No one knows how many Russian soldiers died under this directional blasting, which can be called the largest in history. Data of all kinds have been circulating since the explosion and into the decades after the war. There are a few hundred, a few thousand, and even tens of thousands of people have been killed. And these data have also become the subject of research for many so-called "experts" in the future. As for the witnesses at the time, neither Nie Shicheng nor Kuropatkin knew how many people were killed in this explosion.

In Kuropatkin's memoirs, it is mentioned that more than 800 people were able to find their bodies, and more than 2,500 were missing. A large number of people were hospitalized with burns or poisoning, and then died as a result, and he believes that the final death toll in the explosion was about 4,000. After all, there are quite a few residential areas around the bombing site and in the above-ground parts. Do you want to say about the wounded? Kuropatkin conservatively estimated that there were more than 2,000 people, and just like that, the 60,000 Russian troops went down by one-tenth of them!

In addition, there were some casualties of auxiliary personnel such as Zhengfu, and it is really impossible to say how many of these casualties were on the ground, and Kuropatkin, who was already in a mess at that time, did not have time to think about these things. When the sun hung overhead again, Kuropatkin realized how much damage "that earthquake" had caused yesterday!

The ground at the point of the explosion collapsed in its entirety. Although the ammunition depot was not completely destroyed, almost all the passages were completely blocked, and it was almost impossible to bring out the ammunition again. After the explosion of the oil depot, the heavy oil was not wasted. It's all burned! If you look down from the height, you can see that the ground is covered with black-brown oil and dust. Large swathes of the ground turned black, which is supposed to be the result of solidified heavy oil vapor and inadequate combustion. The entire house outside the blast site was set on fire, and a strong updraft could be felt when you got closer. Patches of houses are like torches. From time to time, there will be bursts of cracking and collapsing sounds. Nearly a tenth of the entire Nebuchu fortress area became an overburned area. The damage caused by this fire clearly exceeded all expectations and deeply shocked the Russians.

Compared with Kulopatkin, the Russian officers and soldiers who participated in the front-line rescue have a more intuitive and concrete feeling of the tragedy of this explosion! "The air was filled with a disgusting smell, and we couldn't tell if it was the smell of burnt flesh or something else burning. We fumbled through the smoke and flames, and the water dragon sprayed the fire again and again to no avail, and then we began to give up and began to build the barrier. Watching everything inside the barrier slowly burn away, we tried to rescue the wounded, and I still remember the first wounded person we found. He was covered in burnt flesh and blood, with huge blisters on his body and grease stained on his clothes, which I tried to peel off. But no one could have imagined. With the strips of cloth falling off little by little, the flesh on the injured person was brought down! And there is also a special kind of questioning, some people can't help but vomit on the spot, and the injured person didn't survive and died before being sent to the hospital. A Russian military doctor who participated in the rescue later recalled.

In general, the Russians were overwhelmed by last night's bombing and today's fire! However, to the surprise of the Russians, it is not only possible to set fires at night, but also during the day! It's not. From the northeast, I saw something like cigar smoke flying over, which the average big-headed soldier might not have seen. But Kuropatkin knew what it was! That's an airship! A thing made by a German named Zeppelin. This is the first time he has seen so many airships appear in the air, usually this thing often dangles in his head, but it is just reconnaissance intelligence, but today's situation is a little wrong, so many airships are used for reconnaissance intelligence? Still need to team up to watch? Are you kidding?

Airships are not armed, and this is what Russian officers and men have summed up through experience. Normally, they would set up their machine guns and make a symbolic few shots, but now, there are not enough firefighters to do this. Then, the people below continued to busy themselves, while the airships above continued to hurry. Looking at the crowd running around like ants on the ground, Feng Ru suddenly felt a trace of unbearable in his heart.

In order to carry out this bombing mission well, Feng Ru and the others have carried out sufficient research and simulation, and after research, they found that the accuracy of bombing by individual airships is simply miserable, and now there is no sighting equipment. This inefficient approach was quickly rejected. Then there is another way to line up and throw bombs at a target, the hit rate of a single airship is low, but it can't stop everyone from throwing together. And according to Feng Ru's research, these gasoline bombs that will bounce on the ground when they are thrown down will explode as soon as they are dropped, if everyone throws them together, wouldn't it be like rain?

And today, Feng Ru and they are going to carry out this plan, they are scientists, engineers and drivers. I was still very excited about suddenly making a cameo appearance as a soldier today. And now it seems that there is not much risk, if there are no natural disasters or operational accidents, it should be fine, the airship piloted by Feng Ru himself is not small, it is more than 90 meters long. All the equipment on it is as simple as possible, just to install 500KG of gasoline bombs, 50KG a total of ten rounds, as long as you pull the operating lever, these bombs will be smashed. There are fifteen such airships in this batch, and they can probably drop more than 7 tons of various incendiary bombs.

The Russians were still busy, looking at the formation of airships flying at an altitude of 3000 meters. They didn't have time to think about what these airships were coming for. But soon they knew what these airships were doing, and they continued to come and set fires!

And just like that, piles of black things began to fall from a height of 3,000 meters, and these round things were a bit like cylinders, and they would scatter in mid-air, as if it were raining. Of course, this rain is not water, but fire! From Feng Ru's position, the bombs dropped by more than a dozen airships exploded and formed pieces of flames that spread towards the ground. The semi-condensate gasoline filled with these bombs flew to the earth like flying flame spirits after ignition, attaching itself to anything that could burn, whether it was a person, a plank, or even a stone!

These incendiary bombs are far more powerful than normal fuel oil. These things are the real devil, so much so that after the end of World War 2, the UN recommended a ban on the use of napalm bombs, of course, only advice. Some major countries continue to go their own way. Countless Russian soldiers watched in horror as the sticky objects rained down on them, and then a piercing ablative sensation stimulated their nerves, and some tried to erase it with something in their hands. As a result, this sticky thing could not be shaken off at all, and the burning area was getting bigger and bigger, at first only on the arm, and soon all over the body. Some people tried to cover it with clothes. As a result, even the clothes were burned.

The unknown is always the most terrifying. And these bombs that fell from the sky finally destroyed the Russian officers and soldiers' worst fighting spirit. Yesterday's powerful explosion had already made the Russians desperate, and today's blatant bombing has finally made the Russians realize that resistance is a dead end, all kinds of rumors began to circulate uncontrollably, the morale of the army has been shaken, and no one can make them settle down again.

Feng Ru, who was located in the clouds, naturally couldn't think of what he had brought to the Russian army, but from above, all this was carried out perfectly, and the bottom had been burned into a sea of fire. At this time, although he was a little unbearable in his heart, he understood it very well. This is war, a war to the death. After successfully dropping the bombs, except for one airship left to continue to observe the situation below, the remaining airships began to return to the base 80 kilometers away, and they needed to replenish their ammunition and do it again!

From now on, the Russian army that held on to the Nebuchu fortress area began the most difficult time of its life, the engineering heavy artillery outside is still roaring, the fire caused by the underground blasting has not been completely extinguished, the sky is still not falling fire rain, and the siege artillery in the distance has also begun to roar, the Russians have lost most of the fuel and most of the ammunition, even if the Chinese army does not launch a new attack, the Russian army will definitely not survive this year, what is the situation in Siberia in winter, they know very well, Without fuel, even if there are no enemies, you will still be consumed by the cold. If when the Russian troops on the left and right flanks collapsed, the Russian troops in the Nebuchu fortress group were still fighting for the dignity of the country and the accusations of the soldiers, then now the vast majority of the Russian troops are thinking about how to survive this hell. Even Kuropatkin thinks so!

As a result, the Russian army commander began to learn what General Makanov had done a few months earlier, that is, to advise Tsarist Russia to stop the war as soon as possible, if nothing else, in order to save the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops in his hands, and to stop this war that was already a sure loss. (Including captured Russian officers and soldiers.) After the war, the captured equipment can be redeemed or returned to the Russians through redemption or other means, but if it is really completely destroyed, these equipment gaps cannot be repaired in a short time, and God knows whether the two countries will do something against Russia at this time. After all, now they have attacked the Balkans, and now Russia is clearly in the weakest state.

Therefore, whether it is for the sake of Russia or for himself, Kuropatkin thinks it is necessary to repeatedly remind the conceited Tsar His Majesty to hurry up and stop this damned war, and transfer precious troops and equipment back to Europe, the Chinese Republic is just a piece of land from Russia, although it is painful enough, but it is not fatal. And Germany and Austria are ready to take the lives of the Russians! Now the situation was already obvious, Britain and France had built a balanced defensive line on the Western Front, intending to fight a positional war with the Germans. Coupled with their strong national power, Britain and France had so much firepower and defense that even the Germans were quite afraid of it, but Russia could not. Russia's backwardness is all-round, and at this life-and-death moment, Russia should not and must not waste its energy in the Far East!

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