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Chapter 65: Breaking through in a quarter of an hour

Before the invention of artillery, the defenders of the city always took advantage of the geographical advantage. But when the artillery appeared, it was basically a nightmare to defend the city.

Obviously, Chen Ying had no way to make the artillery more than 1,400 years ago. Of course, the premise is to make 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 a lot of nitrate in the pharmacy. But don't forget, tanning leather with nitrate, this is the specialty of the nomads, and the Turks who surrendered under Chen Ying can at least pick out thousands of people who can make nitrate. Although these nitrates are not pure, Chen Ying will also be able to purify saltpeter, but Chen Ying is very afraid, once he opens Pandora's magic combination, he doesn't know what ghosts will run out of it.

Although gunpowder cannot be made for the time being, Chen Ying can make weapons that are no less than gunpowder, such as fierce fire oil. Although this substance is easy to burn, it is also very easy to extinguish because there are too many impurities in it, and once it is simply distilled, a mixture of gasoline and diesel can be obtained. Naturally, you can make a simple version of the incendiary bomb.

In fact, if it weren't for Fan Junzhang's own cleverness to pick up all the stones that were easy to pick outside Yanmen Pass, Chen Ying would not have thought of refining fire oil from fierce fire oil and then making it into incendiary bombs. If it weren't for the incendiary bomb, a big killer, Chen Ying would not have the self-confidence to break through Yanmen Pass.

When the twelve counterweight trebuchets were assembled one by one, Liu Zhi looked at the trebuchet and prepared for defense, and he piled the basket of fine sand on the city wall, which was actually used to defend the city, not only to quickly extinguish the fire, but also to resist the killing of the city wall and personnel by the stone bullets fired by the trebuchet.

When a stone projectile is launched from a trebuchet, it carries a huge amount of kinetic energy, and if it falls on a hard city wall, it will form a ricochet, and where the ricochet passes, it will be a flesh mill. As soon as the stone projectile hits a basket filled with fine sand, the kinetic energy of the stone projectile will be consumed in the fine sand.

The passive pulley set at the counterweight end of the twelve trebuchets slowly rises, and the counterweight weighing more than 8,000 catties can be easily lifted by only one person. At this time, the operator of the counterweight trebuchet only needs ten people, and a team leader is responsible for correcting the angle and launching part-time. One captain and two craftsmen were in charge of overhauling the trebuchet at all times, while the other six were porters, doing unskilled loading work.

A pottery water tank weighing more than 100 catties is slowly placed in the leather pocket, what is surprising is that the top of the water tank appears a large fluffy hemp rope, the hemp rope is not long, more than about a foot, as if it grows on the water tank head like a weed.

Luo Shixin looked at Chen Ying behind him, Chen Ying was still standing on the carriage with an expressionless face. He was waiting for orders from the flag.

Flags, originally the Tang Army did not have flags, and the transmission of military orders relied on people and drums, but the orders conveyed by the drum and trumpets were mutual, and you could understand them and the enemy could understand them, so as to quickly make targeted responses. After Chen Ying discovered this problem, he got the Morse code from later generations. In fact, Chen Ying actually didn't understand Morse code, he only knew that Morse code only had two types: ticking and answering. Chen Ying directly used two flags to represent, the red flag means "drop" and "0", and the black flag means "answer" and "1", and then according to the four sets of numbers 0101, write a set of simple commands very casually.

Luo Shixin watched the red flag in the position of the Chinese army wave three times in a row, the black flag once, and then the red flag waved twice, the black flag waved, and the red flag waved again.

This means that Zhao Haoxin, who was following Luo Shixin in 0001,0010, flipped through the codebook recorded by Chen Ying and told Luo Shixin: "General Luo, General Chen's order begins!" ”

"Let's get started!"

A soldier holding a torch lit the hemp rope on the lid of the water tank in the leather pocket of the firing arm, and the hemp rope soaked in fire oil burned a three-foot-high flame.

"Bang ......"

The counterweight end of the trebuchet loses the restraint of the rope and crashes into the ground with a loud bang. At the same time, the extra-large incendiary bomb at the end of the firing arm swirled towards the first walled city of Yanmen Pass.

The first incendiary bomb was very unsatisfactory, it actually hit the rejection of the horse in front of the city, as the water tank fell to the ground and shattered into pieces, the huge inertia made the rejection of the horse pile form a sea of fire within a radius of 100 steps, this sea of fire is different from the general fire, the rising fire trap is actually as much as five or six zhang, and the soldiers of the Tianxing Army on the city wall have felt the invasion of the heat wave.

The officers and men of the Tianxing Army did not realize the danger, but let out a burst of laughter. Only Liu Zhi felt that something was wrong, and he shouted loudly: "Disperse quickly!" ”

However, this time it was already too late. The other eleven counterweight trebuchets were launched almost simultaneously, and their long arms swung out, throwing a hundred-pound incendiary bomb into the air, and eleven large fireballs spun in the air and smashed into the Yanmen city wall with a roar.

Eleven incendiary bombs, a large fireball with a fiery red tail dragging it like a comet crashing into the earth. The second incendiary bomb still did not fly over the city wall, but landed in the middle and lower part of the city wall, and 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, forming a sea of fire more than ten feet wide in the middle and lower part of the city wall.

The flames rushed to the city wall, scorching the eyebrows and hair of many soldiers of the Tianxing Army who stretched out their heads to look down, but fortunately, no lives appeared. The third incendiary bomb hit the enemy building by coincidence, enveloping dozens of Tianxing soldiers in the enemy building in the sea of fire, and the Tianxing army began to suffer casualties, and the soldiers of the Tianxing army in the sea of fire let out a terrible scream.

The fourth incendiary bomb flew directly over the city wall and crashed into the upper road. The 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, and as a result, the entire road is in flames.

The other incendiary bombs, each of which is a huge fire, as long as it hits the ground, it will form a sea of fire with a radius of tens or hundreds of steps.

Each fragment of the tank is a tinder, and when it touches the stone wall, it burns on the stone, and when it touches the basket of sand, it burns on the sand.

After the entire ditch village was bombarded by eleven burns, the entire ditch village basically fell into a sea of fire. 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 half a pillar of incense. However, just the time of this half pillar of incense is simply a time to give people the ten tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The miserable screams of these soldiers of the Tianxing Army who were burned by incendiary bombs, and the comrades-in-arms around him wanted to save them, but they were also ignited, Chen Ying did not have white sugar rubber tires to make incendiary bombs, but he added a small part of asphalt. Although asphalt is the residue of petroleum refining, it also has strong adhesion, as long as it is glued, it is like a maggot on the tarsal bone, and it is impossible to shake it off.

On the wall of the ditch wall, there are soldiers of the Tianxing Army who have been burned to the ground, and there are wounded soldiers with open skin and flesh everywhere, looking at the Yanmen Pass where the air is burned and deformed. Zhao Boying, who thought he was well-informed, involuntarily collapsed to the ground and muttered in despair: "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 under Liu Zhi's subordinate died in the flames.

If it weren't for his own soldiers desperately jumping Liu Zhi off the city wall, Liu Zhi would have died in the sea of fire like his subordinates. However, Liu Zhi is not easy to live, even if there are pro-soldiers full of meat shields, his right leg is still broken, and the right side of his face is burned a large piece, like a scorched black piece the size of a palm, these flesh and skin are burned half of his face by the fire, and he doesn't even need to touch it with his hands, just Liu Zhi's painful twisted facial muscles twitched, which made the cooked meat on his face fall down little by little.

Although Liu Zhi's ability to train soldiers is not weak, and his troops are also considered elite among the Tianxing army, these soldiers of the Tianxing army no longer have the courage to hold on. In fact, the ditch village could not hold on, especially the three roads on the inner side of the city wall, all of which were hit by incendiary bombs, forming a huge sea of fire, several zhang high flames, even if the brave soldiers did not have the courage to rush to the city wall.

The terrifying power of the incendiary bomb frightened the courage of all the survivors of the Tianxing Army, and now, this never-before-experienced way of death exceeded their cognition, and the tense thread in their minds was finally broken by the terrifying power of the incendiary bomb. The surviving troops, Liu Zhi had already ordered not to move, and the soldiers of the Tianxing Army, who were frightened to the extreme, rushed to the area in a safe direction. Crowding, stampeding, roaring, and then slashing at each other...... When the army was defeated, military discipline and human nature no longer existed.

Looking at the remnants without fighting intentions, Liu Zhi gritted his teeth and roared: "Let's go!" ”

Zhao Boying was still distracted, and muttered: "The power is so terrifying? ”

Xu Caifu was dumbfounded, originally he still lived the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, thinking that Chen Ying launched an attack on Yanmen Pass at this inappropriate time, the purpose was to weaken the strength of their Shuozhou army. Because Xu Caifu found that the army under Chen Ying was not as large as the Hu people.

It turned out that some of them were complacent, and even gradually revealed their arrogance and arrogance The soldiers of the Turkic Lingwu Army saw this scene, and they were frightened into a cold sweat, they originally thought that Chen Ying could not do without them in the war, and they should be given more treatment, especially the battlefield capture, why did Chen Ying have to do nothing to collect seventy percent, they were tired and tired, and they had to pay bloody sacrifices, and they only got three percent.

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

Looking at the shocked look of the Shuozhou army generals, Chen Ying said disapprovingly: "This is just the beginning, let's get a few new toys to play with another day!" ”

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

After receiving this news, the generals hurriedly stood up straight, and their eyes that looked at Chen Ying became in awe.

In just a quarter of an hour, the whole army of Liu Zhi's department collapsed, and the ditch was lost, and when he heard the news, Liu Wuzhou suddenly became anxious.