Chapter 1528 The Hen That Lays Eggs (Second Update, Please Subscribe)
It wasn't just the soldiers who escaped, there were also many ordinary people.
At the train station, people came from all directions, all trying to squeeze onto the train. Men, women, and children were shouting and crying everywhere, and there were even occasional gunshots - in California, who doesn't have a gun at home?
In order to prevent the chaos from continuing, the officers maintaining order at the train station had to order warning shots and even warned that "those who create chaos will be sent to the front line." This threat was undoubtedly very effective. Faced with such a threat, the chaotic crowd quickly restored order.
Just as the train station was restoring order, a train loaded with reinforcements drove into the station accompanied by a whistle. Although the U.S. military's defense line was constantly falling, in order to stop the invasion of the imperial army, MacArthur could only continue to send troops to the front line to stop the imperial attack.
As soon as the carriage door was opened, soldiers carrying rifles were seen inside. They were wearing khaki uniforms, cowboy hats, and red scarves around their necks. They were reinforcements coming from Nevada. These rednecks in the West were mostly cowboys on ranches in the past.
Each of them was not only an excellent shooter, but also extremely brave on the battlefield. During the Civil War, their fighting effectiveness was praised by both the North and the South.
These soldiers, dressed in khaki uniforms and cowboy hats, looked at everything around them with curiosity, their faces full of eagerness, and some even shouted loudly.
"Damn Ming devils, here we come..."
Although they had just arrived here, they had already learned a new name for the imperial soldiers - "Ming devils."
At the shouts of the officers, the cowboys jumped off the train, the bayonets on their M1890 rifles gleamed coldly in the sun, the handles of the Colt revolvers on their waists sparkled. They used to knock down Indians one after another with their revolvers and finally drove them into the reservation. Now, they will repel the imperial invaders here!
They believed that they could accomplish all of this with their excellent marksmanship and extraordinary courage, and in their opinion, it even seemed natural.
Just as the cowboys were imagining a charge tomorrow to drive the Ming devils out of the United States, a sound seemed to be heard in the air.
As the cowboys were looking up at the sky curiously, suddenly someone pointed at the sky and shouted in horror.
"Oh my God...it's...it's an Imperial plane!"
Amid people's screams of fear, they saw a group of planes coming in the distance, blocking out the sky. The fear of planes immediately disrupted the order in the train station. The crowd that had been crowding to climb onto the train now desperately ran towards the surrounding wilderness, and many people even jumped directly off the train.
By now the battle was underway, everyone knew why these planes were coming—they would bomb the trains and destroy everything they could.
Amid the roar of the planes, air raid sirens sounded over the city. People who were trying to squeeze onto the train to escape, carrying their elderly and children, threw away their suitcases and scrambled to the nearby wilderness as if they were fleeing. The originally crowded train station suddenly became deserted.
"Today's airplanes seem different from those in the past..."
The observer in the anti-aircraft tower on the roof of the train station was watching the descending planes through a telescope with some confusion.
"It's different, they seem to have two engines!"
"Yes, it seems to be much bigger..."
It was indeed different. What was presented to them was the "Condor" bomber, the latest masterpiece of the Imperial Aviation Industry - a large biplane, twin-engine bomber. It not only had a range of 1,100 kilometers, but could also carry 1,000 kilograms of bombs. Although it was not as fast as an airship, its speed was as high as 175 kilometers. The most important thing was that unlike an airship, it did not have a huge airbag that would explode if hit.
Compared with the Falcon fighter, which weighs only 475 kilograms, the Condor bomber weighs 2,685 kilograms and has two 250-horsepower large engines. For this reason, the military named it "Andean Condor" - the largest flying bird in the Western Hemisphere.
As soon as the first batch of Condor bombers were delivered, they were sent to the North American battlefield. After all, bombers are more needed here. Today is the first time they are put into actual combat.
“Da, da, da…”
When the bombers began to lower their altitude, the Maxim anti-aircraft machine guns on the air defense positions near the train station immediately sounded. The brutal battle inspired people's innovation. In order to stop the bombing of the Imperial Air Force, American engineers set up a quadruple anti-aircraft machine gun, which was to install four Maxim machine guns on a special machine gun mount to stop the bombing of the aircraft. However, the Maxim machine gun, which had a firing height of only about a kilometer, posed a very limited threat to the aircraft. Moreover, the "Condor bomber" mainly carried out horizontal bombing at an altitude of 1,500 meters.
"Quickly...quickly, quickly leave the train station and hide in the surrounding fields!"
Unlike those inexperienced cowboys from Nevada, the officer standing on the platform certainly knew how powerful the plane was. Although he had never seen this type of plane,... just by listening to the roar of the plane's engine, the officer had already realized the threat!
The officer shouted nervously and waved his arms to tell the cowboys to run fast, but the cowboys had no idea of the horror of airplanes, even though they had heard of bombings and airships.
But what they heard is always just what they heard. Without personally experiencing the baptism of iron and fire, they will never understand the horror of the bombing. Even these cowboys who are used to riding horses did not feel any fear when facing the bombers in the sky. They were even full of curiosity. So when they fled, they ran slowly and looked up at the planes in the sky from time to time. No matter what, they could not understand why these people were so scared when they saw the planes.
"The plane doesn't look that big!"
"Nothing to be afraid of..."
"Hey, what is that?"
Just as the cowboys were commenting on the planes in the sky, suddenly, the bombers in the sky seemed to drop something.
"Like a hen laying eggs..."
This group of 54 bombers opened the bomb bay doors when they arrived at the temporary railway station, and then a large number of black spots fell from the belly of the planes.
In the eyes of the cowboys, it seems like a hen laying eggs, which seems very interesting!
When the bombs were whistling, some cowboys forgot to run away. They even watched the planes laying eggs with great interest. They had never seen such a scene before.
"Bomb, bomb, get down..."
Amid people's screams of fear, bombs whizzed in. In just a few seconds, the train station and the entire city were shrouded in smoke and fire. The violent explosion razed the train station to the ground.
In the world covered by smoke and dust, the cowboys who had been curiously watching the hens lay eggs finally enjoyed the baptism of iron and fire. In the smoke of the explosion, the cowboys' bodies appeared. Their bodies were blown into pieces and thrown into the sky. It was not until this time that they realized that the eggs falling from the sky were deadly...
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(End of this chapter)
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