Except for some standing trees, some remaining tree trunks and stumps, and trees in the distance, there are craters everywhere.
This is also the reason why cars no longer use this road: it is actually impossible to use cars here at all.
No matter how the goblin engineers backfill these craters, more craters will appear the next day. The Tang Empire's bombs destroy roads much faster than the goblins can repair them.
What's more... the opponent will occasionally use a weapon called ghost thunder by goblins, making this road even more dangerous. This weapon is actually the cluster bomb of the Tang Empire.
The material science progress of the Datang Empire is beyond people's imagination: for the same kind of fuze, the Datang Empire would use a plastic to fix the fuze safety. Then the bomb's explosion time could be set according to different situations.
If you want this kind of bomb to explode when it hits the ground, then you only need to remove these plastic insurances and leave only a very sensitive collision insurance. As long as it is impacted, this submunition will explode immediately.
If you want the bomb to explode a little later, you can install an acid container. During the collision of the bomb, the acid container breaks and the acid flows out, corroding the plastic safety device.
This process takes about a few hours, or even a day or two to complete, so the bomb may explode at any time during the process. This is completely automatic and not affected by any external factors.
What's even more frightening is that the acid container may not rupture...or the acid may not completely corrode the safety device on the bomb after it ruptures.
Yes, this bomb may explode in a month, it may explode in a year... it may also explode in a few years.
If you're being extra unethical, you might as well not remove the plastic insurance and let these bombs explode any day for the next ten years.
Yes, as long as the other devices of this bomb can still work normally, it may explode at any time in the next ten or even twenty years... Maybe it will never explode again at all, but who dares to bet?
The biggest headache in mine clearing work is this type of bomb. Compared with landmines, its explosion is random! As long as the mine can still work normally, it has a trigger condition, but the explosion of this kind of submunition completely depends on your mood.
When its internal mechanism is still in a stable state, it will not explode if you kick it like a ball. But if it is unstable, it will suddenly explode even if nothing happens around it.
This is why many countries on the planet have signed a convention not to use such cluster bombs: it has no lower limit at all, and it is not even aimed at winning or losing the war. It just simply allows a piece of land to be destroyed in the next few decades.
Unable to use, the people living on this land suffered as a result.
This is why it is so difficult to build a railway on the southeastern peninsula: in the next three or even five years after the railway construction cooperation is negotiated, the road construction team will have to wait for the mine clearance engineers to complete the work before construction can begin.
The Tang Empire had no intention of trapping the orcs, so all cluster bombs would still be equipped with acid devices, or simply use impact fuses.
However, due to the small size and the uncertainty of the acid corrosion rate due to temperature, humidity, angle, etc., the explosion time of the cluster bomb will still change.
Another annoying thing about this type of cluster bomb is that it is scattered in the air, and you don't even know where it will land.
It could be on the road, it could be on the roadbed, it could roll into a field, or it could be buried in the soil for any number of reasons.
This is a god of death who will suddenly appear at a certain time and then send away everything around him.
The goblins leading their horses on such a road were actually risking their lives. Although the death rate was lower than before, the number of deliverymen who died on this road was not even a thousand but eight hundred. They were either killed by planes or killed by planes.
Submunitions that die from the delay of cluster bombs are, in short... very dangerous.
Regardless of whether it is a car or a carriage, it is easy to be attacked by an aircraft. A single person is relatively safer. Many Tang Army pilots will choose to let go of such low-value targets because they do not want to waste ammunition.
He pulled the strap on his shoulder with his hand, adjusted its position, and eased the pain in his shoulder. He continued to walk forward cautiously. There were some metal fragments on the ground, and most people wouldn't have the guts to pick them up.
After all, those things might be metal fragments, or they might be part of a bomb half buried underground...
Suddenly, the goblin seemed to hear something, he stopped, and the old horse behind him also stopped tacitly.
Through the gusts of breeze, the goblin vaguely heard some mosquito-like movements. He raised his head and looked at the sky, squinting his eyes in the hope of seeing further.
Although he was not sure and had not seen any trace of the plane, the cautious old goblin was still sure that he heard the familiar sound of the plane engine.
He pulled the horse's reins and walked down the road along the roadbed full of bomb craters. He walked very carefully, because on such a bad road, there was a high probability that there would be some so-called "ghost mines" that had not detonated.
"Hurry up! Old guy! If we continue like this, we will all be doomed." Although he walked carefully, he was urging the slow-moving old horse behind him.
The old horse was indeed walking very slowly. It was already very old, and it was also carrying a bunch of heavy goods on its back, and it was walking on a bumpy and downhill road, so its pace was very hesitant.
Just after the goblin got his horse off the road, he saw the plane with its humming engine: a small Yin'er attack plane in the shape of a "Shi".
Under normal circumstances, this type of aircraft is relatively easy to deal with: because most of the Yin'er attack aircraft operating near Dingcheng are from the air force of the Orc force. They have little combat experience and do not have many new weapons, so they are not that difficult to deal with.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Heaving a sigh of relief, the old orc led the old horse through more than ten meters of broken trees and large and small craters, and walked to the remaining
The edge of the forest, hidden under a tree.
The plane was still far away from him, and it was almost impossible to see him on the ground. Even if it was seen, as long as he went into the woods alone, the opponent would not waste ammunition.
If you fire without a clear target, the probability of hitting the target is very low: you don't know the direction the opponent is heading into the woods, so it makes no sense to fire rashly.
Through the branches and leaves above his head, the old goblin saw the hovering plane. At this time, he did not dare to go out casually, as it would only make his death worthless.
He didn't know how they would be able to transport goods to Dingcheng during the day when the leaves began to fall in two months, and he didn't know if Dingcheng could hold on until then.
For some reason, the Yin'er attack plane lowered its altitude, and at this time another Yin'er attack plane followed up - this was also in line with the Tang Empire's air combat tutorials. It is best to have at least two aircraft in any combat operation.
Act simultaneously.
The lead aircraft and the wingman can cooperate with each other and attack the enemy more effectively. This tactic is effective, so it is still used today.
Theoretically speaking, this tactic has indeed been tested in actual combat, so Tang Mo would have no problem using it directly.
The two planes flew along the road in tandem in the direction where the old goblin came from. They seemed to be looking for targets on the ground. This was also a technical job for the pilots.
After all, a stationary person on the ground is too small for a high-altitude pilot. At this time, the Orcs do not have any ground search pods, nor do they have a moving target analysis AI system to assist in judgment, so they can only rely on the naked eye to identify them.
But the problem is that there are a lot of things on this road: there are cars that were not towed away in time and abandoned on the road, horses that were killed, broken carriages, and craters of various sizes.
It is really not easy to find a few targets to attack in such a chaotic environment.
At an altitude of about five hundred meters, two planes were arrogantly circling one after another. I don't know if they saw the old goblin and his old horse. The two orc planes never left and were just going back and forth nearby.
flight.
Since the Orcs built a frontline airport, their Yin'er attack planes can fly freely in the southwest of the island. The Goblin Air Force has almost lost its ability to fight, and the Orcs' Air Force has controlled the air superiority near Dingcheng.
The goblins didn't have many anti-aircraft guns, so they could only watch these Yin Er and Stuka flying back and forth in the sky like flies.
The Stuka is generally used to attack bunkers in mountainous areas. The large aerial bombs it carries can be somewhat of a deterrent to those bunkers and shooting holes created by hollowing out the mountains.
After all, as long as there is no interference, the Stuka's attack accuracy is very high, and the 500-kilogram aerial bomb can also have certain destructive power on rocks.
Therefore, the task of attacking ground convoys and small targets falls on Yin Er Attack. It can carry rockets and 20 mm caliber aerial cannons, making low-altitude attacks full of deterrence.
As long as it is discovered by such an aircraft, it only needs to lower the nose of the aircraft and shoot at the ground, and then use rockets and cannons to plow two ravines, allowing the surrounding people and vehicles to experience what it means to be in a violent storm.
The old goblin sat under a tree and rested for a few minutes. The two planes overhead showed no intention of leaving, which made him very irritated: he even suspected that the other party had seen him and was waiting for him here.
Just wait! I'll see if you run out of fuel and leave! With a little bit of anger, the old goblin thought in his heart.
