Seeing that he really listened to her words, Bei Gongjing softened her tone and said, "Just keep these in mind and go back to work."

Li Rui said feebly: "Here." Then he continued to walk towards his own side with his head shrugged. His dejected look gave Bei Gongjing the illusion that he had spoken too harshly and had hurt him.

I even hesitated whether to go up and comfort him...

Seeing Li Rui come back dejected, Xu Hun was a little puzzled: "Quhou, what's wrong with you? Are you being scolded?"

Li Rui said weakly: "It's more serious than being scolded."

Xu Hun couldn't help but worry for him: "What's going on? Did you make some mistake and the Major General wants to punish you?" He was really worried for Li Rui, because except for Li Rui, no one could make a pile for himself every day.

It's delicious.

Li Rui let out a long sigh: "I didn't make any mistakes. I just scolded a family member behind his back. I was scolded by the Major General and I was not allowed to scold him again."

Xu Hun asked: "Who are you scolding behind your back?"

Li Rui said: "Taifu Wang. I just whispered that he was a bastard."

Xu Hun: "..."

Marquis Qu, it's a miracle that you're alive to this day with your bad mouth! Even if the Major General scolds you, it's a light punishment. It's already a great mercy that he didn't hand you over to Taifu Wang!

After Bei Gongjing arranged the camp, he went to Sima Yue's Chinese army camp with Yang Xiu, Yang Jun and others for a banquet. This time he did not bring Li Rui with him because Li Rui had not yet held a banquet of this level.

Qualified to participate. Li Rui continued to work with the others, setting up tents, digging trenches, setting up fences and building earthen forts. There were quite a lot of things to do.

While they were busy, follow-up armies were still arriving in a steady stream. Since Sima Yue decided to fight a big battle, it was impossible to just use the elite forbidden troops in his hands. The powerful people who obeyed his orders both inside and outside Luoyang City also

He came to join the battle with his own private armed forces, and King Qin's army stationed in various surrounding fortresses also rushed over. The victory of Xincheng was like a powerful stimulant. After one injection, the Xiongnu and Han Kingdom had already been beaten.

The dying Western Jin Dynasty miraculously rose up, showing strength and fighting spirit that barely matched the size of the country. Elite soldiers and generals gathered in the direction of Yiyang like dark clouds driven by a storm.

On the surface, the Western Jin Dynasty seemed to be at the end of its rope and had no more soldiers to fight with. But in fact, it still had quite strong military strength until the last moment. For example, Wang Yan, a damn good-for-nothing, was killed in a single battle in Ningping City.

Hundreds of thousands of Jin troops, including 40,000 imperial troops, were lost. In the direction of Bingzhou, there were still tens of thousands of Tuoba Xianbei who were loyal to the Jin Dynasty. In Jizhou, there were also the brave and capable Duanbu Xianbei; in the direction of Shandong, there was Gou Xi.

There are tens of thousands of troops led by famous generals; fierce and tenacious beggar armies are active in Guangzong, Chenliu, Ganyi and other places. Not to mention that the Jiangnan region has not been affected by the war so far. It is not difficult to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops. However,

, the Western Jin Dynasty has lost the ability to mobilize these military forces. These military forces are just a piece of loose sand and cannot be used by the Luoyang court, at least not by Sima Yue, the highest power in the Western Jin Dynasty. Now Sima Yue can use, except for the 40,000 in his hands

In addition to the imperial army and some King Qin's troops, the only ones left were the powerful armed forces who obeyed his orders. The powerful people in Luoyang may have felt that the Hulu were defeated badly in the new city and their vitality was severely damaged, so they cooperated and brought their own armed forces.

Drive out of Luoyang City in a mighty manner and rush to the battlefield!

Along with the army came all kinds of heavy siege equipment, such as trebuchets, giant crossbows, various types of chariots, ladders...the number was terrifying. Li Rui saw with his own eyes several giant trebuchets built by Jian

The cow dragged it slowly towards the launch position. How big was that thing? It looked like a moving castle. Hundreds of soldiers had to pull the rope at the same time to launch it. It is said that it can launch objects weighing up to one hundred kilograms.

The stone ball can be shot hundreds of feet away, and it can create a big hole in the city wall with one blow, or even directly collapse a city wall. It is truly amazingly powerful.

There was also an endless stream of bullock carts transporting ammunition to the trebuchets.

The trebuchet is not just for throwing stone projectiles. After all, it is not an easy task to grind a stone into a stone ball of the right size. Quarrying, transporting, and polishing are all very labor-intensive. No one can bear the burden of using it all.

When a trebuchet destroys fortifications such as city walls, watchtowers, and fences, it naturally uses stone bullets. But if it is to hit people, it will choose a relatively cheap and easy-to-manufacture ammunition:

Mud ball.

Yes, mud balls are also one of the ammunition for trebuchets.

This kind of ammunition is really easy to obtain. Rocks are hard to find, but mud is hard to find. It’s everywhere. Dig it out, mix it with water, and knead it into pieces of mud weighing about ten kilograms or even dozens of kilograms.

The dough can be used after it is dried in the sun. Don't look at the dirt that falls off it, but its power is also quite terrifying. If it hits the head or torso, it will cause burping, and if it hits the limbs, it will cause broken muscles and fractures. Now

It is not easy to dry mud balls in the sun in this kind of ghost weather where water turns into ice. However, there is no need to dry them in the sun. After kneading them and placing them outdoors, the mud balls will turn into ice lumps overnight, and their hardness is even harder than simply drying them in the sun.

It's even stronger. If you get hit by it, you'll be turned into meat.

In addition, there is something even more cruel, which is to use a large number of copper pellets.

The specific usage of copper pellets is to first burn them until they are half molten, and then load them. A large trebuchet can load dozens or even hundreds of pellets at a time, and then launch them with a bang to let the enemy see what fire rain and meteors are. Give this thing a try.

If it is hit hard, it will not be as simple as being injured. The whole person will be burnt on the outside and tender on the inside. Even if the copper pellet is empty, it will cause a fire if it falls on the roof of a thatched house or wooden building in the city. Physical attacks are also accompanied by

Magical damage, let me ask you if you are afraid of it!

Of course, in Li Rui's view, these ammunition are too polite. If it were him, he would directly load the fire oil tank into it, fire it at the enemy, and burn her to death!

These large-scale instruments were accumulated by the Western Jin Dynasty over the past thirty years. It was precisely because of their possession that the Western Jin army was able to subdue the barbarians. Now that the barbarians were forced back to the strong city, these powerful instruments were also removed from the top of Luoyang City.

Moved to the foot of Yiyang City, ready to let the barbarians relive the feeling of being beaten by various high-tech weapons.

The Liangzhou Army also came over, including those who stayed behind in the new city and those who stayed behind in the Xiong'er Mountain Camp. The Xiong'er Mountain Camp was lit up with flames, and thick smoke wrapped in sparks and shot straight into the sky. The scene was quite terrifying. Zhang Xuan told Beigong

Jing obeyed unconditionally. When he was asked to burn the camp, he really burned down all the camps. The smoke pillars shot up higher and higher, stretching for twenty miles, which really scared the Hulu in Yiyang City.

Jump.

The troops coming from the new city brought over the guy Li Rui was eating. The guy didn't waste a second. He immediately ordered the craftsmen to move the equipment out of the car, find a good place to assemble it, and then poured barrels of crude oil in and started a fire.

Start distilling. There are no annoying things like sulfur, nitrate, and white phosphorus added to these crude oils, because after adding these things, the crude oil becomes very unstable and will cause huge difficulties in transportation, so generally

Crude oil and various materials are transported to the battlefield and added when needed. This is convenient for Li Rui... If these troublesome things were added, he would not dare to process them.

The pollution caused by this kind of crude oil processing is undoubtedly huge, but it is none of his business, and he has no intention of settling here.

As the temperature and pressure in the container gradually increase, the crude oil also reacts. The first thing to be discharged is water vapor. Yes, the water content of crude oil is not low, and it must be dehydrated first. After the water vapor is discharged,

The next thing to be discharged is gasoline, and then diesel. This is very simple common sense in physics. Although Li Rui is not specialized in this, he has good knowledge of physics in high school, and he can do it in a decent way.

However, when the gasoline began to flow into the container along the small pipe, Li Rui hid far away... This guy really knew how dangerous this clear and transparent liquid was, and he invented this home-made oil refining method.

The equipment was so unreliable that it was right to stay away. As a pioneer of the oil industry, he did not want to leave such a sentence in the history books: On a certain day of a certain year and a certain month, Li Rui was refined by himself in an accident.

The gasoline burned to ashes!

There was a lot of crude oil to be processed this time, and several trucks were still busy at work until late at night. Li Rui kept watching from a distance, reminding the craftsmen from time to time to pay attention to some details. He didn't want these craftsmen to be burned too.

Turned into gray.

While they were busy, Bei Gongjing came over - it seemed that Captain Sima's banquet was finally over. He walked to Li Rui smelling of alcohol and looked at the craftsmen busy not far away.

Ask: "How is it? Is it going well?"

Li Rui said: "It's not bad. We have successfully refined more than a dozen cans of fierce fire oil. It seems that we can refine another dozen cans, enough to burn the fences and antlers outside Yiyang to ashes."

Bei Gongjing was a little surprised: "So many?"

Li Rui said: "The main reason is that the crude oil is of good quality and easy to extract."

For example, the quality of the crude oil processed in Xincheng is not good, it is too thick, and it took two days of work to refine just a little bit of gasoline and diesel, which makes me feel unhappy just thinking about it.

Bei Gongjing said: "You are really amazing. You know everything. Unlike me, I know nothing except riding horses, archery, gun dancing, and sticks." At this point, his mood was obviously a little low, and he was no longer as usual as before.

of sharpness.

Li Rui noticed something was wrong with him and asked, "What's wrong? Were you offended at the banquet?"

Bei Gongjing forced a smile and said: "The Taiwei questioned my victory in Xincheng because the Hulu still had the courage to hold on to Yiyang, and thought I was falsely reporting my military exploits..."

Li Rui exclaimed: "That old immortal really doesn't do anything about human affairs!"

Bei Gongjing: "..."

Okay, confirmed. During the day, the words I advised him not to criticize important people behind their backs to avoid getting into trouble were like a breeze blowing in from his left ear and out from his right ear. They did not stir up even a trace in his mind.
Chapter completed!