Chapter 1406 Thor's Hammer (Second update, please subscribe)

Several small planes circled and bombed in the sky like falcons, dropping black bombs from time to time.

While the bombing was going on, the rear-seat machine gunner was strafing the ground with his machine gun, causing considerable casualties to the exposed American officers and soldiers. The American gunner lying on the ground was caught in a three-dimensional pincer attack by machine guns and bombs, and was unable to advance or retreat, making it difficult for him to survive.

Although the American gunners tried to attack the planes in the air with anti-airship guns, the anti-airship guns with slow initial velocity and curved trajectory posed almost no threat to the agile aircraft. When the anti-airship gun shells dragged the fire dragon into the air, their positions were exposed. Those falcon-like fighter planes immediately dived again and bombed the exposed anti-aircraft gun positions.

In the smoke of the explosion, the few anti-airship guns quickly turned into a pile of scrap metal. During the bombing, a few American soldiers bravely stood up. They tried to shoot at the planes in the sky with rifles, but their exposed figures became targets for machine guns and bombs. Soon, most of these brave soldiers were shot into sieves or even killed.

During the bombing, the only option to survive was to hide in an air-raid shelter or inside a fortress. After all, their fortress was specially reinforced and could not only withstand heavy artillery bombardment, but even giant bombs dropped from airships would not cause much damage to the fortress.

Although they knew the fortress was very strong, the American soldiers inside the fortress looked up with some trepidation amid the violent explosions. Dust kept falling from the gaps in the fortress dome, and they could even feel the ground shaking. So they kept making the sign of the cross on their chests or kissing the cross on their necklaces, and then prayed for God's blessing.

Yes, at this time, it seemed that only God could return north to bless them.

Perhaps their prayers really worked. Soon, the planes in the air dropped all their bombs one after another, and they once again formed into a long snake formation and headed towards the destination.

In the smoke-filled fortress, many corpses were lying in a mess. Wounded American soldiers were struggling in a pool of blood, crying out in pain and calling for help. The fortress was littered with broken arms and limbs that were blown off, and the ground was covered with bloody fragments of flesh and internal organs.

The injured people were crying and screaming in agony, while the survivors were rejoicing that they were alive.

However, what they didn’t know was that the nightmare didn’t end there!

"God bless……"

Just as Tom was about to breathe a sigh of relief as he watched the plane fly away, he saw four gray-white airships slowly approaching their fortress in the northern sky - the four large airships of the 12th Floating Brigade finally appeared.

Compared to the tiny and insignificant airplanes, these big guys are very large in size and their speed is not fast. They just fly over slowly.

"airship!"

I don't know who screamed first, and accompanied by screams of terror, the survivors realized that their anti-airship cannons had been destroyed.

"Damn it, those flying machines are meant to destroy our airship guns!"

The American officers and soldiers guarding the fortress almost watched helplessly as the four airships, which looked like prehistoric behemoths, flew over their heads in such a grand manner. After the experience of being bombed by planes, many survivors almost invariably fled in all directions and escaped into the fortress, trying to protect themselves with the help of the sturdy fortress.

They let the Ming Empire's airships fly leisurely over their heads, move around above their heads, and lay eggs non-stop...those bombs could not harm the fortress at all.

But they forgot one thing - the airship could carry larger and heavier bombs.

However, the airship did not drop the heavy bomb immediately. Instead, it dropped a small bomb from its suspended mid-air. The bomb that fell from the sky landed outside the fortress, but it did not explode. Instead, it emitted yellow smoke.

Seeing the yellow smoke not far away through the gun window, Captain Thomas immediately had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Damn it, we're done!"

"What?"

"We're done... They're going to mark the location, damn it, they're going to use Thor's Hammer!"

What is Thor's Hammer?

It is a battlefield legend - when Argentina and Brazil were destroyed, the Ming Dynasty's airships used heavy bombs on the battlefield.

"It is about twenty feet long and four feet in diameter. It is a giant bomb. When it falls from the sky, it will be like Thor's hammer, destroying everything between heaven and earth. Even the most solid fortress will be like paper in front of it..."

This is how the outside world describes it, and of course the description of its devastating power is also extremely brilliant.

But "Thor's Hammer" has never been a legend.

Even during the Russo-Turkish War, the Russians used airships to drop 1,800 kg heavy bombs nicknamed "Thor's Hammer" many times. Turkish fortresses were easily torn to pieces, and many people even believed that Turkey's demise was directly related to "Thor's Hammer".

However, even so, countries still did not give up on fortresses. After all, fortresses were the best choice for defending against enemy attacks, especially after machine guns were put into large-scale use. They reinforced the fortresses while installing airship cannons.

"Don't worry, our fortress is very strong. There is six feet of reinforced concrete above our heads. Even a 4,000-pound bomb will not cause much damage to the fortress. Moreover, part of our fortress is inside the mountain. There is more than ten feet of thick mountain above our heads..."

Captain Max patted Thomas on the shoulder, then looked at the frightened soldiers around him and spoke in a relaxed tone.

"Gentlemen, do not doubt our fortress. It is absolutely impossible to destroy our fortress!"

Just as Max confidently declared that the fortress was indestructible, the airship at an altitude of 5,000 meters was slowly adjusting its position. After each adjustment, the aimer would aim the crosshairs of the sight at the target and then drop the bomb.

The smoke bombs dropped were still for marking the direction. In order to increase the accuracy of high-altitude bombing, the Empire's floating forces began using smoke bombs to mark the target position more than ten years ago, so as to achieve the purpose of precision bombing.

Of course, the prerequisite for doing this is to carry out bombing at high altitudes. After all, only by staying at high altitudes can the airship ignore the threat of airship cannons, hover at high altitudes, slowly adjust its position, and carry out precise bombings.

After adjusting the position five times in succession, finally, a yellow smoke emerged in the center of the fortress.

"alright!"

Looking at the smoke column rising in the fortress through the telescopic bombing sight, the gunner with his military cap worn backwards showed a smug smile on his face.

"It's now..."

The moment he finished speaking, he pressed the bomb-dropping button. A heavy bomb was dropped from the airship cabin. The weight of the airship suddenly lightened a lot, and it even continued to fly higher into the sky.

The heavy bombs fell towards the fortress on the ground with a sharp and even piercing whistle...

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(End of this chapter)