"! Again! You can't fight during the day! It's like sneak attacks at night to take advantage! "I don't know how long I slept, two loud noises in a row woke Hong Tao from his dream, and no one else needed to report it, Hong Tao also knew what the sound was, someone hit the mine placed outside the cordon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

That's right, it's mines! This is a by-product of Kindness's research on mortar shells.

It's actually a mortar shell without a tail, and the impact fuse is so sensitive that it's jammed with a steel ball to prevent it from falling. When used, a special steel drill is inserted into the ground, and then the cannonball is stuck in the iron ring on the steel drill, and then the safety pin on the cannonball is tied to form an interception line with a rope. As soon as something accidentally hits the string and pulls the bolt out with enough force, the ball that is stuck in the firing pin will slip off, and the firing pin will hit the fire cap with the drive of the spring, causing it to explode.

The fuze part of this kind of shell is more complicated, the size is a bit large, almost half of the shell is a fuse, the charge naturally decreases, and the lethality is insufficient. However, Hong Tao thought it was very useful, and deliberately asked Kindness to produce some and distribute them to the army. It didn't contain much black powder, but instead it was changed to an incendiary bomb.

What is this thing for? Very simply, it is used as a warning for mixed thunder. When camping at night, how to prevent enemy sneak attacks has always been a big problem. In the past, it was necessary to set up a lot of individual guard posts around the camp and fire warning shots when the enemy was spotted. However, it is not safe to rely on people to be on duty at night, and if you fall asleep or are negligent, and the enemy touches the post, the whole camp will fall into a state of sudden attack by the enemy. Even if there is no mistake, the casualties at the guard post will be very large, and as long as the police are issued, they will basically not be able to come back.

Now, if you put dozens of these things at a certain distance around the camp, and then put a guard post in the back, you can have a double insurance, and the chance of the enemy being able to sneak attack will be much smaller. As soon as someone wades through the rope of this thunder at night, the cannonball will explode, and although it is not very powerful, the sound and fire emitted are enough to warn it. In order to prevent small animals such as hares and badgers from accidentally touching the rope, Kindness also specially ordered a steel drill to install it, and the rope will be half a meter high from the ground, except for people and large animals, it will not be blown up by mistake.

This time it was obviously not a mistake, and by the time Hong Tao came out of the cabin below deck, the south side of the shipyard was already in flames and gunfire. Hearing the explosion, the nearby guard posts lit the pre-planted whale oil canisters, and the attackers were exposed to shotguns as live targets.

There were quite a few people who came to sneak attack, and they deliberately made a half-circle, and instead of attacking the shipyard from the east side facing the castle, they ran to the south, but unfortunately they still did not avoid the early warning mines of the flood waves. When two mines exploded and turned into two fires, the sneak attackers did not retreat, but charged the camp, which was also full of cavalry. Hong Tao really doesn't understand why the cavalry can run at night, does the war horse have night vision eyes and can see obstacles on the ground?

"Signal to the shore that mortars are not to be used." Looking at the situation on the shore by the light of the fire, Hong Tao felt that it was difficult to aim at night, and he could not see the effect of the explosion, so it was more convenient to shoot with a shotgun. Naval guns don't need to help, and solid shells have no lethal effect on the infantry, and in the middle of the night, you can't see the impact point, and if you accidentally injure friendly troops, it will add to the chaos.

"Boom...... "Boom ...... "I didn't fire the cannon on my side, but the enemy fired the cannon first, and they actually dragged two deck guns mounted on the gun carriage with their war horses when they marched at night, which looked very similar to the army guns used in the Napoleonic period, with tall wheels and low gun bodies.

"My lord, did you use the naval cannon to kill their small cannon?" The Captain of the Broken Mouth had an idea again, and he was very worried about the combat effectiveness of the Army.

"No, the sniper will fix it. Remember not to panic in the future. The most important thing you should do now is to send a dinghy to the dock to prepare for the army retreat, and if the fighting on the shore is tight, you should also draw out the sailors to arm themselves as reserves, and then strictly prevent a sneak attack on the surface, which is what a good captain should do. Hong Tao is very dissatisfied with the combat quality of his naval officers, but unfortunately there are only these people in his hands, and it is useless to scold, so teach it slowly.

Let Hong Tao say this, the captain realized that he was not here to see the excitement, and there was still so much work to do. In fact, not only does he not have this brain, but the captains of other ships also have a virtue, or they are all taught by a teacher.

However, they do have one thing that is better, that is, they can correct their mistakes when they know them, and the speed of correction is very fast. In a short time, each of the ships was lit with a steam lamp covered with copper plates behind them, which shimmered on the water near the battleship, and the sailors who were not on duty began to distribute guns and ammunition and gather on the deck to count. The dinghy slowly lowered into the water, and groups of armed sailors began to reinforce the docks.

The Flemish Hanseatic night attack came and went quickly, and they were not repulsed, but received an order from the castle to retreat on their own initiative. Hong Tao was sure of this, because he had been staring at the castle in the distance with a telescope since the beginning of the war, and found that the castle's tower was also like his own fleet, with a string of red and white lanterns raised.

Obviously, this is a land command system modeled after the Navy's means of communication at night, with a very strong flavor of the Golden River Empire. Now Hong Tao is even more curious, what is the origin of the commander on the other side, and how did he learn all this bit of his family background?

Hong Tao has been thinking about this problem for the past few days, if the other party had gone to Port Kalamba or even Da Song to learn these techniques, he would definitely not be able to do it so perfectly. Because there is no place where this knowledge is taught except for the nautical school, even if you enter the nautical school, you will not be able to learn it completely, unless you can enter the naval major of the nautical school. However, this major is only open to the children of Kim Ha Kook, and never accepts foreign students.

It's not quite right to say that someone from the Imperial Royal Navy defected here. Even if the person who defected was a captain, this position was high enough, but it still couldn't be so perfect. Even if Karl had defected now, he would not have built ships and cast cannons.

The majors taught in the navigation school are all targeted, and a person can only learn one or two things at most, and there is no time to study comprehensively. Moreover, graduates of shipbuilding and cannon casting majors are not able to actually work when they come up, and they have to go to Wen Xiaoqi and Qi Zu as apprentices for several years before they can gradually get in touch with the work of shipbuilding and cannon casting.

In this way, there must be at least three or four defectors, and all of them must be people who have studied well and had some practical work experience in the corresponding industry in the Empire. But Hong Tao felt that the possibility of this was very low, almost negligible. It would be a grave dereliction of duty to let so many useful people come to Europe with all their minds and purposes, and it is still very remote Northern Europe, and all the people of the Imperial Supervision Department can be put in prison.

In the end, Hong Tao also thought of a possibility, and when he thought about it, his hair stood on end. If the person on the other side is also a traverser like himself, these very illogical things can be explained! This is also one of the reasons why Hong Tao is determined to attack this castle and capture this person. For the other traversers, Hong Tao has only one way to entertain, die! Kill! Everything else was discussed, but this one was not discussed.

The ancients have passed, and peers are enemies! Hong Tao doesn't want to keep a peer and think about himself anytime and anywhere.

This world is very big for ordinary people, and it will not be possible to finish it in a few lifetimes. But for a traverser, especially someone who has crossed over from the mid-twentieth century onwards, it's a little too small, too small to accommodate one. As for the issue of cooperating with other traversers, Hong Tao had never considered it. If you don't cooperate with them, you can call for wind and rain yourself, so why bother with more time bombs? Is there a difference between fighting with a shotgun and fighting with a machine gun? Now that I have changed history a little beyond recognition, and with another great power, the world will be even more chaotic.

(To be continued.) )