Through the fence, the riflemen from the outside shot inside, a hundred meters away, and the medicine packs thrown from the fence could not blow them up.

Under the suppression of more than a dozen rifles, the person could only hide behind the guard, and as soon as he showed his head, several bullets immediately hit at the same time. The Martini Henry rifle used by the Griqua people, with a caliber of 0.45 inches and an effective range of 370 meters, using a metal shell to load ammunition, was the standard equipment of the British army in the seventies. The caliber of this gun is similar to that of the Mauser 1871, but the Mauser is an all-metal bullet, and although the firing speed and range of the Martini Henry rifle are slightly inferior, a skilled shooter can fire several shots in a minute.

The people of Griqua also noticed the bunker, and specially arranged for the shooter to suppress this side, so that Jia Zero One could only shoot and immediately retracted.

However, when Liang Hong's rifle was added, the situation changed suddenly. The Griqua people outside had no cover, completely relying on the large number of people and guns, and there was a ring of parapets on the top of the pillbox, which was aimed and shot from the battlements, and they had a congenital advantage. What's more, Liang Hong's marksmanship is so accurate that in this era of the nineteenth century, almost no one has fired tens of thousands of bullets to practice.

When the first Griqua shooter was hit, the balance of power on both sides began to tilt. The force of the suppression was reduced, and Zero One was able to take aim and shoot relaxedly, and the two rifles first overwhelmed the force against the bunker, and then began to sweep away more Griqua people outside the fence. An avalanche-like reaction, and in the end, even a soldier lying on the fence could calmly shoot with a Mauser 1871.

Before nightfall, the Griqua, who had suffered heavy casualties, finally retreated and returned to the assembly place before the attack.

Standing on the bunker, Liang Hong looked at the bonfire in the twilight in the distance. Outside the fence, from time to time, there were desperate wails of the wounded, these people did not have time to take them away, and those who were left behind were seriously injured and unable to move, basically waiting for death. A kilometer away, the Griqua people, who were still approaching, sat around the campfire, and the enemy attack was only a brief stop. Maybe tomorrow, or even tonight, a stormy attack will come out of nowhere.

Can't sit still, he needs to take the initiative to attack, Liang Hong waved his fist fiercely.

Now there is a balance of more than a thousand in the base's fund account, which can be used to produce weapons. As for the soldiers who are most needed, subject to the speed of the barracks, there is basically no hope. The handmade grenades made improvised during the day had a good effect in actual combat, and Liang Hong decided to build more. Nobel Jelly, known as Sindana, is so powerful that it can be made at any time, and there is no bottleneck in making small medicine packets. This matter, he explained to the craftsman zero one and the craftsman zero two to handle.

During the day's defense, a smelter was wounded and almost saved by a bullet in the head. The sudden battle, coupled with the successive casualties, made Liang Hong very annoyed. Now, even the smokeless ammunition used in the magazine rifle consumes a huge amount of money, which cannot be replenished at the moment.

Looking at the manufacturing list of the weapon workshop, Liang Hong pondered in his heart how to use the existing resources to repel the enemy. God knows if the Griqua will have more reinforcements, and in Napoleon's words, the best defense is to attack.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up. Hall rockets, 30 yuan each, manufacturing time half an hour, maximum range of 2.7 kilometers, flowering and blasting warheads. The launch frame is 50 yuan per unit, and the manufacturing time is 1 hour. I didn't care about it, thinking that the rocket in this era was just a little higher than the ancient one, but after clicking on it, I found that the Hall rocket was already very powerful. The Hall rocket was an improved version of the Napoleonic Congreve rocket and was developed in 1846.

Congreve rockets have a maximum range of 3.3 km, and the body is made of metal and launched from a rocket launcher. The rocket is controlled by the guide rail of the launcher and the long wooden stick at the tail of the rocket body, and the accuracy is relatively poor. The Hall rocket adopts Congreve's design, but instead of dropping the long wooden stick, a small hole is added to the tail to allow the exhaust gas to spin the rocket and make it fly straight. Although the maximum range is slightly shorter than the Congreve rocket, the Hall rocket is more accurate and was used from the American Civil War until the Spanish-American War of 1898, when it was replaced by modern artillery.

This was exactly the offensive weapon he needed, and Liang Hong hurriedly clicked to make it.

The eastern sky was full of fish belly white, and the people lying on the grassland were still asleep. The Griqua people are a particularly hard-working ethnic group, the whites persecute them, the blacks are hostile to them, and the harsh living environment has created a tenacious character. It's just that they don't produce, and this tenacity is used more in battle, and in essence they are a bunch of horse bandits who are robbing everywhere.

By the light of the morning light, Liang Hong had already understood the enemy's camp. In fact, except for the sentries on duty at night, it was not a camp at all, there were only a few tents, and everyone else was lying in the open air. The Griqua did not engage in a night battle and sneak attack, causing him to worry in vain all night.

The gate of the fence was quietly opened, and six launchers were lifted, with sloping rails pointing south, pointing to the place where the Griqua people were camping. At night, the weapons workshop suddenly produced fifteen Hall rockets, and the warheads of the original black powder were temporarily modified with Nobel jelly of equal weight. Heavy fragmentation rocket with an arrow weighing 32 pounds, a warhead weighing nine pounds, and a maximum range of 3000 yards.

In accordance with the operator's manual, the launch frame rails are lowered and the craftsman is measuring the precise angle. Hall rockets are already very well established in the production system of weapons workshops, and each launcher is equipped with a detailed user manual, which has a range table that corresponds to the range according to the angle of the launcher.

"Report to Mr. Liang, the target is 1,200 meters, and the angle of the launch frame is 34 degrees according to the manual, which is accurate."

Craftsman Lingyi learned from the soldiers and reported to Liang Hong, but the title was still habitually used as sir, not commander or commander. The target of 1,200 meters was estimated by Liang Hong, and the angle was queried by the manual.

"Ignite and try firing one."

Following Liang Hong's order, Jia Zero One ignited the rocket with a torch. The orange-red flames burst into flames, and the backward momentum propelled the body of the arrow out of the launcher, flying diagonally towards the Griqua people a kilometer away. The flames in the tail of the rocket were conspicuous in the dark dawn, dragging a trail of light in the air. The soldiers in charge of the rocket hurried to refill it, and more people, like Liang Hong, looked into the distance, staring at the place where the rocket was about to fall.

Boom, with an earth-shattering bang, the rocket flew over the head of the Griqua people, flew dozens of meters and exploded on the ground.

"Lower a tight position and try firing."

Liang Hong ordered again, and at this time he seemed to have returned to the artillery academy and returned to the training ground for command practice before graduation.

A new rocket lifts off, and the flames ejected from the small hole at the bottom propelled the tail to rotate and fly, like a big hand stabilizing the rocket in a predetermined orbit.

The loud bang had already awakened most of the Griqua people, and at this moment, they watched the rockets whistling from the sky, watching the rockets arc in the sky and head straight for them. This time the aim was right, and the rocket landed in the middle of the camp.

Boom, another loud bang.

Nearly a kilogram of Nobel jelly, enough to blow up rocks, burst through the crowd. The powerful force of the momentum lifted the dirt on the ground and the nearby living people into the air. With the same force, the broken iron nails mixed with the fierce medicine were thrown farther to the periphery, easily penetrating all obstacles, planks, horses, and human bodies.

"All salvo!"

In the distance, the rocket had just landed, and a cold voice gave a new order.