After recruiting and training a group of technical personnel, the weapons and equipment of the 'revolutionary army' have made tremendous progress. Flintlock guns, fortress guns, high-horsepower steam engines, and thousand-ton warships are all appearing at a rapid pace. As a long-range weapon, classical rockets have also developed to the second generation, not only the launch method has been changed from slide rails to directional tubes, but even the types of bombs have become diversified.

When Zhou Qingfeng ordered a brigade to be transported to deal with Gao Hongzhong, he had a headache about how to break through his fortified camp. Gao Hongzhong is a bit like the Hunan army in the late Qing Dynasty, and the tactic is 'to build a hard village and fight a dumb battle', and it is still very difficult to break through its defenses by relying on heavy artillery alone.

In the face of such difficulties, Zhou Qingfeng's staff team quickly suggested launching rockets at enemy camps at sea, and chose special warheads - ordinary warheads are grenades, and the warhead has been improved from an early package of explosives to a prefabricated fragment to improve the lethality. Special warheads......

It is an arson poison smoke warhead, which contains a small amount of black powder and refined coal tar.

Coal tar is a by-product of coal coking, and Song Yingxing doesn't know what to do, and he especially likes to delve into this toxic and flammable industrial by-product. However, before the development of the petroleum industry, coal tar was an important raw material for the chemical industry.

With ready-made industrial manuals, Song Yingxing manufactured a large number of improvised chemical equipment. In the early days, the industrial equipment was actually very simple, and the technical content was really not high. He had already extracted from coal tar the dyes that the textile industry desperately needed, and now he simply used its flammable and explosive properties to make arson.

An arson bomb is a strip of cotton cloth impregnated with coal tar and encapsulated in a warhead. Strips of cotton automatically ignite when they explode and are blown up all over the sky. A single warhead can set fire to hundreds of square meters, and the burning coal tar will emit strong poisonous smoke.

Song Yingxing even used spring steel to make the simplest reed time fuze, which was pre-timed according to the range before launching, which could produce an airburst effect over the target. Although the reliability of this simplest mechanical fuse is less than 50%, and it cannot withstand the impact of artillery acceleration, it is very suitable for use on slow-flying rockets. Its appearance multiplied the power of the arson bomb.

When the two transport barges at sea fired rockets, Gao Hongzhong, who stayed in his camp, could only be stunned. As an old-fashioned general of the Ming army, he never imagined that he would one day face such a firepower attack from the sky. Even if he is now in the brainwashing sect, a strong sense of crisis for a moment still makes him break free from the shackles of his mind and recover his instinctive ......, hide!

Gao Hongzhong's turn immediately led many of his subordinates to follow suit. The camp was built according to the Tessie method, and there were a large number of breastworks inside, and he jumped down from the high watchtower, shrank behind a breastwork in the blink of an eye, and then probed out to .......

From the boat to the shore to the camp, the whole distance is about two kilometers. The gunners in the camp could barely see the outlines of the ships on the sea with the naked eye, and the guns could not hit the ships floating on the sea at all. But the rockets on the two ships could hit the huge 'Heavenly Blessed' military camp.

The distance is converted by referring to the height on a fixed scale on the telescope. This is a very simple trigonometric problem. The jewelers recruited by the 'revolutionary army' finally broke through this technical difficulty. The first batch of 12 rockets took off into the sky and flew headlong in the sky for nearly half a minute.

Most of the men and horses in the camp were stunned, even the few guns that were firing stopped firing, and the gunners looked up at the rapidly falling rockets—by standard, the reed-time fuse would explode at a height of about twenty meters above the ground. But the fuse in a rocket was obviously advanced, and it exploded at a height of 100 meters.

With a bang, a blaze erupted in the sky. The soldiers and horses in the camp were all frightened, their necks tightened, and their bodies squatted. The rocket overhead exploded and sent out dozens of flames that fluttered down.

Other rockets sped down, exploding along the way. Explosions rang out one after another, and the explosion of fire spread almost throughout the camp - the rockets were not accurate and scattered, but this was nothing for a huge camp. Twelve pieces of ammunition, one in the east and one in the west, all of them were hit.

The exploding flames fell from the sky and landed on the ground with a click, emitting acrid black smoke from the flames. Some of the soldiers in the camp were curious, and saw that what seemed to be a burning strip of cloth had fallen, slimy. The shaman-turned-priests were alert, shouting to extinguish the fire and mobilize the Han minions.

Gao Hongzhong, who was hiding behind the breastwork, witnessed the whole process of the rocket attack, and he felt that the ammunition looked scary, but in fact it was not very good. The falling flames were scattered throughout the camp, but they didn't do much damage. After all, people can move, and they will definitely not stand stupidly when they see the fire falling. Occasionally, something is set on fire, but there are tens of thousands of people in the camp, and the speed of extinguishing the fire is ......

The twelve rounds had just landed, and the artillery observers on the two ships were staring at them with their binoculars. He made a slight correction according to the landing point, and then shouted: "Hit half a base, shoot rapidly." ”

On the two transport barges was a rocket artillery company loaded separately, and one rocket was a squad. According to the capacity of the company, half of the base is 30 rounds of ammunition. In order to strike at the central part of Gaohong, which had only simple protection, the entire company used arson bombs.

The rapid-fire order was given, and every ten seconds a rocket was stuffed into the guide tube for firing. Since this classical rocket has little recoil, the gun carriage rarely displaces when fired, and the launch speed becomes extremely fast. Basically, one round of ammunition is stuffed in and ignited, and with a whoosh, one round of ammunition flies into the sky, and then the next one is stuffed into the guide tube.

The swishing rockets continued to rise into the air, and the trail of smoke in the sky became thick and dense, obscuring most of the sky in a moment. Waiting for half of the base to be completed, three hundred and sixty rockets were poured into the enemy's camp in one breath in three minutes. The soaring rocket spun slightly in the sky, flew a distance of more than 2,000 meters, and then plunged headlong.

Gao Hongzhong originally stood up from behind the chest wall where he was dodging, ready to show his bravery and fearlessness. But when he saw the rockets that covered the sky and the sun roaring towards him, he immediately retreated back from the breastwork in fright. This time he felt a strong anger leap from the void, hitting his brain - the one who retreated, die!

Yes......!

Gao Hongzhong held his head and screamed, and had to stand up and command his subordinates. And in Shenyang, thousands of miles away, Nurhachi, who was sitting upright in the high hall to review the folds, was also full of anger, and he slammed his fist on the table with one hand. The table made of birch wood shattered instantly, and several minions accompanying him fell silently, killing him instantly.

His Majesty the 'Pope' felt that there was more confusion in his mind, which disturbed him. The chaotic scenes of chaos kept flashing in his mind, and his originally calm mood instantly became angry. He didn't know where this scene was happening, but he subconsciously shouted in his mind.

The entire followers of the Jurchen Brainwashing Sect heard the 'edict' sent by the Pope, and most of them were baffled. Gao Hongzhong, who was outside Shanhaiguan, knew that he was talking about himself, so he stood up and scolded his subordinates: "What are you panicking, hide behind the chest wall first, and hide behind the chest wall quickly." ”

The rockets in the sky were constantly diving, exploding, scattering the fire and falling to the ground, triggering one fire after another. The number of three hundred and sixty rounds was an order of magnitude more than just now, and the bursting fire instantly covered half of the camp. When the fire is sparse, the soldiers in the camp can still have a place to hide, but this time the dense fire falls, and the soldiers look up at the sky, there is really nowhere to hide.

A single rocket can explode at least 50 or more fire points, and 360 rounds are tens of thousands of fire points falling crackling. The fire that fell to the ground emitted a pungent and thick poisonous smoke; Fires that fall on tents and vehicles burn quickly; Ignitions of fire that fall on people and horses cause great chaos;

"Extinguish the fire, extinguish the fire!" Gao Hongzhong saw that it was not a matter to hide from the light at all, so he hurriedly pulled a few generals who were hiding together to organize soldiers to extinguish the fire. A mass of burning cloth just fell in front of him, and he was startled and subconsciously stepped on it with his foot. But after stepping on it a few times, not only did it not extinguish the fire, but the soles of his shoes burned.

"Oops......." Feeling the unbearable pain of burning the soles of his feet, Gao Hongzhong knew that this fire was not easy to extinguish. He took off his official boots with a scream, the soles of his feet were hot and red as if they were about to blister, and shouted to the people around him: "This fire is strange, don't step on it, bury it with soil." ”

The sudden 'Heavenly Fire' caused a small half of the camp of the 'Heavenly Blessing' army to fall into chaos. The shaman priest relied on the power of faith to drive the soldiers and minions to extinguish the fire, and although they could force everyone to move, they could not immediately teach the soldiers how to put out the fire correctly - not enough knowledge!

This fire can't be easily extinguished. It can't be splashed with water, it can continue to burn. It must be buried in earth. But it's freezing on this day, and it's not easy to dig the soil. In addition, a lot of flammable materials were lit in the camp, and the fire instantly expanded under the north wind.

The poisonous smoke was blown everywhere, and not only could the soldiers who were in the wind not be able to extinguish the fire, but they themselves had to flee. When there were so many people who fled, even the shaman priest couldn't control it.

The chaotic mood instantly increased by an order of magnitude, and Nurhachi, who was far away in Shenyang, not only became angry, but soon even his face turned red. His expression instantly became extremely distorted.

Nurhachi had absorbed the spiritual power provided by millions of believers, and he couldn't tell which part of it was the chaos that had occurred. He relied on his cultivation to forcibly urge spiritual power, and shouted loudly in his mind, "Control those minions." If you can't control it, kill it, kill it quickly. Don't let them scream, shut them up. ”

The power of the Pope spread through the void in all directions, and the believers of the entire Liaodong were trembling. In a corner of Shenyang, Julius was praying. He suddenly shook his body, slowly looked up at the statue of the Virgin in his arms, and whispered in his mouth; "Heavenly Father, warn this lost sinner. He tries to steal your glory, and he will be revolted. ”

Nurhachi's roar came from the void, causing Gao Hongzhong to suffer a lot. He had to shout to his guards: "Go and kill those who disturb the hearts of our army, and those who shout and scream will not be left behind." ”

The guards who oversaw the battle rushed out like wolves, and immediately killed any soldiers in the camp who did not obey orders. Such a brutal action was immediate, and after killing hundreds of people, Nurhachi, who was far away in Shenyang, felt much better.

And on the sea, the two transport barges, which had been hit half a base, stopped firing. The artillery observer lowered his binoculars on a specially erected mast, shook his head at the artillerymen below, and shouted: "I can't see clearly, the camp on the opposite side is full of smoke." We can get closer and play another wave. ”

The troops of the 'revolutionary army' coming out of Shanhaiguan were rapidly approaching the camp in the central part of Gaohong, and a brigade carrying a transport fleet on the sea was also lowering the improvised trestle and preparing to release the troops.

Flat fur is flying everywhere, monitoring the battlefield from the air. From time to time, it would fall on Zhou Qingfeng's shoulder to report the situation, "It takes a day for a sea ship to release a brigade." ”

"Command the tall bull and firmly attract the attention of the enemy in one day. Naval rocket artillery was ordered to constantly strike at enemy camps and prevent them from building effective defenses. Zhou Qingfeng put down the binoculars on the wall of Shanhaiguan and said coldly: "Wait for the 11th Brigade to go ashore, and launch a general attack tomorrow." ”