What is dimensionality reduction attack!
Airship bombing, simple aiming, plus armor-piercing aerial bombs... If the airships were not too slow and did not have precision-guided weapons, this would really be the way of warfare in the 21st century!
Isn’t this a proper dimensionality reduction attack?
However, for people in this era, they simply don’t know what dimensionality reduction attack is.
In fact, it is essentially the same as when Europeans used muskets and artillery to bully Indians in the New World.
What's the only difference?
It is now that these white people have become the targets of dimensionality reduction attacks. They are just like the Indians who wielded stone axes in the past. They can only watch and let the airship accurately drop one aerial bomb after another on the fleet they spent huge sums of money to build. It was completely destroyed during the bombing.
However, the "Riachuelo" class imitates the "Nanhua class" central armored fortress design, which makes it extremely tenacious. Although bombs continue to fall on the warship, it still floats on the water tenaciously.
The bombing did not stop. Finally, during the fierce bombing, the "Riachuelo" battleship suffered the most fatal blow - an armor-piercing aerial bomb smashed through the roof between the two chimneys behind the command tower. On the deck, the armor-piercing bomb was smashing through the chimney, but it was smashing through again and then falling, falling into the boiler room of the "Riachuelo", and then there was a central flower 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 by the explosion, or were scalded to death in the boiler room by the high-temperature steam.
The boiler room was transformed directly into a huge steam room.
The "Riachuelo" also completely lost power!
The bombing only lasted less than 20 minutes, and the "Riachuelo" had already received five 200-kilogram armor-piercing bombs, plus dozens of near-misses. The entire 6,800-ton combat ship was set on fire. , power was lost, and the deck was covered in blood red everywhere. Among the broken limbs and arms, there were countless disabled sailors howling heart-breakingly.
Even after the battleship was blown up into this state, it was still floating on the sea very stubbornly, refusing to sink...
It is indeed the unsinkable ship of the Central Ironclad Fort!
However, Baron Ladario still 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, it suddenly burst into flames. But just after giving the order , a naval officer next to him told him that the smoke-filled cruiser "Set Deset Mburu" had exploded in the cabin, and the ammunition depot had been detonated by fire! The violent explosion directly destroyed the warship. The whole body was blown through. At the moment of the explosion, the more than 2,000-ton warship seemed to be cut off by a giant knife. It was blown into two pieces, and then sank quickly, but disappeared from people's sight in the blink of an eye. In it, it sank into the sea.
The bombing is still going on, and bombs continue to fall around and on the warships such as the "Rio de Janeiro", the "Aquitaba" and the "Saint Paul". Now this fleet is facing air attacks from the air. , completely powerless to parry, even if the central armored battleship is very strong, but in such a bombing, it is only a matter of time before it sinks.
"Sir, airships, lots of airships! They are bombing our fleet in the harbor!"
On the balcony of the high-ranking official's residence, the desperate voices of his subordinates rang in the ears of Marquis Tamandare. At this time, the once cheerful music had disappeared, and everyone crowded onto the balcony or in front of the window - they could even escape from here
I saw with my own eyes the tragic situation in the port. The fleet that once symbolized the power of the Brazilian Empire was turned into piles of burning bonfires on the sea during the bombing.
"My fleet..."
When Marquis Tamandare let out this mournful cry in his heart, there was an aura of fear surrounding him.
airship!
Ming once again used an airship to teach them how to behave!
Admiral Tamandare just stood blankly on the balcony, looking up at the airships lining up to drop bombs in the sky, feeling filled with regret.
He never expected that Ming Dynasty would attack from the sky!
Why didn't he think of that?
Daming... what they are best at is attacking from the air. This is what they are best at!
How come you forgot 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 used bombs to tell him the price he had to pay!
When Admiral Tamandare fell into self-blame and regret, Lieutenant Commander George of the British Navy who attended the ball also stared at the war in front of him with a solemn expression.
He stared at the harbor with jaws on his face, at those warships billowing with smoke. Those Brazilian warships were blown up. They were not small wooden ships of several hundred tons, but battleships and cruisers of several thousand tons...
"Da Ming, you have taught everyone another lesson!"
As a naval officer, George was no stranger to airships. After Britain spent a lot of money to obtain airships from the Ming Dynasty, Britain also built hundreds of airships. Like other countries, Britain also tried to use spaceships to attack warships, but the result was that they
I breathed a sigh of relief - airships were not a big threat to warships because the bombing accuracy was too low.
But what now?
Facing the bombing in front of him, another question that once made everyone despair emerged in George's mind.
Faced with such an air attack, how should the Navy attack airships in the sky?
It's definitely impossible to hit with a 10-inch cannon, and the six-inch secondary gun doesn't seem to be able to do it... Not to mention the slow rate of fire of these artillery, the firing angle is only a few degrees, there is no way to hit the target in the air!
The only ones that can hit air targets are Gatling cannons, but the firing angle of Gatling cannons is not high - this kind of artillery is used to deal with small boats and strafing the decks of enemy ships, so it has never been considered at all.
Use it to hit air targets.
If this is the case, doesn't it mean that in the face of bombing by airships, the warships can only sit there and get beaten?
Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out on George's forehead and back!
As a naval officer, he certainly knows that the "Riachuelo" class battleship is a very powerful warship. The displacement of 6,800 tons may not seem large, but it is still a battleship with a central ironclad fortress and a very strong protective capability.
Strong enough to withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery, it is 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 an injustice...
injustice?
Unjust?
This is not a question of injustice or injustice. After all, the times have changed. Now is the era of the sky. The era of Ming Dynasty...
This chapter has been completed!