Three-four-one suffocated

"Twenty minutes to prepare. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)"

"Maintain an altitude of a thousand meters."

"Wind speed is 25 meters per second."

"Unlock begins."

Every time Xue Muhua shouted, the telegraph operator next to him pressed the transmitter button once, either in a short tone, or in a long tone, or in a continuous group of notes.

This is a method learned from the Navy's coordination of naval guns, if the report is sent routinely, an instruction often needs to be struck many times, and the receiver also needs to go through the process of recording, translation, etc., which is not only time-consuming but also laborious, so the Air Force, which has just been formed not long ago, also learned from the Navy, and turned some of the main commands in the mission into a group of notes, so that as long as the radio transmitter of any airship in the formation hears the notes, he knows what to do.

Of course, this can only be used for some common and simple information transfers, and complex information still needs to be typed out one by one in the old way.

As the commander of the Air Force, Xue Muhua never thought that one day he would be able to stand side by side with the Navy and Army, and even the plane successfully flew test, and after accelerating research and improvement, he, the commander, did not think that the Air Force could reach the point of becoming an army, but the emperor insisted that the Air Force should be formed into a separate army, and he also put forward a plan to form 50 airships within three years and put into production the first batch of aircraft within five years.

Fifty airships are nothing, and after the purchase quantity increases, the unit price will also be reduced a lot, which is only equivalent to the cost of two Jinghai-class, but the utility of fifty airships is definitely more than that of two Jinghai-class.

However, the progress of the plane is not clear and fast, but he didn't expect the Prime Minister's Office to agree very happily, and later he knew that the Prime Minister's Office had already made a lot of money when he sold airship technology on a large scale before, not to mention equipping fifty airships, even if two hundred were built, it would be more than enough.

It has been a year since the air force plan proposed by the emperor, so the third air force group formed in response to this plan was also equipped with second-generation airships.

In fact, this kind of support task is not his turn to be a dignified commander to go out in person, but who made the contents of the magazine this time too special, too important, and so dangerous, so he was not at ease and decided to personally lead the team

The commander himself went out, and naturally no one dared to relax, so the bombardier quickly put on an airtight rubber protective suit, carefully put on a gas mask, and carefully opened the door and got into the ammunition compartment.

Before coming back, each of them had received special training, and some chemical experts had specially explained the dangers of these things, so everyone was cautious and cautious at the moment, for fear of a little problem.

In the ammunition compartment, rows of storage tanks like oil drums are neatly stacked together, and on these special storage barrels, there is a detonator similar to a dial, and the detonator is connected to the ** in the center of the tank.

The bombardier carefully twisted the dial twice, then twisted it for another half turn, aiming the red finger at the kilometer position.

This is a special detonator for the Air Force that the Armament Department has improved on the basis of the depth initiator on the depth charge that the Navy has just successfully developed, and after hundreds of landing experiments.

The scale corresponds to the height, when the bomb is dropped, as long as the bolt on the dial is pulled, the clockwork inside will be automatically started, and when the storage tank falls to about 20 meters above the ground, the clockwork is just finished, and the detonator in the center of the storage tank is ignited**, and the storage tank will be blown up, and the contents will cover a space of about 10,000 square meters under the action of the explosion shock wave.

The bombardier carefully turned the detonator, and when everything was ready, he knocked the hatch to signal that the preparations were complete, and then fastened a thick hemp rope around his waist and waited for the time to drop the bomb. 【 I want: super fast update 】

In front of the formation, in the two reconnaissance airships accompanying the operation, Zhang Qiang and several researchers were writing and drawing in their notebooks to record something, even if the airships came from one after another to signal that they were ready, he didn't raise his eyes, and was still carefully calculating the coverage rate.

There are only a few people in this world who know how terrible those special storage jars are, and he is one of them, not only knowing, but also those things that he and his friends developed based on a notebook of the emperor

A type of poison gas based on mustard gas.

It has an alias called "suffocation".

In fact, mustard gas is not a very unusual thing in this year, as early as 1886, the German scientist Meyer synthesized pure mustard gas for the first time.

But this time it is different, although it was born from mustard, but "suffocation" has been resynthesized, both toxicity and osmotic speed are much higher, and its big characteristics are just like the name, it will act very well on the cardiopulmonary nervous system, causing the inhaler to be unable to breathe and eventually die.

Speaking of mustard, we have to mention his experience when he studied in Germany, when he interned in the laboratory of the famous chemist Haber, at that time Haber also tried to study mustard, but his later mind used more synthetic ammonia.

Zhang Qiang didn't expect to deal with mustard before, and after he returned to China, like Haber, he has been working hard to research synthetic ammonia, and has also applied for special research funds, leading a synthetic ammonia research team of more than 50 people.

Influenced by Haber, his big dream was also to find a convenient and inexpensive way to synthesize ammonia and use it to produce cheap fertilizer, replacing the saltpeter and guano fertilization methods that are currently commonly used in various countries, so that farmers can improve crop yields.

When he was in Germany, Haber already had a preliminary process idea, and when he returned to China, he immediately continued to test according to this idea, but he didn't expect to be stuck in the catalyst and high-pressure synthetic materials supplier, and after thousands of tests, it still failed, and then he thought of looking for foreign aid, so he found Chang Lin, hoping to recruit some experts in this area to study together.

But he didn't expect that Chang Lin didn't bring the experts, but provoked the young master Li, not only carefully understood the experimental process and process, but also proposed that an iron catalyst containing lead-magnesium accelerator could be used to replace the expensive and scarce osmium, and at the same time, a low-carbon steel that could withstand high pressure was used as a reaction tube, and a layer of wrought iron was added to it to prevent oxidation.

Zhang Qiang still doesn't understand how Li Mo knew these methods, and he didn't believe it at first, but after a lot of experiments, he was finally convinced.

When he told Li Mo the news of his success, Li Mo, who was already the emperor, immediately asked the Prime Minister's Office to allocate funds to establish the first 50-ton-per-day synthetic ammonia plant in Changchun, which was successfully put into operation not long ago.

After completing the synthesis of ammonia, Zhang Qiang was originally going to continue to engage in other research, but he didn't expect that at this time, Li Mo actually came back with his notebook and asked about Haber's research experience on mustard when he was studying in Germany, and said that he wanted to set up a special team to study this.

Since mustard is an erosive and highly toxic gas, Zhang Qiang didn't want to do it at first, but he finally took on the challenge.

Young Master Li also gave him a copy of the chemical materials that he had just returned to this world and forgot because he was afraid of the passage of time, but the information was actually very rough, most of them came from the wife of the national defense chemical engineer in his previous life, and the main record was also about sarin gas.

The reason why Li Mo was interested in sarin gas was entirely because he had no resentment about the fact that the Ma sect master did not fly an agricultural plane to spread it over Tokyo, and of course it was limited to some awkward chemical names, and as for the processing and synthesis process, there was no such thing at all.

It was such a book, along with dozens of young people who were also fanatical about chemistry, that they were placed in a laboratory on a small isolated island in the Mariana Islands.

After nearly a year of hard work, and at the cost of the deaths of several experimenters, they finally came up with the first batch of synthetic poison gas.

This is a highly asphyxiating, mustard-based, highly toxic synthetic chemical gas. According to experiments, as long as a slight overdose is inhaled, it can cause cardiopulmonary failure, difficulty breathing, accompanied by vomiting, skin redness and sharp spasms within a few minutes, and if you do not rescue within an hour, you will die completely, and the appearance looks like you have been strangled and suffocated.

Named "Suffocation"

However, nothing in the world is a panacea, and like all poisonous gases, the big opponents are still wind and rain, so if you want to get the best effect, you should try to use it in a closed or windy place.

Gaoping is such a carefully selected first combat test site, the early reconnaissance point of view, this place is surrounded by leeward mountains, the area is only about 12 square kilometers, and during this period of the army's clearance and expulsion operations caused many natives to hide here, the population is about 30,000.

30,000 people, 12 square kilometers, 80 tons "suffocated".

It should be enough

"Report, Researcher Zhang, there's Gao Ping in front." As soon as Zhang Qiang finished calculating, the accompanying soldiers had already handed over a telescope, and after Zhang Qiang thanked him, he immediately observed the scene on the horizon in the distance.

In the shot, the entrance has been blocked by a huge wooden fence on the high flat surrounded by mountains on three sides, and thousands of native warriors with broadswords and spears are crowded at the entrance, while the town and the surrounding hillsides are crowded with groups of natives, who are divided according to their original tribes, and the clusters of natives are busy but distinct from the sky.

The natives seemed to be very curious about the small white dot that suddenly appeared overhead, pointing and saying something, and some even thought that it was the gods descending and worshipped like the airship when it first entered the city of Beijing.

Of course, there were also unfriendly ones, but the distance was so high that the archers gave up after two strokes. A few minutes later, as ten large hippopotamus-class airships leapt out of the horizon from the treetops and mountains, the natives finally changed color.

So many, so large an airship suddenly caused a commotion, and everyone rushed towards the center of the town, and countless natives surrounded by leaves, naked and bare-clothed, grabbed spears and broadswords and pointed them at the sky, as if trying to drive away the buzzing creatures overhead.

Along the mouth of the canyon, ten hippos lined up in a row, struggling to maintain a constant speed, and when they were about to reach the sky above the wooden fence, the bottom bomb window was opened almost simultaneously.

After tying himself up to the bombardiers, he pulled out the detonator switch with force, and then rolled the storage tank towards the bomb window, and the 400-kilogram canister immediately burst out of the airship, and the clockwork in the detonator drove the gears to rotate rapidly.

The landing speed and time are calculated and experimented in advance, and the high-level town of a few kilometers is not too long, and it only takes a minute or two to pass at the speed of an airship.

Huge storage jars were thrown down in the astonished eyes of the natives, many of whom looked up, unaware that a catastrophe awaited them.

Rumble.

One explosion after another suddenly exploded from those storage tanks that were less than a few dozen meters above their heads, an explosion of this intensity was nothing compared to the shells, but with the shock wave of the explosion, the liquid poison gas stored in the tanks suddenly drifted away.

Drops of yellow liquid quickly vaporized overhead, forming a huge yellow mist, and because the specific gravity was heavier than air, the poisonous gas quickly sank, covering the face of the natives below.

Every ten seconds, a special storage tank was dropped, and after falling rapidly, it turned into a cloud of yellow mist, and the poisonous gas sprayed by the canister gradually joined together in the air, like a large net that could not be penetrated at all, and slowly settled towards the ground.

A few minutes later, when the latter storage tank was dropped from a height of thousands of meters, the entire high flat was already shrouded in yellow smoke, which seemed to have stopped there due to the low wind speed on the ground, almost solidifying.

The natives were frightened by the continuous explosions overhead, especially with each explosion, which brought up huge clouds of yellow smoke that made them panic and run around.

But the more they ran, the more rapid their breath became, and when the yellow choking smoke was inhaled in large quantities, these people who ran out suddenly felt short of breath and tightness in their chests, and they subconsciously touched their throats, as if something was blocked there.

After just a few minutes, a large amount of white foam flowed from the corners of these people's mouths, and their faces were suffocated because they couldn't breathe, and slowly only a large area of whites remained in their eyes, and after a while, the whole eyeballs seemed to be about to bulge and burst.

Then there was unconscious vomiting, the skin of the body began to turn red and swollen, the subcutaneous blood vessels began to bulge, and the body gradually lost consciousness and fell to the ground after convulsions, as if a prawn that was put into an oil pot and slowly turned red, jumping slower and slower, and then the whole person was curled up into a ball.

The airships for the bomb mission had already returned to their homes, but the two reconnaissance boats were still suspended in the air, responsible for follow-up observation and monitoring, but when several assisting observers raised their binoculars, they all suddenly felt a chill down their backs and sweaty palms.

I saw that almost all of the natives who had escaped the war and crowded into Gaoping were unable to move, either holding on to something and vomiting, or foaming at the mouth and twitching all over, and some even grabbed their throats with both hands, and even their eyes seemed to be squeezed out, but they still refused to let go

From a distance, the entire Gaoping looked like a piece of rotten meat crawling with wriggling maggots, which was extremely disgusting

God

The crew behind the observers resisted the urge to vomit, and looked at the few researchers around them who were holding binoculars and frowning and expressionless, and there was only one thought left in their minds.

What the hell is your partner throwing at you?

Zhang Qiang didn't seem to see the increasingly frightened faces of the soldiers, carefully observed the scene below, and kept recording in his notebook, from the current point of view, this actual combat test was perfect, for a closed town of more than ten square kilometers, eighty tons of "suffocation", undoubtedly too much.

Of course, this is also related to today's windless weather and local environment, if it is changed to an open location, he believes that the results may not be as good as one-third of what it is now.

Although I really wanted to let the airship land immediately and go down to see it in person, I finally gave up, after all, the contamination of this type of poison gas is still quite strong, and if you are not fully prepared, going down rashly is no different from sending you to death.

Half an hour later, when the reconnaissance airship began to sail back, Gao Ping behind him was already suffocated by his throat, and no sound could be heard anymore.