Chapter 57: The Lethality of Grenades
Makarov and the others quickly cleaned up the battlefield, and then set up an ambush according to the designated location to wait for the natives to return, and waited for an hour without seeing any movement in either direction, which had to make He Yu begin to wonder if the natives knew their plan.
But then I thought about it, it shouldn't be possible, this native is not smart enough to this extent, it's just that it's not a way to wait like this, once it gets dark, it will be quite dangerous here, the natives have lived in the rainforest all year round, and walking in it at night must be better than He Yu and them, maybe they will launch a sneak attack at night, which happened when they were in the base, so He Yu didn't dare to continue to wait carelessly at this time, and began to think about how to solve the problem in front of him.
If the idea of the natives is really to wait until it gets dark to attack, then they and the others must immediately retreat back to the base, after all, it is close to the sea, and some simple fortifications have been built, which is much better than building it here temporarily.
Just when He Yu was thinking about whether to retreat, in the woods in the southeast direction, several natives with wooden spears suddenly appeared, one by two, three by one, Yu Shan lay beside He Yu, and whispered counting the natives who appeared in front of him.
"Sir, these natives are really a rabble, and more than a hundred people have come back so lazy."
Christmas Island is not big, and it is only six kilometers away from the Flying Fish Bay base, and the natives definitely heard the explosion of so many grenades just now, and the leader who may be in charge of besieging the base already knows that the lair has been attacked, so even if he rushes back, but this way of marching is a bit flattering.
A smile appeared on the corner of He Yu's mouth, and when he saw that the natives who had returned to the aid had already walked into the predetermined location, he immediately issued an order: "Everyone pay attention, pull away the hidden letter of the grenade, and prepare to throw." ”
With He Yu's order, more than a dozen grenades quickly flew towards the indigenous people, and at this time, the natives did not know what these flying things were, thinking that it was just a kind of stone brought by these outsiders, just like the stones they threw when they besieged the base.
The grenade landed, and the explosion of "bang, bang," rang out, and the natives panicked at this time, and some of them began to run behind them, only then a grenade fell from the sky and fell on the ground in front of him, and then exploded, and the natives were blown away a few meters away on the spot, and the flesh and blood were blurred. Blood and intestines splattered from his body, inevitably falling on some of the natives who had fled in this direction.
After three rounds of grenade throwing, there were no longer standing natives in sight ahead, either dead or maimed. Judging from the number of people who fell to the ground, a small number of them still escaped, but by now that this battle has been fought, victory is inevitable, as long as the indigenous tribe behind it is eliminated, the threat of the base being surrounded will be completely solved.
The power of this batch of grenades is actually greater than the previous batch, which He Yu did not expect, but then he immediately thought of the key, could it be that the gunpowder used before and after the two batches is different, but it shouldn't be, as far as he knows, the base has not yet made trinitrotoluene, and to get out of this high explosive, you need to make concentrated sulfuric acid and concentrated nitric acid and then synthesize, in fact, this is not difficult to say, that is, some of the equipment related to the synthesis of concentrated sulfuric acid has not yet come out, so the current Manchester City base is basically **.
Although the power of ** is not as powerful as yellow powder, it is currently the most widely used in European countries, and it is already World War II when yellow powder is used on a large scale. At this time, if you want to make a ** cannon to pop out, it is definitely no less than the missiles of later generations, just before He Yu set off, it is said that those guys in the military factory and the chemical team are already working on it, maybe when the next batch of munitions arrives, it will be a grenade made by **.
"Sergeant Makarov, how is the count of the number and how many escaped."
"Lieutenant of the report, 23 aborigines were killed in the bombing, 53 people were captured, and it is initially estimated that more than a dozen aborigines fled to the north, whether to pursue them."
"No need, sergeant, we have more important things to do, and the big tribe behind us has not been solved, tie up all the people, these are all building base labor, they have to pay for what they have done, now is the time for us to deal with that big tribe."
After the baptism of two wars, the soldiers of the army no longer had any fear of the natives at this time, even the immigrants of the Ming Dynasty who had just joined in were also completely afraid, and they did not expect that the stone-sized items in their hands would have such great power.
The Ming also has gunpowder, and when they were fighting, they also used a stone-throwing machine to throw the ignited gunpowder bag into the enemy camp, but they didn't expect the gunpowder bag to shrink to such a small size, and the power could still be so, it seems that these Australians' gunpowder making skills are far above the Ming.
The team continued to move forward, the large tribe located behind the pond should be the nest of the natives to be precise, but this large tribe generally lived in old and weak women and children, and the tribe in front of it was a bit like the front camp of the army.
So after a few explosions, none of the people in the tribe went to the front to see what was going on there, and they didn't think about going to help, and even if they had ideas, they didn't have the ability.
He Yu just tentatively threw down a grenade to the center of the tribe, after all, there were only old and weak women and children here, and he couldn't bear to kill him.
After the explosion, the natives quickly ran back to their thatched huts, seemingly thinking that it was safest to hide in them.
"Everyone scattered in a circle, surrounded the tribe, and killed all those who resisted." Although He Yu couldn't bear to kill the old and weak, women and children, he had to first make sure that his own people were not attacked before he could do so, and if the natives didn't know each other, then he couldn't be blamed.
"The hut in front of you, the one on the right of you, in groups of four, with knives and guns, will drive all the people inside."
When one of the small groups of soldiers walked into the hut and drove out the shivering natives hiding in the corner of the house with knives and guns, a kind Ming immigrant soldier seemed to be moved by compassion for the women inside, put down the big knife in his hand, and walked over to help the shivering woman up, only when his hand was about to touch the native.
The nativewoman pounced as if she was crazy, and stabbed the soldier's neck with a wooden stick as thick as chopsticks in her hand, and there was a "bang" at the last moment, and then she saw blood splattering from the native's head, and even the soldier's face was splashed with a lot of blood. At this time, the soldier was still in a daze, obviously not expecting such a thrilling scene.
"Private, remember, you must not lay down your arms at any time on the battlefield, even against a group of unarmed women, because they may attack you at any time." He Yu said coldly to the soldier, which was a lesson to him.