African Nationhood

Chapter 132 Secret Sneak Attack ()

In a small position 10 miles west of Bulawayo City, several artillery company soldiers were on guard nervously, not afraid of indigenous enemies but of surprise attacks by wild beasts.

Qi Lin anxiously waited for the signal from the city, but time passed slowly and there was still no movement in the city.

He couldn't help but pace anxiously. Tonight was his first time leading a team on an expedition.

His main purpose of leading the team out to participate in the battle this time was to test the new weapons proposed by Mr. Shi.

This weapon was named "rocket" by Mr. Shi. The entire rocket was inspired by the rocket designed by Tao Chengdao, an ancient Chinese man.
  This weapon is so powerful.

During the first test, the people in the artillery company who participated in the experiment were frightened.

A rocket can actually shoot ten miles away, and the explosion is very powerful.

Their current finalized rocket is named Wanhu-83.

The entire rocket is about 1 meter long and 14 centimeters in diameter. The missile body is a seamless steel pipe imported from Europe.

Two-thirds of the projectile is propellant, and the rest is explosive. The fuse of the explosive head is a touch type and explodes when it hits the ground.

The tail is a tail fin fixed with rivets. The role of the tail fin is very critical. Mr. Shi and the others studied it for a long time and finally determined the angle of the tail fin. At the same time, this weapon requires a launcher to adjust the launch angle.

This weapon cost hundreds of thousands of pounds from initial design to mass production.

And for the sake of confidentiality, no one outside the artillery company was allowed to participate in this test.

Prior to this, they had conducted a test launch in the Kalahari Desert near Chapang Town (today's Chapang Town in Boguo). The real battlefield effect still needs to be tested.

It happened that the company was about to attack the Kingdom of Matabeleland, so they came over.

This time the test only needs to be launched normally to be considered complete.

Experimental data collection cannot be done until after the war, and it cannot be done now.

Qi Lin was so anxious about waiting that he couldn't help but want to sit down and wait. Suddenly he heard a team member shout: "Company commander, look, there's a fire over there."

Qi Lin turned around and looked over, with a smile on his face.

"Ready to launch!"

So the soldiers of the artillery company got busy. Following Qi Lin's observation, they adjusted the firing angle one after another, and then directly ordered, "Fire!"

The soldiers used torches to ignite the fuses under the rockets, and the fuses burned "chi la chi la".

At this moment, Qi Lin felt a little resentful about the burning speed of the fuses, hoping that they would burn out at once.

Finally, the fuse burned out, and then violent flames broke out from under the six steel pipes, and then these steel pipes roared and flew into the sky, breaking through air resistance.

When the orange flame tail flew farther and farther, Qi Lin and others cheered excitedly!
  ……

"Boom~~~~"

When a series of six rockets pierced the clouds and appeared over the city of Bulawayo, the indigenous people were stunned.

What is this, a divine punishment from the gods in the sky?

……

The accuracy of this kind of primary rocket is very problematic. God is not sure where it will land after being launched.

Therefore, not all of the six rockets in a round fell into the city of Bulawayo, but one landed on the wall in the south of the city.

The violent power directly blasted a 2-meter-diameter gap in the south city wall.

All the indigenous guards on duty on the city wall were killed, and the explosion also caused a very violent splash.

Suddenly the granite fragments shattered like bullets.

This scene shocked Li Rong's troops who were ambushing in the south of the city. What kind of weapon was this? How could they even hit one of their own people?

Tian Guang was overjoyed by the power of this powerful weapon, "Commander Li, hurry up and do it. It's too late and we won't be able to catch up."

Li Rong was frightened by the weapon that exploded into a mushroom cloud before, and he was afraid that something would fall down.

"Why don't you wait any longer?" "What are you waiting for? You have to wait. This opportunity is very rare.

The new weapons directly save us the effort of attacking the guards on the city wall. "

Li Rong wanted to persuade him again, but Yu Zhi, the artillery platoon commander next to him, said directly: "No, there are only six in this round. I just counted them. Commander Li, please act quickly."

Li Rongcai reluctantly ordered, "Attack!"

Tian Guang's company took the lead, taking the lead in holding explosive packages and placing explosive packages at the city wall they had detected.

Since there were no indigenous guards on the city wall, their actions were not hindered in any way. After placing the explosive package, they pulled out the fuse and Shi Shiran ran back to the bunker to wait.

"Boom~~~"

After the violent explosion, a large collapsed hole appeared in front of them. Beyond the big hole was the chaotic city of Bulawayo.

Tian Guang stood up and waved his hand towards the gap, "Charge!"

Li Rong on the side moved his mouth, but after all he didn't say anything to stop his former boss. He also waved and said, "All at once!"

Tian Guang led his men into the city of Bulawayo and encountered little resistance along the way. They were almost rushing into the royal city when explosions started to sound from the east, west, north and west.

Tian Guang felt proud in his heart. The first prize this time was none other than me, Lao Tian!
  The damage caused by the rockets was huge, with collapsed stone houses everywhere in the city.

The smoke from an arson fire is somewhat choking but not fatal.

Thanks to the fact that most of the palace buildings are made of stone, if the huts near the city wall were to burn, many people would be smoked to death even if they could not be burned to death.

Tian Guang and the others rushed quickly. After avoiding the arson area, they arrived outside the royal city.

At this moment, the inside of the royal city was in chaos, and the inside was filled with smoke. It was obvious that the rockets fired had caused considerable damage inside.

Seeing that the gate of the royal city was still closed, Tian Guang said to the soldiers beside him: "Go and blow up the gate!"

The soldiers followed the order and returned quickly. Then there was a "bang" and the wooden door was destroyed by the powerful shock wave.

Tian Guang waited very cautiously for a while and found that no indigenous people were rushing towards him. He then started to rush in. While charging, he still did not forget to take out the grenade and still open the way forward.

"Boom"

The grenades were effective, killing several natives who had been stunned by the rockets.

Tian Guang naturally doesn't care about this. There is no need to be merciful in the royal city. You can definitely kill people on sight!
  His soldiers followed suit, killing everyone on sight and not forgetting to throw grenades.

Rushing and bombing all the way, by the time they reached the outside of the palace, he and his soldiers no longer had grenades on them.

Such a prodigal battle is really a waste, and grenades are basically not used during the other three attacks.

Because the indigenous people here were frightened by the powerful rockets falling from the sky.

Even King Lobengula was like this. He had never seen such a powerful and destructive weapon.

He didn't even know what was coming. Like most of the indigenous people, he believed it was a punishment from the gods.

He could only huddle on his throne and wait for God's judgment.

The Indunas in the kingdom were also frightened to the point of trembling, and the successive screams and explosions made their livers and gallbladders split apart!
  ……

As the sun shone on the royal city of Bulawayo again, there were more than 6,000 people left out of the original 10,000 people.

The total number of people killed by the four invading troops was more than a thousand.

Most of the remaining people died from shock, splashing of debris from the explosion, and choking to death from smoke.

This victory was really smooth!

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