The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 218: Terrifying Special Bullets

The dense gunfire and deafening charge calls caused the coalition forces in the south city to panic. The sound of whistles, heavy machine guns and rifles firing blindly in an instant filled the air.

A large number of ragged Japanese-Russian coalition forces were driven by officers to run quickly to the front-line positions facing the vanguard army and joined the battle to block the vanguard army's attack.

However, in the darkness, apart from the whistling sound of bullets whizzing through the air across the street and the almost impenetrable rain of bullets, no vanguard officers or soldiers were seen launching an attack, not even a shadow.

Just as the Allied commander was still hesitating whether to stop the blind counterattack, the bugle call that echoed throughout the city suddenly stopped, and a faint sound of artillery was heard, which made the Allied commander immediately shout loudly to his soldiers to pay attention to the artillery defense.

But just as the coalition soldiers hurriedly climbed up from behind the sandbags and prepared to retreat to avoid the artillery, dozens of flares suddenly burst into dazzling light without warning at a height of only ten meters above the street, illuminating the entire street and the coalition positions with a bright white glow. The coalition officers and soldiers facing the positions were suddenly stimulated and their eyes were full of stars. They could no longer see the scenery on the opposite side. Not only did their shooting become aimless, but even avoiding the incoming artillery shells became difficult. Several coalition soldiers even bumped into each other as they scrambled to escape their positions in a panic.

At this moment, with a dull sound of artillery shells firing, a number of round millstone-like objects swayed across the street and fell into the coalition position. Then, a series of strong flashes and huge explosions like earth-shattering and landslides violently roared in the coalition position.

After the strong explosion, amidst the flying bricks, rubble and broken limbs of the Coalition forces, blank spots with a radius of twenty to thirty meters immediately appeared on the positions built by the Coalition forces relying on the ruins. All the ruins and the Coalition forces within the blank spots were swept away by the huge shock wave generated by the violent explosion.

What is somewhat strange is that among these violent explosions, some unidentified bombs exploding in the air will emit a large ball of strong orange-red flash in the air about ten meters above the ground. After the flash, a rain of fire will explode all over the sky.

The most bizarre and terrifying thing for the coalition forces was that the rain of fire flying all over the sky would immediately burst into flames no matter where it fell.

This flame will not only ignite the exposed beams, doors and windows in the ruins, as well as the heavy wooden furniture that the people did not take away, causing these wooden products to quickly burst into flames. What is even more bizarre is that this flame is like the Three True Fires in Eastern mythology that can burn everything. Not only will it burn the wood, it will also continue to burn on the bricks and stones on the ground and even on the barrel of the rifle.

Even the flying flames would spread quickly if they landed on people. No matter their uniforms or their flesh, they would be quickly ignited. Even if they slapped them hard with their hands, they could not stop the strange flames from burning and spreading.

Many Allied soldiers who were bathed in this horrific rain of fire not only had their clothes quickly set on fire, but their entire bodies were also set on fire. The pain made these Allied soldiers, who were like human torches, jump and run around in the positions. Some of the human torches would even suddenly hug their companions beside them, and no matter how they struggled, they could not get free. Then, this unfortunate person who was hugged would soon turn into a new, thicker and more vigorous "torch" amidst the extremely miserable howls.

In the Allied positions where fires flickered, human-shaped torches kept rushing around frantically until they were shot dead by overly frightened officers or companions, or they died of exhaustion. Otherwise, they would never stop their mad rushing and terrifying screams.

The coalition soldiers had never seen such a strange scene before. Many of them were so scared that they dropped their weapons and ran away.

In order to prevent the vanguard army from breaking through the position, a large number of Japanese and Russian coalition forces rushed to the position and gathered densely in the position. The violent explosion of the first round of 32 unscrupulous artillery shells caused heavy casualties to the coalition forces. In addition, in order to avoid the horrific rain of fire, gaps suddenly appeared in the coalition forces' originally tightly defended positions.

Before the flying bricks and rubble had completely settled, the deafening charge horn sounded again in the darkness across the street.

This time, after the charge sounded, deafening shouts of killing suddenly rang out in the shadows across the street. A large group of vanguard soldiers, waving sharp swords and holding rifles with bayonets, swarmed out from the darkness across the street. While the Allied forces' vision was still blurry due to the strong light of the flares, a large group of vanguard officers and soldiers rushed across the street and killed into the Allied forces' positions.

This was the first large-scale counterattack by the vanguard army against the positions consisting of streets and ruins occupied by the Allied forces since the street fighting broke out in Tianjin City.

For more than ten days, the coalition forces in the city had hardly suffered any fierce attacks, and they had forced the vanguard troops to retreat step by step. In the eyes of the coalition forces, the vanguard troops in the city were fighting like trapped beasts and making their last struggle before death. Not to mention fighting back, it was hard to say whether they could hold on and how long they could hold on.

This mentality caused the coalition forces to gradually become somewhat relaxed after being cautious in the first few days, so that their defensive positions did not have much depth.

After the front-line positions were breached, the coalition defense positions, which lacked depth, were immediately shattered under the courageous charge of the large group of vanguard troops.

On the coalition position, the coalition forces that were still resisting stubbornly were divided and surrounded in the blink of an eye, and then there were bursts of "boom boom boom" of Teng's grenade explosions one after another. Under the bright light of the fireballs produced by the explosions, the coalition forces that were blown to pieces and disorganized were soon surrounded by the flashing of swords. The sounds of hacking and screaming suddenly rang out. Even the still intensive gunfire and grenade explosions could not cover up the shouts of the vanguard army and the howlings of the dying coalition forces.

The coalition forces were stunned by the sudden and extremely fierce attack. Only a small number of them were quick to seize the opportunity and took advantage of the chaos to flee to the rear. Together with the coalition forces that were still rushing to the front-line positions, they began to hastily form new blocking positions.

However, as the ruthless artillery shells that frightened the coalition forces staggered into the new blocking positions they had just established, and then emitted terrifying and violent explosions and scattered fire rain all over the sky again, these new positions that the coalition forces had just established were instantly destroyed one by one. Large groups of coalition soldiers were either killed by the explosions or ignited by the fire rain. The confused coalition officers and soldiers either began to flee frantically, or were surrounded by groups of vanguard officers and soldiers who rushed in after the violent explosions in the torn and shattered positions, and were hacked to death or stabbed by sharp swords and bayonets.

Rushing into the coalition forces' chaotic position, not all vanguard officers and soldiers would take part in encircling and annihilating the coalition soldiers who were already scared out of their wits on the position. Instead, only a part of them would take part in it, while the rest would continue to follow the extremely violent explosions like thunder without stopping, chasing those firemen and launching round after round of fierce attacks on the coalition forces.

In order to better observe the battlefield situation, Teng Yuzhao was now standing on the half-wall of the second floor that had collapsed. In his sight, the South City, which had originally seemed dark, was now illuminated by clusters of white and orange-red flashes of varying sizes that suddenly burst out in the darkness. In the light of the dancing flames in the sky and the blazing flames burning among the ruins, as well as the "torches" that were moving madly like elves and monsters, everything on the coalition position had become extremely clear.

On the battlefield, it was the special bullet invented by Teng Yuzao for the conscienceless cannon that created a large number of human-shaped torches for the coalition forces.

The so-called special bomb invented by Teng Yuzao is actually a simple incendiary bomb similar to the "Molotov cocktail" in World War II.

However, Teng Yuzao had no gasoline, so he had to use kerosene, which was mixed with sugar, white phosphorus, a small amount of rubber powder, and even smaller amounts of aluminum powder and strong liquor, and wrapped around the outer layer of the shrunken Unscrupulous Cannon shell.

Alcohol and kerosene are not very miscible with each other, but they can be mixed into an emulsion. If this mixture is added to a confined space such as a lighter, it is very likely to explode when the lighter is ignited.

Sugar and rubber powder are added to increase its combustibility and adhesion.

The purpose of adding white phosphorus is to ensure that the mixture can burn quickly after the unscrupulous artillery shell carrying this liquid explodes.

Aluminum powder can greatly increase the temperature of the burning flame. If the thermite is added properly, the flame can even burn through hard metal.

Although the scene before him was somewhat cruel, Teng Yuzhao did not care about it now. As for the invaders, as long as he could eliminate them, it did not matter what means he used.

With the continuous explosions of these unscrupulous artillery shells, the strong flashes of explosions and the scarlet flames continued to spread rapidly to the south, just like more than twenty hot steel knives, stabbing the coalition forces hiding in the darkness again and again.

The coalition forces, who were stabbed fiercely with one knife after another, were like prisoners being executed by slow slicing. With each stab, they were gradually becoming weaker and weaker.

Wu Peifu, who was also standing on the broken wall on the second floor, was stunned by this tragic and bizarre scene. After a long time, he spoke with a trembling voice.

"Teacher, this is the special bullet. Its flame can really burn everything?"

Teng Yuzao shook his head and said, "No, but it's almost the same, because it can indeed burn many things, such as steel. Although it doesn't burn it completely, as long as there is enough combustion liquid, it will still be no problem to burn the steel."

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Wu Peifu hesitated for a while, and then said hesitantly, "Isn't this special bullet a little too cruel?"

Teng Yuzhao jumped off the broken wall and walked quickly downstairs while warning Wu Peifu.

"Zi Yu, you must remember that you should use any cruel means and weapons against your enemies, especially the foreign invaders. You can use any means you can to your enemies. Otherwise, you will be cruel to your subordinates and even to yourself."

Teng Yuzao sighed softly, "Zi Yu, think about these words slowly. We still have to hurry. If it's too late, the Japanese devils from the Salt Administration might run away."

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