War is three-dimensional!
When the Ming army was advancing with great success, and hundreds of thousands of troops were attacking Brazil's most prosperous eastern coast in three directions, the airships constantly flying over their heads reminded them that the aerial troops were bombing the enemy.
Whenever they see those airships, smiles will appear on the faces of the soldiers. They are full of confidence in the victory of the war. And this confidence comes from the powerful airships in the sky, which can destroy almost all
everything.
The Brazilians were often bombarded by airships before they even saw them. Their positions and cannons were destroyed in the bombings.
In fact, everyone knows very well that even if the Ming Dynasty's airship troops are brave and good at fighting, they cannot completely wipe out the Brazilian army, but they can inflict heavy damage to the enemy. When they go into battle, they will face nothing more than a group of
Just an army that was frightened by the bombing.
airship!
What is the biggest advantage of airships?
It can stay in the air almost forever!
After the war broke out, the Ming Dynasty's aerial troops dispatched three of the six regiments. In addition to bombing the military camp in Brazil, they also dispatched one regiment to act as an air security force.
The so-called air security force was an idea proposed by Emperor Zhu Da when he inspected the airship force in the third year of Shengde. It was to take advantage of the airship's ability to levitate for a long time and send out airships during the war, with two or three ships in a group.
The crew was suspended in the sky above the battle zone, and the crew used telescopes to observe. After discovering the enemy's marching column, they directly attacked it.
In other words, it is almost equivalent to a "naked eye-to-ground early warning airship", but it is the attack type.
After the army invaded Brazil, the airship force immediately implemented a corresponding plan and dispatched dozens of airships to perform this task. The warning area of each formation was not large, approximately 100 kilometers long and 10,000 square kilometers wide.
On a sunny day with good weather, they can use telescopes to spot group targets one or two hundred kilometers away from a high altitude.
Because of this, after the Ming army began to attack, the battlefield was almost transparent to the Ming Dynasty from one side, and these airships were suspended in the air almost twenty-four hours a day.
There was silence in the sky. The airship with its engine turned off was just floating with the airflow in the air. In the airship, Gu Chengan held a cup of tea in his hand, walked to the cockpit and took a look outside.
"How's it going? Did you find anything?"
Yang Tianqi smiled as he put down the telescope.
"What else can we do? Nothing has been discovered. What do you think happened to this Brazilian guy? Is he really giving up on the outside and only planning to fight us in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro?"
"Whatever! Our task is simple anyway, discover, and then..."
"bombing!"
The crew members' words made them all laugh. For them in the air, there was almost no danger at all. For them, this war was almost no different from their usual training.
Just discover...then drop the bomb. Then return to the base to replenish the bomb. After two days of rest, take off again and continue your vacation in the air.
"Continue to observe and don't let go of suspicious targets."
Then, he went to the back cabin, where several crew members were sitting on the deck playing cards. The long cruise in the air was a bit lonely, and they often could only pass the time by playing cards and reading books.
It is precisely because they are bored that they look forward to fighting, even if it only lasts a minute or two.
"Captain, come on, let's play two shots together!"
Faced with the invitation of the crew, Gu Chengan did not refuse. As soon as he sat down, and before he had followed the boat for two laps, the shouts of the observers in the forward cabin came over.
"The brigade target was discovered."
"Long live!"
The observer's shout made the officers and soldiers who were playing cards shout excitedly and rush to the porthole. Although they could not see the target on the ground, at this moment, the airship's engine roared again and headed towards
It sailed in the other direction, and the other two airships, several kilometers away, also followed suit.
Soon the three airships reorganized into formation after passing the flash signal and flew towards the distance. As they flew away, the marching blue team on the ground did not even realize that they had been exposed.
In fact, it was not just such a "vigilance team" that discovered them, there were two other vigilance teams that also discovered them, and they both ran directly towards the target.
Staring at the marching Brazilian army in the northeast, Gu Chengan ordered.
"Determine the direction of the air flow and engage the enemy silently."
After giving the order, the airship shut down its engine. After the airship was blown by the airflow and deviated from its course, they adjusted its course through the airship's control surface and quietly approached the target.
At this time, the three airships were like three silent assassins, quietly approaching the ground target at an altitude of one thousand meters, while the Brazilian army marching on the ground did not realize the risk at all.
The airship continued to descend while engaging the enemy. Even when they appeared above the heads of the Brazilians, the Brazilian troops on the ground had not yet reacted.
"bomb!"
The moment the bombardier pressed the button, cluster bombs fell from the sky. Cluster bombs roared along the Brazilian army's column and fell one by one. A few seconds later, at the moment when the timed explosive cord exploded the cluster bomb box,
Hundreds of small bombs dispersed.
Everything happened so suddenly that the Brazilians on the ground did not even react and fell into a sea of fire. Dense cluster bombs exploded between the marching columns as if they had eyes.
The kilogram-weighted small bombs brought a bloody storm in the queue. In the violent explosion, the Brazilian soldiers who were still marching were either blown up to the sky, or their legs, arms, thighs, etc. were blown off.
The flying shrapnel harvested the lives of Brazilians wantonly.
But in just the blink of an eye, the marching Brazilian army fell into chaos. The lucky ones ran towards the road left and right in fear, but the scattered bombs enveloped them, and the flying shrapnel directly penetrated
Their bodies, tearing apart their flesh and blood.
For these black slaves who were still working in the plantations a few months ago under the whips of their masters, they had no idea what happened, and then they died in the explosion!
Death comes quietly like this.
When it comes, those people are like poor ants, knowing nothing about it.
(End of chapter)
This chapter has been completed!