Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 262
Chapter 65 Breakthrough in a quarter of an hour
Before the invention of artillery, the defenders always took advantage of the geographical advantage.But when the artillery appeared, it was basically a nightmare for the defenders to defend the city.

Obviously, Chen Ying had no way to manufacture artillery more than 400 years ago.Of course, the premise is to manufacture gunpowder first.The composition of gunpowder is very simple, and Chen Ying also knows it.Some people may say that saltpeter is rare, and there is only so much saltpeter in the pharmacy.But don't forget that tanning leather with tannium is the specialty of nomads. The Turkic people who surrendered under Chen Ying's command can at least pick out thousands of people who can make nitrate.Although these nitrates are impure, Chen Ying knows how to purify saltpeter. However, Chen Ying is very afraid. Once he opens Pandora's magic lock, he doesn't know what will come out of it.

Although there is no way to make gunpowder for the time being, Chen Ying can make weapons that are no less than gunpowder, such as fierce fire oil.The original fierce oil is actually light crude oil. Although this substance is easy to burn, it is also very easy to extinguish because there are too many impurities in it. After simple distillation, a mixture of gasoline and diesel can be obtained.Naturally, a simple version of the incendiary bomb can be made.

In fact, if Fan Junzhang hadn't been smart enough to pick up all the easy-to-pick stones outside Yanmen Pass, Chen Ying would never have thought of refining fire oil with fierce fire oil and making it into an incendiary bomb.If it weren't for the incendiary bomb, Chen Ying would not have the confidence to break through Yanmen Pass.

When the twelve counterweight trebuchets were assembled one by one, Liu Zhi looked at the trebuchets and prepared for defense. He piled the fine sand in the basket on the city wall. The fine sand is actually a necessary material for defending the city. , not only can be used to quickly put out fires, but also fine sand can be used to resist the damage to city walls and personnel caused by stone bullets fired by trebuchets.

When the stone bullet is launched from the trebuchet, it will carry huge kinetic energy. If it falls on the hard city wall, it will form a ricochet. Where the ricochet passes, it will be a flesh mill.As long as the stone bullet hits the basket filled with fine sand, the kinetic energy of the stone bullet will be consumed in the fine sand.

The counterweights of the twelve trebuchets were slowly raised by the passive pulley block, and the counterweights weighing more than [-] catties could be easily raised by only one person.At this time, the operators of the counterweight trebuchet only needed ten people, and one team leader was responsible for correcting the angle and launching part-time.A corporal led two craftsmen to overhaul and repair the trebuchet at any time, and the other six were porters, doing unskilled bomb loading.

A pottery water tank weighing more than [-] jin was slowly placed in the leather pocket. Surprisingly, a large hemp rope appeared on the top of the water tank. Grows like a weed on the tank lid.

Luo Shixin looked at Chen Ying behind him, who was still standing on the cart with no expression on his face.He is waiting for the semaphore's command.

The semaphore, the original Tang army did not have a semaphore, and the transmission of military orders relied on people and drums, but the orders conveyed by the drum are mutual, both you can understand it, and the enemy can understand it, so that you can quickly make targeted way of coping.After Chen Ying discovered this problem, he got the Morse code from later generations.In fact, Chen Ying didn't know Morse code. He only knew that there were only two types of Morse code: tick and tick.Chen should directly use two flags to represent, the red flag means "drip" and "0", and the black flag means "answer" and "1", and then write a set of simple commands according to the four groups of numbers 0101.

Luo Shixin watched the red flag at the center's position wave three times in a row, the black flag once, then the red flag waved twice, the black flag waved once, and the red flag waved again.

This means that 0001, 0010 Zhao Haoxin who was following Luo Shixin flipped through the code book that Chen Ying recorded, and reported to Luo Shixin: "General Luo, General Chen ordered to start!"

"Then let's get started!"

A soldier holding a torch lit the torch on the hemp rope on the water tank cover in the leather pocket of the launching arm, and the hemp rope soaked in kerosene ignited a three-foot-high flame.

"Boom..."

The weight end of the counterweight trebuchet lost the restraint of the rope, and hit the ground with great force, making a loud bang bang bang.At the same time, the extra-large incendiary bomb at the end of the launching arm flew towards the first city of Yanmen Pass in a whirl.

The first incendiary bomb was very unsatisfactory. It actually hit the Juma in front of the Guancheng. As the water tank fell to the ground, it shattered into pieces. The huge inertia formed a sea of ​​flames within a hundred steps of the Juma pile. This sea of ​​fire is different from ordinary The fire was so hot that the rising fire was as high as five or six feet, and the soldiers of the Tianxing Army who were standing on the city wall felt the heat wave.

The soldiers of the Tianxing Army didn't realize the danger, but let out a burst of laughter instead.Only Liu Zhi felt something was wrong, he shouted loudly: "Get out!"

However, it was too late by this time.The other eleven counterweight trebuchets were launched almost at the same time, and the long arms were swung out, throwing a one-hundred-jin incendiary bomb in the air, and eleven large fireballs were spinning in the air, roaring and hitting the Yanmen city wall .

Eleven incendiary bombs, a big fireball with a fiery red tail crashed into the earth like a comet.The second incendiary bomb still did not fly over the city wall, but fell on the middle and lower part of the city wall. As a result, the stones on the city wall collided with the incendiary bomb and exploded with a "boom", and the incendiary bomb suddenly turned into thousands of fragments. Form a sea of ​​flames tens of husbands wide.

The flames rushed to the city wall, scorching the eyebrows and hair of many soldiers of the Tianxing Army who looked down, but luckily no one was killed.The third incendiary bomb hit the enemy building by no coincidence, engulfing dozens of soldiers of the Tianxing Army in the enemy building in a sea of ​​flames. The Tianxing Army began to suffer casualties, and the soldiers of the Tianxing Army in the sea of ​​fire let out a terrifying cry. screams.

The fourth incendiary bomb flew directly over the city wall and hit the riding path.The horse-riding road on the inner side of the city wall is actually the logistics supply line for the mobilization of soldiers and horses on the city wall. As a result, the whole horse-riding road was engulfed in flames.

Each of the other incendiary bombs is a huge fire, and as long as it hits the ground, it will form a sea of ​​flames with a radius of tens or hundreds of steps.

Every fragment of the water tank is a fire, which will burn on the stone when it touches the stone city wall, and burns raging flames on the sand when it touches the basket of sand.

After the entire Gouzhu village was bombed by eleven burning bombs, the whole Gouzhu village was basically caught in a sea of ​​flames.The incendiary bomb will not burn people to death instantly, even if you are in the center of the incendiary bomb, you can still live for half a stick of incense.However, in this half a stick of incense time, it was like giving someone the top ten tortures of the Qing Dynasty.

The screams of these Tianxing Army soldiers who were burned by the incendiary bombs, and the comrade Pao Ze who was trying to save them, was also set ablaze. Chen Ying did not have sugar rubber tires to make incendiary bombs, but he added a small amount of asphalt .Although asphalt is the residue after oil refining, it also has strong adhesion. Once it sticks, it is like a tarsal maggot, and it is impossible to get rid of it.

On the walls of the Walled Walled Ditch, there are soldiers of the Tianxing Army who were burnt to death, and wounded soldiers everywhere, looking at the Yanmen Pass where the air is deformed by the burning.Zhao Boying, who thought he was well-informed, collapsed on the ground involuntarily, and murmured in a daze, "This is the trick of the devil!"

When incendiary bombs appeared on the battlefield for the first time, they showed extremely high killing efficiency.In just a quarter of an hour, almost all of the more than [-] soldiers under Liu Zhi were buried in the sea of ​​flames.

If it hadn't been for his personal soldiers who jumped Liu Zhi off the city wall desperately, Liu Zhi would have died in the sea of ​​fire just like his trilogy.However, Liu Zhi was not able to live well. Even with his own soldiers full of meat shields, his right leg was still broken, and a large piece of his right face was burnt, which was as black as a palm. You don't need to touch it with your hands, just Liu Zhi's painful and distorted facial muscles twitched, and the cooked meat on his face fell off bit by bit.

Although Liu Zhi's military training skills are not weak, and his trilogy is considered elite among the Tianxing army, the soldiers of the Tianxing army no longer have the courage to stick to it.In fact, the Gouzhu Village could not hold on, especially the three horse-riding paths inside the city wall, all of which were hit by incendiary bombs, forming a huge sea of ​​flames with flames several feet high. Even the brave soldiers did not have the courage to charge up to the city wall.

The terrifying power of the incendiary bomb scared the courage of all the survivors of the Tianxing Army. Now, this never-before-experienced way of death surpassed their cognition, and the tense thread in their minds was finally overwhelmed by the horror of the incendiary bomb. Power interrupted.For the surviving part, Liu Zhi had already ordered to stay still, and the terrified soldiers of the Tianxing Army rushed towards a safe place.Crowding, trampling, roaring, and then killing each other... When the army is defeated, military discipline and humanity no longer exist.

Looking at the remnants who had no fighting intention, Liu Zhi gritted his teeth and shouted: "Let's go!"

Zhao Boying was still dazed, and murmured: "The power is so terrifying?"

Xu Caifu was dumbfounded. Originally, he thought that Chen should launch an attack on Yanmen Pass at this inappropriate time to weaken the strength of their Shuozhou army.Because Xu Caifu discovered that the army under Chen Ying's command was not as large as the barbarian's.

Seeing this scene, the Turkic Lingwu soldiers who were complacent and even gradually revealed their arrogance were so frightened that they broke into cold sweat. They thought that Chen Ying could not do without them in the war, and they should be treated better, especially if they were captured on the battlefield. Why should Chen Ying get [-]% without doing anything, and they only get [-]% due to their exhaustion and bloodshed.

Now, this vague thought appeared in their heads, and they quickly threw it out of their minds.

Seeing the horrified expression of the Shuozhou Army general, Chen Ying said disapprovingly: "This is just a beginning, let's get some new toys to play with!"

"Such a powerful weapon is actually Chen Ying's toy?"

Upon receiving this news, the generals quickly stood up straight, and looked at Chen Ying with awe.

In just a quarter of an hour, Liu Zhi's entire army collapsed, and Gouzhu Village fell. Hearing this news, Liu Wuzhou became impatient.

(End of this chapter)