"Change the incendiary bomb!" Hong Tao is a very bloodless person, soft-hearted, especially can't see his own casualties, but if he passes it on to the enemy, he doesn't care. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 There are two types of info mortar shells, one is an ordinary anti-personnel shell with a black mark on the tail of the bullet, and the other is an incendiary shell with a yellow tail painted on the tail.

This incendiary bomb was no longer the primary product of the Golden River Empire with a mixture of oil, and it went one step further, because Sun City had natural rubber.

Put the raw rubber that has been plasticized and cut into small pieces into the fractionated and purified gasoline, and the macromolecular organic matter of natural rubber will be invaded by the small molecules of gasoline, and the connection between the macromolecules will be cut off, which is equivalent to dissolution. As long as the ratio of natural rubber to gasoline is well controlled, it will eventually become a sticky substance similar to fried liver. It is very viscous, not volatile, will burn under high temperature and high pressure, and the burning temperature is very high, close to thousands of degrees, can burn the steel red and soft.

This thing is already very close to the solidified gas, oil and bomb of later generations, and Hong Tao didn't want to use this too cruel weapon casually. But now the enemy is resisting too much, and if you don't suppress their momentum, your own soldiers will not be enough to die. Since they intend to fight to the death, let them taste what it will be like to be burned alive, and hopefully it will weaken their will to continue to resist. If it doesn't work out, it will only turn this majestic castle into a sea of fire. You can't get it, and you can't leave it to the enemy.

When the first dazzling orange fire appeared on the top of the city, the screams of the mad people also spread throughout the battlefield. It's not one person calling, it's a lot of people together.

Splashes of gelatinous substance will stick to any object and burn immediately if it comes into contact with an open flame. This kind of flame cannot be extinguished by fighting or watering, and can only be covered with something to keep out the air. If the movement is a little slower, a large piece of meat will be burned, and even the bones can be burned alive to carbonize.

As more and more incendiary bombs were thrown at the ramparts, this section of the rampart became a sea of fire, and the resistance of the defenders was largely gone. They can brave shrapnel and bullets and hold their shields on the city walls to find an opportunity to shoot at the city, but there is nothing they can do about this kind of ghostly fire flying everywhere, and there is nowhere to hide. A fire that can burn even stones is not something that human beings can resist. The more people who fill in, the more intense the fire becomes, and the human body becomes a good fuel in the heat.

Moreover, mortars are not laser-guided weapons, they will be affected by wind and stability, and it is impossible to hit so accurately. In order to prevent incendiary bombs from injuring their own people, the gunners deliberately increased the range, preferring to let the shells go over the city and into the city rather than let them explode outside the city walls. As a result, at least a third of the incendiary bombs went into the walls. Now there is also a fire in the city, which is bigger than the fire on the city wall, and it is estimated that it has ignited the war preparation materials inside.

Without harassment, a dam more than three meters wide cut off the three- or four-meter-deep moat in half a day. When it was time for lunch, watching the smoke billowing from the city and the city, Hong Tao ordered the shelling to stop, and then personally wrote a letter in Latin, asking the patrolling cavalry to go to the other three sides of the castle to find a way to hand it over to the people in the city.

This is a letter of persuasion, and the content is very simple, that is, it expounds on practical problems. If you don't surrender, everyone in this castle will be burned to death by the divine fire of the sun god. If he surrendered, he promised to give the nobles in the city decent treatment and would not kill anyone indiscriminately.

Of course, the ransom still has to be paid, and the price is not expensive, the duke has 30,000 gold coins, the earl has about 10,000, and the baron and below will be released if he gives 1,800. If you don't have money, you can also pay in installments, isn't there a hot \ that\ Asian credit bank, after signing the repayment certificate, you can also get a mortgage. In short, it means that surrender, we don't kill prisoners!

But it is not indefinite, and God's patience is limited. An answer must be given by noon to-morrow, otherwise the divine fire will fall from the sky and burn the whole castle into a large cauldron.

In fact, Hong Tao felt that it was not yet the time to persuade him to surrender, and if he could throw dozens of incendiary bombs into the city and really threaten the main body of the castle, it would be the best time to write this letter. But he also had difficulties, there were not many incendiary bombs, and if he threw them down again, he would quickly throw them away. If the people in the city realized that they were out of shells, they would definitely hold on.

"Send the snipers to the patrols and have them ambush to the east of the castle to prevent anyone from trying to escape. No matter who climbs down, as long as they don't surrender, they will be killed! The letter was delivered, but Hong Tao didn't pin all his hopes on these words, and he had to be on guard against what he should have been. Now he was not afraid that the enemy would break through the main gate again, and without the cavalry, the infantry alone would not be able to break through the shotgun line. But to prevent some people from jumping off the wall in a hurry, especially those nobles in the city, it is a disaster to run away from one, and it is also equivalent to running away a lot of money.

There seemed to be no movement in the castle all afternoon, except for the firefighting, and after supper, the fire in the city was extinguished, and it was even quieter, even the trebuchets and the sound of cannons were gone. Outside the city, however, more than a dozen bonfires had been lit, which were firewood piles set up by Indian patrols, doused with whale oil, which were very resistant to burning and could illuminate a nearby area. The patrolmen hid in the dark, their shotguns on the walls and cliffs to prevent anyone from slipping through them.

"It's so annoying, what kind of horn is blowing in the middle of the night!" The tranquility did not last long, Hong Tao just lay down, and was wondering whether to make a glider, a plane, and take off from the cliff with a war horse, so that his miracle could be added to another one, and suddenly there was a horn sound outside, it was in the castle.

After stepping out of the tent, Hong Tao found that the lifeless castle seemed to suddenly come to life! Every window is lit by torches, and a fiery dragon stretches along the hill towards the city gates, looking like a fairytale wonderland in the dark night.

"Let the soldiers enter the position, are they here to die again!" Hong Tao didn't know what was going on in the castle, so he could only think that the enemy was about to start a night attack again, or a breakthrough, according to his previous understanding. As for whether it is necessary to make such a big move in the breakthrough, God knows, many people now think differently from later generations.

"It's that bearded old man again......" Captain Broken Mouth became Hong Tao's adjutant at this time, he not only had a broken mouth, but his eyes were very good, the city gate had just been opened, the drawbridge had just been lowered, and before a group of people in the city had even stepped onto the drawbridge, he recognized the Earl of Nassau.

"Do you know the guy next to him? Why do I feel familiar? Hong Tao's eyes were actually not bad, and he also saw the Earl of Nassau, but an Asian face behind the Earl's side made him pay more attention.

“…… I don't know, is he from the country of Jinhe? Captain Broken Mouth picked up the binoculars and looked at them a few more times, then shook his head.

"I don't know, go get them, I'm in the tent." The Count of Nassau showed up again, and there were only seven or eight of them, apparently not to break through, but to negotiate, perhaps to surrender. As for who the Asian face around him is, it will be clear when the time comes, maybe it is a translator or something.

The Earl of Nassau seemed to be ten years older than when we met on the ship a few days ago, and had really become an old man, and his beard was no longer fluffy and shapely, but had become wilted. But the Asian face that followed him was quite energetic, with round eyes looking around, as if it was both familiar and unfamiliar with the things here. Especially to himself, he glanced at him several times, and as long as he didn't touch his gaze, he kept staring at himself.

"Your Excellency, we meet again. They didn't mean to humiliate you, but to keep me safe, and they had to do it in our relationship. After the Earl, one of his sons, and the young man with the Asian face had been carefully searched by Captain Broken Mouth, and walked into the tent, Hong Tao still stood up politely, greeted them, and bluntly admitted that he was afraid of death.

"Your Majesty, let's put away your set, although I was defeated today, the Nassau family will always remember this day. I am only here to accompany Lord Jiang to negotiate with His Majesty, and do not represent the position of the Nassau family. The Earl of Nassau was a little rude this time, and refused Hong Tao's invitation and did not sit down. (To be continued.) )