The fear of death spread on all fronts in Montevideo. In the next few days, the death caused by the airship was unimaginable.
When the Brazilian infantrymen escaped from the trenches, small bombs were dropped from the sky. The dense small bombs fell like raindrops, exploded, and claimed many lives.
When they were asked to return to the trenches again, what fell was incendiary bombs.
Incendiary bombs and small bombs caused unimaginable damage to the Brazilian army, but they spread the fear of death in Montevideo.
"Don't be afraid, everyone, our airship is on land, and the people of the Ming Dynasty will soon taste the wrath of Brazil!"
General Cavalcanti, who was guarding Montevideo, said this to his subordinates with great confidence.
The Brazilian army also has airships. As the most important rubber producer in the world, Brazil's rubber not only has the best quality, but also has high output. Compared with building warships, it is easier to build airships. What about rubberized silk cloth and ropes?
...The technical level of these things is neither high nor low, but it is definitely lower than that of building warships. Although Brazil is not an industrial country, they cannot make things like rubberized silk cloth and engines, but they can buy them.
So by relying on buying and selling, Brazil "made" hundreds of airships. Although compared with the airships of the great powers, Brazil's domestic airships are smaller - the bomb load is only about one ton, but it does not prevent them from doing this in this world.
It's time to send out your own airship.
On September 7, when the Brazilian army in Montevideo was tortured to death by the Ming Dynasty's airships, thirty-six airships formed a formation and appeared in the sky above Montevideo.
"Look, that's our airship!"
The airships coming from the north carried dozens of tons of bombs. What was their mission? Of course, they were to use the bombs to teach the Ming Dynasty army a lesson so that they could not launch unscrupulous air attacks on the Brazilian army.
In addition, they will also fly in a circle over Montevideo to boost morale.
Their arrival really boosted the morale of General Cavalcanti and his men. Cavalcanti even had people write a big welcome message on the ground to welcome the arrival of the airship.
Just as the Brazilian army in Montevideo cheered for their own airship, the Ming Dynasty's airship also came over to join in the fun.
"Discover the Ming airship!"
During the report from his subordinates, Major Peaso picked up his telescope and observed the Ming Dynasty airship in the distance. He immediately shouted loudly.
"Be alert,"
Then he turned his head and shouted towards the back of the cabin.
"Pace, get your machine guns ready!"
machine gun.
It is none other than Ming Dynasty manufacturing the 5-year-old Gatling gun, and the Brazilian army is also a user of it.
While the machine gunner was operating the machine gun, Major Peaso discovered the changing formations of the Ming Dynasty's airship troops.
"Major, they seem to be turning into a column."
"What?"
Peaso looked puzzled at the airships adjusting their formation in the distance. The huge airships were like battleships in the air, and they formed a battle column.
"They seem to be flying higher than us!"
Peaso looked at the Ming people's airship with some confusion, while Ding Yunhai on the airship stared coldly at the Brazilian airship and shouted loudly.
"Maintain an altitude of 1,500 meters!"
"Yes, sir!"
Brazil's airships are only a thousand meters high, but now Ming's airships are flying far higher than them.
"Captain, the Brazilian airship has begun to rise!"
"Maintain a relative advantage of five hundred meters."
After giving this order, Ding Yunhai ordered to the machine gunner in front.
"Fire after entering 500 meters!"
"Yes, sir!"
Is it useful to shoot an airship with a machine gun?
It was obviously useless. Even when the airship team commanded by Ding Yunhai fired at the Brazilian airship team, Major Peaso just raised his eyebrows and said.
"Does this make sense? Aim at their cabin and shoot!"
Now that the Ming Army's airship is at high altitude, and the Brazilian airship is below it, it is difficult for the Ming Army's machine gun to accurately hit the cabin through the airship's airbag. However, correspondingly, when the Brazilian airship's machine gun muzzle firing angle is affected by the airship's airbag
Even if it's blocked, it won't get much higher.
After only a brief exchange of fire between the two sides, the Brazilian airships had to face a reality - their airbags blocked their sight, preventing them from shooting, and they could not even see the Ming airships.
"Sir, I can't see them, they're above us!"
They're on top!
And it's still firing!
Only then did Peaso know the other party's purpose, and he shouted.
"Damn it, it's so hard that they want to fly above our heads, just to do this... quickly, take off and surpass them!"
When Peaso shouted orders and directed the airship troops to ascend through semaphore signals, the Ming airship troops riding on their heads directly fired at the airship with machine guns, but even the small 7.5mm bullets hit
At most, the airbag would cause air leakage. Although the bullets made hundreds of bullet holes in the Brazilian airship, and although the leakage of hydrogen caused the Brazilian airship to be unable to continue to rise, that was all.
"Sir, I think it's almost done."
After firing several bullets at the airship, the machine gunner turned and shouted to the captain.
"Well, let's try it!"
While talking, Ding Yunhai took out a signal gun and aimed it at the airship below.
"boom!"
With the sound of a gunshot, the flare dragged the red fire dragon and flew over. Although his aim was accurate, the accuracy of the flare was mediocre at a distance of two to three hundred meters. After the shot missed, Ding Yunhai frowned.
group.
"damn it."
He loaded a flare again and aimed again. Although he missed again this time, the flare dragging the fire dragon passed not far from the Brazilian airship. Just as Ding Yunhai fired with the flare gun, other airships
This is also true.
For a moment, the sky was filled with red flares. As the flares flew downward from the sky, they dragged red smoke across the sky. Although people on the ground could not see this scene clearly, people on the airship could not see it clearly.
Peaso and other Brazilian airship officers and soldiers saw it.
At first, they didn't know what was going on, but soon, Peaso seemed to have thought of something, and his face instantly turned pale.
"Quick, quick, lower the flight altitude immediately, hydrogen, damn, they want to burn us..."
Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the No. 18 airship in the distance suddenly burst into flames, and the leaked hydrogen was finally ignited by the signal bomb.
The flames instantly swallowed up the airbag of the airship, and the once huge airship turned into a burning torch in the air. It burned like that and quickly fell towards the ground.