The violent explosion caused the wooden telegraph room to be shaken and a huge amount of dust was thrown down! The explosion was deafening, and Colkine was completely frightened.

He ordered all the telegraph operators not to move, and he ran out of the door as hard as he could.

In front of him, a mushroom cloud swayed up with a large amount of dust, and a large number of soldiers rushing to the station like ants.

Almost none of the soldiers and civilians at the Homnich station knew that the Blacksmith Village was conducting rocket artillery experiments today. Only a few people knew about it, and the stationmaster knew very well that the location of the ruins was a reference point for rocket artillery test firing operations.

Before the experiment, who would have thought that it would easily fly to thirty kilometers, and who would have thought that it would directly bomb Homnich forty-one kilometers away!?

The stationmaster, Kolkin, tried to stop the soldiers as much as he could, but these people were frightened and shouted for the German attack. In desperation, he could only lead a small group of people to the scene of the explosion to find out.

Colkin was mentally prepared for the worst, and the reality was exactly what he imagined.

The killing mode of high-power conventional rockets and artillery shells is very similar, relying on the shock wave to directly kill the living force within the killing range, and the fragments brought by the so-called steel cover are very secondary.

The shockwave dealt a devastating blow to the villagers, and many of those who fell to death were stunned by the shockwave and the air wave storm, and there were dozens of such white corpses around the blast heart.

This kind of bloody scene Corkin could endure, and he led a dozen brave soldiers to survey the scene, and the soldiers began to retch, one by one.

For no other reason, the corpses were not just undressed, the shock wave even tore the skin of some people, the internal organs overflowed, and a large amount of debris fell on the ground, including even human stumps.

The blast heart was blown out of a large crater more than a meter deep, and that was the only one who could cause such damage.

Realizing that something was wrong, Kolkin rushed back to his telegraph room like a wind, and shouted at several telegraph operators waiting for orders: "Send me a telegram to Novgomel, I want to communicate in plain!" I'm looking for the Commander! ”

……

Yang Mingzhi had been waiting for the latest telegram until several radio stations present received the same message.

Because this was a clear call, the stakes were very high, and a bad premonition instantly came to his heart, and Yang Mingzhi quickly ran over.

Culkin, over there, tried to keep his composure, explaining the fact of the explosion with the heavy casualties in a straightforward manner.

"Hell! I really let him say that he found it! Rescue now! Send the injured to the blacksmith village as fast as possible, and we will send a truck to meet you as soon as possible! ”

At this moment, Salinchkin and a group of people also rushed over, something did happen in the distance, otherwise this Berekov would not have suddenly turned solemn.

Seeing that he had ended the correspondence, Salinchkin asked urgently, "What the hell is going on?" Where the hell did the rockets hit? ”

"It's ruins! This rocket bombarded Homnich and caused at least fifty of us huge casualties! ”

Salinchkin's mind buzzed for a moment, and then thought about it a little more if this was possible? "It can't be! From here to the ruins, more than forty kilometers, how can your rocket artillery fly so far! Do you know what the concept of forty kilometers is? ”

"I know!" Yang Mingzhi burst out, his emotions were excited, but fortunately he was pulled by several people.

At this time, Ryguskov, who was in charge of today's experiment, took over from Yang Mingzhi and said solemnly: "I am sure that this is true!" This was what I was most worried about before the launch, but I didn't expect the rocket to really fly an exaggerated distance. But I couldn't have imagined that it would just blow up our people by such a coincidence! ”

"Nope! It's not a coincidence! Since we take Homnich as a reference, its direction of flight is only blown away by the wind, and today it is a breeze! The stability of the rocket I designed is very good, even if it flies forty kilometers, the deviation will not be very serious! However, it actually killed our people! I was the one who killed us! Yang Mingzhi replied immediately.

His mood had almost recovered, and the incident became more and more darkly humorous, and he laughed at himself for a while: "It's ironic, they went into the swamp to survive, and we developed a new weapon to kill the enemy." As a result, our new weapon actually killed the people we wanted to protect! ”

Salinchkin didn't talk nonsense to him, but asked a few telegraph operators, and when several of them were conclusive that something had really happened to Homnic, he believed that the rocket had just been the culprit.

Yang Mingzhi showed guilt, but Salinchin didn't care, he didn't say anything about the casualties, but congratulated him from a tricky angle.

He took Yang Mingzhi's hands, making the whole scene very abrupt.

"You're doing so well! Comrade Berekov, you proved with your actions that this rocket flew forty kilometers and dealt a devastating blow to the people on the ground! I think you know the military value of this weapon! ”

"What?" Yang Mingzhi raised his head suddenly, "I thought you would condemn the weapons I made to kill your own people!" ”

"Nope! Why should I condemn! Do you have to feel guilty about this little thing? Do you feel sorry for the dead and their families? Put away your humility! We're counting on your new weapons to protect the 56,000 soldiers and civilians here! ”

Now Yang Mingzhi is indeed very humble, and in his opinion, he has indeed made mistakes.

His own job is the military industry, and he knows very well that various problems will arise in the process of weapons development and manufacturing, and in serious cases, they will cause death. Therefore, all military-industrial units already have death indicators.

However, those civilians are not in the range of death indicators, and there are indeed many people who have died now!

As a naturalized Chinese who also held the senior position of commander of the army group and the so-called "defense minister" of the guerrilla republic, he knew that the cornerstone of his power was inherently fragile.

He was most worried about this Salinchkin, and since he had shown disapproval, it was not right to continue to pretend to be humble.

The results of the third rocket were statistically recorded, and the range at an angle of 45 degrees was recorded with particular accuracy, that is, between forty and forty-three kilometers.

The experiment went on as usual, but the onlookers and the observers sent by the Komsomol went wild. No one made a fuss about casualties at all, and they immediately recorded such keywords as "new rocket artillery", "range of 40 km" and "brand new history" in their notebooks.

The fourth rocket launcher will be fired at a 60-degree angle, and this time Yang Mingzhi is not at all worried that it will blow up Homnich again.

Eventually, the bomb was discovered by the Fifth Observation Group, but it had already left the forest.

The city of Homnich was surrounded by a large open space, and the 284th Division's first attack on it took advantage of the darkness of night to carry out a sneak attack with large-caliber mortars on the plains outside the city.

The explosion occurred close to the forest, but the people who remained in the ruins of Homnich were already frightened birds, and when they saw a huge amount of smoke and dust rising into the air in the distance, they began to flee again.

Fortunately, it was the soldiers who put their rifles with bayonets and lined up to form a human wall, which suppressed the chaos. Even so, hundreds of people fled into the forest until dark, and all of them returned to their settlement villages, and that's a story for later.

This is what happened on May 10 in the guerrilla republic.

The rocket artillery experiment set a new record and made history! Salinchkin was so excited that he immediately decided to report the matter to his superiors, and as a strict and pragmatic person, he knew that he needed to continue to investigate.

Yang Mingzhi supported Salinchkin's decision at the first time: "You can report to Moscow as boldly as you can, and I will also report to the headquarters of the Southwestern Front!" As a result of this experiment, this new weapon has become capable of actual combat. ”

Salinchkin immediately asked rhetorically, "Will they believe it?" After all, this is a war, and if it is a war, it is indispensable to brag, and the superiors need real data, and even a record of killings, so as to be convinced! ”

"As for whether the superiors believe it or not, we, the residents of Novgomel, believe it anyway! Without the help of the newspaper and the Komsomol, we simply immediately informed the entire guerrilla republic of the radio about it.

The superiors may not believe it, but they will soon be new. In future wars, we will use actual results to declare the value of this strategic weapon! It will be the catalyst for our victory! ”10