I Am the Grandson of the Second Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Earning 100 Million Taels at the Beginn

Chapter 324 The first aviation bombing in world history!

"Ming army, it's time to attack!"

The first ray of sunlight shone on the face of an Annan rebel who had been staring at him all night. Just about to yawn and squint him, he accidentally slipped to the foot of the three mountains.

At the foot of the mountain, groups of Ming soldiers lined up neatly. They wiped the weapons in their hands and looked at the mountain with fiery eyes.

The reason why the Ming army's eyes are hot is not because they have any hobbies, but because in the Ming Dynasty's military merit regulations, the rebels are the first-class enemies. According to the reward and punishment system, a rebel's head can be exchanged for one tael of silver.

One tael of silver is almost worth their monthly salary. If they cut a few more, they can not only subsidize their family, but also pay a few pumpkin girls.

Thinking of what the brothers at the old Shenji camp said, how gentle and obedient the Japanese women are, many soldiers felt agitated in their hearts.

Now girls from the Han family are really hard to marry, mainly because the dowry is too expensive, they are miserable, but they can't afford the expensive dowry.

It's also not worth it for them. After all, for the same money, the girls of the Han family can only marry one, and they can't be beaten or scolded.

It's different for women from other ethnic groups. The same money can buy several. They beat them as they want, scold them as they want, and torture them however they want.

Even if they are all called under the quilt, not only will these foreign girls not be angry, but they will happily agree.

Thinking of the hot foreign women lying in their quilts and letting them toss, the soldiers felt a commotion in their hearts, wishing to take money now and go to the government to exchange for foreign women.

So now the soldiers of the national defense force, as long as they hear about the war, they are all very excited.

"Everyone be on alert!"

A roar sounded in the cottage, and the Annan rebels who were watching nervously outside, turned around and saw a gentle man with a tired face, holding the sword in his waist, and rushed over quickly.

"Great Governor!"

"Meet the Chief Commander!"

When the man arrived, the surrounding soldiers and officers hurriedly saluted him.

This man was the leader of the rebel army of Annan Kingdom, Li Li, who proclaimed himself the governor of Annan Kingdom.

Regardless of responding to the soldiers and officers around him, Li Li ran behind the wooden wall with a serious expression and quickly observed the situation at the foot of the mountain.

"As expected of the Ming army, all of them are indeed elite. If they want to win, they will have to fight hard."

Observing behind the wooden wall for a while, Li Li couldn't help but sighed when he saw that the Ming army really put on an offensive posture, and at the same time looked enviously at the neatly lined up Ming army team.

Li Li couldn't help thinking in his heart, if he had such elites, the whole world would probably prostrate at his feet.

It's a pity that fantasies are fantasies after all, and he still has to return to reality under the current situation.

"Notify all the troops to prepare for defense. Once the Ming army attacks, they will hit me hard. Tell the soldiers that persistence means victory."

"The Ming army came from afar, and the supply of food and grass depends entirely on the country. I have already made arrangements. As long as we stick to it, there will be problems with the logistics supply of the Ming army. When the time comes, victory will belong to us."

"An Nanguo will never forget the contributions made by everyone present. When the day of victory comes, I will share the wealth with all my brothers."

"Yes!"

The officer behind him responded and turned around to convey Li Li's order.

Soon, the shouts of long live the governor came to mind at each defensive point.

Hearing the high-spirited shout in his ear, the corners of Li Li's mouth twitched slightly.

He couldn't believe it. In such an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack place, only 6 to [-] thousand people in Daming could break through his defense line.

That is to say, he had seen the ferocity of the Ming army. Otherwise, in the Song Dynasty, Li Li would have rushed down with his troops and hacked and killed them.

You must know that he now has 10 people who can fight. Although half of them are civilian husbands, Li Li doesn't think that the people of Annan Kingdom will be any worse than the people of Daming.

Therefore, he is very confident in defending this mountainous area, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack in the future.

Li Li has been familiar with military books since he was a child, and he often regards himself as a Confucian general. He has repeatedly threatened that he was born at the wrong time. If he was born more than ten years earlier, he would be the one who swept the Mongolian Yuan and unified the whole world, not a beggar. .

When the Ming army arrived yesterday, Li Li thought about taking advantage of his exhaustion to attack and dampen the spirit of the Ming army.

As a result, as soon as they left the stronghold, the powerful artillery of the enemy smashed down.

The Fourth Army led by Zhang Xian is not an ordinary national defense force, it is the so-called elite among the elite of the Ming Dynasty, and none of the troops that can get the top five formations is good.

As the five most elite legions of the Ming Dynasty, their army configuration is naturally different from other troops.

In addition to replacing half of the fourth-generation rifles with third-generation rifles, the Fourth Army was also equipped with 150 new 85-caliber infantry guns and new tiger squat guns from various squadrons.

This round of artillery fire was unbearable to move the lobster soldiers, let alone Annan's lack of equipment for the rebel army.

Li Li sent 8000 people to attack. As a result, under the bombardment of artillery, more than 2000 people were directly killed and injured.

The first attack was blocked, but Li Li was not discouraged. In the middle of the night, taking advantage of the darkness and high winds, he sent more than 1 people out, intending to sneak attack the Ming army camp.

This time 2000 people went out, but it was still two miles away from the camp of the Ming army. I don’t know what the subordinates stepped on unfortunately, and then bursts of explosions sounded. Hundreds of people were killed or injured within a few minutes of not being able to breathe.

It was originally a sneak attack, and it was impossible to go after such a big commotion, and the Annan rebels withdrew back in embarrassment.

After two consecutive attacks and failed miserably, Li Li understood that the Ming army had long been guarding against them.

After thinking about it later, he also felt that it was true. After all, he learned the art of war from Daming. It is normal that the master is better than the apprentice.

After two failures, Li Li didn't play any tricks anymore, and simply guarded the cottage, waiting for the opportunity he was looking forward to.

"Tut chug..."

Time passed slowly, and both sides were ready to defend and attack. When the time reached the end of the hour, there was a sudden burst of chug in the eastern sky.

The Annan rebels, who were on full alert, heard the voice and subconsciously looked in the direction of the voice.

Seeing this, the entire camp was silent.

In the distant eastern sky, five huge monsters covered the rising sun, slowly pressing towards the cottage with terrifying shadows.

"What the hell is that? Kunpeng?"

Li Li, who thought he was well-informed, stared at the five giants floating in the sky with a blank and terrified face.

Li Li was at a loss, and the soldiers under him were even more embarrassed.

Some superstitious people thought that they were ferocious beasts sent by the heavens. They dropped their weapons one by one in fear, kowtowed on the ground, and begged the gods to forgive their sins.

Those who were not superstitious, but timid, looked at the giant that covered the entire sky, their legs couldn't help shaking, and some trouser legs were even wet.

"Victory, victorious, victorious!"

The Annan rebels were terrified, but the morale of the Ming army gathered next to the barracks at the foot of the mountain was boiling.

A mighty Ming soldier looked at the five huge airships slowly drifting towards the east, excitedly raised the weapon in his hand, slapped the armor on his body, and cheered loudly towards the sky.

These soldiers have all participated in the military parade. When they saw the airship for the first time, they were deeply shocked by it.

Any creature that is bigger than itself will have a sense of fear in its heart, not to mention this magical thing that can float in the air.

After the military parade, many soldiers were discussing in private, how terrifying is this huge thing flying in the sky when it is launched?
When launching an attack, do you hit your head, or sit down from the sky and kill the enemy.

It's a pity that it has been more than a year, and there has been no news of this thing's power. Many soldiers are looking forward to it.

Now, they finally saw this giant beast make a move, and they witnessed it with their own eyes, which made them excited and excited.

"Daming Air Force Airship Corps, report to the commander, the whole army is ready for bombing, waiting for your order!"

On the podium, Zhang Xian, who was the commander-in-chief of the attack, received a report from the airship commander from the small radio station beside him.

Zhang Xian was also looking up at the sky, and when he heard the sonorous and powerful report on the radio, a smile appeared on his majestic face.

In fact, don't look at this guy who is so calm on the surface, in fact, he is also yelling excitedly when he is nervous.

It was the first time commanding such a large corps, the first time as the commander-in-chief of the whole army, the first time commanding the airship unit and the first battle. As a general of the younger generation, Zhang Xian was still a little proud.

In other words, in order to maintain the majesty of the commander-in-chief, if Jianghuai was in this position and he was commanding the troops below to prepare for the attack, he would have been like a soldier, yelling at the sky with a helmet or a weapon.

Taking a deep breath, suppressing the excitement and excitement in his heart, Zhang Xian glanced at Zhu Zhangui who was sitting next to him under the parasol, drinking tea and eating snacks, and in the calmest tone, he picked up the microphone and gave an order:

"The headquarters has received it. It is divided into two echelons to bomb the position of the enemy's No. A and No. B, and open an attack route for the ground attack force!"

"The Airship Legion has received it, and now it is starting to bomb the enemy's position. Please don't launch an attack until the bombing is over, so as not to accidentally injure friendly troops!"

The current airship does not have a precise aiming device, it flies completely above the enemy's head, and then drops the bomb fixed on the rack.

As for whether it can hit the enemy, it depends entirely on luck.

If the friendly forces chase too closely and the wind is a little stronger, the bombs may float on their own heads.

It is also because of this that the head of the Airship Legion said not to get too close.

"Understood, after the bombing is over, the ground troops are launching an attack!"

Zhang Xian replied and patted the communication soldier beside him.

The communicator understood immediately and began to adjust the radio station, switching the individual channel to the general channel.

"Attention all legions, I am Zhang Xian, deputy general of the counter-insurgency legion, and now I will command the legion to fight. All legions are ready to attack and wait for the order to attack!"

"Fourth Legion Received!"

"No.80 First Legion Received!"

"No.80 Second Corps received!"

“…………………………”

Following Zhang Xian's order, he soon received reports from several legions.

Zhang Xian wants to command the battle, and the fourth army will be temporarily led by the deputy army commander.

"chug chug..."

The magical sound of three collapses reverberated in the sky. Five huge airships were divided into three arrays. Float to the approximate designated position.

"Have arrived at the bombing area, No. 4 airship, No. 5 airship bombed point A, No. 2 and No. 3 bombed point B, and my No. 1 boat is used as a supplementary bombing, start action!"

"Received on the 4th and 5th, understand on the 2nd and 3rd!"

Under everyone's watchful eyes and feared by Annan's rebels, the four airships divided into two teams and slowly hovered over two positions in Annan's cottage.

These two positions were determined by several legion leaders after a night of discussion last night.

According to the observations of the spies and the power of their combined bombs, they selected the weak points of these two enemies and carried out a breakthrough attack.

"Don't make a mess, don't make a mess, they are just rocks, as long as we hide them well, we'll be fine!"

As soon as the four airships flew to the designated location, the Annan rebels below blew up their nest.

Originally, they were afraid of this thing, and they were praying in their hearts to attack other people, but they didn't expect the unlucky one to fly on their own heads.

The stop of the airship broke their tense heartstrings in an instant. The rebels, who had already been frightened by the airship and had no morale, dropped their weapons, turned around and ran away crying and howling.

If the opponent is a human, they still have the courage to fight, but this thing is so big, and it is still flying in the air, they just want to fight hard, but they have no chance.

Seeing the soldiers fleeing, although the officers were terrified, but thinking of the horrific methods of the governor, they could only grit their teeth to stop the soldiers who were about to escape and let them return to their defensive positions.

And in order to reassure these courageous soldiers, they naively said that the bombs hanging on the iron racks were stones.

With the officer's obstruction and reassurance, some soldiers stopped fleeing in doubt, and slowly returned to the defensive position.

It wasn't the return of the Annan rebel soldiers, or the prestige of the officers, that made them listen to each other and stop.

If it wasn't for the supervising team at the back, the shining arrows, the devil would care about these officers.

Stone, go to your mother's stone!

"Fire arrows!"

After driving the fleeing soldiers back to their positions, a high-ranking general, sweating all over his face, ordered the archers behind him to shoot arrows at the airship hovering in the sky.

Too bad he was so naive.

The airship is hovering at a height of 300 meters in the air. Not to mention the bows and arrows in the hands of the soldiers, even if the siege crossbow is transferred, it is probably not enough to deal with the airship.

As expected, the rain of arrows flew into the air and drew a bend, all of them fell to the ground, and some even almost landed on their own heads.

"Bastard, you can't use a little strength, and you can shoot flies with your strength!"

Seeing that the arrows didn't even reach the enemy's side, Li Li, who had already hid far away, pointed in the direction of the archer and cursed.

"Hehe, you still dare to tease me!"

Li Li cursed loudly, but the commander of the airship standing on No. 1 airship made fun of it.

Pick up the intercom and tune to the public channel.

"Hey, is the old hen going down yet? Let's go back to have breakfast after finishing it quickly. Today there are big meat buns!"

"Go down, go down, it will be over soon!"

"Haha, the food in our air force is good. Every day, sea cucumber, abalone and big meat buns make me fat!"

As soon as he heard that there were big meat buns, there was a cheerful response from the intercom.

Perhaps it was the reason why the air force was bored in the air for a long time, and coupled with the fact that there were few people talking around, these guys took the opportunity to talk and chatted happily.

The commander of the No. 1 airship didn't care about the chats of his subordinates, so he put the walkie-talkie aside, picked up the telescope, stuck it on the observation window, and began to observe the bombing effect.

The old hen is the nickname of the bombardier.

Because the current airship does not have an automatic bomb-dropping device, the bombs are hung on the shelf under the pod of the airship, and when the bomb is dropped, the bomber needs to go down and manually operate it.

In the commander's binoculars, hovering below the four airships at the designated position, four bombers with ropes hanging around their waists, wearing big cotton jackets and big cotton caps on their heads, walked down the ladder from the gondola. climbed onto the shelf.

Tie Zhu clapped his hands, and after his hands got a little warm, he quickly checked whether the manual bombing device was in working condition.

As a child in the mountains, Tie Zhu has climbed up and down since he was a child, and he often climbs even hundreds of meters of old trees, so he does not have the fear of heights that people in the plains have.

When the airship unit was selected, the main observation was the fear of heights.

After all, no matter how good you are, if you are afraid of heights, you will not be able to do the Air Force.

Because Tie Zhu is illiterate, he can't do those driving and repair jobs that require knowledge, so he can only serve as a bombardier with little technical content.

But he is also studying hard, and he also hopes that one day in the future, he can become the pilot of the airship, and then drive the airship back to his hometown, visit his parents, and let them be cruel in front of relatives and friends. He showed his face fiercely.

The airship troop has a kind of benefit, each pilot can drive the airship back to his hometown at a designated time, and honor his ancestors.

This kind of welfare, in addition to the imperial court's emphasis on pilots, is mainly to attract those knowledgeable and ambitious people to join the air force, expand the strength of the air force, and reserve more talents for the air force.

There is no way, the Air Force is a technical branch, and it cannot be done with strength and courage. Learning all kinds of knowledge required in it is not as easy as taking an exam.

People with this kind of learning ability, when faced with the choice of the Air Force and being an official, most of them will choose to be an official instead of being a stinking mound.

Therefore, in order to attract people from the imperial court, the newly formed air force also went all out. For the sake of talents, they don't want any face.

"Report to the captain, the bomb launcher is normal and can drop bombs at any time!"

After checking that there was no problem, Tie Zhu picked up the walkie-talkie hanging around his neck and made a final report before dropping the bomb.

"The bombing begins!"

After being confirmed, the captain gave the bombing order without hesitation.

After receiving the order, Tie Zhu pulled the handle beside him vigorously, and the 5 bombs that he had pulled off the protective device just now fell down with a roar.

"Choo Choo Choo!"

The big-headed shells fell quickly, and the small propeller at the back, driven by the wind, rotated rapidly, making a sharp whistling sound.

"Ah ah ah..."

The An Nanguo soldiers who were hiding below, after being forced back by the supervising team and the officers, were already unsteady and might collapse at any time.

The screaming sound of the falling shells became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Some An Nanguo soldiers who had a nervous breakdown, regardless of the pulling of their companions and the roar of the officer, rushed back madly holding their heads.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!"

Five shells weighing 200 catties hit the wooden defensive structure heavily.

Under the bombardment of 5 shells, the defense line, which was originally considered solid, turned into a tofu dregs project, with wooden walls and trenches crumbling one by one.

Those An Nanguo soldiers who couldn't stand the torture and fled were divided into several sections by the scattered shrapnel and the powerful shock wave of the gunpowder before they could run a few steps.

Those Annan rebels who did not escape and hide under the ditch of the curtain wall did not fare much better. They were either crushed to death by falling wood and stones, or buried below by the blasted soil.

"Two bombs deviate, fly forward another 5 meters!"

The captain of Tie Zhu, watching the bombing situation below, found that two bombs flew out of the enemy's position, and immediately ordered the airship to move forward.

Airship bombs are very expensive, and the cost of each bomb is almost equal to its weight.

The two missing ones are not iron bumps, but 400 taels of silver in vain.

It's such a pity that these prodigal sons were wasted just because of their negligence.

As the airship moved slowly, Tie Zhu, the bombardier, also listened to the captain's order, and kept pulling the handle, throwing bombs one by one towards the An Nanguo position below.

The An Nanguo position below has now become a little girl blocked by gangsters in the corner, without any ability to resist, and allows others to ravage her.

Bombs slammed into the enemy's position amidst the excited roar of the Ming army waiting to attack at the foot of the mountain.

"Crash!"

With the sound of chains, the last row of shells was dropped.

Regardless of the situation below, Tie Zhu took care of the finishing work, hummed a ditty thinking about the big meat buns in the cafeteria, climbed into the cabin, and drove the airship back to have breakfast with his teammates.

Their offensive is over, and the next step will be handed over to the army brothers on the ground. As for whether they will come to bomb later, they have to wait for the order from above.

But these are not important to Tie Zhu, the most important thing now is to go back to have breakfast and eat big meat buns.

Each airship carries 30 bombs, 4 airships that is 120 bombs.

Such a ferocious bombing, not to mention An Nanguo's wooden and stone structure defense system, even some defensive positions during World War II, cannot guarantee that it can withstand it.

After the bombing, the two designated attack positions, A and B, no longer looked like they did at the beginning, with huge craters and fragments of limbs everywhere.

"Beep beep beep..."

Before the smoke and dust from the explosion dissipated, a whistle sounded from the foot of the mountain.

The soldiers of the Fourth Corps in the front row of the legion, under the command of their respective officers, raised their bayonet-mounted rifles and launched an offensive formation.

Under the cover of the rear artillery, slowly approach the enemy's position, and after the artillery stops, rush up to reap the fruits of victory.

ps: Happy New Year to my brothers one day in advance!By the way, I also wish myself a happy new year, see you next year, and I'm going out to have fun!

(End of this chapter)