Chapter 160 The sky is burning, and the earth is crawling under my feet!
As the pointer on the pocket watch pointed to the predetermined time, Lieutenant Colonel William looked up at the telegraph operator in the corner of the bridge.
What he did was the same action as everyone on the bridge. They all looked at him nervously, waiting for the order to launch the bombing.
Soon the telegraph machine rang, and the telegraph operator quickly began to write on the paper, translating and decoding the sounds he heard.
Under the gaze of everyone, he completed the translation and decoding as fast as he could in his life, and then shouted to everyone: "Langton is calling! The sky is burning, and the earth is crawling under my feet!" Drop the thermobaric bomb!”
"Drop the thermobaric bomb!" William immediately hugged the microphone closest to him and shouted loudly to the weapons officer in the bomb bay.
"Received the order! Drop the thermobaric bomb!" The weapon officer's excited and deformed voice came from the bomb bay, and then everyone felt a vibration from the airship, and then they heard it Weapons officer's report: "The first thermobaric bomb has been dropped!"
Hearing the weapons officer's voice, William immediately shouted: "Go at full speed! Go to the predetermined location to drop the second bomb!"
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Although all the officers and soldiers on the ship wanted to lean on the portholes to see the effect of the thermobaric bomb explosion, the honor and responsibility from the Imperial Navy still made everyone stay at their posts and control quickly. Take the hovering airship to the second bombing site.
In front of the steam engine in the middle of the airship, the boiler that has already completed the heat engine is continuously producing steam, but the boilermaker is holding on to the handle of the valve and does not allow the steam to be transported to the engine to propel the airship. go ahead.
When the order came, the boilerman suddenly opened the valve, and the steam that had already reached the critical value spurted out along the pipe, and even made a sharp sound in the pipe.
Propelled by the steam, all four engines of the airship began to work, and the huge rotating propellers began to push the huge airship forward.
At the same time, above the city with twinkling stars below, a huge black shadow was falling rapidly.
It fell so fast that it even tore the air and made a weird scream, waking up ordinary citizens who were not sleeping soundly in the city below, as well as those who were still having fun at this time. Upper class people.
Some people looked up to the sky curiously, wanting to see what was making such strange noises, but those who had been on the battlefield or experienced war could not help but change their expressions suddenly and tried to find it. The solid objects around them served as cover because they understood that the sound was the sound of shells tearing through the air!
But it's too late, or even if they do it, it will be meaningless in the face of thermobaric bombs.
At the tail of the black shadow in the sky is a small fan blade that rotates rapidly under the influence of the airflow. Before it fell to the ground, the small fan blade had already reached its end and stopped rotating.
There was a soft click, and the huge internal fuse of the projectile was activated.
"Boom!" A not too loud explosion sounded, and a huge black shadow exploded some distance away from the ground.
This did not cause any damage, it just exploded the huge bomb and exploded a huge white cloud over the city, as if an umbrella suddenly opened in the sky.
Immediately, this white cloud spread and fell. Although the falling speed was slower than the previous black shadow, it still enveloped the sky above the city in the blink of an eye.
It’s just that the city at night is not like it is during the day. No one realizes that danger has come over the city.
Even if someone heard the explosion, they just thought it was the sound of a cannonball falling to the ground. After all, the previous scream was too much like the sound of a cannonball.
"Is it over? Where did the artillery fire go off?" someone speculated. But the next second, he no longer had to think about this, because a more violent explosion occurred.
The clouds covering the city in the sky were ignited and turned into a huge fireball that swallowed the entire city!
The impact of the explosion even jolted the airship thousands of meters above the ground. The clouds that originally covered the airship were blown away, forming a huge giant in the sky. circular cavity.
The city below was illuminated, everything within a radius of several hundred meters was engulfed in flames, and flammable cloth and wood were instantly ignited.
Someone rushed out of the house destroyed by the shock wave, crying and covered in flames, trying to seek help on the street, but the sweeping flames directly burned her skin and respiratory tract, and her entire lungs His whole body was burned, and then his whole body was set on fire from the inside out.
The fireball generated by the explosion burned in the sky for nearly a minute, and the city shrouded in the explosion was completely turned into a sea of flames.
The updrafts generated by the high temperature and the oxygen consumed by combustion worked together to blow strong winds on the ground, blowing the flames everywhere and gradually igniting the surrounding urban areas.
Such a horrific scene woke up the whole city. People in other districts saw the tragic situation here, and the smarter ones hid in their homes and closed the doors and windows.
And some people with a sense of justice try to help those in need, or find ways to prevent the spread of the fire.
But the second thermobaric bomb that followed was also released from the bomb bay at this time, a second ball of flames ignited, and another block was ignited.
The blazing flames lit up the sky, and only then did the people in the city realize that the enemy was in the sky.
Subsequently, the six giant thermobaric bombs in the airship bomb bay were dropped, blasting six huge craters in a row along the old city wall of France's capital, and almost ignited the entire city. sea of fire.
As the flames burned, the terrifying aftereffects of the thermobaric bomb also caused a brief sudden change in the weather in the capital of France.
The six seas of fire had already emptied the air around the city, and the subsequent burning fires formed updrafts, which continuously gathered the surrounding air towards the capital of France.
Like a giant vacuum cleaner, it quickly sucked out the air in the unbombed core urban area in the center of the sea of fire, and formed an environment similar to a vacuum and negative pressure, which made people feel suffocating at the same time. , also attracting the flames of the surrounding sea of fire.
The wind helped the fire, and the sea of fire quickly spread throughout the city, not only igniting the core urban area in the center of the city, but also devouring the outer slums of France's capital.
When William commanded the airship to complete all the thermobaric bomb drops and finally had time to overlook his results, what he saw was the flames rising from the ignited city being swept by the strong wind, constantly rotating and rising. It became a fire dragon connecting heaven and earth.
The raging flames turned the sky into a fiery red. The huge flame tornado continued to draw all the combustible materials and air it encountered into it, burning more and more vigorously.
Looking at this doomsday-like scene, William only had one sentence in his mind: "The sky is burning, and the earth is crawling under my feet!"
Thermobaric bombs in reality are not so terrifying, but Not to mention giving in too much. This thing is known as a sub-nuclear weapon second only to nuclear bombs. It should not be too easy to destroy the cities of the 18th century.
In addition, Paris at the end of the 19th century covered an area of 8,000 hectares and had a population of nearly 1.9 million, which was not very large. The use of thermobaric bombs could indeed cause considerable damage and casualties.
(End of this chapter)