Chapter 468: Fighting ~ Cannon at Night
Ergou obviously saw a fire in the distance, and even a figure swaying, but Da Niu couldn't see anything. Who's right and who's wrong? Is it that the second dog is dazzled, or is the big cow not good at seeing so far? Actually, they didn't read it wrong, and their eyes were fine.
While Ergou was observing the distance, the Han army was measuring the weather, calculating the parameters, and adjusting the firing elements of the rocket artillery. On this dark night, it would be impossible to accomplish these things without lighting, even if these soldiers usually train hard and can be said to be able to complete the task at hand with their eyes closed, but that is only a metaphor.
This is a very important military operation, only success and failure are allowed, in this case, absolutely no mistakes and omissions in any link are allowed, so when doing these important work, there must still be a certain amount of lighting.
The lighting tool used by the Han army in this night raid was a fire fold that emitted a faint light. This kind of fire fold has a windshield, as long as the wind speed is not too big, it cannot blow out this fire fold.
The key thing is that one side of the windshield of this fire fold is made of blackout material, and as long as this side is faced in the direction of the enemy, the enemy will not be able to see the light emitted by the fire fold from a distance. However, the soldiers of the Han army approached the other side with light to the place where it needed to be illuminated, so that they could see things from a short distance through the faint light of the fire.
The Han army had physical examinations when selecting soldiers, among which night blindness and color blindness were also one of the inspection items. Moreover, the food of the Han army can be called the best among the Three Kingdoms ~ army, so there is not a single night blind among the soldiers.
In addition, night combat is also a regular training item in daily training, so these soldiers can use this faint light to see clearly what they need to operate. But even the most prudent measures are not foolproof.
Although the fire breaker has an opaque cover on the side facing the fort, blocking most of the light, the light emitted by the fire fold on the other side shines on other objects, and there will always be some light reflected and scattered.
It just so happens that the eyes of this second dog are particularly good, and when he was a child, his father often took him to catch frogs at night, and he unknowingly practiced a pair of night vision eyes. Of course, his so-called night vision eyes are not the kind of things that can clearly see the heat source at night like wearing infrared night vision devices, but at night they can see a little more clearly and farther than ordinary people.
He happened to see the faint light reflected and scattered by the Han soldiers' fire folds. However, when he woke up the bull, all the preparations of the Han army had been completed, the fire was extinguished, and the whole army was in a state of silence, waiting for further orders from his superiors.
It can also be seen from this that the discipline of the Han army was strict and prohibitive. So, Da Niu naturally didn't see anything for a long time, all the fires were put away, what else was he looking at?
"Ergou, are you dazzled, don't be scary at night. Where does the fire come from? "Big Bull Road.
The second dog turned his head and looked again, but he really couldn't see anything. "What's going on? What about the firelight? Why is the fire gone? The second dog muttered to himself while stretching his neck unwillingly to look out.
"I saw the fire just now, and it's there, there." The second dog pointed in one direction to the big bull.
"There's nothing there, it's dark, there's not a single ghost." Big Bull Road.
"What the hell are you talking about, big bull. Don't say these scary things at night. Ergou shrunk his neck, as if he felt an eerie aura blowing on the back of his neck.
"Guts bandits, don't say it, it's a bit weird tonight." Big Bull Road.
"What's weird, don't be scared." Two dog roads.
"Don't you think it's too quiet? Even the cries of the night owls are gone, usually the birds and insects are singing at night, so it is not lively, but tonight there is no sound, and it is terrifyingly quiet. "Big Bull Road.
"Maybe it's too hot." Ergou also felt a little uneasy, but he still found an excuse to comfort himself.
The two chatted with each other, but they didn't think to report to their superiors, because there was no definite evidence for what they said, and everything was plausible. Although Ergou felt that he had seen the light of the fire and the shaking of the human figure, this phenomenon only lasted for a short time, and it was difficult to say whether it was a momentary dazzle or a problem.
Da Niu felt strangely quiet, which was just his subjective conjecture, and it was completely unfounded. If they report to Shangguan with these completely unreliable things, it is estimated that not only will they not be rewarded, but they will also likely be punished by Shangguan.
The two of them are not stupid,
(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) naturally will not do such a thankless task. However, they soon regretted it, and after about a few minutes, all the artillery of the Han army received the order to fire, so one by one, they took out the fire folds, blew them up, and then lit their respective fuses in the unified command of the commander.
As a result, the soldiers who were still awake in the Dongwu military fort suddenly heard a dense roar and swishing sound. Many people looked at the dark sky reflexively, and were surprised to see that countless meteors with light purple tail flames appeared in the sky~ and flew above their heads at high speed and smashed down.
Then, the continuous explosions occurred in almost every corner of the military fort, and suddenly, the entire military fort was flooded by the sea of fire and the mud, shrapnel and other things raised by the explosion.
After careful calculations, the explosion range covered almost the entire military fort, except for a few places blocked by strong buildings such as city walls, there were almost no dead ends, and the shock wave of the explosion took care of all corners.
The soldiers on duty were killed and wounded in terror, and let out earth-shattering screams before they died. The soldiers who were not on duty and were sleeping were luckier than them, because most of them died in their sleep, and they didn't know what happened until they died, and they crossed directly from the territory of the Duke of Zhou to the territory of Hades without even feeling the pain.
The eight turrets on the city wall were originally places with better protection capabilities, but they were taken care of by the Han army. Sekiso concentrated twenty cannons, three of which were assigned to each turret, and took turns shelling these eight turrets.
Although the accuracy of rocket artillery has been greatly improved after a long period of actual combat testing and continuous improvement, due to the use of propellant or gun~, this kind of fuel has a congenital defect, which makes the range and accuracy of the rocket greatly reduced.
Therefore, Guan Suo did everything possible to get twenty-four cannons to carry out precise strikes on the eight turrets on the city wall. Of course, the placement and firing parameters of these guns ~ guns are also carefully planned in advance, and they are all based on pre-measured distances, so even in the dark night, they can hit the target relatively accurately.
The Dongwu artillery in the eight turrets was stunned by the shelling at the first time, and they didn't react to counterattack at all, and then they were bombarded by three cannons in a row, and they were all so frightened that they lay on the ground tightly and didn't dare to get up.
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