Chapter 65: Break the pass in one quarter of an hour

Before artillery was invented, the defender always had the advantage of the advantage of the advantage of the territory. However, when the artillery appeared, the defender and defender were basically a nightmare.

Obviously, Chen Ying had no way to make artillery more than 1,400 years ago. Of course, the prerequisite was to make gunpowder first. The ingredients of gunpowder were very simple, and Chen Ying knew it. Perhaps some people would say that saltpeter is rare, and there is only a lot of saltpeter in the medicine shop. But don’t forget that using tanned leather is the specialty of the nomadic people. The Turkic people who surrendered under Chen Ying could pick out at least thousands of people to make saltpeter. Although these saltpeters were not pure, Chen Ying would also do the method of purifying saltpeter. However, Chen Ying was very scared. Once Pandora’s magic combination was opened, he didn’t know what the hell would run out inside.

Although gunpowder cannot be made for the time being, Chen Ying can produce weapons that are no less than gunpowder, such as hot turkey oil. The original hot turkey oil is actually light crude oil. Although this substance is easy to burn, it is very easy to extinguish due to too many impurities inside. Once it is simply distilled, a mixture of gasoline and diesel can be obtained. Naturally, a simple version of the incendiary bomb can be produced.

In fact, if Fan Junzhang had not been clever in picking up all the stones that were easily picked outside Yanmen Pass, Chen Ying would not have thought of using fierce ignition oil to extract ignition oil and then make it into incendiary bombs. If it weren't for the huge killing weapon of incendiary bombs, Chen Ying would not have the confidence to break through Yanmen Pass.

When the twelve counterweight trenchers were assembled one by one, Liu Zhi looked at the trenchers and prepared for defense. He piled the basket of fine sand on the city wall. In fact, fine sand was essential materials used to defend the city. They could not only be used to quickly extinguish fires, but also use fine sand to resist the damage of the stone bombs fired by the trenchers to the city wall and personnel.

When a stone bomb is fired from a trencher, it will carry huge kinetic energy. If it falls on a hard city wall, it will form a jumper. Wherever the jumper passes, it will be a flesh and blood mill. As long as the stone bomb hits a basket full of fine sand, the kinetic energy of the stone bomb will be consumed in the fine sand.

The passive pulley set of counterweight ends of the twelve trench trenchers slowly rose, and the counterweight weighing more than 8,000 kilograms could be easily raised by just one person. At this time, the operator of the counterweight trencher only needed ten people, one team leader was responsible for correcting the angle and launching part-time. A sergeant led two craftsmen to be responsible for repairing the trencher at any time, and the other six were porters, doing loading work without technical content.

The pottery water tanks weighing more than 100 kilograms were slowly placed in the leather pocket. What was surprising was that a large bunch of hemp rope appeared on the top of the water tank. The hemp rope was not long, no more than one foot, as if they were growing on the head of the water tank like weeds.

Luo Shixin looked at Chen Ying behind him. Chen Ying was still standing in the car with a expressionless face. He was waiting for the flag-speaking order.

Flag language. Originally, the Tang army did not have flag language. They used people and drum horns to convey military orders, but the commands conveyed by drum horns are mutual. You can understand them and the enemy can understand them, so as to quickly respond to them. After Chen Ying discovered this problem, he got the Morse codes in later generations. In fact, Chen Ying actually didn't understand Morse codes. He only knew that there were only two types of Morse codes: Di and Answer. Chen Ying directly represented two flags, the red flag represents "Dri" and "0", and the black flag represents "Answer" and "1", and then wrote a set of simple commands casually based on the four sets of numbers 0101.

Luo Shixin looked at the red flag at the central army position and waved it three times in a row, then waved it twice, waved it again, and waved it again.

This represents 0001,0010 Zhao Haoxin, who was following Luo Shixin, flipped through the password book recorded by Chen Ying and reported to Luo Shixin: "General Luo, General Chen's orders begin!"

"Then let's start!"

A soldier holding a torch ignited the hemp rope on the water tank head in the pocket of the launching arm, and the hemp rope soaked in tinder oil burned a three-foot-high flame.

"Bang..."

The counterweight end of the counterweight trencher lost the constraints of the ropes, and hit the ground with great force, making a loud bang. At the same time, the extra-large incendiary bomb at the end of the launching arm flew towards the first hamlet of Yanmen Pass.

The first incendiary bomb was very unsatisfactory and actually hit the Joe in front of the city. As the water tank fell to the ground and broke into pieces, the huge inertia made the Joe invasion form a sea of ​​fire within a radius of a hundred steps. This sea of ​​fire was different from an ordinary fire. The rising fire sink was as many as five or six feet. The soldiers of Tianxing Army on the city wall felt the invasion of the heat wave.

The soldiers of Tianxing Army did not realize the danger, but instead burst into laughter. Only Liu Zhi felt something was wrong, and he shouted loudly: "Distract quickly!"

However, it was too late at this time. Eleven other counterweight trenchers fired almost at the same time, swinging their long arms, throwing a hundred-pound incendiary bomb out of the air, and eleven large fireballs rotated in the air, roaring at the Yanmen city wall.

Eleven incendiary bombs, the large fireball with its 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". The incendiary bomb suddenly turned into thousands of pieces, forming a sea of ​​fire that was more than ten husbands wide in the middle and lower part of the city wall.

The flames rushed to the city wall, burning the eyebrows and hair of many Tianxing Army soldiers who were looking down. Fortunately, no one was killed. The third incendiary bomb accidentally hit the enemy building, covering dozens of Tianxing Army soldiers in the enemy building in the sea of ​​fire. Tianxing Army began to suffer casualties, and the Tianxing Army soldiers in the sea of ​​fire made a cunning scream.

The fourth incendiary bomb flew directly over the city wall and hit the horse road. The horse road inside the city wall actually carries the logistics supply line for the mobilization of troops on the city wall. As a result, the entire horse road fell into the sea of ​​fire.

Each of the other incendiary bombs is a huge fire. As soon as it lands, it will form a sea of ​​fire that is tens or hundreds of steps in a radius.

Every fragment of the water tank is a fire. When it hits a stone wall, it will burn on the stone. When it hits a basket of sand and soil, it will burn on the sand and soil.

After the entire Gouzhu Village was bombed by eleven burnings, the entire Gouzhu Village was basically trapped in a sea of ​​fire. The incense bomb would not burn people to death in an instant. Even if they were in the center of the incense bomb, they could still live half a stick of incense. However, just half a stick of incense was a time to be given to people with the top ten tortures of the Qing Dynasty.

These Tianxing soldiers who were burned by the incendiary bombs screamed shrillly. The comrades around them wanted to save them, but they were also ignited. Chen Ying did not have white sugar rubber tires to make the incendiary bombs, but he added a small part of the asphalt. Although the asphalt is a residue after oil extraction, it also has extremely strong adhesion. As long as it is stuck, it is like a maggot in the tarsal bone, and it is impossible to get rid of it.

On the walls of Gouzhuzhai, there were soldiers of Tianxing Army who were burned into fire everywhere, and wounded soldiers everywhere. Looking at Yanmen Pass, who was burning and deformed by the air, Zhao Boying, who thought he was knowledgeable, couldn't help but collapse on the ground, murmured in a daze: "This is the devil's method!"

The first time the incendiary bomb appeared on the battlefield, it showed extremely high killing efficiency. In just a quarter of an hour, more than 500 soldiers from Liu Zhi's troops were almost all buried in the fire.

If it weren't for his personal soldiers who jumped off the city wall to death, Liu Zhi would have died in the sea of ​​fire like his corpses. However, Liu Zhi was not easy to live. Even if his personal soldiers were full of flesh shields, his right leg would still be broken, and his right face was burned a large piece, like a piece of charred black as big as a palm. The flesh was burned half of his face by the fire, and he didn't even need to touch it with his hands. Just Liu Zhi's painful twisted facial muscles twitched, causing the cooked meat on his face to fall down a little bit.

Although Liu Zhi was not weak in training troops and his troops were considered elite among the Tianxing army, these Tianxing soldiers no longer had the courage to hold on. In fact, Gouzhu Village could not hold on, especially the three horse-mounted roads inside the city wall were all hit by incendiary bombs, forming a huge sea of ​​fire and a flame of several meters high. Even the brave soldiers did not have the courage to rush up to the city wall.

The terrifying power of the incendiary bomb scared the courage of all the survivors of Tianxing Army. Now, this method of death that had never passed through exceeded their cognition, and the tense thread in their minds was finally interrupted by the terrifying power of the incendiary bomb. Liu Zhi could no longer order the surviving troops, frightened the extremely Tianxing Army soldiers, running wildly towards the safe area. Crowd, trampled, roared, and then chopped and killed each other... When the army was defeated, the military discipline and human nature no longer existed.

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

Zhao Boying was still in a daze and murmured: "Is the power so terrifying?"

Xu Caifu was stunned. He originally judged a gentleman with a villain's heart, and believed that Chen Ying launched an attack on Yanmen Pass at this inappropriate time to weaken the strength of their Shuozhou army. Because Xu Caifu discovered that Chen Ying's army was not as large as Hu people.

It turned out that the Turkic Lingwu Army soldiers who were a little complacent and gradually showed that they were arrogant and arrogant, were so scared that they were sweating in a cold sweat when they saw this scene. They originally thought that Chen Ying could not live without them in the war and should be treated more, especially when they were captured on the battlefield. Why did Chen Ying have to do nothing to collect 70%? They were exhausted and had to sacrifice blood and only earned 30% of them.

Now, the thought vaguely appeared in their heads, so they quickly threw it out of their minds.

Seeing the generals of Shuozhou Army showing a horror, Chen Ying said disapprovingly: "This is where it's just a start. I'll get a few new toys to play with some fun some other day!"

"A weapon of such a powerful one is actually Chen Ying's toy?"

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