Chapter 16 White phosphorus incendiary bombs

Kolkata, India.

Lieutenant General Raven Hobak was more surprised than the fact that the Austrians were more popular than the British.

The pirates had actually attacked the British harbor and caused hundreds of casualties, which he couldn't believe anyway.

Friedrich thought it was funny, and it seemed that his nephew's toys had surprised them.

In fact, piracy was just a code, and Franz had already bribed the officials of the British Indian colonies, who kept silent about the Nanming side and only claimed that it was piracy.

Friedrich knew all this, of course, but he hoped that Britain would be caught up in the kind of bitter fighting described by his nephew, since the terrain of Kalimantan was perfectly suited to the characteristics of jungle warfare.

Especially when he heard that there was no news of the second batch of reinforcements sent by the British army, he was even more excited.

Jungle warfare is something that Franz has been trying to avoid, even if he wants to fight, he must choose the time and find a good replacement for the dead ghosts.

In Guinea, West Africa, several Austrian tribes who often raided were hiding in the rainforest, and other tribes also found that these outsiders did not dare to fight deep into the rainforest.

As a result, some of the tribes that had already been converted also began to attack the Austrian colonists and farms, and even tried to attack the port.

It's just that now that the main force of the Austrian army has arrived, these attackers have been beaten on their backs in an instant, and they have no choice but to retreat into the rainforest.

They hoped to escape the Austrians' revenge with the protection of the rainforest, but it was the driest season in Guinea before the rainy season.

In addition, for this operation, the Austrian side has also specially developed a batch of arson weapons. In fact, from the development of weapons, it can be seen that the skill tree of the Austrians is quite crooked.

Franz's original intention was to put the oil to good use, but this group of unconventional guys actually started working on white phosphorus incendiary bombs.

The result, of course, was three explosions a day, and thick smoke billowed out. The Royal Women's College in Vienna had to be suspended for a month, and the pollution was so high that he decided to move the overly dangerous project elsewhere.

White phosphorus has a very low ignition point and is highly toxic, and will produce a large amount of toxic gas when burned. Although this poisonous gas usually dissipates on its own within three minutes, three minutes is enough time to kill 90% of the creatures on the planet.

What's even more terrifying is that this chemical burns so violently that it continues to burn after it comes into contact with the human body until the flesh festers and penetrates deep into the bone marrow.

And this time usually lasts 5-10 minutes, and the injured person will feel hellish pain.

What made Franz most incredible was that this study was actually proposed by a group of missionaries.

Because when they use this kind of thing in their daily life, when they pretend to be ghosts in the colony, they occasionally make a mistake and spill white phosphorus on other utensils or people.

And just a small amount of white phosphorus can easily cause unimaginably terrible damage, so they use it as if they were using it, and they also have a very religious name [God's Fury].

Of course, the weapons made by the gods are not reliable, but fortunately, these people are very cowardly, and the amount of ammunition is very small, otherwise they might have already gone to see God by this time.

In fact, it was not difficult to make such a weapon with Austrian technology, but Franz felt that it was too cruel and was afraid that other countries would copy and escalate the intensity of the war, so he temporarily suppressed it and turned to secret research.

At the moment, Franz decided to let experts develop petroleum products, after all, this technology can also be used in civilian science and technology in the future.

A large number of new incendiary rockets flew into the rainforest, and those barriers that blocked the invasion of foreign enemies instantly turned into a sea of fire, and the tribes hiding in the rainforest fled frantically, but everywhere was a sea of fire.

The local sorcerers were not panicking, claiming that if they migrated deeper into the rainforest, Mother Earth would rain down to extinguish the fires.

The murderous black tribes marched into the depths of the forest with a chance mentality, after all, according to previous experience, the fire would be extinguished sooner or later

However, this time the experienced wizards miscalculated, and the fire burned for 21 days in a row, 13 million acres of rainforest were reduced to rubble, and all the resisters were reduced to charcoal.

It wasn't until the Austrians left that it rained heavily, as if they were crying out for the impending disaster in the land.

Local colonial officials, following Franz's instructions, approached the remaining tribal chiefs and told them that a strict crop rotation system was necessary.

The chiefs, who had been a little arrogant or a little crooked, were so frightened that their legs were weak even after the Austrian colonial officials left.

On the same day, almost all the tribal sorcerers received oracles, and these wands told their people that the Austrians' magic was stronger than ours, that it was the will of Mother Earth that they ruled over us, and that if they dared to resist, heavenly fire and floods would fall

After a series of wars, law and order and production in the African colonies were finally restored.

Vice Admiral Ravan Hobak, on the other hand, did not believe the idiots of British India, who dared to attack the Dutch fleet and then the British ports, and now even the reinforcements of nearly 5,000 men were out of contact.

"Damn! As long as you idiots are around, Afghanistan of the British Empire is everywhere! "Vice Admiral Lavin Hobuck finally had enough to bear, he came from the North Sea Fleet and naturally looked down on other "motley armies".

In fact, Lieutenant General Raven Hobak was not such an uncultivated person, on the contrary, he was born in a famous family, was modest, and was well-educated.

But his encounter with his Austrian naval counterparts was very unpleasant to him, and what disgusted him was the faces of Indian merchants and colonial officials, so Vice Admiral Raven Hobak was furious.

"What do you say?! You Scottish bastard! Lieutenant General Xiuwen of Calcutta was also very upset, because he was already busy with reinforcements.

If that army really suffered serious losses, then his career would be ruined, and at this time, coupled with the other party's nameless fire, Lieutenant General Xiuwen also broke out.

"Who are the mongrels?!"

"Your mother is a Scottish bitch!"

As the saying goes, if you hit people without slapping your face, you don't scold people after a short while, the two lieutenant generals were pulled away with blue noses and swollen faces.

In fact, the loss of contact with British reinforcements also aroused Friedrich's interest, and he decided to go to Kalimantan with Lieutenant General Ravan Hobak to investigate the piracy.

In fact, Franz had already bribed the British Indian officials, hoping to put an end to the matter in the name of piracy.

It's just that Nanming's unilateral actions have made the whole thing much more complicated.

Rui, the British consul of the "Lion City", was so anxious that he paced frantically in his office, and if he had a pedometer at that time, he would have taken at least 50,000 steps a day from the day after the fleet lost contact.

It wasn't until one of his subordinates reported that a huge fleet was heading towards the harbor that he breathed a sigh of relief and immediately led his men to meet him.

The atmosphere of the "Lion City" is more pompous and exaggerated, so over time, the British consul Rui also developed the habit of extravagance.

With an unprecedented welcoming ceremony, the Austrian fleet slowly sailed into the harbor

This situation made Lieutenant General Raven Hobuck clench his fists, and the muscles on his face twitched and caused the wound, which couldn't help but make him cry out in pain.

(End of chapter)