Daming Greedy Wolf Star

Chapter 460 Warning from the Ming Army
Brest.

Jian Xiao reached Brest at a speed far exceeding Zhu Sanfeng's expectation, but she did not manage to break through Brest, but was stationed in the forest in the south of Brest.

"Report to General Qian! The news from Commander Wang has not yet arrived!"

"Understood, let's explore again." Jane smiled and replied without raising her head.

"Yes!"

……

With the departure of the messenger, Jian Xiao's handsome tent became quiet again, but this quietness did not last long.

For two days, for two full days, the scouts have been wandering around the border between Brest Territory and Masovia, trying to get news about the troops led by Wang Jinghong.

The uninterrupted spying means that the number of messages sent back is also quite large.

For the past two days, Jian Xiao hasn't slept soundly, because the scouts report once every hour, which was decided by Jian Xiao.

No matter whether they got the news or not, they had to report every hour, because the scouts were not only spying on Wang Jinghong's news.

There is also news about Grodno, the first line of defense west of Wilno, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

"Report!"

Unlike usual, the last messenger who reported the news had just left, and the voice of Jane Xiao rang again after listening to it for two days.

"Enter!"

"Report to General Qian! The Mu Family of Suez has sent a batch of supplies! It is said that it was personally allocated by His Royal Highness, and you need to receive it yourself!"

"Huh?" Jane raised her head in surprise, then rummaged on the table for a while, and found the simplified version of the calendar that was pressed at the bottom.

"Compared with the delivery time of the next supply, is it five days earlier?"

Jane smiled in doubt, but still stood up and walked out of the tent.

Outside the gate of the camp, Mu Ang had already dismounted, and when Jian Xiao saw him, he was on tiptoe looking into the camp.

When seeing Jane smile, a smile appeared on Mu Ang's face.

"General Jane."

"Commander Mu, fellow acquaintance."

When the two met, they first greeted each other with their hands together, and then stood still. Mu Ang took out a letter from his arms, and handed it to Jian Xiao after confirming that the wax on it was intact.

"This is a batch of supplies from Xiangzhou Mansion. I originally planned to send them to His Royal Highness, but when I was waiting in Venice, I received an order from His Royal Highness to divide them into two equal parts. One of them It was sent to you."

"This is a personal letter from His Royal Highness, saying that you must read it yourself before you can receive this batch of supplies."

Jian Xiao heard the words and took the secret letter in Mu Ang's hand, and when he opened the envelope, he took the time to glance at the batch of supplies.

They were all covered with oilcloth, and nothing could be seen.

No information was obtained from the appearance of the supplies, so Jian Xiao looked down at the secret letter in his hand.

The content in the secret letter is actually not much, only four lines, Jian Xiao quickly read it, then took out his own seal from his waist, and stamped the letter paper in Mu Ang's hand.

This is to be sent to Junbao, because the current Junbao is equivalent to the last retreat of the Ming army in Europe, and it is a relatively safer existence.

For example, the materials transported by Mu Ang this time must be stamped by both parties, and then sent to Junbao for backup and storage.

"General Lao Jian is here." Seeing that the chapter had been covered, Mu Ang carefully checked it before putting it away, smiling at Jane and bowing his hands.

"I still have tasks to do, so I won't leave any more. Please forgive me, General Qian."

"Commander Mu, be careful all the way." Jian Xiao didn't ask why, and didn't stay with Mu Ang, but just bowed slightly to see Mu Ang off.

It wasn't until seeing Mu Ang's logistics force disappear from sight that Jian Xiao threw the letter paper and the envelope into the brazier.

"Come on! Send these supplies to the back!"

"Remember! It must be stored separately, away from crowds and tents, and cannot be stored together with gunpowder white phosphorous eggs!"

"Yes!"

……

After watching the soldiers properly store the supplies, Jian Xiao breathed a sigh of relief.

There is no other reason, what Mu Ang sent this time was actually a batch of weapons.

It is not a sword or a spear, nor a cannon, nor is it the white phosphorous egg that is most used in the European battlefield today, but a new type of weapon.

Petroleum bombs.

This name made Jian Xiao feel very strange. He was sure that the Ming army had never used this weapon before, and he had never even heard of it. However, Zhu Zhanhe told Jian Xiao how to use this weapon in that personal letter. , characteristics and storage issues.

Like the white phosphorous egg, this kerosene bomb is also a type of fire attack. After it explodes, it will also burst into a strong flame, and it will also attach to any living things and objects until it burns out.

Does that sound familiar?

That's right, kerosene bombs are just a random name Zhu Zhanhe gave up, just to fit this era, and in later generations, the name of this thing is napalm eggs (also to prevent river crabs).

In fact, he hadn't brought out the kerosene bomb before, not because Zhu Zhanhe didn't know how to do this stuff, and it wasn't because Zhu Zhanhe was kind.

The white phosphorous egg is actually much crueler than this thing, the burn degree is not weaker than that of the kerosene bomb, and it is also poisonous.

The reason why it was not taken out until now is mainly because of the word solidification in the napalm egg.

If there is no viscous agent, let the fire oil bomb produce a colloidal combustion accelerant, it is the same as pouring gasoline for fire attack, and there is no adhesion.

It's not that Zhu Zhanhe doesn't know how to make viscous agent, but it's just that it can't be produced on a large scale due to limited conditions. In comparison, this thing is not as easy to mass-produce as white phosphorus egg.

In order to build a steam engine before, Zhu Zhanhe asked Qian Yong and others to take risks in South America to retrieve the seeds of the rubber tree. Afterwards, he made natural rubber to make sealing rings. He also sent people to hunt whales to obtain whale oil for filling For industrial lubricants.

It can be regarded as intentionally planting flowers and not blooming, but unintentionally planting willows and willows to make shade.

At the beginning, when Zhu Zhanhe wanted to make napalm eggs, he chose to give up because of the viscosity problem. Later, he forgot about it when he was making rubber trees and whale oil. Later, because the white phosphorus reserves in Xiangzhou Prefecture were exhausted. Big, this reminded Zhu Zhanhe of this thing again.

Napalm eggs are actually not difficult to make, but nitric acid is the most difficult thing, because it is needed in the viscous agent of napalm eggs.

The three acids and two bases, which are the foundation of the chemical building, are not so simple to produce in large quantities in this era, but it is still possible to produce in small quantities.

The easiest way is to calcinate saltpeter, and then add water and oxygen to produce nitric acid in a small amount.

But the nitric acid produced in this way was not enough for Zhu Zhanhe to use, so he thought of another way.

He learned how Yingjiang used to align the foot basin, and added a small amount of sugar and calcium powder to the viscous agent and gasoline to complete the advanced version of the kerosene bomb.

White sugar is actually a serious strategic material, which can increase the combustion energy of kerosene bombs sharply. Calcium powder is to prevent the enemy from entering the water to extinguish the fire when encountering kerosene bombs, because calcium powder can have an exothermic reaction with water , Instantly burn your skull through.

In this way, Zhu Zhanhe managed to mass-produce kerosene bombs under the premise that the viscous agent could not be mass-produced.

However, this is only a stopgap measure. In terms of production difficulty, white phosphorous eggs are simpler. Currently, kerosene bombs are only used to reduce the consumption of white phosphorous eggs.

However, this is enough to make Jane laugh.

"Come on."

After pondering for a long time, Jian Xiao finally gave the order after overcoming the hesitation caused by the lack of firepower.

"Tomorrow morning, cook at Yin time, set off at Mao time, target..."

"Heros territory!"

……

As night fell, Brest fell into silence, and the flames flickered on the top of the city. Brest has been like this since the Ming army arrived here.

The continuous high-intensity patrols and tense emotions have kept the Brest soldiers in a state of high tension, so that they are now a little depressed.

Around [-] o'clock in the middle of the night, a large number of Ming troops came out of the forest, and all the artillery and other weapons were transported out of the forest while keeping quiet enough.

Why is it eleven o'clock in the middle of the night?

In fact, when fighting in Europe, there has always been a problem of jet lag. Jian Xiao and others don't understand this problem, and they still calculate according to Ming's time.

As for why they were able to keep Daming's time all the time, the reason was because of the timing tool that Ming often used.

In addition to the sundial, a timekeeping tool commonly used in the Ming Dynasty is called the leaky, also known as the clepsydra. The principle is that there are two upper and lower copper pots, with small holes in the upper copper pot to ensure that the water inside drips at a uniform speed, so as to determine the time.

Now in Brest, Heshuntian Mansion has a time difference of about six hours, that is, a time difference of three hours. That is to say, Jian Xiao's decision to cook at Yinshi and leave at Maoshi must be moved forward by three hours, and pushed to Zishi. After dinner, start when you are ugly.

It's a serious night attack.

Choushi is the most sleepy time for human beings. In addition, the soldiers in Brest have been highly nervous after receiving the news that the Ming army appeared here, and their vigilance became even worse after midnight.

woo~~~
The sound of the low-pitched horn suddenly woke up the soldiers at the head of Brest, and their sleepiness disappeared without a trace in an instant.

However, when the horn sounded, it meant that the attack had already begun, and it was too late to wake up at this time.

chi chi chi...

There were bursts of sharp and piercing sounds, and a swarm of rockets pierced the night sky, flying towards Brest, and the flames behind them instantly illuminated the sky.

"Prepare!"

At the moment when a large swarm of rockets was used to light up the sky, Jian Xiao immediately issued an order for the soldiers operating the artillery to take this opportunity to adjust the direction and height of the artillery.

"put!"

As a swarm of rockets fell into the city of Brest, the soldiers operating the artillery had a target, and Jian Xiao immediately issued a second order.

boom! boom! boom!
A series of artillery fires sounded, and the slightly inconspicuous white smoke in the night flew towards Brest with some indistinguishable lights.

one two three four……

Jane stared in the direction of Brest with a smile, and counted silently in her heart. At this moment, even his heart was sweating.

It's not that he doesn't trust Zhu Zhanhe, but trying new weapons directly on the battlefield will make people feel uneasy to some extent.

But fortunately, Zhu Zhanhe has never been a "Mr. Almost".

Without any warning, without any sound, and even Jane Xiao didn't feel anything, a burst of intense fire suddenly erupted from Brest, which was about [-] steps away, illuminating almost half of Brest.

The light of the fire didn't just flicker away in the wind, but became more intense as time went by, and even illuminated the face of Jane Xiao who was three hundred steps away.

Looking at the flames in the distance, Jian Xiao's eyes were sparkling, but they were not tears, but the reflection of the extremely watery eyeballs under the only light in the dark night.

"A swarm of rockets retreats, and the second round of artillery is ready!"

After seeing how effective the new weapon was, Jian Xiao immediately withdrew the swarm of rockets that had been preparing for the second round, and directly made the artillery ready to fire again.

With the white phosphorous egg and this kerosene bomb, Jian Xiao seemed to have seen the trembling kings of European countries.

(End of this chapter)