Volume VIII 1302 Nether Ghost Fire White Phosphorus Bomb

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The white phosphorus bomb is one of the most evil weapons in Xiao Letian's arsenal, with both combustion attack and chemical attack, and the all-weather indiscriminate attack, rain and snow will not affect the effect of the white phosphorus bomb, and even use it on the water surface, with the help of the action of the water flow, the diffusion surface will be larger.

The first to taste the power of the white phosphorus bomb was Li Hongzhang, the commander of the Huai army who had just set up his own battalion, the former Hunan army staff who had taken refuge in Cixi, and tried his best to block Xiao Letian's troops in the land of Gyeonggi, and the white phosphorus bomb gave them a deep lesson in the pouring rain, a lifelong memory.

The blue flames of the sky can't be extinguished by heavy rain, and the blue flames can burn directly into people's bones, and no matter how much water you splash, you can't extinguish these flames.

Not only that, the combustion of white phosphorus can also produce highly toxic gases, and all soldiers who breathe this gas are suffocated, their faces turn blue and die, and their appearance before death is extremely terrifying.

It is precisely because the weapon effect of the white phosphorus bomb is too terrifying that in the mouths of the people of the Qing Dynasty, this weapon has been covered with a lot of mysterious colors, such as the Tianhuo theory, the ghost fire theory, Xiao Letian drove the heavenly soldiers and generals, and even included the unjust possession of revenge and other messy rumors.

In fact, in the Manchu Dynasty, this kind of god and ghost theory was very popular, and sometimes some people even secretly promoted the spread of this kind of speech. Don't say that the ancients were stupid, in fact, the ancients were very smart.

Xiao Lotian once heard the story of 'Yin soldiers borrowing grain', saying that a grain depot in the Qing Dynasty was haunted, and the people in the whole city knew that a team of Yin soldiers had borrowed grain, and half of the Qing Dynasty where the rumors spread were boiling, but the results of the final investigation were unexpected.

The so-called borrowing of grain by the Yin soldiers is actually nothing more than a wind deliberately released by officials in order to cover up their sin of embezzling grain and selling official grain privately, which is actually just a public opinion war in ancient times.

In particular, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are even more handy in this kind of public opinion warfare.

Li Hongzhang failed, and was beaten by Xiao Letian's new army without the power to fight back, originally this kind of fiasco was to be held accountable by the imperial court, but it is very strange that after the incident, Li Hongzhang was not punished, but the army he led was supported by more military expenses from the imperial court, and even increased the battalion head.

Now Li Hongzhang is stationed in Shandong and Jiangsu, desperately recruiting troops and accumulating strength.

On the one hand, this is the result of the contest of power between the imperial court, and on the other hand, it is also the result of the imperial court's instinct to drive the enemy of the enemy.

To put it bluntly, it is precisely because Li Hongzhang let Xiao Letian kill badly enough, which proves from the side that Li Hongzhang and the court are of the same mind, Li Hongzhang and Xiao Letian absolutely did not secretly flatter each other, this is a reliable and reusable official.

Look, things in the world are so ridiculous, sometimes losing a battle can be a blessing in disguise, can the thinking circuit of ordinary people reach this level?

Under the influence of this mentality, the imperial court or Li Hongzhang was obsessed with that defeat on the surface, and gritted their teeth at Tianhuo on the surface, but they didn't think so in their hearts.

Instead of preventing the spread of all kinds of superstitious rumors about the white phosphorus bomb, these people sent people to secretly fuel the flames. To be honest, most of the rumors in the Qing Dynasty that Xiao Letian could drive the Heavenly Fire to fight were actually spread by Li Hongzhang's forces.

Is it difficult to understand the truth? In fact, it is very simple, the more Li Hongzhang blows Xiao Letian so badly that he is like a god, then the less guilty he will be of failure, and the superstitious people will not blame him, but will say.

"That's right, Xiao Lotian can drive the heavenly fire and ghost fire, this kind of person has to use the old way of a monk to clean it up, and it is understandable that Li Hongzhang defeated him......"

Haha, the sage cloud 'the people can make it happen, but they can't make it know' is good now, and it has risen to 'the people can make it deceive, but they can't make it know'.

The people of the Great Qing Kingdom, just be deceived with peace of mind, you want to get the real information? Grandma! You know everything, how can I govern you?

Under this kind of political ecology, it is clear that a very important military intelligence has made the Manchus into myths and legends, and in the end, the military attaches of the European powers have been confused.

These Europeans have been dealing with the Qing Dynasty for many years, and of course they know that the Qing officials are good at using superstitious stories to excuse their own incompetence, and the possibility that Li Hongzhang made up a story about Tianhuo after he defeated the war is almost 100 percent.

Everyone let their guard down, no one paid too much attention to this new weapon, and many people didn't even know about its existence.

Because Xiao Lotian then hid the white phosphorus bomb deeply, and never used it once.

Xiao Letian's consideration is very deep, first of all, in the middle of the 19th century, human beings have not yet invented a safe refining method of phosphate rock, and the existing phosphate rock is extracted by hand in the real yàn room, and the danger is quite high, so the output of white phosphorus bombs has been very small, and it is impossible to equip the army on a large scale.

The real effective large-scale use of white phosphate rock in human history should have started at the beginning of the 20th century, and now there are at least 50 years to go.

The low production and inability to produce on a large scale is one of the main reasons, and another important factor is that the white phosphorus bomb is too dangerous, this chemical is really unstable, and in the process of production and storage, Xiao Lotian can't remember how many times he has leaked and burned faults.

Knowing that now, the production and storage of white phosphorus bombs are carried out on uninhabited islands in the Pacific Ocean, and no one knows where Xiao Lotian hid this secret weapon.

The third reason to prevent Xiao Letian from using this weapon is morality, white phosphorus bombs were originally prohibited by international conventions in later generations, because this weapon is too lethal and too cruel, and it hurts heaven and earth!

Xiao Lotian was not a thorough materialist in the first place, and a crossing overthrew all his atheistic views, and now he has to admit that there may really be gods in the underworld.

The lethality of white phosphorus bombs is so huge, will there be retribution for using too much?

The retribution in the dark Xiao Letian can't say clearly, but he knows very well that if he uses this weapon on a large scale, then the retribution of Britain, France and other countries will come soon.

The principle of white phosphorus bombs is not complicated, if Britain and France are in a hurry to start mass production of this weapon, then in terms of quantity and quality, Xiao Lotian will not be able to fight them.

Because the gap in industrial strength is there, which cannot be reversed in a short period of time, white phosphorus bombs can only be used as special weapons, not on a large scale.

And in today's cruel night battle, Xiao Letian, who had been forced, had to come up with a killer weapon, and the ghost fire once again appeared on the battlefield on earth.