Verse 67 The Burning of the City (Unbanning Chapter)
The people of Fuso didn't know what these things were that were like roaring dragons across the sky, and they raised their heads one by one with infinite admiration on their faces. A voice of admiration came out of his mouth: "What are these, they are so beautiful!" ”
A series of explosions of "boom, boom, boom" sounded at the head of the city, and one body after another was thrown high into the sky by the air wave of the explosion. The bodies that soared in the air still seemed to be dancing their limbs, like some living kites.
The Fusang soldiers at the head of the city were busy in fear, watching the sudden great changes. Some were running around in a panic and didn't know what was going on, some were busy turning their guns, and some were picking up their birds.
However, the salvo of rocket artillery has basically cleared the defensive force of this section of the city wall station, and there is still any resistance force. Almost instantly, the people who were still alive on the city wall a little farther away were fired at by snipers and rifles, and the counterattack was completely suppressed.
Twenty giant-like howitzers, with their heads raised high, also hoisted past their muzzles and began to shell the city, using a special kind of "rocket extended-range incendiary bombs".
The "Rocket Extended Range Incendiary Bomb" was developed by the "Armed Weapons Workshop" of Shenzhou City after receiving Yue Xiaofei's flying pigeon transmission, which is a peculiar child-mother bomb.
When the mother bomb as the carrier is launched, with the combustion of the rocket propellant, a cylindrical projectile is detached from the parent body, and after the internal charge of the warhead explodes, it will be sprayed out with a paste incendiary mixture of saltpeter (strong oxidant) and honey (very good liquid carbon), forming ignition points.
The final warhead flew towards Edo Castle with its meteor-like tail, and it flew past the seemingly sturdy wooden houses underneath, plunged headlong into the ground, and exploded into a large ball of fire.
Ten of these projectiles will be dropped during each rocket's flight, and they will be ten extremely burning ignition points, which will create a "warm" winter for Edo Castle.
"Boom, boom, boom" twenty 1647 Thor-L howitzers fired the first salvo. Shoot these "Rocket Range Extender Incendiary" into the city. Each shell will leave 10 ignition points during its flight of 1,200 meters. A single salvo of 20 howitzers will be deployed at two square kilometres to reach 2,000 ignition points.
With the explosion of one submunition after another, the sticky honey ignited small fires that flew everywhere and splashed on the surrounding wooden houses, which was a burning fire source. At first, the Fuso people in Edo Castle were still fighting in vain with water, but soon after, and the second salvo of shells came to an end, and then a light wind on the sea blew on the sea, and the fire finally spread uncontrollably.
The streets of Fusang began to run wildly, because the artillery fire of the Shenzhou army came from the west of the city, and it was during this time of winter that the north wind from the west often occurred. In fact, the only way they could escape the fire was to the east of Edo Castle, but their legs could not escape the fire.
The uncontrolled fire, within two thousand meters of the initial shelling, formed a terrifying arc-shaped demon that exuded the aura of death. It stretched out its bewitching red arms and roasted the houses dry, wisps of green smoke began to rise from the planks, and then a flame rose and a new one began to burn again.
The fire consumed a large amount of oxygen in the city of Edo, creating a very strong secondary pressure in the sea of fire, and the nearby air was extracted, forming a whirlwind that blew up the smoke from the whirring tongues of fire, forming extremely high black plumes of smoke.
Wu Zhu looked at the fire burning in the city, and also felt incredible. Although in the domestic war against Hulu, there was also a method of using rockets to burn the buildings in the enemy's city to gain an advantage. However, most cities in China are built on earth or brick walls. He never thought that the "fire" could be placed like this in Fusang, and its power was obvious, and then he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart when he thought of the order that Shicai City send people to fortify the city gate and not allow anyone to escape.
He finally understood, at least he finally understood why Wen Changming would let him buy people, and often he was a family when he bought it, clearly because his words saved the lives of unknown people.
Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at Wen Changming. Wen Changming didn't have a look on his face, and like most people, he stared fixedly at the burning Edo Castle, but if he looked closely, he could see that his body seemed to be shaking uncontrollably.
In the camp outside the city, on the warship, all the people were looking towards Edo Castle, where they could not see the fire behind the city walls, they could only see the black smoke that was raised high, as if an extremely terrifying demon king, it had finally arrived between heaven and earth.
The hundreds of thousands of people in the city shouted in horror in the face of such a demon, piercing the clouds, making everyone in the barracks, including the soldiers, feel the same harshness, such miserable.
Mochizuki Ayano, who was escorted to the command ship by the two castle lords' guards, was also shocked by the fire in Edo Castle. Here she could see and hear the loud roar of the howitzers raised high, firing shells into the city.
"This ...... Why is this happening! ”
Mochizuki Ayano froze, and then she suddenly threw herself under the boat. However, her actions have long been seen by the city lord guards on the side, and prevention is the first. Her figure had only moved, and she had been firmly controlled by the two city lord guards.
"No...... No, ......" Ayano screamed like crazy, struggling to pounce on the city that was on fire.
Sure enough, just as Yue Xiaofei expected, a stream of people poured out of the various city gates, and they all opened their frightened eyes one by one, holding something they grabbed casually from home, and recited the names of all the gods and Buddhas imaginable in their mouths in horror, and fled out of the city.
However, when they walked outside the city gates, there were green vehicles outside. They fired a seemingly infinite number of crossbow arrows, knocking rows of people to the ground, and more often than not, rows of rifles and self-propelled mortar shells.
However, the people were in a panic under the pursuit of the fire behind, and although death was still waiting for them here, such a quick death was obviously much better than the torture caused by the terrible fire.
They were downwind to the east, and while the fire swayed, the winders sent the scorching stench of the city to the bottom of the position. It was almost unbearable for these soldiers, who were accustomed to smelling the smell of "iron" blood on the battlefield, to pull up their masks one by one and cover their mouths and noses tightly.