Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 325 Chemical Weapons
On an unknown mound, the engineering battalion of the Fourth Army has already set up three lines of defense and four deep traffic trenches, organizing its strict firepower system to resist the [-] cavalry encircled in front of it.

Although these [-] iron cavalry belonged to different tribes, relying on their large numbers and high morale, they charged desperately at the Fourth Army's position. The soldiers of the Fourth Army did not know how many enemies they had repelled. attack.

In short, now on the entire grassy slope, the corpses left behind have already covered the entire field, and the soldiers of the Fourth Army have also begun to suffer casualties, and many even have to take up bayonets to fight these cavalry. , so it didn't cause too much impact.

Huang Taiji, Wu Xiang, and the cavalry of the Mongolian tribes were also very distressed by the infantry of the imperial guards. They never thought that the infantry could dig pits in the wild for defensive warfare. Their own cavalry were good at swift mobile warfare on the grasslands. But as long as you want to eat him, you have to eat him, and you have to pay casualties, but now everyone has their own little calculations. Although they are all rushing together, they deliberately eat him. Slowed down the pace, waited for the opponent to get enough shots first, and increased the speed himself.

Seeing that this was not an option, these enemy chieftains who resisted Ming changed their battle plan and began to surround the Fourth Army and attack the Third Army.

The Fourth Army, like the Third Army, is a mixed infantry regiment. It is armed to the teeth and uses the latest scientific research crystals of Ming Dynasty. There are all kinds of deadly weapons, such as tear gas. The main ingredients are methane and Hydrogen sulfide, of which the most toxic is hydrogen sulfide. When the concentration is too high, it can irritate the pear blossoms with rain and make people dizzy and soft. However, the Fourth Army will release them wantonly when the wind direction is right, forcing the enemy cavalry who finally rushed up had to withdraw quickly;

Now there is no convention prohibiting the use of chemical weapons, so this kind of toxic gas is better than any flintlock pistol. The bullet may not make a brave man fall down, but the magical hydrogen sulfide can make a The strong Tartar fainted in a few seconds, but this poisonous gas was extremely easy to deal with. Just cover your face with a wet cloth. Hydrogen sulfide is very soluble in water, and the toxicity of hydrogen sulfide can be quickly neutralized.

But the Tartars didn't understand these methods, and they had no choice but to exclaim that the Ming soldiers in front of them knew sorcery.

Therefore, although the Fourth Army cannot be as mobile as the cavalry, once it turns to defensive warfare, it can exert huge combat effectiveness.

However, infantry like the Fourth Army also has its own shortcomings, that is, they are not very proactive. Once they are besieged, they will fall into a stalemate of being exhausted. And the situation of fighting recklessly with the enemy cavalry.

As the commander-in-chief of the West Route Army, Obai knew the weakness of the Fourth Army, so when tens of thousands of enemy cavalry attacked the Fourth Army, he was not worried about the Fourth Army's mistakes. At that time, he had to stop fighting outside and keep harvesting the vitality of the enemy cavalry. He had to lead the main force to rescue the Fourth Army.

Otherwise, the Fourth Army could only be besieged to death, or had to rush out and be wiped out by enemy cavalry several times the size of the enemy.

But it also fell into the arms of these enemy chiefs. Their purpose was to encircle and fight for reinforcements, so they immediately encircled the remaining [-] cavalry towards the third army.

kill!

The [-] elite cavalry of the third army had to cooperate with the [-] iron cavalry in front of the fourth army to launch an attack. Fortunately, their firearms were sharp, which made up for the lack of proficiency in bows and arrows due to the large number of recruits on their side. In the contact battle, it can quickly block the enemy's attack and kill the enemy cavalry.

This is the first time that the Third Army of the Praetorian Guards has really fought against the most powerful cavalry in the world who are several times stronger than the enemy and have more experience than themselves. They plowed into this hard brown iron stream like plowshares, tenacious and unyielding, Eyes filled with desire for blood.

A year ago, they were just farmers who worked hard in the fields or scholars who studied hard in private schools. Anyway, most of them were honest and obeyed the rules. But at this moment, their performance is more brave than these Tartar cavalrymen. Under the generous welfare system and strong ideological education, these soldiers of the Imperial Guard, who were easily remolded by thought, forgot what death was, and inspired the inherent bloodiness of the Han people.

At the same time, the Fourth Army also launched an attack. Since the Third Army dared to attack several times for their Fourth Army, the members of their Fourth Army naturally cannot be cowards.

Lu Jiayu, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army, rushed out of the trenches first, and the officers of the other towns, brigades, battalions, teams, and battalions rushed out first. Mobilize the greatest fearlessness of soldiers as possible.

Except that the artillery needs to be buried, an infantry battalion is left to guard all kinds of artillery with key technologies and serve as a reserve.

The rest of the soldiers of the Fourth Army began to actively dive down towards the enemy cavalry in front of them. Since they were all equipped with percussion rifles that were faster to operate and had a longer range, the Ace Battalion rushed to the front, with dense and high-frequency The bullets from the bullets overturned the enemy army in front, with the purpose of disrupting the enemy army's formation, and the cavalry in front did indeed have riots.

The other two infantry battalions attacked from the left and right wings, and guarded against the enemy cavalry rushing up from both sides, and the engineer battalion was at the end.

The artillery has stopped attacking. This kind of close-range hand-to-hand combat is of little use to them, but the Feitian Battalion is still exerting its own attack, and the incendiary packets are still falling on the dense cavalry group, but these enemy cavalry It seems that they have also learned a lesson and dare not arrange too densely to avoid greater damage, but this is more conducive to the soldiers of the Fourth Army being embedded like wedges.Tens of thousands of cavalry were confined in this small space, which seriously affected the combat effectiveness, while the soldiers of the Fourth Army were better at stabbing the horse's belly with bayonets and chopping off the horse's legs.

The enemy cavalry had to retreat to create enough maneuvering space to encircle and annihilate the fourth army rushing out of the trench. As long as they were not pestered by this group of Ming army infantry like mad dogs, the cavalry on their side could completely defeat them. This Ming army was wiped out.

Here, because the Fourth Army forced the enemy cavalry to retreat strategically, while the Third Army has gathered more and more enemy cavalry, and many soldiers of the Third Army have become the dead souls of the enemy .

Even Zhu Youjian himself had disheveled hair, several scars on his face, and several gaps in the bloody knife, and all his soldiers had died, and the entire first brigade had lost one-third of it.

Lu Jiayu of the Fourth Army knew that the enemy cavalry would launch a more violent attack in the future, but his Fourth Army could not stick to the trenches and be trapped to death, and he could not just watch the cavalry of the Third Army The soldiers were gathered and wiped out by the enemy cavalry.

"How much gas do we have?" Lu Jiayu asked.

Yang Tinglin simply threw the glass glasses that had lost half of the lens on the ground, took out another pair and put them on again, and said, "There are still thirty bags (about two thousand liters in each bag), and there are [-] bags left before this departure." It is expected to be attacked by a large number of cavalry, so prepare more, after all, this guy is better than firearms but easier to carry."

"Choose [-] dead soldiers from the cavalry battalion, and rush into the enemy camp with these [-] bags of gas, letting off gas and charging until everyone falls down!"

Lu Jiayu spoke and said: "I am one of the three hundred dead soldiers. Now you, Yang Daxiu, will lead the whole army. Go and select soldiers!"

"No! You are Lu Ge's younger brother and one of the five chief soldiers of our imperial guards. You can't make any mistakes, let me go." Yang Tinglin was scolded by Lu Jiayu when he said that: "Execute the order! "

Although Yang Tinglin was the governor, he was indeed Lu Jiayu's subordinate in terms of military command, so he shut his mouth when he scolded him like this, and could only answer loudly, "Yes!"

"The family is not an only child, and those who have not yet married a wife and have children, and those who dare to die for my Ming Dynasty and His Majesty the Emperor, stand up if they meet these three conditions!"

Yang Tinglin quickly selected [-] relatively brave death-death fighters from the two cavalry battalions of the Fourth Army based on this standard, and formed a death-death squad of ten people, each carrying a gas bag and wearing a special mask. Putting on a mask, he rode his horse and killed the iron cavalry who had also charged from the opposite side.

"The Feitian Battalion went directly to help the third army, and the rest of the battalions immediately got on the four-wheeled chariots and organized an array. Once the gas poisonous gas spreads and the enemy cavalry appears to be fainted in a large area, they will rush up and kill me fiercely. !"

When Yang Tinglin was talking, he saw the third army soldiers disappearing on the horses one by one in the distance, and he couldn't help but feel a little sad. One of them was his classmate in the Royal Military Academy back then, and he was also the descendant of the former Zhengqing of Dali Temple. Sun, like himself, has the same ambition to serve as a soldier, but now he is separated from him, which makes Yang Tinglin's eyes tear up.

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Jiannu Abatai and Badali from the Horqin tribe led their fine cavalry to the front, their eyes were already showing excitement, and they were confident that they could crush the Ming army team in front of them after a single charge shape.

But they were surprised by the [-] Ming army cavalry who suddenly rushed directly towards them, even though they also knew that the Ming army now has a very powerful sorcery, which can make everyone cry when the southeast wind blows. Those who smelled the pungent smell would feel weak and dizzy for a moment; but they didn't know that the gas in these big bags in front of them was the kind of gas that could kill people instantly.

Therefore, Abatai and Badali rushed forward with tens of thousands of fine cavalry without any scruples. They wanted to teach the Ming army a lesson, so that they should not think that a few hundred cavalry could withstand their own tens of thousands of cavalry. attack.

But when they started fighting, they could hear the sound of barking, and then some cavalrymen could feel as if they were drained of strength in an instant.

Some Tartars just put their knives on the neck of a Ming army, but because of dizziness, the Ming army soldier who almost died cut his throat first.

In fact, before the Tartars themselves fell to the ground, the galloping horses fell to the ground first because they breathed a lot of poisonous gas, and even the Tartars on horseback fell to the ground.

"The Ming army is displaying evil wind again!" Some Tartars panicked and wanted to retreat, but they are all charging now, and a quick retreat can only bring worse consequences, just like a sudden reverse on a highway will cause even more tragic accidents car accident.

The poisonous gas began to spread, and countless Tartar cavalry who were advancing bravely like tanks just now fell down a large area, like a sorghum field swept by a storm.

kill!

Yang Tinglin rushed over with the rest of the soldiers of the Fourth Army. Originally, in front of the cavalry, only the battered infantry reaped the lives of these cavalry. It was as simple as shooting a dead man.

Lu Jiayu continued to sprint in and release the poisonous gas. Even though many of them had been shot to the ground, and even though they themselves would feel a little unwell due to inhaling a small amount of gas, as long as they didn't fall down, We must continue to poison.

If it weren't for the fact that the gas density is not high, and it fell on the soldiers of the Feitian Battalion who were thrown from the sky and affected them, the soldiers of the Feitian Battalion would have already released countless gas gas among the enemy cavalry who were besieging the third army. It will cause a larger killing area than the burning pack.

However, the burning packs left behind still caused losses to many enemy cavalry, and also dashed the desire of these enemy cavalry to quickly encircle and annihilate the fourth and third armies.

The durability of the cavalry's fighting power is also limited. It is impossible for the horses to run nervously and violently all the time. Even humans cannot adapt to it. Therefore, after sunset, when it was dark, the enemy cavalry decisively withdrew from the battle.

The Fourth Army and the Third Army were able to survive the most difficult day safely.

Fighting fiercely with more than [-] Tartar cavalry, it has to be said that this was a battle that tempered the soldiers. Even if the surviving soldiers were severely disabled, they were a bit more fierce and murderous than before.

They leaned on each other, supported each other, gathered together, surrounded their respective chiefs, and stared at the blazing bonfire in a daze.

The wolves in the distance didn't dare to approach them, but they started to cry and roar first. The sound of crying and roaring was sad and desolate, as if they had changed their teens in one day.

Except that Lu Jiayu suffered a little pain in his arm, was shot in the ribs by an arrow, and was a little dizzy due to inhaling a little poisonous gas, his life was not in great danger, and his Fourth Army was not seriously reduced, and the number of casualties was only three. More than a thousand people, but Oboi's third cavalry army suffered more than [-] casualties, a full third, but fortunately, the organizational system is still complete, and the ability to survive is due to riding skills and willpower that cannot be underestimated. The elite cavalry is the essence of forming a larger cavalry in the future.

However, the bigger problem he faces is not morale and combat attrition, but logistical resources, consumption of ammunition, medicine, food and water resources, which is probably the biggest difficulty for the West Route Army at present.

Aobai wasn't sure how long it could last, and Lu Jiayu also mentioned: "I don't know how the East Route Army is progressing. If His Majesty doesn't issue an order to retreat again, our West Route Army may have to pay for everything here."

　In the two-in-one chapter, sometimes the golden finger does not have to be limited to physics. To deal with cavalry, it is difficult to rely on spears and firearms. Don’t forget that science also has chemistry and biology. There is no prohibition on the use of chemistry in this era. The treaty of weapons, in the face of alkane gases and sulfur gases, as long as it is a living organism (except for special ones), it will not be able to withstand it. The key is that these things are easier to manufacture than complex firearms. I ate hydrogen sulfide during my internship at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. I also know how to ferment and produce it by screening strains (in fact, the purpose is still to produce methane). There is only 2L, which irritated me and made me very uncomfortable at the time.

　　
　
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