On September 15th, Li Zhi stood on the shooting range south of Fanjiazhuang, operating a "strange" new weapon.
Li Xing, who returned to Fanjiazhuang to mobilize troops, had never seen such a weapon.
This weapon is composed of sixteen rocket launchers. The sixteen launchers are divided into two rows, upper and lower, with eight in each row. The launchers are packed with sixteen rockets. The fuses of the rockets come from the tail of the launcher.
The hole is exposed. You only need to hold a torch to ignite all sixteen rockets one by one.
Different from the shoulder-mounted rocket launcher that weighs more than ten kilograms, the rockets in this new weapon have a larger caliber and longer length. Li Xing feels that this new rocket launcher weighs at least forty kilograms, and its power may be even more amazing.
The warhead of this kind of rocket is about forty pounds. Li Xing has never seen the explosive power of forty pounds of nitrocellulose gunpowder.
That power must be extremely powerful.
The rocket launcher is tilted upward, and the angle of inclination is controlled by a rotating rod. There is a nameplate on the angle between the rocket launcher and the bottom platform, which marks different distances at different angles. For example, if it is tilted upward like this
The temperature rises about fifteen degrees and is just one thousand meters above the nameplate.
Underneath the densely packed rocket launcher are four wheels, turning the entire launch device into a vehicle that can move quickly. Behind the wheels are iron rods that fix the vehicle, which can stabilize the vehicle when the rocket launcher is fired and prevent the entire tank from moving backwards.
move.
Li Zhi gave this weapon a very resounding name, called the "Hell" rocket car.
Li Xing looked at the rocket car again and said, "Brother, why does this rocket car look so murderous? It's really scary with so much gunpowder hanging on it."
Li Zhi smiled and said: "The hell car is certainly not an ordinary thing."
Li Zhi stood next to the rocket vehicle and directed the "rocket vehicle soldiers" to conduct a final inspection of the weapon.
Soon, the inspection was over. Li Zhi clapped his hands and asked the rocket soldiers to start shooting at the target 800 meters away.
The rocket soldier aimed the target 800 meters away from the sight on the rocket launcher and adjusted the horizontal angle of the rocket vehicle. Then he took out the ranging tools commonly used by the artillery and conducted a simple range measurement on the target.
.Finally, the rocket soldier began to turn the rocker next to the launcher and adjusted the elevation angle of the rocket launcher to 800 meters.
After completing a series of operations, the rocket soldiers lit the rocket fuse at the rear of the rocket vehicle.
The rockets were ignited one by one, so they were fired one after another. Only a loud roaring sound was heard, and huge flames and shock waves continued to emerge from the rear of the rocket car. The shock wave
The area behind the launch vehicle was sprayed with sand and rocks, and all debris and soil on the ground were sprayed into the air.
Sixteen rockets were shot out one by one like sixteen lightning bolts. The rockets drew more than a dozen beautiful arcs in the air, and finally landed in the distance 800 meters away.
Li Zhi fired all training bombs this time. In order to save gunpowder, the training bombs did not have a combat unit and would not explode. All sixteen rockets were embedded in the soil and scattered dozens of meters around the target area.
Li Zhi led everyone to the target area to observe the impact point of the rocket.
Li Xing looked left and right near the target area, frowned and said, "Brother, these rockets are a bit too far off. One in the east and one in the west are at least forty meters away from the target. Look at that one, they all fell."
Go to target area 6, more than 70 meters away. If the aim is not accurate, I am afraid it will be a waste of ammunition."
After a pause, Li Xing touched his chin and said: "But there is no way, the rocket will definitely miss it at such a long distance."
Li Zhi smiled and said, "I'll blow one up and show it to you."
Li Zhi waved his hand and everyone retreated. The rocket soldier loaded an ordinary bomb on the rocket truck and fired at the target area again.
The ordinary bomb flew over with a scream and plunged into the soil. After three seconds of silence in the soil, the rocket exploded with a loud bang, causing a huge shock wave.
The iron slag in the rocket rushed out with the huge shock wave, setting off a fire storm within a range of 20 meters. Finally, all the shock waves and flames turned into a large fireball more than 20 meters long, emitting a dazzling fireball.
The light illuminated Li Xing, who was holding a telescope for observation, and his eyes turned white.
When the fireball turned into black smoke and floated into the sky, the ground was scorched black, leaving a shallow crater more than ten centimeters deep.
Li Xing was shocked by the power of this heavy rocket. He rubbed his eyes and was speechless.
Li Zhi said: "This kind of heavy rocket is more powerful. Even if the landing point is not precise, sixteen rockets can blow up a target area dozens of meters long and wide into a sea of fire. Of course, such bombing may not be possible.
Destroy all the targets in the target area, and maybe half of the targets will not be hit."
"But this weapon is designed to deal with dense groups of enemies. In the face of such a violent explosion, the killing effect must be huge. Accuracy is not such a serious issue."
Li Xing rubbed his eyes vigorously, nodded and said: "This new weapon is amazing! Big brother is mighty!"
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In Kaifeng City, Li Zicheng sat on the throne in the second palace of Prince Zhou's Mansion and took a deep breath.
The civil servants and generals under Li Zicheng's tent sat on the chairs at the bottom. These people were all from the bottom of the society, and they sat up and staggered. Some people put one foot on the chair, and some simply squatted on the chair. Only Li Guo and Niu
The two civil servants in Jinxing sit more upright, which can be regarded as a bit of a sitting posture.
However, everyone's face was filled with sadness, and they seemed to be under great pressure.
This pressure undoubtedly came from Li Zhi. A few days ago, Li Zicheng arranged for a whistle in Tianjin to send news that Li Zhi had completely defeated the Koreans. Now North Korea has become a province under Li Zhi's rule.
In this way, the situation where North Korea, the Chuang Army and the Jiangbei Army besieged Li Zhi turned into a situation where the Chuang Army and the Jiangbei Army faced Li Zhi's troops alone.
What's even more frightening is that with the development of the war, Li Zhi's 40,000 recruits have now been training for half a year. As a result, Li Zhi's recruits have also gained considerable combat effectiveness. In other words, the 50,000 recruits who were used in the past few months have not
Li Zhi, who has the strength to entangle the intruders and the Jiangbei Army, can now mobilize at least 70,000 to 80,000 troops to go south.
This situation gave Li Zicheng a feeling of impending disaster.
Li Zicheng was very afraid of Li Zhi.
In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng captured Luoyang and used the power of killing King Fu to besiege Kaifeng. As a result, in Kaifeng Li Zicheng met Li Zhi who had just killed Zhang Xianzhong, and was defeated by Li Zhi at once. Li Zhi fought extremely hard in that battle
To put it lightly, Li Zicheng's more than 30,000 soldiers and horses collapsed before they could even touch the clothes of the Tiger Army.
Now that Li Zhi's troops were stronger, Li Zicheng felt powerless against Li Zhi.