How to use meteorological "weapons" in war stories?

There is a fairy tale in the Romance of Gods: Jiang Ziya used magic to make the weather change several times in a few days: in the dog days, first, the heavy snow like goose feathers froze a large number of troops in the Shang Dynasty; Then it turned into a scorching sun, and the melting ice and snow turned the commercial military camp into Wang Yang; Then there was another storm, and all the businessmen were destroyed. This is the famous "Frozen Qishan" campaign.

Although "Frozen Qishan" is a fairy tale, there are some real things recorded in history: winning battles by using meteorological conditions.

1794 In the late autumn, French Napoleon's army launched a fierce attack on the Netherlands. In the face of a formidable enemy, the Dutch army was unable to defend itself and fight back. In desperation, the canal sluice was temporarily and urgently opened in an attempt to stop Napoleon's offensive with rolling floods and force the enemy to retreat.

The Dutch contingency plan really worked. Napoleon was at a loss when he saw the raging flood, so he had to order the whole army to retreat. At the same time of withdrawing troops, Charles Piglio, commander-in-chief of the French army and Napoleon's teacher, suddenly ordered to stop withdrawing troops. The soldiers kept talking: "Why on earth is this?" It turned out that knowledgeable Charles Piglio found that some local spiders were spinning a lot of webs. This indicates that dry and cold weather is coming, because spiders are very sensitive to the humidity change of the outside air. Sure enough, the European continent was hit by a cold wave, strong cold air swept across the European continent, and the rolling flood froze overnight. Stepping on the ice and snow, the French army crossed the Val River, conquered and occupied Utrecht, a traffic fortress in the hinterland of the Netherlands, and successfully completed the operational plan. Afterwards, he said: If it weren't for the "living weather instrument"-the spider gave me this correct "attack order", we couldn't have conquered the enemy's important place so quickly.

However, in the two wars that decided Napoleon's life-the battle of Moscow and the battle of Waterloo, the bad weather-the severe cold and heavy rain also made this arrogant strategist retreat one after another and hated him for life.

1865438+In June 2002, Napoleon led 600,000 troops, crossed the Neman River in lightning speed, and launched a fierce attack on Russia. When the Allies attacked and seized the fortress, they soon occupied a large area of Russian land. However, Napoleon ignored the climate characteristics of hot summer and cold winter in Russia, and gradually exposed the military flaw: on the desolate prairie, soldiers fell ill from heatstroke and died one after another under the attack of heat and thunderstorm. The Russian army adopted the strategy of "avoiding decisive battle" and "clearing the field with strong walls", which made Napoleon unable to fight and stop, and was in a dilemma. /kloc-at the end of 0/0, when the severe winter came, Napoleon ordered the retreat. At this time, the cold wave in the north frequently goes south, and the average daily temperature is below -20℃. The cold wind raged and the snow fell heavily. Because the army has gone deep into the hinterland for a long time, there is no food and grass supply and no house cover. The soldiers are hungry and cold. They often get lost in the March. The wounded and horses froze to death, and bodies were everywhere. The Russian army took the opportunity to intercept, and the Coalition forces were defeated, leaving only "20,000 ghosts who were hungry and cold."

1865438+June, 2005 17, Napoleon's army joined forces with the allied forces led by British general Wellington in Waterloo, Belgium, which started a thrilling battle. Napoleon planned to attack the next morning and end the battle at noon. However, the weather is "disturbing". At night, the wind howled, the rain poured down, there were puddles and mud everywhere. "The wheels of the trench car are half soaked, and mud is dripping on the belly of the horse." The rain has decreased in the morning, and it is still raining in Mao Mao. Napoleon had to postpone the general attack until 165438+ 0: 30 in the morning. When the two armies fought, people shouted horses and screamed loudly. Because the French army was in a lower position, the allies occupied the highlands of the hills, and it was difficult for the French infantry to move forward, and the cannon car was stuck in the mire, making it difficult to exert its power. Because the attack time was delayed for more than five hours, it turned out that the Allies were at a critical juncture, and Prussian reinforcements from Wellington rushed to the battlefield, which made the battlefield situation plummet and the French army collapsed across the board.

1916 in may, the Germans attacked the French champagne poison gas with a stable northeast wind, and the poison gas spread 25 kilometers along the wind, causing great losses to the French army. Four days later, the Germans carried out another poisonous gas attack, but it was badly hit by the sudden change of wind direction.

1940,330,000 troops from Britain, France and Belgium were besieged by the Germans. Britain skillfully used the dense fog in the Dover Strait for two consecutive days to mobilize all domestic ships and evacuate all ships from Dunkirk to Britain safely.

1941June, German fascists suddenly launched a blitzkrieg against the then Soviet Union in an attempt to capture Moscow before the arrival of winter. It was cold at the beginning of this year, and the soldiers suffered from severe frostbite because the Germans did not prepare winter clothes and thick boots and socks. Even the gasoline was frozen, which made the tank armored forces lose power. The red army took advantage of the favorable conditions in winter to launch a comprehensive counterattack against Dekou, which caused the Germans to lose millions of troops.

194 1 65438+on February 8th, the Japanese navy attacked Pearl Harbor. Japanese meteorologists predict that the weather in the North Pacific will be fine from the end of/kloc-0 to the beginning of February. Therefore, Japanese warships have to sail eastward from Japan to the Hawaiian Islands for 12 days, and choose the northern route with severe wind and waves in winter to avoid being discovered by American reconnaissance planes. It is estimated that American planes will not patrol there. The Japanese fleet set sail from165438+1October 26th, and encountered good weather on the way, which accelerated the voyage. On February 8, 65438, the assault fleet arrived 200 nautical miles north of Pearl Harbor. Suddenly, 350 Japanese planes attacked in two batches, dropping more than 600 bombs and torpedoes in two hours, causing great losses to the US Pacific Fleet.

1943, the United States made a fog layer 5 kilometers long and 0/600 meters high on the Volt River in Italy to cover the troops crossing the river smoothly. The Germans also covered the entire industrial area with artificial fog to prevent air strikes.

1968 In the winter, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, USA, used manual defogging to clean the air corridor, so that 185 aircraft could take off and land safely.

In the 1970s, artificial rainfall was also used in the military, causing heavy rains and flash floods, which were used to destroy enemy bridges, dams, highways, railways and barracks. For example, during the Vietnam War, the United States destroyed the "Ho Chi Minh Transportation Trail" with artificial rainfall. When the catalyst is sown, a chemical agent is added to make the falling rain acidic, thus killing and corroding enemy soldiers and weapons.

In recent years, there are more and more ideas about using meteorology for military purposes. For example, launching a small rocket in the cloud can trigger lightning discharge in some areas, which can effectively suppress lightning, thus creating a channel without electricity or an air channel with weak electric field; The use of monomolecular film materials can reduce the interaction between the local atmosphere, inhibit the development of typhoons, and even change the direction of typhoon movement, causing harm to the enemy.