On the ninth day of May in the twenty-sixth year of Chongzhen, King Joao IV was sitting in the auditorium at the Fanjiazhuang training base, using binoculars to observe the 5,000 Tiger Army soldiers one mile away.
João IV held up a telescope made in one town and six provinces in his hand. This telescope is equipped for frontline soldiers and military administrators, with a magnification of 32 times. João IV used it for a while to discover the light transmittance of this telescope.
Very good, much better than the Portuguese monocular telescope.
The five thousand soldiers of the Tiger Army in the distance were not infantry. There were various complex chariots and weapons next to these soldiers. Those weapons were completely incomprehensible to John IV. He tried his best to look at them with his binoculars, but he could only get more and more confused as he looked.
Li Zhi still didn't show up at the training ground. The person in charge of this "exercise" was Zhenbei Bo Zhongfeng.
Zhong Feng was very polite to the King of Portugal who withstood the Dutch and British attacks. Before the training started, he walked up to King Joao IV and exchanged a few words.
Zhong Feng's status was obviously relatively high. Seeing that Zhong Feng thought so highly of John IV, the other Fanjiazhuang officials became somewhat respectful towards the Portuguese.
But even respect is only polite to a small country. No one puts Portugal on an equal footing with a town and nine provinces, and gives Prince Joao IV the same treatment.
When the hour hand of the clock tower at the entrance of the training base pointed to the nine o'clock position, Zhong Feng fired a signal gun into the sky.
The exercise has begun.
King Joao IV suddenly became nervous and stared at the soldiers on the training ground.
Raphael also looked nervous. He even stood up at one point. However, after he stood up, he blocked the audience behind him and had to sit down again to watch.
The first thing to appear was the hot air balloon.
Hot air balloons are used for observation. Three huge hot air balloons ignite the diesel and use the heat to slowly rise into the sky. The observers holding high-powered telescopes stand in the box of the hot air balloon and use the telescope to observe the target area in the distance.
Seeing this huge round object rising into the sky, the Portuguese king turned pale with shock.
He didn't believe what he saw in the telescope, so he put down the telescope and looked at it with his naked eyes for a long time. However, his naked eyes told him that all this was true. The huge hot air balloon had indeed flown into the sky, flying higher and higher.
Humans have gone to heaven?
It’s really flying!!!
Is this magic?
João IV and Alves looked at each other, their eyes filled with incomparable shock.
Human beings have no wings, but they fly into the sky. The dream of flying that has been shared by human civilization for thousands of years has become a reality in Fanjiazhuang?
They wanted to shout a few times to express their surprise, but they were afraid that their "fuss" would disgrace the Portuguese. However, the huge shock made them unable to sit still. They turned around to see the reactions of other spectators in the back row.
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What surprised them was that the spectators seemed to be accustomed to hot air balloons, and none of them showed any expressions.
John IV was even more alarmed.
Is this flying magic common in one town and nine provinces?
How is this going?
Everyone around him was extremely silent. King Joao IV was too embarrassed to express his "ignorance" too much. He could only sit on the chair with huge shock and a look of disbelief on his face.
The hot air balloon flew to a height of 200 meters and stopped in the sky. It stopped rising. The exercise on the ground officially began.
First up was the rocket car.
The rocket car has been improved over the years and has become more advanced than the original model. The most direct manifestation is that the launch of the rocket car no longer requires a fuse and fire source, but uses a pull-bolt fuse.
King John IV saw the rocket vehicle soldiers walking behind the twenty rocket vehicles and suddenly pulled the bolt of the rocket launcher.
"Boom~"
The tail of the rocket on the vehicle spurted out huge flames and made a deafening roar. The rear of the rocket vehicle suddenly flew away with sand and rocks, and a huge plume of smoke and dust rose up more than ten meters high. Then the rocket shot out of the launch tube like a meteor, heading in all directions.
Shoot at the target area inside and outside.
King Joao IV was so shocked by the power of the rocket launch that his face turned white.
However, what is even more frightening is the explosion where the rockets landed. Twenty rockets flew to the target area four miles away, exploded with a bang, and set off a huge shock wave tens of meters high. Black-red flames erupted from the shock wave.
It suddenly erupted from above, exploding more than twenty mushroom clouds on the desolate training ground.
John IV opened his eyes wide and stared at this terrifying explosion.
However, this was just the beginning. The rockets on the rocket car were like continuous cannons, shooting at the target area. The target area half a mile long and wide was carpet bombed, and the sparks and shock waves were like fireworks.
It bloomed, completely covering the entire target area in iron and fire.
Raphael's eyes widened, looking at the continuous explosions in disbelief, and the hands holding the telescope began to tremble slightly.
It's terrible, it's terrible. Just a rocket operated by sixty rocket soldiers can achieve such a carpet bombing effect. If the enemy is an army with cold weapons and encounters this rocket, I'm afraid it will kill them all in one round.
The army collapsed.
The Portuguese were indeed scared. Although Portugal received weapon support from Li Zhi in this "Portuguese-Dutch-British War", they all used standard rifles and trench tactics, but this was only a change that had just appeared. You must know that in the Three
Years ago, the Portuguese still used the Spanish Grand Square to fight in array.
If the Spanish Grand Formation encountered this rocket car, it would not be able to withstand one round and would be blown apart.
Portugal has fortresses at strategic points in shipping routes around the world. If the fortresses were bombed by this rocket vehicle, they would probably be blown to ashes.
This rocket was so terrifying that a lot of cold sweat broke out on the forehead of Portuguese Foreign Minister Alves. His body was shaking slightly and he had to take out his handkerchief and wipe the sweat on his head in embarrassment.
Alves' embarrassment aroused the ridicule of a young man behind him. The young man pointed at Alves and burst out laughing, leaving no sympathy for the elderly Portuguese Foreign Minister.
Alves did not dare to scold this young man. The audience at this training ground were either rich or noble. For a young man to sit in the audience and watch, he is obviously the son of a high-ranking official. The strength of one town and nine provinces is too strong, and the Portuguese projectile
In a small country, it is difficult to offend any high-ranking official in one town or nine provinces, and it can only tolerate being laughed at by young people.
Zhong Feng, on the other hand, looked up to the Portuguese who had fought for one town and nine provinces, and shouted loudly: "Li Xiao, who made you laugh? You have lost diplomatic etiquette. I will send a telegram to your father Li Xing to deal with you."
That boy was Li Xing's eldest son. He was scolded by Zhong Feng, and he was a little scared and didn't dare to laugh anymore.
Alves glanced at Zhong Feng gratefully and put away the handkerchief in his hand.
João IV did not notice the small details on Alves' side. His hands trembled slightly as he grabbed the binoculars and stared at the weapons that appeared next on the training ground.
Sixty twenty-four-pound rifled cannons were loaded with ammunition and fired simultaneously, spitting out tongues of flame toward the target area four miles away. The shells hit the target area like a meteor shower, once again setting off a storm of iron fire in that area.
