Chapter 926 Prey (Second update, please subscribe)
War is full of separation, but more of it is death!
War itself is destruction and death.
No one has experienced this more acutely than the Brazilians, who have been waging a completely asymmetrical war since the outbreak of the war.
This war was a war they had never experienced or imagined before. The rules of war had completely changed.
"During the Paraguayan War, we fought the Paraguayans with bayonets, rifles, and cannons. We could see our enemies, but what about now?"
Under the tree canopy, Prince Gaston, riding on his horse, complained again.
"We don't know where the enemy is. We can't even see him. Look..."
Pointing at the sky, there were three airships flying slowly in the blue sky.
"Arakan, you see, they only need to stay in the sky to destroy our army with bombs. They use airships to separate us into isolated individuals. Apart from waiting for their attack in the trenches, their bombs will fall on our heads as soon as we move. However, we have to take action, but the damn airships..."
The airship is right above their heads!
Chief of Staff Arakan listened to the prince's words and sighed helplessly.
"Your Highness, we must make the most of the night to march."
Gaston nodded and said.
"If it's just night time, by the time we reach Sao Paulo, it might have already fallen. We must hurry up and wait for the airship to leave before the troops continue their march."
After waiting for about twenty minutes, the airship in the sky finally disappeared from their sight.
"The airship flew over!"
After several airships in the sky flew away, the Brazilians who were hiding in the rainforest finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Order the troops to continue marching."
Observing the departing airship through a telescope, the Brazilian commander, Prince Gaston, gave orders. As the son-in-law of the Brazilian emperor, he once led the Brazilian army to occupy Paraguay. That was the most glorious moment of his life, but what about now?
He found himself turned into a ground rat - in order to avoid the bombing from the airships, they were as cautious as rats, sometimes hiding in the rainforest, sometimes marching at night.
However, precisely because of his caution, his army did not suffer much losses after retreating from the front.
"Damn it, why are there so many of their airships in the sky?"
Once again, Prince Gaston stared at the sky and cursed.
"Hurry up, we have to get out of this damn place before they find us!"
Although Prince Gaston seemed cautious, it was extremely difficult for this army of 150,000 people to completely conceal their whereabouts. Although they hid, the airships cruising in the sky still found some traces. Just when Prince Gaston thought he had avoided the airship force, he didn't know that he and his troops had been exposed - at an altitude of 70 kilometers away, observers discovered this large-scale force with high-powered telescopes.
“Da, da…”
In the silent airship cabin, the ticking sound of the telegraph machine was very pleasant to the ear. Although the radio had only been invented a few years ago and was still top secret, in order to cooperate with the "hunting tactics" in the air, the Ming Dynasty still equipped each hunting team with a radio.
As the telegram was sent, the "hunting" airships in the sky adjusted their courses like sharks smelling blood and gathered towards a target. An unprecedented airship force was gathering in the air.
As the airships gathered towards a target from all directions, the mighty army on the ground was still looking up at the sky vigilantly. Although they did not encounter many air raids under the careful command of Prince Gaston, they had been attacked several times. Knowing that the silent attack was powerful, they did not dare to relax at all. Everyone knew very well what it would mean to relax their vigilance on the battlefield!
die!
In the huge marching column, thousands of horse-drawn carriages and artillery carts formed a team several kilometers long. Brazilian soldiers in blue uniforms formed two long blue teams on both sides of the carriages and horses. While they were marching, they would always look up at the surrounding sky from time to time.
For the Brazilians, the most terrifying existence in 1877 was definitely not the devil, but the airships of the Ming Dynasty. Those airships were hunters looking down from high above, and they... were just prey.
Although Prince Gaston sent out a large number of lookouts to defend against airships, it was not easy to spot airships at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters. Because of the distance, those airships painted with aviation camouflage could easily hide in the sky and blend into the blue sky and white clouds.
What was even more terrifying was that there was no sound when they arrived, just like their usual attacks. When they flew over the Brazilian army's sky, they began to descend rapidly by deflating air.
As the airships descended, bombs were dropped, with dozens of airships dropping thousands of cluster bombs.
Once again, when the cluster bomb exploded in the air, hundreds of thousands of small bombs the size of carrots fell like hail.
"Airship, airship..."
The marching Brazilians on the ground discovered the airship and fled in all directions while screaming in fear. However, their speed could not catch up with... the range of the bomb dispersion.
Suddenly, violent explosions occurred one after another. Bombs continued to fall on the ground. The blue marching column was immediately engulfed in gunpowder smoke. The Brazilian soldiers who were running were knocked to the ground by the whistling shrapnel.
The moment the whistling shrapnel flew out from the smoke, it knocked down groups of Brazilian soldiers. Amid the successive explosions, there was a whistling sound everywhere, accompanied by sounds like "bang, bang", "puff", etc. The former was a bit like the muffled sound of a ripe watermelon being smashed, and the latter was like the sound of a bayonet piercing the body. Although the sounds were different, whether it was the former or the latter, when those sounds rang out, the bodies of the fleeing Brazilians twisted their bodies, accompanied by splattering blood and brain matter, and then fell down like rag dolls.
Everything happened in an instant. What happened in this instant?
Amid the violent explosion, the originally chaotic marching column turned into hell—the people who were walking suddenly walked from the human world into hell.
Death came silently like this. Amid the explosions, desperate cries rang out. The injured covered their wounds, lying in a pool of blood, struggling and howling...
(End of this chapter)
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