Chapter Fifty-Six: Attack on the Ship
At this time, He Rolling Long was still seriously piloting the plane in the air in the direction of the compass, and Yuan Zhenli was holding a telescope and looking around. However www.biquge.info the sea was relatively calm this night, and the waves often reflected the moon and stars, and the repeated false alarms made them both tired of it.
However, it didn't take long for the main man to appear, and a fleet of five warships appeared from the eastern skyline. These warships lit with mast lights made the two of them instantly recognizable, after all, the reflective waves on the sea surface have no masts and sails.
Ston stood in front of the broken mast and looked up and down at the broken position, but fortunately, the position where the strange ship had hit was the rear mast and not the main mast in the middle, otherwise the speed would have been affected even more.
The jagged mast of the blown up looked horrible, and there was the blood of wounded sailors on the deck, more than a dozen sailors were carrying lanterns to wash the deck with seawater, and some sailors in the distance were throwing dead sailors and seriously injured wounded into the sea. The wounded writhed and screamed as best they could, but these men either had severed hands or feet, or had several holes in their torsos, and would have died in a short time, if not thrown into the sea.
In addition to the broken rear mast, the left and right planks were constantly hit by the woodpeckers of the opposing side, and the shells that broke the mast exploded near the tail tower, killing fifteen sailors and navigators nearby, and the shrapnel also brought the disability of twelve sailors with broken hands and feet. The downed mast smashed the decks of the chart room and the captain's room, sinking sixty percent of Stone's pension into the sea, and Ston couldn't help but look west angrily. Naturally, this loss cannot be suffered in vain, after the defeat of the Eastern Port this time, it is necessary to get back the pension from the camp of these pirates, ah no, the city. But such a sailless and oar-free self-propelled iron clipper is a good thing, and wouldn't it be great if that steel giant could move? He will become the most powerful presence in the Medeno Navy.
As he was thinking about this, Ston suddenly heard a buzzing sound, and at first he thought it was an auditory hallucination, but it wasn't long before he noticed that many of the sailors working on deck were looking up. He hurriedly shouted: "Silence! ”
All the sailors were silent, and there was a strange humming sound except for the crackling of the sails in the wind and the crashing of the waves against the side of the ship. Ston looked up carefully, and gradually realized that something was wrong, at this time a galaxy in the sky stretched east and west, and countless stars twinkled in the night sky, but at this time there were three stars shining and moving in the direction of the fleet. It didn't take long for the sailors to notice that the three stars were coming, and they pointed to the stars and discussed them, and some even took out their firecrackers and began to reload them, wanting to have a look.
Yuan Zhenli on the plane was debugging a strange lens, this lens was fixed in the window, one end down, diagonally forward aimed at the fleet below, and the other end turned ninety degrees sideways towards the cabin, he carefully adjusted the knobs on it according to the parameters reported by He Rolling Dragon, and from time to time leaned up to observe carefully for a while. This is Lin Shenhe's imitation of the Norton bombing sight brought by He Rolling Long, and I heard him say that the US military installed a large number of Norton bombing sights on B17 bombers back then, and the effect was very significant, and because of its high performance, the soldiers participating in the training must take an oath of secrecy before they can contact it. However, this original is too heavy, it can hold three or four fireworks, and the professional bomber does not know when it will be produced, so it can only be fitted with a simplified monkey sight about the size of a microscope.
The principle of this thing is actually very simple, that is, adjust the inclination angle of the sight by speed, and then fine-tune it by the weight of the thrown aviation weapon, and then wait until the center of the sight is aimed at the target after the firefly bomb is lit and thrown down. But not long after the two of them got this thing, they had to take off every day to reconnoiter and attack the army of the Nanban, and once they went, there was no power to take off again, so they didn't test it at all, and now it's a night attack, and it's really up to luck to hit it.
Under He Rolling Long's control, the plane adjusted its direction and began to sail in the direction of the convoy below, and soon reached the bombing aiming point. Yuan Zhenli immediately lit a firefly bomb with an extended fuse and threw it down.
"Boom", a column of water rose from three or four meters on the right side of the deck of the Overlord, and the stirred water splashed and washed the starboard wall of the Overlord, and many sailors on the deck were drenched in water. The violent explosion soon woke the entire fleet up, and the sailors cursed the damned pirates as they clinged to the sides of the ships and looked around, but even if there was moonlight at midnight, they couldn't see much distance, but were almost dazzled by the starlight and moonlight reflected by the waves.
"Wait," Ston felt a little wrong, he didn't hear the sudden sound of the pirate's strange ship, nor did he hear any firing, "it doesn't look like a pirate ship fired." ”
He and a few officers beside him couldn't help but look up, and they saw a sparkling object suddenly appear from the position of the three bright spots and fall, this time the thing landed on the back deck, but it fell into the sea with a "thud".
"It's similar to the sound of a cannonball fired by a pirate hitting us just now and not exploding." The first mate said with some hesitation, but at this time anything smashed on the deck with a clang. Before he could finish speaking, another violent explosion erupted on the sea behind the ship, and the tall column of water rose into the sky again, splashing the helmsman in charge of the helm and several nearby boom gun launchers.
"That's the problem, let's hurry up and get into the cabin!" Ston understands, this must be another pirate idea, hiding in the cabin will never be blown up.
But everyone has a question, how did the pirates fly so high and drop explosives down? You must know that humans have been full of expectations for flying into the sky since the beginning of their intelligence, but this group of pirates actually did it?
"He's meowing, the fuse is too long, and it didn't burst when it hit the deck, and it didn't explode until it bounced into the water, and it was wasted two at once." Yuan Zhenli was full of depression. "The sight is still a little off, let's just throw it away?"
He Rolling Long nodded, but because he only flew out at noon to bomb the barbarians, the battery of this plane was only more than half charged at this time, and he might not be able to go back after a few more laps, so the plane had to choose a good route, and then fly again along the direction of the fleet and then return directly.
The plane made a circle with a diameter of five hundred meters and flew over the fleet again. Even if the Medenor people below were stupid, they knew that the three bright spots in the sky were coming to attack them, and the helmsman hurriedly steered the ship to dodge left and right to avoid being attacked by explosives falling from the sky.
"I'll go, they've learned to circumvent?" He Rolling Dragon was quite depressed, they were not those dreadnought dive bombers in World War II, and they had no ability to dive. What's more, with such a heavy thing above, maybe a dive will cause the entire body to fall apart, and only horizontal bombing can be used, and how can horizontal bombing hit these evasive enemy ships?
"Wait! How do they know about us? Yuan Zhenli felt very strange, in this dark night, he was in the air again, how did these natives find themselves? They have neither searchlights nor radars, unless the plane itself is glowing, just thinking of this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and He Rolling Long glanced at each other, and said in unison: "Meow!" Didn't turn off the beacon lights! ”
Saying that, He Rolling Dragon hurriedly snapped and turned off the beacon light switch, and the three lights in the eyes of the Medeno sailors looking up below suddenly disappeared, and they were in a mess for a while, although they could still hear a slight buzzing sound in the air, but at this time, they didn't understand what direction the threat from the sky was.
"Haha! You don't know where we are, do you? Yuan Zhenli grinned happily and picked up a bomb with a sly smile.
Another explosion of "boom" occurred on the port side of the Aror, the sailors screamed and ran around on the deck, and the helmsman did not have time to listen to the captain's orders, and suddenly turned the steering wheel to the right, and the whole ship tilted to the left ** degree, throwing some sailors close to the port side too late to grasp the fixation directly into the water. The Bern was too close and full sail to the rear, and the speed was too fast, and the sailors on the foredeck exclaimed in unison, and the helmsman on the Bohn hurriedly turned the steering wheel to the left, and the hull of the Bohn tilted to the right, and successfully threw out several more sailors.
At that moment, with a "bang" something round landed on the mainsail of the Bourn, was bounced forward and hit the sail of the foremast, and then fell towards the gun deck in the open air. Immediately after, in the exclamation of a group of sailors, there was a "boom" explosion in the air three or four meters from the deck.
The prefabricated fragmented shell of this firefly shell was exploded into countless fragments in an instant, sweeping across the artillery deck like a storm, and the sailors who were hit instantly covered the entire deck, and for a time the screams and exclamations could even be heard by the two traversers in the air more than 200 meters in the air.
But that wasn't the Bohn's biggest threat, as almost all of the sailors watched in horror as their foresails were caught on fire by the explosion that had just been ignited, and soon all the rigging was set on fire, and then the foremast began to ignite...... Then the flaming drops ignited the barrels of propellants on the gun deck, and an even more violent explosion began......