January!Take Shouzhou City in January!Guo Shao said to the generals with a deep breath.
The thick smoke filled the wind, and the smoky mist was like the sky was covered with haze.
The generals were stunned, and there was silence nearby.
Maybe everyone thought it was because he was furious when he watched countless siege equipment burned on his territory.
But Guo Shao seemed not to be speaking angry, and then said seriously: I have issued a military order, asking the officials to break the city within one month.If you can't do it, please let me take a pot of water!
Lord... Li Chuyun immediately wanted to persuade him.
Guo Shao waved his hand and said: I have decided my intentions, but if I fail, I will be virtuous!
With a snap, a burning wood burned and fell from the trench bracket, shocking everyone who had no attention to the surrounding scene.
Guo Shao turned to look towards the northwest Huai River. Li Chongjin and Li Jixun must definitely shift the blame to themselves.
One word of carelessness is enough.
More than half a month ago, Guo Shao didn't want to attack Shouzhou; but now, he must not give up Shouzhou.
What does it mean to remove a post from here with the shadow of failure?
He has to fight here to death, no matter whether it is a hard bone or a stone, he can only swallow the bitter fruit if he chews it; there is no way out.
Only by establishing a military order to express your determination is the most effective way to prevent the emperor from replacing the siege lord general in disappointment.
But this military order needs to be subject to additional conditions.
There were too few elite soldiers. The right wing of the Hujie Army claimed that 20,000 elite soldiers were outside Shouzhou City, but they could not be transferred. Guo Shao had already seen the combat effectiveness of miscellaneous troops such as Zhenbing and Township soldiers, and the enemy was panicked and could not organize a group as soon as they rushed.
There is also that guy Li Chongjin, who always interferes is very upset and at a loss.
It’s like when you are pulling a bow and shooting an arrow, you are looking for the most appropriate time and direction. Someone is beside you yelling: Shoot Ah, why don’t you shoot? Shoot from here, where you are facing, shoot Ah quickly... I shoot you in the face!
Now in Shouzhou City, there are food, soldiers and walls, and Liu Renzhan is another powerful veteran.Guo Shaozhen doesn't think there is any opportunity. It is not in line with his style when he takes a rash attack without it.
There are no fighter jets but you can create fighter jets.
……
Soon, Li Gu sent someone to say that the first batch of materials prepared for Guo Shao had been transported to Xiacai Warehouse.Saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal.
Guo Shao left the devastated battlefield in front of him and turned to Li Chuyun and said: I'll go to Xia Cai, you can see here. If there is any important matter, send a quick horse to Xia Cai to Xia Cai to find me.In addition to cleaning up the battlefield, everything else should be done as usual. The tunnels should be continued, and the tunnels on all sides will continue; but do not exceed the city wall... You should also dig trenches in front of the city wall to build walls and lift up the walls and build soil.
Liu Renzhan used oil and destroyed weapons to defend the city.Guo Shao didn't know where his oil was dug, and he couldn't find the place to dig the oil, but many people could find the mineral sites of saltpeter and sulfur.
There was gunpowder in the Tang Dynasty, but it could not be used to bomb the city.
The conventional function of digging tunnels is to quietly transport troops to attack, and there is no other way to use it.
It is impossible to use tunnels to dig down the city wall from the underground; there have been no war examples since ancient times, and the ancients used all the best to attack cities. If they could dig tunnels to dig down the city wall, there would have been a precedent. The Zhou army would definitely use it for two months to besiege Shouzhou.
Liu Renzhan could not think that authenticity is of use besides transporting troops to attack.
It may not be possible to attack a piece of city wall if it collapses, but no one can expect such a thing now. This is a fighter...
He also had to use the land to attack the city to confuse Liu Renzhan. Of course, Guo Shao knew that Liu Renzhan would deploy heavy fortifications at the land to be prepared.
This method cannot work, but he, Liu Renzhan, must be prepared, otherwise the feint attack will become the main attack.
The only question now is whether gunpowder can blow up the city wall?
Guo Shao's siege strategy was clearly visible at a glance: digging tunnels and building soil.
Liu Renzhan is probably mocking him, and even his own people don’t believe that Guo Shao’s siege can work like this.
But he didn't think it was important. The more the other party felt that everything was in control, the easier it was to catch the key points and give Liu Renzhan a hard blow!
Of course, if gunpowder did not blow up the city, I would hear a sound.That would be a tragedy... The world is full of dangers. Guo Shao endured it before, but now he doesn't feel that he still has a way out.
One nitrate, two sulfonates and three charcoal.
Guo Shao recited it silently several times on the road. He didn't know whether this ratio was good or not, and he couldn't remember the exact ratio... It was useless to remember it. There were many impurities in minerals. Who knows what ratio was mixed together?
In a grain yard in Xiacai Town, Guo Shao met Li Gu.
What does General Guo want these things to do? Li Gudao, is it used to burn the city gate? There is a urn city in Shouzhou...
This sentence reminds Guo Shao that gunpowder is burning, not explosion; the power of burning depends on the speed of combustion.
He saw that there were only a few sacks of things in the warehouse. When he cut the hole with a knife, he saw that it was some gray blocks, like konjac.
Guo Shao thought a little and asked: Is this saltpeter?
Li Gu nodded: Neither sulfur nor charcoal were any problems. A large number of them had been transported from various places and arrived immediately after the day of the day.However, there is not much saltpeter that can be collected in the nearby states. Only by urgently adjusting it from Guanzhong, the cumulative number of local officials reported is no less than 2,000 kilograms, and it may take ten days to transport it.
Guo Shao hurriedly said: Mr. Li is so grateful for his help.
It's all small matters.Li Gu smiled and said, "I have been the prime minister before, and I have had official documents with many local officials. I am often assigned to prepare military supplies by the officials. I am familiar with it but can only make a small effort."
Guo Shao then picked out a piece of saltpeter from the sack and took it in front of him and took it carefully.
In his previous life, he was a person who had finished high school and went to college. He knew that potassium nitrate, a compound that should be a crystal similar to salt. He was not very good at the stone-like thing in his hand, and he didn't know how many effective substances were.
After thinking about it, he did not want to reveal the military aircraft, so he sent people to Shouzhou to transfer 300 Luo Mengzi's subordinates to Xia Cai, and ordered the warehouse to be blocked and the idle people were driven away.
Then, at Guo Shao's instruction, everyone set up a big pot in the yard and found some items they needed.Potassium is an active element at the beginning of the periodic table, and potassium compounds must be easily soluble in water.
After half of the sack of saltpeter was crushed, it was mixed with water in the wooden barrel and then filtered out the water with gauze filtered tofu.
The filtered water is poured into a large pot and cooked and dried.
Finally a bunch of white and gray crystals were stir-fried out. Is this potassium nitrate?
Guo Shao grabbed a pair of them and thought about them. He found that the crystals inside were different, some small particles like salt, and some crystals were long strips.
This is not a substance, otherwise the shape should be the same after crystallization.
Guo Shao asked someone to use bamboo sieve to sieve and sort it.Then mix the two crystals with approximately the amount of charcoal and vulcanization respectively, and ignite them to try.It was found that only long crystals could burn rapidly.
Then several other pots were also set up, and a few bags of saltpeter were processed into three buckets of saltpeter in half a day.
Zuo You helped, using the slaughter that weighed valuables, and mixed them into forty-nine different proportions of gunpowder.
It is more troublesome when mixing. If the three dry items are stirred, they will spontaneously ignite. If they are not stirred evenly, they are afraid that they will not mix well.
However, Zuo You and others easily thought of a way, mix it with water and wet it, and then take it to the stone pound for processing grain and grass.
After drying for a day, carefully grind it into powder the next day.
But at this time, Guo Shao asked them to grind it into powder without any hassle, and rub it into particles directly, and use a fine sieve to sieve it evenly.
After working for three days, forty-nine packs of black stuff were presented.Guo Shao, Zuo Youluo Mengzi and more than a dozen of his confidants stayed and started experimenting in the room.
The method is very simple, try which one burns the fastest.
Forty-nine types of gunpowder are subdivided into seven groups, and each group selects the fastest burning one; then the winners will try together for the final trial.
Like the rules of the game.
Fold seven kinds of gunpowder with paper, make a long strip, and then count one, two, three to ignite them together to see which one is the first to burn to the end.
The room soon filled the smoke and everyone coughed so much that they had to open the doors and windows for breath.
The whole process is actually very simple. Guo Shao finished the experiment in less than an hour.Find out the ratio of the pack of gunpowder: 7 taels and 5 qian of nitrate, 1 taels and 1 taels and 5 qian of charcoal.
Guo Shao vaguely knew that gunpowder particles burn faster than powder. He thought about the reason and probably because there was a gap in the middle and it was easier to burn?
However, he felt that experiments were the way to prove all conjectures, and it was simple, so he took the particles and powder of the same gunpowder alone. As expected, the difference was obvious... The gunpowder strips of the same length were burned out, and even one-third of the powder was not burned.
It was almost done here. Guo Shao ordered Zuo You to stay in the warehouse, and Luo Mengzi restrained his personal soldiers and told them not to disclose military aircraft, otherwise they would be punished by death.
In addition, personal soldiers were sent to set up light and dark posts near the Feishui River to beware of careful operation.
Guo Shao returned to Shouzhou City.The next day, the ministers sent by the emperor came to Shouzhou again.The person who came back is no longer the easy-to-talk Wang Pu, but it is also the person Guo Shao knew: Dou Yi and a follower Zhao Pu.
Guo Shao gradually remembered that Zhao Pu seemed to be the one who defected to Zhao Kuangyin, but it is unknown why he is with Dou Yi now.
Dou Yi said nothing, just wandered around the city and inspected the deployment outside the city on the spot.
Guo Shao explained his deployment intentions and his considerations for how to prevent counterattacks in the city one by one, and said without hesitation that Li Jixun did not move his troops and was attacked again due to lack of elite troops, which led to his failure a few days ago.
Two days later, Dou Yi went to the Hujie Army's right wing camp.Then I went to Chuzhou to the southeast.
Within two days, the fast horse rushed to Shouzhou and issued an order for Li Chong to move to Haozhou. Li Jixun's troops were mobilized to Tushan in the northeast; the main forces of the third to sixth troops of the Hujie Army deployed in the south, deployed to Luzhou, were mobilized to Shouzhou, and returned to the Xiangmai Guo Shao to control it.
Dou Yi, who was passing the order, said to Guo Shao: The official said that although you have not slacked off, you can't let the defenders succeed in the counterattack!Since the military order was issued, there was something to say in front of the generals. The government is not a merciless person.The deadline is one month. Once the time comes, if there is no progress, Guo Du will tie himself up to apologize!
The thick smoke filled the wind, and the smoky mist was like the sky was covered with haze.
The generals were stunned, and there was silence nearby.
Maybe everyone thought it was because he was furious when he watched countless siege equipment burned on his territory.
But Guo Shao seemed not to be speaking angry, and then said seriously: I have issued a military order, asking the officials to break the city within one month.If you can't do it, please let me take a pot of water!
Lord... Li Chuyun immediately wanted to persuade him.
Guo Shao waved his hand and said: I have decided my intentions, but if I fail, I will be virtuous!
With a snap, a burning wood burned and fell from the trench bracket, shocking everyone who had no attention to the surrounding scene.
Guo Shao turned to look towards the northwest Huai River. Li Chongjin and Li Jixun must definitely shift the blame to themselves.
One word of carelessness is enough.
More than half a month ago, Guo Shao didn't want to attack Shouzhou; but now, he must not give up Shouzhou.
What does it mean to remove a post from here with the shadow of failure?
He has to fight here to death, no matter whether it is a hard bone or a stone, he can only swallow the bitter fruit if he chews it; there is no way out.
Only by establishing a military order to express your determination is the most effective way to prevent the emperor from replacing the siege lord general in disappointment.
But this military order needs to be subject to additional conditions.
There were too few elite soldiers. The right wing of the Hujie Army claimed that 20,000 elite soldiers were outside Shouzhou City, but they could not be transferred. Guo Shao had already seen the combat effectiveness of miscellaneous troops such as Zhenbing and Township soldiers, and the enemy was panicked and could not organize a group as soon as they rushed.
There is also that guy Li Chongjin, who always interferes is very upset and at a loss.
It’s like when you are pulling a bow and shooting an arrow, you are looking for the most appropriate time and direction. Someone is beside you yelling: Shoot Ah, why don’t you shoot? Shoot from here, where you are facing, shoot Ah quickly... I shoot you in the face!
Now in Shouzhou City, there are food, soldiers and walls, and Liu Renzhan is another powerful veteran.Guo Shaozhen doesn't think there is any opportunity. It is not in line with his style when he takes a rash attack without it.
There are no fighter jets but you can create fighter jets.
……
Soon, Li Gu sent someone to say that the first batch of materials prepared for Guo Shao had been transported to Xiacai Warehouse.Saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal.
Guo Shao left the devastated battlefield in front of him and turned to Li Chuyun and said: I'll go to Xia Cai, you can see here. If there is any important matter, send a quick horse to Xia Cai to Xia Cai to find me.In addition to cleaning up the battlefield, everything else should be done as usual. The tunnels should be continued, and the tunnels on all sides will continue; but do not exceed the city wall... You should also dig trenches in front of the city wall to build walls and lift up the walls and build soil.
Liu Renzhan used oil and destroyed weapons to defend the city.Guo Shao didn't know where his oil was dug, and he couldn't find the place to dig the oil, but many people could find the mineral sites of saltpeter and sulfur.
There was gunpowder in the Tang Dynasty, but it could not be used to bomb the city.
The conventional function of digging tunnels is to quietly transport troops to attack, and there is no other way to use it.
It is impossible to use tunnels to dig down the city wall from the underground; there have been no war examples since ancient times, and the ancients used all the best to attack cities. If they could dig tunnels to dig down the city wall, there would have been a precedent. The Zhou army would definitely use it for two months to besiege Shouzhou.
Liu Renzhan could not think that authenticity is of use besides transporting troops to attack.
It may not be possible to attack a piece of city wall if it collapses, but no one can expect such a thing now. This is a fighter...
He also had to use the land to attack the city to confuse Liu Renzhan. Of course, Guo Shao knew that Liu Renzhan would deploy heavy fortifications at the land to be prepared.
This method cannot work, but he, Liu Renzhan, must be prepared, otherwise the feint attack will become the main attack.
The only question now is whether gunpowder can blow up the city wall?
Guo Shao's siege strategy was clearly visible at a glance: digging tunnels and building soil.
Liu Renzhan is probably mocking him, and even his own people don’t believe that Guo Shao’s siege can work like this.
But he didn't think it was important. The more the other party felt that everything was in control, the easier it was to catch the key points and give Liu Renzhan a hard blow!
Of course, if gunpowder did not blow up the city, I would hear a sound.That would be a tragedy... The world is full of dangers. Guo Shao endured it before, but now he doesn't feel that he still has a way out.
One nitrate, two sulfonates and three charcoal.
Guo Shao recited it silently several times on the road. He didn't know whether this ratio was good or not, and he couldn't remember the exact ratio... It was useless to remember it. There were many impurities in minerals. Who knows what ratio was mixed together?
In a grain yard in Xiacai Town, Guo Shao met Li Gu.
What does General Guo want these things to do? Li Gudao, is it used to burn the city gate? There is a urn city in Shouzhou...
This sentence reminds Guo Shao that gunpowder is burning, not explosion; the power of burning depends on the speed of combustion.
He saw that there were only a few sacks of things in the warehouse. When he cut the hole with a knife, he saw that it was some gray blocks, like konjac.
Guo Shao thought a little and asked: Is this saltpeter?
Li Gu nodded: Neither sulfur nor charcoal were any problems. A large number of them had been transported from various places and arrived immediately after the day of the day.However, there is not much saltpeter that can be collected in the nearby states. Only by urgently adjusting it from Guanzhong, the cumulative number of local officials reported is no less than 2,000 kilograms, and it may take ten days to transport it.
Guo Shao hurriedly said: Mr. Li is so grateful for his help.
It's all small matters.Li Gu smiled and said, "I have been the prime minister before, and I have had official documents with many local officials. I am often assigned to prepare military supplies by the officials. I am familiar with it but can only make a small effort."
Guo Shao then picked out a piece of saltpeter from the sack and took it in front of him and took it carefully.
In his previous life, he was a person who had finished high school and went to college. He knew that potassium nitrate, a compound that should be a crystal similar to salt. He was not very good at the stone-like thing in his hand, and he didn't know how many effective substances were.
After thinking about it, he did not want to reveal the military aircraft, so he sent people to Shouzhou to transfer 300 Luo Mengzi's subordinates to Xia Cai, and ordered the warehouse to be blocked and the idle people were driven away.
Then, at Guo Shao's instruction, everyone set up a big pot in the yard and found some items they needed.Potassium is an active element at the beginning of the periodic table, and potassium compounds must be easily soluble in water.
After half of the sack of saltpeter was crushed, it was mixed with water in the wooden barrel and then filtered out the water with gauze filtered tofu.
The filtered water is poured into a large pot and cooked and dried.
Finally a bunch of white and gray crystals were stir-fried out. Is this potassium nitrate?
Guo Shao grabbed a pair of them and thought about them. He found that the crystals inside were different, some small particles like salt, and some crystals were long strips.
This is not a substance, otherwise the shape should be the same after crystallization.
Guo Shao asked someone to use bamboo sieve to sieve and sort it.Then mix the two crystals with approximately the amount of charcoal and vulcanization respectively, and ignite them to try.It was found that only long crystals could burn rapidly.
Then several other pots were also set up, and a few bags of saltpeter were processed into three buckets of saltpeter in half a day.
Zuo You helped, using the slaughter that weighed valuables, and mixed them into forty-nine different proportions of gunpowder.
It is more troublesome when mixing. If the three dry items are stirred, they will spontaneously ignite. If they are not stirred evenly, they are afraid that they will not mix well.
However, Zuo You and others easily thought of a way, mix it with water and wet it, and then take it to the stone pound for processing grain and grass.
After drying for a day, carefully grind it into powder the next day.
But at this time, Guo Shao asked them to grind it into powder without any hassle, and rub it into particles directly, and use a fine sieve to sieve it evenly.
After working for three days, forty-nine packs of black stuff were presented.Guo Shao, Zuo Youluo Mengzi and more than a dozen of his confidants stayed and started experimenting in the room.
The method is very simple, try which one burns the fastest.
Forty-nine types of gunpowder are subdivided into seven groups, and each group selects the fastest burning one; then the winners will try together for the final trial.
Like the rules of the game.
Fold seven kinds of gunpowder with paper, make a long strip, and then count one, two, three to ignite them together to see which one is the first to burn to the end.
The room soon filled the smoke and everyone coughed so much that they had to open the doors and windows for breath.
The whole process is actually very simple. Guo Shao finished the experiment in less than an hour.Find out the ratio of the pack of gunpowder: 7 taels and 5 qian of nitrate, 1 taels and 1 taels and 5 qian of charcoal.
Guo Shao vaguely knew that gunpowder particles burn faster than powder. He thought about the reason and probably because there was a gap in the middle and it was easier to burn?
However, he felt that experiments were the way to prove all conjectures, and it was simple, so he took the particles and powder of the same gunpowder alone. As expected, the difference was obvious... The gunpowder strips of the same length were burned out, and even one-third of the powder was not burned.
It was almost done here. Guo Shao ordered Zuo You to stay in the warehouse, and Luo Mengzi restrained his personal soldiers and told them not to disclose military aircraft, otherwise they would be punished by death.
In addition, personal soldiers were sent to set up light and dark posts near the Feishui River to beware of careful operation.
Guo Shao returned to Shouzhou City.The next day, the ministers sent by the emperor came to Shouzhou again.The person who came back is no longer the easy-to-talk Wang Pu, but it is also the person Guo Shao knew: Dou Yi and a follower Zhao Pu.
Guo Shao gradually remembered that Zhao Pu seemed to be the one who defected to Zhao Kuangyin, but it is unknown why he is with Dou Yi now.
Dou Yi said nothing, just wandered around the city and inspected the deployment outside the city on the spot.
Guo Shao explained his deployment intentions and his considerations for how to prevent counterattacks in the city one by one, and said without hesitation that Li Jixun did not move his troops and was attacked again due to lack of elite troops, which led to his failure a few days ago.
Two days later, Dou Yi went to the Hujie Army's right wing camp.Then I went to Chuzhou to the southeast.
Within two days, the fast horse rushed to Shouzhou and issued an order for Li Chong to move to Haozhou. Li Jixun's troops were mobilized to Tushan in the northeast; the main forces of the third to sixth troops of the Hujie Army deployed in the south, deployed to Luzhou, were mobilized to Shouzhou, and returned to the Xiangmai Guo Shao to control it.
Dou Yi, who was passing the order, said to Guo Shao: The official said that although you have not slacked off, you can't let the defenders succeed in the counterattack!Since the military order was issued, there was something to say in front of the generals. The government is not a merciless person.The deadline is one month. Once the time comes, if there is no progress, Guo Du will tie himself up to apologize!
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