Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 202 The Rocket Shoots the Elephant (Please Subscribe!)

I saw that near the Guards, there was a cylindrical bullet tied to a three-meter-long balance pole.

It's just that this cylindrical bullet is much larger, about one meter in length and one meter in width, presenting a perfect streamlined shape overall.

There are about 100 such super large cylindrical bullets!

The name of this thing will be famous in the future, and it will be the rocket.

To be precise, the later name of this rocket is Hale Rocket!
Manufactured by the Gunpowder Factory of the Royal Manufacturing Bureau of the Ming Dynasty, designer: Zhu Kezang, son of the Ming Dynasty.

The source of the design drawing is naturally the system, and it took a full five points.

Speaking of things like rockets, Ming Dynasty has already had them, such as Shenhuo Flying Crow.

According to literature records, the Shenhuo Flying Crow is made of bamboo as a whole. It looks like a big crow, but it is filled with gunpowder, and the bottom is tied with the main rocket. Its range and power are among the best among contemporary firearms.

Later, Ming rocket technology was introduced to India, and was soon imitated and improved by the Indians. Britain, France and other countries invaded India, and the Indian army greeted them with rockets, causing heavy losses to the British army.

After the British army conquered Mysore, the captured rockets were brought back to the country. During the Napoleonic Wars, William Congreve, an artillery colonel working in the Royal Laboratory, improved the Indian rockets and created the Congreve rockets. .

Regardless of the power, both the Shenhuo Crow and the Congreve Rocket born in 1808 have a fatal flaw:

That is, thank God that these two weapons can fly forward when they are launched. If you are unlucky or the propulsion rockets are not installed properly, the Shenhuo Raven and Congreve Rockets are likely to fly back after a few laps in the air, accidentally injuring friendly forces !

The Hale rocket is different. It has three small holes in the tail of the cylindrical cartridge, and three spiral plates that are inclined and stable are installed here.

The gunpowder gas ejected from the small hole at the tail of the rocket makes the rocket spin in flight to achieve stability. This new design greatly improves the accuracy and hit rate of the rocket.

It's just a pity that the invention of the Hale rocket is as late as the invention of the Minie rifle, at the end of the nineteenth century.

After these two epoch-making weapons were invented, the world's weapons soon changed from front-loading to rear-loading, completing the update iteration.

As a result, these two weapons were eliminated by history without showing their power at all.

But the Hale rocket was definitely a big killer in the seventeenth century!
Because Hale's whole body is dark, it will rotate after being launched, so Zhu Kezang named it Black Whirlwind Type 1.

The appearance of the Black Whirlwind 1 rocket has greatly made up for the vacancy of the new big firearm, because it does not require heavy artillery to launch, and the combat will be more flexible and changeable, and it has precise strike capabilities!
Moreover, the black whirlwind rocket is not high in technology content, and its construction is very simple, so it can be installed on a large scale.

No, the guards brought more than 100 Hale rockets to test the waters this time!
It can only be said that the elephants in Ayutthaya are so lucky!

Just when Daming was about to launch the rocket, on the wall of Ayutthaya City, Nalai Bashatong looked at the Ming army outside the city with a serious face.

The Ming army's formation was dense and neatly arranged like squares. The dragon flags were fluttering and the Ming army in uniform uniforms rushed towards them with an aura of momentum. People couldn't help being deeply shocked.

Even the servant army was still in good order. Facing the charge of the elephants, they didn't even move!

At this moment, King Narai Prashatong of Ayutthaya doubted whether the elephant soldiers could be relied on.

But there is no other way, even if his heart is pounding, he can only choose to believe in Xiang Bing.

Soon, the faith in his heart collapsed.

Although elephants are huge, they are very timid. They are very ferocious animals and loud noises, and they are especially afraid of fire. Elephants will be frightened when they encounter these things.

Therefore, the rocket is the deadly nemesis of the elephant soldiers!

The guards ignited the fuse of the rocket, and with the sound of sizzling, clusters of orange flames rose up, and amidst the sound of swishing, rockets flew into the sky one after another with flames.

Seeing the big rocket flying out with flames and white smoke, everyone couldn't help looking up, and Zhu Kezang was even more shocked, as if seeing the scene of rocket launchers in the army of later generations.

The endless sound of explosions came from a distance, the sky was full of flames, dust was flying, and a burst of gunpowder smoke was blowing over with the wind.

The huge explosion of the black whirlwind rocket disturbed the usual comfortable war elephants. Some elephants wandered around, trying to find this invisible "enemy". Because they couldn't find it, the war elephants became restless and even pulled the elephants on their backs. The soldiers were overturned to the ground.

And some elephants were even more unlucky, being directly hit by the black whirlwind rocket.

What happens when you hit it?

Objects running at high speed are sharp. An ordinary playing card, if given enough speed, can penetrate a concrete wall, or even an ordinary piece of white paper, if it flies fast enough, it can cut off a person's head.

After the rocket is fired, because the speed has increased several times, the unarmored part of the Ayutthaya elephant is the belly!

As long as it hits the war elephant's belly, it can pierce the rough skin and flesh of the war elephant, and the rocket will hang on the war elephant's belly.

There were really a few elephants on the scene who were unlucky and were hit in the stomach by the black whirlwind rocket.

At the beginning, the war elephant could not feel any pain, but the rocket was still bound with ignited gunpowder. The amount of the gunpowder was not too much, but it was all powerful sugar gunpowder!
The rocket exploded on the elephant's belly, and the elephant's skin was torn apart, and even the thick intestines flowed out.

"Shoot the Polu cannon and rockets together to kill them!" Zhu Kezang ordered.

Boom boom boom.
Under the pouring firepower of Polu artillery and rockets, there was another one-sided massacre on the battlefield.

At this time, Ayutthaya's army was on the verge of collapse.

The little hope in Nalai Bashatong's heart was shattered by the rockets of the Ming army. Seeing the precious war elephants falling head to head under his eyes, his heart was bleeding, and the wounds were worse than the wounds on the belly of the war elephants. Arrows are big.

In desperation, Nalai Bashatong ordered the withdrawal of the elephant soldiers.

But at this time, the elephant herd was already seriously frightened, and they no longer obeyed the orders of the elephant soldiers. They seemed to be frightened by Daming's black technology, and either fled to the sides, or turned around and ran back.

The fleeing war elephants had become a disaster. They ran amok and scattered the infantry formation of the Ayutthaya army.

Seeing that the enemy army was in chaos, Zhu Kezang ordered a full-line pursuit.

Although Ming was chasing from all sides, the guards still kept a certain distance from the enemy. If the distance was too close, not only would they not be able to take advantage of the range advantage of the trigger rifle, but they would also be vulnerable to desperate counterattacks.

There are servants in hand-to-hand combat, and the guards don't need to rush too hard.

On the battlefield, the guards drove the servants towards the chaotic Ayutthaya infantry.

Nalai Prashatong closed his eyes in pain, the situation is gone!
(End of this chapter)