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Chapter 736: Li, Li, Thunder
Under the cloudy sky, the advance of the cavalry was like a surging tide.The total number of cavalry formations is nearly [-]. Looking down from the sky, it is densely packed. The power of pushing down, crushing everything.

When the iron armored cavalry roared forward, the half of the side and rear gradually separated, and began to detour to the side. This is half of the light cavalry separated from the iron armored cavalry. Although the iron cavalry is a heavy cavalry, it is often killed in the Western Xia battle. Used as the main force, it is good at rushing and attacking operations, and it maneuvers quickly.During long-distance rushing, they will be followed by the same or twice as many packhorses, carrying heavy armor.Although these pack horses are not as elite as war horses, when the heavy armor is removed, the accompanying deputy soldiers can still use them as mounts and form light cavalry to fight.

Xixia is originally a tribal system, with strict ranks. Iron Harrier is the elite of the elite. One person is often accompanied by three deputy soldiers. These deputy soldiers are the servants and personal guards of the Knights of the Iron Harrier. Regardless of their bravery and loyalty, they have passed the test. , can be called one in a hundred.Even if the crotch horse is not good enough, it is still quite an elite force.

This time the Black Banner Army broke through Yanzhou and demonstrated its tyrannical combat power. In order to quickly kill the bandit army that came out from the rear, Meile led 700 iron kites and rushed over quickly, followed by more than [-] Qingqi's pack horse.Ever since he was preparing to go to war, Chang Da, the deputy leader, received orders to interfere from the sidelines and act accordingly.He led nearly [-] light cavalry and began to circle to the side. The formation on the opposite side was orderly, and it seemed quite fierce. open.What I need to pay attention to is the one or two thousand light cavalry who have lined up behind the opponent's array.

The opponent was riding a horse that was raised for combat. His own mount was slightly inferior, but the bravery of his knights would never be inferior to anyone in this world. Chang Da had great confidence in this.Once the opponent shows any bad clues, the cavalry he leads will rush towards the opponent without hesitation.

He stared at the battle situation ahead, exhaling and inhaling.The iron-hoofed heavy cavalry increased their speed to the peak, and they were about to step into the land of a single arrow.According to past experience, the arrows will fly over, but for the Iron Harrier, it is of little significance - even if you understand this, there will still be arrows, and sometimes a few unlucky heavy riders will fall off their horses.

However there are no arrows.

The next moment, the attack is overwhelming!

There was not much foreshadowing. With the rise of the first explosion flame, countless explosions set off a huge wave on the front line of the iron cavalry wave, and the deafening sound swept out. It was coming head-on, rushing into the giant tide of the Iron Harrier, stalemate for a moment, and then both sides slapped each other in.

"Wow--"

boom!
boom--

Boom boom boom boom boom-

The squad leader Nagu rushed into the huge tide of smoke and dust with a shout, and smashed it out from the other side. The iron armored horse that fell over suppressed his body, and raised his head in the feeling of coexistence of pain and numbness. Here, countless flowers are rising!
The gray-black barrier, the smoke, the surging shock wave, the choking and dry smell, everything was rising and expanding, and the objects fired from the front crashed into this barrier.The yellow light exploded in the black smoke and dust, followed by the whistling of dark red flames, all kinds of small objects splashed, and the air waves were billowing and raging.

In Nagu's field of vision, the nearby explosions are like the earth shaking and the mountains are shaking. For individuals, the heavily armored iron harriers run like mountains. They rush out of this barrier, and they fall and roll like a landslide.The impact on the enemy formation shrank the front of the cavalry formation, making the distance between the warhorses denser than usual. The rising black smoke and dust blocked the sight of the cavalry. Many cavalry remained intact, but at high speed. Under the sprint, they either tripped over the corpse of the warhorse, or bumped into their companions who started to pierce in fright in front, and crashed to the ground with a loud bang.

The vegetation on the high loess slope was already sparse. Although it was not as barren as in later generations, it was stirred up by the power of the explosion, and the dust was billowing up.

In such a huge chaos, some of the war horses were still shocked.

The vision was shaking, the ominous airflow was chaotic and unspeakable, and the companions rushed out of the black barrier, either running or collapsing, or a small number of them were still accelerating.Nagu saw a heavy cavalry rushing out of the smoke, and the knight on the horse was still intact. The next moment, the object shot from there slammed into the galloping knight. The steed was still rushing out, and half of the body in armor Blast to pieces in the back.

This is witchcraft!There was a huge fear in his heart, and he wanted to climb out from under the horse. He was using his own strength, and an iron harrier rushed out from behind, and the horse lost its forefoot, drowning his vision like a hill...

"—The second shot of the Elm Cannon is loaded!"

"Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up-"

"Don't let them gasp—"

In the position of the Black Flag Army, the officers of the special regiment were shouting hysterically. At the rear, two thousand cavalrymen began to pull out. The atmosphere in the infantry formation was chilling. Hou Wu, Mao Yishan and others were waiting for the moment to charge. .Around them, the soldiers of the special regiment were rapidly assembling portable refusal horses.These juma use cast iron long sticks as the central axis, cross-insert iron long spears and fix them. Six long spears and a cast iron form a group. After being fixed on the ground, it is almost impossible to move. Even if they roll over one side, they are still the same. The shape, after being assembled, is quickly pushed forward.

The battle on Dong Zhiyuan has only just begun, but this oncoming blow is like a dream, and in this era, it is almost a scene that has never appeared before.

The first round of shelling directly paralyzed or killed about a hundred iron armored cavalry, but what was truly spectacular was the rising smoke and dust barrier.It blocked the sight of Iron Harrier's charge, and the fallen cavalry became a refusal at the same time. At this time, the number of fallen cavalry was still rising.The nearly [-] cavalrymen covered in the entire front row have been affected to a greater or lesser extent. Some of the warhorses were startled and ran wildly in the wrong direction. During these years, the cavalrymen set off firecrackers or made noises to make the warhorses. Training to get used to the sounds of the battlefield, but never to this extent.

Some cavalrymen had their eardrums ruptured on the horseback, and the scattered smoke fascinated their eyes, and the balance of the warhorse was also affected. , or bumped into other cavalrymen while running, and the knight on the horse pulled the horse desperately, running faster and faster, and then crashed to the ground.The rest of the cavalry continued to run after a slight adjustment, and here, the shells were still firing continuously.

A lot of cavalry were continuously filtered out.

In the artillery array, the soldiers quickly cleaned the cannons, and put hollow or solid shells in the elm cannons. The proportion of iron cannons was more than [-], and most of them were hollow shells. The specifications of these iron cannons, The calibers are different, some are integrated, and some have been divided into two parts. Like the later Folang cannon, the barrel and the sub-cannon of the charge are in a separate structure. A sub-cannon has been quickly loaded.

Lin Jingwei and Gongsun Sheng, the person in charge of the craftsmanship in Xiaocang River, stood near the cluster of iron cannons, frowning slightly as they looked at the loneliness in front of the front line, wandering in confusion, or struggling to get up from the ground.The surroundings were full of loud noises, shouts, and cannons.Lin Jingwei looked at it, and shouted to the side: "As usual, as usual, what are you doing over there! Watch out for the cannonball in your hand, it will kill you bastard—"

In the sound of thumping, there are still explosive packs flying into the sky, some falling on the horses and exploding, and some exploding after a while.Gongsun Sheng watched the power of the explosion carefully.

Nearly nine years have passed since Ning Yi came to the Wu Dynasty, and for gunpowder, Ning Yi has been subconsciously making improvements almost from the very beginning.In a sense, the black powder in ancient China and the modern yellow powder are two concepts. The improvement space of black powder is not infinite, but it needs to be developed to modern explosives, such as trinitrotoluene, (shixiao) glycerin, It requires a lot of chemical basis.

Bottlenecks exist, but some things are not without compromises.The three basic compounds for making (Shi Xiao) glycerol, sulfuric acid, were discovered by alchemists in ancient times. Nitric acid was temporarily unavailable, but its raw materials were not lacking in the Wu Dynasty. In this year, the role of saltpeter is mainly Large households use it to make ice in summer, dry distillation of saltpeter, or react with sulfuric acid to obtain nitric acid by hydrolysis.As for glycerin, it can be separated by heating reaction with sulfuric acid and animal and vegetable oils, and then reacting with soda or lime, and even, by the way, it can be made into soap.

For Ning Yi, these principles are not unfamiliar, but it is naturally difficult to find a suitable ratio and production method in this era.Fortunately, his expertise is not in chemistry, but in employment and operation.After spreading basic chemical knowledge to his craftsmen, these things can be done by others. Since Gongsun Sheng and others joined in, the number of craftsmen under his command has continued to increase, and his initial chemical knowledge has actually been unable to keep up with the research in the workshop. Progress.

In the subsequent advancement of the explosives workshop, the practical results were much higher than theoretical knowledge, and artisans with basic chemical knowledge could not become Mendeleev, but under the modern research system that pursues efficiency, pays attention to records and comparisons, his The fineness of the manufactured gunpowder has become more and more pure.After both sulfuric acid and nitric acid can be prepared, such as nitrocellulose and other substances have appeared in the workshop, and after all kinds of messy things are mixed by Gongsun Sheng and others, the explosive power of gunpowder has been considerable enough to be decisively used on the battlefield. .

(Shi Xiao) At this time, the preparation of glycerin already has a certain foundation, but Ning Yi did not rashly develop this.First, after the rebellion, there was a real shortage of materials. Pigs were raised in later generations, and they were all fat. In these years, pigs were all lean meat. The production of glycerin from animal and vegetable fats was too extravagant and cost-effective.Erlai (Shi Xiao) glycerin still has a long way to go from its invention to its relatively safe use. Before the craftsmen in the workshop understood diatomaceous earth, Ning Yi did not dare to mess around.And this time, all the things that can be used in Xiao Canghe have basically been used.

Several delay fuzes made in the workshop, hand-made hollow bullets, including the high-yield explosive packs that Ning Yi requested to make from the very beginning, and the extremely extravagant iron launchers—these are very large-caliber projectile explosive packs. The cylinder is called Fei Lei in later generations.

During the war of liberation, the explosive force of the oil barrels was much more powerful than that of ordinary cannons. He was shocked to death by the shock wave, and he couldn't even find the wound when he died, so it was also called "the cannon without conscience".

Naturally, the explosive pack launched at this time would not have such power. However, after it fell on the ground and exploded, the shock wave expanded to a range of three or four meters. The momentum and air waves were astonishing. The potential will be thrown out and slammed into the companion next to him.

"The world is about to change..."

The dark clouds scattered in the sky, Gongsun Sheng looked at the small number of heavy horses rushing over, said a word, and then reached out and picked up the big hammer on the ground.He was dressed in a Taoist robe and looked immortal. In fact, he could occupy a place in the Liangshan gang, but he was quite powerful. At this time, he dragged a hammer and rushed forward, and a heavy horse was rushing towards him. The two touched each other in a blink of an eye, and the Taoist slammed the heavy hammer with the momentum, and a terrifying loud noise from bottom to top hit the head of the war horse. He smashed to the ground next to him, and the blood and floating dust rolled.

He took the hammer and walked towards another cavalry rushing towards him. There were also infantrymen rushing over. After the cavalry was smashed to the ground, Gongsun Sheng shouted at the rear: "Hurry up—"

The heavy cavalry who came from the opposite side, survived after rushing through the explosion area, and successfully reached the front of the side, only one-third of the heavy cavalry was at this time, and some of the heavy cavalry were still due to damage to the knights or horses Confused in the smoke and dust.More than [-] iron refusal horses were carried by the soldiers and waited in front of them, followed by sabers, spears and hammers.The ears of the soldiers waiting here were also greatly shocked. There was almost no sound in their ears.The iron cavalry lost some speed due to the turbulent artillery bombardment, but it still came over like a mountain. They waved sabers and spears to meet them, and the hammer soldiers smashed the horses or knights' iron armor with their heavy hammers, and blood poured out from the seams of the iron armor.

At this time, the Iron Harrier's central formation had also rushed over the huge wall of smoke and dust. They were relatively cautious, and their speed slowed down slightly. More circled to the sides of the smoke and dust. The black smoke was coming from the empty space, and Mei Le in the back could roughly see the situation ahead.

In the past few years, the general army will collapse when it loses [-]% of the battle. Iron Harrier is not such a weak army, they are the elite of the elite.In many cases, they are willing to sacrifice in exchange for victory, but the important thing is that sacrifice can be exchanged for victory.

At this time, not long after the start of the war, the front line rushed over once, and the center line hesitated a little. At this time, they had already stepped into the range of a single arrow. They still wanted to charge forward, but after more Ahead, the army was like a giant beast, swallowing up a third of the Iron Harrier troops.Before this, there was no long-range confrontation that could threaten the Iron Harrier so much.

The center formation was still charging, things happened too fast, and they didn't have time to collapse. The soldiers in the formation just felt confused, and the slightly rational officer looked back at the huge handsome flag.Meile was also rushing in with the crowd. He originally wanted to rescue or support the front line that was caught in the explosion. At this time, even the battle-hardened him was blank.

The entire front line was almost completely incapacitated - it was over.

But the morale was not lost, and it seemed that he could still fight when he rushed over.To continue rushing, or not to rush, that is the question.

At this moment... he remembered his mama...

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Not many people noticed that the entire artillery formation had fallen silent at this time...

　I don't know if I can code it out tomorrow, but I wish everyone a Happy New Year ^_^
　
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