"Fuck! Come again! You can't fight during the day! It's the same as sneak attacks at night that you can take advantage of it!" I don't know how long I slept, and two loud noises woke Hong Tao from his dream, without anyone reporting it. Hong Tao also knew what this sounded. Someone had hit the mines placed outside the cordon and hit them.

That's right, it's a landmine! This is a by-product that Cexiang made when studying mortar shells.

It is actually a mortar shell without a tail. The impact fuse is adjusted very sensitively. It is stuck with a steel ball to prevent it from falling. When used, it is inserted into the iron ring on the steel ball, and then tied the safety pin on the shell to form an interception line. As long as something accidentally hits the string and is strong enough to pull out the pin, the steel ball that stuck the striker will slide down. The striker will hit the fire cap under the drive of the spring, and then cause an explosion.

The fuse part of this shell is relatively complex, and it is a bit large. Almost half of the shell is a fuse. The charge volume naturally decreases and its lethality is not enough. However, Hong Tao thought it was very useful and specially asked Cexiang to produce some of them to the army. It did not contain too much black gunpowder, but changed it to incendiary bombs.

What is this thing used? It is very simple. It is used to use it when thundering warnings. When camping at night, how to prevent enemy sneak attacks has always been a big problem. In the past, many individual guard posts were needed to be arranged around the camp, and when they found the enemy, they would fire a gun to warn them. However, it is not safe to rely on people to be on duty at night. If you fall asleep or neglect and get touched by the enemy, the entire camp will fall into a state of sudden attack by the enemy. Even if there is no mistake, the casualties of the guard post will be very large. As long as you issue a warning, you will basically not be able to come back.

Now, you can arrange dozens of such things at a certain distance around the camp, and then attach a warning post to the back to get a double insurance. The enemy will have a much smaller chance of sneak attacking. As long as someone wades this thunder-muggling rope at night, the shells will explode. Although it is not very powerful, the sound and fire light are enough to be used to alert. In order to prevent hares and badgers from touching rope by mistake, Cexiang also specially customized a steel brazing to install it. The rope will be half a meter above the ground. Except for people and large animals, it will generally not be accidentally exploded.

This time it was obviously not a mistake. When Hong Tao came out of the cabin below the deck, fire was already rising into the sky on the south side of the shipyard and gunfire sounded everywhere. Hearing the explosion, the nearby guard post lit the pre-built whale oil tank. As the firelight came, the sneak attackers were exposed to the hunting rifle and became living targets.

There were still quite a few people coming to attack the ambush. They deliberately circled around half a circle and did not attack the shipyard from the east side facing the castle, but ran to the south. Unfortunately, they did not escape Hong Tao's early warning landmines. When two mines exploded and turned into two fires, the ambushers did not retreat, but charged towards the camp, with many cavalry inside. Hong Tao really didn't understand why the cavalry could run at night. Could it be that the war horses had night vision and could see the obstacles on the ground clearly?

"Send a signal to the shore, do not use mortars." Looking at the situation on the shore with the light of the fire, Hong Tao felt that it was difficult to aim at the night and could not see the explosion effect, so it was more convenient to shoot with a hunting rifle. There was no need to help with the naval gun. The solid bullets had no effect on the infantry, and in the middle of the night, they could not see the bullet points. If they accidentally injured friendly forces, they would cause trouble.

"Boom...boom..." He did not fire the artillery on his side, but the enemy fired the artillery first. They actually used war horses to drag two deck cannons mounted on gun cars when they marched at night. It looked very similar to the army cannon used in Napoleon's period, with tall wheels and low gun body.

"Sir, should you kill their small cannons with naval guns?" The captain of the shattered mouth had an idea again. He was very worried about the army's combat effectiveness.

"No, the sniper will solve it. Remember in the future, don't panic when encountering problems. What you should do now is to send a small boat to the near-pierre to prepare for the army's retreat. If the battle on the shore is tight, you should also pull out the sailors and arm them as a reserve team, and then strictly prevent someone from sneak attacking on the water. This is what a qualified captain should do." Hong Tao was very dissatisfied with the combat qualities of his naval officers. Unfortunately, only these people were there, and it was useless to scold them. Let's teach them slowly.

After Hong Tao said this, the captain realized that he was not watching the fun, and there was so much work he had not done. In fact, it was not just him who had no brains, but the other captains on the ship also had a moral character, otherwise it would be taught by a teacher.

However, they had one better thing, they could correct the mistakes and the correction speed was very fast. After a while, each warship had lit up the steam lights with copper plates behind them, illuminating the water near the warship. At the same time, the unduly paid sailors also began to issue guns and bullets, gathering to report numbers on the deck. The boats were slowly put into the water, and teams of armed sailors began to reinforce the dock.

The night attack of Flanders Hanseatics came and went quickly. They were not defeated, but received the order from the castle and retreated voluntarily. Hong Tao was sure of this because he had been staring at the castle in the distance with his telescope since the beginning of the war, and found that the castle tower was also raised like his own fleet, with a string of red and white lanterns.

It is obvious that this is a land command system imitating the communication methods of the Navy at night, with a very strong smell of the Jinhe Empire. Now Hong Tao is even more curious about what the other party's commander is, and how did he learn all his family's background?

Hong Tao has been thinking about this question these days. If the other party went to Kalamba Port or even the Song Dynasty to learn these techniques, he would definitely not be so perfect. Because except for the navigation school, there is no place that teaches this knowledge. Even if he enters the navigation school, he cannot learn it completely, unless he can enter the naval major of the navigation school. However, this major is only open to the children of Jinheguo and never accepts foreign students.

It would be not right to say that someone in the Imperial Royal Navy defected here. Even if the defector was a captain, his position was already high enough, but he still could not be so perfect. Even if Carl defected now, he would not be able to build ships or cast cannons.

The majors taught in the navigation school are targeted. A person can only learn one or two at most, and he has no time to study comprehensively. Moreover, graduates of majors such as shipbuilding and cannon casting are not able to actually work just by coming up. They have to work as apprentices under Wen Xiaoqi and Qi Zu for several years before they can gradually get involved in the work of shipbuilding and cannon casting.

If we count this way, at least three or four people who defected must be people who have good academic experience and have had some practical work experience in the corresponding industry of the Empire. However, Hong Tao felt that this possibility was very low and almost negligible. If so many useful talents were allowed to come to Europe with all purpose, it would be very remote Nordic, and all the people from the Imperial Supervision Department could be imprisoned, which is a serious dereliction of duty.

Finally, Hong Tao thought of a possibility, and when he thought about it, his hair was standing upside down. If the person on the other side was a time traveler like him, these very disorienting things could be explained! This is also one of the reasons why Hong Tao was determined to attack this castle and catch this person. For other time travelers, Hong Tao only had one way to entertain, die! Kill! There were discussions on other matters, but this matter was not discussed.

The ancients said that when they were walking together, they were enemies! Hong Tao didn’t want to keep a peer and think about him anytime and anywhere.

This world is very big for ordinary people, and it can't be visited in a few lifetimes. However, for time travelers, especially those who have traveled from time to time since the mid-twentieth century, it is a bit too small, so small that they can only accommodate one. As for the issue of cooperating with other time travelers, Hong Tao never considered it. If he didn't cooperate with them, he could also summon the wind and rain. Why do he have to have more time bombs? Is there any difference between using a hunting gun and using a machine gun? Now he has changed his history to a little unrecognizable. If another powerful person comes, the world will be even more chaotic.
Chapter completed!