Chapter 916: The Eye of Heaven in the Ming Dynasty (Fourth update, please subscribe)

War is three-dimensional!

As the Ming army advanced triumphantly and hundreds of thousands of troops were divided into three groups to attack Brazil's most prosperous eastern coast, the airships that kept flying over their heads reminded them that the floating troops were bombing the enemy.

Whenever the soldiers saw those airships, they would smile and they were full of confidence in the victory of the war. And this confidence came from the powerful airships in the sky, which could destroy almost everything.

The Brazilians were often bombarded by airships before they could even see their appearance, and their positions and artillery were destroyed in the bombing.

In fact, everyone knew very well that even if the Ming Dynasty's airship troops were brave and capable, they could not completely wipe out the Brazilian troops, but they could inflict heavy damage on the enemy. By the time they went into battle, they would be facing nothing more than a group of troops that had been frightened by the bombing.

airship!

What is the biggest advantage of airships?

It can stay in the air almost forever!

After the war broke out, the Ming Dynasty dispatched three of its six floating forces. In addition to bombing the Brazilian military camps, it also dispatched one wing to serve as an air alert force.

The so-called air alert force was an idea proposed by Emperor Zhu when he inspected the airship force in the third year of Shengde. It was to take advantage of the airship's ability to hover for a long time and send out airships in groups of two or three during the war to hover over the war zone. The crew would use telescopes to observe and directly attack the enemy's marching columns after discovering them.

In other words, it is almost equivalent to a "naked-eye ground-warning airship", but it is the attack type.

After the army invaded Brazil, the airship force immediately implemented the corresponding plan and dispatched dozens of airships to carry out this mission. The alert area of ​​each formation was not large, about 100 kilometers long and 10,000 square kilometers wide. On a sunny day with good weather, they could use telescopes to look down and spot group targets one or two hundred kilometers away.

It is also for this reason that after the Ming army began its attack, the battlefield became almost unilaterally transparent to the Ming Dynasty, and these airships hovered in the air almost 24 hours a day.

The sky was quiet. The airship had turned off its engine and was just floating with the air currents. In the airship, Gu Chengan walked into the cockpit with a cup of tea in his hand and looked out.

"So, did you find anything?"

Yang Tianqi put down the telescope and smiled.

"What else can we do? We didn't find anything. What do you think is wrong with this Brazilian? He is not really going to give up on the periphery and only plan to fight us in Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro!"

"Who cares! Anyway, our mission is simple, find it, and then..."

"bombing!"

The crew's words made them all laugh. For them in the air, there was almost no danger. For them, this war was almost no different from their usual training.

Just discover... and then drop the bombs. Then return to the base to replenish the bombs, rest for two days, and then take off again to continue the vacation in the air.

"Keep observing and don't let go of any suspicious targets."

Then he went to the rear cabin, where several crew members were sitting on the deck playing cards. The long cruise in the air was a bit lonely, and they could only pass the time by playing cards and reading books.

It is precisely because of boredom that they are looking forward to the battle, even if the battle only lasts one or two minutes.

"Captain, come on, let's play two together!"

Gu Cheng'an did not refuse the crew's invitation. Just as he sat down and had not completed two laps, the observer's voice in the front cabin came over.

"The target of the large team has been found."

"Long live!"

The observer's shout made the officers and soldiers who were playing cards shout excitedly and rush to the porthole. Although they could not see the target on the ground, at this moment, the engine of the airship roared again and headed in another direction, and the other two airships several kilometers away also followed suit.

Soon the three airships re-formed into formation after receiving the flash signal and flew towards the distance. When they flew, the blue team marching on the ground had no idea that they had been exposed. In fact, it was not only this "guard team" that discovered them, but two other guard teams also discovered them, and they all ran directly towards the target.

Staring at the Brazilian army marching in the northeast, Gu Chengan gave the order.

"Determine the direction of the airflow and engage the enemy in silence."

After the order was given, the airship shut down its engine. When the airship was blown off its course by the airflow, they adjusted its course through the airship's rudders and quietly approached the target.

At this time, the three airships were like three silent assassins, quietly approaching the ground target at an altitude of one thousand meters, while the Brazilian army marching on the ground had no idea of ​​the coming of the risk.

The airships continued to descend as they engaged the enemy, and even when they appeared above the Brazilians' heads, the Brazilian troops on the ground had not yet reacted.

"bomb!"

The moment the bombardier pressed the button, cluster bombs fell from the sky, one after another, whistling along the column of the Brazilian army. A few seconds later, when the timed explosive cord blew up the cluster bomb box, hundreds of small bombs scattered.

Everything happened so suddenly that the Brazilians on the ground didn't even have time to react before they were caught in a sea of ​​fire. Dense cluster bombs exploded between the marching columns as if they had eyes. The one-kilogram small bombs brought a bloody storm to the ranks. In the violent explosion, the Brazilian soldiers who were still marching were either blown into the sky or had their arms and thighs blown off. The flying shrapnel indiscriminately reaped the lives of Brazilians.

But in just a blink of an eye, the Brazilian army that was originally marching fell into chaos. The lucky ones ran to the left and right of the road in panic, but the scattered bombs covered them. The flying shrapnel directly penetrated their bodies and tore their flesh and blood.

For these black slaves who were still working on the plantation under the whip of their masters a few months ago, they had no idea what was happening and then they died in the explosion!

Death comes quietly like this.

When it comes, those people are like poor ants, knowing nothing about it.

(End of this chapter)