my steam dam

Chapter 71 The big explosion is coming!
In the airspace near Taihu Lake, three airships are maintaining a speed of [-] miles per hour, quickly approaching Taihu Lake.

Looking down at an altitude of 500 meters, it is already difficult to see the buildings on the ground. After all, there are not many skyscrapers in Ming Dynasty.

Some figures that can be seen occasionally are about the size of ants.

On the airship, in the frontmost cockpit, the lookouts opened the windows, poked their heads out, and relied on the reference objects on the ground and the compass to distinguish the direction and adjust the course.

In this age without GPS navigation.

It is undoubtedly a very difficult thing to fly long distances in the air.

Every captain and lookout of an airship needs a lengthy training to learn a set of methods of distinguishing terrain from the sky through old and new methods.

And he is familiar with the terrain of Ming Dynasty by heart.

Especially for some major routes, the most important thing is that you can drive to the destination with your eyes closed.

But even so, when they take some routes that are not commonly taken, it is inevitable that they will make mistakes and make detours.

They deviated from the course just now and almost headed straight for Songjiang Mansion.

Fortunately, the watchman discovered something was wrong in time, and after adjusting the course, he flew to the vicinity of Taihu Lake.

Looking at the endless lake in the distance, the lookout said in surprise: "Captain, you have already seen Taihu Lake. Keep going straight. It is estimated that you will be there in another thirty or forty miles."

"The Knight Island is in the middle of Taihu Lake."

"Hey! I saw the signal flare!"

"Master Peng is urging us to reach the target airspace as soon as possible!"

Because of the yaw just now, they arrived at Taihu Lake almost an hour later than originally planned.

Fortunately, in Daming, the steam airship troops did not have very severe penalties for delaying military aircraft. As long as they are not deserters, arriving late is a tolerable mistake.

As long as you don't miss the big battle, don't come until the battle is over, then you will indeed be punished.

After all, you can't expect an airship force to arrive on time every time, relying only on the naked eye and a compass
The captain of the airship team also saw the signal flare sent by Penke.

As for fireworks, let alone Ming Dynasty, Song Dynasty had already played well in those days.

Now Daming's signal flares have seven or eight colors, and there are also mixed colors, which are enough for simple orders.

A bright red flare exploded in the air, which represented an order for emergency support!

"Accelerate! Go forward with all your strength!"

The command of the airship captain was transmitted to the power cabin through the sound transmission brass tube.

Already sweating profusely due to the high temperature, the boiler hand, who was stripped to only a pair of shorts, picked up the towel and wiped his face vigorously, then picked up the shovel again, and shoveled coal into the boiler one by one.

This steam engine is very good, but it is too hot!
Especially this summer, it is really not easy to keep fueling next to the boiler!
But no matter how difficult it is, you have to do it!

After the fuel is filled, the dry high-pressure steam produced by the high temperature of the boiler is pressed into the cylinder.

The boiler hand controls the gas valve and increases the air intake to the maximum!
The rotation speed of the super-large propeller at the tail of the airship has been increased again, reaching the highest speed that can be tolerated.

Roaring, the three steam airships headed straight for the Knight Island in the middle of Taihu Lake at the maximum speed.

But ten minutes later, they reached the skies above the Knight Island.

At this time, Peng Ke, who was standing next to the central town of Xiake Island with his army and looking up at the sky, immediately saw the figures of three huge airships.

Only then did he smile with satisfaction, and ordered loudly:
"The whole army retreats two miles!"

"Send a signal to let them blow up hard!"

"Don't leave a single shell behind!"

As soon as the words fell, the [-] soldiers waiting in line immediately turned their heads to their tails, and their tails to their heads, and immediately retreated wildly.

The three airships together carried nearly two tons of high explosives!
And there is no guidance system!

The airdrop of this thing is not accurate, if it is thrown next to one of your own people, it will be a lot of fun!

When the airship is washing the ground, it is the most correct way for the ground troops to run quickly!
Put the cannon on the tractor, and the army scrambled to retreat, until it was five miles away from the small town of Xiake Island, and then regrouped.

Generally, the bombing coverage of an airship is at most five miles away, and it is already very conservative to retreat to five miles away.

"call out----"

A mixture of red and green fireworks was shot into the air by signal soldiers, and exploded into a very beautiful flower shape.

The three airships hovering over Knights Island clearly saw the signal flare.

The captains of the three airships grinned excitedly.

They love this order so much!

After flying for a long time, I flew from Yingtian Mansion to Taihu Lake, just to have a blast!

"Assemble! Prepare to bomb!"

"Throw all the shells in the ammunition bay down!"

"Here!"

Except for the boiler hand, the four soldiers, including the watchman, all assembled in the ammunition bay!

The ammunition compartment is the most central compartment of the entire airship, and it is full of shells.

After the bombardiers open the steel plate of a bomb opening in the center of the ammunition compartment, they can throw shells directly from this opening.

"Start dropping bombs!"

With the command of the captain.

The three airships that had already flown directly above the small town of Knights Island and lowered their altitude to 400 meters, hovered directly above it, and began to continuously pour shells from their stomachs.

Each shell weighed at least a dozen kilograms, and the round shells with pointed ends were thrown out with their heads down.

When these shells collided with the mountain guard formation on Knight Island, the firing pin hidden in the head was hit on the cap of the fuze.

The priming powder at the head of the shell could not withstand the impact of the firing pin, and it was detonated immediately after the impact.

"Boom!"

"Boom—"

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom—!!"

The earth-shattering violent explosions roared continuously.

In the main hall of the small town of Chivalrous Island, there was an ear-piercing explosion, and the shocking disciples all lay on the ground with their heads covered.

Although the array blocks the physical damage and the damage of the blast shock wave.

But sound waves are impossible to isolate!
When the Qi Refiners built this mountain guard array, they didn't even think about having a sound insulation effect!
They would never have imagined that one day humans would be able to create weapons that could shock people to death just by sound!
Countless shells were detonated less than five meters above the main hall at close range!

Waves of sound waves enough to pierce the eardrums kept impacting the ears of the disciples of Knights Island.

Except for the innate master, the eardrums of most of the disciples were overwhelmed and were shattered on the spot.

Only a few disciples who moved quickly opened their mouths or covered their ears in time to avoid eardrum rupture.

Don't say it's them.

Even Peng Ke, who was ten miles away, witnessed the scene of these dozens of shells exploding together, and felt that his ears were numb and ringing from the explosion.

"It's still exciting!"

　Today's second update will probably be posted in the afternoon.

　　I am going to adjust my work and rest, I don’t want to code in hell every day.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)