Chapter 207: Li Mu is not lazy

"Report." The lieutenant ran over quickly.

"My lord, my lord. The shell is two miles away." The officer bowed on one knee and saluted.

"Good. Good." Ju Xin exclaimed happily.

"Right. How about this musket?" Ju Xin asked again.

"My lord, this gun barrel is really difficult to imitate." Gong Cheng said embarrassedly.

"It's stupid. Step up the imitation. Be fast. Get it done. Lots of rewards. If you can't get it. Be careful of your head." The drama said bitterly.

"This artillery must be intensified. The larger the caliber, the better." Ju Xin said with a different face.

"Yes, let's do it for the small ones." Gong Cheng immediately agreed.

Ju Xin ignored it at all. Report the good news directly to King Yan.

While Yan Guo was preparing to imitate Qin's artillery in large quantities, Li Mu was not idle either.

Li Mu had already learned how powerful this firearm was on the battlefield. And the killing effect is very powerful. People who are shot often cannot be cured, that is, if they are shot. Just one foot entered the ghost gate.

What Li Mu can do is to avoid the killing front of the firearm. Attack from the side. When the enemy does not respond, quickly approach the enemy. Then use the advantage of guns and artillery that are not good at close combat to quickly control the situation.

To achieve this result, it is necessary to train a new cavalry team. Since the cloud city is a farewell. Li Mu had already paid close attention to the stirrups and horseshoes of the Qin State cavalry. And began a lot of imitation.

The cavalry tactics, because of the solid effect of the stirrups, began to appear brand-new tactics, that is. Using the rapid mobility of the cavalry, quickly go around the enemy's rear and launch an attack from the rear. Rather than just launching and shooting like in the past. The effect of the rush is affected because of the lack of stirrups. Now, thanks to the stirrups, the weapons equipped have been greatly improved.

From the melee sword to the spear and halberd for mass rush. Zhao Jun’s combat weapons are rapidly upgrading.

While Li Mu was busy deploying troops, he was also very concerned about the situation of weapons and equipment. Zhao Jun is different from Qin Jun. Qin Jun has a very developed weapons manufacturing workshop, and now it has been upgraded to an arsenal, but Zhao Jun has no such thing. Craftsmen were recruited temporarily from nearby. The manpower simply cannot meet Zhao Jun's combat needs.

It took a few days to build two hundred stirrups and horseshoes. I am very worried about these Li Mu.

After being equipped with stirrups, those Zhao Jun cavalrymen, after seeing the benefits of this equipment, spontaneously began to imitate them. They used hemp rope and leather. Or cloth, made into stirrups. Thus. You can also get the same effect as the stirrup.

In this way, the Zhao Jun cavalry units began to make a lot of self-made stirrups. The number quickly expanded from two hundred to nearly seven thousand cavalry. It was in this difficult environment that Zhao Jun completed the rough weapon upgrade work.

Li Mu stared at these **** men blankly, and remained silent for a long time. Zhao Jun was able to fight against Qin Jun, relying on these **** soldiers.

"Intensify training." Li Mu looked at the Zhao Jun cavalry who had been training overnight and turned to leave. The guards around also followed one after another.

Li Mu returned to the big account and marked the collected military information of the Yan Jun on the sand table. As before, there was not much movement from the Yan Jun. Nevertheless, Li Mu still did not take it lightly. in contrast. Instead, Li Mu sent a large number of scouts to investigate the information of the Yan army reinforcements.

For Wu Sui, Fangcheng. Li Mu was even more careful to investigate. Pay special attention to the movement in this area. Seen from the distance on the picture. The distance between these two places is relatively far from Julu. The least likely to cause Yan Jun's alertness. But it was a cavalry team that was attacking, and it could quickly tear a hole from these two places. Then go around to the rear of Yan Jun. Directly hit the supply line of the Yanjun in Julu City. To achieve the effect of siege. This is Li Mu's idea. It is best to be able to lure the Yan Jun to take the initiative in the direction of Julu. Ambushed him halfway. Regarding such an arrangement, Li Mu believes that only by attacking the reinforcements from the Yan state can it be the most likely to call out the Yan army of Julu. In this way, Zhao Jun took the initiative, and Yan Jun who lost the initiative could not effectively attack Zhao Jun even if he had an absolute weapon advantage.

The general policy has been finalized. Li Mu could only wait quietly and patiently.

A great battle began brewing in the quiet confrontation. And Shang Wen is also brewing his own things. It's just that Shangwen is not brewing war, but ethanol.

After several days of fermentation. Those grains that have been fermented can no longer be fermented.

With fermented food. Shangwen also needs a fractionation tower. What Shangwen wants is ethanol with a high purity, so that he can make an alcohol lamp for his experiment. And alcohol blowtorch.

For the fractionation tower, Shangwen cannot be manufactured industrially, but it can be manufactured in a laboratory. Shangwen uses clay pots. According to the principle of the fractionation tower, a clay pot type fractionation tower is made. Shang Wen is full of praise for this invention. I originally planned to use glass, but the output of glass is too low. Even basic experiments cannot be guaranteed.

For this reason, Shangwen spent a long time looking for a cheap, easy-to-make equipment. Finally, Shang Wen finally found the clay pot.

Except for the fractionation tower. Shangwen also produced a rectification device, mainly for further upgrading to a rectification fractionation tower. The purpose of this is to speed up the purity of ethanol.

With such equipment, Shangwen immediately started the distillation column to extract ethanol.

In a limited space, increase the heat exchange area of ​​the liquid mixture as much as possible. Generally, the mixture used for rectification and fractionation is an organic azeotrope. The azeotrope is first heated from the reactor to the fractionation section, and the boiling point is low. Continue to rise, because the temperature of the top of the tower is the same as that of the low boiling point after the heat transfer of the low boiling point, so the low boiling point is fractionated out, and the higher boiling point is not reached the corresponding boiling point, so it will be cooled and refluxed to the reaction In the kettle or the lower part of the fractionation column, after the low boiling point substances are completely distilled out, the higher boiling points are successively fractionated, then the high boiling point substances are distilled out, and finally the bottom of the reactor is the residue.

The heating equipment uses a coal stove. As the experiment was done, it was midday, and the temperature was still very high. Shang Wen was experimenting with sweat all over his body. Does Shangwen still need to make some adjustments? The main problem is the condenser.

After an hour of heating, distillation and fractionation, a small cup of ethanol was finally extracted. The peculiar aroma of alcohol attracted an uninvited guest.

Old man Wei, this okay character who likes to drink two glasses. For the aroma of wine, he has already smelled it.