Of course, Captain Li Yue would not blame Mu Jiu for his verbosity, and after giving him a military salute, he picked up the red pod communication phone and gave the order to attack.

Following Captain Li Yue's order, I saw a hatch open at the bottom of the pod behind the left of the command cabin, and a fat bomb with a diameter of half a meter and a length of about one meter was released out of the pod.

When the little fat man left the pod, he immediately started to do a free-fall motion with his head down.

All this is no different from an ordinary aerial bomb, but when the bomb reaches an altitude of 5000 meters, the tail suddenly pops out of the 4 symmetrical tail, with the wireless command of the controller in the bomb bay, the bomb that has begun to rub the air and roar constantly adjusts its falling direction, and the red warhead collision fuse is constantly aimed at the chimney position correction of the first river gunboat with the decrease in altitude.

This river fleet is indeed a sub-fleet belonging to the Australian Naval Division, but it is not the Australian Marine Division Command that governs this fleet, and its jurisdiction is directly under the Governor's Office of the two Australian Governors.

Because the task of this inland river fleet is not the defense of the sea area, it is mainly responsible for escorting the taxes and grain and grass in the Liangao region to the imperial capital in the north, so the ships of this inland river fleet are mainly transport ships.

It is precisely for this reason that the task of transporting a batch of army divisions to the central part of Western Australia fell on this river fleet.

The commander of the river fleet, Rear Admiral Obsdorff, was at the moment on the first gunboat of this fleet.

This is a steam paddle gunboat, as a river gunboat. The steam paddle ship does not have a very wide hull, but it is not short, more than 40 meters long from bow to stern.

A classic ship inherited from the time of Miller the Great, this iron-clad paddle steamer is slow, with a maximum cruising speed of less than 10 knots, but it has thick iron armor and two heavy guns with a caliber of 150 mm.

Of course, compared with those battleships traveling on the sea, this kind of turtle-speed old-fashioned paddlewheel river gunboat is indeed backward, but in the inland rivers and coastal areas of the Blue Flag Empire, it can be said to be an invincible overlord.

Because the 150 mm heavy artillery is more than twice as powerful as the army's field guns below 100 mm.

There was no need for Major General Obstov to personally escort the troop transport, but he still got on board because the commander of the army division had a lot of background.

"His Royal Highness Prince Douglas, I really didn't expect me to have this honor to serve you, this is really the greatest honor of my Butch family."

On the luxurious gunboat at the front of the fleet, Rear Admiral Obstoff held a glass of red wine and said flatteringly to a young military attache who was watching the scenery on both sides of the strait.

"Please don't call me Prince, dear Major General, my current position is Lieutenant General Douglas, the commander of the Australian Western Bandit Division, and you also know that in the army, only the military position is regardless of the title, of course, for the hospitality of His Excellency the Major General, I Douglas will still remember it."

The full name of this Lieutenant General Douglas is Douglas St. Miller Wells. In the Blue Flag Empire, the surname Wells is not casual, this is the national surname of the Blue Flag royal family, and more importantly, the three words St. Millet in the name, which can only be possessed by members of the royal family, and the status of this prince can be seen from this name.

That's right, this talented lieutenant general is the second son of Emperor Skov, a first-class prince who does not love power but loves military life, and climbed to the rank of lieutenant general of the Imperial Army at the age of 35 by virtue of his military exploits.

"Hehe, to be able to get the love of His Royal Highness the Lieutenant General, that's what I, Obsdorff, have ever dreamed ......of."

"Huh~~"

Just when Major General Obsdorff wanted to continue to flatter the second emperor, a sharp whistling sound suddenly came from the sky.

"Cannonballs?"

As a lieutenant general of the army and grew up in the army, Douglas of course immediately heard the abnormality of this sound, but what puzzled him was that this whistling sound was a bit similar to the sound of a large-caliber howitzer shell breaking through the air, but it was a little different, and he quickly raised his head to look at the sky.

This kind of river gunboat is exposed except for the top of the command platform, and his Royal Highness does not like to stay in the command platform where the view is not very good, so this banquet is arranged on the No. 1 battery at the front of the ship.

This old-fashioned heavy artillery battery was very bulky, and in order to facilitate the rotation of the gun emplacement, the weight of the gun emplacement had to be reduced as much as possible, so except for a thin circle of bulletproof steel plates, the top of the gun emplacement was open, and at this time, Lieutenant General Douglas could easily see the sky as soon as he looked up.

Major General Obsdorff, who was standing next to Lieutenant General Douglas, also raised his head curiously, squinted his eyes, and immediately said in surprise:

"What's going on? How can there be something in the sky? ”

Although the airship fell to an altitude of more than 8,000 meters at this time in order to facilitate the bombing, it was only the size of a little finger when viewed from the ground, and there were a lot of clouds in the sky at this time, so it was not clear what it looked like, and it was not clear what Major General Obsdorff could tell what kind of object it was.

"Danger, jumping ship......"

Unlike Major General Obsdorff, Lieutenant General Douglas, who also looked up at the sky, did not look at the object hovering high in the sky, but focused on the black dot that was getting bigger.

In fact, the aerial bomb with a diameter of only half a meter and the high-speed drop are difficult for ordinary people to see, but this Lieutenant General Douglas's eyesight is very good, and the bomb has landed a few hundred meters away at this time, so he still let him catch the figure.

Although he didn't know that it was an aerial bomb, the training of his military career for many years made Lieutenant General Douglas have a very keen intuition, just glanced up, threw away the wine glass in his hand, and ran to the side of the ship less than 3 meters away while shouting a loud warning.

"Boom!"

At the moment when the figure of Vice Admiral Douglas jumped from the gunboat, a deafening roar came from the rear gun position more than 20 meters to the left behind him.

"Poof!"

As Vice Admiral Douglas's body sank into the river, the back half of the gunboat was completely surrounded by a blazing flame, and countless fragments of the cabin swept over Vice Admiral Douglas's head with various burning plank wood chips.

Although Lieutenant Colonel Douglas had already entered the river with most of his body at this time, he didn't care about seeing what happened to the gunboat and the unlucky rear admiral, so he directly stabbed his head and quickly dived into the river.

Vice Admiral Douglas was indeed right, because less than two seconds after he dived, a louder explosion resounded across the river, and the paddle gunboat, which was more than 40 meters long, was directly blown in two by this second explosion.