Chapter Ninety-Nine: Total Collapse
It turned out that there was a rattan frame hanging under the hot air balloon, which carried 3 soldiers, and at this time was throwing "10,000 enemies" from a height of more than 100 meters! The so-called "10,000 enemies" are actually earthen explosive packs, which are mostly used to defend cities, especially for small cities that are not strategically important, and there are generally no large defense equipment such as red-coated cannons, and the use of "10,000 enemies" can be even more effective. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the book "Tiangong Kaiwu" was the first to record this thing, calling it "the first instrument to defend the city", and the time of invention was almost this time when Wu Wei crossed over, but with the efficiency of information transmission in this era and the strict technical barriers, this thing does not know which corner is idle at the moment and does not see the light of day.
The volume of the hot air balloon ordered by Wu Wei is medium to large, with a maximum load of 800 kilograms, and the space of the rattan basket below is also very spacious, which can carry up to 8 people, and there is still room to carry a large number of supplies. However, the principle of hot air balloon determines that its use is mainly as a viewing or advertising carrier, and it lacks an effective means to control the direction, so it can only passively move according to the wind direction. Therefore, Wu Wei did not think of using it to attack the enemy at first, but only used it for reconnaissance or deterrence of enemy troops, and used it to fix it on the ground with a rope, just like flying a kite.
The use of hot air balloons is also not very convenient, unlike helicopters and other aircraft that can take off and land at any time as long as the conditions are right, but to comply with a series of strict use procedures, otherwise it is easy to be dangerous, in 2013 Egypt had an accident due to hot air balloon overloading caused the death of 19 tourists. The hot air balloon in front of him included airbags, burners, diesel blowers, rattan baskets, and other parts, weighing no less than two or three hundred kilograms, and Wu Wei brought it to the battlefield in several carriages. From the moment he arrived, he arranged for people to start assembling it, and after all the tedious steps of inflating and heating, it was only now that it was ready to take off. The shape of the battlefield is changing rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it is already a hand-to-hand battle, and at this time, it is no longer very important to observe the enemy's situation.
Wu Wei was in the battlefield of this era of cold weapons, the lives in front of him were passing rapidly, and the screams of dying around him were endless, as if he was having the most real nightmare, he had never felt so close to death from him, as if his own defense line would be broken down in the next moment, and he would be seen as meat paste by random knives! This is not a game, if you die, you will die, you can't read the file, even if he is as bold as a fight, he can't suppress the tension in his heart at the moment, and he only feels that the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end!
Seeing the banner of the thieves in the distance waving in the air from the telescope, and the wind direction was facing north at this moment, Wu Wei suddenly had a whimsical idea in his mind. Just as the hot air balloon had just been inflated and was still heating up, and the rattan basket had not yet left the ground, he ordered people to carry dozens of "10,000 enemies" and Molotov cocktails up, untie the ropes, and the balloon slowly floated towards the bandit position in the north. Because of its size, it moved extremely slowly, but fortunately, the wind direction remained steady, and after a few moments, it reached the sky above the bandits' position. The three soldiers on board the balloon were all trained and ready to light the "10,000 enemies" and Molotov cocktails stacked in the rattan basket and throw them downward. In the blink of an eye, there were seven or eight "10,000 enemies" exploding # in the crowd of thieves, and within a diameter of more than ten meters around each explosion # explosion # point, no matter the people and horses were swept away! Immediately after that, more than a dozen burning # flasks burst open, turning the thief position into a sea of fire!
In fact, there are also incendiary instruments such as ash bottles and oil cans in the Ming army, but they are generally used when defending the city, and they are thrown directly under the city by hand, but they can also be thrown with long-range weapons such as trebuchets, which are also very powerful. It's just that Wu Wei has no military experience, and Luo Rucai, Wang Long and others still have the concept of trebuchets in defending the city, and they don't think about it at all. At this time, if there is a trebuchet, combined with the two major killing weapons of "10,000 enemies" and incendiary bottles, the power will not necessarily be less than that of the red-coated cannon, and the current situation will change. Of course, this is also a big lesson that was summed up after the war, and it was used in the future to set up a trap and build a captive, which can be regarded as another big weapon for the Ansai camp.
The "10,000 enemies" and Molotov cocktails carried by the Ansai battalion were originally intended to be thrown from behind the low wall when the thieves broke through the trench, but in fact, it was just the traditional idea of using the low wall as a small city wall. Unexpectedly, the army of thieves advanced so quickly, the trench was instantly filled with barbed wire and the corpses of the thieves, and the low wall was also broken through at the same time, and these two major killing weapons were useless at once. Fortunately, the wind was favorable at this time, and Wu Wei temporarily decided to use a hot air balloon to throw it from the air instead, and this whim achieved great results once it was put into practice!
Seeing that the defense line of the Ansai camp was almost breached just now, and victory was within reach, unexpectedly, after the appearance of this monster in the sky, it turned sharply, and Wang Ziyong's brain was now a little confused. It's not scientific to fight like this. Seeing that the "10,000 enemies" are constantly falling from the sky, and the crowd of thieves is extremely dense, in the face of this catastrophe falling from the sky, it is really unavoidable, and the first to bear the brunt of it are all blown up to the ground, and a "10,000 enemies" can often cause dozens of casualties! The power of the Molotov cocktail is by no means smaller than that of the "10,000 enemies", and the crude oil in it is viscous, like a solidified lard ointment, which can be stained on people and continue to burn, and it is extremely difficult to extinguish. The recruiter struggles desperately, often throwing the burning liquid on other people, causing the fire to spread, thus causing secondary damage, which is actually a bit of modern solidification.
In fact, there is only one hot air balloon, and the direction cannot be freely controlled, no matter how great the power is, it is limited, if the leader of the thieves is a smart person at this time, he only needs to command the team to avoid the hot air balloon movement route, even if the magic weapon is helpless. It is a pity that the vast majority of the thieves are illiterate and illiterate, and where can they have such knowledge, they fall into great confusion in a hurry. After all, Wang Ziyong is a strong man, he is still calm, and he ordered his guards to raise their bows and shoot into the air, how can the height of the balloon have reached 120 meters to 150 meters, and the thieves are mostly riding bows, and the bow force is originally soft, and it is a back shot, but where can it be obtained? Occasionally, a few arrows barely reached the height near the balloon, and it was already the end of the crossbow, and it was impossible to pose any threat. The soldier who controlled the hot air balloon was startled, and hurriedly increased the intensity of the jet of flames, which made the balloon rise even higher, and completely escaped the threat of bows and arrows on the ground.
In this way, it is undoubtedly in full view of everyone to prove that they are helpless against this damn ghost. Seeing that the ghost face above his head kept releasing explosives and thunder fire, and he was either killed or injured when he touched it, but he didn't have the power to fight back, this feeling of letting people eat was the most demoralizing. In an instant, all the thieves stopped attacking the camp of Ansai, and many turned and fled the way they came, and many fell to their knees and muttered prayers, even the king's own cronies, and more and more abandoned their duties to supervise the war and joined the defeated army. Wu Wei also lost no time in launching an all-out attack, and under the sound of the officers' horns, the Ansai battalion marched forward quickly with neat steps, and even accelerated the speed of the disintegration of the thief team, and finally fell into an unstoppable total collapse, like a wave of anger swept towards the back of the thief!
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