Ling Zhen quickly calmed down and continued making his own gunpowder. Qinbei Pavilion
After more than half an hour, Ling Zhen stood up holding a clay pot. In the pot was the gunpowder he had prepared.
"Brother, are you doing a little less?"
Shi Qian looked at Ling Zhen's jar and then at the paper bag in Sun Lei's hand. He didn't understand the power of gunpowder, but the difference in weight was nearly five or six times. He would definitely suffer from the comparison.
“It’s not just about the weight!”
Sun Lei smiled and said that he was very confident in the gunpowder he made.
"Brother, are you really ready?"
Ling Zhen still looked at Sun Lei with some disbelief. He thought Sun Lei was just talking big words and didn't understand what gunpowder was.
"Try it now!"
Sun Lei put the gunpowder he had in a small jar and said with a smile. The jar he had contained three kilograms of black gunpowder. The power of the explosion was already terrifying. If Ling Zhen had gotten more than ten kilograms of black powder, he would have lost it. Worried about making too much noise, some did not dare to detonate.
"Master Lu, help shovel out these two holes!"
Sun Lei looked at Lu Zhishen and said.
Lu Zhishen didn't ask any questions. He waved his Zen staff and shoveled out two deep pits in front of two trees. He was also very interested in gunpowder.
Each buried the small jar and pulled out the lead.
"Brother Ling Zhen, how about you come first?"
Sun Lei looked at Ling Zhen and smiled.
"good."
Ling Zhen didn't refuse, and immediately asked everyone to retreat, while he lit the fuse, and the fuse burned slowly.
"boom!"
There was a loud noise, and the pit where Ling Zhen buried the gunpowder was exploded. Debris and soil flew into the air, and fire and black smoke rose into the sky with an alarming force. The one-foot-diameter tree was already a little crooked.
"Not bad!"
Sun Lei smiled and nodded. Ling Zhen was indeed very talented. He could use a "wrong" formula and poor materials to make gunpowder with such power. He was beyond his reach.
Lu Zhishen, Shi Qian, Zhang San, Li Si and others were shocked when they saw the momentum. The power of Ling Zhen's gunpowder was extraordinary. If it exploded close to him, he would probably be shattered to pieces.
"elder brother!"
Shi Qian looked at Sun Lei with some worry. Sun Lei was Liang Shanbo's talker. This face was very important and could not be lost easily.
"Don't worry, don't you see him as confident as my brother?"
Lu Zhishen patted Shi Qian on the shoulder and smiled, "There is nothing Sun Lei can't do if he is sure of it."
"Brother Ling Zhen is optimistic."
Sun Lei looked at it and lit the fuse with a somewhat proud smile, and then he called on everyone to step back further.
Although Ling Zhen didn't want to retreat anymore, seeing that everyone was retreating, he could only take two symbolic steps back. He knew the lethality of gunpowder very well. Just a dozen kilograms of gunpowder were safe here. Sun Lei's three What does a pound count?
"boom!"
A huge explosion sounded, and even the ground shook a little. The tiles and soil were exploded and flew out, and the fire and black smoke also rose. The black smoke was not as big as Ling Zhen, but the fire was even more amazing.
"Boom!"
The ground cracked, and the same one-foot-thick tree behind the explosion point fell down with a crash, and its roots were pulled out of the ground.
"this!"
Ling Zhen was so frightened that he stared at everything in front of him in disbelief. More than ten kilograms of gunpowder was not so powerful. How could Sun Lei achieve three kilograms of gunpowder?
"Brother wins!"
Shi Qian, Zhang San, and Li Si clapped their hands and applauded. It goes without saying that the result was that Sun Lei won completely.
"Such power!"
Lu Zhishen was also full of astonishment. This kind of power was no longer something that anyone could contend with.
"Impossible, impossible! You only used three kilograms of gunpowder, how could it be so powerful!"
Ling Zhen kept shaking his head. The gunpowder made by Sun Lei had subverted his understanding. He brought the materials and tools. How could there be such a big difference in power between the two? Could it be that his gunpowder skills, which he was so proud of as being the best in the Song Dynasty, were so unsatisfactory?
"Brother Ling Zhen, this gunpowder is not for alchemy, so does it require so many materials?"
Sun Lei patted Ling Zhen on the shoulder and comforted him. He knew that Ling Zhen must be shocked and disappointed at this time.
"Please teach me, brother!"
Ling Zhen bowed to Sun Lei. He really liked gunpowder so much. He thought he had reached the level of great success after studying it for many years, but now it seems he has not even started.
"You don't have to be so polite. I'm just picking up people's opinions, and I didn't research the correct formula."
Sun Lei helped Ling Zhen up and said.
"Did I make a mistake with the ingredients? But I made it according to the formula in the "Martial Classics General Essentials", and the ingredients are carefully selected. "Martial Classics General Essentials" cannot be wrong."
Ling Zhen still doesn't understand. "Martial Arts General Essentials" is the essence of military art, formations, weapons, and their respective skills from all over the world. How could there be something wrong with the formula in it?
"Brother, why is your jar so powerful?"
Lu Zhishen looked at Sun Lei and asked curiously. This power was much greater than what he had seen in the army. If it were placed in an artillery, the power would be devastating.
"This gunpowder only requires three components: sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal. The rest are redundant. Adding them will only affect the power. As for the three components of gunpowder, saltpeter is an oxidant, sulfur is a burning agent, and charcoal is basically a stable The agent also participates in combustion. The ratio of the three is extremely important, and the optimal ratio is fifteen parts saltpeter, two parts sulfur, and three parts charcoal. Any error will greatly reduce the power."
Sun Lei looked at Ling Zhen and said, he didn't mean to hide anything. This formula was only developed after the rise of Western chemistry. The reason is that chemistry has stagnated. From the early Tang Dynasty, when gunpowder was studied by alchemists, it was not developed until the Ming Dynasty. After figuring out the best ratio and adding many magazines, the inventor of gunpowder was surpassed by latecomers and further and further behind.
"It's actually like this!"
Ling Zhen was a professional and knew the truth as soon as he heard it. Then he thought that Sun Lei had really only used three medicinal ingredients just now. It turned out that the secret recipe he regarded as a treasure had been wrong all along.
"Actually, this medicine is still a bit mixed. If it is purified, it will be more powerful."
Sun Lei pointed at the bottles and jars filled with medicinal ingredients.
"Thank you so much for teaching me the secret recipe! From now on, I will treat you as my teacher! I will follow you to the death!"
Ling Zhen bowed to Sun Lei and said, Ling Zhen knew very well how much the secret recipe of gunpowder was worth. Sun Lei gave it to him so directly, which showed Sun Lei's sincerity. With this recipe, it would be a waste of time for him to stay in Jia Zhan Library and follow Sun Lei. Learning gunpowder is the right way for Lei, and as for Luocao, it is nothing. His identity as a gunner is no different from that of a soldier.
"There is no need to become a disciple. We are all brothers and we can discuss things with each other."
Sun Lei looked at Ling Zhen with a smile and said.
"It's really amazing. How can the mixture of three things be so powerful?"
Lu Zhishen was very curious. Saltpeter and sulfur were common things and were used as medicines. Charcoal was even more common. When these three things were mixed, they could explode.
"Haha, in fact, there is no mystery at all. Wasn't this thing made by alchemists in the early years? Go back and ask Taoist Gongsun, maybe he also knows."
Sun Lei said with a smile that he had a "profound Taoist" Gongsun Sheng beside him. He must be proficient in this "alchemy" technique.
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