Under the order of the king of the sun, the war elephant troops of the Tianzhu army launched a terrifying cluster charge, and the war elephants three thousand steps away were like a wall of flesh, more like a group of blue-black dark clouds, the momentum was earth-shattering, and some people believed it, many British soldiers began to tremble in their legs and stomachs, but fortunately, the British military law was ruthless, and the officers controlled it effectively, so it did not get out of control, and they pinned all their hopes on the mysterious army of their king (Great Khan), the fire dragon soldiers, Hopefully, this mysterious army will be able to repel the war elephants of the Tianzhu people, otherwise what awaits them will be a massacre."
Ready, !!"
In order to ensure the sufficient firing accuracy of the rockets, the commanders of the British fire dragon soldiers specially chose the best shooting distance of 1,000 meters to 1,300 meters, although they gave an order, the whole 500 rockets dragged the long flames and flew out, and after flying more than 1,000 meters, they drove down and fell into the Tianzhu war elephant cluster below.War elephants are indeed extremely powerful to use, but they have a problem, that is, elephants are most afraid of fire, especially this kind of rocket falling from the sky, when the rocket landed, the grenade as a warhead exploded, and a cloud of black mushrooms rose up in the war elephant cluster in Tianzhu......
The British rockets exploded in the middle of the war elephant cluster, which made the war elephants extremely frightened, and they retreated like crazy one by one, and did not dare to rush forward again.The kind of rocket used by Li Lu is not the kind of swarm of bees that pig's feet love in many travel novels, the prototype of this rocket that Li Lu tossed, it is also very famous, it is the famous Congreve rocket in the late 18th century and early 19th century, of course, the ancestor of this Congreve rocket is also from our China, but its direct blueprint is from the subcontinent that Li Lu wants to conquer, yes, the blueprint of Congreve rocket is made by the Mysore people on the Tianzhu subcontinent.In the original history, in the 13th century, Chinese gunpowder and rocket technology were introduced to India through the Delhi Sultanate, and the Indians improved Chinese gunpowder and rocket technology.Unlike Chinese and European rockets, Indian rockets do not contain propellants in papier-mâché tubes, but in iron tubes, weighing 6-12 pounds, and are fired in a 30-centimeter-long, 7.5-centimeter-diameter bamboo tube with a range of more than 900 meters.Although the hit rate is not high, the lack of accuracy can be compensated for by the concentrated use and high rate of fire, especially suitable for dealing with fixed objects and enemies with relatively large targets, such as ships, houses, infantry phalanxes, cavalry columns, etc.During the British conquest of the Kingdom of Mysore, the Mysore people repeatedly used rocket weapons to inflict considerable casualties on the British.After the end of the war, Britain was stimulated by Indian rockets and developed the high-tech Congreve rocket based on Indian rockets.The Congreve rocket is a rocket with excellent performance, which has the advantages of faster rate of fire, faster movement, longer range, and stronger adaptability of the firing platform than traditional artillery.The Congreve rocket could fire 6 shells per minute with a range of 0.8-3.2 km, dwarfing other small and medium-sized breech cannons of the same period.The reason why Li Lu chose this Congreve rocket instead of what kind of cluster rockets such as fire cage arrows, Nine Dragon Arrows, swarm of bees and single-launch rockets such as Sky Monkey is because these rockets are both primitive and backward compared to Congreve rockets, so Congreve rockets are not complicated, and Congreve rockets have also PK with these traditional Chinese rockets in history, what is the result?
The Qing army, which used traditional rockets, lost and even lost its pants.This is not the author's nonsense, in the real history of the Raven War, the Qing army and the British army (here the British army refers to the real British army) both used their respective rocket weapons to varying degrees.Congreve rocket artillery shined as always, and was regarded by the Qing Dynasty as a terrifying existence of "destroying cities, slaughtering villages, and destroying boats".At Humen, the two forts on which Guan Tianpei had high hopes were burned to the ground by Congreve rocket artillery before the British landed and attacked.In Zhenhai, many of the Eight Banners disciples were engulfed in the flames of hell from them.At Bali Bridge, the proud Mongolian horse team was shattered by rocket artillery, and many people fled from each other.The number of Qing Dynasty ships that were not fired by the Congreve rocket launchers is innumerable.The Qing army used traditional rockets such as the swarm of bees mentioned above, and the British army had a contemptuous attitude towards Chinese rockets, that is, they did not dodge or fear, even if the Chinese rockets were lucky enough to fly head-on, the British still maintained their demeanor.There is no record that any British, Indian, or French were killed or injured by Chinese rockets in the Opium War, and the greatest result of Chinese rockets was that they burned a hole in a certain unlucky British warship in a naval battle, but the British warship did not sink or suffer casualties, and it did not even affect its continued sailing.Li Lu, who is familiar with history, naturally chose the Kangreve rocket, which is safe and reliable and has proved his strategic and tactical value in actual combat, the structure of this Congreve rocket is not too complicated, and it is really not difficult for Li Lu to hang the force, of course, this kind of weapon that transcends the times, the cost is naturally very high.Luo Shiqiang, the commander-in-chief of the fire dragon soldiers, took the telescope and saw clearly, there was a riot in the war elephant cluster of the Tianzhu people, well, this shows that what his king said is good, the elephant is afraid of fire, and he is afraid of loud noises, "Okay, good job, pass my order, change the stone fat incendiary bomb......
Luo Shiqiang said that the stone fat incendiary bomb is actually the oil that has not been refined at all, and Li Lu's engineers made the shallow oil found on the coast of the Caspian Sea into an incendiary bomb.The fire dragon soldiers launched very fast, almost within a minute, the British fire dragon soldiers fired 3,000 grenade rockets, their commander Luo Shiqiang just ordered, thousands of incendiary bombs and fired at the war elephants of the Tianzhu people, the overwhelming rockets with raging flames, burned the war elephant cluster of the Tianzhu people into hell on earth, everywhere is the howl of the elephants before death, and the terrible screams of the Tianzhu people, the whole scene is extremely chaotic.Elephants are very intelligent, and like humans, they know how to avoid bad luck, although this seems to be an advantage.However, it is a great disadvantage on the battlefield, because they know how to escape in the face of danger, so when faced with a situation that threatens life and death and is powerless to resist, these war elephants will no longer obey the drive and command of elephant slaves.At this time, the war elephants of the Tianzhu people were like this, they accurately received the information of their companions, and those screams were reminding the uninjured elephants that it was not safe here, so they no longer obeyed the command of the elephant slaves, and scattered to escape from this elephant graveyard......
The entire Tianzhu people's war elephant cluster is extremely chaotic, but because there are too many war elephants invested by the King of the Ring Sun, there are still many war elephants rushing towards the British position, of course, these war elephants have also lost the control of the elephant slaves, and the war elephants that have lost control will be much easier to do."
Fire!"
Although the artillery commander's small red flag fell, the artillerymen who had been able to reload stuffed the solid iron eggs into the muzzle, and then ignited the artillery, under the impetus of gunpowder, large and small solid iron eggs, overwhelmingly smashed into the war elephants of Tianzhu, the huge kinetic energy propelled the iron eggs and the air violently rubbed, and when they fell on the war elephants, they were already extremely hot, and these war elephants that were not far from the British positions also suddenly howled..... but this is only the beginning, because Li Lu's artillery is very flawed, which has to be said, it is a wonder, He is equipped with extremely advanced Congreve rockets, but his artillery is primitive, but fortunately, Li Lu still has a crossbow array like the Shenfeng Array that can be used as a last resort.The crossbow arrows of the British army have also been prepared, and with the commander's order, wave after wave of crossbow arrows are sprinkled like a torrential rain on the war elephants of the Tianzhu people, even if the war elephants of the Tianzhu people are heavily armoured, and no matter how rough the skin and thick flesh are, they can't block this wave of arrow rain, especially this wave of arrow rain is all three-edged armor-piercing cone arrows made of stainless steel, so even if the war elephants of the Tianzhu people almost rushed to the city wall, but they just can't get through......
Sitting on the tall green elephant, the King of the Ring looked at the huge army of war elephants that he had finally assembled to accept the ravages of the British army there, and he was suddenly stupid, my God, could it be that Li Lu is really the Shura Devil, yes, he is the Shura Devil, or the invincible war elephant in the world can be frightened by him and go crazy?
How good is this, he watched in pain as his elephant soldiers and war elephants became a mess, the frantic war elephants began to attack the war elephants around him with their long tusks, and at the same time, the four thick elephant legs also began to trample around, and from time to time there were unlucky soldiers who were trampled on broken bones and tendons, and the screams resounded in the sky.The King of the Ring of the Sun should actually be glad that his car didn't go crazy at this time, otherwise he would still be able to sit on it?
But at this moment, a rocket was shot over, and after the rocket landed, it caused everyone, and the elephants of the Tianzhu princes and nobles who were pressed in the back were suddenly frightened, and the most unlucky was the prime minister of the king of the sun, the high priest of the Brahmin Zanni, his elephant directly threw the old man down, and stepped on it into a pulp....If it weren't for the well-trained car of the king of the sun, he would also end up with Zani, with the landing of the rocket just now, a wave of long-range rockets also pounced, and the king of the sun looked at the rocket that flew over, and closed his eyes in pain, His Tianzhu is finished......