Chapter 1070: The Empire's Chemical Weapons
The trap brought some damage to the Western Xia Iron Cavalry, but they still rushed over with overwhelming momentum in the face of the attack of the Imperial Army's muskets.
In the face of these Western Xia ironclad cavalry who were not afraid of bullets, the imperial army was now a little skilled, and thinking of the fate of their camp being rushed in by the cavalry, although the soldiers of the second division were still attacking, there was also fear in their hearts.
Zhu Tong naturally knew that he would never let the heavy cavalry of Western Xia come over, and it was now the most difficult moment, so he could only be ruthless and prepare to use the thing at the bottom of the box.
Sturdy iron boxes were sent to the front line, and the Imperial soldiers were given these strangely shaped special grenades.
"Five shots in a row, target in the air, throw!" With Zhu Tong's order, the imperial soldiers threw off their arms and sent out special grenades one by one......
The general explosion range of grenades is between 10-20 meters, and if you throw it too close, you will not only not be able to blow up the enemy, but also hurt yourself, so when the Imperial Army trains soldiers, the throwing distance of the grenade must be more than 30 meters, and most soldiers can throw it to 40 to 50 meters.
Now the Western Xia heavy armored cavalry had just arrived at a distance of sixty or seventy meters, and they were attacked by the imperial army.
The power of the grenade, the Western Xia army has seen it when attacking Fengxiang Mansion City, although the explosion range of this thing is not small, but it mainly relies on shrapnel to kill and injure the enemy, which is still an attack that the Western Xia heavy cavalry wearing heavy iron armor can withstand.
It's a pity that the soldiers of the empire threw not an ordinary grenade, but a special new weapon, and a weapon that was banned by many countries in later generations---- phosphorus bomb!
As the name suggests, the grenade contains a large amount of white phosphorus, and when it explodes, the chemicals that burn when it comes into contact with the air will envelop a radius of about 20 meters.
And the most terrifying thing about this weapon is that one of them is naturally the strong attachment ability.
Phosphorus bombs are very harmful, they burn continuously after hitting an object until they are extinguished. So when it comes into contact with the human body, the skin is penetrated and then deep into the bones.
The second is that the temperature of the phosphorus fire is extremely high, and the pole can reach a thousand degrees Celsius.
Phosphorus fire can burn iron armor into molten iron, but the phosphorus bomb researched by the empire has many flaws, so it can't reach such a high temperature for the time being, but it's also extremely terrifying.
In addition, in fact, phosphorus bombs were mostly used as smoke bombs in later generations, and the smoke produced when they burned was poisonous, which was extremely irritating to the eyes and nose.
There is not much white phosphorus in the phosphorus bomb, so after it exploded in mid-air, it immediately attached to the body of the Xixia heavy cavalry, although it burned, but it could not burn through the armor on them and the war horse, but this thing would smoke......
The yellow flames burned, and with it a large amount of white poisonous smoke, not counting the toxins, the flames and irritating smoke alone were enough to drive the Tangut warhorses mad.
A large amount of burning phosphorus fire drained the oxygen in the air here, giving all the Western Xia cavalry an unbearable feeling of suffocation.
Many party generals were all ready to attack after the Iron Harrier heavy cavalry rushed into battle with a brave momentum. But seeing everything in front of them, the hands they originally wanted to pull on the buttocks of the war horses involuntarily retracted, and instead tightened the reins.
After turning all the battle formations into poison gas belts caused by phosphorus bombs, the Imperial Army retreated in an orderly manner for fear of inhaling this terrible gas.
Because the formation remains unchanged and is on complete alert, this is not an escape, but a strategic retreat.
The two thousand heavily armored cavalry that Tuoba Ning had worked so hard to build were all shrouded in white smoke caused by phosphorus bombs because of the unstoppable charge.
Because the smoke obscured the advance, so he couldn't see the situation ahead, Tuoba Ning immediately sent several teams of cavalry to investigate, but unfortunately these cavalry had just come to the edge of the area, and they could still hold back, but the war horses under their crotch were dead or alive.
"Boom, boom, boom......" The white smoke kept thinking of the sound of explosions, and it could be judged from the sound that it was the artillery of the Imperial Army that had fired.
Since they couldn't rush past the smoke area, the scouts immediately circled in both directions, and finally saw what was going on behind the smoke.
The 2,000 hoplites of Western Xia, because they inhaled a large amount of poisonous smoke, all the horses went crazy and overturned the knights, and the people and horses burned by the flames let out a miserable howl like hell.
The soldiers of the Imperial Army put their bayonets on again, and they came to the Western Xia cavalry, who had rushed out of the smoke but still fell to the ground, carefully searched for the gaps in their armor, and then stabbed the bayonets into them, killing them in an orderly manner.
Seeing this massacre scene, several teams of Western Xia scouts rushed back to their base one by one with shocked faces, and reported everything they saw to Tuoba Ning and other party generals.
Now that the matter has come to this, Tuoba Ning can't do anything for the time being, he can only listen to the screams of his own heavy cavalry in front of him when they are dying, and wait for this poisonous smoke to disappear with a pale face.
After about a cup of tea, the terrifying phosphorus fire finally burned out, and the white poisonous smoke released was gradually blown away by the wind.
At this moment, only the corpses of the Western Xia iron horsemen and war horses who had been poisoned, burned, and stabbed to death with bayonets by imperial soldiers were left on the battlefield, and it seemed that this was a Shura field full of death.
The second division of the Imperial Army retreated a few hundred meters and once again set up a military formation, and in the eyes of the Tanguts, they were exactly the same as before, with no changes.
What kind of army is the most terrible?
Tuoba Ning boasted that he had seen many armies, such as the Khitans of the Liao State, the Jurchens of the Jin State, the Mongols, the Tibetan Tibetans, the Western Regions, the Western Liao and the Song people, and so on.
However, Tuoba Ning had never seen an army look as inconspicuous as the Imperial Army, but no matter how powerful the attack was, they would stubbornly resist the pressure and annihilate the incoming enemy.
The most terrifying thing is that the Imperial Army is like a reef in the water, maintaining a calm attitude at all times, no matter how many enemies come around, they don't care, they all look indifferent, but they can always defeat the enemy.
Tuoba Ning first charged with his most powerful 5,000 light cavalry, and then attacked with 2,000 heavy armored cavalry, but it did not have any effect on the imperial army, and to be honest, seeing this situation, he already had a retreat in his heart.
Why do people say that foxes are clever and cunning? It's because they don't go head-to-head with powerful enemies, but only look for opportunities to sneak attack.
Tuoba Ning, who is known as the Silver Fox, also has this character, and when the Imperial Army in front of him showed extremely strong strength, he no longer wanted to continue to fight hard.
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