They collapsed without even a chance to fight back.
At this moment, someone suddenly screamed in terror.
"Airship, the airship is coming..."
The airships came. Twelve airships flew directly over the fortress. After arriving over the fortress, the airships remained suspended and then dropped bombs. The first thing they dropped was a 50-kilogram small bomb. The bomb accurately hit the fortress.
Finally, a giant aerial bomb weighing 2,500 kilograms roared down.
The several-meter-long cannonball looked like a huge Thor's hammer, falling from the sky. When it roared towards the fortress, there was a burst of frightened screams. The moment it landed, the giant bomb directly hit the ground.
It penetrated the ruins and smashed into the earth.
Suddenly, like a volcano erupting, a huge cloud of smoke burst out from the southwest of the fortress. In the violent explosion, even the Uruguay River was shaken. Amidst the earth-shattering loud noise, the southwest corner of the fortress was destroyed.
It was completely razed to the ground, and hundreds of tons of masonry and soil were blown hundreds of meters into the air 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 to destroy the fortress. In the violent explosion, the fortress was completely destroyed, and even the ruins were not left.
How many.
As for the Brazilian soldiers who survived the previous shelling, they were either turned into dust together with the masonry and soil in the violent explosion, or their bodies were torn apart by the violent shock wave. Only a few lucky ones were killed by steel fragments or roaring masonry.
, even the soldiers who were far away from the center of the explosion were not necessarily so lucky. The violent shock wave shattered their internal organs, and the soldiers who appeared to be uninjured died silently.
Many soldiers who appeared to be unconscious were actually dead!
"God, have you abandoned us like this?"
Colonel Sias shouted excitedly. Like everyone else, he didn't know how to describe his mood except despair.
"Surrender……"
white flag!
A moment later, a white flag fluttered over the smoke-filled fortress. When the white flag was raised, the commander of the Third Army, Liang Wu, learned over the phone that the fortress defenders had surrendered. He looked at his subordinates with a smile on his face.
smiled.
"Look... I said before that it only takes one charge to defeat..."
No, not even a charge!
Not even the infantry was involved in the attack!
As for Yinvanov, who was on the front line, he was completely dumbfounded. He looked up at the airship in the sky and kept muttering.
"This, you can actually attack the fortress like this..."
In addition to being shocked, his face was full of fanatical joy, and he even shouted a little excitedly.
"We won, we won..."
Was he cheering for the victory of the Ming Empire?
Maybe there is such a possibility. Of course, more importantly, he was taught a good lesson here. He saw how vulnerable the Turkish fortress was to the new tactics.
Once upon a time, for the army, the most important thing was the fortress. A strong fortress could even hold an army of hundreds of thousands of people in place for several months. But what about now? With the destructive power of siege guns and airships,
They are vulnerable to blows and can even be easily destroyed like children's toys.
Dozens of minutes later, when the Third Army of the Ming Empire began to cross the Uruguay River by boat, land on the east bank, and accept the surrender of the Brazilian soldiers in the fortress, Yinwanov lay on a marching table,
There he wrote his report. While writing that 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 and injure the defenders as much as possible. After the forts and machine guns on the surface of the fortress were completely destroyed, they then used airships to drop heavy aerial bombs. I have
Reasons to believe that the heavy bombs they dropped may weigh more than 6,000 Russian pounds. Such heavy aerial bombs can easily destroy any strong fortress and even wipe it out of the world."
After Yinvanov, who was the military attache stationed in the Ming Dynasty, wrote this report, he immediately rushed to the nearest city by car and sent the telegram to Moscow via telegraph. Although this telegram was extremely expensive, it
He believed that this telegram was priceless to Russia. With the new tactics introduced in this telegram, the Turkish fortresses would be completely destroyed, and countless Russian soldiers would bleed and die for them.
The fortress will eventually become a thing of the past.
In fact, Ivanov was not the only one who wrote a report on this day. Major George of Montevideo, a lieutenant commander of the British Royal Navy, was also writing his report on the "Montevideo Air Raid Battle."
” report, like everyone else, in the report, he described the air raid in an extremely shocked tone.
Of course it's 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 this reality - the Royal Navy's fleet, so what if we have the best fleet in the world?
If we cannot completely eliminate air threats, then the fleet we are proud of will eventually be destroyed, just like the Brazilian fleet, which was destroyed in the harbor, and they will not even be destroyed until they are destroyed.
When the time comes, there is no time to fire the cannon urgently. Even if it is fired, what is the point? Because the cannon cannot destroy the airship..."
After making this conclusion, Major George thought for a while and continued writing.
"We must face this reality - airships have become a key weapon to change the course of the war. For now, any war with the Ming Empire is a meaningless war. The war has been doomed from the beginning.
Now, when our fleet sails into a certain port, the Ming Empire can send their airship troops thousands of kilometers away, without us having any defense, and before the Royal Navy's warship boilers start to fire.
Next, destroy our fleet..."
After making this conclusion, Major George even felt a little desperate. As the British Naval Attaché in Brazil, why did he come to Montevideo with the Brazilian fleet this time?
Originally he thought it was a military demonstration, but what he didn't expect was that what he experienced was a military revolution.
The Royal Navy, the most proud of the British Empire, was killed...
This chapter has been completed!