If any military enthusiast had seen what Hao Shuai had taken out, they would have cried, "Katyusha rocket launchers!"
That was right.
What Hao Shuai had taken from his spatial storage were four Katyusha rocket launchers.
The Katyusha rocket launcher, also known as the BM-13, was a multirail, wheeled self-propelled artillery piece developed and deployed by the Soviet Army during World War II. Each launcher carried sixteen rockets, each 132 millimeters in diameter, 1.5 meters long, and weighing 43 kilograms. Their maximum range was 8.5 kilometers. Reloading took seven to ten minutes, while a full salvo took only seven seconds.
Each Katyusha rocket had a kill radius of about 30 meters and covered an area of 2,827 square meters. Sixteen rockets could cover an area of 45,216 square meters.
A single salvo from four Katyusha rocket launchers would unleash sixty-four rockets—enough to plow over the banyan grove, which covered only a dozen or so hectares, several times over.
And besides...
Afraid that anything might escape, Hao Shuai had specially replaced half the rockets with incendiary bombs—the kind of Thermite Incendiary Bomb that burned at temperatures reaching 3,000°C.
He believed that just one salvo would be enough to burn the banyan grove down to bare ground, leaving not a blade of grass behind.
Hao Shuai didn't know how to explain it when Yan Chixia asked about the strange weapons. He simply said they were a kind of Mohist mechanism.
After explaining, Hao Shuai took a handful of gold beans, each about the size of a broad bean, from his pocket. Every bean was engraved with an intricate Daoist Seal and gleamed in his hand like gold.
"Taishang Laojun, heed my command! Lend me your talisman soldiers to slay demons and vanquish evil! Go!"
Hao Shuai pointed a finger, and the