Chapter 432: Reconnaissance Flight 4

The height of the plane was about three hundred meters, and the roar of the engine was constantly ringing, and Russell and the people around him at the head of the city heard this strange sound, and at first they didn't know where the sound came from, and suddenly they heard a soldier shouting: "Above! ”

All of them raised their heads to look at the sky, and then they saw that something strange was flying in the air, and Russell was the first to raise the clairing mirror and look over - this brass shelled monoscope was very poorly made, with a small field of view, and it took a long time to catch this strange flying object in the field of vision. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 This thing looks strange at first glance, a bit like a bird, but there is something in the head that is spinning, and the sound must come from this. The aircraft has many wings, two on the top and two on the bottom, and three on the tail, one of which is still vertically vertical, he doesn't know why these wings can take this thing into the air without fanning, there are two brackets at the bottom of the wings in front of this thing, there is a wheel on the left bracket, but the right bracket is empty, and there is also a small backward bracket under the tail of the aircraft, and there is also a small wheel hanging on the bracket.

The entire craft was pitch black, as if it had been coated with a layer of grease, and as the thing flew closer, it was possible to see several large wings connected to each other with what appeared to be brackets made of steel. Russell's telescope was the best of all, but it was still hand-polished, with uneven edges, and what could be seen was still crooked. However, although he couldn't see clearly, he saw the shadow of a human in dismay, in the blurry image of the aircraft in the distance.

"Someone!" "There's someone on that thing!" "Yes! There really are people! It seems to be looking at us with something. ”

Since the discovery of Jiezhen, the speed of the plane has been reduced to about 100 kilometers per hour, and although it is close to the critical speed of 86 kilometers per hour, it is a speed that is simply unattainable for people on the ground. Yuan Zhenli steered the plane to quickly sweep over the city tower, and swept along the center line of the city along the street below from east to west. The people on the tower suddenly rushed to the inside from the outside of the city wall and looked at the plane, the people in front were already standing on the side of the city wall, and the people behind did not know at all that they continued to squeeze forward, all wanting to see where the plane had flew. "Oh, don't worry!" "I can't stand it! Don't push the back one! "Alas!" "Someone has fallen!" Lin Jin couldn't help but quietly cover his mouth and laugh as he watched several people on the city wall being squeezed down from the inside of the city wall because the crowd was unable to stand.

A round thing next to the aircraft fell down and fell straight into Russell's new house, and with a loud bang, I saw a column of water and a large amount of dust rising into the air and scattering everywhere, and the roofs of the nearby houses were covered with all kinds of dirt, and the sorrow and screams of the horses suddenly rang out, which made the people in the city startled. The horses tethered under the walls were also frightened by the explosion, and they shook their heads desperately or hurried in vain to break the reins, as if trying to break the reins and flee. Several grooms hurriedly rushed forward to try to calm down, but were kicked to the ground by the horse's hind hooves.

"What's going on?" Russell couldn't help muttering to himself, and before he could figure out what was going on, he saw the flying machine go around in a circle in the distance, and then began to fly again in the direction of the castle tower where he was. He had an ominous premonition from the bottom of his heart, he had a sense of déjà vu with this thing, when Nanban attacked the Wu Dynasty, the General Staff had sent a staff group to provide tactical guidance by the side of the commander-in-chief of Nanban. Later, the entire staff group was wiped out, and before they finally lost contact, they had sent back a spell message, saying that there was a strange bird in the sky, throwing strange eggs that would burn and explode, burning the army's grain and grass, and killing a large number of soldiers.

"Quick!" Since Russell remembered, of course he had to react, and he yelled at the group of officers around him who were still in a daze, "All return to their respective units!" Beat the drum of war readiness! ”

A drummer heard the command and hurriedly stood at the head of the city and beat his own snare drum. The officers on the castle tower didn't know what Russell was asking them to do, and since they had beaten the drum of war readiness, they must have made preparations for battle, so they all ran down the road to the head of the city and rushed to their respective camps.

The city was already boiling with the arrival of the planes, and the residents of the streets and alleys and the soldiers of Medeno flocked to the streets to see this strange thing, and those who gambled did not care about the bets still on the tables, and those who bought things forgot that the money was still on the counter, and even the tired and crooked workers did not bother to put on their pants and lie down in front of the window to look up at the sky, and the children excitedly followed the planes in the sky and ran back and forth with joy. Although the explosion just now was powerful and loud, the crowd did not panic about it, but talked excitedly with the people around them about the shape of the plane and the explosion just now. There has never been an air force in this plane, let alone the concept of air raids, and Jiezhen, a small place that has never seen an air force, has no concept of air raids.

The sound of the drums of war readiness immediately resounded everywhere in the city, and the soldiers of Medeno hurried back to their garrisons from their respective dens, and although they complained one by one, they still did not dare to delay. The drum had just been beaten once in the wee hours of the morning, but it was soon disbanded. But what does it mean that the drum of war readiness is beating right now? The meaning of the war readiness drum is that it is about to go into battle.

The soldiers rushed to their barracks - these requisitioned rooms were large and small, the large rooms were occupied by more than a dozen, and the small rooms were stuffed with at least four soldiers, and these Medeno people never had high requirements for personal living space, because the space in the city or on the ship was very limited, if a person could have five square meters, it was basically enough, and if there was a room of twenty square meters in the city on the sea, it would be a mansion. One by one, they nervously put on their military uniforms in the house, wrapped the ammunition bags around their bodies, and then wrapped their things around their bodies with one strap after another, and then carefully pulled their clothes as smooth as possible. Soldiers in uniform quickly check whether their guns are clean, whether the bolt is flexible, and whether the flint needs to be replaced. Once you don't check it before the battle, you will often have to delay a lot of time when you find that you can clear the obstacles after entering the battle, and you may even lose your life. Therefore, according to the discipline, all soldiers must be ready to stop all these things when they are ready for battle.

Carrying muskets that had been confirmed to be fine, the soldiers quickly ran to the open field where they were assembled, and the officers stood beside them with expressionless faces, and the roll call officer held up the roster on the side, and named the soldiers below one by one. The officers didn't actually know what the war readiness drum was going to do, they just mechanically obeyed orders, and they didn't know exactly how Russell would issue orders.

Yuan Zhenli on the plane looked at the Medeno soldiers who were gradually lining up in Jiezhen, they were all wearing canvas military uniforms, and they didn't need to look at it to know that these must be made of cloth purchased by Dongfang Port, Yang Canling had already told him when he was chatting, the amount of canvas purchased by Medeno people was a bit surprising, and it was often not used to ensure the use of sails, but to make clothes. The soldiers below began to line up like ants one by one, and he felt the urge to drop bombs into them. Although a bomb had been dropped just now, it was only used to test the reaction speed of the Meedano people, after all, the Senate had already fought with the Nanban and the Annamite people, and the Medeno sailors had not fought before, but the regular army of the Medeno people was in front of them. The Senate did not have a good understanding of the combat effectiveness and obedience of the regular Medeno army, so this was also a test of their training.

The current Medeno soldiers were clearly reflexive, and it had been about five minutes since the bomb had been dropped, and they had almost all lined up, all with shiny weapons in their hands.

"Chief!" Lin Jinlai's shout came from behind, "Do you want to continue the attack?" Lin Jinlai's eyes were full of happy impulses, he had heard He Rolling Long and Yuan Zhenli often talk about the scenes of the previous air raids on the Southern Barbarians, and he had also seen the suppressive effect of using heavy machine guns to strafe the infantry on the ground on the Mosquito plane, and if he dropped bombs on these Medeno people now, he would at least blow them up half-way.

"They didn't attack us, and we didn't have to attack them." Yuan Zhenli rushed behind him and said, "If you want to bomb, let's go and bomb the marching South Shore Army." As he spoke, he gently turned the joystick and rudder and turned the nose of the plane to the Annamite to the south.

The soldiers of the Southern Shore Army did not notice the existence of the plane at first, and although the buzzing sound was heard for the first time, no one had the heart to look at the sky. It wasn't until the sound of an explosion that landed in the garden that they discovered the little plane. They don't understand why something is flying in the sky, they don't even understand what it is, why they can fly in the sky without flapping their wings, they can't see what is on the plane without a clairvoyant, they can only see a rough outline. The officers looked up at the plane on the horse, and when they saw that the soldiers had also stopped what they were doing and looked up, they hurriedly rushed forward and whipped the soldiers, and for a while screams and scolds rang out. The fireheads who were cooking were also attracted by the plane, and they didn't pay attention to the fire for a while, and when they noticed, black smoke came out of many pots, and the fire was too strong, and it was directly burned. The soldiers who were waiting to eat smelled the mushy smell of the food, and quarreled with the firehead soldiers, and the shouting and scolding gradually became noisy.

However, Yuan Zhenli couldn't hear the sound below, his ears were full of the roar of diesel engines, and the cool breeze in the air made his face numb, and the only thing he thought about now was that he must find a way to install a closed cockpit after he went back, so it was too depressing to fly the plane. At this time, he saw the location of a large cart, dozens of carts full of grain and grass bags were parked in an empty field in the forest, and the soldiers stood in the middle of the empty field and looked up at the plane. "Lin Jin, prepare to bomb!" Yuan Zhenli pointed to the empty field, "That's it!" As he spoke, he pointed the plane in the right direction.

Lin Jinlai was in the back seat, adjusting the knob on the bombing sight according to the data on the cockpit dashboard, and was ready. The bombing sight was originally made, installed on a solar-powered light aircraft, and later on a Mosquito aircraft, and now it has been removed and installed on the body of this small aircraft.

As the empty field gradually came into view of the sight, Lin Jinlai put the bomb into the drop bay - this is a roll-off groove, and the lead was left outside. "Two hundred ...... in height," he said to himself, comparing the length of the lead, then cutting off the excess, and then tucking the end of the lead into the automatic ignition - in fact, it was a cigarette lighter connected to the power generator, and when the bombing switch was flipped down, the drop flap was released and the cigarette lighter ignited the lead, allowing the spherical bomb to fall freely, and then explode at the appointed time.

Lin Jinlai's eyes were tightly fixed on the aiming window, nervously waiting for the perfect second of the throw. His right hand was on the bombing switch, and the palm under his leather gloves was full of sweat from excitement and nervousness, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath - the patriarchs all said that if they were particularly nervous, they would take a deep breath, and sure enough, their heartbeat slowed down a lot, and then the center of the empty field entered the center of the sight. He flipped the switch hard, and although the noise in his ears was still deafening, he could faintly hear the snort of the fuse being lit and the clanging of the bombing baffle.

The Annanites below had no idea why the flying thing had dropped a ball, and from a distance it seemed to be wrapped in an iron shell. "The chicken is laying eggs!" "Hahaha!" One by one, they laughed and rushed in the direction of the ball, even the officers, and even let their own soldiers block the soldiers behind them, so that they could see the "egg" faster.

At this time, when people encounter anything they don't know, they like to call it auspicious, and the egg laid by auspicious rui - although this auspicious rui is a black and non-slippery one, the egg is a precious thing after all, if it is not broken, take it to the emperor, and you will definitely be able to get a rich reward. What's more, now that the emperor has just ascended the throne, what he wants is Xiangrui to prove the rationality of his sitting. At this time, the crowd rushed towards the drop point of the egg as if they were crazy, and those with weak legs and feet were immediately pushed down, and those who didn't have time to get up were immediately trampled under their feet, screams, exclamations and cheers rang out at the same time, making Yuan Zhenli stunned for a while, and even he heard it.

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