Chapter 404: The First Aerial Bombardment Ever
The squad leader of the Imperial Air Force Power Hot Air Balloon Squad was dropping leaflets into the city at the time, and he didn't expect the enemy to shoot at them!
They were not afraid of bows and arrows, and there was no way for bed crossbows and artillery to be aimed at them.
However, whether it is a musket or an arquebus, it is possible to injure the balloon.
A height of 120 meters is still dangerous!
He immediately increased the amount of kerosene spewed, and the flame of the firearm suddenly increased------ and the power of the hot air balloon began to rise little by little.
The squad leader of the first class was a little annoyed, he thought about it for a while, and said to his assistant: "Go to their city gate tower and give them some awesome looks!" ”
His assistant carefully maneuvered the three-bladed propeller, which was powered by a 15-horsepower flywheel diesel engine, made a big turn, and it took about twenty minutes to reach the gate tower of Zhending Castle.
The wind is now southerly, but fortunately the wind is less than level 3.
The squad leader of the first squad cleanly attached a bomb to a bomb with a bumper detonating device, and then with a pull of the wrench, a bomb fell from the iron bar in the outer ring of the gondola.
There are a total of eight identical bombs hanging on the iron bars of the outer ring of the gondola, and since they need to be equipped with a bumper detonator to detonate, they will be very, very safe in normal times.
The bomb landed straight on the roof of the city gate tower, and immediately exploded into a black and red fireball, accompanied by a loud bang, and the rubble on the roof of the building flew in all directions!
The squad leader of the first class had been looking down, and he saw that the people on the city wall were all standing and looking up at the beginning, and when the first bomb exploded, they immediately became scattered, and they could hear their cries of terror!
One more!
The second one also hit the gatehouse, with the same terrible explosion, and the same rubble and wood slag flew everywhere!
The gate tower was sturdy, and there was no sign of collapse.
The assistant of the squad leader held up the binoculars and shouted at this time: "Squad leader, there is an order for the camp!" Let's blow up the city gatehouse!! ”
The squad leader immediately raised the binoculars hanging on his chest to look at the camp, and sure enough, the signalman in the camp was issuing a flag, which really asked them to blow up the city gatehouse!
At this time, the wind blew them away a bit, and the assistant slowly adjusted the direction, made a small circle, and returned to the optimal position.
The members of the Imperial Air Force all think that their powered hot air balloons are the world's top killers!
But what they didn't know was that the makers of such weapons were not in the mood to watch the exercise.
Song Ziqiang despised this kind of compromised equipment------ it was not as good as a powered hydrogen airship, although it still couldn't be compared with an airplane, but it was five times better than a hot air balloon!
Hydrogen airships are not difficult to build.
Of course, they did not expect the war to break out so quickly, and the original plan was to wait five years.
Wang Defa comforted him and said: "If you have, it's better than nothing, as long as it's enough!" ”
Each of them understood that if the powered hydrogen airship could be successfully manufactured, as long as a dozen of them were made, they could drive the Tatar robbers back to their grandmother's house in one go!
There's no need for a squeeze pursuit------ that's all for later.
The bomb throwing action of the squad leader of the first squad was as easy as a drill.
The people under him had no idea of resisting at all, and they ran as far as they could, until they were completely away from the terrible large Kong Ming lantern!
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
It wasn't until the eleventh bomb was dropped that the gate tower finally collapsed on the city wall!
This is the first aerial bombardment ever!
For most people, they don't even think about it!!
The people in Zhending City were no longer divided into soldiers and civilians, they were mixed together from afar, standing dumbly and watching ------ the exclamations they let out together when the city gate tower fell, and the squad leader of the first squad of the Air Force could hear it.
Powered hot air balloons seem to be lighter in the sky because they don't have the weight of a bomb.
There's one bomb that didn't work.
The squad leader of the first class kept searching with a telescope, hoping to find a worthy target.
He could see a place in the city densely packed with tattered tents, presumably the barracks of the garrison.
Bomb those tents with bombs? Pull it down, it's too worthless to bomb money.
His assistant shouted, "At two o'clock is Daru Huachi's official mansion!" ”
That's right, just blow them up as officials!
Liu Fan, the head of the ten thousand households, and Dalu Huachi have already run down the city, where can they care about whether the enemy army will take the opportunity to attack the city at this time?!
It's important to save your life!
If that terrible large Kong Ming lantern flew over his head and dropped such a thing, maybe he would have blown himself to pieces!!
When the gate tower fell, the two of them screamed like ordinary people.
Daru Huachi's face is as pale as earth, my immortal God, although most of them are far taller than the city walls here------ they still can't stop things that can fly in the air!
If one, two, three----- ten of these things fly in, then nothing in the world can stop it!
He suddenly worried about the family and property he sent to Dadu, my immortal God, it doesn't seem to be safe there!
At this time, Liu Fan, the head of the ten thousand households, slapped Dalu Huachi's shoulder and exclaimed, "It went to your official mansion!" ”
Daru Huachi didn't care if that thing went to his palace or not, because he wanted to get out of here immediately------ not to run away, but to report to the Great Khan that the pirates had terrible weapons, and that I was in danger!
But Daru Huachi cares about the head of ten thousand households, Liu Fan dares to pat himself on the shoulder!
Han dog dared to touch his noble body?!
Liu Fanzhen, the head of the ten thousand households, didn't realize who he had slapped, he was already nervous, if that terrible large Kong Ming lantern dropped that thing in the city, my God, I really don't know how many people would be killed!!
Liu Fan, the head of the ten thousand households, patted Daru Huachi again and said, "Look, there are two more large Kong Ming lanterns!" ”
Daru Huachi looked back, my immortal God, two exactly the same thing flew in!
He was still angry, and ran towards the stable, and his own soldiers followed him closely!
The second and third shifts of the Imperial Air Force powered hot air balloons also took to the skies, and they had to separate groups to observe the effects of the leaflets and the intimidating bombing.
If they could, they could keep bombing------ they knew that the first squad was out of bombs, and they only had two five-wheeled pistols on them.
One intimidation worked, and the continued intimidation was almost fatal------ they saw people running around the entire city.
And the north gate of Zhending City was already crowded into a ball, and when they slowly flew over, the gate there suddenly opened, and people on horseback, on foot, ran frantically to the north!
PS: Thank you for the book friend Nanzhao Turen, Australian Lao Wu for the reward.