Chapter 18: The Florsault Airship

In the wasteland rich in copper ore, a steaming helicopter flew quickly from the sky, the helicopter design of this world can refer to the helicopter designed by Leonardo da Vinci (specific picture Sogou picture Da Vinci helicopter), the spiral part of the helicopter on the earth is four pulp blades, and this helicopter is a whole spiral blade. It's like a stair surface that rotates up a staircase. The puff steam boiler propelled the thick spiral blades to spin, leaving a trail of smoke in the sky.

The legend continues that the world's large forces are transported by airships, and as for the transmission of information, ultra-long-range wireless telegraphy has not yet been invented, as for cable telegraphy. The industrial hegemony here is deep in the mountains, and the cost of setting up a cable telegraph is too great. The forces on the plains are often the battlefields where various forces fight, and the cable telegraph is very easy to destroy. Therefore, the communication structure of this world is similar to that of the Chinese post station, but here the post station does not use cavalry to deliver the express, but uses this kind of helicopter flying in the sky. This thing is very fast, and the area of Fanxi is the size of the island of Taiwan, for example, the distance between the two city-states on the Dilsey Great Plain, where Ren Di fought a four-month war, is only 120 kilometers. A normal person walks four kilometers in an hour and crosses the entire area in three days, and the cavalry can attack in one day and the next day.

But the fastest is not the cavalry, but these helicopters, these guys flying in the sky, always running much faster than on the ground, two hundred kilometers an hour, for the speed of high-speed racing on the earth, this speed is almost just getting started. It's even more trivial for a helicopter in the sky on Earth. But for the whole of Fanxi, it can be said that it is extremely convenient to communicate.

Ren Di, Andrew and others, who were pinched by Miyana in logistics and intelligence, had no chance to support the army and stand on their own. What happened on the cliffs of Fliglo had long been sent to the Supreme Commander of the main force hundreds of kilometers away by the logistics officers directly under the command and the combat judgment more than a dozen times a day.

The base camp was well aware of the events that had taken place in Vliglo, the steam helicopter landed on the platform of the city-state, and the pilot arrived in the office of the Supreme Commander with a stack of documents. Giacomo picked up the information and looked at it carefully. General Kalini on the side said, "What's the matter, what's the conflict between Second Lieutenant Andrew and Second Lieutenant Rendi on the Fliglow Cliffs." "It has not affected the normal wartime development, and the two sides have consciously suppressed their differences," Giacomo said. ”

General Kalini picked up the paper that Giacomo had put down, looked at it and said, "It seems that Andrew has conceded defeat in this argument." "He is the first military commander there, and he is directly responsible for the success or failure of the war there, so he is conservative about the emergence of new weapons." That's as it should be. When the correct answer was clear, he chose to change his costume very decisively. ”

Kalini looked at the first-hand information and read it out: "The battles of Second Lieutenant Ren Di and the Reserve Second Lieutenant of Johor Bahru in the eastern mountains, according to their captured gun barrels and sabers, as well as their battle reports, they engaged at least thirty ranks of enemies in twenty days, and eliminated seven of the enemies in the battle ranks. Before the raid, the main city-state had 34 local transport airships per week, but after the raid the number dropped to eight. According to intelligence observations, the direction of the airship transport flight turned to the eastern mountains. ”

After a while, Giacomo handed another piece of information to Kalini and said, "You're looking at the logistics officer's information. According to what they had learned from their captives, there was a general in the eastern mountains of Fliglo who had been rebelling against Sylarbinou's tyrannical rule in Fliglo. ”

General Kalini flipped through the information a few more times and said: "The actual operation of the sabotage battle was presided over by the young soldier named Xincun. Ren Di cooperated with him and put a lot of effort into how to perfect this elite grenadier weapon. ”

Giacomo also read some of the information passed on by Ren Di, which elaborated on a series of shortcomings leaked by the grenadier and heavy mortar weapons in actual combat. Looking at Giacomo, who had become a mystery to technology, General Kalini prompted: "The contradictions in the vanguard army of Fliglo have not been eliminated. ”

Giacomo looked up and said: "Isn't it that Second Lieutenant Andrew has already admitted his mistake and equipped the troops with massive light artillery. Giacomo was an inventor of science and technology, and he was only a novice in generals, while Kalini was much more sophisticated, and seeing the disharmony between his subordinates fighting on the front line, General Kalini said: "Before the raid, Andrew's report to Ren Di was mostly that the artillery support was not in place, and he had a negative #face evaluation. As for the specific technical problems of the shelling, our intelligence officers are laymen and cannot judge the specific reasons at all. So we don't know whether Andrew repeatedly emphasized that Ren Di deliberately delayed artillery support, or whether Second Lieutenant Ren Di emphasized that heavyweight artillery could not be moved in the mountain road at all.

However, Ren Di completely abandoned artillery independence and demanded the implementation of light artillery tactics. Andrew is in a conservative stance, and the comments given to us are not favorable. Ren Di, who believes that he has no experience in independent combat, will only bury his limited defense forces. ”

Giacomo nodded and said, "At that time, you told me that Andrew's criticism again and again made Ren Di doubt whether Andrew was businesslike. But it should not be fought in this way, because it is suspected of splitting the army. ”

Andrew said: "The fact now is that Second Lieutenant Ren Di has found a good combat officer who turned out to be just a non-commissioned officer with a lower rank. And at the weekly combat exchange meeting# The detailed combat report will be made public, and Andrew has not taken the initiative to ease up with his deputy so far, and has not once praised Ren Di, the deputy, in the report. ”

"Maybe he's just talking about things," Giacomo said. Kalini said: "The reasons for victory and defeat should be judged on a case-by-case basis, and the provisions of military law should be considered on a case-by-case basis, but the front-line army commander must affirm his comrades-in-arms, especially excellent comrades-in-arms." Here I smell jealousy. ”

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Raindrop-like grenades fell from the sky and burst out pieces of shrapnel, causing confusion among the enemies in front of the four combat teams in line to fight, and it was also in this confusion that the two combat teams commanded by Johor Bahru, with the explosion of shrapnel on the opposite side, ran into the chaotic team on the opposite side, like a wall pressed over, seeing this row of enemies running in front of him, the enemy who had just been destroyed by the raindrops of flying bombs shot in twos and threes, and three or four people in Johor Bahru's army were shot and fell, but there were only three or four people, A neat line of bullets was aimed at the enemy in front of him from the barrel of the gun.

Twenty meters away, the muzzle of a deadly black hole is aimed at a person, and a normal person on the earth is directly soft in the face of the muzzle pointed at him, and the bird in the sky that has been wounded by an arrow falls when it hears the sound of the bow. When faced with a row of muzzles clearly visible twenty meters away, even if these guns were not fired, the opposite side had lost the ability to resist.

The light of a row of fire # guns flickered, and the bullets splattered bright red blood on the human body. The Fregelow soldiers, who had escaped, threw down their weapons and fled. The conductor of Nishiyama Senmura has a distinctly Japanese-style hot-blooded style.

In the past 20 days, it seems that Johor Bahru has been injected with a never-tiring stimulant, and he has been running long distances again and again to face the enemy with superior forces, and find an opportunity to bite it. Facing twice as many enemies at the moment, but after discovering that these enemies had just landed from the airship and had not yet adapted to the surrounding situation, Johor Bahru directly decided to attack.

Bloody blood does not mean brainless, and from the survival of Dilsey, Johor Bahru already has more independent combat experience than Ren Di. In industrial armies, sometimes non-commissioned officers are better than soldiers in determining the outcome of a battle. Cannon fodder is enough after being conscripted and then trained for three months, but in peacetime, the non-commissioned officer school does require two or three years of study. Of course, there is also a more rapid method of training non-commissioned officers. That is, on the battlefield, the surviving veterans, experienced veterans, under the wartime non-commissioned officer selection system, can quickly support the rapid growth of the troops. This kind of selection is selected with brutal elimination, and there is only one chance for life on the battlefield.

The guarantee of the blood bar gave Johor Bahru Ren Di and the others a little more chance to survive on the cruel battlefield. Ren Di practiced a calm shooting performance in a dangerous confrontation.

War is the process by which both sides put lethality on the opponent to destroy the opponent, and the non-commissioned officer is familiar with this process to the soldier. After many days of fighting, I complained and complained, but I was still able to learn a lot from the command of Johor Bahru. The bullet is loaded to form an effective firepower with the opponent, and the trigger is pulled according to the order to project and kill, this process is simple to say, and it is familiar with it after practicing a few times in peacetime, but on the battlefield, in the next moment I don't know if I am still alive, who can easily keep this step going smoothly. Sometimes the reason why recruits survive is because they have been trained on the training ground again and again to develop a behavioral reflex, not through the subjective judgment of the brain. A veteran who has gone through several lives and deaths, but can fine-tune his movements according to the situation at a special moment on the battlefield.

Non-commissioned officers should ensure the firepower projection of their own troops, and at the same time judge the opponent's firepower projection, try to catch the problem in the opposite process, and give the opponent a fatal blow when there is a mistake. Ren Di and Xinshan cooperated very well, and the grenade projected made a difference in the moment, and Xinshan went up, instantly defeating the opposing side like a mountain.

The ropes hanging from the airship in the sky were still dropping the soldiers, but the soldiers who had already come down could not wait for support and were scattered at once.

The huge airship hovered in the sky, and the rows of soldiers below, armed with bayonets, chased a large number of unorganized rebels fleeing all over the mountains.

Seeing the chaos of his own soldiers below, the commander who stayed on the transport airship decided to support, of course, not by joining the chaos below, but by trying to save the defeat by shooting condescendingly on the airship.

Several rows of crisp guns rang out from a height of thirty meters in the sky, sweeping a row of ashy smoke across the ground. The soldiers under the command of Johor Bahru unconsciously looked up at the threat in the sky, and the speed of the pursuit slowed down.

But at this moment, the huge airship trembled, this helium carried the airship to land, not naturally, but hung down the rope fixed by the pile driver, the contraction rope was dragged down from the sky, forty steel cables from all parts of the smooth pull, the average force to keep the airship landing smoothly. Hang the rope at a height of thirty meters for the soldier to climb down.

Such a steel cable is to pull the airship and the earth fixed connection, just like we drag the hydrogen balloon to pull the line, the hydrogen balloon will shake, Ren Di was not prepared to attack this large airship directly from the beginning, directly shot the airbag, the airbag was damaged, and the airship at a height of thirty meters was not harmed even if it fell.

Ren Di's plan was to throw the huge airship off balance, and when Johor Bahru routed the enemy forces, Ren Di's troops rushed under the airship, aimed at the left side of the airship and tied a bomb to a dozen steel cables on the left side of the airship, when this row of guns fired through the windows of the airship.

The explosion began on the steel cable on the left side of the airship connecting the earth, and the explosion at close range, the steel wires on the steel cable were torn off by the shock wave, and then the remaining part of the steel wire could not withstand the huge upward pressure of the airship. Like a thousand strong bowstrings breaking.

The row of steel cables on the left side of the airship connecting to the earth was all torn off by the huge buoyancy of the airship. The airship instantly flipped on its side, and when he looked up at the soldiers attacking from above, he saw such a scene. The moment the soldiers with their heads stuck out of the cabin and aiming, they collectively flipped on their sides with the airship upwards and fell to the side.

In less than a second, the entire airship was partially destroyed due to the steel cable connecting the earth. The force was uneven, and it rolled over 60 degrees in an instant. This rollover speed is much faster than that of a ship at sea. After all, air is less dense than water.

There was only one wave of shooting in the airship, and then these soldiers who shot with half of their bodies out of the window, just like the passengers on the bus who braked suddenly, the huge inertia made them lose their balance, and dozens of soldiers were thrown out of the window directly, because it was the upper body that stretched out of the window, so it was also the feet that came out of the window last, and the posture of falling was head-down. Thirty meters of height fell in this position, the worst is the head on the ground, this tragic situation will not be described, the slightly better is the head tilted, the neck is directly broken, this death is a little better. The best thing is to adjust the upper half of the back and smash it to the ground, this has a slight chance of surviving, at the cost of a broken vertebrae, high paralysis can be treated in this world, but there is basically no chance on the chaotic battlefield at the moment.

From the translucent cabin, dozens of war horses can be heard falling from one end to the other due to the violent tilting of the airship, and humans will kick when they lose their balance in the water, and the same is true for horses, dozens of war horses fall from one side of the airship to the other, and dozens of horses' hooves waving in the small cabin, bringing out a scream. The sound of heavy objects crashing against the walls of the airship in the hull made the people below unconsciously avoid it. Afraid that these heavy objects would smash through the thin cabin and fall off their heads.

However, this was only the beginning of a chain reaction, and due to a small number of large number of steel cables pulled down, the remaining steel cables were not enough to hold the buoyancy of the airship. The pile drivers connected to the steel cables were pulled out of the soil by huge force, and hundreds of kilograms of pile drivers were directly ejected two or three meters high because they were pulled out too hard.

Within five seconds, jumping and jumping near the pile driver as if there was a bomb in the soil, one by one soil fountains, revealing huge soil pits, and the white stubble of the grass roots in the soil pits was clearly visible.

Ten seconds later, the entire airship was 90 degrees vertical to the ground, and only the five steel cables at the head were connected to the earth, but everyone could see that the land where the last five piledrivers connected to the steel cables were located bulged rapidly, and the cracks on the bulging soil bags near the piledrivers expanded like spider webs, which seemed to be expected. These last few steel cables could not withstand the huge buoyancy of the airship.

Because the drastic change happened too quickly, the weight used by the entire airship due to the violent shaking was instantly shaken to the front of the airship, and the entire airship was unable to maintain balance at this time.

As the last steel cable was pulled out by the airship, the entire airship rose into the air at a 70-degree inclination angle, and the golden rooster flew vertically towards the sky independently. A large piece of shattered scum fell from the sky, a horse crashed directly out of the hull, and a dozen or so people fell from a height of tens of meters like rain. When they fell, they were hopeless, and the plate armor they were wearing was smashed and deformed.