Chapter 68, Rabbit’s Revenge (Part 2)
At the same time, the other two floating battleships participating in the night attack also carried out indiscriminate bombardments on the imperial army camped outside the city.
However, although thermobaric bombs can be described as devastating weapons in closed and semi-closed spaces such as tunnels, potholes and urban barricades, their lethality is greatly reduced on open terrain. Therefore, only traditional high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs were used in the bombing of military camps outside the city. But even so, in the eyes of the imperial soldiers who have no concept of modern warfare, such a scene is already like hell coming:
Countless bombs fell head-on like meteors, and huge balls of fire rose one after another. Amidst the loud noises, blazing shrapnel and rolling flames swept across the sky, easily destroying forts and fences, setting fire to tents and vehicles, and even tore apart the bodies of soldiers, war horses, and war elephants, treating them all equally. Exploded to pieces. And until the moment death came, they didn't know what was going on.
For these indigenous people in the fantasy world who have never even seen artillery and rifles, the scene that appears around them now is terrifying beyond the limits of imagination - think about it, the white phosphorus in aviation incendiary bombs, but A good thing that can directly burn body fat! Once it is splashed and stained, it can penetrate from the clothes all the way into the muscle tissue. It will not be extinguished by splashing water and covering it with sand. Unless a strong man breaks his wrist and cuts off the burning flesh and skin directly and throws it away, it will be burned to the bone. The sight of a living person howling miserably in the firelight like a candle, slowly being burned until it melts, and dripping all the way down, just seeing it once with your own eyes is enough to give people nightmares for a month... …
Suddenly, in the camp that stretched for more than ten miles, there were continuous rumbling explosions, and red fires shot straight into the sky. Coupled with bursts of hoarse, lung-splitting screams and helpless calls for help, the originally quiet wilderness of night became noisier than a boiling oil pan. There were burning "fire men", "fire horses", "fire elephants" and "fire dragons" everywhere, howling wildly among the messy tents, spreading the flames along the road until they were burned into balls of black coke. , making this raging fire fueled by countless lives burn even more brilliantly in the evening wind.
Being exposed to such a terrifying hell on earth, no matter how cold-blooded and ruthless a veteran is, his liver and gallbladder will be split apart and his soul will be scattered.
What's even worse is that until this moment, they still don't know where the enemy is. Even if they hold the sharpest swords, what's the use?
So, facing the tribulation fire that fell from the sky, they collapsed as expected. They no longer cared about military regulations and disciplines, and ran around in chaos among the tents, looking for a way out, trying to escape from this hell-like place. place. Most of them did successfully rush out of the burning camp and ran into the wilderness still shrouded in night. They probably thought that they could escape as long as they ran out of the range illuminated by the fire.
Unfortunately, they imagined things too simply and their opponents too useless.
Because, looking at the enemy soldiers fleeing in all directions, Wang Qiu on the floating battleship "Xiangrui" curled his lips and issued another order.
"...Stop the bombing now! The urban management air guerrillas are dispatched! Enter free hunting mode!"
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Large hatches were slowly opened from both sides of the bottom of the floating battleship, and figures jumped out of the hatches, as if they were in modern airborne combat... But then, these jumped into the air. The "aerial guerrillas" in the sky did not open umbrella flowers in the night sky. Instead, they activated the [Bamboo Dragonfly] inserted on their heads, and then each held a rifle or a grenade, Start searching for target.
(Refer to the specific image of the flying witch in shorts in "Strike Witches", or the aviation mage in "The Battle of a Young Girl".)
At this time, the scene outside the city of Italica was a chaotic interplay of light and darkness. There were both dazzling flames and a dark night. For those old-fashioned infrared cameras in the Cold War era that needed to be seen with the naked eye, For night vision devices, it may be a difficult test, and there is a risk of being dazzled. However, for intelligent full-color night vision devices that rely on computers to restore images on glasses screens and have strong light protection functions, this little trouble is nothing at all - the U.S. military is struggling on the battlefield in the Middle East After so many years, although it is indeed a waste of people and money, it is also In the continuous security wars, many good gadgets have been discovered. For example, this full-color night vision device that can withstand bright light raids is one of the sharp weapons used by the US military in night raids and suppression operations. It is known as During night operations, it is still as if you are in daylight, making it impossible for terrorists to hide. Other powerful countries in the world have also collected relevant intelligence through various means, and then developed similar things.
Therefore, relying on the guidance of full-color night vision goggles, urban management team members with [Bamboo Dragonflies] on their heads held rifles and swung grenades, chasing the fleeing Imperial soldiers everywhere. Although their marksmanship was generally not very accurate, at least it was good for speculation. Bean-like gunshots were fired one after another, and the scene was extremely lively.
From the command cabin of the floating battleship, looking down through the LCD screen, I saw that the battlefield under my feet was full of fire, the red trajectories of tracer bullets in the air, the explosion flames of rifle grenades and hand grenades, and the explosive gas. The mutilated corpses flying up in the waves intersect Mirroring each other, it looks as beautiful as a fireworks show from the air, but behind the beautiful firelight, there is ruthless killing... Thousands of imperial soldiers, many of whom are famous top warriors, at this time But like rabbits, they are chased and hunted from the air. But they have no way to resist bullets fired from the air, and they have almost no way to hit targets hundreds of meters in the air: the bows and arrows and giant crossbows of the ancient army were not designed to attack air targets and could not shoot that high. . Although the aerial knights riding pterosaurs have certain flying capabilities, their night vision capabilities are limited, and they are also the top bombing targets of the floating fleet. They were focused on thermobaric bombs and high-explosive bombs from the beginning. In addition, dragon knights are very rare on the Falmat continent, and there are only a few of them in Soshar's army, so they did not cause any trouble. The novice urban management team members poured bullets in the air to shoot deserters on the ground. It was just as easy as hunting hares and foxes, so they relaxed.
At the beginning, Headhunting Rabbit Queen Tiurei was still lying by the porthole, staring with her blood-red eyes, wanting to watch the destruction of her old enemy, but as time went by, her interest quickly became waning, "... …This is no longer a battle, but a one-sided massacre!”
She sighed and left the porthole, found a chair and sat down, took out a carrot and stuffed it into her mouth to chew, and said to Wang Qiu at the same time.
"...But this is the way we know war, and this is far from the most advanced means of strike."
Wang Qiu spread his hands and said, "...Let your compatriots also prepare. Your Majesty Tiurei, wait until dawn, and it's time to go down and pick up the corpses!"
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PS: I just read a statistical report on the EU's military strength, and I found that although I knew that the EU's military was very weak, I still didn't expect that they could actually be so weak now: the size of the entire EU's military force (excluding the United Kingdom), The total number is less than half of China's, and most of them are local garrison troops who clock in at work. France has the most field mobile troops that can be deployed in overseas wars, with only 60,000, and Italy ranks second with about 30,000. Germany's total mobile troops were only 2,000. The 1,000 fat soldiers sent to Afghanistan that year were already half of Germany's "professional elite soldiers." If the United States is determined to interfere in Europe, it is estimated that the U.S. military stationed in Europe alone will be able to defeat all the invincible opponents of the European Union. By the way, Russia's field strength that can launch overseas operations is about 160,000.