Austria's latest anti-infantry rockets are available in two types, heavy and light, with light weights ranging from 5 to 50 kilograms and capable of firing on a single soldier.

Heavy anti-infantry rockets, on the other hand, usually weigh more than 100 kilograms and require a launcher to fire, but their lethality is also very impressive.

However, no matter which one it is, it is not comparable to the original Congreve rocket, whether it is range, accuracy, or killing radius.

The French are no strangers to weapons such as rockets, as they have learned the power of such weapons many times in previous siege battles.

The flying explosives were more formidable than artillery in urban street fighting, and because of the difficulty of advancing in the city of Celesta, Bono de Coullen remembered the barricades that were invincible in France.

The people can use it, and the army can use it naturally. Beauno de Coullen was a French military genius who easily analyzed the barricade method of warfare and perfected it through his own understanding.

But the barricades that are invincible in France are useless in the face of this new weapon. This flying bag of explosives could easily pass over the barricades and injure the French troops behind.

However, its disadvantages are also obvious, the explosion is not small, but the lethality is insufficient, and the hit rate is extremely low, and most of the hits are due to bad luck.

So seeing the rockets in the sky, the French soldiers did not show too panicked expressions.

Benoit Valentine, who had just returned from injury, was even in the mood to tease with Captain Pierre.

"Mr. Captain, do you think there will be a few more unlucky ones going to heaven?"

"Shut up! Private, it wasn't for these unlucky bastards last time, you've already gone to God! ”

"Mr. Captain, it's the first time I've heard of an army using this kind of thing on a large scale on the battlefield, aren't they afraid of blowing up their own people?"

Benoit Valentine asked with some curiosity, and Captain Pierre was puzzled, for he had never seen an army using this thing as a main weapon in all his years of fighting.

Congreve rockets are so powerful in urban street fighting that they are full of buildings, and when they hit the ground and explode, they will stir up debris and wood chips to kill nearby soldiers.

If only the lethality of a rocket explosion is not so amazing .

Bono de Coullen in the distance was also very puzzled, as an academic weapons expert, he naturally knew all the weapons on the battlefield well.

The Congreve rocket, weighing 14.5 kilograms, has a length of 1.06 meters, a diameter of 0.1 meters, and is equipped with a 4.6-meter-long balance bar, with a range of up to 1,800 meters and a margin of error of 1,500 meters.

Almost all countries, including the United Kingdom, have written it off in their army textbooks, because it is useless in actual combat unless it is faced with a target the size of a city.

I thought about the identity of the other party's commander, an idiot who grew up in the court, a saint in the mouth of the church, the greatest patron of the Austrian imperial scientific community, and then thought of the bloodline of the Habsburgs.

Bono de Coullen was quickly relieved, the commander of the other party was undoubtedly a complete fool,

He had a good impression of Nature and Science, but he really hated the hypocrisy of the Austrians.

On the one hand, he shouted to crack down on academic fraud, and on the other hand, he frantically touted his crown prince. What is even more hateful is that they have openly classified theology as a scientific category, and even published a separate magazine called "Humanities".

In fact, Playboy magazine sold best in France, and there was even a local spin-off of Moulin Rouge.

The French of this era were so proud that it was difficult for them to genuinely approve of foreign things. However, this does not prevent them from spending a lot of money on new things that they "despise" with a critical eye.

As for the name "Moulin Rouge", as long as a French man can understand the meaning, the proud French are naturally more willing to support domestic products.

It's just that what they don't know is that the boss behind "Moulin Rouge" is also Franz. Localization strategy was nothing more than business common sense in modern times, but it was a great business initiative at the time.

As for how much of a role this strategy can play, look at the domestic BMW, Mercedes-Benz, until today still firmly occupy the domestic high-end car market.

At this time, there are two main types of rockets that appear on the battlefield:

The Austrian-made Augustin-1 anti-infantry rocket, weighing 30 kg, is equipped with prefabricated fragments and iron balls to enhance the power of the fragments.

(Due to the limited industrial level at that time, the number of steel balls may not be as large as some special grenades in later generations.) ）

The whole adopts a rodless spin design, with a balance wing instead of a balance bar, the maximum range can reach 2700 meters, the error within 500 meters does not exceed 10 meters, and the error above 2000 meters is not more than 100 meters.

The Austrian-made Augustin-III heavy anti-infantry rocket, weighing 15 kilograms, was designed with multi-layer prefabricated fragments after repeated trials due to the sufficient amount of internal gunpowder.

The theoretical maximum firing range is up to five kilometers, and the margin of error is five hundred meters smaller. The theoretical killing radius is 50 meters, and the actual killing radius is 20 meters, which is extremely fatal.

It has been test-fired 131 times in conflicts with indigenous people in Africa, with zero chance of survival for indigenous people with an explosion range of 21 meters.

So when those rockets landed, the French soldiers still took firm steps. It's just that in the next second, the huge power directly emptied the French soldiers near the bullet impact point in pieces.

In the area hit by heavy anti-infantry rockets, the French troops within five meters were directly blown to pieces, and the scene of flesh and blood flying was simply not too exciting.

However, the data of the Weapons Development Bureau is obviously wrong, and there are still many survivors within a radius of 25 meters. Most of them were bloodied and delirious from the shock, but they were still alive.

It has to be said that a dense phalanx is still beneficial, the soldiers in the front can block the fragments, and the soldiers who come back can provide a buffer.

At the same time, the uniforms of the French army also played a certain protective role, so they were more survivable than the indigenous soldiers on the African continent.

However, most of the French troops near the center of the explosion lost the ability to continue fighting, which was enough for the war.

In fact, most of the time, wounded soldiers are more troublesome for an army than dead soldiers.

After all, the dead are just losses, and the wounded will occupy the resources of the living.

Dozens of rockets exploded one after another in the ranks of the French troops, and pieces of French troops were blown up in scattered pieces and flying all over the sky.

However, this still did not stop the French army from advancing, after all, the horror of the French Warlords had already been introduced into the bones of every French soldier.

And a few dozen rockets are really insignificant for an army of tens of thousands, but this is just an appetizer that Franz prepared for the French.