Chapter 849: The Royal Navy was overthrown (fourth update, please subscribe)
They collapsed without even having a chance to fight back.
Just then, someone suddenly screamed in horror.
"The airship, the airship is coming..."
The airships came, and twelve of them flew directly over the fortress. After arriving over the fortress, the airships remained in a suspended state and then dropped bombs. The first one they dropped was a small 50-kilogram bomb. After the bomb accurately hit the fortress, a giant bomb weighing 2,500 kilograms roared down.
The several-meter-long shell looked like a huge Thor's hammer as it fell from the sky. As it whistled over, the fortress was filled with screams of terror. The moment it landed, the giant bomb penetrated the ruins and crashed into the ground.
Suddenly, as if a volcano erupted, a huge cloud of smoke burst out from the southwest of the fortress. In the violent explosion, even the Uruguay River was shaken. Amid the earth-shaking roar, the southwest corner of the fortress was completely razed to the ground. Hundreds of tons of bricks, stones and soil were blown hundreds of meters into the sky in the explosion.
At the same time, the airships in the sky dropped heavy bombs one after another...
The twelve airships carried a total of twelve heavy aerial bombs weighing 2,500 kilograms, which became the last straw that destroyed the fortress. In the violent explosion, the fortress was completely destroyed, and not even much ruins were left.
As for the Brazilian soldiers who had survived the earlier shelling, they were either turned into dust along with the bricks and soil in the violent explosion, or had their bodies torn apart by the violent shock waves. Only a very lucky few were killed by steel fragments or whistling bricks. Even the soldiers far away from the epicenter of the explosion were not necessarily so lucky. The violent shock waves shattered their internal organs, and the soldiers who seemed uninjured on the surface died silently.
Many soldiers who seemed unconscious were actually dead!
"Oh God, is this how you abandon us?"
Colonel Xias shouted excitedly. Like everyone else, he didn't know how to describe his feelings except despair.
"Surrender..."
white flag!
A moment later, a white flag was flying over the smoke-filled fortress. When the white flag was raised, Liang Wu, commander of the Third Army, learned over the phone that the fortress defenders had surrendered. He smiled at his subordinates.
"Look... I said earlier that we can take it down with just one charge..."
No, not even a charge!
Even the infantry was not involved in the attack!
As for Ivanov who was at the front line, he was completely dumbfounded at the moment. He looked up at the airship in the sky and kept muttering.
"This, you can actually attack a fortress this way..."
In addition to being astonished, his face was filled with wild joy, and he even shouted a little excitedly.
"We won, we won..."
Was his cheering for the victory of the Ming Empire?
Perhaps there is such a possibility. Of course, more importantly, he was taught a good lesson here. He saw how vulnerable the Turkish fortresses were under the attack of the new tactics.
Once upon a time, fortresses were the most important thing for the army. A solid fortress could even stop an army of tens of thousands of people for several months. But what about now? Under the devastating blows of siege guns and airships, they are vulnerable. It can even be said that they can be easily destroyed like children's toys.
Dozens of minutes later, when the Third Army of the Ming Empire Army began to cross the Uruguay River by boat, landed on the east bank, and accepted the surrender of Brazilian soldiers in the fortress, Ivanov was lying on a marching table, writing his report. While writing the report, he repeatedly recalled the Ming army's fighting style.
"First, they used siege guns to destroy the strong fortress. At the same time, they used fierce artillery attacks to kill as many defenders as possible. After the fortress's surface artillery and machine guns were completely destroyed, they used airships to drop heavy bombs. I have reason to believe that the heavy bombs they dropped may weigh more than 6,000 Russian pounds. This kind of heavy bomb can easily destroy any strong fortress, and even wipe it out from this world."
After writing this report, Ivanov, the military attaché stationed in Ming Dynasty, immediately drove to the nearest city and sent the telegram to Moscow. Although this telegram was extremely expensive, he believed that it was priceless to Russia. With the new tactics introduced in this telegram, the Turkish fortresses would be completely destroyed, and those fortresses where countless Russian soldiers had shed blood and died would eventually become a thing of the past.
In fact, Ivanov was not the only one who wrote a report that day. Major George of Montevideo, a major in the British Royal Navy, was also writing his report on the "Montevideo Air Raid". Like everyone else, in his report, he described the air raid in an extremely shocked tone.
Of course it is more of a warning.
"It is foreseeable that when a war breaks out between us and the Ming Empire in the future, we will have to face such a reality - the Royal Navy's fleet, even if we have the best fleet in the world, what does it matter? If we cannot completely and fundamentally eliminate the threat from the air, then the fleet we are proud of will eventually be destroyed, just like the Brazilian fleet, which was destroyed in the harbor. They didn't even have time to fire until they were destroyed. Even if they did, what would be the point? Because cannons cannot destroy airships..."
After reaching this conclusion, Major George thought for a moment and continued writing.
"We have to face this reality - airships have become a key weapon to change the course of war. For now, any war with the Ming Empire is meaningless. The war has been doomed from the beginning. When our fleet enters a port, the Ming Empire can dispatch their airship troops thousands of kilometers away to destroy our fleet without any defense and before the boilers of the Royal Navy's warships are lit..."
After coming to this conclusion, Major George was even a little desperate. As the British naval attaché in Brazil, why did he come to Montevideo with the Brazilian fleet this time?
He originally thought it was a military demonstration, but what he didn't expect was that what he was experiencing was a military revolution.
The British Empire's most proud Royal Navy was destroyed...
(End of this chapter)
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