In the autumn of the fourth year of Xianfeng, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Rebellion was trapped in Dongguang County, Hebei Province. They were running out of food and aid and were in danger.
Lin Fengxiang opened his eyes, and the memory poured into his mind collided fiercely with another soul - he came from a later generation and was the youngest project chief engineer of the national defense industry, focusing on energetic materials and light weapons systems.
Outside was a heavy siege by the Qing army, and inside the tent were the defeated generals with ashen faces. History tells him: After that, he failed to break out and was captured while hiding in a cave. Fifteen days later, he was cut to pieces. But at this moment, as he stared at the few boxes of earthen gunpowder left in the camp, what came to his mind was the preparation formula of nitrocellulose, the process parameters of granulation modification, and the directional killing structure of landmines.
"Send the order to collect everyone's urine and scrape the black ash from the bottom of the pot."
Before dawn, a shocking explosion tore through the dead silence of Dongguang County - not ordinary gunpowder, but purified and proportioned high-energy explosives. Lin Fengxiang took advantage of the chaos and fought his way eastward with three thousand remaining troops.
Along the way, soil was scraped off the saline-alkali ground to boil saltpeter, granules of gunpowder were pounded in ruined temples, discarded iron pots were turned into fragmentation mines, and villagers' wooden plows were converted into booby traps. The pursuing Qing army was blown away by new "witchcraft" weapons again and again, and they watched helplessly as this team that was supposed to be destroyed became stronger and stronger. Three months later
Lin Fengxiang stood on the Dengzhou Cape, with the reorganized "Tianzi First Battalion" behind him, holding in his hand a sample of sulfuric acid produced by the lead chamber method that had just been successfully trial-produced. The sea wind roared, and his eyes looked beyond the Qing army's company camp and looked farther away.
The Qing court thought he was just a rebellious bandit. But they didn't know that what this man brought was the end of an era.
Long live the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
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