In fact, the power of the medium aerial bomb was not so great, although the huge kinetic energy of the falling body could easily penetrate this wooden-hulled ironclad battleship, but it could not blow up the hull of this volume with a high-explosive charge of less than 40 kilograms.

However, luck is sometimes more important than strength, and the target of the remote control guide was the chimney in the center of the hull, because the cabin below was the steam engine room of the paddle wheeler, and the bombardier's goal was to cause the gunboat to run aground and obstruct the passage.

But what I didn't expect was that this aerial bomb was not a real missile, so the error caused this aerial bomb to hit the stern gun position, and the huge penetrating force penetrated the protective iron armor on the rear gun position before the explosive exploded, and entered the ammunition compartment under the gun emplacement.

Immediately after that, the explosion of high-explosive directly detonated a large amount of gunpowder in the ammunition depot, which caused the tragic end of the paddle ship being blown in two.

But in any case, the effect of this bombing exceeded everyone's imagination, including the initiators of this bombing.

Looking at the huge fire spreading out on the surface of the river, although the sound of the explosion could not be heard from such a distance, the spectacular scene of the explosion of the gunship's ammunition compartment was still seen in the observation glass, and Sean and Mu Jiu in the pod were equally dumbfounded.

"Wow! Brother Mu Jiu, what kind of bomb is this, so powerful! ”

"It must have been the explosion of the gunboat's ammunition compartment! The power of this explosion is at least equivalent to the power of several tons of explosives. ”

Although Mu Jiu did not know much about the power of this medium-sized aerial bomb, Mu Jiu, who had studied the system data, could still judge the real situation by the intensity of the explosion.

"Yes, Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, your judgment is very accurate, the main feature of this medium-sized aerial bomb is accuracy, its yield is equivalent to 1,000 kilograms of black explosives at most, it is impossible to cause such an explosive effect."

After listening to the conversation between the two, Captain Li Yue also gave an answer in time.

"Whew!"

While the three of them were discussing the effects of the bombing, with another sharp whistling sound, another remote-controlled homing missile began to rub the air again, quickly pounced on their target.

With a sharp whistling sound from the sky, the other ships on the river that had slowed down due to the explosion just now immediately fell into a panic.

This sharp whistling sound made the officers and men on these ships who had fallen into a state of stupora because of the explosion just now wake up in an instant, whether it was the crew of the two Australian naval divisions, or the army soldiers who were on the transport ship, whether they could swim or landlubbers, whether they were officers or ordinary soldiers, with this sharp whistling, all the people who had just seen the explosion and sinking of the gunboat quickly ran to the side of the ship.

Although there was only one whistling sound, and there were so many ships on the river, if it wasn't particularly unlucky, it shouldn't have just landed on your head.

But when everyone heard the whistling, no one knew which ship the terrible "Death Scream" was aimed at, so they had only one thought left now, to jump into the river before the bomb fell on their heads.

"Boom" With another loud bang, the second gunboat just managed to dodge and was cocking its ass into a sinking state, but the first gunboat was patronized by bombs falling from the sky.

This time, the bomb did not hit the chimney position, but it was not as lucky as the first one, but fell to the left side of the second gunboat, which was a little sideways because of the circumvention of the hull.

After the bomb entered the river, although the impact fuse in front did not hit a hard object, the gravitational acceleration at such a high altitude still detonated the high-explosive charge in the bomb while hitting the water surface.

With a column of water tens of meters high, it flew into the sky, which meant that the shells did not hit the hull directly.

Seeing such a situation, the officers and men on this gunboat or other ships just breathed a sigh of relief.

"Zaza... Zaza..."

But with the unpleasant cracking of metal from the gunboat's hull, the port side of the gunboat began to tilt.

It turned out that although the bomb did not directly hit the gunboat that was turning, because the explosion site was still too close to the side of the ship, the near-miss damage caused by the high-explosive charge squeezing the river water still tore a huge crack on the port side of the iron-clad paddle wheeler, and a large amount of river water instantly poured into the hull of the gunboat.

With the continuous influx of the river, the speed at which the gunboat tilted continued to increase, and all the officers and men standing on the deck began to fall like dumplings down the deck into the still churning river.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Because the gunboat had crossed the hull in order to avoid impact, its body of more than 40 meters was about to completely block the deep water area of this narrow river. The gunboats behind began to collide one after another due to inertia, and for a while, there was a huge sound of ships crashing and rubbing along the entire channel.

"It's done, and now we can at least buy enough time for the rebel army to prepare."

Seeing the entire river fleet in chaos below, Lieutenant Sean waved his fist excitedly and said loudly.

"Well, all that's left is to tell the rebel army to get ready."

Although the river was blocked, the army on the transport ships did not suffer much damage, and if the commander of the army was not stupid, the ships should have been able to reach the county town by land in just a few hours after they docked.

As for how to inform the rebel army of this news, it is much simpler, the offensive phalanx of tens of thousands of rebel troops around the county seat has crowded the fields around the entire county seat. As long as these messages are written down on paper and airdropped, there should be no big problem.

"Shall we help these rebels, then?"

Sean turned his binoculars and looked at the direction of the county seat, at this time the battle to attack the county town had begun, and those rebels armed with rifles and spears were attacking the city, according to their way of playing, even if the county town was defeated, it was estimated that the casualties would be very large, so Sean turned back to Mu Jiu with some reluctance and asked.

"I'm afraid this is very difficult to do, our remote-controlled aerial bombs have run out, and if it is a high-altitude horizontal bombing, the possibility of accidental bombing is very high."

For Sean's proposal, Mu Jiu thought about it for a while and refused, not that Mu Jiu was ruthless, but unless it was a low-altitude air support for the rebels, I am afraid that these aerial bombs would fall more in the camp of the rebels than on the walls of the county town.