Chapter 388 When Cossacks meet gas bombs
The death of the Massac cavalry nobleman Batloskiv was eventually known by the Cossack cavalry who fought all the way to East and West Siberia. It is worthy of your collection.
Unsurprisingly, Batloskiv's death made them very angry. They shouted to kill all the Han people and let the Ming Dynasty taste the most painful lesson.
But what they did not expect was that Mao Wenlong, as the general of Daming Temple Street, had already asked the Third Cavalry Brigade of the First Army of the Imperial Guard to launch the first attack on these Cossack cavalry.
Mao Wenlong's Cossack cavalry had strong combat effectiveness, and he also knew that the strength of his Ming army in Miaojie and Waixinganling was not enough to compete with this powerful cavalry that had swept across Europe and Asia.
But since he had shot Bartrowskif, one of the leaders of the Massac cavalry, because he insisted on abiding by the principles of the Ming soldiers and winning the hearts of the Ming people in this area, and caused his Ming army to have a war with the Cossack cavalry, why should he wait for the Cossack cavalry to attack him?
Since you are going to fight, you should take the initiative and seize the opportunity. You cannot be at a disadvantage before the fight.
Therefore, while Mao Wenlong, as the general officer, immediately organized troops and formed a militia team to concentrate a large number of people in Longshanwei and Miaojie, he asked Zhu Guozheng to lead the only mobile cavalry here in the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Guard Cavalry 3rd Brigade to East and West Siberia to harass the Cossack cavalry, trying to slow down the speed of the Cossack cavalry, and at the same time gave Mao Wenlong more time to further strengthen the walls and clear the fields and consolidate the city defense.
It is almost October now, and there is snow in East Siberia, and the temperature is extremely low, almost to the point where the gas turns into ice.
For the Cossack cavalry who fought in such cold environments all year round, it was nothing. Their fat thickness was better than that of the Ming army, who grew up with small grains rather than a large amount of meat.
Therefore, cold is nothing to them. With this kind of snowy field, even at night, the vision is excellent and they do not avoid being attacked. Therefore, they would not expect that other cavalry would dare to attack them on them.
They didn't even think that other cavalry would dare to go deep into such extremely cold places at this time, so they didn't care about defense, and even their consciousness had no word to defend.
They are the most vicious wolf packs in the Siberian plains. They are evil wolves who attack and have no defensive reason.
But now it is the Imperial Guards who want to attack them!
But these Cossack cavalry still believed that the Ming army was waiting for them to fight. This was the European army. No matter how powerful the combat power and how advanced the weapons were, the tactics were always not so flexible. For the battles of hundreds of thousands of years of war and a large number of 100,000 people, countless examples of winning with fewer battles were written into textbooks, and thus formed a science, the soldiers would never be tired of deceit.
War is a treacherous way!
Now, Mao Wenlong and Zhu Guozheng, two generals who are not very powerful in Chinese history, will teach these arrogant European reckless men a lesson!
Although it is extremely cold in this area now, the Imperial Guards of the Ming Dynasty, especially the Third Brigade, have received these cold-resistant training, and are wearing cold-proof uniforms specially made by the Royal Weaving Bureau. Even the horses have also undergone severe cold training. Now they are also covered with lightweight but extremely air-tight clothes that are easy to increase warmth.
Moreover, both people and horses are wearing special anti-slip shoes. These anti-slip shoes can be disassembled and can be turned into sleds at any time. Once, they are directly changed to sleds to marches in the snow quickly, and even carriages loaded with artillery, other heavy weapons and baggage also have anti-slip chains.
Zhu Guozheng, the Third Cavalry Brigade of the Imperial Guards, did not bother to pull out the ice residue on his beard. He was breathing white, and he took the reflection of the snow to seriously observe the group of Cossack cavalrymen in front of the bright night of the starry sky with the reflection of the snow, chanting with wolf legs, and observing the wind direction.
After confirming that the wind direction turned to blowing towards the Cossack Cavalry, Zhu Guozheng immediately waved his hand: "Flash!"
Because the Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Youxiao was born in a medical field, and the foundation of medicine was biology and chemistry, the fastest-growing field of scientific research in the Ming Dynasty is biochemistry, because for biochemistry, Zhu Youxiao not only provides information and theoretical explanations.
Therefore, now, whenever the Ming army started a war, they like to give the enemy a biochemical meeting first, especially after the conquering the Korchin tribe and the Khalkha tribe, this method has been tried and tested.
Of course, the best way to directly deploy fierce viruses, such as plague virus and Vibrio cholerae, which can kill tens of millions of killing weapons at one time.
Moreover, Zhu Youxiao is also good at this, and his doctoral direction is infectious science and virology.
But now in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao dared not play this or this. Once this virus is improperly protected in the laboratory or leaks, it will cause a major biochemical disaster that no dynasty can resist.
The virus plunder cannot be solved by repairing dams and relieving famines.
Therefore, the Ming army can only play with primary biological and chemical weapons, that is, to put some very irritating smells or toxic gases on the enemy first, so that the enemy will die for a while. When they have no combat power or their combat power has seriously declined, it will often lead to twice the result with half the effort. In this case, let alone the Cossacks, you are not much taller than the Ming army, which has not been declining by sweet potatoes and potatoes for hundreds of years. Even if they are really several times taller, they will be slaughtered casually like fat pigs!
Of course, the production, transportation, storage and delivery of poison gas are difficult here, especially when deploying, once the wind direction is wrong, the poison gas will easily drift to your own camp, which will cause the enemy to be drowsy and make you drowsy.
In addition, many poisonous gases have extremely high production risk and are difficult to achieve high concentrations of pure hydrogen sulfide or hydrogen chloride with the highest lethality, so the Ming army has few such weapons, and the Ming Dynasty was not considered conventional weapons at this time.
Even in the Imperial Guards, there is only such weapon configuration in the brigade or above, and there is a professional and technical personnel from a battalion-level unit that is responsible for the transportation, storage and delivery of poison gas of the brigade.
If it weren't for the fact that this poisonous gas was not a conventional weapon, Mao Wenlong wouldn't have to go through a lot of effort to negotiate with the Cossack cavalry, because as long as there was poisonous gas, it could be released on a large scale, and with more advanced muskets and artillery, let alone the Cossack cavalry, even the Mongolian iron hooves in their heyday could not resist it.
However, the Royal Academy of Engineering has made great improvements in the release process of hydrogen sulfide gas bombs. At least there is no need to use a dead soldier to hold a gas bag and rush it into it. It is like a suicide attack, and there is no need to airdrop it. The kind of gas effect can easily be greatly reduced, and it is only suitable for the high-density formation formed during large-scale cavalry sprints to be effective.
Now, the toxic gas bomb research team of the Royal Academy of Engineering uses the principle of the warm reaction of dilute sulfuric acid and ferrous sulfide and the artillery shell research team to create this reaction system with sulfuric acid and ferrous sulfide as the main components after half a year of research. Dilute sulfuric acid will exothermic heat under dilution of water and thus prompts the rapid reaction of ferrous sulfate and dilute sulfuric acid to produce a large amount of hydrogen sulfide gas.
But the Ming Dynasty's technology is not that powerful now, and sometimes dilute hydrochloric acid is mixed with. Fortunately, the hydrogen chloride gas produced is still extremely irritating.
Using the principle of sky-rushing cannons, after a few sniffles, countless poisonous gas bombs landed in the Cossack cavalry camp in a parabolic manner. They didn't know what it was, nor did they get alert for such things that were carrying Mars but did not explode but were falling on the ground to jet.
Some Cossack cavalry even picked up the exquisite-looking shell curiously, but they instantly inhaled a lot of toxic gas and were dizzy. Some Cossack cavalry felt it was choking and kept sneezing.
Some Cossack cavalry also realized that it was the evil spirit that the Ming army had surrendered a few days ago, so they were busy pulling out their swords and fighting on horseback, but found that they were so soft that they could not even get on the horse.
The horse had no strength, shed tears, and finally fell to the ground.
"Strike!"
Suddenly the vent changed and the poison gas was blown away almost. Most of these Cossack cavalry were still losing consciousness or when consciousness declined, the two battalions of the Third Brigade of the Imperial Guard Cavalry came from the left and right wings. They did not shoot muskets, but rushed in and picked up knives and chopped them. They cut as much as they could. Before being discovered and surrounded by most of the main forces of other Cossack cavalry, they were the purpose of causing large amounts of casualties in the Cossack cavalry. No muskets were also to save ammunition. What's more, in this extremely cold, especially at night, it was not convenient to use a gun than a knife.
Jiao Lian also followed Zhu Guozheng to East Siberia, and this time he was also slashing at the head of a Cossack cavalry with a bloody knife.
The Cossack cavalry was very depressed. In his opinion, even before him, such a short man could kill four or five, but now he didn't know what magic the Ming army used, which made him weak and his body weak and his body lacked any strength, so he could only watch the cold blade slashing towards his neck, and he didn't even have the strength to speak and ask for a walk.
This is only part of the main force of the Cossack cavalry that went to East and West Siberia. In addition, it was at night and when its defense was not strict, the Third Brigade of the Imperial Guard Cavalry was able to successfully attack. If it was daytime or if the Cossack cavalry could have a little vigilance, the Third Brigade of the Imperial Guard Cavalry would not be so easy.
Anyway, no matter what, the proactive attack of the Third Brigade of the Imperial Guard Cavalry did cause great trouble to the Cossack cavalry who were clamoring to slaughter the bloody battle of Daming Temple Street. After repeated sudden and massive reductions of personnel occurred, even the Cossack cavalry, who were even stupider than pigs, began to pay attention to the Ming army, and also had to take the Ming army seriously as their strong enemy. Even if they did not take the Ming army seriously, they had to pay attention to the magic that the Ming army could make them become idiotic in an instant.
"What kind of people are that empire called Ming? Could it be that they are all devils who can use such a strange magic trick. If they catch them, they should be burned to death!"
Looking at the countless dead bodies of Cossack compatriots scattered on the boundless snow fields and the blood scabs that had condensed into blocks and shining brightly under the sun, Orknido, the Supreme Commander of the Cossack Cavalry, couldn't help but fall into deep thought. He had been furious and vowed to kill all the people of the Ming Empire, who had now admitted that the empire from the south was a strange country and did not seem easy to mess with.
However, no matter whether it is easy to mess with or not, Orknido felt that he would mess with him. Although these Ming troops were not simple, as soldiers of the Cossack cavalry, they should not be afraid of any enemy.
While Orknido ordered all departments to strengthen their security and prevented them from leaving the main force at will, he also began to learn to send out posts to find out the truth and reality further away. At the same time, he slowed down the speed of advancement and did not dare to advance rashly, because the shock brought to him by these elusive Ming troops was too great, so he had to be careful to avoid encountering more peculiar surreal elements at that time.
Therefore, Mao Wenlong was able to move strategically calmly, and almost all important materials and production workshops were moved to Miaojie by him, because Miaojie was an island surrounded by the sea and was an important place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as these Cossack cavalry did not have a navy, it would be difficult to occupy Miaojie.
By the time the main force of the Cossack cavalry in Orknido arrived at the first market town built here by the Ming Dynasty, the market town had already gone empty, and there was no room for these Cossack cavalry even left for the houses.
Because the General Office was very active in making decisions for the Ming people, they cooperated with the General Office's policy of clearing the fields, and did not leave even a piece of firewood, brick or tiles for these Cossack cavalry.
As a result, the idea of entering these towns could rob and replenish the hunger and fatigue caused by the march of hundreds of miles a year. At this time, I had to find food by myself, find firewood to make fire to keep warm, and build a house for temporary rest.
In this kind of weather, no one dares to spend the night casually. The temperature difference between day and night is too large. If you sleep outside, you may be frozen to death. Even during the march, you have to bring firewood with you at any time.
But the Cossack cavalry did not have this awareness because their logistics were always based on grassroots farmers, but now without farmers, they can only rely on themselves.
Moreover, the Third Brigade of the Imperial Guard Cavalry was still haunting them, which made these Cossack cavalry very tired now. They had to be careful of the enemy's sneak attack at night, and during the day they had to look for food. When the main force of the Cossack cavalry arrived at Longshanwei, the only city that was still in the Outer Xing'an Mountains, which had not been moved away by the people, many even the iron-killed Cossack cavalry were so tired that they sat directly on the ground, as if they wanted to rest for a while before attacking the city.
However, the Ming army had already made full preparations. In order to protect Longshan Wei and Miaojie, two commercial centers that were finally managed, Mao Wenlong ordered that all the meat be taken out for military soldiers. At the same time, a large number of militias were recruited and trained quickly. In a short period of time, the number of soldiers in the entire outer Xing'anling and Miaojie area had increased to nearly 100,000, although most of them were militias who had not killed anyone.
Chapter completed!