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Chapter 354 Aftermath of the Airship (Third Update, please subscribe)
1869 11 Month 23 Day.

After this day, the rules of the game of war were changed. Before that, war seemed to have a certain distance from civilians.

But now the war has come directly to everyone, and since then there has been no distinction between the front and the rear.

In the next few days, Buenos Aires was bombed twice more, and unlike the previous warnings, these two bombings were carried out without warning.

Although the bombing was only in railway stations, ports and other areas, the blow to morale is also conceivable.

Thousands of people have left the city, and they have no way to continue living here under the threat of death.

Under such continuous bombardment, even the strongest people will collapse.I don't know how many people would be awakened by the slightest movement in their sleep, and then scream in terror.

The continuous bombing made the airship a nightmare for everyone.What's even more desperate is that there is nothing they can do about all of this, they can only stand on the ground and wait to die.

Waiting to die is the most desperate thing.

In fact, even if it was the bombing on November 11, the damage caused was not as great as imagined. Even the fire only destroyed about one-third of the city, and most of the areas escaped. It was a catastrophe, but fear still permeates people's hearts.

Among various rumors, the power of the airship has been infinitely exaggerated.Overnight the airship became synonymous with death, and rumors of the airship bombing and of Buenos Aires being completely destroyed during the bombing spread all the way to Europe.

In Europe, those current affairs cartoonists used cartoons to depict the scene of airship bombing. Under their brushes, Buenos Aires was razed to the ground. Many newspapers even deliberately fabricated news in order to attract readers' attention.In order to achieve a better sensational effect, those reporters used their imagination a little bit and added a little more material.

However, their imagination was a little bit more, and as a result, the bombing of Buenos Aires was written by them as a scene of a volcanic eruption that was destroyed like the ancient city of Pompeii.

The explosion of the 2500-kilogram aerial bomb was even more amazing than the scene of the volcanic eruption. When it exploded, it was not as simple as shaking the ground, it was like a strong earthquake.Everything will be destroyed.Just one bomb like that is enough to destroy a city.This is simply unprecedented... an exaggeration!
In short, in their description, Nanhua's airship has become the most powerful war machine in the world, and even a symbol of Satan in the world. It is simply the most perfect war machine in the history of human warfare. All weapons are the concentrated expression of all human wisdom and human science and technology.

As a result, these reporters finally succeeded in making everyone believe their nonsense!
Convince all - airships are powerful, a weapon no one can resist.It is irresistible to any ordinary weapon, it is enough to destroy any city,

In their imagination, Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, one city after another, were destroyed in airship bombings.

In such wars, there are no more frontlines or civilians.All that remains is destruction.In order to win the war, those soldiers will drive the airship, insist on any city, and then unscrupulously drop bombs below.

And they will not be as civilized as the South Chinese.They will never steal leaflets to warn the people in the city, they will bomb the city directly and let the people in the city fall into death.

"The horror of death will help the soldiers win the war! In the future, because of the airship, war will be fought with a barbarity that humans have never seen before."

"Humanity will eventually be destroyed by human hands, and airships will destroy human civilization."

"The airship is the cruelest invention in human history. For the future of human civilization. In the civilized world, the use of airships in wars must be prohibited."

In the face of such "prophecies", many well-known scholars have appealed that for the safety of the world, countries should refuse to use airships, and military personnel of various countries should refuse to use airships to bomb civilians and cities based on gentlemanly demeanor. In their words, use airships to bomb cities is inhumane.

Even if it is a bombing, it should be "like the benevolent South China people, first issue a warning and give the civilians time to evacuate the city."

The exaggeration added by the reporters and the serious treatment by the scholars, especially those scholars who described the destruction of the city in the salon gathering as if they were unfounded, after being embellished by the good-natured people, a serious sequelae appeared up.

For a time, from England to France, from Prussia to Austria, from Austria to Russia, the awe of ordinary people for airships far surpassed any kind of weapon. How could they not be in awe?Those weapons were far away from them in the past.

The power of warships is strong, but they can only threaten the cities by the sea.But what about airships?Any city could fall into his clutches.Maybe they were eating steak and drinking wine when a bomb fell on their heads.

The airship has become a topic of discussion for everyone after dinner. What the soldiers talk about is the changes brought by the airship to the war, but what about ordinary people?Of course, it is the destruction brought by the airship. After people's embellishment, the airship has even become the devil in myths and legends. It flies in the air and spreads death wherever it passes!

According to people's word of mouth, the airship is even more terrifying than the most powerful warship. Even the most powerful warship can't keep up with it, and it is impossible for human beings to fight against it.

The power of the airship!
In this way, it has been continuously exaggerated in various rumors. The harm of this kind of rumor is serious. No one knows, but one thing is certain, anyone who cares about national security will question loudly—our airship Woolen cloth?
From Moscow to Paris, from Vienna to London, politicians and soldiers shouted out there - we also need to build our own airship army.

At the end of 1869, airships became the most fashionable topic in Europe. Of course, for the country, this topic was not only fashionable, but even related to the life and death of the country.

As the emperor of France, Napoleon III, like many people, was also attracted by the novelty of airships.

In fact, when he received Lesseps Bonaparte's telegram last month, His Majesty the Emperor didn't think airships were important, but now it's different.

After all, the whole world is now talking about the airship, and everyone is talking about him, its great power, and how he destroyed cities after cities.

What Paris, what Vienna.All may be razed to the ground under the bombing of airships.As for the army, it is not worth mentioning in the face of airship bombing.

Facing such a powerful guy, how could Napoleon 30 not care?

"Is this Nanhua's airship?"

Standing in front of the airship model, Emperor III looked at the spindle-shaped airship and the hanging cabin below and asked in doubt.

"General, are you sure how many tons of bombs it can carry?"

Looking up, Napoleon III asked,
"Yes, Your Majesty, the British have seen with their own eyes how it destroys cities, and according to our calculations, if we had 100 airships, we could drop hundreds of tons of bombs at once, and even a fleet cannot hit so many shells! "

Edmund Lebouf, the Minister of War who had just taken office for a few months, reacted to airships even faster than the Secretary of the Navy, not because he reacted quickly to new technologies, but because... he and Reser Bu was a friend. In Lesseb's letter, he had been told clearly what role the airship would play in land warfare.

He was dubious at the beginning, but soon he no longer doubted it.Besides, there are so many people who witnessed how Buenos Aires was destroyed under the bombing.

Even the British naval fleet was among the witnesses, and they were also stunned by the enormous power displayed by the airship.

At this time, how could he, as the Minister of War, turn a blind eye to such a powerful weapon.

"For a large-scale assembled army, the bombs and nails it drops are extremely deadly. Lesseb mentioned in his letter that it used special dart-shaped nails to kill tens of thousands of Argentine soldiers..."

In fact, when Edmund Leboeuf first learned about it from Lesseb's letter, he felt it was extremely absurd.

airship?

nail?

It's simply ridiculous, but now?No one will doubt it!After all, the whole world witnessed the destruction of Buenos Aires.

"My God! May God bless those poor fellows!"

Staring at the model of the airship, Napoleon III murmured.

"If he can drop a few hundred tons of bombs, he can definitely level a city. No wonder the scientists fear him so much."

Napoleon III, as Emperor, stares at a model of an airship.No matter how you look at it, you can't imagine that this guy will be so powerful.

He had seen airships before, but never imagined that a small one could hold several tons of bombs.Of course, Nanhua's airship is definitely not a little guy.

It was a gigantic monster with a length of tens of meters.

"If it's really that powerful, then we must get it. Perhaps, as those scientists said, whoever controls the sky in the future will also control the world."

Then Napoleon III asked doubtfully.

"However, are you sure we can't make such an airship?"

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