Chapter 810
The sky is very blue and there are not many clouds, and you can see more than ten miles away with the naked eye, and the visibility is not generally good. Today is a suitable day for bombing, Wang Wu, who is driving the airship, thinks so.
The airship roared across the Hawker Strait, and the attack had no fixed target. As soon as you see an Indian target on the ground, you drop bombs and bomb them. When encountering the Indian army brigade, they will also lower the altitude and shoot with Makqin.
This kind of air raid is actually reconnaissance and harassment, and it does not help much in the overall strategy at all. However, Li Xiu still insisted that as long as the weather permitted, he would come over and blow it up.
The first is to continue to put pressure on the Indian army, and the second is to conduct battlefield reconnaissance. Each airship has two military staff officers on board, who are responsible for correcting the deployment of the Indian army on the map.
Wang Wu is in a very good mood today, if nothing else, this is his last mission. After completing this mission, he will return to Singapore with the ship, and then take the Daming ship back to Daming. He has four months off and can take a breather from the comfort of his home.
It's been two years since I came out, and my daughter-in-law was still pregnant when I went out, and now the children are more than a year old, and I haven't seen them yet. I miss the days of Daming too much, so I went out in the morning to have a set of pancakes and drink a bowl of bean juice.
Walking around the neighborhood and stringing relatives, a morning passed. Come to a roast duck at noon and take a bath with the child in your arms to sleep. In the evening, invite a few friends for a meal of mutton shabu or boiled fish. If it's not enjoyable, the Chaobai River will be grilled.
Thinking about drooling is going to flow down, this is the life of a person. Who is like now, sitting in this booming airship all day long, and it is difficult to speak.
This part of India is a place where the sky is broken, and it is hot and hot all day long. It used to be strange that those Tamils were so black for Mao. Now I understand, it's fucking sun.
Think about yourself as a white-skinned man, and now he has become like a black charcoal. Wang Wu has relatives in his heart, and he doesn't know if he can still win the favor of the girl in Mingyuelou like this.
Glancing back at the two airships accompanying him, Wang Wu had an evil smile on his face. The unlucky ones who piloted these two airships still have half a year to go back to Daming for vacation.
Thinking that there were unlucky people who were even more unlucky than himself, Wang Wu immediately became happy in his heart.
Flew to the town called Arbuck again, and Wang Wu forgot how many times he had flown over this town in a year. Anyway, every time he came, Wang Wu would order the Makqin heavy machine guns on both sides of the airship to fire a wave as a souvenir.
Under the constant care of Wang Wu and his comrades-in-arms, the town frequented by this airship has now become very deserted. There are empty houses everywhere, and the pedestrians on the streets are like rabbits, always on the lookout for a terrible airship in the sky.
As soon as they see an airship, they will find a random place to hide. And beg the true God not to let any bullets fall on him.
In the face of the Maxim heavy machine gun, it makes no difference to hide anywhere. When bullets fall from the sky, the mats and mud-plastered roofs are torn to shreds like paper.
There are also not many people below today, and as before, Wang Wu is ready to lower his altitude and shoot around to take a souvenir. It's all routine operations, and the big guys are used to it. The two airships behind him moved faster than Wang Wu.
Just as he was lowering the altitude, all of a sudden there were countless flames in the town. Before he could understand it, black smoke appeared in the sky around him.
"Dang!" The windshield next to Wang Wu was punched a hole by shrapnel. Wang Wu felt a chill on his face, and reached out to touch the blood on his hand.
"! Climb! Climb! What the fuck is this? Wang Wu shouted in a loud voice.
When he looked back, Wang Wu's face immediately turned pale.
The two airships that descended earlier than him were all smoking. As you can see with the naked eye, the skin of the airship is burning. In Wang Wu's position, you can clearly see the skeleton of the airship airbags.
Two airships fall like spinning tops! By the time Wang Wu had climbed back to a height of four thousand meters, the two airships had already fallen to the ground.
Two huge explosions shook the airship pod. Looking down, two puffs of smoke and dust rose into the sky, connecting to the sky. It must have been the explosion of the bomb mounted on the airship, and there is no need to think about it, there could be no living person on the airship. Not to mention the survivors, I'm afraid there won't even be any bones left.
"Bomb drop! Bombing! Wang Wu shouted loudly.
"Bomb what?" The bombardier was a little confused, and there was nothing to bomb underneath.
"Whatever the fuck you bombed, dropped the bomb." Wang Wu was so angry that he kicked this rammer, the bomb was so heavy, how could he fucking escape if he didn't throw the bomb down.
The bombardier hurriedly dropped the bomb, and as for whether it could blow people up if it was thrown below, it was not in his scope of consideration.
The huge bomb left the magazine, and everyone felt that the airship was lighter. Wang Wu personally steered the rudder and began to turn the rudder and return home.
Airship steering, especially this 180-degree steering, requires a very large turning radius. When Wang Wu was turning, he suddenly saw a ...... appear in the sky No, it's two airships.
Two airships, one on the left and one on the right, flew towards Wang Wu.
"What part of the airship is this, our airship can't return now!" Wang Wu muttered a little puzzled, and casually manipulated the binoculars, wanting to see which part of this was.
"! This is not our airship. Lifting the binoculars, Wang Wu saw that inside the pod opposite, there was also a guy holding a telescope and looking at him. The guy had a turban around his head and a long beard on his face.
"The Indians have airships?" No one could answer Wang Wu's question, and Wang Wu could only order to speed up and try to get rid of the other party's pursuit. However, it is likely to be in vain, as the Indians' airship seems to be faster than their own.
"Da Da Da ......! Da Da Da ......! The sound of machine gun fire was heard on the left and right sides at the same time, and the glass of Wang Wu's pod was shattered. Several crew members are starting to bleed!
"Fight back! Fight back! Wang Wu ignored the bombardier holding his bloody neck, ran to the machine gun, held the machine gun and began to shoot. At the same time, machine guns on the other side of the airship began to fire.
The airship was so big in the sky that it was difficult to hit it, and the machine guns on both sides kept strafing, and smoke came out of the three airships almost at the same time.
At this time, the benefits of ammunition were shown, and the Ming airships were equipped with incendiary bombs. In order to kill and injure the enemy while setting fire to the enemy's house when strafing.
It turned out that incendiary bombs were a deadly nemesis against the skin of the airship. After the Indian airship was hit by an incendiary bomb, the skin burned violently. The two airships began to fall with black smoke, and Wang Wu's airship was also falling, the difference was that Wang Wu's airship fell more slowly, and the Indian airship fell faster.
"Inflatable! Aeration! Wang Wu shouted to his subordinates. He poked his head out, not seeing the black smoke coming from his airship. This shows that the skin of his airship did not burn.
If you only get a few holes from the bullet, you should be able to fly back now. Now Wang Wu is very glad that he ordered to throw away those dead bombs as soon as possible.
The floor of the pod was slippery, and it was all the blood of the casualties. But at this time, no one cared about this, but fortunately, the chief engineer was fine. The pod spews flames, constantly replenishing the air bag with heat.
Although the height of the airship has dropped a lot, it can still levitate in the air.
"Fucking fuck up for Lao Tzu, if you still want to go back to see your father alive, just fucking give Lao Tzu a rudder." Wang Wu kicked the helmsman who was holding his head and crying on the ground.
Due to Wang Wu's ferocity, the helmsman had to get up and return with both hands tightly clutching the steering gear.
The airship swayed and struggled with the airship, and there was always the sound of gunfire on the ground. Wang Wu glanced at the height, two thousand meters! I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, the fire on the ground could not hit me.
Wu Sangui looked at the two huge pits in front of him, and the corners of his mouth could reach the back of his head if there were no ears to block them.
I didn't expect it! Unexpected! The Daming airship was also shot down one day, and Dr. Newton really didn't lie, saying that it took half a year to improve the empty rocket, that is, half a year. Now, the Daming airship has finally been restrained, and it can no longer bomb indiscriminately in India.
"Dr. Newton is really good." Wu Sangui said with rare joy.
"Huh! That's not what you said the other day when people applied for research grants. It is said that people only harm money, and they can't make any useful things out of it. George looked at Wu Sangui's appearance and teased.
"Don't say cool things, it's all my fault. In the future, even if Lao Tzu doesn't eat, he will have to allocate enough funds for scientific research. Seeing the research and development results, Wu Sangui was naturally overjoyed.
"But we were still shot down two airships, and I heard that one of them directly shot down two of us." Dorgon looked at the huge crater and said slowly.
Wu Sangui's face immediately darkened, after all, the best way to deal with airships is airships. But one airship killed two of them, and the other one was only damaged, and it is said that it flew back to Colombo. This made Wu Sangui feel very dull on his face!
suppressed the anger in his heart, if it weren't for Dolgon's really talented, Wu Sangui would really want to chop this bastard and feed it to the dog now.
"So what do you say?" George looked at Dolgon's face and turned back to ask Dolgon.
"The easiest way to do this is to improve the ammunition and increase the caliber of the barrel on the airship. The larger the caliber, the rougher the shell, the farther and more powerful it will be. I've heard that Daming has an instantaneous fuse that explodes whenever it touches something. If we can use this, then the Daming airship will definitely never dare to act recklessly on our heads again. ”
When Dorgon spoke, he seemed confident.
Wu Sangui and George glanced at each other, and Dolgon, this guy really had two brushes, and he solved the matter in a few words. I have to say, it's a really good idea.
"Grant Mr. Newton a grant for the study of large-caliber machine guns and corresponding ammunition." Wu Sangui immediately made a decision, and a good idea should be implemented immediately.
"And! If the problem of Daming airship attack can really be solved, then we have to think about the construction of the railway. Transporting troops or supplies from Mumbai to the front line is too long and too destructive. If there is a direct railway, the supply problem will be much easier to solve. ”
"Hmmm! This proposal is good, now ......! Wu Sangui's eyes lit up, in the past, it was because of the constant bombing of the Ming Dynasty that the entire east coast of India could not build a railway.
Now that the problem of bombing has been solved, the railway can naturally be built.
"The issue of building a railway is complex and cannot be discussed here." George said coldly.
He knew India better than Wu Sangui, and if he wanted to build a railway, he would definitely have to acquire land. With India's current financial situation, there is certainly no such thing as compensation.
In India, there are a lot of things that are hard to say. The land problem is one of the most difficult to say, forcibly occupying people's land without giving them any compensation. Ordinary people are easy to bully, but the small lords of those states are not easy to bully.
If you really mess with these people, it probably won't end well. Especially in these years, Wu Sangui fought against the Ming Dynasty in order to expand his military strength. A lot of guns and ammunition were distributed to the small lords of these states on the east coast. It's really urgent, the little lords with guns in their hands can do anything.
Historically, India has never been a unified country, and today's unification is still unified with the help of the British. The lords of the various states still have a lot of influence in their own territory. To be precise, neither the British nor Wu Sangui really controlled India.
The real control of India is actually the lords of these states, large and small.
"Oh! Yes, then find a time, let's talk about it. Glancing at the big crater where the airship fell, Wu Sangui was still very excited.
I've been angry with airships for so many years, and now I finally have the opportunity to take down these big guys, which is really exciting.
Ceylon! Colombo!
"You say the Indians knocked them down with rockets?" Li Hu looked at Wang Wu in disbelief.
Can rockets hit airships? It's not that I haven't encountered it before, but when a gust of wind blows down at high altitude, those rockets will be blown to pieces. The higher the altitude, the stronger the wind, Li Hu is still clear about this truth.
"That's right! Xia Guan saw with his own eyes, and on the way back, we also encountered the Indian airship. The subordinate and his men shot them down, and our airship was wounded. If it weren't for the fact that he had enough fuel when he came out, maybe the officials wouldn't have been able to come back. ”
"The Indians have a fucking airship?" Li Hu was a little surprised, he didn't expect the Indians to develop so fast, and they actually drummed up airships and improved anti-aircraft rockets in such a short period of time.
"Yes! Our crew has seen it, if you don't believe it, you will know it as soon as you ask. ”