This violent explosion caused a large amount of dust to fall from the wooden telegraph room! The explosion was deafening, and Corkin was completely frightened.
He ordered all the telegraph operators not to move, and he ran out the door as fast as he could.
What appeared in front of him was a mushroom cloud accompanied by a large amount of dust, and a large number of soldiers rushing towards the military station like ants.
Almost none of the soldiers and civilians at Homnich Military Station knew that Blacksmith Village was conducting a rocket launcher experiment today. Only a few people knew about it, and the station commander knew very well that the location of the ruins was a reference for the rocket launcher test.
Before the experiment, who would have thought that it could easily fly to 30 kilometers, and who would have thought that it would directly bomb Homnich, which is 41 kilometers away!?
Station Commander Corkin tried his best to stop the soldiers, but the soldiers were frightened and shouted for a German attack. In desperation, he could only lead a small group of people to go to the explosion site to find out what was going on.
Corkin was mentally prepared for the worst, and the reality turned out to be exactly what he imagined.
The killing modes of high-power conventional rockets and artillery shells are very similar. They both rely on shock waves to directly kill the living forces within the killing range. The so-called fragments caused by the steel outer cover are very minor.
The shock wave dealt a devastating blow to the villagers. Many people fell dead, their clothes were torn apart by the shock wave and the air wave storm. There were dozens of white corpses around the blast center.
Korkin could endure such bloody scenes. He led a dozen brave soldiers to survey the scene, but those soldiers began to retching one by one.
There was no other reason. The corpses were not simply without clothes. The shock wave even tore the skin of some people and spilled their internal organs. A large amount of debris also fell on the ground, including even the remains of some people.
A large crater more than one meter deep was blown out of the core. It was the only one that could cause such damage.
Korkin realized that something was wrong, rushed back to his telegraph room like the wind, and shouted at several telegraph operators who were waiting for orders: "Give me a message to Novgomel, I want plain language communication! I want it
Find the commander!"
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Yang Mingzhi had been waiting for the latest telegram until several radio stations present received the same message.
Because this was a clear call and the matter was of great importance, a bad premonition suddenly came to his mind, and Yang Mingzhi quickly ran over.
Over there, Culkin tried to remain calm and explained the facts of the explosion and the serious casualties straightforwardly.
"Damn it! You really made him say that he found it! You start the rescue immediately! Send the injured to the Blacksmith Village as quickly as possible, and we will send a truck to meet you as soon as possible!"
At this moment, Salinchkin and a group of people also rushed over. Something happened in the distance, otherwise Belekov would not suddenly look solemn.
Seeing that he had ended the communication, Salinchkin asked urgently: "What happened? Where did the rocket hit?"
"It's a ruin! This rocket bombed Homnich, causing huge casualties to at least fifty of us!"
Salinchkin's mind buzzed, and he thought about it for a moment. Is this possible? "This is impossible! From here to the ruins, it is more than forty kilometers. How can your rocket launcher fly so far! Do you know what forty kilometers is?
Concept?”
"I know!" Yang Mingzhi exclaimed. He was so excited that fortunately, he was restrained by several people.
At this time, Liguschkov, who was in charge of today's experiment, took over from Yang Mingzhi and said seriously: "I am sure this is true! This was what I was most worried about before the launch. I didn't expect that the rocket really flew an exaggerated distance.
But I never imagined that it would just happen to hit our people!"
"No! This is not a coincidence! Since we are using Homnich as a reference, its flight direction is only deflected by the wind. Today is a breeze! The rocket I designed is very stable. Even if it flies forty kilometers,
The deflection will not be serious! However, it actually killed our people! I killed our people!" Yang Mingzhi immediately replied.
His mood had almost recovered. This incident became more and more blackly humorous. He laughed at himself: "It's really ironic. They entered the swamp to survive. We developed new weapons to kill the enemy and avenge them. As a result, our new weapons actually killed people."
The person you want to protect!"
Salinchkin didn't talk nonsense to him, but asked several telegraph operators. When several people said conclusively that something had happened to Homnich, he believed that the rocket bomb just now was the initiator.
Yang Mingzhi showed guilt, but Ransa Linchkin didn't take it seriously. He didn't say anything about the casualties, but congratulated him in a tricky way.
He held Yang Mingzhi's hands, making the whole scene very abrupt.
"You did a great job! Comrade Berekov, you proved with your actions that this rocket flew forty kilometers and caused a devastating blow to people on the ground! I think you know the military significance of this weapon
value!"
"What?" Yang Mingzhi suddenly raised his head, "I thought you would condemn the weapons I made for killing your own people!"
"No! Why should I condemn! Do you feel guilty for such a small thing? Do you feel sorry for the dead and their families? Put away your humility! We still count on the new weapons you invented to protect the 56,000 soldiers and civilians here.
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Now Yang Mingzhi is indeed very humble, and in his opinion he has indeed made a mistake.
His job is in the military industry, and he is very aware that various problems will occur during the development and manufacturing process of weapons, and serious cases will cause death. Therefore, each military industry unit has death indicators.
However, those civilians are not within the death quota, and many people are indeed reported to have died!
As a Chinese who was naturalized as a Soviet citizen, he also served as the commander of the Army Group and the senior position of the so-called "minister of defense" of the guerrilla republic. He knew that his cornerstone of power was inherently fragile. Could it be that he was being too cautious?
What he was most worried about was this Salinchkin. Since he had shown his disapproval, it would not be right to continue pretending to be humble.
The results of the third rocket were calculated statistically, and the range of the 45-degree firing angle was recorded particularly accurately, that is, between forty and forty-three kilometers.
The experiment continued as usual, but the few reporters who were watching and the observers sent by the Communist Youth League went crazy. No one made a fuss about the casualties. They immediately recorded "new rocket launcher", "range 40 kilometers" and "brand new history" in their notebooks
"Such keywords.
The fourth rocket launcher will be fired at an angle of 60 degrees. This time Yang Mingzhi is not worried at all that it will blow up Homnich again.
Eventually, the bomb was discovered by the fifth observation team, but its impact point had already left the forest.
There is a large open space around the city of Homnich. When the 284th Division attacked it for the first time, it took advantage of the night to conduct a sneak attack with large-caliber mortars on the plains outside the city.
The explosion occurred close to the forest, but the people who stayed in the ruins of Homnich were already frightened. When they saw huge smoke rising into the sky in the distance, they began to run away again.
Fortunately, the soldiers loaded their rifles with bayonets and formed a human wall to suppress the chaos. Even so, hundreds of people fled into the forest until dark, and all these refugees returned to their settlement villages.
That’s a thing for another time.
This is what happened in the Guerrilla Republic on May 10.
The rocket launcher experiment set a new record and also made history! Salinchkin was so excited that he immediately decided to report the matter to his superiors. As a rigorous and pragmatic person, he knew that he needed to continue to investigate.
Yang Mingzhi immediately supported Sarinchkin's decision: "You can report it to Moscow as boldly as possible, and I will also report it to the Southwest Front Army Headquarters! After this experiment, this new weapon is ready for actual combat."
ability."
Salinchkin immediately asked: "Will they believe it? After all, this is a war, and war is indispensable for braggarts. The superiors need real data, even enemy kill records, in order to be convinced!"
"As for whether our superiors believe it or not, we residents of Novgomel believe it anyway! Instead of taking action against the newspaper and the Communist Youth League, we might as well immediately broadcast the incident to the entire guerrilla republic.
The superiors may not believe it, but they will soon believe it. In future wars, we will use actual results to declare the value of this strategic weapon! It will become the catalyst for our victory!"