Chapter Twenty-Five: A Crazy Night

The airship flew at an altitude of 8,000 meters, and heavy bombs were dropped one after another.

Huge airspace, dark sky. In the case of blind fire from anti-aircraft guns, it is not easy to hit an airship.

It's no different from hitting mosquitoes with a cannon!

But the French artillery still kept firing into the air.

If one is beaten down, it will be a meritorious service. Fool yourself tonight!

A few days ago, the two sides were at loggerheads. The troops are all mixed together!

High-altitude bombing is not accurate at all, and even if the airship wants to bomb at night, it is afraid of accidentally injuring its own people.

But now it was different, more than three-quarters of Tsaritsyn was occupied by the French.

In the hands of the Ming army, there was only a railway station and a small position nearby.

Things suddenly became simpler, avoid the places near the train station, and other places shells were blown up and bombs were thrown at will.

On this night, Tsaritsyn was completely reduced to hell.

More than 60 percent of the buildings in the city were destroyed, but the night passed. There are basically not a few intact buildings in the city!

In addition to broken bricks and rubble, there are also craters more than one person deep on the street.

If you accidentally fall while walking, you will break your leg if you are lucky, and you will break your neck if you are unlucky.

The old monkey was lying on top of the water tower, looking at Tsaritsyn like a firework.

The tremor came again and again, and it was a little uncomfortable at first, but then it was very pleasant.

It's so enjoyable, so fucking relieving.

After being so angry, now I can finally watch these French people unlucky.

"Where is our airship, send our airship to bomb the Ming people." Napoleon's roar could be heard clearly from twenty meters away.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, if an airship wants to bomb, it must fly at a high altitude. If you fly at low altitude, you can easily be beaten down by the Ming army.

But flying at high altitudes, the accuracy of the bombing is not guaranteed, and it will bomb our own people. ”

Frion reluctantly explained to the enraged Emperor.

There is no way, his brother is the head of the airship force, and this is definitely the time to test the brotherhood.

"Don't be afraid, let our airships go. Bomb, bomb them. "Napoleon can't care about it, anyway, the Ming army's airship is dispatched, and the French airship is also dispatched.

This time, Frion was out of the way.

His Majesty the Emperor is hard-hearted, and he can't stop it.

In the second half of the night, the French airships also sorted.

Unexpectedly, the Ming army at the railway station did not shoot into the sky. As if anti-aircraft guns were not deployed here!

Damn, can't you be stupid?

The French airship unit was not fooled, and the altitude was stable at an altitude of 8,000 meters.

Anyway, His Majesty the Emperor also said that it can be bombed from high altitudes.

There is no such thing as high-altitude bombing.

Even the Ming army, which invented the airship, could not guarantee the accuracy of high-altitude bomb drops.

The French ...... that they had not even been trained in high-altitude bomb dropping.

Coupled with the extreme nervousness of the pilots, many bombs were dropped into the coalition occupation zone.

The coalition army had just been bombed by the Ming army, and before they could wake up, they were bombed by their own people.

The anti-aircraft artillery unit reacted quickly and still fired blindly into the sky.

If you don't fire the cannon, you are likely to be scolded by the commander above.

If you can't hit the big move, you can fight it first.

I don't know if the French pilots were too unlucky, or if the Allied anti-aircraft artillery units were technically sophisticated.

A cannonball exploded impartially on the airbag of an airship, which immediately turned into a huge fireball.

Watching the fireball fall in the sky, the coalition anti-aircraft artillery unit let out a cheer.

Then, the anti-aircraft artillery fire became even more ferocious. In the entire area occupied by the coalition forces, the anti-aircraft guns hit the pear blossom of a thousand trees.

It's just a pity that after this they have never been able to achieve such brilliant "results".

Although they did not achieve results, the doom of the French airship force did not end.

French pilots are telegraphing the state of the anti-aircraft artillery unit.

Several Ming Army Stuka fighters appeared in the night sky like ghosts.

In the sky, they could tell at a glance where the Ming army airship was and where the French army airship was.

Because the Ming army airship is hanging a string of small yellow lights on the back of the airbag.

Because of the angle, people on the ground can't see these small lights, but they can easily see clearly if they fly faster than the Stuka they do.

This time it's simple, the one with the light is the Daming airship, and the one without the light is naturally the French airship.

After distinguishing between friend and foe, Stuka began to dive.

The huge airbag of the airship is the best target.

Machine gun bullets tore huge gaps in the airbags.

The airbag that leaked quickly deflated.

It's easier for Stuka to deal with an airship than for an eagle to deal with a pigeon.

When they attacked the airship, even the pilot of the airship did not know.

Seeing that the airship was falling, the airbag quickly lost pressure. They will desperately replenish the air inside the airbag!

As a result, no amount of gas can keep up with the speed of air leakage.

In the end, it can only fall with the airship, like a spinning top.

In desperation, the pilot of the airship could only drop all the heavy bombs at once.

Those coalition soldiers on the ground were once again baptized by their own bombs.

Because it is thrown all at once, it often causes a concentrated explosion.

The power of the explosion is much more powerful than the explosion of a single bomb.

Many French soldiers hiding in bunkers were shocked to death in the fortifications by explosions of this magnitude.

From the top of the airship, Stuka dived and attacked. The machine gun hit the airship airbag fragments everywhere!

The French airships were shot down one by one, and in only 20 minutes before and after, there was no more French airship in the sky.

Stuka flapped his wings, as if he wasn't enough.

Unfortunately, there was no bomb attached to the Stuka and it could not be blown up a few times.

However, looking at Tsaritsyn, who was in a sea of fire below, it seemed that it made no difference whether he brought a bomb or not.

The sun leaps over the horizon, and the first rays of sunlight shine above the smoke of gunpowder.

Leclerc looked at Tsaritsyn dumbfounded, at sunset last night, there were almost three or four complete houses in Tsaritsyn's interior.

But in just one night, there were only thirty or forty relatively intact houses left in the whole of Tsaritsyn.

The smell of gunpowder smoke was everywhere, and all kinds of debris and wreckage were scattered on the ground.

It wasn't long before you could see charred, mutilated corpses.

You don't need to look at it to know that they are all French corpses.

In the distance, the Tsaritsyn railway station still stands there.

From Leclerc's vantage point, you can see the spire of the huge water tower.

"!" Leclerc scolded viciously.

Last night's bombardment caused more than 8,000 French casualties. A large amount of supplies were lost, as well as more than thirty valuable airships.

In one night, the French army suffered heavy losses.

Leclerc sadly discovers that there seems to be a long way to go before he wants to fully occupy Tsaritsyn.

The train station in front of me is filled with soldiers' corpses. Whether it can be beaten down or not is not a matter of certainty.

From yesterday's self-confidence to today's pessimistic disappointment, Leclerc's mood has experienced peaks and lows in just one night.

The span is a bit large, and it is difficult to adapt to it for a while.

On the other side of the battlefield, Li Xiao was full of confidence.

Because he found that the Ming army did not need to occupy the whole of Tsaritsyn. All he had to do was make sure that the train station and some nearby places were not captured!

As long as this place was not captured, the French could not cross the Volga without a smooth passage.

Without a smooth crossing of the Volga, the attempts of the French to quickly end the war would have been frustrated.

In addition, when the position was reduced to only the area near the railway station, the problem of insufficient troops was solved.

The entire city was occupied by coalition forces, and large-caliber rockets could also come in handy.

I used to be afraid of hurting my own people by mistake, but now I don't have to be afraid.

There were coalition forces inside and outside the city, and after the plane reconnaissance, it was bombed.

This time, on the contrary, I can let go of my hands and feet and do a big job.