Chapter 1407: Lifting a Fortress Like Peeling Paper (Third Update, Please Subscribe)

The "hissing" sound echoed in the air.

This is the sound made by the friction between the bomb's tail and the air as it cuts through the air.

Although this sound is harsh, it is a very common sound on the battlefield. Mortar shells also make a similar sound when they fall.

However, this sound today was different from the past. It was getting louder and louder, more piercing, and closer. Suddenly, just when people thought he was about to fall,

Suddenly there was a loud bang in the sky.

The deafening explosion even made people wonder if a bomb exploded in the air!

Not an explosion!

It is the "sonic boom" sound made when the speed of the giant bomb exceeds the speed of sound!

More than a decade ago, in view of the devastating blows caused by heavy aerial bombs to fortresses during the Turkish War, countries around the world began to reinforce their fortresses. In order to resist aerial bombing and artillery bombardment, fortresses were generally reinforced with reinforced concrete with a thickness of one meter or even more than two meters, which was enough to resist the heavy aerial bombs of the Imperial military. In order to destroy the increasingly solid fortresses, the Imperial Floating Force commissioned companies to design "super bombs that can destroy any fortress."

Since ordinary bombs cannot penetrate the bunker because of their thin shells, technicians worked directly on the shells. As a result, they designed armor-piercing bombs with thick cast steel shells, which can completely rely on inertia to smash into the bunker.

But even so, it still cannot meet the needs of the military. After all, a 2,500-kilogram armor-piercing bomb can only rely on inertia to penetrate a mere 2-meter-thick reinforced concrete. The power is not strong enough. What the military needs is a "super bomb that is enough to destroy any fortress."

At the request of the military, the Empire's scientific researchers applied the latest aerodynamic principles to aerial bombs to increase their falling speed. Ordinary bombs have a normal aerodynamic shape, and due to the influence of air resistance, their terminal falling speed is generally only subsonic. However, the super bomb with an optimized shape has a terminal falling speed exceeding the speed of sound with its super-large tonnage of 5.5 tons and excellent aerodynamic shape.

The new super bomb is 6.4 meters long, 97 centimeters in diameter, and contains 2,358.68 kilograms of explosives. Its power is naturally imaginable. Its solid shell and the falling speed at the end that exceeds the speed of sound give it a strong penetrating power.

This was the first time the super bomb was used on the battlefield.

The bomb, which was more than six meters long, looked like a huge stick. It fell from a height of 5,000 meters. When it was a thousand meters above the ground, it was accompanied by a loud noise that broke the speed of sound. People on the ground were all startled.

However, for the Americans who were hiding from the bombing in the fortress, they had no idea what the loud noise meant.

The whistling super bomb penetrated the nearly two-meter-thick reinforced concrete roof of the fortress the moment it landed. After smashing into the interior of the fortress, it continued to smash through the internal floor and penetrated to a depth of more than ten meters underground.

When the bomb smashed through the fortress, the American officers and soldiers in the fortress were all frightened by the violent impact. By the time they realized that the fortress had been "smashed" through, before they could react,

Suddenly, as if a volcano erupted, a huge cloud of smoke burst out from the underground of the fortress. In the violent explosion, even the mountains were shaken. In the earth-shaking roar, the fortress was like a paper-made one and was lifted up from the ground. After this explosion, when the earth was shaking like an earthquake, another violent explosion sounded, and the entire fortress was lifted up - in the violent explosion, the underground arsenal near the explosion point was also detonated. Hundreds of tons of shells and gunpowder exploded, directly blowing up the entire fortress!

Even the twelve-inch cannons in the fortress were blown hundreds of meters into the air by the explosion.

The violent explosion even caused a slight earthquake, not only was the fortress completely razed to the ground, but it also turned into a huge crater.

Even the imperial soldiers who were rushing nearby suffered additional damage in the explosion - because the power of the explosion was too great, the eardrums of many soldiers in the nearby positions were shattered, and some even had bleeding ears and noses due to the violent shock wave and loud noise.

But compared to those Americans, they were undoubtedly lucky. The American officers and soldiers who were hiding in the fortress to avoid the bombing didn't even figure out what was going on before they turned into dust along with the bricks, stones and soil in the violent explosion.

They didn't even leave any body parts behind. They were mixed with thousands of tons of earth and rocks. A huge crater became the grave of thousands of American officers and soldiers. They died silently.

In the smoke, Li Gangqiang and his comrades stared at the fortress that had disappeared. Once upon a time, this fortress was an insurmountable obstacle. He and his comrades were even ready to sacrifice their lives to seize it. They were full of blood and were willing to sacrifice!

But what about now?

What did they see when their ears and noses were bleeding from the shock?

It's destruction!

A sturdy fortress that cost millions of dollars to build was easily destroyed!

Even now, Li Gangqiang and his comrades are still a little confused. They simply can't believe it all.

After all, this is too unbelievable.

After a long while, Li Gangqiang murmured to himself.

"Destruction, destruction of heaven and earth, that's all!"

However, no one around him could hear what he was saying. Almost everyone's ears were injured. With only tinnitus in their ears, they couldn't hear clearly what their comrades were saying...

On the top of the mountain in the rear, the commander of the 53rd Regiment, Xu Yangzhi, opened his eyes wide in astonishment, his lips slightly parted, and he couldn't even speak.

"What is this? Is it Thor's Hammer?"

The so-called "Thor's Hammer" is a general term for 1,800 kg and 2,500 kg aerial bombs.

"Definitely not!"

Sun Haoze affirmed.

"The bomb dropped by the airship is definitely not Thor's Hammer, because its power is too great, far exceeding Thor's Hammer. When we were in military school, we watched a documentary film. Thor's Hammer... could not have caused such an explosion..."

Staring at the huge mushroom cloud, Sun Haoze pursed his lips and said.

"Oh my God! If we keep dropping bombs like this, there will be no need to fight this war! Fort Grant... is simply not worth a single blow..."

Xu Zhiyang, who was still grinning with surprise, spoke after a long while.

"It's as easy as peeling off a piece of paper to overturn a huge city... With such a bomb, the so-called Fort Grant is simply not worth mentioning..."

What is the so-called Fort Grant? It is a fortress built by Americans along the Pacific coast and in the western region to block the attack of the empire.

Shaking his head, Xu Zhiyang sighed.

"Now, I even feel a little sympathy for those American soldiers. They... have no idea what they are going to face."

When saying this, Xu Zhiyang looked up at the sky. At this moment, the sun was shining brightly in the sky, and the blue sky and white clouds were exceptionally clear. The sky... the sky belonged to the Ming Dynasty. As long as they controlled the sky, the Ming Dynasty would surely win this war.

"It's death!"

Sun Haoze sneered.

"Unless they surrender, death awaits them!"

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(End of this chapter)