and ruby-like! Needless to say, this man must be Sun Yanling, the "General Ruan Rice" who was "General Ruan Rice".
"Okay! With the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers in the Formation, and the Fire Thunder that is no less powerful than Zhuge Divine Thunder, we will definitely win this time."
Of course, the "Soft Rice General" Sun Yanling, who felt that he was very stable! Emperor Kangxi had already promised during his court sending to him that as long as he conquers Guangzhou, he would be named King of Dingnan!
It is not that he inherited his father-in-law Kong Youde, but that he "glorified" the King of Dingnan!
In this way, he can get rid of the hat of "Soft Growing General" in the future and ride on Kong Sizhen with justification to act as a mighty man.
When Sun Yanling thought of trampling a tigress under his feet, he felt an indescribable pleasure in his heart.
In fact, this tigress has nothing to do with sorry for him. He is beautiful, has rich, has status and has a way to go. There are also large school district houses in Beijing's Second Ring Road. Moreover, both parents have died, and no brothers and sisters are fighting for family property.
Although I don’t know who I gave to someone before marrying Sun Yanling, I’m not a daughter, but after marrying Sun Yanling, Kong Sizhen was still quite a wife-behaved.
If you insist on saying that there is something wrong with her, it is that she has a little bit of a temper. But she will not beat Sun Yanling, at most she will scold her for a few words.
However, the tigress still approached Sun Yanling at a critical moment and helped him move to the position of a general of Guangxi. This position is equivalent to the Manchurian garrison general, the top leader of Guangxi, and a "lifeless general". Other Manchurian generals have to leave after working for a few years, and his Guangxi general can continue to do it. What a beautiful thing!
But Sun Yanling was not satisfied
The unsatisfied Sun Yanling had already come to Tuhai at this time, with a flattering smile on his face, "General Tu, now there is a fire and thunder in the court, so there is no need to be afraid of the rebels in Guangdong. It is better to advance early and recover Guangzhou, so that the emperor can feel at ease sooner!"
Tu Hai thought to himself: "Do you want to conquer Guangzhou early and become the King of Dingnan as soon as possible?"
"General Dingnan," Tu Hai smiled, "The emperor has never been uneasy for the few clowns in Guangzhou City. His request for us is not to take Guangzhou earlier, but to take Guangzhou more steadily and destroy the thieves!"
"The emperor is indeed wise," Sun Yanling had to change his face with a red face, "It is best to be more stable and make the thief flawless!"
Tu Hai nodded and said, "In addition to sending my official to lead the 58 Banners Heavenly Soldiers and hundreds of Fire and Thunder Soldiers to the south, the emperor also drew 20,000 elite Green Camp troops from the provinces in northeast Guangdong. He was led by Admiral Sun from Gansu and could arrive at the end of October. At that time, the weather in Guangdong was cool, and Deng Shenling had prepared enough fire and thunder, and Admiral Shi had rectified the Xijiang Navy. We divided our troops into two groups, advance in water and step by step, and we were afraid that we could not defeat Guangzhou Prefecture City?
In addition, what the emperor valued most was not Guangzhou City, but the hearts of the people in Guangdong! The emperor said that the chaos in Guangdong this time was the manifestation of the fact that the third prince of the pseudo-Zhu, one party was unstoppable, but the internal reason was that the coastal migration of King Ping Nanjing of Oboi was too deep and too serious to harm the people, and there was no need. This was to kill one enemy and hurt one hundred of them!
The emperor means not only to recover Guangzhou, but also to recover the hearts of Guangdong! Therefore, the emperor will soon issue an imperial edict to abolish the coastal migration of Guangdong and Fujian provinces. At the same time, in order to soothe the hearts of Guangdong, the emperor also asked us to hold this Guangdong provincial examination.
Chapter completed!