Chapter 844: The Era of the Ming Dynasty (Third update, please subscribe)
What is dimensionality reduction attack!
Airship bombing, simple aiming, and armor-piercing bombs... If the airships were not so slow and lacked precision-guided weapons, this would truly be the way of warfare in the 21st century!
Isn’t this a complete dimensionality reduction attack?
However, for people of this era, they have no idea what dimensionality reduction attack is.
In fact, it is essentially no different from when Europeans used muskets and cannons to bully Indians in the New World.
What is the only difference?
Now these white people have become the targets of dimensionality reduction attacks. They are like the Indians wielding stone axes in the past. They can only watch as airships drop aerial bombs accurately on the fleet they have spent huge amounts of money to build, and the fleet is completely destroyed in the bombing.
However, the "Riachuelo" class imitated the "Nanhua" class's central ironclad fortress design, which gave it extremely tenacious vitality. Although bombs continued to fall on the warship, it still stubbornly floated on the water.
The bombing did not stop, and finally in the fierce bombing, the battleship "Riachuelo" suffered the most fatal blow - an armor-piercing bomb smashed through the top deck between the two chimneys behind the conning tower. After smashing through the chimney, the armor-piercing bomb continued to smash through and continued to fall down, falling into the boiler room of the "Riachuelo", and then exploded in the boiler room. In the violent explosion, the boiler was destroyed on the spot, and the Brazilian sailors who were desperately burning the boiler were either killed or scalded to death in the boiler room by the high-temperature steam.
The boiler room was directly transformed into a huge steam room.
The "Riachuelo" also completely lost power!
The bombing lasted less than 20 minutes, and the "Riachuelo" had been hit by five 200 kg armor-piercing shells and dozens of near misses. The 6,800-ton battleship caught fire and lost power. The deck was covered in blood, and countless disabled sailors were screaming among the broken limbs.
Even though the battleship was bombed into this state, it still stubbornly floated on the sea and refused to sink...
It truly is worthy of being called the unsinkable ship of the Central Ironclad Fortress!
However, Baron Radario clearly realized that the ship had completely lost its combat effectiveness. He immediately gave the order to abandon the ship. When he gave the order to abandon the ship, a fire suddenly broke out. But just after he gave the order, a naval officer next to him told him that the "Sete de Setembru" cruiser with thick smoke just now had an explosion in the cabin, and the ammunition depot was detonated by the fire! The violent explosion directly blew through the hull of the warship. At the moment of the explosion, the more than 2,000-ton warship seemed to be cut in half by a giant, and then sank rapidly. However, it disappeared from people's sight in just a blink of an eye and sank into the sea.
The bombing was still going on, with bombs constantly falling around and on the hulls of warships such as the "Rio de Janeiro", "Aquidaba" and "São Paulo". Now this fleet had no ability to resist the air raids from the air. Even though the Central Ironclad Fortress battleships were very strong, it was only a matter of time before they sunk in such a bombing.
"Sir, airships, lots of airships! They're bombing our fleet in the harbor!"
On the balcony of the senior official's residence, the desperate voices of his subordinates rang in the ears of Marquis Tamandare. The once cheerful music had disappeared, and everyone crowded onto the balcony or in front of the window - they could even see the tragic scene in the harbor from here with their own eyes. The fleet that once symbolized the power of the Brazilian Empire had turned into a pile of burning bonfires on the sea during the bombing.
"My fleet..."
When Marquis Tamandare let out this cry in his heart, an atmosphere of fear filled the air around him.
airship!
The Ming Dynasty once again used airships to teach them a lesson!
Admiral Tamandare just stood on the balcony in a daze, looking up at the airships lined up in the sky dropping bombs, feeling filled with remorse.
He never expected that the Ming Dynasty would attack from the sky!
Why didn't he think of it?
The Ming Dynasty...is best at attacking from the air. This is what they are best at!
How could I forget this?
Is it because past tests have proven that it is difficult for airships to attack warships?
This is too conceited!
Now the Ming Empire is using bombs to teach him the price of his arrogance!
While Admiral Tamandare was drowning in self-blame and regret, Lieutenant Commander George of the British Navy, who was attending the ball, was also staring at the war in front of him with a serious expression.
He stared at the harbor with his mouth wide open, at the smoke-filled warships. The Brazilian warships that had been destroyed were not small wooden boats weighing a few hundred tons, but battleships and cruisers weighing thousands of tons.
"Da Ming has taught everyone another lesson!"
As a naval officer, George was no stranger to airships. After Britain spent a large sum of money to obtain airships from the Ming Dynasty, Britain also built hundreds of airships. Like other countries, Britain also tried to use airships to attack warships, but the result made them breathe a sigh of relief - airships posed little threat to warships because the bombing accuracy was too low.
But what about now?
Faced with the bombing in front of him, a question that once made everyone despair emerged in George's mind again.
Faced with such an air raid, how should the navy attack the airships in the sky?
It is definitely impossible to hit the target with the 10-inch cannon, and the 6-inch secondary guns don’t seem to work either... Not only are these guns slow to fire, but the firing angles are only a few degrees, so there is no way to hit aerial targets!
The only weapon that could hit aerial targets was the Gatling gun, but the firing angle of the Gatling gun was not high - this type of artillery was used to deal with small boats and to sweep the decks of enemy ships, and it was never considered to be used to hit aerial targets.
In this case, doesn't it mean that when faced with the bombing of airships, the warships can only sit there and take the beating?
Thinking of this, George broke out in cold sweat on his forehead and back!
As a naval officer, he certainly knew that the "Riachuelo" class battleship was a very powerful warship. Its displacement of 6,800 tons might not seem large, but it was after all a battleship with a central ironclad fort. It had strong defense capabilities, enough to withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery. It was definitely a warship with excellent performance.
Now such a powerful warship was sunk by an airship without even being able to fight back. This is really too unfair...
injustice?
Is it unfair?
This is not a question of injustice or not. After all, the times have changed. This is the era of the sky. It belongs to the Ming Dynasty...
(End of this chapter)
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