Unparalleled Women in the World

The situation was tense, and Mei Wangqing was very worried. She rushed to the equipment store in the city at night.

The guarding soldiers were cold-faced and refused to let her go. Mei Wangqing raised her eyebrows, but she was strictly disciplined. She smiled and handed out a city lord's order. The soldier showed surprise and let her in respectfully.

The storeroom was filled with rows and rows of weapon racks, all of which were filled with knives and guns. Mei Wangqing took a step, took a look, or touched one.She sorted it out. In the warehouse, there are short soldiers for close combat: simple swords, iron swords, battle axes, battle axes, hooks, sticks, clubs, whips, maces, kidnappers; and long-range shooting: bows and arrows; Soldier heavy weapons: Mo Dao, spear, spear, long lance, dagger, fork, claw, meteor hammer, halberd, 镋... and soldiers' defense equipment: shield armor, heavy armor, helmet.

In addition, two spacious rooms are highlighted separately, and the siege weapons are specially arrayed: more than a dozen rams, ladders...

There are cold weapons everywhere, if you want to fight close to each other, if you want to live, you can only look at the level of martial arts.

Mei Wangqing frowned: "That's all?" Isn't there any stronger one?

The guard soldiers replied:

"Here are all the weapons in the army. The weapons assigned by the soldiers before are recorded in the register. If the weapons are broken or lost, the weapons can only be reissued with the identity tag and the letter of the lieutenant colonel. "

Mei Wangqing returned to the City Lord's Mansion, and the light in Zhao Fei's study was still on. When she entered the study, she saw Zhao Fei was discussing the battle plan with several soldiers.

"Without a defensive weapon, this battle is difficult!"

Zhao Fei's eyes froze slightly, she raised her head and asked, "A sharp weapon for defending the city? Is there a way to look at the sun?"

Mei Wangqing thought for a while and said:

"I have a method, but I just want to build it within five days, and I don't know if it will be successful?"

"I also hope that Aunt Zhao Fei will recruit all the skilled blacksmiths, craftsmen, carpenters, and craftsmen of Tonggewu in the city. I will be of great use!"

Zhao Fei recruited a personal servant, gave one or two orders, and the servant left in a hurry.She got up and left the book bank, placed the paper again, and waved to Mei Wangqing. Mei Wangqing understood. She came to the book bank, picked up a pen, and began to draw on the paper. On the white paper, strange figures appeared. Some are wooden, some are made of iron, some are like bows, but there is an extra vertical rod in the string; some are like carts, and some are like towers; some are like large brushes; Some are like arrows, with only one thing attached under the arrow;

Mei Wangqing concentrated her attention, she drew one after another, and the lights flickered on, reflecting her face like jade and snow, and her eyes shining like stars.She thought about it, and wrote the name and material on each piece of paper. When everything was over, she looked up again, and there were already many people standing in front of the book bank, except for Zhao Fei, Zhang Sheng, and a few female generals, such as Xu Pei, Zhang Jin, Fu Rong, etc. She doesn't know the rest.

Zhao Fei picked up the drawing paper on the shore, and after she read it carefully, she distributed it to the rest of the room.

Zhang Sheng looked at her in surprise, and asked, "These are the weapons for defending the city?"

Fu Rong's eyes were slightly bright, and his voice had a metallic texture:

"Your Majesty, you can tell it's a sharp weapon just by looking at its appearance, but how to use it? We don't know the characteristics of the weapon yet?"

The rest of the generals also nodded in agreement.

"Jun Wang, tell me carefully."

Mei Wangqing stood up and stood with her hands behind her back. She said lightly:

"The wolf tooth shooter and the Yasha beater are all tools for defending the city, and they are specially used to deal with the enemies on the ladder!"

"The God Arm Bow is improved on the basis of bows and arrows. It is easy to learn and powerful. It can shoot through iron targets from [-] steps away, and can penetrate the enemy's head from [-] steps away..."

"The trebuchet, as the name suggests, is to throw huge stones (usually between fifty and two hundred catties) from the city into the enemy group, and there are similar, smaller trebuchets with slightly smaller stones. Less than fifty catties..."

As soon as Mei Wangqing finished speaking, she saw some unfamiliar faces in the study, with hesitation on their faces, they said in their mouths.

"These are all understandable. They are all weapons for defending the city and attacking the city. It's just that the sky-shattering cannon, flying.fire.gun, flying.fire.arrow, and firecracker are unheard of and never seen before!"

"That's right, I don't know if it can be done!"

Mei Wangqing saw that they were all middle-aged women in their forties, with mild or sharp eyebrows, dark or brown complexion, and they all looked at her with strange eyes.

Mei Wangqing slowly explained:

"As for the sky-shattering cannon, flying.fire.gun, flying.fire.arrow, firecracker..."

"Sky-shattering cannon: It can catch fire, produce smoke, be blinded, and explode. Cannons can be big or small. Small cannons can injure and kill several people. Cannons can kill more than ten to a hundred people. It is best to use fire to attract them. Throw it into a place where the enemy is densely populated. The clothes are made of pottery skin or iron, and there are materials inside. I have to study this material carefully..."

"Flying. Fire. Spear: It is a long. Gun equipped with gunpowder. When fighting, it can not only stab the enemy, but also burn the enemy. Soldiers can have several medicine packs on their bodies for continuous replacement!"

"Flying.Fire.Arrow: A gunpowder ball is tied to the shaft of the arrow. After the fire is lit, the flying.arrow is fired, and the firepower burns the enemy."

"Fire gun: It can also be called a fire gun. It is a long-range shooting weapon made of metal. The pharmacy is filled with stones and gunpowder. The range can reach [-] meters and the speed is extremely fast. The stones pushed out of the bore can penetrate people. body..."

She frowned, and added:

"These four things all need fire.powder, and there is no fire.powder in this world. Fire.powder is the most lethal and very dangerous, so let me study it!"

Zhao Fei was silent for a while, then she turned her eyes and asked those unfamiliar faces:

"Spike, Yasha, how much can you make in five days?"

"The craftsmen have limited manpower. Although these two things can be made, it takes only five days, and there are only a hundred or so!"

Mei Wangqing thought for a while, and suggested:

"The bed, wooden door, and wooden board can be disassembled and reprocessed, which can save part of the energy and time of processing!"

Zhao Fei smiled and felt reasonable: "If you follow what Wang Qing said, how much can you do?"

The craftsman thought for a while: "About three to five times."

Fu Rong looked at the drawing paper in her hand, she glanced at several craftsmen and asked:

"Defending is worse than attacking. The magic arm bow and the catapult are the most important weapons. I wonder if you can make them?"

Some of the craftsmen had tangled eyebrows, some were apprehensive, and some were silent.

"God arm bow and trebuchet, look at the pictures in detail, they will be made within a month"

"It's just that it takes time to verify the debugging effect repeatedly. Five days is too short. We have to try again?"

……

Zhao Fei cleared out a few unused guest rooms. This guest room is in a remote part of the city lord's mansion. as her laboratory.

To make gunpowder, the required raw materials are potassium nitrate: charcoal: sulfur.

This charcoal kitchen has them. Mei Wangqing ordered Jiabing to buy Liuhuang and saltpeter (potassium nitrate) from a pharmacy in the city.Liuhuang is common, but saltpetre is rare. Although it can be used as medicine, it is mostly used as auxiliary medicine.She thought about it, this saltpetre, during the M Civil War, bat guano was used to make gunpowder, and the dung of ordinary animals is an important source of naturally formed potassium nitrate.

Mei Wangqing went to the stable of the city lord's mansion, turned around, looked and looked, and finally found a large number of off-white crystals on the wooden boards and stone walls of the stable. This was potassium nitrate. down, and went back to her lab room.

Two armored soldiers guarded the gatehouse.

Mei Wangqing in the room was fully armed, with iron armor covering her face, armor on her body, and iron shields surrounding three sides.She looked at the baskets of materials, feeling a little nervous.It is very dangerous to prepare gunpowder, but when you think about it, the enemy army is 20, and it will come in a few days. In this Yixing County, the outposts, outposts, camps, and camps add up to only [-]. It will be very miserable for the opponent, but the preparation of gunpowder is likely to be successful!Thinking of it this way, her heart also calmed down, and her courage grew a lot.

The two armored soldiers outside the gatehouse suddenly heard a loud bang, and then their noses were filled with the burning smell of Liuhuang, they hurriedly opened the door and entered.

"Your Majesty, are you alright?"

Mei Wangqing's silver armor has turned gray-black, she raised her head and smiled dryly:

"I'm fine, I'm not sure about the amount, just try again!"

The two armored soldiers retreated to the door again, and then there were "boom" and "boom" sounds from inside the house.

Mei Wangqing's head and face were preserved, but her nose was filled with an annoying and irritating yellow smell. After repeated experiments, she finally gained a wealth of experience. There are various ratios of gunpowder, and the ratio of potassium nitrate is usually the highest. , the weakest presence of sulfur, charcoal is either equal or double the amount of sulfur.

Potassium nitrate: charcoal: sulfur ratio; 4:1:1, 6:2:1, and 15:3:2, Mei Wangqing tried them all, and finally confirmed that the higher the dosage of potassium nitrate , the more powerful it is.

Mei Wangqing felt that it was inconvenient and even more unsafe to throw fire paper to light the fire.She started to make lead wires, using the boiling method, the ratio is lower than that of gunpowder. Add water and potassium nitrate to the pot and start to boil. When the nitrate is thick and no longer drips, stop heating, add charcoal powder and stir , when the temperature drops again, add sulfur powder, stir continuously, and finally put in white cotton thread... After the cotton thread is dry, it will become a lead wire.

Fire and medicine use pig iron or fired pottery to make the shell. Because the cost of firing pottery is low, it is easier to mass-produce. Mei Wangqing made three samples, large, medium and small, and drew blueprints, so that a large number of pottery firing halls in the city will be fired.

In the early morning of the fourth day, the city lord's mansion, on the school grounds.

Behind Mei Wangqing were two armored soldiers, each holding a dark ball the size of a watermelon.

She approached Zhao Fei on the high platform a few steps, and smiled triumphantly:

"Aunt Zhao Fei, I have successfully developed it! Let's see the effect now?"

Zhao Fei was full of curiosity, and smiled lightly: "Really?" She waved her hand and cleared the martial arts arena, and the generals immediately retreated to the side.

Countless pairs of eyes stared blankly at Mei Wangqing.

Mei Wangqing frowned: "The power may be a bit strong, the generals retreated two hundred steps away." She said to Zhao Fei:

"It will destroy the venue!"

"No problem!"

The armored soldier ran to the center of the arena holding the gunpowder. She bent down and put down the gunpowder, and then blew on the torch. , After running to a certain distance, she fell directly to the ground.

Then, everyone heard a huge explosion, and with a "boom", a cloud of smoke rose, and it seemed that the earth shook.

Zhao Fei's heart skipped a beat, she took a steady breath and stepped forward.

On the field, quite a few sergeants stepped forward curiously to take a closer look. They found a bomb crater with a radius of three meters in the center of the field. The center of the crater was half a meter deep, and the shallowest edge was one foot.

They adjusted their eyes, and when they took a closer look at this handsome and talented King of Anping County, they couldn't help feeling a little strange in their hearts!Some admire; some ponder;

Some people admire; some people fear.

Mei Wangqing said thoughtfully: "Sure enough, the ratio is different, and the power is different. It's time to switch to 15:3:2."

Zhao Fei overflowed the corners of her eyes with joy, she laughed out loud, and then patted Mei Wangqing on the shoulder:

"Wang Qing is really clever and smart! With this artifact, let alone a hundred thousand, what is a million soldiers?"

Mei Wangqing went on to add: "Auntie, this power is only moderate! I'll ask Jia Bing to light the rest!"

It was too late for Zhao Fei to restrain her relief, she froze immediately, she nodded slightly.

Because the effect of the previous ammunition far exceeded her expectations, and the lead wire was not too long, Mei Wangqing ordered the armored soldier to put on the armor first, then put on the iron mask, and then go forward after taking good protection.

There was a "boom", louder and louder than the previous one, and it spread to a wider area. At least the surrounding generals felt waves of heat on their faces, bringing a pungent smell of Liuhuang.

This pit is bigger, with a radius of five meters and a depth of one meter.

Zhao Fei whispered to Mei Wangqing: "Such a magic weapon, the formula must never be revealed!"

Mei Wangqing pondered, and she nodded seriously: "I have prepared all the raw materials, and the rest is just to ask the armored soldiers to load the pottery into the pottery."

Afterwards, Mei Wangqing ordered the blacksmith to hurry up to make firecrackers, and she began to study the gunpowder mixed with asphalt and tung oil, which would emit thick poisonous smoke after being ignited, which could make the enemy lose their way and be poisoned.

Mei Wangqing hastened to make "magic soldiers" in Yixing City, and the Yixing City Lord's Mansion was extremely busy.

On the other side, in Yutong City, the situation in Mei Mansion is quite different.

After Chi Yanfei finished reviewing Yiying's accounts in the study, she stretched herself, got up and stood up, and saw the servants in the mansion rushing over:

"Miss Chi, the county king is not here, so I will give you the letter from Beijing."

The servant handed the letter to her and bowed to leave.

Chi Yanfei glanced at the letter in her hand, her face turned cold.

This is a letter from the East Palace, signed by Ji Ming, an official of the East Palace, but Chi Yanfei knows that the letter is written by the Crown Prince himself.She was burning in her heart, hesitated for a while, and finally opened the letter. The letter was very thick, with more than ten pages. know.

Chi Yanfei understood that this should be a secret word between Ji Huan and Mei Wangqing.

She suddenly felt uncomfortable, sour and bored!

Shi Wen was discussing matters with several stewards in the front hall, when she saw Chi Yanfei striding forward, her brows were a little more eager, and her steps were not as calm and elegant as usual.

After those stewards finished speaking, they got up and left.

"Miss Chi"

Chi Yanfei took out a piece of letter paper from his sleeve and handed it to her: "Do you know this word?"

Siwen shook his head.

"My lord, does anyone know me?"

"Only Jiufang and the master know each other."

Jiufang returned to Beijing at the end of the year and stayed there for a while, even though she left the capital, she is still on her way.

Chi Yanfei lowered her eyes: "This letter is from the empress!"

Siwen thought for a while and said:

"At that time, I was injured in Changlin Garden, and I have been recuperating for the next two months. I heard from Jiufang that the master taught her a secret language called Pinyin in the Diqing Mansion."

Chi Yanfei closed her eyes, and after a long time, she suddenly said: "The princess has a husband and attendant, so she shouldn't provoke Wang Qing, this peach blossom should be pinched!"

Shi Wen was shocked and said, "Miss Chi, what are you going to do?"

"I don't do anything, just pretend that this letter was never delivered here. In the future, if Wang Qing asks you, you can reply to her. I ruined this letter. If she didn't ask, you can just pretend it's nothing!"

Shi Wen was silent, and finally had no choice but to nod.

In the evening, Taijun Anping invited Xu You and Chi Yanfei to have dinner in the hall.

The meal was very quiet, and no one spoke.

After dinner, Taijun Anping rinsed his mouthful of tea, he said: "Qing'er, you're not too young, it's time to spread the leaves!"

Xu You glanced at Chi Yanfei, and saw that her expression was very cold and her lips were pale.He sighed in his heart and said softly:

"I obey the prince's arrangement!"

Anping Taijun nodded in satisfaction.

A firm and calm voice sounded as clear as water: "Wang Qing has me, no one else will touch her!"

Anping Taijun raised his eyes, looked at her, and said slowly:

"Qing'er is the only blood of the Mei family, this incense cannot be broken with her!"

Chi Yanfei was silent for a while, then she retorted:

"If King Anping is still alive, will you let her touch other people and make them pregnant?"

Anping Taijun was startled.

"In the eyes of a lover, there is no room for a grain of sand! Taijun, you can't do it either, so why make things difficult for Wangqing and me!"

Maharaja Anping suddenly smiled, with a three-point coldness in his mouth:

"I only let Qing'er have a queen, but I didn't stop you from being together!"

"If she has a descendant, I will be worthy of the Mei family's ancestors, so that the Mei family will not have a descendant!"

Chi Yanfei clenched her sleeves into fists, she gritted her teeth and said:

"The Mei family really needs to continue. It should not be just blood, but heroic courage, immortal spirit, unparalleled wisdom, and pure virtue..."

"It is not necessary to inherit the incense from your own blood, but you can also adopt it! Pick a child with excellent bones and good talents, and give it the surname Mei. There are three people to teach you, Wang Qing, and me. Don't worry. You can’t inherit the spirit of the Mei family!”

Anping Taijun's eyes were deep, and he was silent.