Nanming Engineer

Chapter 107
"Oil?" Everyone's mouths were wide open, and their eyes were full of surprise: "I've been busy with Mr. Wang for so many days, just to cook oil?"

Xu Tiezhu approached suspiciously, took a closer look at the light yellow oily liquid in the bowl, and asked puzzledly: "My lord, although the supplies in my Longevity City are relatively scarce, there is still no shortage of things like vegetable oil. It doesn't smell very good, and no cook will like it when it is used for cooking."

"Yes, if it is used to clean weapons, it will be lighter." Ma Xintian touched his chin and thought.

Wang Huan smiled and didn't speak, but held the bowl firmly in his hand, preventing others from touching it.

Zu Bian squeezed away the crowd, and said with a look of disdain: "What do you know, it's all the same, this oil is not for eating, nor is it for wiping weapons."

Wang Huan's eyes lit up and he looked at Zubian in surprise. This rough Liaodong soldier was so knowledgeable and could point out other people's mistakes with just one word. Could it be that he really knew this kind of explosives from later generations?

Seeing everyone looking at him in surprise, Zu Bian felt proud, straightened his back, and said with a big grin: "This is kerosene. I knew it by smelling it. Those who guarded Daling City back then At that time, I used this thing a lot. Hehe, as soon as those tartars climbed the city wall, we poured oil from the city. After one batch was killed, we aimed to shoot rockets, ignited the fire oil, and burned another batch to death, which is amazing.”

He raised his square head and scanned the audience, his eyes were very smug, and the word "xueba" seemed to be clearly written on his face.All the onlookers heard "Oh!" and felt that what Zu Bian said was very reasonable, and he was indeed a veteran general who had experienced many battles.

Wang Huan almost dropped the bowl in his hand to the ground. He quickly regained his composure, stood firm, and cursed angrily: "Shit! Don't pretend to understand if you don't understand. Can you try this kerosene with a rocket? I won't blow you up, you fool." What a weird guy!"

Zu Bian and everyone were stunned: "What? Isn't this kerosene?"

"Of course not, let's go! Come out with me, let you open your eyes. The place here is small, and you can't use it, or if my government office is blown up, it won't be worth it, but stay away from me. If this thing blows up, it will be nothing." It's all over." Wang Huan called everyone to follow him, filed out of the official office, and walked to the street.

He cautiously walked ahead with a bowl in his hand, some soldiers were ahead to avoid pedestrians, and cleared the street, while Zu Bian, Xu Tiezhu and others fell far behind with a distance of ten feet, monks Zhang Er couldn't figure it out.

After walking for more than half an hour, Wang Huan walked out of Wanshou City with small steps, climbed up the mountain on one side, and came to a mountain forest that had been prepared. There was a large flat stone here, and the middle of the stone was smashed with a hammer. There is a small pit. Above the pit, there is an iron block hanging five feet high. It is suspended by a very long rope. The other end of the rope is looped through the branches above the big stone and stretches straight among the woods. To the distance, and finally tied to a tree trunk twenty or thirty feet away.

Next to the tree where the rope was tied, there was a large pit half a man high, which could accommodate more than ten people to hide. Wang Huan arranged for everyone who had followed him up the mountain to hide in the pit, and then walked alone and sweating profusely. At the stone, calm down, hold your breath, and slowly pour the nitroglycerin in the bowl in your hand into the small pit on the stone.

After pouring for a while, Wang Huan finally emptied the bowl, and the small hole on the stone was filled. The pale yellow nitroglycerin was like a clear spring, reflecting Wang Huan's tense face.

Wang Huan had been extremely nervous all the time, and now he was finally relieved. On the way from Longevity City to here, he hardly dared to relax a bit. His hands holding the bowl were extremely numb, and he didn't dare to put down the bowl to rest. Wet, even the soles of the feet are full of water.

Wang Huan turned around and quickly ran back to the pit, hid with others, untied the rope tied to the tree, and shouted: "Has the surrounding area been cleared?"

Immediately, a soldier replied from a distance: "My lord, the land within a radius of three miles has been emptied."

Xu Tiezhu and the others were shocked, and hurriedly asked: "My lord, what is this going to do? Why do you want to clear such a large area? Could it be that you want to fire a cannon?"

"What cannon, I'm going to blow up that boulder, have you seen it?" Wang Huan held the rope for hanging the iron block in his hand, and aimed at the boulder.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter, as if they had heard something so ridiculous that they couldn't stop it. If it wasn't for Wang Huan's face, several people would have rolled on the ground.

"Hahaha, my lord, you said you want to use that bowl of vegetable oil to fry stones?" Xu Tiezhu hugged his stomach and said with a grin while holding his stomach and struggling not to burst into tears.

Zu Bian suppressed a smile while persuading him: "My lord, you made that bowl of kerosene by yourself. It must be of high quality. It makes a loud noise when it burns, but if you want to fry it, your rope is not a match, so it can't ignite the fire. Besides, there is too little igniter oil, and it is open without sealing, how can it be blown up?"

When he said this, the crowd became irritable again, shaking their heads in unison, saying: "Your Excellency is teasing us."

Wang Huan's face was calm, and he didn't care at all. He squatted down and hid his whole body in the pit, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.Grasping the rope firmly with both hands, staring at the nitroglycerin on the big rock in the distance and the iron block hanging above it with both eyes, after estimating it, he shouted without looking back: "Don't talk! Squat down!"

Everyone squatted down laughing, but they didn't take it seriously. They laughed at Wang Huan for so long, but it really ruined his face. The young man is thin-skinned, don't laugh so hard, you have to listen at this time. His, just play with him.

Wang Huan had a serious face, looking at the position of the iron block. There was wind in the forest, and the wind blew the rope hanging the iron block, so the rope swayed slightly. Wang Huan had to ensure that the iron block hit the nitroglycerin accurately. Only in the middle can the maximum effect of the explosion be achieved.

Everyone just imitated Wang Huan's appearance and all squatted down. Seeing Wang Huan's eyes fixed, the rope in his hand was loosened in vain, and the long rope broke away from his hand like flying. The falling iron block lost the strength to hang it, and suddenly fell from a distance of five feet, and fell viciously onto the boulder filled with nitroglycerin.

The position of the iron block falling is very accurate, falling right in the middle of the nitroglycerin.

boom!
A loud bang resounded throughout the world, as if countless cannons in red clothes exploded at the same time, shaking everyone's ears so that they couldn't hear anything for a while. A puff of thick smoke rose above the forest like a huge mushroom, and fell into the sky. A second spread like a wave in all directions.

Everyone only felt a ringing in their ears, and a red light flashed in front of their eyes for a moment. They couldn't hear or see anything. Everyone instinctively lowered their heads to hide at that moment, and buried their whole bodies in the earth pit. On the back of the prostrate, I also felt a gust of wind whizzing past, and the back was painful.

Countless broken stones flew over the top of the head like bullets, crackling the surrounding branches, knocking off many branches and leaves and falling into the pit. No one dared to reach out and caress, but just hugged his head tightly. , lying on the ground, only hated that the pit was dug too shallow.

After a long time, the breeze blew through the woods, dissipating the thick black smoke, and the air was still filled with the strong smell of gunpowder smoke. Wang Huan was the first to raise his head, straightened up, and looked forward.

"Brother Huan, be careful!" Xu Tiezhu was so frightened that he pouted his buttocks like an ostrich, and shouted in panic.

Wang Huan touched his face, wiped off the dirt, and said to everyone with a smile, "Get up, you're fine."

Zu Bian and the others raised their heads and stood up with lingering fear, patted the soil on their bodies, and were about to ask aloud, but found that Wang Huan was looking straight ahead with joy on his face. Everyone followed Wang Huan's gaze and looked Looking forward, he was stunned again.

In the distance, the boulder that originally placed nitroglycerin has turned into a pile of gravel of different sizes. The surrounding trees, within a radius of ten feet, do not have a single complete tree. Even the soil on the ground turned into scorched black.

(End of this chapter)