The training site for pistol shooting was arranged in the forecourt of the castle.
Including Sylvie, all the witches selected for the reconnaissance team were given a revolver.
After Roland spent two days getting everyone familiar with and mastering the gun posture, the training entered the live ammunition shooting session. The main content is divided into ten-meter aiming shooting and five-meter rapid shooting, in order to cope with the two situations of being prepared to meet the enemy and encountering a surprise attack.
When the witches practiced with guns, they still behaved in the same way, but when they were shooting, they were exposed.
Especially when the deafening gunshots rang out, the first thing most people did was plug their ears, which made Nightingale raise her brows.
Except for Anna.
I saw her holding the gun motionless in both hands, pulling the trigger continuously, ignoring the sound of gunfire and gun smoke. Regardless of the accuracy, just this action is done neatly.
Could it be that in addition to learning knowledge, Anna is also extremely talented in other aspects? Roland was secretly surprised, but as a large-caliber revolver, even with black powder bullets, it has strong recoil. Why can her arm stay still during continuous shooting
He walked behind him curiously, and saw two balls of black fire clinging to the handle, holding it firmly in the air, while Anna was only holding a vacant grip, not touching the pistol at all. After patting her on the shoulder, she pulled out the black fire that was used as an earplug from her ear, and came to praise me with a look on her face, "How, I hit all the targets!"
Roland didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to announce loudly: "Everyone is not allowed to use their abilities to assist in practice!".
"Eh, why?"
"If you encounter an enemy with the Stone of God's Retaliation, don't you have to be in a hurry?" Roland sighed and reached out to help Anna plug her ears, "That way you won't be afraid."
"Yeah!" Her bright eyes were full of smiles, and after changing the bullet, she raised the gun and aimed again.
"Maggie, come on, I also need to plug my ears," Lightning yelled enviously.
"Gu?" The latter pointed to the gun in his hand.
"After you become a bird, you won't be able to shoot anyway," the little girl winked. "You help me block it first, and I'll block it for you later."
"Goo!"
The other witches in the castle were also attracted by the continuous sound of gunfire, and gradually gathered in the forecourt of the castle, and many of them even showed eager expressions. In the end, almost everyone came up to experience the operation method of the hot weapon.
Seeing a group of colorful women fiddling with their weapons in high spirits, Roland was filled with emotion.
To this day he still remembers what it was like to meet each witch for the first time.
Anna used to have hands and feet as thin as bamboo poles, her eyes were lifeless, and her face was always an expression;
Nightingale's brows always have a cloud of darkness, and her smile has nothing to do with emotions, or it is precisely to cover up her emotions, and she always puts a playful smile on the corner of her mouth;
And Wendy's unconcealed exhaustion after she spoke softly, Ye Zi's resignation and confusion when she was desperate for the future, Lily, who was full of vigilance like a cat;
Also Lightning, Mystery Moon, Hummingbird, Scroll, and more…
After experiencing oppression, frame-up and hunting, it is a kind of luck to survive. As for where I will go, I have no time to think about it. Now, they are completely different from the past.
The witches all exude a unique charm, and their eyes sparkle with smart light. The future is no longer confused for them. In addition to being able to survive, they already have the energy to pursue other things, some as beautiful as life. thing.
And whenever he saw the gratitude and trust that the witches showed when they looked at him, Roland felt full of power in his heart.
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After lunch, it was his turn to practice high-altitude throwing specially for the autumn offensive in the afternoon. The number of witches participating in the drill was reduced by half, leaving only Anna, Wendy, and Lightning.
This is also the minimum number of people needed to complete an air strike.
Setting the attack time at the beginning of the second autumn was the result of Roland's careful consideration. If the time was too short, he would not be able to be fully prepared; if it was too late, he might not be able to prevent Tifeko from sending troops. A large-scale attack on the western frontier, with drugs being fed to the recruited civilians, could not achieve the intended effect of this air strike.
Therefore, the autumn offensive must be launched before he has completely completed his draft.
In order to fulfill his promise, Roland planned to drop a 250kg bomb right above the palace of Greycastle. This bomb, equivalent to the weight of five nightingales, will be dropped from a height of 2,000 meters, directly penetrate the dome of the palace, and detonate inside the palace.
As the hot air balloon slowly lifted into the sky, the huge gondola carried a solid mock bomb into the sky. Since Roland was also riding in the gondola, this solid iron bomb was one size smaller, and only weighed about four nightingales. However, its shape is exactly the same as that of the aviation bombs that will be put into actual combat in the future. It adopts a streamlined shell with a thick front and a thin rear, and has a stabilizer tail and a deceleration parachute at the end, which can ensure that it is always perpendicular to the ground when it falls and control its maximum falling speed.
The throwing basket has also been specially modified, and an iron bracket is set up, so that the bomb stands vertically in the center of the basket, and half of it sticks out of the bottom of the basket. As long as the valve is pulled up and the hook mechanism is released, the bomb will break away from the basket and fall straight down.
As the height continued to rise, Border Town soon only had a fingernail-sized piece left, and Chishui River turned into a silver ribbon.
"It's the first time I've stood at such a high place," Wendy looked out through the lookout window. "It feels like the entire West Territory has become narrow."
"Because this place itself is very small," Roland chuckled lightly, "Look at the wild wasteland to the north, that's where we should go in the future."
"Are you going any further? I'm almost out of sight," Lightning shouted from outside the gondola.
"That's about it," he nodded to Anna, and then made a gesture of preparation to the little girl.
Although it is impossible to judge how far it is from the ground at this time, it is absolutely safe to launch an attack at a height of more than 1,000 meters, and the enemy cannot observe the movement of the hot air balloon.
However, the airdrop distance of more than 1,000 meters means that the hit depends entirely on fate. To accurately hit the target, the bomb must have a guidance system.
And the little girl Lightning will take on this task.
"Bomb," Roland ordered.
Wendy pulled the valve, dropped the bomb, and the airflow rushed into the gondola. Anna sealed the throwing hole with the prepared cover plate, and tightened the fixing bracket. These procedures were practiced repeatedly on land, and the two seemed to match up very well.
"Can she hit the target?" Wendy asked, lying by the window.
"We'll have to wait until we go down to know the answer," Roland shrugged.
During the fall of the bomb, the lightning will fall at the same speed as it, and apply a horizontal thrust to it, so that the bomb can freely change its trajectory and become an aerial bomb with guidance capability. When it is about to approach the target, the tail mechanism is pulled by the lightning to separate the parachute from the projectile. The bomb will gain sufficient kinetic energy in the last few hundred meters until it penetrates the palace roof.
In this way, a sufficiently high drop distance has become a guarantee for precise control of the drop point.
All that's left is to keep practicing the process. (., Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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