Chapter 31: The Burning of Donghu

After dealing with the British, Sun Hao came to Donghu, the capital of the Gongbang Dynasty. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Sun Hao saw that although the city wall of Donghu was not as tall as the city wall of Beijing, it was indeed made of large blocks of marble, and the city wall was covered with old front hall artillery.

The shells fired by the artillery of this era are solid iron balls and flowering shells, and the biggest threat to the Huaxia army is the solid iron ball, which has a few catties to dozens of catties, and it will become meat paste when it hits people's bodies, even if it is protected by advanced chain mail in later generations.

Several division commanders were only looking at the strong walls of Donghu City, and they couldn't think of any way to solve this problem. THE ONLY WAY WAS TO BRING IN 150MM HEAVY ARTILLERY, HOPING TO BLOW UP THE DONGHU CITY WALL BY RERUNNING.

Sun Hao stood on a high place, carefully observed the buildings in Donghu City with a telescope, and found that most of the buildings were wooden houses, and suddenly leaked a happy smile. What is the most feared thing about a wooden house, that is fire! As long as the cannonballs are turned into incendiary bombs and all of them are hit into the city, the entire Donghu city will become a sea of fire, and even if you don't have to attack, the defenders inside will run out and surrender.

Although he thought of a good strategy to break the city, Sun Hao was happy for a while, and his heart immediately calmed down, because the Huaxia Army was not equipped with incendiary bombs at present, and it would not produce incendiary bombs.

The incendiary agent of the incendiary bomb is mostly made of thermite, yellow phosphorus, napalm, thickened triethyl aluminum and thickened gasoline, etc., which are used to generate high temperatures and damage the target. Projectiles or explosives are used to blow up the body of a projectile, ignite the incendiary agent and throw it to the target, which is very powerful.

Sun Hao also knows the specific structure of incendiary bombs, but he doesn't know how to produce them, and if he wants to produce incendiary bombs, it will definitely be difficult to manufacture them without long-term experiments.

In fact, several division commanders also racked their brains to think of ways to break the city, and some suggested that they carry out a sneak attack at night, climb the city wall and open the city gate. However, due to the high vigilance of the enemy troops, two sneak attacks were unsuccessful, but more than 10 fighters were lost.

He even came up with the idea of digging tunnels, but the project was so huge that it could not be excavated in a short time.

Sun Hao misses the planes of later generations very much, if there is the help of the plane, no matter how strong the city wall is, it will become an ornament. Not to mention airplanes, now there is not even a single airship.

Inside the tent of the headquarters, Sun Hao racked his brains to think about some siege methods in later generations, but after thinking about it, he never thought of a good way to come out.

In the end, Sun Hao still put the siege method on the airship.

"Elf, I should be able to trade airships, right?" Sun Hao asked with his mind.

"Hello boss, of course you can trade airships, but the technology is limited, and you can only trade airships invented before 1900."

After hearing that the airship could be traded, Sun Hao was overjoyed, so he immediately contacted Li Gang, and Li Gang also promised to deliver 15 two-ton airships to Sun Hao in a week.

As long as there is an airship, it should not be a problem to break through the Donghu city wall, which is like a turtle shell.

Eight days later, 15 behemoths appeared on the grassland six kilometers outside the city of Donghu, which had been cleared for airships.

Sun Hao also traded hundreds of tons of gasoline and white phosphorus, but there were no incendiary bombs, so he had to use white phosphorus and gasoline as incendiary bombs.

After several days of exploration and training, hundreds of temporary airship operators and bombardiers with white phosphorus who dropped gasoline barrels boarded the airship, and then loaded barrels of gasoline and boxes of white phosphorus onto the airship.

When 15 airships appeared in the sky outside the city of Donghu, many of the Gongbang Dynasty defenders were terrified.

What the hell is that? How did it fly into the air? The defenders also reported the monster that appeared in the sky to Meng Yun, the emperor of the Gongbang Dynasty, for the first time.

Meng Yun, the emperor of the Gongbang Dynasty, was already very haggard during this time, and his previous ambitions were completely struck by the Huaxia army that suddenly appeared. The Huaxia army not only attacked very quickly, but also quickly won the territory of the entire dynasty in a short period of time.

Moreover, the national capital has been besieged by the heavy troops of the Huaxia army, and under a large number of artillery fire, the city of Donghu has suffered heavy losses, many houses have been blown up, and countless people have been killed or left homeless.

Just as Meng Yun was thinking about how to escape, a guard hurriedly ran into the palace and reported that there was a monster flying in the sky.

After Meng Yun heard this, he felt that this matter was very abnormal, after the Huaxia Army stopped attacking for half a month, a monster that could fly appeared in the sky? Thinking of this, Meng Yun ran out of the palace with a large group of guards and came to a lookout outside the palace.

When Meng Yun saw the behemoth in the sky through the telescope, he didn't know what it was for a while? What are these monsters doing flying over Donghu City? Could it be the Huaxia Army's reconnaissance aircraft?

After the 15 airships staggered over the city of Donggu, they began to open the lids of the gasoline barrels, then threw barrels of gasoline down, and then began to throw boxes of white phosphorus.

Two hundred pounds of gasoline was thrown down, of course, it would not explode, but such a heavy object fell from the air and kept smashing onto the roofs of those houses, smashing countless houses at once, and the sound of booming kept coming.

After the white phosphorus packed in the cardboard box fell to the ground, the carton became thin, the ignition point of the white phosphorus was very low, and it began to be natural when it encountered oxygen, and some of the boxes containing white phosphorus fell on the roof, which soon ignited a fire and ignited the gasoline.

Many soldiers and civilians in Donghu City looked in horror after seeing the monster in the sky laying eggs, and when they saw the eggs falling on the roof and igniting a fire, they knew that this was the enemy's means of attack.

Fire Attack! Meng Yun suddenly became desperate, there were heavy guards outside the city, and the sky was attacked by monsters, this Donghu City was no longer a fortified city, but a city of death.

Because Meng Yun was worried that the gate of Donghu would be blown up by the shells of the Huaxia army, he ordered to block it with a mixture of heavy stones and mounds of earth, and it was not easy to move it now.

The airship was still laying eggs, barrels of gasoline and boxes of white phosphorus were thrown down, and the fire was constantly ignited.

After Meng Yun saw such a tragic situation, he immediately ordered the soldiers to organize the people to hide in a wide area without buildings.

The fire raged through the city, and the fire burned with a crackling sound.

Rumble! When a barrel of gasoline is burned at high temperatures, it explodes like a bomb. Countless sparks flew everywhere, igniting a raging fire in an instant.

Since there was no concept of a firewall in the buildings of this era, one house caught fire, and other buildings were burned. Soon, fires were burning in many urban areas, and flames were flying wildly throughout the city.

Some civilians who had no time to flee for their lives were also burned to their bodies, and even white phosphorus cartons fell directly on them, and these civilians were burned everywhere, and heart-rending screams continued to be heard, resounding throughout the city. Some clever civilians hurriedly rolled on the spot, trying to get rid of the goods on their bodies. They did the right thing, but they didn't take into account that the fire would drain the oxygen from the surroundings, and many people were either roasted to death by the heat or suffocated by lack of oxygen.

"Where there are a lot of war horses! Hurry up and throw a few gasoline cans! "After the soldiers of the Huaxia Army on the airship saw it, they immediately felt that after burning the war horse, they could drive the war horse to run wildly in the city.

A few barrels of gasoline and a few boxes of white phosphorus were thrown down and fell into the herd of horses, and soon a raging fire broke out.

After the war horses were on fire, the burned fled everywhere, the skin of these war horses burned by the fire sneered, the skin was opened, and the painful war horses galloped wildly in the city, rampage, and many civilians who were not burned by the fire were trampled to death by the war horses.

After throwing the gasoline on the airship, the airship team immediately flew back out of the city, then landed, reloaded with gasoline, and the white phosphorus ........

In Donghu City, after being thrown by two rounds of gasoline and white phosphorus, the raging fire was raging in the city, from the east of the city to the south of the city, the whole city was connected, the smoke was billowing out, and more than 200,000 people who had no time to escape were either burned to death by everyone or died of lack of oxygen. Even the 50,000 or 60,000 troops defending the city did not have time to escape, and the army was almost engulfed in flames, and the terrible screams were ghostly and touched people's souls. After it was transmitted to the outside of the field, a heart-rending scream could be heard far away, and the soldiers of the Huaxia Army were frightened and their scalps were numb.

Many Donghu guards on the city wall saw that the city had become a place of purgatory, so they jumped off the city wall one after another, but the seven or eight meters high city wall jumped down and was seriously injured.

Tens of thousands of Donghu troops were surrounded and burned by the flames, and the "fire men" were like headless flies with their teeth and claws, and they were everywhere, screaming again and again, and the heart-rending shouts resounded throughout the city. They waved their scorched arms, their faces were completely distorted, they were struggling in all directions, horses, livestock, and civilians crashed into each other, and slowly, the defenders, horses, civilians, and livestock all turned into charcoal or turned into a pitch-black skeleton.

Thick black smoke was everywhere for hundreds of meters above the city of Donghu, and the fire could be seen dozens of kilometers away.

Sun Hao stood on the hill outside the city, and through the telescope, he saw the war horses, livestock, and the defenders of Gongbang burned by the fire, and saw them being burned by the fire everywhere, screaming miserably. Sun Hao looked at it, and he couldn't bear to look at it anymore, his thoughts that hated them before were now all burned by a fire.

Thinking of the scenes of Zhuge Liang burning the rattan armor soldiers, burning Xinye, burning Chibi, and burning Sima Yi in the romance, and thinking of Zhuge Liang's calm expression, Sun Hao sighed that his psychological quality was far from reaching the realm of Zhuge Liang. Sun Hao, as a descendant, knows that human life is precious, and now seeing more than 200,000 people burned by his own fire, Sun Hao does not have the slightest joy on his face.

The raging fire burned for several days and nights before it was gradually extinguished, and even the solid marble walls of Donghu City were scorched, and a hot breath could be felt from afar.