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"Commander, this may disappoint you. It is impossible to seize the horse first. We can only disperse the horse, just like beating the Han army." The chief of staff said helplessly.

"How can we have so many cannons?" Hao Yaoqi shook his head.

"The emperor equipped us with new rockets, which can be used."

"Rocket? Just listen to it, it's useless." Of course Hao Yaoqi knew about Rocket, and he also knew about swarming.It's just a bigger firecracker, the range is close and the speed is slow, up to a hundred steps.The enemy troops used to defend the city and charge are about the same.

"Commander, the rockets we brought this time are a bit bigger, different from the previous ones."

"It's a little big, how big can it be?"

"It's so thick, and it has a tail." The chief of staff gestured.

3 Fifty Chapters: The Congreve Rocket

"It's so thick!" Looking at the rocket in front of him, Hao Yaoqi was stunned. Can this thing be called a rocket? It has to be called a cannon.

The rocket that Hao Yaoqi saw, the correct name is "Congreve Rocket". It was originally an old-fashioned rocket from the Central Plains introduced by the Yuan army to India. After being improved by the Indians, it was used by the British in the battle against the British. Big loss.

In 1805, in order to deal with Napoleon's army, Congreve of the United Kingdom improved Indian rockets by using a new type of propellant and equipped with a warhead to form a powerful rocket in actual combat. It was also the predecessor of modern rocket launchers.

The most famous example of Congreve's rockets is that under the command of Congreve himself, the Royal Navy launched about 25000 rockets towards Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, almost leveling the city.

Also, in the Battle of Baliqiao, a large number of rockets completely defeated Zeng Gelinqin's cavalry.It can be said that it was the Congreve Rockets who completely exaggerated the Eight Banners.

When it comes to fighting the Eight Banners, there are too many time-travel novels, with all kinds of weapons.Whether it's a volley of flintlock guns shooting the formation, or a long line of guns stabbing in one direction.It would be more appropriate to allow history to truly defeat the Eight Banners with weapons.

The structure of the Congreve rocket is not complicated, the main point is to improve the propellant.You can also use traditional black powder, but the range will be shorter.As far as the structure is concerned, any modern person who has played the soaring cannon during the Chinese New Year will understand it.

Its basic core is to add a balance bar to the traditional rocket, commonly known as the "tail".It is this thing that ensures the flight of the rocket head.The soaring cannons released during the Chinese New Year also have bamboo stick tails.

This Ming version of the Congreve rocket has a diameter of about ten centimeters, a one-foot warhead filled with dense black powder; a two-foot propellant cartridge, made of nitrocellulose explosives; It is hardwood.The total weight is [-] kg, the range can reach up to three miles, and single and multiple rounds can be fired.

The signal flare used by Suining before was a scaled-down version of this rocket.It is also a weapon that the Institute of Technology has focused on developing from the very beginning. It has been waiting for the opportunity to equip troops since the breakthrough of nitrocellulose.

This is Zhu Youjian's treasure for dealing with Houjin's bottom of the box, and it is the first time it is used experimentally on the battlefield.In consideration of dealing with the Eight Banners cavalry, the Eighth Army brought a total of [-] pieces this time.Zhu Youjian is still waiting to improve again after this actual combat.

Zhunta took a bath at night, then put his arms around two shivering girls, tossed about with his oily bald head until midnight and fell asleep.

In a daze, Zhunta could hear the commotion outside, as if it was thundering, and it was still thundering. Every time there was a "lightning", it was followed by a loud and scary sound.

Zhunta was not going to get up, anyway, no matter how heavy the rain was outside, there were still those servants taking care of things.

But he rolled over to prepare for a deep sleep, when the door of the bedroom was knocked open with a bang.This time it was not Bao Yi who came in, but the white armored soldiers under Zhunta.

"General, a group of people in strange clothes are attacking us in the west of the city."

"What strange clothes?" Zhunta thought he had encountered some chieftain soldier.

"It's just a group of soldiers wearing strange green clothes."

"Did you see clearly?" Zhunta was surprised. His current subordinates had never fought against the Sichuan army, but Zhunta was a senior general after all.

"The night is dark, but they use firearms, and they can be seen from a distance as green monster clothes."

"It's broken, it's the Ming army." Zhunta turned over and got up.

"Didn't the Ming army never attack us in the south?" Zhunta's subordinates always regarded all opponents as the Ming army.

"Trash, the ones in the south are the Western Army." Zhunta was also speechless. His Eight Banners subordinates were brave in fighting, but they were not as good as the Han Army in terms of knowledge.

But Zhunta will not admit it, their Eight Banners are the master, and the master is correct in everything.

The outside of the west city was already in chaos, the stables were already on fire, the fodder and stables were completely ignited, and countless war horses were shocked by the explosion and fled in all directions.

Those horses who were dressed in fear of losing their masters unfortunately died tragically under the hooves of many horses.

After the rocket was launched, it dragged a red flame to draw a trajectory in the sky, and finally exploded outside the city.A huge flame immediately turned the night sky red, followed by a large cloud of black smoke rising into the sky.

Rockets flew up one after another, some exploded on the ground, some exploded in mid-air, and some flew into the city and exploded.

The person who launched the rocket this time was also a professional technician, not a soldier of the Eighth Army.The Rockets played unhurriedly, always maintaining a certain interval.

Because it is still in the experimental stage, the warhead part of the rocket is just ordinary black powder, and the direct damage caused by the explosion to the soldiers and horses is not great.

But the horse was frightened.The fire and the big explosion were enough to make so many war horses run around, and the coaters couldn't control it at all.

After the [-] rockets were fired, [-]% of the war horses in Ximen had run away. The Eight Banners who lived in the city wanted to run out to find the war horses, and the coat outside the city wanted to go to the city to find the master. So many people crowded At the gate of the city.

A division of the Eighth Army continued to attack the coating outside the city, and another two divisions were sent to attack the Han army camp in the south of the city. The last division was responsible for blocking the Eight Banners in Jiangyou City.

The battle against the Han barracks went smoothly. After a few rounds of bombardment by a row of cannons, there were no people in the entire barracks standing stupidly in formation.

Immediately afterwards, a division of the Sichuan Army lined up directly, forming a platoon of guns on the field south of Jiangyou City, coupled with the continuous bombardment of artillery.Teams of uniform formations and the sound of footsteps approaching step by step, and the roar of cannons made these soldiers who were not good at night battles directly stunned by the Sichuan army.

Zhunta in the city was in a dilemma, he didn't dare to send the Eight Banners out easily now, because seeing the artillery fire outside the city, Zhunta also knew that these Eight Banners soldiers couldn't hold firearms.

Regardless of how powerful the Eight Banners are blowing, in fact, their high-level officials are very aware of the strength of the Ming army's weapons, or they were so happy when they recruited Kong Youde.

The real strength of the Eight Banners is the ability of individual soldiers, but the combat power of individual soldiers is scum in front of firearms.They rely on bloodthirsty slaughter to protect their inner fear.

Watching the battle outside the city, Zhunta decided to defend the city.Because their horses have been lost, relying on these 5000 people to fight hand-to-hand? It would be strange if they were exhausted.

In the battle that night, the fiercest battle was not the Han army camp in the south, nor the Eight Banners at the gates of the other two cities, but the coat of arms outside the west gate.

These people actually desperately wanted to protect their master, and fought desperately with the Sichuan army in order to win the master's favor, which really surprised people.

"Fucking traitors, I can't wait to strangle them one by one now." Hao Yaoqi was furious. Just these coats caused heavy casualties to a division of the Eighth Army.

The battle lasted until dawn, the Han army camp was completely dismantled, and the other three city gates were blocked, but the coat outside the city was still resisting.So much so that the Eight Banners in the city actually stood on the gate of the city and cheered for them.

"Commander, why do I think it is mainly because of the existence of the Eight Banners in the city that aroused the determination of these coated resistance. If we lay down the Eight Banners in front of everyone, they will not be so difficult to chew."

"But the Eight Banners are not so easy to do. Our plan has been disturbed by this kind of coating. Now I'm afraid that Sun Kewang will also come to intervene, and it will be over by then."

"Didn't Li Dingguo say that he would make arrangements for the Western Army?"

"Sun Kewang has [-] soldiers in his hands, and this kid has made trouble with us before, so I'm afraid he won't be so easy to deal with."

"Even if Sun Kewang wants to make a decision, he has to communicate with Azig. After all, he hasn't dropped the gold publicly yet. As long as our speed is fast enough, Sun Kewang's reaction will always be a step slower."

"Give me an order to shoot all the remaining rockets into Jiangyou City for me, hurry up."

"Yes."

The fireworks outside the city burned all night last night, and Zhunta wandered around the city in a hurry, but he couldn't get out of the city.If it weren't for the strong coating outside Nancheng, it is estimated that the Eight Banners in the city would be fighting the Sichuan army.

Jiangyou City is full of wooden houses. When the Sichuan Army's rockets exploded in the city, the whole city looked like a red-hot stove.Fortunately, these Eight Banners are overbearing and drove out the people in the city, otherwise the people in this fire would have suffered a catastrophe.