Eagle Flag of Epirus

Compared with the flames of Corinth and Athens, after the military operation to recover the city of Argos ended, Moria's Roman army seemed to have become very low-key. Not only did he fail to mobilize to prepare for the war, Justinian did something to reassure the refugees and resume production, and he was not prepared to continue to march. This made many people in the city very puzzled. This young man is selling in the gourd. What kind of medicine.

Whether it was Neuski, Leo’s garrison commander, or Arslan, they had several proposals to advance but were rejected by Justinian, but now it was a great opportunity. It is important to know that Prince Theodor of the North attacked the Principality of Athens to relieve them of tremendous pressure. The dilemma of the Achaean army was obviously because of fear and no longer dared to act rashly after Nafplio was regained. At this moment, in the emptiness of the West of Achaia, the Greek people of the Roman Empire were originally committed to the Roman Empire. As long as Justinian was willing to easily regain most of the lost land, the Latins who guarded a small number of military strongholds at that time It will become a rootless tree vulnerable to one blow. They did not believe that Justinian could not see this layer, but Justinian turned a deaf ear to their suggestions.

What's more, during this period of time, for some reason, Justinian remained behind closed doors in his temporary mansion and rarely showed up. But the most paradoxical thing is that Justinian gave a weird order to let people go in the toilet stables, pigs' shack, and courtyard corners inside and outside the city. Use brooms and dustpans to sweep them when they see white awns. Collect them and send them to Justinian. Not only that, even the neighboring Nafplio was also required to do the same, but in the eyes of others, it was a filthy and dirty thing, and everyone was at a loss when they watched Justinian's weird behavior.

It's been almost half a month, and Justinian didn't have any intention of marching. This made Neusky finally couldn't restrain his impatience and wanted to ask Justinian to understand.

"Get out of the way!" The displeased Varangi man pushed away the guards that prevented him from entering, and facing the infinitely powerful man, he knew his identity, and the guards in front of the door couldn't stop him. I could watch Neusky walk straight into Justinian's room.

And as soon as he started, a choking smell came over his face. It was a smell he had never smelled before, and it was like sulfur and other weird things. It was very pungent.

I saw Justinian in front of him was messing around on the table with something dark, like powder, and there were a lot of crucible utensils beside him, which looked very strange. The governor of the Moria Military District, who is in control, is really speechless to get these things in the room at this critical juncture.

Seeing Neusky who suddenly broke in, Justinian was also a little surprised, and couldn't help but stammered: "Nie...Neusky, why are you here?"

"What the **** are you doing? Justinian, if I can't come here any longer, can it be said that you really have to spend so long here?" The angry man in his voice asked the young man in front of him, obviously. Justinian's actions have exceeded the limits of Neusky's patience.

"You are the commander-in-chief of an army now, don't you understand that you are an alchemist? We have no time to waste!"

The man who smashed his fist on the table roared, apparently thinking that Justinian was playing things like this, but Justinian, who calmed down from his surprise, showed a solemn expression on his face at this moment and replied: "Facts I didn’t waste any time, Nevsky, although it took me so long to do something similar to what a pretending alchemist did, the results are worth it.”

"It's worth it? That's what you wouldn't say?" Niewuski smiled in anger. He always valued the young man in front of him, but this time he couldn't agree with him. He thought he would only see when he came in. Justinian was tinkering with the dark powder-like stuff on the table.

Unsurprisingly, Justinian nodded calmly and said: "You are right. It is these things. Although they have failed many times before, they finally succeeded. Come with me, Neusky."

With that said, Justinian took out the small glass bottle that he had prepared before, which contained the dark powder, and went straight out, and the suspicious Nevsky followed without a word. The two went into the open space in the courtyard, and saw Justinian pouring out the finely ground powder in the bottle and dumping it out and laying the bottle flat on the ground.

"What are you going to show me?" Dahan Varangi couldn't help frowning and couldn't see what trick Justinian was going to do this time.

But the boy in front of him showed a sly smile, "Look at it with wide eyes, Neusky!" As he took out the Huozhe in his hand, Justinian took two steps back, and then gently tossed it. Throwing on the black powder, Nevsky, who was staring at all of this for the next second, was completely shocked by the scene in front of him——

The moment when Mars touched the black powder, a bright fire appeared, the first time I saw such a violent burning, and in the next second, only a small glass bottle filled with those powders exploded in front of his eyes. Smash ~www.ltnovel.com~This..." Nevsky, who had witnessed this scene, was now his turn to stammer and talk unfavorably, "What is going on? "

And Justinian, who had been prepared for Neusky’s reaction, showed a smug smile, spread his hands and shrugged and said: "I call it'gunpowder', and for us now, It will be the new'Greek Fire'."

"Then what you collected before are the materials used to make this stuff?" Niewuski, who had only reacted to the shock for a long time, understood what Justinian had been doing for so long, and collected charcoal and sulfur. Just to make this so-called "gunpowder."

"Yeah." Justinian nodded and admitted without concealing anything. In fact, after the Battle of Fort Wiscari, he set out to try. He has no formula for the mighty Greek fire, and it will be completely gone after it is used up, and now he has not enough to support a war. That's why he needs other substitutes, and gunpowder is undoubtedly the best choice in this world. The white awns he ordered to collect were nitrate soil. He had heard that collecting some human and animal urine and dung could make nitrate soil, and it was obviously more difficult than expected to test it personally. First of all, it was refined with a crucible and plant ash. The nitrate soil made him burn out, but it was much easier to adjust the grinding gunpowder according to the proportion. But it was so, it took Justinian a lot of work to support this black powder. But everything is worth it. Although there are many limitations in the use of gunpowder, but this thing is enough to catch the Latins by surprise. As long as it is used properly, Justinian is confident that he can definitely rely on his own homemade gunpowder. Give the other party a little color to see.