Chapter 324 The Legend of the Devil (3rd update, please subscribe)
"Stand up, stand up..."
Rosas shouted almost in despair, but the others just lay there like fools, allowing the darts falling from the sky to pierce their bodies.
But standing there like this was definitely a challenge, a challenge to his spirit and will, especially when the darts landed around him and made a series of "swoosh" or "puff" sounds, and one after another, people were killed by darts, lying silently in a pool of blood.
"ah……"
It was like being in the rain. Even though the darts were falling almost close to his eyelids, Rosas didn't dare to move. He just screamed in despair and stood on the road. Wensi stood there motionless, while poor people kept dying beside him.
What exactly happened?
Rosas didn't know it, but death suddenly came on their march, and no one knew what happened.
But many people died.
"God bless, God bless..."
As Rosas was muttering and praying, suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder and fell down limply. He saw a dart piercing his body and he even heard the sound of bones being pierced. The moment he fell down, he lost consciousness.
When Rosas died, some lucky people rolled and crawled under the carriage on the side of the road. They were undoubtedly lucky, but in front of them, it was like a slaughterhouse, with people dying continuously.
For those who were lucky enough to survive, they just hid under the carriage and kept praying, "God bless you!"
But God is certainly not on their side right now.
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"The 12th Regiment was attacked by air strikes on the way to reinforce. Of the 1,562 people in the regiment, 549 died and nearly 100 were injured. God can testify that if this continues, all our people will be killed before the Chinese attack!"
In the basement of a manor in Trentlauken, Roca said in an almost desperate tone.
"Damn it, even now we don't know how they left these damn guys behind!"
While General Roca was complaining, General Adolfo Alsina was holding the ten-centimeter-long iron nail. Although he said nothing, his expression was extremely complicated. In the air raid two days ago, millions of such iron nails fell from the sky like raindrops and landed on their heads. Then what?
Thousands of soldiers and officers died in air raids, their lives silently taken away by this tiny iron nail!
Oh my God!
how so?
When did war become fought this way?
As a general, one can imagine the despair deep in his heart, which completely overturned his understanding of war.
The enemy actually launched an attack from the sky. How can we resist it?
There is nothing we can do. We can only wait for death here.
"How can you throw nails from the air?"
Major General Conrado Villegas' words touched Alsina's heart.
How did war become like this?
"Fortunately, they threw nails. If they had thrown bombs, more people might have died."
Why no bomb was dropped, only God knows.
"The worst thing now is that they are throwing nails everywhere, General!"
Alsina said, throwing the nail onto the table.
"Some of my professors in Buenos Aires said that the South China people were most likely to have dropped these nails from an airship. Although these nails are very small, they are extremely powerful when dropped from a few hundred meters or higher in the air. I think no one doubts this. Although we know that it is a great threat, we can be sure that we are powerless against it! Unless we pray that God will show his power and make them fall from the sky, our weapons will not be able to hurt them at all!"
Although there was little information about the airship, Alsina was able to figure out what the army had encountered through the professors' speculations.
"Unfortunately, we encountered the first air strike in human history on the battlefield. Even more unfortunately, our existing weapons and means are completely incapable of harming them..."
Looking at the generals present, Alsina took a deep breath and then spoke.
"However, fortunately, the power of this nail is extremely limited. Although it is indeed a headache, as long as there are two-inch thick wooden boards and dozens of centimeters of soil, it can prevent its damage. Now, our soldiers have left the tents and lived in sturdy shelters. As long as they are not standing in the wilderness without any shelter, there is no need to consider its threat. So, believe me, gentlemen, we can still make the South Chinese bleed dry here. As for the reinforcements..."
After thinking for a while, Alsina said.
"Let them come here by train as much as possible and reinforce the top of the train carriage. I believe we have plenty of ways to block these nails!"
As a professional soldier, Alsina quickly found a way to deal with it. It was just some nails.
Then he emphasized again.
"Gentlemen, the South Chinese think they can destroy our morale with air strikes. We want to tell them that this is a dream. God can testify that this is Argentine land. It was, is, and will be. If they want to occupy this land, they will have to pay the price in blood!"
The passionate mobilization may arouse people's patriotism, but the pressure brought by the air strikes is something that no one can ignore.
Not only could it not be ignored, but rumors of the air raid quickly spread throughout Argentina, to Buenos Aires, and everywhere people were talking about the topic of the air raid.
To those who had never seen an airship, the airship seemed to be a big ship. They talked about how huge it was, as big as the "Great Eastern". When it flew over an army or a city, the people on it would drop thousands of nails. Although those nails looked small, they could penetrate the roof and then the human body.
Although few people had ever experienced an air raid, it did not prevent them from using their imagination and telling false rumors that a nail piercing the body would tear a huge hole, and bones and internal organs would be pulled out.
There is also a legend that when a nail is stuck in the ground, it can actually bounce up and penetrate another person's body.
Nails may not look very eye-catching, but in Buenos Aires at the end of October 1869, they were definitely the most terrifying and the hottest topic.
Although none of them had ever seen what those nails looked like, through word of mouth, the nails took on various shapes and could even explode, exploding inside the bodies of those unlucky people when they hit them.
Airship, nails...
Just like that, the news spread in the city and in the countryside. In just a few days, fear spread unrestrainedly.
People are always unable to overcome their fear of unknown things that they cannot understand. For them, since it is difficult to imagine, this thing must be very deadly, so of course they will exaggerate and spread rumors about airships.
Fear spreads everywhere amidst such rumors...
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(End of this chapter)
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