Chapter 1423: Crowd vs Crowd (First update, please subscribe)
"Lift off, lift off!"
Alfred shouted excitedly.
Perhaps because he was too excited, even his airship cap, which he was usually proud of, fell off. Under normal circumstances, he would have tried every means to clean it even if it was covered with a little dust, not to mention falling on the floor. After all, the airship cap symbolizes status. In the UK, no, in the world, is there any profession that is more proud and more admired than being an airship pilot?
To say there is is definitely a joke.
Even the Queen may not be as popular as the pilots.
"Hurry, throw the sandbag down,"
As Alfred gave the order to drop the weighted sandbags, his eyes were fixed on the plane in the distance.
They spread their wings like birds and flew high into the sky. Compared to the clumsy airships, they were as agile as swallows.
"They are dancing a ballet in the air..."
The sky seemed to have become a stage for planes, with four planes dancing in the air. Compared with the British people's haste, they seemed very calm and just leisurely drove the planes to climb.
"The British want to get high up in the sky."
Ding Lei's brows slightly frowned.
In terms of ceiling, the ceiling of airships is higher than that of airplanes, but now the airships are equipped with bombs, how high can they rise?
Having made up his mind, Ding Lei stepped on the accelerator again and tried to gain altitude by increasing the climbing speed.
"Hurry, hurry up, they are about to fly over our heads. Damn it, how can the Ming people have airplanes?"
Alfred stared at the climbing planes, watching them flying freely in the sky like swallows. His heart was full of envy and jealousy... and of course hatred. He hated the backwardness of the scientists of the British Empire. Why didn't the British Empire invent the airplane?
The airship is from the Ming Dynasty, and so is the airplane...
Oh my God!
Is the British Empire really in decline?
...At this time, Alfred couldn't think so much. As he watched the plane about to gain altitude, he asked loudly.
"Have you finished throwing the sandbags?"
“It’s all thrown away!”
"No, we need to fly higher..."
As he said this, he made up his mind and spoke quickly.
"Drop the bomb!"
"What? Sir?"
"Drop the bomb! Otherwise we will all die here!"
Alfred shouted excitedly.
"Hurry up..." Finally, at Alfred's shout, the bombardier pulled the bomb rod, and two bombs weighing 2,000 pounds were thrown out of the airship cabin. At the moment the bombs whistled down, the airship, which had lost 4,000 pounds of weight, rose rapidly.
"British guy, you react pretty quickly..."
Ding Lei said this and quickened his pace again.
When other British airships saw this, they followed suit and dropped bombs in order to gain altitude and avoid being attacked by Ming planes from the top of the airships which had no defense.
The top has always been the weak point of the airship.
Not only was it impossible to install a machine gun on top of the huge airbag, but the airbag also blocked the machine gunner's view in the airship cabin. Once the airship lost its altitude, the airship would be doomed.
In order to gain height and avoid being shot down, the British tried their best. They not only dropped the sandbags carried on the airship, but also dropped bombs.
However, the effect of doing so was obvious. Without the counterweight, the airship immediately rose rapidly into the sky.
But when Alfred dropped the bomb, he forgot one thing - the area below him was controlled by the British army. When the airships in the sky were fleeing from the planes in panic, many British soldiers on the ground were looking up to watch the excitement. After all, both airships and planes were very rare, and as for the latter, it was the first time they had seen each other.
It’s just that these spectators didn’t notice it at all, or they didn’t even think that the airship would drop a bomb.
When the bombs whistled towards them, the onlookers were all dumbfounded. They couldn't even believe it - what was going on?
"Isn't this our airship?"
"Yes, but why would we blow ourselves up..."
"Quick, quick, lie down..."
The British soldiers in the trenches shouted in horror, and just as they finished speaking, the sharp whistling sound of falling bombs could be heard above their heads.
“Chirp…Chirp…”
The sound made by the friction between the tail of the aerial bomb and the air was sharp and piercing, and the oppressive sound was getting closer and closer.
Just like this, huge aerial bombs fell from the sky like dumplings. The sharp whistling sound did not last long. The moment they landed, the overwhelming explosion sounded!
At the moment when the 2,000-pound aerial bomb fell near the British position, the earth shook violently. Huge columns of smoke suddenly exploded from deep in the earth, and then like a volcanic eruption, hundreds of tons of soil were thrown into the air.
Some bombs fell directly into the trenches, and at the moment of falling, they tore the British soldiers lying in the trenches into pieces. The flesh, blood and mud were thrown into the air and turned into dust in the air.
The earth was shaking. At that moment, the whole world seemed to be shaking violently, and the ground was shaking like waves.
For field fortifications, whether it was a 2,000-pound bomb, a 1,000-pound bomb or a 500-pound bomb, it was devastating. Although the British soldiers were lying at the bottom of the trenches, the violent explosions either collapsed the trenches or filled them with hundreds of tons of soil falling from the sky. As for the people in the trenches, they were buried alive.
Just a dozen seconds ago, these British soldiers who were buried alive were even eating hot pot there... well, they were just spectators watching the fun, but in just a blink of an eye, they were buried alive in the trenches.
Even when they were buried alive and about to die of suffocation, they were still puzzled by a question in their minds: why? Why did the British airships bomb the British?
"Oh my God!"
For the survivors, they were all thinking about this question, from the moment of the explosion until now when they stood up from the choking smoke and listened to the miserable screams in their ears.
They could not understand why the British airships in the sky would drop bombs to attack their own people.
Not to mention the British, even Honjo Shigeru and his comrades in the trenches were shocked.
"Did the British bomb it themselves?"
Honjo Shigeru murmured as he looked at the mushroom clouds that rose up on the British positions after the aerial bombs fell.
"How can they blow themselves up?"
Odamatsu on the side said with a smile.
"Who knows, maybe he got kicked in the head by a donkey..."
(End of this chapter)
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