Chapter 246: Autumn Begonia
Begonia, which was originally the name of a song from the Great Patriotic War of Honkai Impact 3, was later placed on a type of artillery due to its great influence.
Compared with the field artillery of the old era, this kind of artillery has low accuracy and small carrying tonnage, but its price is low, it is easy to produce, and the loading time is short, and the gunpowder can be tilted to the target location in a very short time, and often a rocket artillery can cover an area of four or five square kilometers.
Due to its firepower characteristics, this rocket launcher is very suitable for attacking enemy infantry groups, field fortifications, and high-density armored assault groups, and it is especially effective against hordes of mutated creatures, which can be called a great killer weapon of the Republic.
It has 16 launch slides, can fire 32 rockets in a salvo, has a loading time of three minutes under rapid fire, and takes less than ten seconds for a salvo, and can be loaded with a variety of warheads, with a maximum range of 10 kilometers.
When this kind of rocket artillery was first developed, experts disputed its naming, some people felt that it should be used iconic place names, some people felt that it should inherit the style of the old era, and named it in the standard way of "model plus caliber", and some people felt that some fierce names should be taken, such as "gluttony", "hedgehog", etc., to highlight its domineering characteristics.
In the end, Leng Kite overrode public opinion and named it "Begonia".
As soon as this name came out, everyone was amazed.
Such a fierce and violent murder weapon, with the tender name of the poem and painting, not only is not abrupt, but it is reminiscent of a touching picture, which belongs to the story of their generation, that is the blood surging in the Great Patriotic War: the girl of the motherland sent her lover to the battlefield, she inscribed poems and calligraphy and paintings for him, and he guarded her hometown for her!
The terrifying fire of war and the beautiful voice are mixed and blended, and the fierce and fierce cannons and the songs that are sung for thousands of miles complement each other, begonias! There is no better name in the world!
In the following days, due to the characteristics of low price, Begonia rocket launchers were equipped and produced on a large scale by the Radiance of the Republic, mainly equipped in the wilderness expeditionary force, and its large-scale firepower coverage made an indelible contribution to the expeditionary force's anti-personnel mutant biological cluster.
But now, this rocket launcher of the same name, named after the song of the Great Patriotic War and sung and loved by the majority of soldiers and the people, is aimed at the compatriots who are bleeding in the same vein.
Xuchang, an ancient city that lost 70% of its population in the first year of its collapse, survived with tenacious vitality and was rebuilt by the rebels from the north, reaching 1.5 million.
And now, begonia's fangs are biting at these innocent civilians without hesitation, and the 16 launch slides are loaded with rockets with napalm warheads, and all of them are cluster bombs, which will split into submunitions in mid-air, each warhead is loaded with at least 100 napalm shrapnel, and a single sprinkle is several kilometers of coverage.
39 begonia artillery battalions, a total of 402 begonias at the same time salvo momentum and power are very terrifying, even if the artillerymen wear thick earplugs are also shocked eardrums, endless artillery fire like a starfall to destroy the world fell in the city, everything in reach is turned into a sea of fire, every inch of land has at least ten more than ten sub-munitions to take care of.
Taverns, restaurants, theaters, workshops, schools, B&Bs... No one is spared, and the cannonballs are not spared because you are an old man, a woman, or a child, and they devour all life and make the whole city burn, regardless of good or evil.
Leng Kite stood near the artillery battalion assembly site, her dark purple eyes reflecting the burning city, she suddenly stretched out her hand and made a gesture.
The herald's heart trembled, this gesture meant... Rapid Fire!
Under the rapid-fire command, the artillerymen will do their best to increase the density of fire, firing as many shells as possible in a short period of time, and may even exceed the original design rate of fire of the artillery.
After the order was communicated to the ministries, although the artillerymen were already chilling, they had no choice, this was war, and to obey them was to obey the order.
The artillery fire became more intense, and Begonia's ammunition swept through Xuchang like a storm, devouring one house after another, smashing one person after another.
In Xuchang City, not only the civilians are in chaos, but the rebels defending the city are also in chaos.
The soldiers were still asleep, because it was not yet time for the guard to change, but when they opened their eyes and saw the artillery fire, they were shocked to find that the guard post in charge of the previous night had all fallen to the ground, so that the enemy artillery did not even give a warning when they approached.
The rebels ran desperately towards the city wall under the fire of the sky, often running out of a company of 120 people, and only a platoon of 30 people was left who successfully climbed the city wall, and when they pinned their hopes on the fierce fire of the city defense artillery, everything in front of them made them suddenly frightened.
Most of these fortifications on the city walls have been destroyed, and even if a few survive occasionally, they are not able to respond effectively.
Not only the city defense artillery, but also some field mortars arranged under the city walls for high-angle hanging fire, all the defenders could only watch the begonia rocket artillery at the end of the horizon frantically bombard Xuchang, and they failed to have any means of returning fire.
The bad news was still unfolding, when the senior officers rushed into the headquarters in a panic, hoping that the commissar would convey instructions, only to see the headless corpse of the commissar and the two cups of tea on the table that had been cold for a long time.
The defense of the city is like a person's body, the destruction of the city defense cannon means that the hand is cut off, and the death of the supreme commander is equivalent to the destruction of the brain, then in the end all that is left is a pair of legs, a pair of legs for escape.
The temporary commander took over the command and finally gave instructions in the midst of the tragic casualties: abandon Xuchang and evacuate all soldiers and civilians immediately!
However, as soon as this order was delivered, the evacuated soldiers and civilians discovered a problem: the city gates were blocked!
In order to defend against the impact of large mutant creatures, the gates of the city wall are hung with thousand-ton iron gates all year round, which could have been raised and lowered by mechanisms, but now the mechanisms have been destroyed by unknown people, and the iron gates originally used to protect civilians have become an obstacle to escape at this moment!
"Pass the order! Gather all the artillery you can use! Blast open this iron gate for me! The Provisional Commander grabbed the herald and grinned.
...