Chapter 80: Rockets Strike Might

Liu Hou signaled, and a personal guard stepped forward to take the account book from the herald and handed it to Liu Hou, Liu Hou took a cursory look, piles of cold weapons, what swords, guns, swords, halberds, shields, armor, he directly ignored the past, and there was not a single fire # gun, and it was estimated that all of them had been distributed to the defenders by Wu Yi.

Then there are a number of lead # bombs, a number of gunpowder, and there are as many as 50,000 stocks of thunderbolts, seeing this, Liu Hou couldn't help but sweat coldly, fortunately he did not choose to storm Chengdu City, otherwise, these thunderbolts alone are enough for himself to drink a pot. It seems that during this period of time, they have converted the entire Ministry of Industry into military production, and they have achieved remarkable results.

Suddenly, Liu Hou's eyes lit up, he saw hot air balloons, and there were as many as 10, he almost couldn't believe the number. Each hot air balloon is a behemoth, and it takes countless materials to produce, and I finally managed to get 10 of them, 10 of them appeared in the White Emperor City, and 10 more appeared here.

That is to say, a total of 30 hot air balloons were produced in the entire Shu Kingdom. Shu won't be tossed poor because of the production of hot air balloons, right? Anyway, I earned it this time, and I was worried because I didn't have air power, but I didn't expect to meet the pillow who was sleepy, and these hot air balloons can be used.

Liu Hou immediately ordered the third regiment of the fourth division to transport all the hot air balloons at once, and after the herald who had just delivered the account book received the order, he ran back quickly and quickly to pass the order of His Majesty the emperor to his own regiment commander.

Liu Hou ordered all artillery groups to suspend the attack and stand by in place. After thinking about it, Liu Hou decided to give the people in the barracks one last chance, he called a battalion of soldiers and asked them to line up five hundred meters away and shout loudly to the people in the barracks together.

The content of the shout is this: "Wu Yu plotted rebellion and rebellion, and his crime is unforgivable. His Majesty the Emperor has an order, only the first evil will be punished, and the rest will not be investigated. You must wait for you to abandon your weapons and surrender before noon, otherwise you will be blasted to pieces. Those who killed Wu Yu and surrendered were promoted to three levels and rewarded with a thousand taels of silver. ”

Noon is still more than an hour away, so you can use this time to wait for the hot air balloon to arrive. Having someone shout can break the morale of the other party, and at the same time have something to do without making the scene too dull.

As for the effect of shouting, Liu Hou didn't have much expectations, if these people were willing to surrender, they would have surrendered a long time ago, and they wouldn't have waited until now. Liu Hou's doing this can be regarded as giving the people in the barracks the last chance to live, and it can be regarded as the fulfillment of benevolence and righteousness.

Every quarter of an hour, Liu Hou asked the soldiers to shout three times. By the time the fourth call was reached, the hot air balloons had already been transported one after another. The original hot air balloons in the Hong Army were damaged, but there were many pilots.

Speaking of which, there are still more than 50 pilots in the Hong Army, and the training of newcomers is constantly ongoing, and a group of qualified pilots will be trained every once in a while. Now with the new hot air balloon, these pilots, who have been idle for a while, immediately come in handy.

The captain of the flight team immediately selected 20 excellent pilots, each with two hot air balloons, and prepared them for lift-off combat. In addition to the pilots, the flight team also has a large number of auxiliary personnel, or ground staff.

As soon as the balloon arrived, they quickly loaded the balloon basket with fuel, thunderbolts, crossbow arrows, sandbags, herald flags, herald lights, and other necessary supplies.

Some engineers burned the furnace up, poured the generated hot air into the airbag, checked the airtightness of the airbag, checked the condition of the furnace, and checked that the propeller and pedals were working well......

The movement of fiddling with the hot air balloon here was seen by the people in the barracks, and the pressure in their hearts was even greater. There is no way, the hot air balloon is so large that it can't be hidden if you want to, especially after the airbag is inflated by hot air, you can't see anything several stories high.

Originally, the shouts of the Hong soldiers had already made their hearts panic, and when they saw the power brought by the hot air balloon, they were even more frightened. Helpless, military law is like a mountain, Wu Yu is the general of Jinwu, and they all have to obey his orders.

Although no one wants to die with him, although there are already many people who have different minds, but under the constraints of military discipline, no one dares to act rashly for the time being.

In the blink of an eye, it was almost noon, the hot air balloon was ready to take off, Liu Hou saw that the military camp opposite did not say anything, so he gave an order, and 10 hot air balloons rose into the air together and floated in the direction of the military camp.

As soon as noon arrived, Liu Hou asked the soldiers to make a final shout, but the other party still did not respond, and Liu Hou decisively ordered an attack. Because there is an important task today that is to test the "Keqiu Kill", Liu Hou asked the artillery and hot air balloons to stand still for the time being, and let the "Keqiu Kill" perform for a round first.

The "Keqiu Kill" artillery crew, which had already loaded its ammunition and adjusted Zhuyuan to complete aiming, immediately after receiving the order to fire, one of the artillerymen lit the lead that was tied together with a torch, and then quickly ran away.

"Brush brush brush ......" The tail of the fifty rockets spewed fire, and flew swiftly and incoherently towards the barracks, Liu Hou looked at those things with pointed heads, fire-breathing tails, and four tail fins, which overlapped with the images of those missiles in his mind, and felt like a world away.

However, he also knows that these knockoffs are just similar in shape, and they are far from the same in essence. However, although it is a copycat, it is scary enough in this era, and the Hong army looked at it from a distance, only to see these locust-like missiles flying over and landing in the barracks, and the fire kept flashing when it landed, and the rumbling explosion always came one or two seconds after the fire flashed.

These rockets are two inches (4.6 centimeters) in diameter, and if one goes down, a dozen square meters of people will be blown into a hornet's nest, and fifty rockets will pass, and there will be no one who can stand within a few hundred square meters.

Both the Hong army and the defenders in the barracks were stunned for a while, looking at the explosion scene in a daze and not knowing how to react. The Hong army is okay here, after all, it is far away, except for those officers with binoculars, others cannot see the specific situation of the explosion site, and can only rely on the scale of the fire and black smoke to roughly estimate the power of the explosion.

The barracks defenders were close enough to see clearly that the explosion was happening right next to them, and they could clearly see that the area of the explosion had become a pothole, full of stumps and broken arms, and flesh and blood falling with dirt like rain.

The loud roar and the hellish scene at the site of the explosion had already frightened the defenders, and they all lay on their stomachs or curled up in a ball, and everyone trembled and did not even dare to look up at the horrific scene.

Not everyone was in a daze, the artillery of the "Keqiu Kill" artillery crew did not stop for a moment, and immediately after all the rockets were fired, some artillery men carried new rockets over, and some people had already climbed the herringbone ladder and began to reload.

When the people gradually recovered from the shock, were breathing a sigh of relief, and were ready to do their own work, the sound of "brushing, brushing, brushing" sounded again, "Keqiu killing" finished loading, the artillery commander's small flag waved, and with an order, fifty rockets were fired again.

This time, the angle was fine-tuned, and the landing target was staggered next to the explosion area. Another area of several hundred square meters was plowed again. The hot air balloons floating over the barracks are constantly transmitting information, and in addition to reporting the effects of the target's explosion, they also have an important task, that is, to indicate the target for bombing.

With the guidance of the hot air balloon, the "Keqiu Kill" can hit valuable targets more accurately, avoid hitting the same area repeatedly, and make the bombing more efficient. It seems that the early warning aircraft of the hot air balloon works very well, and it can play a super effect when used with the "Keqiu Kill".

Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and 500 rockets were fired out, and the soldiers watching the Hong army were already numb, just blindly looking at the blazing fire in the military camp opposite, and the thunderous roar continued, as for the screams, they were too far away to be heard.

At this time, the "Keqiu Kill" had to stop, the reason was not overheating, but the rockets ran out, and a total of 500 of these things were made, and they were all used up at once, and it was really a guy who consumed a lot of ammunition.

At this time, Liu Hou also discovered that "Keqiu Killing" has another advantage: it is not easy to overheat. Fire#Cannon and Fire# Gun are very easy to overheat, and if you shoot a few more shots/guns, you don't have to wait for the barrel or barrel to cool down, otherwise there will be a danger of exploding.

"Keqiu killing" is not afraid, firstly, it generates a lot less heat, and secondly, even if it is hot, there is no need to worry about exploding. The upper and lower holes of the cannon barrel of the "Keqiu Kill" are not sealed like the barrel, but there is a large opening, and the fire from the rocket can be sprayed out from this opening, and most of the heat is dissipated from here.

Of course, there will still be a certain amount of heat, after all, when the rocket flies out, the flames will briefly burn the barrel. Liu Hou saw that those artillerymen had someone in charge of wrapping wet towels around each gun barrel, and every time they finished firing and reloaded the rockets, these people ran over to replace the towels wrapped in the gun barrels and re-wrapped them with new wet towels.

In this way, the temperature of the barrel can be lowered, so that the barrel can be used for a long time, not to mention only 10 rounds of firing, even a few more rounds are not a problem.

Liu Hou was overjoyed, and he had one more basis to dominate the world. With this weapon of mass destruction, what other army is its own opponent? What city can't be conquered by yourself? He is already looking forward to the scene of 10 or even 100 doors of "Keqiu Killing" gathering fire.

Firing 500 or even 5,000 rockets at once is a spectacular spectacle. Liu Hou only thought of the majesty of rocket artillery, and at this time he had completely forgotten about the manufacturing cost and difficulty of rockets.

"Majesty, majesty, the hot air balloon unit requests a supplementary bombing." Guo Youzhi's voice pulled Liu Hou back from his fantasy.

The range of the barracks is very large, and the rockets cannot be very accurate, so there are still many corners and corners missed. Besides, the people in the barracks can move around and look for cover, so there are still many survivors in the barracks.

Liu Hou agreed to the request of the hot air balloon troops, who immediately lowered their altitude and dropped supplementary bombs on all the places on the ground where there were still survivors. As long as they saw something that could still move, they did not hesitate to throw a high-altitude thunderbolt down.

The barracks were once again blazing with fire, and the rumbling thunder was heard from time to time. It's not that no one wants to surrender, it's that the Red Army's bombing speed is too fast, and needless to say, the "Keqiu killing" is fifty at a time, and when everyone hasn't woken up from shock, it's another fifty.

Now the hot air balloon is not slow to be dropped, because there are 10 hot air balloons, and they are going up and down the barracks, and when they see any living creatures, they quickly float over and bomb them. The defenders on the ground were so focused on scurrying with their heads in their hands that they had no chance of surrendering.