Chapter 287 Falling from the Sky (First Update, Please Subscribe)
The grass swayed gently in the cool breeze of the morning. On the open grassland, a towering iron tower tied an airship. The airship was more than 70 meters long and looked very spectacular.
Below the mooring tower, in the shadow of the airship, several officers and sergeants in black uniforms were gathered together calculating something.
"Once we reach our destination, you will be responsible for aiming and dropping the bombs."
"aim……"
The monkey grinned.
"How do you drop a bomb from the sky onto the ground?"
"That's right, and this aiming, that's also blind!"
"Try it first. Actually, dropping bombs is just a math problem. We just need to do some calculations..."
Before Wang Xinyue could finish speaking, Ma Guangming laughed.
"Captain, look at what you said. Our math skills are average and we really can't figure it out."
"That's easy. We can just design a tool later. Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's test fly it!"
Wang Xinyue waved his hand, and five crew members climbed up the tower with him, and then entered the airship. After they boarded the ship, they moved the shells into the airship cabin using a cart.
"There are a total of forty 150mm shells. Please count them!"
The 150mm shells are mortar shells. This type of shell with tail fins weighs 35 kilograms and is extremely powerful. 40 shells are neatly stacked in the cabin. After counting the shells, Ma Guangming closed the hatch.
A few minutes later, the airship detached from the mooring tower and slowly rose into the air. Amid the roar of the propeller, the airship flew slowly and kept climbing into the air. Wang Xinyue, who was sitting in the rudder cabin, saw the house in his sight becoming smaller and smaller.
“Two hundred meters!”
As time went on, it took almost ten minutes for the airship to finally rise to an altitude of 1,500 meters.
After reaching this altitude, Wang Xinyue turned the steering wheel that controlled the ascent and descent back to its original position, and then spoke to the first mate Ma Guangming beside him.
"Maintain this altitude. I'll confirm the target heading."
After that, he stood by the cabin and picked up the sextant to measure the latitude. In fact, as a captain, Wang Xinyue's original idea was to be a captain - the kind of ship on the sea, but his performance was not ideal. By chance, he became the captain of an airship. The reason why the captain was selected from the seamen was because navigation knowledge was needed for flight positioning in the air, such as measuring longitude with a clock and measuring latitude with a sextant. In this era of pioneering aviation technology, the application of navigation knowledge was the simplest method.
After quickly completing the position measurement, Wang Xinyue drew the route on the map and immediately reported the new position to the deputy captain. Then the two of them used the steering wheel controlled by the rope to adjust the navigation. The airship was flying in the air at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour. After five hours, the airship finally flew over the destination.
"Target found!"
After Ma Guangming discovered a huge white cross on the ground, he pointed at the target and said.
"20 degrees to the right!"
While adjusting its course, the airship slowly descended to 800 meters!
As the target approached, the monkey in the cabin looked at the mark made by lime on the ground, and a shell rolled over from the side. He pulled out the safety pin and threw it directly out of the hatch. The falling shell left a black dot.
Then, he threw another one down. Whether he could hit the target or not basically depended on luck...
luck.
In fact, Li Ziyue has always felt that he has good luck. Seven years ago, he was still playing in the mud in his hometown with no food to eat. But one day, someone came to look for him but no one came.
The man brought a letter from his third uncle and several hundred taels of silver, which was for his father to buy land and build a house. Then his father was so excited that he asked him to follow the man to seek refuge with his third uncle.
And then what?
In the past seven years, he has been with his uncle. He studied and learned how to do things. Later, he joined the island's guard and became an officer. After arriving in Nanhua, although he was still an officer, he could feel the contempt of his colleagues.
In the eyes of many people, he was just an officer who got promoted through connections.
An officer of the Guard? Did you go to the Military Academy?
What kind of training did he receive? In short, his colleagues had various opinions about him. In order to prove his ability, he was very strict with the training of the troops and would personally lead the troops for training early every morning.
"Chiu..."
The sound in the air made Li Ziyue feel a little confused. He had just been assigned to the company, and today's training task was very simple. He was to lead his infantry company to conduct mobile combat exercises on the grassland. It was nothing more than basic infantry tactical training such as battlefield search and leaping under fire.
"Captain, what's that noise?"
Li Chuanlin looked up at the sky. What was that sound?
There is nothing in the sky, but where does the sound from the sky come from?
The voice became more and more shrill, and suddenly Li Ziyue had a bad feeling in his heart. He shouted loudly.
"Quick, lie down!"
The moment he shouted, explosions sounded all around them. Explosions continued to blast around them, one after another, with columns of smoke rising up continuously, like black mushrooms that suddenly exploded, rising one after another from the ground...
The earth was shaking. Li Ziyue and the soldiers lying on the grassland were dumbfounded. They had no idea where the shells came from. Even if they used their imagination, they couldn't imagine that the shells came from the sky... Of course, they must have come from the sky, but they couldn't imagine that they were bombs dropped from airships in the sky.
The airship in the air was dropping bombs while adjusting its course, trying to drop the bombs more accurately, but the result was disappointing. The bombs falling from the sky had no accuracy at all, like flowers scattered by fairies. Some fell on the target, but most were thrown around the target. There was no other way. After all, without a special sight, it was already a blessing from God that they could be dropped like this.
Of course, if the target is large enough, such as a city, then there is no need to consider the accuracy, just throw it. When the monkeys dropped the bomb, Ma Guangming did not forget to take pictures of the scene with his camera. This was the first time in human history that an air-dropped bomb was used. Although it was primitive and simple, it brought about a revolution. Although no one knew what this revolution meant, the pictures taken by Ma Guangming with his Phoenix 100 35mm camera clearly recorded this moment. Of course, it also recorded the astonishing deviation - several thousand meters.
Thousands of meters in the air, they had no idea what kind of impact the bombs they dropped had on the infantry on the ground. After almost a minute, after dropping forty bombs, the airship finally returned.
As for the infantry on the ground, even though the explosion had ended nearly half an hour ago, they were still lying on the grassland trembling with fear, not daring to move.
God knows if the shells will fall again.
"Is anyone injured?"
Li Ziyue, who was lying on the ground, shouted loudly.
"Third squad leader, pass it down one by one and ask everyone."
"yes!"
Si Dongjie responded loudly, and then shouts rang out on the grassland. After it spread around, Li Ziyue finally breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, no one was injured. If someone was injured, he would probably become a joke among all his colleagues.
The earth-shattering explosion they had just seen was actually not too far from them, about a hundred meters away. Half an hour later, after they were sure there would be no more explosions, when they stood up and saw the situation ahead clearly, they were dumbfounded.
"My mother is coming..."
Everyone was dumbfounded - in front of them, bomb craters were scattered on the grassland. If they were just a little bit off, the shells would fall on their heads.
"This, this is the cannon fired by that bastard. No, doesn't he know there are people here?"
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(End of this chapter)
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