Chapter 348: The Airship Team Attacked

When the airship flies in the canyon, .

Their attack was launched exactly one month after Ye Tao and his party were ambushed. The preparations that take place during these days are too varied. Related to the airship fleet is the modification of the light box and a series of measures to reduce the weight of the airship, thereby reducing the fuel consumption of the flight. The light ballistas and ammunition were removed and replaced with semi-automatic control lamps at the front and rear. On both sides of the airship gondola, the baffle armor that did not bear the weight was also removed. Removing the armor, no one felt unsafe in the slightest, and when attacking at night, they really didn't have to worry about encountering any problems with air shooting or anything like that. They are not attacking the military camps that have already become aware of the air attack, not the fortresses in Yunzhou that have started to conduct air defense drills every three or five times, but the headquarters of a church organization, even if the other party has the intention of counterattacking, the large number of ineffective clergy and believers gathered in the headquarters will make all the counterattack plans come to naught in the chaos. But the addition of things to the airship once again gave them a glimpse of the Ye Workshop's skill in detail technology.

The inflatable part of the airship and the gondola are equipped with glass reflectors, so as long as there is light from the rear and side, you can immediately see the bright spots. This greatly enhances the ability of airships to control the distance and formation between each other when traveling at night.

And the two sets of signal lights installed on the airship are even more magical. The signal light is no longer the original light source made by mixing whale oil with other items, but an electronic light source. Each light group has only one light source and one set of batteries. But this one light source is put to good use. The bulb is placed in a condenser in front of which directs the light in five directions. One of them is transmitted through the red glass cover in the middle, and the other is through the transparent glass cover, which is transmitted on both sides of the red lampshade. A light source shines through a yellow fog lampshade under the three lampshades in the middle. And the last way, the control wheel that leads to this set of lights.

There are three dials on the control wheel, a trigger-like button and a main switch. When the main switch is turned on, the light directed to the control panel is slightly transmitted through the glass-inlaid dial and buttons, making it easy to use at night. The three dials correspond to the three indicators, and when they are adjusted, the indicators will flash at the set frequency. Although this is done by using a mechanical hood to cover and release this old-fashioned method, the change in the flickering frequency of the three lights can be used to adjust the formation in the air and give overall commands. Usually, the red strobe in the middle is used to indicate the flight speed, and the two transparent strobes on both sides are used to indicate what the direction of travel is in front of them, not only can indicate left and right, but can even indicate how much rotation radius is to the left and right, etc., with a total of three lights to represent it is indeed cramped, but for the time being, it has made everyone in the airship team feel that there is a great guarantee. The headlight below is manually controlled by a trigger-like button, which is used to communicate with each other. Now, although it is only the second generation of lead-acid batteries, the effect is still quite good, and a battery pack can ensure that such a light pack can work continuously for six hours. Now, on the contrary, the life of the bulb is not very long, which is about six hours. Each airship is loaded with a set of spare batteries as well as a set of spare light bulbs.

Under this kind of protection, Xie Bo still has no bottom in his heart. Everyone was very calm, and most of the airship crew felt a little like death, but Xie Bo couldn't think so, he was going to bring the airship team back completely. Fortunately, although Ye Tao agreed to his adventure plan, it turned out that the contact point on the ground was still ready, and in case there was an airship that could not return, there would also be a way out. Xie Bo was so nervous that his command airship in the middle of the entire airship team almost made a mistake on his own. Fortunately, most of the airship crew members are calm and sophisticated, and now they are strobeling all the way, relying on the two airships in front to guide the flight, and the difficulty is not very high, and the team is not chaotic at all.

Guiding the ground all the way in the Drunken Wind Gorge were the reserves of the Sect Demon Regiment, who lit torches on the top of each hill and gave tips to the airship team. With the cooperation of the air and the ground, there was no danger all the way, and in such a difficult high-speed downwind flight, only one airship was forced to land due to mechanical failure in the whole process, and was immediately protected by the Sect Demon Group and evacuated.

After a night of flying, the airship team finally rushed out of the canyon and transformed into a bombing formation and flew towards the Daoming Sect's main altar centered on the Mixed Yuan Palace. They were actually more than a quarter of an hour ahead of schedule, and according to the plan, the final contact with the ground was carried out at this time, and the point of contact for the attack had not yet opened.

"General, it's time to reach the predetermined airspace." Xie Bo's observer hand in the airship was extremely sharp, and he made such a judgment by relying on the extremely faint starlight, and using the reflection of the surrounding mountains and rivers and water bodies as a reference.

"Okay. Don't have a contact signal on the ground? Xie Bo was a little anxious.

"No, as long as there is, it will not be invisible." The observer said with confidence.

"Order, the formation is moving slowly at a speed." Xie Bo thought about it for a moment and ordered. The speed is the slowest and most fuel-efficient speed, and now they have the Drunken Wind Gorge behind them, and it is absolutely impossible for them to hover in place and wait for contact. I had to drift slowly.

The waiting time is the hardest. But the signal still appeared on time. In a house with a large courtyard, several people ran out, assuming three strobe lights, and gave out a signal.

"General!" The observer smiled and said, "General, I see the signal." ”

"Signalman, contact the ground. The airship team is all right, waiting for the final orders. ”

"Yes." The commanding hand immediately pressed the button and gave a slip signal.

The signal on the ground reacts extremely quickly. The signalman read it and deciphered it: "You're all set." Airship team attack. Good luck. ”

Xie Bochang breathed a long sigh of relief, and then gave a heroic order: "The whole team turns to the target direction and sets the speed of four." The airship team strikes. ”

With the signal sent by the command airship, all the signalmen on the airship eagerly sent a response signal on the very useful light group: The airship team is attacking! Team Airship Attack! ……

Although it was only a flashing signal, although even if it was an adjacent airship, everyone would not shout loudly, and the airship team, which had developed the habit of silence, relied on the signal to express a strong fighting spirit.

On the ground, groups of instructions were also transmitted from the courtyard through strobe lights and other means. But the preparations on the ground were much simpler, and the large troops had already lurked one after another to the edge of the Daoming Sect's main altar. From the second half of the night, such as the secret guards of the Inner Palace, the special battalion, Ye Tao's guard battalion, the elite soldiers of the Dai family led by the Dai family, and even the people of the Sect Demon Regiment began to be unable to hold back, and they had successively given up the hidden way of hiding from the other party's patrol and the guards of the main altar and the people of the Eagle Hall, but pulled out the enemies who crashed into their own team. Everyone had arrived at the best starting point one after another, and the soldiers of the Guards Infantry Battalion had even assumed ballistas and other things in advance under the vigilance of the guards, and had even made detailed calculations of the target position......

There is another group of people, who are accumulating their strength and trying to rest under the protection of Ye Tao's guards. They had no weapons other than a dagger, but they each carried a camera. This is the first time that a camera has appeared on the battlefield, and this total of nine people will go down in history as the first war photographers.

For these people waiting around, as long as they finally decide to attack, they will have to wait for the airship team to blow up before they can move. For these people, waiting is equally boring.

"General, get over the target. The first, second, and third teams are ready to report. The signalman shouted.

"Very well, attack according to the predetermined plan. Remember, follow the 'predetermined scenario' of the attack. Xie Bo said with a sneer.

"Yes!" The signalman was excited. They naturally know that this predetermined plan is still a little different from the plan originally reported.

Some of the people watching from the ground soon began muttering, "What the hell is the Airship Team doing?" In their binoculars, they could barely catch that the airship team actually descended an altitude level in unison, divided into three teams and swooped towards different targets. After the first batch of fire oil bombs were dropped, they were quickly pulled up by the thrust of the rocket nozzles......

That's right, it's a different plan. Xie Bo and everyone in the airship team felt that the horizontal bombing was too unpleasant, and the power was too small, so they forcibly turned the horizontal bombing plan into dive bombing...... Although their dive angle is not large, the accuracy is multiplied. In the midst of the screams and screams that they immediately caused, they began to rule out the possibility of a powerful counterattack.

Xie Bo personally led the first team, and took the lead in carrying out a thorough attack on the areas where the most important people in the main altar lived, and almost every gorgeous building and palace was hit by at least one fire oil bomb. Then they turned nimbly in the air and reflexively came again.

The second team went towards the complex of the main hall of the Mixed Yuan Palace. This is the most fundamental symbol of the Daoming Sect, although in the middle of the night, there was no one except for a few practitioners on duty, but everyone understood very well how big the psychological blow of destroying the Mixed Yuan Hall would be to all the believers of the Daoming Sect.

The third team bombarded horizontally and were not too selective, attacking the living quarters that were most populated by cultists and members of the Dominion Sect. Whether it is the lecture halls where the doctrine is instilled in the believers, the living quarters where the believers live in hard quarters, the living quarters of the Protectors and the guards of the main altar, the large school grounds, etc., they are all within the scope of their bombing.

Under the orderly pouring of fire and oil bombs from eighty-four airships, in less than a quarter of an hour, the entire Daoming Sect General Altar was set on fire. On a hillside not far away, a photographer turned the shutter to manual and gently pressed the shutter ...... This picture of the fire reflecting the red sky is not something that everyone can see.