Chapter 481, Night Attack (2)

Liu Mangui had only walked a few steps, and he saw more than a dozen fire dragons suddenly rising from a farther place on the official road, and these fire dragons flew towards the south with a terrifying roar, and then plunged down, and heard an explosion from a distance, and then saw that it was burning.

"Not good! This is the Ming army sneaking up on our camp! Liu Mangui immediately knew what was going on. If more than 100 years later, ordinary people who have passed through the prosperous Kangqian era of the Qing Dynasty see this scene, maybe they will really think of gods and monsters and other things, maybe they will come here in the future and set up a temple to worship these fire dragons, just like the natives on the Pacific Islands who later worshiped the statues of the US military planes. However, I have not yet degenerated from a civilized person to a semi-barbaric at this time, so Liu Mangui quickly figured out what was going on with those fire dragons: "This must be similar to the fireworks they used to transmit messages in the morning." Looking at it like this, I'm afraid this thing can hit more than a mile! When did the officers and soldiers have this thing? ”

Although Li Zicheng has already set the name of the country and called the emperor, in the hearts of most of the soldiers of the Shun army, and even the generals of the Shun army (among them, Li Zicheng himself), he is still a rogue, and the Ming army is still an official army.

Liu Mangui could see what was going on, but that didn't mean he could do anything. He is now alone, not only can he not stop the Ming army from attacking, but even, for his own safety, he had better distance himself from the Ming army.

Liu Mangui could hide farther away, but the Shun army in the barracks at this time couldn't dodge. The Model Army's latest arson rocket is a very frenzied weapon.

Rubber trees introduced from South America are ready for tapping. Zheng Sen knew that rubber was extremely important for the future, and knew that if rubber was to come in handy, it would have to add some things, such as sulfur, carbon black, and so on. But knowing the basics and making a product that really works are never the same thing. At least for now, the Zheng family is not able to produce rubber wheels, at most they can make rubber galoshes. But, on the other hand, this rubber came in handy, and that was arson.

The island of Jinzhou (Sumatra) near Luzon is rich in oil, and it is a very good quality light crude oil. During World War II, warships of the Japanese Navy could even directly use this crude oil as fuel for warships. Although there was no drilling technology at this time, some parts of Borneo simply gushed oil out of the ground on its own. It's not hard to get these things in small quantities. The Zheng family also set up a small base there to collect the oil that naturally gushes out of the ground. These oils were sent to Taiwan, and they were slightly fractionated by the soil method to obtain the "fierce fire oil" suspected of being gasoline, and then the original natural rubber particles were mixed into it and stirred, so as to obtain a jelly-like thing, which would become molten and viscous when heated, and solidify when cold, which had a well-known name in later generations: "gelatinous gasoline". That is, "coagulation steam. Oil. bullets". In the warhead of the arson rocket of the Model Army, this is mainly the only thing. In each arson rocket there were more than eighty kindling of gelatinous gasoline, which, after being launched, would be ignited in the final explosion and thrown in all directions. If the soldier firing these rockets controls the trajectory properly, they can explode at a suitable height above the target, and then scatter the burning fire over a considerable area. Such a rocket may be able to create more than a dozen ignition points. Such an efficiency is unmatched by most means of arson.

Therefore, although the model army only fired more than a dozen such arson rockets, the effect was no less than that of deploying thousands of archers to fire a salvo of rockets into the barracks of the Shun army. Most of these more than a dozen rockets exploded at the right altitude, and one of them even flew all the way to the position of the central army of the Shun army. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of ignition points, large and small, appeared in the Shunjun military camp. The barracks of the Shun army were suddenly in chaos.

To be honest, Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin sent people out to harass the Ming army tonight, and their side was naturally not completely defenseless. Li Zicheng hadn't slept at this time, and in the barracks, there were also generals in charge of night patrols with his own soldiers. Generally speaking, in such a situation, even if thousands of people throw rockets over, it will not cause any big trouble. But this time it was far beyond their imagination.

The rain of fire that rained down from the sky ignited the tents of the Shun army almost instantly, and some of the tinder fell on the bodies of the patrolling Shun soldiers. The soldiers of the Shun army wanted to shoot these fires off their bodies, but to their surprise, these fires, if not patted, were only burning in one place, and with the beating, these viscous gelatinous gasoline were all over the body at once, and because of the increase in the contact area with the air, the fire suddenly became larger. It was just a tinder, and in an instant, it turned into a raging fire that could consume a person. The ignited soldiers rolled on the ground in pain. Under normal circumstances, if the armor is on fire, rolling on the ground can quickly extinguish the flames. But in the face of napalm, such a move will only make the colloidal gasoline more and more contaminated and spread, and the flame will naturally become higher and higher. In such excruciating pain, soldiers tend to scratch and hug, and then sticky gelatinous gasoline from one person to another.

Similarly, those Shun soldiers who tried to use slapping to deal with the fires that fell on the tents also found that the fires were fine if they didn't shoot, and the speed of burning was limited. With just one shot, it turns from a small spark into a raging fire almost instantly. This kind of fire that could not be extinguished immediately caused chaos in the Shun army. Even Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin could not bring the army back to its composure.

"I really didn't expect this thing to set fire so badly!" Zhu Hongjian, the commander of the reconnaissance company, looked at the chaotic Shunjun military camp, and estimated that he couldn't find out if he spoke, so he couldn't help but sigh.

"That's it, this thing is really sticking to my body, telling me that there is no way to do it except to stab myself in the heart and give myself a good time." Liu Bo, the platoon commander, said, "Company commander, should we take advantage of the situation to kill it?" ”

Zhu Hongjian looked at the other side, and the glorious past of those ancient famous generals who had learned in the Model Military School suddenly popped up in his mind:

Han Dingyuan Marquis Banchao, did not enter the tiger's den to get the tiger, with a hundred or so people to attack the Hun envoys at night, blocked the front and rear camp gates, first set fire, and then used a strong bow and crossbow to shoot those Huns who escaped from the sea of fire, and then waited for the fire to burn, and then killed the knife, with the strength of more than 100 people, the Hun envoys more than 1,000 people were killed.

Tang Xingguo Duke Su Dingfang Marshal 200 light horsemen, taking advantage of the dense fog, raided the Turkic Jieli Khan's big tent, defeated tens of thousands of Turkic troops in one fell swoop, Jieli Khan's personal guards were scattered, he could only flee alone, as a result of the outflanked Tang army, since then become a prisoner in Chang'an City.

There is also Gan Xingba, and Xin Qiji......

Zhu Hongjian took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "A long line!" ”

"Here!" Liu Bo also suppressed his excitement and responded in a low voice.

"You take your platoon, take advantage of the chaos and take control of the camp gate. The second and third rows follow me in! Zhu Hongjian ordered. Then he turned to his herald Zhang Ying and said, "You go back to the camp immediately and report the situation here to your superiors." Hurry up! ”

Zhang Ying answered in a low voice, then turned around and ran towards the north.

Zhu Hongjian glanced at the burning Shunjun military camp and ordered: "Check the weapons and prepare for battle......"