Chapter 317: Look, the Indian People Are Welcoming Us! (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass)
"Boom, boom, boom......"
There was not just one, but one bomb after another, all of which fell all over the city of Mumbai, which had no air defense.
Parliament, Royal Palace, Port, Power Plant, Gas Factory, Shipyard, Arsenal...... All of them have become the target of the Ming bombardment! 100 kilograms of picric acid bombs turned into balls of fire, rising everywhere, igniting flames everywhere!
And when the bomb fell on the dome of the Imperial Parliament, Kaiser Wilhelm's royal carriage had just left the parliament compound - the bomb had fallen a little earlier, and Kaiser Wilhelm would have died on the spot. It's a pity that it's just a little bit short!
Although the marshal emperor's skills in fighting are a bit trendy, and he is also a little cowardly in the face of the menacing Ming Empire, he wants to keep his Indian Empire as a happy son. But in the face of the sudden drop of a bomb, the emperor was still quite brave...... After all, he was a professional soldier, and when he was young, he also participated in the American Revolutionary War, and he had seen artillery fire. Now I was furious when I saw the dome of the parliament building, which symbolized the authority of my empire, blown up. In a fit of rage, he immediately pulled out his pistol, then stood up and jumped on the seat of the open-top carriage, raised his pistol and aimed at the OnePlus biplane that had just finished throwing bombs and was throwing leaflets.
The emperor was also a rough man, and while he was handjob-fighting, he shouted and cursed: "Fakyou...... You sinister and despicable villain, if you have the ability to come down, I will duel with you! ”
The avenue where Kaiser Wilhelm was located was called the Emperor's Avenue, and every time the Emperor finished his speech in Parliament, he would come out of the main entrance of the Parliament in a royal carriage under the protection of the Royal Guard, and then make an appearance on the Emperor's Avenue. And those Indian nobles who run errands in banks, department stores, and large hotels on both sides of the Emperor's Avenue or shop or dine will run to the streets to cheer for their Emperor at this time. Today is no exception, on both sides of the Emperor's Road, there are high-caste humans gathered from all over India, and when they are cheering for their triumphant return of the Emperor, suddenly a small plane arrives...... Everyone thought that this high-tech thing at first glance was an advanced gadget from the UK, and they waved and cheered at it!
As a result, the small plane dropped a bomb and blew up the houses in the Houses of Parliament.
Now the big guys are dumbfounded, what's going on? Why is this flying thing still dropping things? What fell also blew up...... Is this broken?
Before everyone could react, their Emperor Majesty had already bravely pulled out his pistol and started firing in the air.
Seeing the emperor so reluctant, a group of Indian high-ranking people cheered.
"Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor......"
Feng Mingshan and Li Pingqing, who were still hovering in the sky with a small plane, didn't know that there was an emperor below who was beating them with a pistol - if they knew, they would use machine guns to fight back. When these two people saw that the people below were raising their arms and shouting something, they took it for granted that they were welcoming the soldiers of the Great Tomorrow to liberate!
"Little Lizi, do you see, the Indians below are all waving at us, as if they are still cheering!"
"That's right, we're here to free them!"
"Hurry up, take a picture...... Take it back and show it to the Admiral, maybe you can get another credit! ”
"Okay, I'll shoot it right away...... Brother Feng, you fly a little slower. ”
The photos taken by Li Pingqing were washed into photos more than three hours later, and together with the photos taken by the co-pilots of other small planes, they were sent to Zhuge Weidao.
"It's a good explosion!"
Zhuge Weidao, who was discussing where to go next while drinking tea with a few staff members in the officer's lounge, took the photos sent by Wang Wen, an aviation staff officer, and after reading a few of them, he began to praise them.
Although the Ssangyong aircraft that carried out this bombing mission could not be compared with the later planes in terms of performance, the current ground anti-aircraft firepower was even worse. Among them, there is a little more in field air defense, fortress air defense, and urban air defense...... Almost none!
If you have time and defense, why don't you just blow it up? And the Ssangyong aircraft is a biplane, this kind of aircraft has good low-altitude performance and can fly very slowly. In the absence of ground anti-aircraft fire interference, flying to a height of tens of meters and dropping bombs, this accuracy can be worse? Power plants, shipyards, and gas factories have all been blown up, and there are a few places that are blazing, which makes people feel happy to watch!
"Good, well fried!" Zhuge nodded for Dao again and again, "If you fight, you have to bomb it fiercely!" ”
"Junmen, you look behind, there is still behind!" Wang Wen said with a smile.
"And?" Zhuge Weidao hurriedly flipped back, and soon saw the photos taken by Li Pingqing of the Indian people "welcoming the king", "These people are ......"
"Cheering!" Wang Wendao, "They were watching the lively Indians on the Emperor's Avenue outside the Imperial Parliament in Mumbai, and they were all overjoyed to see our plane bomb the dome of the Imperial Parliament building!" ”
Zhuge nodded for the Tao and said with a smile: "It seems that the Indian people have been suffering for a long time, and they are looking forward to Wang Shi to save them day and night. ”
As he spoke, he deliberately picked out a few photos of the Indian people welcoming the king and handed them to Guo Xiaobao, the chief staff officer: "Baozhi, these photos are very important, you have to keep them carefully." In addition, when you go and bring the negatives, you should also keep them carefully. ”
"Yes, Junmen." Guo Xiaobao took the photos with a smile and put them all in his handbag.
Zhuge Weidao handed the rest of the photos to Ma Xuchen, chief of staff of the First Air Warfare, who walked in with Wang Wenyi one after another, and Ma Xuchen smiled after reading them: "The boiler room and turbine room of the power plant have been blown up, and the gas bag of the gas plant has also been blown up...... Yes, yes, it seems that Mumbai will have to stop the electricity for a few months, and the gas lights will not be lit. And this is just the result of a round of bombing by dozens of Ssangyong planes, and if there were 100 four-engine heavy planes bombing a few rounds, Mumbai would not have been reduced to ruins! ”
Zhuge said with a smile: "The four-engine heavy plane can't fly to Mumbai!" ”
Aviation staff officer Wang Wendao: "Junmen, as far as I know, Feilong Company and Jiangnan Airship Company are both developing four large seaplanes, and it is expected that the next generation of star engines that can provide 250 horsepower, and four such engines are 1,000 horsepower...... There is so much hope! ”
There is great hope indeed!
Zhuge said for the Taoist heart: "But it's not that there is great hope for water bombers, but for a new generation of carrier-based aircraft!" ”
At this time, Ma Xuchen suddenly changed the topic and said: "Junmen, after we bomb Mumbai, Emperor William will definitely be furious, and the great fleets of the Amman Sea and the Andaman Sea will definitely come to the sea off Mumbai." After all, we only have 4 battlecruisers and 4 motherships, and our strength is not enough to fight against the two Indian fleets, so we can't stay off the coast of Bombay for long. ”
Zhuge nodded for the road: "Getting through Malacca is fundamental...... When did the Army start the offensive? ”
"It may be a few more days," Ma Xuchen said, "and now the Sendai Division, the Aizu Division, and their Northern Independent Brigade are all in place." The army wanted them to be the vanguard and launch attacks in the direction of Penang and Gotha Baharu, as well as landing on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Now wait for Emperor Shizuko of Japan to arrive in Beijing, and then go on a personal expedition with the emperor. ”
Zhuge was stunned for a moment, "Emperor Shizuko is going to Beijing?" When is the news? ”
"I just received it," Ma Xuchen said and gave Zhuge Weidao a telegram, "The Admiral of the South Ocean Fleet wants us to operate in the western Indian Ocean for at least two months to cooperate with the army's occupation of the Malay Peninsula...... If possible, it would be better to merge with the Persian Gulf Fleet to form a Western Fleet. ”
"Good!" Zhuge Weidao smiled and said, "The idea of forming a Western fleet is good...... Let's leave tonight, leave the waters off Mumbai, and take a detour north to the Persian Gulf! ”