I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

The newly established air force battalion has only more than 500 people, of which more than 200 are auxiliary soldiers. There are 80 hydrogen balloons, and each hydrogen balloon can carry three people on average.

One of them is responsible for controlling the height, direction, and lifting of the balloon, and the other two are responsible for observing and dropping bombs.

At present, the main function of the Air Force is to bomb, and it cannot be used for reconnaissance for the time being. It is not so flexible and the cost performance is not high enough. It is better to use cavalry.

They are all heavy bombs specially used for bombing. Each one weighs nearly 20 kilograms and contains a lot of gunpowder. .

Each hydrogen balloon can carry a weight of about 800 kilograms, which means that in addition to three soldiers, a hydrogen balloon can carry more than 20 bombs.

Ning Xiang returned to the camp and ordered the balloon to be inflated. And said: "This is the first actual combat of our Air Force, and we must show our reputation. Only in this way, the above will pay more attention to us, provide more silver taels to develop more advanced hydrogen balloons, and improve our status.... ..”

These ideals and slogans are not particularly heard by ordinary soldiers. It wasn't until Ning Xiang said that there was a reward after completing the task, and everyone cheered up.

The balls were filled with hydrogen and floated up.

After that, the soldiers entered the hanging basket under the balloon, and the soldiers below untied the ropes tied to the heavy objects, and the hydrogen balloons floated into the sky.

At this time, some problems with hydrogen balloons appeared. Some balloons filled too little hydrogen and did not fly high. Soldiers in gondolas can only drop some grenades to save weight.

And some injected too much hydrogen and floated too high, at least a few hundred meters. At this height, the grenade will explode before it falls on the city wall.

They can only lower the altitude by deflating the air, which is quite dangerous.

Others have crashed due to malfunctioning of the hydrogen balloon due to improper handling by soldiers.

Before they could see the enemy's face, they had already crashed two hydrogen balloons and killed six people. Falling from a height of dozens of meters, there is no possibility of surviving.

Outside the city of Huai'an, the twenty cannons of the Wu army had been blasting for nearly half an hour. Unfortunately, today's Qing army has a very deep understanding of howitzer defense.

After various defensive measures were taken, this round of artillery bombardment by the Wu army only killed more than 200 Qing troops. Of course, this result is actually okay.

The artillery stopped temporarily, and the siege troops of the Wu army had approached the city wall and were about to launch an ant attack on the city.

The soldiers of the Qing army who had been hiding under the city also returned to the city and entered a state of battle.

They have now given up the tactics of long-range shooting with the Wu army, and changed it to letting the Wu army go to the city.

In their usual drills, grenades can cause fatal blows to the enemy under the city, which is the source of their confidence in defending the city.

But at this moment, I don't know who was the first to shout 'Look at it', and then their eyes fell into the mid-air in the distance.

I saw nearly a hundred large round balls floating in the air in the distance, and there was a hanging basket hanging under the ball, and I could vaguely see someone in the hanging basket.

"What is that? Someone who can fly to the sky?"

A general of the Qing army asked to himself, he has only seen birds that can go to the sky, but he has never seen them, and never even thought that people can go to the sky.

In his cognition, people should be on the ground, and only the gods in the story can go to heaven.

Now that he suddenly saw the human beings from heaven, his entire three views collapsed.

"Heavenly Soldiers, Celestial Soldiers, that are Celestial Soldiers and Celestial Generals. When it's over, the Ming Army has invited Celestial Soldiers to help."

Some of the more superstitious low-level soldiers have panicked, and something they can't understand appears, and they are instinctively scared.

"Shut up, those who are bewitched by slanderous words are not celestial soldiers at all, they are just soldiers of the Ming army."

Some generals of the Qing army shouted that there should be no panic at this time, otherwise the consequences will be serious.

"However, why are the soldiers of the Ming army able to fly into the sky?"

Not to mention those soldiers, not many people around the world know about air buoyancy. Not to mention air buoyancy, no one knows the buoyancy of water.

When such incomprehensible things occur, it is difficult for normal people to remain calm.

"Don't worry about them, guard the city wall, and don't let the Ming army below come up. Those who fly in nature can't do anything to us."

The commander of the Qing army shouted that the Wu army was still attacking the city at this time. It was really inappropriate to discuss the topic of why the Wu army would fly, and defending the city was serious business.

After the general's reminder, the soldiers suddenly realized that the enemy was still in full swing and preparing to attack the city.

The soldiers tried to focus on the enemies under the city one by one, but every now and then they couldn't help but glance at the balloons floating towards them.

The speed of the hydrogen balloon is not fast, but the distance is not far, only a few hundred meters.

Wu Jun's siege ladders under the city were not on the shelves, and those hydrogen balloons had already reached their heads.

The height of tens of meters allows them to see more clearly. Some soldiers with good eyes can even see the faces of Wu soldiers.

A few archers were even shooting arrows at the balloons, and they didn't have any very clear intentions. Just because the above is the enemy, so they shoot arrows instinctively.

Not to mention, their unconscious behavior has achieved miraculous results.

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A hydrogen balloon was shot, and then it leaked, and there was no rescue at all.

The soldiers of our army on the hanging basket also noticed this, and their faces suddenly turned ashes.

One of the sergeants said to the other two corporals, "We're dead, we're all ready to set off bombs when we fall. That's the last thing we can do for our parents, if we do , General Wu will definitely treat us kindly, just like Liu Xier, a former fighting hero."

The legs of the other two corporals were shaking, but they also knew that this was the best choice.

At this point, the soldiers on the other hydrogen balloons had already started dropping bombs. Bombs were dropped one by one, scaring the Qing soldiers to pieces.

"It's a bomb."

The nimble soldier guessed the thing in an instant.

Just two seconds after he finished shouting, some bombs successfully landed on the city wall, and some were thrown into the city and outside the city.

There were more than 30 pieces that fell on the city wall, and several of them had malfunctions such as flameout when they fell, and they did not explode when they fell on the city wall.

New weapons always have this and that kind of problem, which is normal.

However, the remaining bombs that were successfully detonated brought a devastating blow to the Qing army on the city wall.

The deafening explosion sounded, and a heavy hammer hit the heart of the Qing army. Where there is smoke, there is a mess.

The soldiers at the center of the explosion have no bones left, and some corpses are missing arms and legs, or have no heads, or are broken in two...

This hell-like scene directly frightened a group of soldiers.