The process of waiting for the fire at Qingshiguan Fortress below to extinguish felt extremely long. Although it was only a short period of more than twenty minutes, for the people on the airship, especially those students of Qianlong Hall who had not experienced a real war. , these ten minutes seemed not much less than the time it took everyone to arrive here by airship from Qianlong Island.
For most castles and fortresses built in this era with stone or reinforced concrete as the main raw materials, the biggest effect of white phosphorus gel incendiary bombs is not to destroy the target building structure, but to destroy living people and some facilities on the ground. Destruction and killing.
White phosphorus gel incendiary bombs cannot be extinguished after burning, and will condense and adhere to the surface of objects that have been sputtered over a large area and continue to burn. Its burning temperature can reach a maximum of more than a thousand degrees. Under such a temperature and burning effect, as long as If it is stained, most of the steam-driven defense facilities on the ground will be destroyed.
If it gets on people or some flammable objects, the consequences will be even worse.
From the beginning to the end, the Qingshiguan Fortress anti-air defense turret below only had time to fire two ballistae, which were completely misfired in the flames of white phosphorus gel incendiary bombs, and those two ballistae were useless for hovering thousands of meters away. For large high-altitude war airships, even the shot has a long way to reach the bottom of the airship before it loses its strength and falls downwards in a parabola.
Once an attack by a white phosphorus gel incendiary bomb causes the steam pipeline of a castle or fortress to be damaged or a mechanical failure occurs, as soon as the pressure on those turrets drops, the anti-aircraft ballistae will become a display.
In this era, the most effective weapon that could deal with airships was airships. Unfortunately, until the airships from Huaiyuantang completed the first wave of attacks, the airships from the Zhen family in Tianhan City had no chance to show up.
That's the advantage of raiding. Never give your opponent a chance to react or breathe.
After the flames below gradually extinguished and the German and French air defenses of the fortress were disarmed, the airship Zhang Tie and the others began to lower their flight altitude, hovering more than a hundred meters above the Qingshiguan Fortress, using the ballistae on the airship to shoot downwards Shooting, clearing the obstacles below for Zhang Tie and others to airborne.
When the small-caliber rapid-fire steam ballista on the airship shoots upwards and downwards, its power is not ordinary. The arrows shot fly out with huge inertia and can easily kill two people wearing armor. Penetration, if ejaculated into a person's limbs. One arrow would result in severed limbs and limbs.
The terrifying war airship was like an eagle pouncing on its prey, constantly attacking the targets below from the air again and again. Some of the soldiers in the fortress who had just been reluctantly assembled under the attack of incendiary bombs, in the blink of an eye. between. He was shot by the airship's rapid-fire steam ballistae, causing him to cry for his father and scream for his mother.
"Open the covers of airborne hatches No. 1 to No. 6..."
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"Put down the steel rope..."
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"The ballistae should do a good job of fire suppression and cover..."
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"Combatants prepare for airborne landing..."
The commanders of the crew in the airship shouted loudly for a few seconds. The airborne preparations for combatants were completed. This time the airborne. Because the height is too low and speed and efficiency must be pursued, parachutes are not used. Instead, a steel rope is used for descent. Everyone mainly pulls the speed control pulley on the steel rope and can descend from the steel rope in a few seconds. The airship slid to the ground.
A matter of seconds. Everyone stood at the door of the airborne hatch. The biting wind blew in from the airborne hatch that opened downwards. From the armor plate at the bottom of the airship, sporadic crisp "ding-dong-dang-dang-dang" sounds from arrows were constantly heard. the sound of. Although the defenders of the fortress below were hit and suffered a number of casualties, they had not completely lost their combat effectiveness.
At this moment, there are almost a thousand troops below, some of them are in chaos, and some are organizing resistance. Relying on pure air attacks alone, unless a powerful alchemical bomb is dropped, there is no way to completely disintegrate the people below.
"Who comes first?" The senior officer who just explained the mission to everyone in the airship looked at everyone and asked. The first one to go down must be the target of the siege by the people below, and he has not even gone down yet. Those few seconds on the steel rope are the targets below, which can be said to be very dangerous.
But in this operation, the reason why the family elders council wants the family students of Qianlong Hall to participate is not only that the family students of Qianlong Hall are a very important force, but also has another meaning, that is, it hopes that the family students of Qianlong Hall Most students can experience war firsthand.
Huaiyuantang has been in peace for a long time. In the past twenty years, there has been almost no action of this scale.
After hearing what the officer said, just when others were about to stand up, Zhang Tie, who was already boiling with fighting spirit, jumped up without saying a word, grabbed the speed control pulley on the steel rope and jumped off the airship.
The moment he grabbed the speed control pulley with his left hand and jumped out of the airship's cabin, Zhang Tie instantly saw the situation clearly below - and on the far horizon, the first ray of dawn had just emerged.
While still on the steel rope, Zhang Tie pulled out the javelin he was carrying with his backhand, and threw it at the guy below who was aiming a bow and arrow at the airship, instantly piercing that person.
Zhang Tie's movements were very fast, and the speed of the speed control pulley on the steel rope was also very fast, almost more than ten meters in one second. Before Zhang Tieren could slide down, in the blink of an eye, the nine-unit heavy equipment on his body was He threw the nine javelins in the metal bag.
While Zhang Tie emptied his heavy metal target bag in the blink of an eye, everyone in the airship felt that the sound of the arrows hitting the armor at the bottom of the airship suddenly became less intense. Those with good ears and more attentiveness would have discovered that every time Zhang Tie threw the javelin, he delayed the sound that sounded in the air.
With nine consecutive sound strikes, the nine guys on the ground who were the greatest threat to everyone's airborne landing were eliminated by Zhang Tie in the blink of an eye. The senior officer above looked at Zhang Tie's back with a bright light flashing in his eyes.
"Every three seconds, a group of people are coming, hurry up!" the officer shouted, and seeing that Zhang Tie had jumped, the other male students from Huaiyuan Hall were unwilling to be outdone. In the blink of an eye, six people pulled him up at the same time. He jumped on the steel rope.
After killing the nine shooters below in succession. Zhang Tie became the target of other shooters, but fortunately, he descended very quickly, and the airship was moving around the Bluestone Fortress. Someone shot a few arrows at him, and they all flew past his body. The only An arrow came straight towards Zhang Tie's face with great force, but was blocked by Zhang Tie who grabbed the heavy thorn shield on his back with his backhand.
Although the arrow was blocked by the shield, the fierce force on the arrow also shook Zhang Tie's arm.
In the flash of lightning, Zhang Tie looked down. Next to a turret in the castle below, a horse-faced officer in his thirties wearing black armor was pointing at him with a bow. The man looked at Zhang Tie fiercely, and their eyes were almost a hundred meters apart. distance and hit in the air.
under. A large number of soldiers holding long guns and wearing black armor rushed towards Zhang Tie's intended landing point, and some people shouted. "Kill that person. Kill that person. Anyone who kills an enemy tonight will be promoted to one level and will be rewarded with a hundred gold coins!"
Below was a forest of swords and guns. The horse-faced officer in the distance aimed at Zhang Tie and quickly opened his bow. Zhang Tie grabbed the steel rope and swung it. He let go of his hand in an instant, still more than thirty meters above the ground, and jumped towards the ground like a shooting star.
No one could have imagined that Zhang Tie, who was wearing heavy armor, would dare to jump down from such a height with such a brave attitude, not just the people below. Even the officers from Huaiyuan Hall who had been watching him on the airship and the students from Qianlong Hall who followed him and slid down the steel rope could not think of it.
If he hadn't eaten a bunch of iron fruit and used the pressure of sea water in the deep sea to temper his body far beyond what ordinary people can bear, Zhang Tie wouldn't have dared to jump from such a height wearing hundreds of kilograms of equipment. Going down, this height is already the limit that his body can bear.
Because he did not expect Zhang Tie to jump down, the second arrow fired by the horse-faced officer who misjudged missed Zhang Tie's head and flew just a foot away. The group of soldiers below who were rushing towards Zhang Tie's intended foothold also Turn hastily.
Zhang Tie activated the speed runes in the sea of consciousness while in the air.
With a "boom", Zhang Tie's whole body hit the ground like a cannonball. With a wave of his shield, the five soldiers of the Black Armored Regiment who had just rushed around him instantly flew backwards with broken muscles and spurting blood.
Then Zhang Tie bounced up again like lightning and rushed towards the horse-faced officer. He stood between Zhang Tie and the horse-faced officer. The soldiers of the black armor regiment who rushed towards Zhang Tie were instantly protected by shields. Zhang Tie used the collision technique to knock over twenty people away.
Looking from the air, Zhang Tie looked like a wild bull running wildly, and the soldiers of the black armor regiment became scarecrows blocking the path of the bull, unable to fight back at all, and were completely crushed by it.
The powerful strength of his body and the blessing effect of the divine runes on speed allowed Zhang Tie at this moment, even if he was wearing heavy armor, his speed still reached a terrifying level.
When he saw Zhang Tie being so frightened and rushing towards him, the horse-faced officer finally panicked and shot a third arrow at Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie threw his shield, and the heavily armored shield weighing more than 100 kilograms roared and spun, using its sharp corners to cut the bodies of several Black Armored soldiers blocking the road in half, and then met the horse-faced officer. The third arrow shot collided together.
Zhang Tie, who threw the shield, accelerated again. Before the horse-faced officer could shoot the fourth arrow, Zhang Tie had already pounced on him.
"Kill!" Zhang Irontongue was like spring thunder, and he punched out with a shocking shout.
Zhang Tie's loud shout was so loud that it instantly drowned out the panic and noisy shouts of killing in the entire fortress. It was like thunder. Several soldiers from the black armor regiment who were slightly closer to Zhang Tie, They all felt a buzzing in their heads, and their movements suddenly slowed down.
Many people in the fortress unconsciously turned to look in Zhang Tie's direction.
That man punched Zhang Tie...
Just a punch…
The whole body of the horse-faced officer was like porcelain that had fallen from a dozens-story building. It burst into pieces instantly and turned into a cloud of blood.
"Ah, the battalion commander was killed..." Many soldiers of the Black Armored Regiment panicked...
Behind Zhang Tie, a nearly 100-meter-tall centipede war spirit totem rose up in the burning blood waves, looking down at the soldiers in the fortress with blood-red eyes filled with murderous intent, as if it was about to eat. Like a monster, it suddenly enveloped the entire fortress and trampled under its feet. Seeing Zhang Tie's terrifying performance and the battle spirit totem that looked like a god descending to earth, many people were stunned. The fighting spirit of the Black Armored Soldiers was instantly snatched away by Zhang Tie...
"Peerless warrior, peerless warrior..." On the airship, seeing Zhang Tie's performance, the senior officer shouted excitedly, "Who is this person? Who is this person? Why haven't I heard of him before?"
Looking at Zhang Tie wrapped in the steel armor, Ma Aiyun and the others who knew Zhang Tie felt their minds go blank. Zhang Tie on the battlefield was simply a killing machine, so powerful and fierce that they all felt a little strange... (… )