Chapter 341 Suffocation

"Twenty minutes to prepare."

"Keep a height of one kilometer."

"The wind speed is 2.5 meters per second."

"Unlocking begins."

Every time Xue Muhua shouted, the telegrapher beside him pressed the sending button, either a short tone, a long tone, or a series of notes.

This is a method learned from the navy to coordinate naval guns. If it is issued regularly, an instruction often needs to be tapped many times, and the receiver also needs to go through recording, translation and other processes, which is not only time-consuming but also laborious. Therefore, the air force that has just been formed has also learned from the navy and turned some of the main instructions in the mission into one. Group notes, so that as long as the radio sender of any airship in the formation hears the notes, he will know what to do.

Of course, this can only be used for some common and simple information transmission. Complex information still needs to be typed out in the old way.

As the commander of the air force, Xue Muhua never thought that one day he could stand side by side with the navy and army, and even the aircraft would successfully test the flight. After accelerating research and improvement, his commander did not feel that the air force could reach the point of becoming an army, but the emperor insisted on letting the air force into a separate army, and also proposed to form 50 in three years. The airship is planned to put into production the first batch of aircraft in five years.

Fifty airships are nothing. After the purchase quantity goes up, the unit price has also decreased a lot, which is only equivalent to the cost of two Jinghai-class, but the utility of fifty airships is definitely more than that of two Jinghai-class.

However, the progress of the plane was unclear and fast, but I didn't expect that the Prime Minister's Office still readily agreed. Later, he learned that the Prime Minister's Office had already made a lot of money when the airship technology was sold on a large-scale basis. Not to mention being equipped with 50 airships, it was more than enough to build 200 airships.

It has been a year since the emperor proposed the air force plan, so this time I came to Kundian to help the third brigade of the air force, which was also equipped with the second-generation airships.

In fact, it is not his turn to be a commander to do this kind of support task in person, but who makes the things in this magazine so special, too important, and so dangerous! So he was worried and decided to lead the team in person!

The commander went out in person. Naturally, no one dared to relax, so the bomber quickly put on the airtight rubber protective clothing and carefully put on the gas mask before carefully opening the door and drilling into the ammunition compartment.

Before coming again, each of them had received special training, and some chemical experts specifically explained the dangerous surnames of these things, so at this moment, everyone is cautious and cautious for fear of a little problems.

In the ammunition compartment, rows of oil bucket-like storage tanks are neatly stacked together. On these special storage buckets, there is a detonator similar to a scale, which is connected to the explosives in the center of the can.

The bomber carefully twisted the dial twice, and then carefully twisted it half a circle, pointing the red at the position of kilometer.

This is a dedicated detonator for the air force improved by the equipment department based on the deep-water bomb newly developed by the Navy, and after hundreds of landing experiments.

The scale corresponds to the height. When dropping a bomb, as long as you pull the bolts on the dial, the clockwork inside will automatically start. When the storage tank lands about 20 meters away from the ground, the clockwork is just finished, driving the detonator in the center of the storage tank to ignite the explosives and blow up the storage tank, and the things inside will be in the explosion shock wave. Under the effect, it covers about 10,000 square meters of space.

The bomber carefully turned the detonator. When it was all ready, he knocked hard on the hatch to indicate that it was ready, and then fastened a thick hemp rope around his waist, waiting for the time to drop the bomb.

In front of the formation, in the two reconnaissance airships accompanying the operation, Zhang Qiang and several researchers were writing and recording something on their notebooks. Even if one airship after another sent a signal to prepare, he did not raise his eyes and was still carefully calculating the coverage.

In this world, only a few people know how terrible those special storage tanks are. He is one of them. Not only do he know, but they are also developed by him and his friends according to a notebook of the emperor!

A new type of poison gas based on mustard gas.

It has an individual name, called "suffocation".

In fact, mustard gas is not very strange these days. As early as 1886, German scientist Mayer artificially synthesized pure mustard gas for the first time.

But what is brought out this time is different. Although it is born from mustard gas, "suffocation" has been synthesized again. Both the poisonous surname and the penetration speed are much higher, and its largest special surname, just like the name, will quickly act on the cardiopulmonary nervous system, causing the inhaler to be unable to breathe and eventually die. .

Speaking of mustard gas, I have to mention his experience of studying in Germany as an intern in the laboratory of the famous chemist Hubble. At that time, Hubble also tried to study mustard gas, but later his mind was more used to synthesize ammonia.

Zhang Qiang did not expect to deal with mustard gas before. After returning to China, he has been working hard to study synthetic ammonia like Hubble, and also applied for special research funds, leading a synthetic ammonia research team of more than 50 people.

Influenced by Hubble, his biggest dream is to find a convenient and cheap way to synthesize ammonia to produce cheap fertilizers, replace the commonly used methods of saltpetre and bird dung in various countries, and benefit farmers to increase crop yields.

When he was in Germany, Haber already had a preliminary process idea. When he returned to China, he immediately continued the experiment according to this idea, but he didn't expect that he was stuck in catalysts and high-pressure synthetic materials. After thousands of experiments, he still failed. Finally, he thought of finding foreign aid, so he found Changlin, hoping We can recruit some experts in this field to study together.

But he didn't expect that Chang Lin did not bring the expert, but provoked Master Li. He not only carefully understood the experimental process and process, but also proposed that an iron catalyst containing lead and magnesium accelerator could be used to replace the expensive and sparse amount of ozium. At the same time, he used low-carbon steel that can withstand high pressure as a reaction tube, and Add a layer of cooked iron to the surface to prevent oxidation.

Zhang Qiang still doesn't understand how Li Mo knew these methods. At first, he didn't believe it, but after a lot of experiments, he finally convinced.

When he told Li Mo the news of success, Li Mo, who was already the emperor, immediately asked the Prime Minister's Office to allocate funds to establish the first 50 tons of synthetic ammonia factory in Changchun, which was successfully put into operation not long ago.

After completing the synthesis of ammonia, Zhang Qiang was originally ready to continue other research, but he didn't expect that Li Mo would come back with his notebook at this time. He asked about Haber's research experience on mustard gas when he was studying in Germany, and said that he wanted to form a special team to study this.

Because mustard gas is a highly toxic gas surnamed erosion, Zhang Qiang didn't want to do this at first, but he finally took over the challenge.

Master Li also gave him a copy of the chemical data that he had just returned to the world and forgot because he was afraid of the passage of time. In fact, the data were very rough, mostly from the wife of the national defense chemical engineer in his previous life, which was mainly about sarin gas.

The reason why Li Mo would be interested in sarin gas is entirely because of the resentment that he did not fly agricultural aircraft over Tokyo at the beginning. Of course, it was also limited to some rambling chemical names. As for the processing and synthesis process, there was no such thing at all.

Such a document, plus dozens of young people who are also crazy about chemistry, were placed in a laboratory on an isolated island in the Mariana Islands.

After nearly a year of hard work, after paying the price of the death of several experimenters, they finally came up with the first batch of synthetic poison gas.

This is a new type of synthetic chemical gas with a highly suffocation surname, based on mustard gas and more poisonous surnamed. According to the experiment, as long as you inhale a little overdose, it will cause cardiopulmonary failure, dyspnea, accompanied by vomiting, red and swollen skin and sharp ** and other symptoms within a few minutes. If you don't save it within an hour, you will die completely, and the appearance looks like being stroked and suffocated.

Named "Suffocation"

However, nothing in the world is omnipotent. Like all toxic gases, the biggest opponent is still wind and rain, so if you want to get the best effect, you should try to use it in a closed or windy place.

Gaoping is such a carefully selected first actual combat test site. According to the early investigation, the area is surrounded by the mountain, with an area of only about 12 square kilometers. Moreover, during this period, the army's clearance and expulsion operations led many indigenous people to hide here, with a population of about 30,000.

30,000 people, 12 square kilometers, 80 tons of "suffocation".

It should be enough!

"Report, researcher Zhang, Gao Ping is ahead." As soon as Zhang Qiang finished calculating, the accompanying soldiers had handed over a telescope. After Zhang Qiang thanked him, he immediately observed the scene on the horizon in the distance.

In the camera, Gaoping surrounded by mountains on three sides has been blocked by a huge wooden fence. Thousands of native soldiers crowded at the entrance with big knives and spears, and the town and the surrounding hillsides are full of groups of natives. According to their original tribes, they look down from the sky and clusters of earth. People are busy but clearly divided. They are

The natives seemed to be curious about the small white dots that suddenly appeared above their heads. They pointed out something, and some of them even mistakenly thought that it was the arrival of a god and worshipped like the airship entering Yanjing City for the first time.

Of course, there are also unfriendly, but the distance is too high, and the archers gave up after two comparisons. A few minutes later, when ten larger hippo-class airships jumped out of the horizon from the treetops and mountains, the locals finally changed color.

So many, such a big airship suddenly caused a disturbance, and everyone rushed to the center of the town, and countless indigenous soldiers surrounded by leaves, ** grabbed spears and knives and stroked hard against the sky, as if to drive away these noisy guys above their heads.

Along the mouth of the canyon, ten hippos were lined up side by side, trying to maintain a uniform speed. When they were about to reach the wooden fence, the bottom bomb window was opened almost at the same time.

The bombers tied themselves to death, pulled out the detonator switch, and then rolled the storage tank to the projectile window. The can weighing 400 kilograms immediately rushed out of the airship. At the same time, the clockwork in the detonator also rotated the gears rapidly.

The landing speed and time have been calculated and tested in advance. A few kilometers of Gaoping Town is not too long, and it only takes a minute or two to pass at the speed of the airship.

Huge storage tanks were thrown in the surprised eyes of the locals. Many people looked up and did not know that a disaster was waiting for them.

Boom.

One explosion after another suddenly exploded from the storage tanks less than dozens of meters above the head. Compared with the shells, this kind of explosion is not worth mentioning at all, but with the shock wave of the explosion, the liquid poison gas stored in the jar suddenly drifted away.

A drop of yellow ** quickly gasified on the top of the head, forming a huge yellow fog. Because the specific gravity was heavier than the air, the poison gas quickly sank, and the head covered the face to the locals below.

Every ten seconds, a special storage tank is dropped, and after a rapid fall, it turns into a yellow aerosol. The poisonous gas sprayed by a tank is gradually connected in the air, like a large net that can't be penetrated at all, slowly sinking to the ground.

A few minutes later, when the last storage tank was dropped from a height of 1,000 meters, the whole Gaoping was already shrouded in yellow smoke. Because the wind speed on the ground was very small, the smoke seemed to have stopped there, almost solidified.

The locals were scared by the continuous explosions overhead, especially every time they exploded, which brought a huge yellow smoke, which made them panic and ran around.

But the faster they ran, the faster they gasped. When the yellow choking smoke was inhaled in, these people who ran out suddenly felt short of breath and chest tightness, and subconsciously touched their throats, as if they were blocked by something.

After just a few minutes, a large amount of foam flowed out of the corners of these people's mouths, and their faces were blue because they could not breathe. Slowly, there were only large areas of whites in their eyes. After a moment, the whole eyes seemed to burst open.

Then there was unconscious vomiting, the body's skin began to turn red and swollen, the subcutaneous blood vessels began to bulge, and the body gradually lost consciousness and fell to the ground, like a shrimp that slowly turned red in the oil pan and jumped more and more slowly. Finally, the whole person curled up into a ball.

The airship of the bomb-drop mission had already returned, but the two reconnaissance boats were still suspended in the air, responsible for follow-up observation and monitoring. However, when several assisting observers raised their telescopes one after another, they all felt a chill on their backs and sweating in their hands.

Almost all the locals who had evaded the war and squeezed into Gaoping could not move. They either were vomiting while holding something, or foaming at the mouth and twitching all over. What's more, they even pinched their throats with their hands, and even their eyes seemed to be squeezed out, but they were still unwilling to let go!

From a distance, the whole Gaoping is like a piece of rotten meat full of squirming maggots, which is extremely disgusting!

God!

After observing the boat crew, they suppressed the impulse to vomit and looked at several researchers holding binoculars around them, who just frowned and were expressionless. There was only one thought in their minds.

What the hell is it thrown by your partner!?

Zhang Qiang didn't seem to see the soldiers getting more and more frightened faces. He carefully observed the following scene and kept recording it on his notebook. From the current point of view, this actual combat test was perfect. For a closed town of more than a dozen square kilometers, 80 tons of "suffocation" was undoubtedly too much.

Of course, this also has something to do with today's windless weather and the local environment. If it is an open location, he believes that the result is probably not as good as one-third of what it is now.

Although I really wanted the airship to land immediately and go down to see it in person, I finally gave up. After all, the new type of poison gas is still quite strong. Without being fully prepared, it is no different from going down rashly and dying.

Half an hour later, when the reconnaissance airship began to return, Gao Ping behind him was suffocated as if he had been choked in his throat, and he could no longer hear a sound

(to be continued)