When Zhou Yuji followed him to the grasslands to fight the Haraqin people, he was leading a court army with a thousand households, which was affiliated with this car camp. And Yang Fan's trump card at that time was a Gatling machine gun and a shoulder-mounted gunpowder-propelled grenade.
The launchers are all held by a special separate unit among Yang Fan's servants.
These troops are highly confidential, listed separately, and belong directly to Yang Fan. No one else has the right to mobilize them. These troops can be said to be Yang Fan's most powerful troops.
Zhou Yuji saw with his own eyes how these weapons were used to reduce the dimensionality and attack the Mongols.
Especially those Gatling guns, the bullets fired by them, and the dense flames forming bullet chains, like the flaming whip held by the devil crawling out of hell, sweeping across everything.
No matter how brave or dense the enemies were, they were all wiped out.
People are like wheat that has been cut down, falling piece by piece.
At that time, he and the officers and soldiers guarding Qianhu Station in Hexi were stunned.
Of course, they were equally shocked by the shoulder-mounted gunpowder-propelled grenade. It was simply a cannon carried by infantrymen. With such huge explosive power, it could be carried and fired by a single soldier.
Huang Hao said: "How is that possible? The kind with a transmitter must be approved by the master personally. My wife does not have the authority. The newly made one I brought this time is a second-generation disposable. I did it through hard work.
There are thirty gunpowder-propelled grenades. The lady is very strict about these things. They are taken from the underground warehouse. This is a second-generation product, and the outer barrel is disposable. Just throw it away after firing, and it does not occupy the staff.
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Huang Hao asked the following to bring one up and show it to Zhou Yuji.
Zhou Yuji took a look and found that it was indeed not the kind used on the grassland.
The kind has a launcher and grenades. It can be reloaded after being fired.
It is used by troops with a separate organization. There are three groups of three, and each group has a small flag. Each group has a launcher and two ammunition carriers. A total of five rounds of ammunition are prepared. The launcher has one round in the launch tube and ammunition.
Each person carries two rounds on the back of his hand.
Each person has an engineer shovel and a flintlock double-barreled handgun as self-defense weapons. In addition to clearing the shooting position and digging bunkers, the engineer can also insert it into the ground and place the front end of the launch tube on it to form a stable stand. It is easy to raise.
Aiming accuracy in windy weather.
This kind of grenade is very heavy, one weighs twenty-five kilograms. One person can only carry two grenades. No matter how many people can carry it, they will not be able to march long distances.
This kind of weapon is mainly used to ensure its power and is used to destroy solid fortifications, heavy siege vehicles, large building vehicles and other equipment. The warhead has a specially increased charge of fertilizer and explosives.
The warhead and the propellant cartridge are separate, and they are installed and rotated during launch. The warheads include shock wave-based high-explosive bombs, personnel fragmentation anti-personnel bombs, white phosphorus aluminum powder white sugar incendiary bombs, napalm bombs, etc.
The master attaches great importance to this kind of weapon, and only equips it with a separate grenade battalion organized by the servant system. There are no troops outside at all. You can't even see it. The warehouse is also a secret underground warehouse and is heavily guarded.
Zhou Yuji looked at the gunpowder-propelled grenade in Huang Hao's hand. He felt that it was shoddily made and looked very rough. The outer tube was actually made of iron mesh, cowhide, and paper tubes wrapped in it. The launch was actually ignited by a fire stick.
Zhou Yuji asked in surprise: "Can this thick paper tube work? Will it not explode?"
Huang Hao said: "When I first got it, I was shocked. My wife said it was to save costs. All unnecessary things were simplified. There is no problem with safety. This thing is equivalent to a front-loading, smooth-bore.
For recoilless rifles, the outer barrel is stress-free, so if it is used once, there will be no problem at all."
Huang Hao explained: "The inside of this barrel is made of iron mesh and cowhide tightly wrapped around the barrel. I fired a test round. There is no problem at all, but my shoulders are a little burnt, so I need to put a wet hand towel on it."
Zhou Yuji said: "It seems that there is a demand for this kind of weapon on the front line. But it is expensive and must be kept secret. Uncle Dingyuan specially made this beggar's version, which lowered the threshold for application and reduced costs and manufacturing.
The craftsmanship is difficult. Especially this kind of one-canister, one-bullet, throw-away after being shot. It does not occupy the establishment. It can be issued to any troops in need for flexible use. It is really a genius idea. I just don’t know how powerful it is."
Huang Hao said with some regret: "The power is far behind. The heavy-duty ones are loaded with ten kilograms of explosives. This kind of weight only weighs ten kilograms in total, and the warhead charge is only more than three kilograms. The range is only thirty meters."
Zhou Yuji picked it up and looked at it again and again and said, "Okay, it's better than nothing. Give it a try."
Seeing that Zhou Yuji was interested, Huang Hao looked at the mark on the outer barrel and said, "This is a high-explosive bomb. It's meant to hit people. You can try it by aiming it at a densely populated place outside the wall."
Zhou Yuji imitated the movements of the launchers he saw on the grassland last year. He put the launch tube on his shoulder and put a piece of leather on it. He held the handle with his left hand and narrowed his left eye.
He pointed his right eye at the crosshair, aimed at the door, and aimed at a place on the city wall. A large number of rebels climbed up there and occupied a large section of the city wall. They were fighting with the defenders.
He aimed at the dozens of ladders behind them that were placed close together on the city wall, and the enemy troops swarming up from the densely packed ladders.
"How to launch?" Zhou Yuji took aim and asked Huang Hao.
Huang Hao stretched out his hand and tore off a piece of oil paper stuck to the right side of the launch tube to reveal the fuse inside. Then he took out the torch from his pocket, opened the torch, and blew it with his mouth.
"Are you aiming?"
"Sure, let's light the fire."
Huang Hao lit the fuse, which was a seven-second fuse.
Because it is designed to be launched by a single person.
Therefore, tear off the oil paper with one hand, pull out the fuse, ignite it, put away the ignition stick, and still have time to aim again. This prevents aiming failure due to this series of actions.
Zhou Yuji felt a little nervous. He was also worried that the thing would suddenly explode and blow up everyone on the platform.
He knew the power of this fertilizer explosive. Two pellets the size of soybeans could blow off a leg.
This is packed with more than three kilograms of explosives. If it went off here, he, Huang Hao, Eunuch Wang Kun, and these guards would all be turned into pieces and scattered.
Zhou Yuji's breathing was rapid, and the knuckles of his left hand holding the handle and the right hand holding the front of the launch tube turned white from exerting force.
At this time, he heard a bang, and the launch tube suddenly lifted up. He felt a huge flame spurting out from his back. Fortunately, there was no one standing behind him, otherwise it would have been a burning sparrow.
This thing cannot be used in confined spaces, such as fortresses and houses. If the flame is blocked, it will return and burn the shooter. He thought in his heart.
He felt a flash of white light in front of his eyes, and his eyes couldn't see clearly for a moment. Then he saw fire and thick smoke spraying out from the front end.
Compared with the first-generation powerful grenade, the speed of the grenade is not too fast. Unlike the cannonball, which exceeds the speed of sound, it cannot be seen by the eyes. This grenade can clearly see the black shadow of the projectile flying away.
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At this time, he felt the hotness of the launch tube, and he quickly threw it away and blew on his hands with his mouth.
At this time, I saw black grenades flying directly towards those dense ladders and got directly down.
But there was no explosion. Zhou Yuji was a little confused, was it a stink bomb?
"Don't worry, this is time information. It will not detonate until the fuse is burned into the warhead." Huang Hao explained.
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud bang and a ball of flames exploded.
There were no defenders around, only dense rebels. The huge explosion shock wave swept across a distance of more than ten meters. The rebels who had occupied a section of the city wall about twenty meters were all blown away.
Zhou Yuji was horrified to see that all the ladders were blown up and flew into the sky, and even a piece of black stuff flew into the sky in a flake shape.
