There is no shortage of masters in the art of war among the high cultivators in Taichu Palace, such as Bao Yun. With her here, Wei Yuan's art of war is no longer needed for the time being.
How to position the mortal army is the primary issue.
Bao Yun has been thinking about this issue since the activation of the Qingming Divine Magical Momentary Beings, and now she has an idea: "We assume that the Momentary Beings can last for thirty minutes, then the task of ordinary mortals is to deal with those ordinary witch soldiers. There are many of them. But their combat power is mediocre. If the blessed mortals can match them for one, it will be a great victory."
Although Wu Clan warriors are cannon fodder, cannon fodder is also a warrior, not a civilian. Only one warrior will appear in about ten Wu Clan civilians. And most of the human races in the realm are really mortals. If there are no sentient beings, a Wu Clan It is more than enough for a warrior to fight against a dozen mortals. If a mortal could be exchanged for a warrior from the Witch Clan, then any famous general from the human race would wake up laughing from his dream.
The physical strength of ordinary Wu clan warriors is only equivalent to that of humans who have just cultivated the blood fusion, and is not as strong as that of Beiliao, so Baoyun has a countermeasure: muskets.
But Xiaoyu said: "I think bows and arrows are better. These mortals are already melted with blood after being blessed. It is easy to shoot a bow. Besides, the battle only lasts for thirty minutes. Even if there is a burst of shooting, it will be no problem. Moreover, the power of bows and arrows is better than that of muskets." big."
Baoyun shook her head: "The bow is too expensive, and it takes time to make it yourself. And shooting a bow requires training, but a musket does not. Just hold it steady and shoot."
Xiaoyu touched Cui Yu lightly and asked in a low voice: "How long does it take to make a bow?"
Cui Yu has been leading soldiers for several years and is familiar with military affairs. He said: "A good bow will take more than ten years, and an ordinary bow will take three to five years. I am talking about ordinary bows, not magical weapons."
Xiaoyu fell silent.
Ji Liuli said: "Then what kind of muskets should we equip?"
Wei Yuan thought about the next possible attack time of the Wu Clan, and then recalled the fighting experience during this period, and said: "Time is very urgent now. Tens of thousands of mortals will come soon, and the Wu Clan may come back at any time." .So we can’t do those delicate things. The simpler they are and the faster they are, the better. I have a rough idea, something like this.”
Wei Yuan drew two schematic diagrams, which are two iron pipes, one large and one small. The larger one is one and a half feet long, about the thickness of a fist. The smaller one is one foot long, about the thickness of an apricot. There is a small hole at the back end of the small iron pipe. , a lead sticks out from inside.
The large iron pipes are for monks who have achieved the equivalent of a perfect casting after blessing. They can directly use Tao power to detonate gunpowder. The small iron pipes are for real mortals. Even if they bless sentient beings, they have no Tao power. Therefore, it is necessary to use ordinary fire to ignite the gunpowder.
The power of the two muskets is also different. The former can hold half a liter of gunpowder, while the latter can only hold two teacups.
The projectiles have evolved, and Wei Yuan's design is iron sand wrapped in oil paper.
Using iron sand instead of refined iron bullets was Wei Yuan's inspiration from the shotgun mentioned by Xu Wenwu. This kind of gun does not require much aiming, just aim it roughly in the direction and blast. It is suitable for those mortals who can't even read. .
In addition, it is very easy to prepare iron sand. It was the first step in Ji Youli's demonstration last night to refine steel. That is to first crush the ore, then extract the iron powder and condense it into many small balls, which can be simply melted together with fire.
There is no need for subsequent steps such as melting, removing impurities, balancing physical properties, etc.
Since the amount of iron sand required is huge, the output will be greatly increased if one or two steps are omitted, and the power consumption is less than one-tenth of that of refining iron bullets.
As for the musket itself, Wei Yuan felt that two light iron pipes were enough. There was no need for those fancy ones. At most, mortals could wrap some cloth strips around themselves to prevent their hands from slipping. As a realm lord, Wei Yuan himself used two
There is no need for mortals to be particular about a steel pipe with a gun tip attached to it.
Wei Yuan's plan is for each mortal to be equipped with two iron pipes. After the war, the two sides will close the distance. If a wizard is injured, he will make a profit, and if he kills him, he will make a big profit. After firing two shots, the two sides should have started.
In a melee, it's time to take a knife and chop.
The vast majority of mortals are farmers without any training, so even with blessings, it's good if they can fire off two shots.
The ones Wei Yuan really has high hopes for are those monks who have completed the practice of blood fusion, and after blessing, they can reach the completion of the body casting. After cultivating the body fusion, they have basically had fighting training, so Wei Yuan gave them larger iron pipes.
With guns, we expect to deal with backbone units such as Gila Knights and Armored Warriors.
Battles at Taoist level and above will still be conducted according to the methods everyone is accustomed to.
The biggest problem with gunpowder weapons is their lack of power. The barrels of Wei Yuan's two steel guns are filled with gunpowder. Even with such power, they can only slightly injure Fa Xiang. The effect on Dao Ji is quite obvious, but Wei Yuan still has to rely on him first.
Use a gun to penetrate the armor's defense, and then the gunpowder will have some effect on the body.
Therefore, many of the fancy weapons proposed by Xu Wenwu, such as machine guns and the like, were turned a blind eye and ignored by the high-level cultivators. No matter how high the rate of fire, hitting a body like Wei Yuan would be a massage.
But gunpowder does solve the key problem of arming mortals, but it requires a relatively large amount.
In terms of gunpowder preparation, Ji Liuli was originally the only expert, but now there is Sun Yu. When it comes to medicine, although Sun Yu is not as good as the God of Creation, he is still much better than a halfway monk like Tianji Temple.
In the past two days, Sun Yu had also finished reading what Xu Wenwu had written. At this moment, the audience had been discussing gunpowder for a long time, and he said: "I think the principle of gunpowder is that it expands rapidly after being ignited, pushing the projectile to fly to produce lethality. One
The greater the expansion of gunpowder, the faster it ignites, and the greater its power. If the fire line is ignited, the gunpowder will burn from the line of fire to all, and the expansion will be slower. However, the ignition force can ignite all parts of the gunpowder at the same time, and the expansion will be more
The faster it is, the more powerful it will be."
Except for Ji Liuli, who made gunpowder, others have not thought about it in such detail. The only improvement direction is how to mix the ratio, how to make the particles uniform, and how to balance the physical properties.
Sun Yu added: "So if you want to increase the power, the only way is to expand it more and burn it faster. So I figured out a recipe and improved it a little."
Sun Yu took some gunpowder, added a spoonful of white powder to it, and then ignited it with Taoist power. Hearing a boom, the flames shot straight to the roof, and the power was at least half as powerful as before!
Wei Yuan's eyes lit up, but dimmed again after asking about the formula. Sun Yu's spoonful of powder contained two very valuable medicines. This spoonful of powder alone was more expensive than a few stones of gunpowder. It would have to be given to tens of thousands of mortals.
To equip weapons, the gunpowder consumed would cost tens of thousands of kilograms, and if it was slightly more expensive, a huge amount of money would be spent.
However, Sun Yu studied this formula not for mortals, but purely to increase its power so that gunpowder can also work in the Taoist realm. He readjusted the ratio, this time using powder and gunpowder.
With a ratio of one, the power is directly doubled.
This immediately aroused everyone's interest. With this power, if Xiaoyu's hollow magic sword was filled with gunpowder, the power of gunpowder alone could penetrate the low-grade magic weapon armor. If it were Wei Yuan's spear, the mid-grade magic sword would be able to pierce through it.
Armor can also penetrate.
Sun Yu added: "In fact, in the final analysis, the principle of gunpowder is just how to burn faster and expand larger. If this principle is followed, why must gunpowder be used? Can't Dao power also expand, can't magic weapons also expand? It can be done instantly
Thousands of swollen things can actually be regarded as gunpowder, as the saying goes, simplicity leads to greatness."
Wei Yuan felt as if he had been enlightened, and his thoughts suddenly broadened, and he immediately started simulating it in the Taoist foundation. A moment later, he saw him holding out a golden cauldron, with a spire protruding from the mouth of the cauldron. The cauldron was thin and long, and had a strange shape.
Wei Yuan pointed the mouth of the cauldron diagonally at the roof, and heard a bang. A small four-story tower shot out of the cauldron, blasting a big hole in the roof.
Everyone was full of fantastic ideas when they saw it, so they dispersed and went to study without mentioning it.
Wei Yuan estimated that the small lake at the foot of the peak should have grown in size by now, so he went down to the peak to inspect it. At this time, the place where the jade bowl was placed had become a surface of several feet, about two feet deep, and there were already hundreds of colorful beads on the bottom of the water.
The stone. The water surface is rippling, and there is faint light swaying. From a distance, it looks like a luminous lake. It is really a fairyland on earth.
Wei Yuan used Taoism to dig out the fossils and built a canal to the medicine garden. When the small lake was full of water, it would flow to the medicine garden on its own.
There are also two Solanum nigrum trees in the medicine garden, which are considered to be the top-grade Taoji spiritual plants. Wei Yuan planted both of them, one grew naturally, and the other secretly added luck, and then asked Xu Wenwu to take care of it.
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Now Wei Yuan can clearly feel that the vitality of the naturally growing plant is already very lively and vigorous, and the budding should have happened in the past few days. However, the smell of the plant that Xu Wenwu took care of is obscure and deep, and the vitality is now less than half of the natural growth.
, obviously there have been unknowable changes.
Wei Yuan still doesn't know whether this change is good or bad, but even if it is a change for the better, Wei Yuan is almost out of luck.
Just when he was worried, Wei Yuan suddenly remembered something, what about the gift from heaven and earth that killed Xueyan? How come it has been so long and there is no movement at all?
Although the gifts of heaven and earth have been cut off by Qing Ming, now Qing Ming is Wei Yuan, and Wei Yuan is Qing Ming, and everyone is the same. Furthermore, Qing Ming's warm cultivation is advancing and the realm is expanding, so the scope of Wei Yuan's activities is also
correspondingly increased significantly.
Now that the Qingming Realm is 115 miles away, Wei Yuan can run up to 11,000 miles away, and his strength begins to decline only after 5,000 miles away. In other words, Wei Yuan's combat power is now comparable in the entire Broken Realm.
Improvement: In addition to not being able to travel far away, you can walk sideways in front of your home.
The gifts from heaven and earth are mysterious and unpredictable. Wei Yuan knew there was no need to rush, so he could only wait.
A few days passed in a hurry, and the human sacrifices resold from the Xu family were also transported to the realm.
The sacrifices were transported in specially made carriages, more than fifty in total. The carriages were so airtight that even ventilation holes were opened under the carriages.
When Wei Yuan arrived, Cui Yu and his men had already parked the carriages in an open space by the forest. This area was far away from the towns where mortals lived, and there were no monks coming and going, so it was very quiet.
Three of the carriages have a blue painted mark on them, which is a sign of offering sacrifices.
Wei Yuan came to the carriage and opened the door with his sword. Inside the carriage were two-foot-square grids, which filled one side of the carriage. Each grid contained a person, with his head outside and his feet inside. Such a carriage
There were forty people packed in the carriage.
Everyone was lying quietly in the grid, breathing only weakly. Wei Yuan scanned his consciousness and found that their sea of ​​consciousness was almost undefended and they could enter and exit at will. However, there was light in everyone's sea of ​​consciousness, and each person could faintly be seen.
The Taoist foundation is ups and downs, but its light is dim and it can barely maintain its cultivation.
This car is all Daoji monks, but they are all human-level Daoji.
Wei Yuan ordered people to split open the carriage, carry out the people inside one by one, and place them on the grass next to them. Everyone had their beards and hair shaved off, and they all only wore a linen shirt. There were no clothes inside, and they were very clean.
Still clean.
According to Xu Jingfeng, these people were drugged before being transported and had to sleep for ten days before they could wake up. In this way, they would not cause trouble on the road, and they would not need to take care of food and drink. Each vehicle would also carry two spare horses.
, so that people can transport their horses and carriages thousands of miles away without stopping.
Except for the three carts for sacrifice, the other sacrifices are not in such good condition. The grid is much smaller, and some burly people almost have to be forced into it. More than 60 people have to be crammed into one carriage. These people
His hair and beard were shaved and cleaned, his body was also sprayed with perfume, and there was no peculiar smell in the carriage.
Since the first day in the Western Region, Wei Yuan had heard about the human head business countless times. But until now, seeing these people being handled cleanly and neatly stacked, and being able to transport thousands of people at a time
Seeing the efficiency thousands of miles away, Wei Yuan seemed to really see the word business.
How many people did it take to form such a concise and efficient charter?
Chapter completed!