Chapter 493 White Phosphorus Incendiary Bomb

India, Calcutta.

Compared to the fact that the Austrian army was more popular than the British army, Lieutenant General Raven Hoback was more surprised by another thing.

Pirates actually attacked the British port and caused hundreds of casualties. He couldn't believe it anyway.

Friedrich thought it was very interesting. It seemed that his nephew's toys gave them a surprise.

In fact, pirates were just a code. Franz had bribed the officials of the British Indian colony a long time ago. They kept silent about the Southern Ming and only claimed that it was pirate behavior.

Friedrich knew all this, but he hoped that Britain could fall into the kind of bitter battle described by his nephew. After all, the terrain of Kalimantan Island fully meets the characteristics of jungle warfare.

Especially when he heard that there was no news about the second batch of reinforcements sent by the British army, he was even more excited.

Jungle warfare is what Franz has been trying to avoid. Even if he wants to fight, he must choose the time and find a scapegoat.

In Guinea, West Africa, several tribes that often attacked Austrians hid in the rainforest. Other tribes also found that these outsiders did not dare to go deep into the rainforest to fight.

So some tribes that had already surrendered also boldly began to attack Austrian colonists and farms, and even tried to attack the port.

But now the main force of the Austrian army has arrived, and in an instant, these attackers were beaten to the ground, and they had no choice but to retreat to the rainforest.

They hoped to escape the revenge of the Austrians with the protection of the rainforest, but this was the driest season before the rainy season in Guinea.

In addition, the Austrian side also developed a batch of incendiary weapons for this operation. In fact, from the development of weapons, it can be seen that the skill tree of the Austrians is quite crooked.

Franz's original intention was to use oil, but this group of unconventional guys actually started to study white phosphorus incendiary bombs directly.

The result was of course three bombings a day, with thick smoke. The Vienna Royal Women's College had to suspend classes for a month, and the pollution was huge, so he decided to move this overly dangerous project to other places.

White phosphorus has a very low ignition point and is highly toxic. It produces a large amount of poisonous gas when burning. Although this poisonous gas will generally dissipate within three minutes, three minutes is enough to kill 90% of the creatures on the earth.

What is more terrifying is that this chemical burns very violently. After it comes into contact with the human body, it will continue to burn until the skin and flesh are ulcerated and penetrate into the bone marrow.

This time usually lasts for 5-10 minutes, and the injured will feel the pain of hell.

What Franz found most incredible was that this research was actually proposed by a group of missionaries.

Because when they used this thing to play tricks in the colonies in their daily lives, they would occasionally make mistakes and sprinkle white phosphorus on other objects or people.

And just a small amount of white phosphorus can easily cause unimaginable terrible damage, so they just want to use it, and also gave it a very religious name [God's Wrath].

The weapons made by the charlatans are of course unreliable. Fortunately, these people are very cowardly and have a small amount of gunpowder, otherwise they may have gone to see God at this time.

In fact, it is not difficult to manufacture such weapons with Austrian technology, but Franz felt that it was too cruel and was also afraid that other countries would copy it and rapidly escalate the intensity of the war, so he temporarily suppressed it and turned to secret research.

At present, Franz decided to let experts develop petroleum products instead of seeking the near and far, after all, this technology can also be used in future civilian technology.

A large number of new incendiary rockets flew into the rainforest, and those barriers that blocked foreign invasions instantly turned into a sea of ​​fire. The tribes hiding in the rainforest fled frantically, but there was a sea of ​​fire everywhere.

The local wizards were not panicked. They claimed that as long as they migrated to the depths of the rainforest, Mother Earth would surely send down rain to extinguish the fire.

Those brutal black tribes advanced into the depths of the forest with a fluke mentality. After all, according to past experience, the fire would be extinguished sooner or later.

However, this time these experienced wizards miscalculated. The fire burned for 21 consecutive days, 13 million acres of rainforest turned into ruins, and all the resistance turned into charcoal.

Until the Austrians left, it started to rain heavily, as if it was crying for the disaster that was about to happen on this land.

According to Franz's instructions, local colonial officials found the remaining tribal chiefs and told them that they must implement a strict crop rotation system.

Those chiefs who were a little arrogant or had some crooked thoughts were scared to death, and their legs were weak even after the Austrian colonial officials left.

At the same time, almost all the witches of the tribes received oracles on the same day. These charlatans told their tribesmen that the Austrians' magic was better than ours, and they ruled us as the will of Mother Earth. If they dared to resist, there would be sky fire and floods.

After a series of wars, the security and production of the African colonies were finally restored.

Lieutenant General Raven Hoback did not believe the words of these idiots in British India. What pirates dared to attack the Dutch fleet first and then the British port. Now even the reinforcements with a number of nearly 5,000 people have lost contact.

"Damn it! As long as you idiots are here, everywhere is the British Empire's Afghanistan!" Vice Admiral Raven Hoback finally couldn't bear it anymore. Coming from the North Sea Fleet, he naturally looked down on other "miscellaneous armies".

In fact, Vice Admiral Raven Hoback was not such an uncultured person. On the contrary, he was born in a prominent family, was humble and well-educated.

But he was very unhappy with his Austrian naval colleagues along the way, and what made him even more disgusted was the faces of Indian merchants and colonial officials, so Vice Admiral Raven Hoback was angry.

"What did you say?! You Scottish bastard!" Vice Admiral Xiu Wen in Calcutta was also very annoyed, because he was already busy with the reinforcement of the troops.

If that unit really suffered serious losses, then his career would be ruined. At this time, coupled with the other party's nameless anger, Vice Admiral Xiu Wen also exploded.

"Who are you calling a bastard?!"

"Your mother is a Scottish bitch!"

As the saying goes, don't hit someone in the face, and don't expose someone's shortcomings when scolding someone. After a while, the two vice admirals were pulled apart with bruised faces.

In fact, the fact that the British reinforcements lost contact also aroused Friedrich's interest. He decided to go to Kalimantan with Lieutenant General Raven Hoback to investigate the pirate incident.

In fact, Franz had already bribed British Indian officials, hoping to put an end to the matter in the name of pirates.

It's just that the unilateral action of the Southern Ming made the whole thing much more complicated.

The British Consul Rui in "Lion City" was so anxious that he paced frantically in his office. If there was a pedometer at that time, he would have taken at least 50,000 steps a day since the second day when the fleet lost contact.

It was not until his subordinates reported that a huge fleet was heading towards the port that he breathed a sigh of relief and immediately led people to greet it.

The atmosphere in "Lion City" is more exaggerated, so over time, the British Consul Rui also developed a habit of extravagance.

With an unprecedented grand welcoming ceremony, the Austrian fleet slowly sailed into the harbor.

This scene made Vice Admiral Raven Hoback clench his fists, and the muscles on his face twitched, causing the wound to move, causing him to cry out in pain.