Several small planes were circling and bombing like falcons in the sky. From time to time they dropped black bombs,
While the bombing was going on, the rear-seat machine gunner fired at the ground with his machine gun, causing considerable damage to the exposed American officers and soldiers. The American gunner lying on the ground was caught in a three-dimensional flanking attack by the machine gun and the bomb. He was really unable to advance or retreat. He was trying to survive.
Not easy.
Although U.S. gunners tried to use anti-airship cannons to attack aircraft in the air, the anti-airship cannons with slow initial velocity and curved ballistics posed almost no threat to agile aircraft. When the anti-airship cannon shells dragged fire dragons flying into the sky, they were exposed.
In their position, those falcon-like fighter planes immediately dived again, bombing the exposed anti-aircraft gun emplacements.
In the smoke of the explosion, the few anti-airship guns quickly turned into a pile of scrap metal. During the bombing, a few American soldiers stood up bravely and tried to shoot the aircraft in the sky with their rifles.
However, the exposed figure became the target of machine guns and bombs. Soon, most of these brave soldiers were reduced to sieves or simply disappeared.
During the bombing, if you want to survive, the only option is to hide in an air raid shelter or inside a fortress. After all, their fortress is specially reinforced and can not only withstand heavy artillery bombardment, but even giant bombs dropped by airships will not cause any damage.
How much damage was done to the fortress.
Although they knew that the fortress was very strong, the American soldiers inside the fortress looked above their heads in fear due to the bursts of violent explosions. Dust continued to fall from the gaps in the dome of the fortress, and they could even feel the ground shaking.
.So these people kept crossing themselves on their chests or kissing the cross on their necklaces, and then prayed there for God's blessing.
Yes, at this time, it seems that only God can return to the north to protect them.
Perhaps their prayers really had an effect. Soon, the fleet of aircraft in the sky dropped bombs one after another, and they once again formed a long snake formation and headed towards the sea.
In the smoke-filled fortress, many corpses were lying strewn about. Injured American soldiers were struggling in a pool of blood, crying in pain, calling for help from others. The fortress was littered with bombs and bombs.
Broken arms and limbs, and the ground was littered with mangled pieces of flesh and blood or internal organs.
The injured people cried heartbreakingly there, while the survivors were thankful that they survived.
But what they didn't know was that the nightmare didn't end there!
"God bless……"
Just when Tom watched the plane go away and just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, he saw in the northern sky, four gray-white airships slowly approaching their fortress - 4 members of the 12th Floating Brigade
A large airship finally appeared.
Compared to the small planes that are simply not worth mentioning, these big guys are very huge and their speed is not fast either. They just flew over slowly like this.
"airship!"
I don't know who screamed first, and with the screams of terror, the survivors realized that their anti-airship guns had been destroyed.
"Damn, those flying machines are just to destroy our airship cannon!"
The American officers and soldiers guarding the fortress almost watched helplessly as the four airships, which looked like prehistoric behemoths, flew over their heads in such a grand manner. After having the experience of being bombed by planes, many of the survivors almost invariably
They fled in all directions and fled to the fortress, trying to protect themselves with the help of a strong fortress.
Let the airships of the Ming Empire fly leisurely over their heads, move around above their heads, and lay eggs...those bombs cannot harm the fortress at all.
But they forgot one thing - airships can carry larger and heavier bombs.
However, the airship did not drop the heavy bomb immediately. Instead, it dropped a small bomb suspended in the air. The bomb dropped from the sky and fell outside the fortress. However, it did not explode, but emitted yellow smoke.
Seeing the yellow smoke not far away through the gun window, Captain Thomas immediately felt an ominous premonition in his heart.
"Damn it, we're done!"
"What?"
"We're done... They, they're going to mark the location, damn, they're going to use Thor's Hammer!"
What is "Thor's Hammer"?
It is a battlefield legend - when Argentina and Brazil were destroyed, the Ming Dynasty's airships used heavy bombs on the battlefield.
"It is about twenty feet long and about four feet in diameter. It is a giant bomb. When it falls from the sky, like Thor's hammer, it will destroy everything in the world, even the strongest fortress.
Its front is also like paper..."
This is how the outside world describes it. Of course, the description of its power to destroy heaven and earth is also extremely wonderful.
But "Thor's Hammer" has never been a legend.
Even during the Russo-Turkish War, the Russians repeatedly used airships to drop 1,800-kilogram heavy bombs nicknamed "Thor's Hammer." Turkish fortresses were easily torn into pieces, and many people even believed that
, Turkey's demise is directly related to "Thor's Hammer".
However, even so, various countries still did not give up on fortresses. After all, fortresses were the best choice to defend against enemy attacks, especially after a large number of machine guns were put into use. They reinforced the fortresses and placed airship cannons at the same time.
"Don't worry, our fortress is very strong. There is six feet of reinforced concrete above our heads. Even a 4,000-pound bomb will not cause much damage to the fortress, and part of our fortress is still inside the mountain.
, there is a mountain more than ten feet thick above our heads..."
Captain Max patted Thomas on the shoulder, then looked at the frightened soldiers around him, and said in a relaxed tone.
"Gentlemen, do not doubt our fortress. Our fortress is absolutely impossible to destroy!"
Just when Max was confidently claiming that the fortress was impregnable, the airship at an altitude of five thousand meters slowly adjusted its position. After each adjustment, the aiming hand would align the crosshairs of the scope on the target, and then
bomb.
Smoke grenades were still dropped to mark the target location. In order to increase the accuracy of high-altitude bombing, the Imperial Aerial Forces began to use smoke grenades to mark the target location as early as more than ten years ago, thereby achieving the purpose of precise bombing.
Of course, the prerequisite for doing this is to carry out bombing at high altitude. After all, only by staying at high altitude can the airship ignore the threat of the airship cannon, hover at high altitude, slowly adjust its position, and carry out precise bombing.
After adjusting the position five times in this way, finally, a line of yellow smoke emerged from the center of the fortress.
"alright!"
Looking through the telescopic bombing scope, he saw a plume of smoke rising inside the fortress, and a proud smile appeared on the face of the aiming man who wore his military cap on his back.
"That's it now..."
The moment the voice fell, he pressed the bomb release button. The moment a heavy bomb was dropped from the airship cabin, the weight of the airship suddenly became much lighter, and it even continued to fly higher into the sky.
The heavy bombs blocked the sharp and even ear-piercing whistling and fell towards the fortress on the ground...
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