Chapter 456 Target airship, open fire! (Fifth update, please subscribe)

Sound of cannon!

At an altitude of 1,500 meters, the continuous sound of artillery fire like chainsaws echoed like thunder in summer.

Nine airships circled slowly in the air. At this moment, they turned into dancers in the air, as if they were dancing a waltz in the air. In this death circle, the 30mm Gatling machine gun in the cabin fired up to 2,500 rounds, pouring the music of death toward the ground.

This way, the aircraft would circle around the target, so that the Gatling gun in the cabin would always face the enemy and fire. For such an attack, there was no need to aim, just adjust the gun mount to an angle and aim it at the target on the ground.

Compared with the "nails" or aerial bombs that rely on luck, such aerial bombardment is more accurate and has a better killing effect.

“Boom boom boom!”

Small shells exploded among the German troops in formation, covering a large area. The crowded queues increased their casualties.

Thousands of small shells, like thousands of grenades, were accurately "thrown" at the feet of the German soldiers, first penetrating their bodies and tearing them in two.

The explosion of the shells occurred at the moment they penetrated their bodies. The shells exploding in mid-air further exerted their power. Millions of shell fragments whistled in the air, wantonly harvesting lives around them.

This is the steel rain of death that human flesh and blood cannot resist.

Amid the nearly destructive artillery fire, tens of thousands of Prussian officers and soldiers of the Sixth Army were either turned into piles of minced meat and rotten corpses, or fled in all directions like headless flies. The originally high-spirited team had fallen into complete chaos.

No one knows what is going on, but everyone knows that staying here means waiting for death!

grim Reaper!

The god of death that descended from the sky was unscrupulously reaping the lives of all of them.

"Quick, run to the woods. They can't see the target in the woods..."

As Herbert ran, he pointed at the woods and shouted loudly to his men. Finally, when he escaped to the woods, he raised his head and looked at the sky with horror on his face!

Once upon a time, for him, the son of the prime minister, war was full of romance and a reflection of the value of life, but what about now?

All he saw was death, and what was even more terrifying? Facing this kind of death, each of them was like a lamb to be slaughtered, and could only wait helplessly for death to come upon them.

This kind of despair could only be understood by those who had experienced it personally. At that moment he finally understood why those who had witnessed the airship bombing would use all the languages ​​in the world to describe its horror.

It is indeed very scary. If there is a devil in the world, then the airship must be his representative in the world.

The airship is coming!

Nanhua’s airship is coming!

What did they bring?

die……

die!

While the steel rain of death enveloped tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Sixth Army, on the top of a distant mountain, several Prussian officers were observing the southern sky with telescopes.

"Will they come?"

"They must be on their way!"

The "they" the officers mentioned were the airships. After the Spaniards discovered the airship fleet that "blocked the sky", the Prussian army increased the intensity of the bombardment on Sedan and also sent out a search team to look for the airship fleet in the sky.

airship!

Even though the Prussian army had the best artillery, soldiers and an excellent officer corps, they not only did not have airships, but these weapons were extremely powerful!

God can testify that in the past few months, European newspapers have been full of reports about airships. Its power and strength have long been deeply rooted in people's minds. Faced with this unprecedented and powerful weapon, what can European countries do?

The British and French used diplomatic advantages to purchase airships, but what about Prussia?

Prussia failed to buy the airship, but they certainly would not sit back and take a beating!

Krupp immediately started to develop a breech-loading 37mm "Ballon kanoe", which is an anti-balloon cannon. In order to stop Nanhua's airship troops, the Prussian army invested all 30 balloon cannons. The cannon was installed on a 4-wheeled carriage. The overall weight was not large and it could be quickly deployed by horse-drawn traction. When an airship was found, it could be pulled close to the airship by horse-drawn carriage and deployed at a suitable location to attack.

"Look, it's an airship!"

Suddenly, Major Carl pointed to the sky and said.

"There, there!"

"11 o'clock, quick, send out our "Ballon Kanoe" immediately!"

He shouted and blew the whistle. Dozens of carriages were parked at the bottom of the hill. After receiving the order, Captain Hansen and others immediately ordered the troops to move forward. Soon they reached an open area. Thirty balloon cannons were immediately dispersed. The gunners set up the balloon cannon like a large rifle. The shooter held the butt of the gun at the end and aimed at the air like operating a rifle. Its barrel was mounted on a gun mount similar to a naval small-caliber gun, and the gun barrel, which was more than one meter long, was pointing straight into the air.

"They...seem to be flying very high!"

Carl, who was riding on his horse, muttered to himself. Looking at the airship that was already flying overhead, the gunners opened fire.

"Boom, boom..."

While thirty "Mara self-propelled anti-aircraft guns" fired in succession, the observers on the airship who were searching and observing ground targets also discovered this small group of enemies.

"What are they doing... shelling!"

Suddenly, the observer shouted loudly.

"The Prussians are firing their cannons into the air at us!"

For the airship troops that had never been attacked before, such a bold attack was simply unimaginable. Many crew members even looked at the ground curiously. When they saw the clouds of smoke rising from the ground, there was only one thought in their minds?

Could the Prussian guns reach them?

The answer is of course no. That kind of 37mm cannon could not possibly pose any threat to an airship at an altitude of 1,500 meters.

"Damn it, our 'Ballon kanoe' can't reach them, they're flying too high!"

They were flying too high.

Even though the Prussians aimed very accurately, their shells all missed the target. The firing height of those 37mm cannons was only about 500 to 600 meters at most, which could not pose any threat to the airship at all.

"How the hell can their airship fly so high?"

While Carl was shouting excitedly and wanted to spit at the sky, Li Du, the chief officer of the airship unit, frowned. When he used a telescope to observe the unique-looking self-propelled anti-aircraft guns mounted on horse-drawn carriages on the ground, a sense of foreboding surged in his heart.

The Europeans have found a way to counter airships! They've actually created a cannon to attack airships.

When the airship flew towards the enemy's artillery position, Li Du deliberately used a telescope to observe the anti-aircraft guns that were shooting at the airship.

"It's actually on the carriage, and it's following us..."

When Li Du was surprised that the Prussian "anti-aircraft guns" were so advanced, he was unaware of the despair of the Prussian airship shooters on the ground. They were desperately aiming at the targets in the air. Although they tried their best to shoot down those airships, they found in despair that their shells could not reach the opponent at all.

Even at the same speed, I can't catch up with others.

"Damn it, they..."

Suddenly, Carl was stunned by what he saw. In front of him, the gray wilderness turned completely red.

Gray was the color of the Prussian uniforms, and red... was blood! Amid the blood and flesh, gray fell down in pieces, and life fell down in pieces like wheat in a wheat field.

Blood and fire were presented so directly before Major Karl's eyes that he even reined in his horse in fear.

fear!

Boundless fear instantly enveloped his body and mind. Is this the death brought by the airship?

(End of this chapter)